Author Archives: Tony Heller

GISS June is out. Year to date average is 0.50, which would place 2012 as the second lowest year since 2004 if the year finished there. The graph below shows the five year running mean of GISS  in red, with … Continue reading →

21 Jul 1936 – FORTUNES MADE OUT OF GRAIN SPECULATION Drought i…

10 Nov 1952 – Dust Bowl Danger

Someone was on here earlier trying to claim that the large adjustments I am seeing are due to not properly adjusting for areal distribution. What a load of crap – the USHCN stations are intentionally distributed fairly evenly and the same patterns are seen … Continue reading →

Point 1 : Salon finally figures out that liberals are miserable, and conservatives are happy. Conservatism makes you happy Conservatives enjoy life more than liberals. Why left-leaning people should take the “happiness gap” seriously BY CHRIS MOONEY In general, political … Continue reading →

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jf17Yo7hBM] I will refrain from making any insulting remarks about turnips. Katie was too busy looking out the window for a glimpse of Russia, to notice that Biden is an idiot.

A few days ago they were hysterical about Colorado burning, and proclaimed that the worst fire season on record was just getting started. The National Interagency Fire Center now reports that there are no large fires in Colorado, and that the number of … Continue reading →

July 15, 2012 at 12:45 pm h/t to Billy Liar

http://books.google.com/ http://news.google.com/newspapers http://www.canada.com/ http://soa.arcus.org/ NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.” http://news.nationalgeographic.com Because climate change in the Arctic region … Continue reading →

Bookmark this image. It is an important one. The animation below shows how USHCN turns a measured strong cooling trend since 1930, into a strong computer generated warming trend. USHCN2 uses a three step process to cool the past and … Continue reading →