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We have reached an irreversible tipping point death spiral loss of ice sheets catastrophe from which we can’t recover. James Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warns that if our “present overshoot” of the 350 ppm … Continue reading →

They started with this bold campaign two weeks ago. http://www.latimes.com/la-na-climate-scientists-20101108,0,4825399.story That quickly got demoted. FOR THE RECORD: Climate scientists: An article in the Nov. 8 Section A about a campaign by scientists to push back against congressional conservatives who have … Continue reading →

Mark Serreze commented that he thinks geoengineering the Arctic is a bad idea. He seems to be in agreement with this assessment from 1975, when climatologists wanted to melt the Arctic ice cap to stop global cooling. The Cooling World … Continue reading →

Saudi Arabia is expecting typical UK winter temperatures this week. http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp9.html

London could see snow and temperatures that could drop to –2C this week, he added. Temperatures in most other areas will reach –3 or –4C, even in major cities, while in some rural areas they will drop to below –10C. … Continue reading →

How often does that happen? http://www.travelpod.com It isn’t uncommon to have snow in the mountains, but it looks to me like widespread snow is forecast all the way to the southern coast.

Some events, such as the 2003 European heat wave which killed about 35,000 people and this year’s heat wave in Moscow would be “extremely unlikely to happen in the absence of climate change,” http://www.google.com/hostednews/ In other words, he is unaware … Continue reading →

“Geo-engineering is an absolute fool’s game,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, in an interview Tuesday from his office in Boulder, Colo. “This idea that you are going to stop global warming in its … Continue reading →

http://home.iprimus.com.au/foo7/droughthistory.html#7 The Murray River (Australia’s longest) was dry for six months in 1902. From 1896 to 1902, the worst drought in Australia’s history is believed to have killed half of the sheep population. It was also a period of both … Continue reading →