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One of my kids’ car got trashed by a hailstorm in Denver this afternoon

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This is due to climate change, because they never have hailstorms in Colorado

On July 11, 1990, a severe thunderstorm developed near Estes Park and traveled southeast, dropping golf ball to baseball sized hail, in a swath that was at times, 5 to 10 miles wide.

Losses totaled over $600 million, at the time, making it the costliest hailstorm in state history

Historic Denver Hailstorm Was Called Worst In American History « CBS Denver

How does Arctic sea ice loss compare to Antarctic sea ice gain?

Arctic sea ice loss is three times greater than Antarctic sea ice gain.

Climate Myth…

Arctic sea ice loss is matched by Antarctic sea ice gain
In fact, the global sea-ice record shows virtually no change throughout the past 30 years, because the quite rapid loss of Arctic sea ice since the satellites were watching has been matched by a near-equally rapid gain of Antarctic sea ice. Indeed, when the summer extent of Arctic sea ice reached its lowest point in the 30-year record in mid-September 2007, just three weeks later the Antarctic sea extent reached a 30-year record high. The record low was widely reported; the corresponding record high was almost entirely unreported. (Chris Monckton)

How does Arctic sea ice loss compare to Antarctic sea ice gain?

Kook and Nutter solve the equation :

-3x + 1x = a positive number

The amount of sea on Earth is above the post 1979 mean, meaning that Antarctic gain is greater than Arctic loss

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I’m skeptical that their combined IQ matches that of a turnip.

Meanwhile, researchers from NASA and UC Irvine studying the ASE ice sheet report a “continuous and rapid retreat” of glaciers there and think that there is “no [major] obstacle that would prevent the glaciers from further retreat.” They worry that within a millennium and perhaps as soon as two centuries, the ASE could melt out entirely—leading to between four and 10 feet of sea level rise around the world—if moderate warming models prove to be correct.

Of course, we can all play a role in preventing such scenarios by reducing our carbon footprints. Take fewer airplane trips. Buy organic food. Walk, bike or take public transit to work. If you must drive, get a hybrid or electric car. Wear a sweater instead of turning up the heat. And urge legislators to push new laws that limit greenhouse gas emissions by industry, utilities and other big polluters. It may be now or never.

How quickly is Antarctica melting?

Climate experts claim that there is missing heat, hiding in 3ºC water at the bottom of the sea.

If that frigid water every turned over and came to the surface, temperatures at the surface would become extremely cold.

CO2 has risen 10%, but temperatures have remained flat.

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Scientists funded by taxpayer confiscated money say that the Arctic is in a “death spiral.”

The coverage of sea ice in the Arctic has scarcely changed since the 1979 peak, and is about the same as it was in the early 1970’s.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008

From the 1990 IPCC report.

• Woke up a 3am, and wrote for a few hours
• Took the dogs for a walk at 8
• Wrote for a couple more hours
• Rode for an hour to have lunch at the church
• Rode for an hour to a friend’s house. Listened to music
• Rode for an hour back to Whole Foods. Had a fantastic salad
• Rode home and took the dogs for a walk
• Cooked dinner
• Rode to the gym and worked out
• Stopped at the pub on the way home, drank Guinness and watched the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders

What a great day! (And Tuesday is Barca vs. PSG)

I worked as a wilderness ranger at this 12,000 foot elevation lake in New Mexico during the summer of 1983. That year the snow was 20 feet deep and never completely melted all summer. The lake was still half-frozen in mid-July that year. A few years earlier, the area had very little snow.

Climate changes all the time. It is shame that so many climate scientists have no interest in trying to understand how the climate works.

Until a person understands that they are nothing without the grace of God, they can’t make any real progress in life.

Teaching a child that they are responsible for, or control the climate – is hard core child abuse. Teaching a child that their life is random, accidental and meaningless, is hard core child abuse.

And Southampton in the #2 spot in the Premier League. Looks a a great winter ahead in Europe.