Author Archives: Tony Heller

Harp seals mate and rear their young on the sea ice off the east coast of Canada in the spring and move north as the weather warms. But increasing numbers of seals are ending up stranded along the U.S. East … Continue reading →

Summer cyclone chewing up Canada’s Arctic sea ice Ice coverage is slightly about last year’s record low but still well below the 30-year average. Ice coverage is well above last year Back when the sea was thick and lasted for … Continue reading →

Imagine the pain of Wadhams, Maslowski, the Sierra Club and the death spiral guy. COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut The wailing and gnashing of teeth deepens.

Check out this garbage : Last year, a particularly powerful cyclone is thought to have wiped out 800,000 square kilometres of ice. That contributed to record low sea-ice levels at the end of the 2012 melt year. This year’s storm … Continue reading →

They started the year with “it’s all thin and rotten and all going to melt” Then they moved on to “the multi-year ice along the Canadian coast has failed” Next came “an unprecedented hole in the ice near the North … Continue reading →

President Obama was bound to receive a warm response from the audience attending his speech at the University of Central Missouri yesterday — because some students who disagreed with him weren’t allowed into the building. Christopher White of The College … Continue reading →

D.C. area forecast: Sumptuous summer weather today and nearly as good Friday

Chicago had three murders in three hours on Tuesday night. Obama doesn’t seem interested for some reason. Chicago shootings violence July 23-July 24 – chicagotribune.com

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Not much. RRTM shows that the tropics receive 398 watts/m² downwelling longwave radiation. If there was no CO2, that would only drop to 392 watts/m² In the tropics CO2 is only responsible for 1.5% of the greenhouse effect, and water … Continue reading →