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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCuGqIhUaJE&feature=player_embedded] Every city has its good side and bad side. Eric Cartman compared East Denver to Afghanistan. For James Hansen, the safe side of the tracks is 350 ppm CO2 – i.e. 1988 (aka the year Tim Wirth turned off … Continue reading →

2,000 pound Walrus being supported by three inches of rotten ice

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ Let’s see – hottest in the 1930s, coolest in the 1960s, and now increasing again. Isn’t that what we call “cyclical behaviour?”

Igor chilled much of the Atlantic, making it a lot tougher for anything major to follow him this season. http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Igor_2010_track.png

Flashback to less than one year ago. NSIDC shows a totally different story :

DMI now shows 30% concentration ice ahead of 2005 and 2009. There has been about 20% growth over the last two weeks.

My composite of NSIDC’ September 27/20 maps shows new ice in green.

The Aztecs believed that droughts, famines and floods were the result of the gods being unhappy with them – and that by making between 20,000 and 80,000  human sacrifices per year, they could minimize the frequency of “extreme” weather events. … Continue reading →

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/las-summer-ends-with-a-chill-it-was-the-coldest-in-decades.html Having ignored one of the coldest summers on record in LA, Joe Romm suddenly perked up today about yesterday’s hot weather.