Real Climate Science

Twenty-five years after the Independent announced the end of snow, Northern Hemisphere snow mass is at a record high.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

snow-solid-precipitation – global-cryosphere-watch

Columbia University has been at the core of climate junk science.  President Trump just defunded them.

“multi-meter sea level rise on the century time scale are not only possible, but almost dead certain. ”

James E. Hansen and Makiko Sato
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute, New York

20110118_MilankovicPaper.pdf

Oct 23, 2001

“While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, “If what you’re saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?” He looked for a while and was quiet and didn’t say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, “Well, there will be more traffic.” I, of course, didn’t think he heard the question right. Then he explained, “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”

And so far, over the last 10 years, we’ve had 10 of the hottest years on record.

Didn’t he also say that restaurants would have signs in their windows that read, “Water by request only.”

Under the greenhouse effect, extreme weather increases. Depending on where you are in terms of the hydrological cycle, you get more of whatever you’re prone to get. New York can get droughts, the droughts can get more severe and you’ll have signs in restaurants saying “Water by request only.”

When did he say this will happen?

Within 20 or 30 years. And remember we had this conversation in 1988 or 1989.

Does he still believe these things?

Yes, he still believes everything. I talked to him a few months ago and he said he wouldn’t change anything that he said then.”

Stormy weather – Global warming – Salon.com

Sea level at Lower Manhattan has dropped more than twelve inches over the past year, at a rate of 25 meters per century.

The drop in sea level at Manhattan over the past year was the largest on record, going back to before the Civil War.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/data/8518750_meantrend.csv

Charlie Kirk on X: “?BREAKING: President Trump has just canceled over $400M in funding to Columbia University over failing to combat rising antisemitism and illegal protests on campus. https://t.co/Bg0qTEvyRo https://t.co/xKOIRdHA3U” / X

The press is claiming “record low sea ice”

OSI shows Arctic sea ice extent increasing significantly from February 14 to March 4. while NSIDC shows it decreasing.

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt

https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/N_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv

OSI Arctic sea extent shows this year as the fourth largest increase for March 1-5

Merz is leader of the free world

(38) MerzHQ on X: “It’s up to you now, Europe. ????? https://t.co/OLM3dPeEsS” / X

Starmer is also leader of the free world

Keir Starmer, unlikely leader of the free world – POLITICO

Macron is going to save Europe with nukes.

Macron seeks talks on how French nuclear weapons could protect Europe

Up and coming atmospheric scientist Chris Martz made a custom request for visitech.ai, and we delivered within a few hours. Scientific claims are easy to evaluate with our tool.

(11) The Honest Broker on X: “DC Court reduces Michael Mann’s defamation award from $1,000,000 to $5,000 I wonder if Science, NYT, Wash Post and others who celebrated the original verdict will cover this at all Mann was ordered by the court in January to pay $530,820.21 in National Review’s legal costs https://t.co/eIhvlvDEQ7” / X

Michael Mann has worked hard to erase the Holocene Optimum and Medieval Warm Period

“Archaeologists are finding mysterious ancient objects on Norway’s melting glaciers.”

“Norway’s melting glaciers are revealing objects from the Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the medieval era.”

Archaeologists Finding Mysterious Objects on Norway’s Melting Glaciers – Business Insider

From Grok

“Cyclone Mahina was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck Bathurst Bay, Cape York Peninsula, in colonial Queensland, Australia, on March 4, 1899. It remains the deadliest cyclone in recorded Australian history, with estimates of over 300 deaths, though the exact number is uncertain due to incomplete records. The storm likely claimed between 307 and 410 lives, primarily affecting pearl divers and seamen from South-East Asia, the Torres Strait, and Pacific islands who were part of the Thursday Island pearling fleet anchored in the area. Many deaths went unrecorded, including around 100 Aboriginal Australians who were not counted in official tallies at the time.

Classified as a Category 5 cyclone, Mahina is considered one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. Its peak central pressure is estimated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology at 914 hPa, but ongoing research suggests it could have been as low as 880 hPa, potentially making it the most intense cyclone to hit the Australian mainland if confirmed. The cyclone generated a massive storm surge, reported at 13 meters (43 feet), the largest on record, which swept inland, destroying ships and leaving debris like dolphin carcasses far from the shore.

Named by Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Lindley Wragge, who pioneered the practice of naming storms, Mahina hit a fleet of over 100 vessels, sinking or wrecking more than half and leaving survivors to swim for days to safety. The storm’s ferocity was compounded by its collision with another weather system, “Nachon,” amplifying its destructive power. After crossing Cape York Peninsula, it moved into the Gulf of Carpentaria and dissipated by March 10.

Mahina’s rarity is notable—research indicates such super-cyclones occur in the region only once every two or three centuries. Its impact lingers in memorials, like the one at Cape Melville for “The Pearlers,” and in historical accounts, despite debates over its exact pressure and surge height. Today, it stands as a stark reminder of nature’s power, long before modern climate debates.”

According NASA, 1899 was a cold year and the water which Mahina passed over was unusually cold.

Global Temperature | Vital Signs – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

Large amounts of warming in the past were a “paradise” – but small amounts of warming now are “an existential threat.”

“New study reveals Canada’s subarctic was once a tropical paradise”

Palm trees once grew in Canada’s subarctic: study

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ”

• Edward Abbey

(13) Keir Starmer on X: “Action, not just words. Britain stands with Ukraine, today and always ???? https://t.co/pDFRjKQYH6” / X

“Thirteen-year-old Barbara Kent (center) and her fellow campers play in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, in the hours after the bomb’s detonation. Fallout flakes drifted down that day and for days afterward. “We thought [it] was snow,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot.”
Courtesy of Barbara Kent

The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Muerto valley.

The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation. In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet all those living near the bomb site weren’t warned that the test would take place. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days.

As time passed, Kent says she began to hear disturbing reports that her fellow campers were falling ill. By the time she turned 30, she says, “I was the only survivor of all the girls at that camp.” She adds that she has suffered from lifelong illnesses: She had to have her thyroid removed and has survived several forms of cancer, including endometrial cancer and “all kinds of skin cancers.”

U.S. lawmakers move urgently to recognize survivors of the first atomic bomb test