Monthly Archives: August 2019

MASIE shows Arctic sea ice extent 9% less than the same date in 2012. DATASETS/NOAA/G02186/masie_4km_allyears_extent_sqkm.csv But NSIDC maps show 9% more ice than 2012. 2012   2019 Apparently an 18% discrepancy is close enough for government work, which will be used … Continue reading →

Greta Thunberg doesn’t go to school, because adults around her have convinced her the climate situation is simply too bad. Instead she is traveling on an expensive yacht to the US, preaching imminent doom as a “magnet for hope.” She … Continue reading →

In a previous blog post, I showed how the New York Times is hiding all the hot weather prior to 1960. The New York Times has responded to this criticism, by stating that there isn’t much data in most of … Continue reading →

I’m visiting friends at the Finger Lakes in NY, where my life started. One of them grew up on a farm there in the 1950s and told me about a terrible blizzard in February, 1958 which cut them off for … Continue reading →

I was born in New Mexico, but my life began in Ithaca, New York. I am in the spectacular Finger Lakes country for a few days, and thought I would check in with the New York Times about the future … Continue reading →

Climate science is complex, and the terminology can be tricky.  I created this visual glossary of Greenland Surface Mass Balance to help guide people through it. Surface Conditions: Polar Portal

August 15, 2019 at 8:57 pm

The frequency of hot days has plummeted in the US over the last 80 years. This year will easily be the lowest on record after the last four months of the year get counted.