Real Climate Science

According to the Guardian, plants don’t grow well in warm weather.

“Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate”

Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate | World news | The Guardian

If Republicans want to lose next year’s Congressional elections, there are few ways more effective than to ruin tens of millions of American’s summer vacations at National Parks.

“Overcrowding and piles of rubbish: Elon Musk’s Doge cutbacks plunge America’s parks into crisis
Rangers fear there will be ramifications on protecting nature after 1,000 probationary workers are sacked by the Trump administration”

Elon Musk’s Doge cutbacks plunge America’s parks into crisis

My work (and most weather forecasters) depend on a large, reliable stream of data from NOAA.

“‘Cruel and thoughtless’: Trump fires hundreds at US climate agency NOAA”

“The majority of probationary employees in my office have been with the agency for 10+ years and just got new positions,” said one worker who still had their job, and who spoke to the Guardian under the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. “If we lose them, we’re losing not just the world-class work they do day to day but also decades of expertise and institutional knowledge.”

‘Cruel and thoughtless’: Trump fires hundreds at US climate agency Noaa | Trump administration | The Guardian

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Cold is Hot

“Most Americans who experienced severe winter weather see climate change at work, AP-NORC poll shows”

Most Americans who experienced severe winter weather see climate change at work, AP-NORC poll shows | AP News

The 1990 movie Total Recall was about an implanted memory in which Arnold Schwarzenegger Terraformed Mars by melting the ice.  The movie featured this car.

Arnie had a few problems there with the low atmospheric pressure which caused his skin to boil.

At low atmospheric pressures, the boiling point of water is close to the freezing point.

Now Elon Musk is talking about melting the subterranean ice on Mars, which would cause it to quickly boil away and dissipate into space. He also has his own Total Recall car.

(3) Elon Musk on X: “Mars probably had liquid oceans a long time ago, before it cooled. Now, there are vast fields of ice covered by red dust. If we warm up the planet, the oceans will return and the atmosphere will densify, making it possible to extend life to Mars.” / X

“Scientists identify tipping point for Greenland’s ice sheet — and it’s not far off

Greenland’s ice sheet has been losing a staggering amount of ice at an accelerating rate.”

(27) Roger Hallam on X: “We could crash permanently through the 1.5C guardrail within the next five years, and shatter the 2C limit as soon as 2034. This will almost certainly result in the tipping points for collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets being crossed, committing us to the https://t.co/yIH0jojgvd” / X

The surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet gains an average of 370 billion tons of ice per year. Most years since 2017 it has gained more ice than average, and the only year it was significantly below was 2019.

Surface Conditions: Polar Portal

NOAA creates US warming by tampering with the measured thermometer data.

When they started doing this about 25 years ago, the total tampering was 0.6F and went flat after 1990.  Now the tampering as about four times larger and accelerates after 1990.

USHCN ORNL/CDIAC-87 NDP-019

“February heat at 38°C is shocking. It’s a clear sign we need to act now to protect our planet and its people. Let’s push for sustainable solutions together!”

(10) Peter Dynes on X: “Heat waves are hitting India early, with a 38°C forecast already, and it is still only February! Climate change is driving an exponential rise in extreme heat exposure worldwide. Heat-related deaths for over-65s are up 85% from 2004—an incredible rise. https://t.co/37DCk8xkEc” / X

India records temperatures over 38C during February about once every 2.5 years.  Southern India is close to the equator and the sun is nearly directly overhead this time of year.

Not surprisingly, Peter Dynes has me blocked.  He wouldn’t want facts to interfere with his red maps.

“Tue, Jun 01, 1948 – Page 14

Antarctic Ice Cap Found Shrinking Toward Pole

OSLO, June 1 (UP).—A remarkable thinning out of the polar ice cap in the Antarctic is reported by a Norwegian expedition which found bare stretches of earth on an island thickly covered with ice only 20 years ago.”

Jun 01, 1948, page 14 – The Cincinnati Post at Newspapers.com

Sixty years later Antarctica was beginning to melt due to global warming.

“”The Tribune Mon, Jan 14, 2008 – Page 5

Antarctica starts to feel the burn of global warming

Experts say the continent that holds about 90 percent of Earth’s ice is beginning to melt”

Jan 14, 2008, page 5 – The Tribune at Newspapers.com

“Thu 21 Jul 1932 / Page 42

SOME great world change is taking place on the Antarctic Continent. Its glaciers are shrinking. Commander L. A. Bernacchi, who visited the South Polar land 30 years ago, says that the Great Ice Barrier which fronts the continent with a wall of ice for 250 miles has receded at least 30 miles since it was first seen and surveyed. Sir James Ross, who went out on the earliest Antarctic expedition of the nineteenth century, and those who followed him, left clear descriptions of this tremendous ice frontage and its position. It was a cliff 150ft. high and 1000ft. thick. But now it appears to be continuing its century-long process of shrinking; and that process may have been going on for centuries. “

21 Jul 1932 – A Warmer World. – Trove

Having lived through communism, people in the former East Germany vote strongly against it – but people in West Germany apparently haven’t suffered enough yet to figure it out.

Live German election results and maps: Conservatives win, AfD achieves best finish yet