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So far, the Maryland half of my public transportation experiment has been a complete disaster.

1. They wouldn’t sell me a weekly pass on the train, so I had to waste $5 on a daily pass I didn’t need.
2. They didn’t sell a weekday only pass at the Gaithersburg train station, so I had to pay en extra $15 to get a seven day pass.
3. The Metro Red Line in DC was running very slow today because of track maintenance. This caused me to miss my bus and most of my meeting, and had to take a taxi. $17 lost
4. Some kid stepped out in front of a Marc train this afternoon, and the trains home were halted for three hours. Had to take another taxi – $20

I lost $57 today and countless hours. I could have rented a car on Relay Rides for $20 and not wasted any time. Unless there was an accident on the freeway.

So far,  Maryland public transportation gets the big thumbs down.

Check out the latest fraud from “climate scientists” in a “peer reviewed journal”

California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack is the lowest in 500 years

California droughts are caused by periods of dominantly cold water in the Pacific. This year the water is very warm, and they will likely get huge snowfalls. They cherry-picked the last El Nino year (2010) for their comparison

The authors also chose a time period of 500 years, because they didn’t want to discuss the much worse droughts more than 500 years ago.

Satellites show the world cooling this century, so the US Space Agency ignores satellite data and relies on fake surface temperatures to create the appearance of warming.

Their reported temperatures diverge from reality at 1.3C per century.

Global-warming deniers cherry-pick their facts

The cherry-picking season in the Okanagan is over, but it’s alive and well on the letters page of this newspaper, with a classic example via the tired meme: “The planet has warmed very little since 1998.”

Hmmm … why would the letter-writer pick 1998, one wonders? Well, it’s one of the warmest years in recent decades, thanks to a major El Niño, so if you pick that as a starting point — as global-warming deniers are wont to do –– ongoing warming looks less imposing.

It’s spin, pure and simple. The fact is that Planet Earth is heating up. Every decade since the 1970s has been warmer than its predecessor, driven inexorably upward by human-produced greenhouse-gas emissions. And this year is on track to be the warmest of at least the past 1,000 years.

Thomas F. Pedersen

Executive director

Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions

University of Victoria

Global-warming deniers cherry-pick their facts

Pederson doesn’t want to include the actual hottest El Nino year of 1998, but does want to include the completely fake “hottest” El Nino year of 2015. He wants to start the trend in the coldest decade of the 1970’s, and then accuses others of cherry-picking.

He is a typical global warming fraudster. Every single one of his facts is wrong, and he projects his own scientific malfeasance on to others. His job at the “Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions” tells us that he is a snake oil salesman charged with selling a completely useless product to the public.

I’m on my way to DIA on a city bus. Once I get to DC, I’m going to take the Metro to the train station and take a train to where I stay west of Gaithersburg. I will be using my bicycle and/or the train for commuting while I’m in Maryland.

Using bicycle/public transportation will save me about $400 on this trip, and generally saves me about $3,000 a year in other expenses.

I’ve been in Boulder a month, and it has been fantastic. A beautiful place, full of interesting people, with bike trails and buses everywhere. I don’t ever have to use my car for anything. I’d like to eventually get completely car free.

Back when he still pretended to be a legitimate scientist, Gavin Schmidt reported that Antarctica was rapidly cooling – during a period of rapid CO2 rise.

Shindell, D.T., and G.A. Schmidt 2004. Southern Hemisphere climate response to ozone changes and greenhouse gas increases. Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L18209, doi:10.1029/2004GL020724.

While most of the Earth warmed rapidly during recent decades, surface temperatures decreased significantly over most of Antarctica.

Pubs.GISS: Abstract of Shindell and Schmidt 2004

NASA maps reflected this cooling.

SVS Animation 3188 – Antarctic Heating and Cooling Trends

But this cooling wrecked their global warming theory (poles were supposed to burn up) so NASA simply changed the data in 2009 – and Nature Magazine happily assisted their fraud.

NASA’s temperature fraud enables further fraud like Heidi Cullen claiming that all of the ice in Antarctica is going to melt.

Temperatures in Antarctica would have to warm up 120 degrees to start melting.

This might take a long time, since Antarctica has been cooling for the past 35 years.

RSS / MSU Data Images / Monthly

The level of fraud on display from all the members of the climate scam is simply stunning.

Using DMI’s 30% concentration ice as the measure of extent, 2015 was the shortest melt season on record in the Arctic. Ice peaked around March 25, and bottomed around September 3. The melt season was about three weeks shorter than average.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

The drop in extent during the second week in August, was due to cold winter storms breaking up ice in the Beaufort Sea. This made alarmists very happy, because it gave them a small excuse to lie about Arctic temperatures.

Heidi Cullen is engaged in her standard spectacular climate fraud today.

Like she always does, Heidi cherry-picked a cold year in the 1970’s to start her map.

But if we look at the entire US temperature record , we see that there has been no increase in autumn temperatures for 115 years, and that Heidi started her graph immediately after a large drop in temperature. Heidi is intentionally misleading her readers, and engaging in fraud.

But her fraud is much worse than it seems. Northern Hemisphere autumn snow cover has been steadily increasing and was at a record level last year

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

The last three autumns have seen record snow and cold in the US.

November 2014 Shattered Cold and Snow Records For Some – weather.com

Heidi and Climate Central are hoping that her readers are stupid, have short memories, and won’t recognize that they are being lied to.

The Arctic is rapidly gaining ice now, in what appears to be the shortest melt season on record – just over five months.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Experts say the Arctic is ice-free.

The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015 – The Daily Beast

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013?

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

The Argus-Press – Jun 24, 2008

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Climate criminals now get hysterical about one day of 96 degree temperatures in summer, and claim they are the hottest ever.

Let’s put this in perspective. In 1913, Greenland Ranch California had a week where every day was between 127 and 134 degrees.

docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-01-0010.pdf

During January, 1896 – Gundabooka, NSW had ten consecutive days over 120 degrees. Mark Twain implied that they must have been near hell.

TimesMachine: August 18, 1896 – NYTimes.com

During 1923-1924, Marble Bar, WA had 160 consecutive days over 100 degrees.

In 1913, Clinton, Missouri had 20 consecutive days over 100 degrees – the longest such stretch in Midwest history.

During July, 1936 – Ada, Minnesota had 12 consecutive days over 100 degrees. Minnesota hasn’t recorded any 100 degree days for the past two years.

Heatwaves used to be much worse. Climate criminals are lying about this, like they do about everything else.