Real Climate Science

I figured out who has been messing with my computer while I was gone.

He weighs 16 pounds and looks a lot like Dorothy’s companion. Apparently likes to walk on the keyboard.

The US generates 13% of global CO2. If we reduced emissions by 20%, that would cut us down to about 10% of current global emissions.

However, Obama agreed to let China increase their emissions for the next 16 years. At China’s  current growth rates, there will be a huge increase in global CO2 emissions, which will place any US reductions in the noise.

The reason that China agreed to it, is because it puts American industry at a competitive disadvantage due to increased fuel costs. It was a win-win for China. They do nothing, while Obama shoots the US in the foot.

Gavin shows 1.5C Northern Hemisphere surface temperature warming, which he accomplished using a couple of tricks. Yesterday I showed how he shifted the baseline and cooled the past for pre-1969 temperatures, which gave him an extra 0.3C of imaginary warming.

This is the actual comparison, without the baseline shift.

Now lets look at the tricks he uses since 1969. He shows a huge discontinuity at the PDO shift of 1977, which does appear in Alaska, but does not appear in the US, Greenland or European temperature records.

I created a complete 1880-2013 Northern Hemisphere land temperature record by merging and normalizing temperatures from 1975 NAS (1880-1969), NOAA Angell (1970-1979) and UAH (1979-2013)  Note that the NOAA data does not show a discontinuity at 1977.

 As you can see, the actual amount of warming from 1880 to 2013 is a  little more than half of what Gavin shows. This analysis is conservative, because UAH tends to show too much warming.

It is just a coincidence that Feinstein decided to release her CIA assault on the day that Gruber testified.

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”

? Winston S. Churchill

Arctic ice conditions are “extremely ordinary”

 Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | Sea ice data updated daily with one-day lag

Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings tore into MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber on Tuesday for his remarks on American voters and the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee made GOP chairman Darrell Issa’s opening statement sound tame by comparison.

“As far as I can tell, we are here today to beat up on Jonathan Gruber for stupid — I mean absolutely stupid — comments he made over the last few years,” he began, staring angrily at the hapless professor.

Elijah Cummings Savages Gruber: ‘Absolutely Stupid,’ ‘Incredibly Disrespectful’ | National Review Online

In other words, they are skapegoating Gruber for what all the Democrats did.

While appearing on Sunday’s edition of ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., admitted Democrats in the Senate knew Obama lied when he said Americans could keep their insurance

“So were you misled?” Raddatz asked in a follow-up.

“No,” Gillibrand said. “We all knew.”

N.Y. Dem. Senator admits: ‘We knew’ Obama lied about healthcare promise – National Policy & Issues | Examiner.com

Heat Waves in Europe Will Increase, Study Finds

By DAVID JOLLY DEC. 8, 2014

PARIS — In June 2003, a high-pressure weather system took hold over Western Europe and hovered there for weeks, bringing warm tropical air to the region and making that summer the hottest since at least 1540, the year King Henry VIII discarded his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

Temperatures were about 2.3 degrees Celsius, or 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit, above average that summer, contributing to perhaps 70,000 additional deaths and hitting the elderly particularly hard. The heat was a factor in the outbreak of forest fires and in lower than usual crop yields. It caused Alpine glaciers to shrink at a rate double that seen in the previous record summer, five years earlier.

Now, three scientists from the Met Office, the British weather agency, have concluded that human-caused global warming is going to make European summer heat waves “commonplace” by the 2040s.

Heat Waves in Europe Will Increase, Study Finds – NYTimes.com

Complete bullshit. The hot summer of 2003 was a one-off event and not a trend. These crooks lie about everything.

Contrary to the lies of climate experts, US drought is near historically low levels. The animation below flashes between December 2014 and December 1963

By the end of the month, the drought in the west will be further reduced.