Daily Archives: August 1, 2013

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One of Obama’s New York sons has been busy. Police in New York City are trying to find a black man wearing a hoodie who is responsible for a horrific attack on a teenage white girl who was stabbed 11 … Continue reading →

We have been getting deluged with rain this summer after our snowiest spring on record, and today Fort Collins looks more like Scotland than Colorado. The US Drought Monitor says we are having a drought. US Drought Monitor

It is the first day of August, and there are no large fires burning in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah or Nevada. National Interagency Fire Center

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One hundred years ago, Arrhenius predicted nine degrees of CO2 warming which would turn earth into a Garden of Eden. Hansen didn’t understand the message, and thought that Arrhenius was talking about hell. The Pueblo Leader – Google News Archive Search

Obama’s gun-free hometown makes Baghdad look like a vacation spot. Chicago, IL Crime Map – Showing Crimes in Chicago – Crime Statistics, Alerts and Reports – Crime Stops Here When Obama makes his lynch Zimmerman speeches, I wonder why he … Continue reading →

Hansen predicted peak ice loss in Antarctica, in a region which has instead seen peak gain. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/downloads/Challenge_chapter2.pdf Surface warming is dead. Antarctic sea ice loss was stillborn. Arctic sea ice loss is almost dead. They have deep-sixed the heat into the … Continue reading →

The last week in July blew away all records for slow ice area loss, with less than 1/20th the loss that occurred in 1985. All that thin, rotten, decayed ice just refused to melt. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008 Last week, NSIDC said : … Continue reading →