Monthly Archives: January 2014

UN climate chief calls for tripling of clean energy investment | Environment | theguardian.com

Study to See If City Life Alters the Climate Here – Study Will See If City Life Changes the Climate Here – View Article – NYTimes.com NASA rocket scientists are much smarter now. They may not be able to send … Continue reading →

The Justice Department is facing mounting criticism after officials said they’ve turned up no evidence that would warrant criminal charges in the IRS targeting scandal, with conservatives now calling the investigation a “sham.” ‘Sham’? DOJ under fire amid claims IRS … Continue reading →

Hansen says that the climate used to be stable and droughts used to be rare before we loaded the dice. A 1998 study by federal scientists, for instance, found that droughts as widespread and severe as that of the Dust … Continue reading →

  Democrats Plan to Pressure TV Networks Into Covering Climate Change – NationalJournal.com h/t to Dave G

Graph below overlays GISS 1999 version in blue, on current GISS in red. Normalized to 1998.   web.archive.org/web/19990220235952/http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/gistemp/GLB.Ts.txt

There has been no trend in US afternoon temperatures since 1895, and 2013 had the fourth coldest afternoon temperatures on record. The 1920’s through 1950’s were hottest. Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

Willis Eschenbach dug up a report on Lindzen’s 1989 speech, which Dana used to create his fake “Lindzen” forecast. Lindzen was criticizing the integrity of the temperature record, not making a forecast. Here is the 1989 report. ]]]]]]]]] LINDZEN CRITICAL OF … Continue reading →

Arizona July maximum temperatures have been plummeting since the 1960’s.

01 Jan 1932 – “The Bruckner Cycle Theory.” h/t to Andy Oz