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On Thursday night, I drove to the gas station and was listening to a show on C-SPAN radio about NSA data gathering phone metadata. A lawyer (not sure who she was) said that it was illegal, and cited that the American Revolution was largely … Continue reading →

Climate scientists love 1979, and normally begin their graphs there – because it was the coldest winter in US history and had peak Arctic sea sea ice. I am often accused of cherry-picking for including data prior to 1979.

Before 1960, afternoons over 40ºC (104ºF) were fairly common in the US, but they rarely happen any more.

President Barack Obama says that he has terrorists “on the run.” What he didn’t say was that the ISIS young dreamers were running towards our open southern border. Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that … Continue reading →

Arctic sea ice area is just below the 2006 minimum, 5% ahead of last year, and 54% ahead of 2012. My forecast is for little change over the next week. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008

Faced with a series of very cold winters, climate experts decided to make up some bullshit about missing ice in the Eastern Arctic causing Rossby waves, which made the thing of the past fall in the deep south. They can’t … Continue reading →

There has been almost no change in Arctic sea ice over the past two days. Green shows gain, red show loss.

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The first installment of The Post’s laudable “A Climate for Change” series of editorials pointed out that the debate on climate change has “devolved” and cited a number of reasons why Congress has failed to take action to reduce carbon … Continue reading →

Does Antarctic sea ice growth negate climate change? Scientists say no since scientists started making satellite observations in the late 1970s, they have watched winter sea ice around Antarctica swell slowly but indisputably, despite predictions that it should shrink. Climate … Continue reading →