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Yes, Hansen actually made these forecasts (degrees C) in the year 1988. We should be baking already, and Manhattan should be drowning. The standard response from our friends is that “well … ummm … we know a lot more now … Continue reading →

http://www.physorg.com/news204901293.html

Last winter’s non-existent snow http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8061737/Snow-to-hit-Britain.html This must be in error. Ten years ago, the top climate scientists at East Anglia told us that :

Faced with a huge La Niña, temperatures realized they were doomed. But the Polar Bears and Penguins are doing just fine.

Tamino calls the mid-1970s the start of the “modern global warming period” and reports temperature trends from that date. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/plot/hadcrut3vgl/trend Never mind that the long term trend is about one third of the post 1975 trend.

When their web site is working, NSIDC has a graph showing the decline of Arctic ice from the start of the satellite record in 1978 through 2007. But something else happened in 1978. Something very important for understanding the climate.

Executing schoolchildren is just the tip of the iceberg. The Guardian reports that Italy wants to cut down a small patch of forest (69 acres) where sex slaves have been forced to work as prostitutes. WWF predictably jumped in with … Continue reading →

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous A new study is out, which appears to be claiming that the Earth is drying up due to climate change. There are all kinds of problems with it, but right now I’m going to focus on one particularly clueless … Continue reading →

http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/27515.html

Imagine the chaos which would ensue if winter temperatures rose from -20 to -19! What are the health risks in Minnesota? Climate change could result in more deadly heat waves, and increase the risk of diseases spread by insects and … Continue reading →