Monthly Archives: February 2019

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken Academics have been … Continue reading →

I took these pictures on New Years Day, east of Phoenix.  It was bitter cold.  The current forecast is for this area along Hwy 87 to receive well over a foot of snow in the next 48 hours. I used … Continue reading →

NASA’s James Hansen started the global warming scare in earnest, during the very hot summer of 1988. Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global warming caused by pollutants in … Continue reading →

The last two afternoons were both the second coldest on record for the date in Boulder. The cold is forecast to shift east over the next week, with temperatures well below 0F (-18C) 10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S. … Continue reading →

Sixteen years ago, the climate experts at NCAR predicted the end of snow and cold in Boulder.  This was basic climate physics. Warmer Winters Today was the second coldest February 18 on record in Boulder – about 30 degrees below … Continue reading →

Tom Steyer on Twitter: “If the New York Times wants to sponsor climate skeptics”

During February 1932, Rio Grande City, Texas averaged 86 degrees for their afternoon maximums, and had 13 days over 90 degrees. At the other border, the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York nearly had to be cancelled because of … Continue reading →

“Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They’ll only be able to parrot the information they’ve been given on the previous night’s news.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski . 1972 I took these pictures in Los Alamos … Continue reading →

USHCN raw temperature data shows a sharp rise in temperatures after 1970. I did some analysis on this, and discovered that since 1970, NOAA has been losing December data much faster than they have been losing July data.  This causes … Continue reading →