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– Julienne Stroeve from NSIDC graciously agreed to answer some queries about ice thickness. My questions and her responses are below.

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And … Continue reading →

Gawker Image It goes like this : We can’t say that this particular event is caused by CO2, but we expect events of this type to become more frequent as atmospheric CO2 increases.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx2PAHDtrAo] Since mid-August, southerly winds have been pushing the edge of the Arctic ice back towards the North Pole. This is very similar to the pattern from the last El Niño year of 2007.

The last time any continent set a record high temperature was 1974. http://www.insidervlv.com/WeatherRecordWorld.html From : http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalextremes.html

All before 1976

All before 1973

http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/update-136-homes-burned-in-boulder-fire/

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg Hardly an hour goes by without some press release about the connection of CO2 and extreme weather.

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