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

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In the end, their credibility will melt away quite suddenly. There has been no change in Arctic sea ice area for eight years.

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

People’s Climate March, NYC Sept. 21

The climate change struggle, and related environmental struggles, have become more important over the last few years, and will become even more so as climate change exacerbates storms, forest fires, water stresses, fishery collapses, and other environmental problems.

People around the world, and right here in our country, increasingly feel the effects of climate change. Hundred-year storms and droughts now occur almost every year. The entire state of California is suffering from prolonged drought. Funds to fight fires are running out due to the increasing number and intensity of forest fires especially in the West.

People’s Climate March, NYC Sept. 21 and local actions » cpusa

President Obama promised to use green energy as an excuse to make electricity prices skyrocket, and he has been true to his word.

PUEBLO, Colo. -Black Hills executives heard another earful from its customers during a hearing on its proposed rate increase.

“I’m mad as hell about these rate increases,” said Frank Soudek.

“Reasonably priced power. That’s what we’re asking for,” said Lee Gladney.

Black Hills wants to increase utility rates by 4 percent starting next year to make up for the construction cost of a wind farm in Huerfano County.

Black Hills customers ‘mad as hell’ over proposed rate increase | News – Home

h/t to Dave G

After Trayvon Martin’s death, President Obama indicated to us (in no uncertain terms) that he evaluates crime based on the color of people’s skin. But for some reason he forgot to make a speech about this.

New York radio host Todd Pettengill is pointing to the alleged revenge killing of a 19-year-old man from Livingston, New Jersey, as evidence that “domestic terrorism is already here.” Further, he argues, the “act of jihad” is not getting nearly enough media coverage.

On his radio show this week, Pettengill called for increased focus on the murder of Brendan Tevlin, who was gunned down in June. About a month later, police arrested and charged 29-year-old Ali Muhammad Brown in connection to the murder — and he later reportedly confessed that he killed Tevlin as retribution for U.S. military actions in the Middle East.

Radio Host Says the National Media Aren’t Telling You About This Shocking Alleged Revenge Killing: ‘Domestic Terrorism Is Already Here’ | TheBlaze.com

Ignoring all the junk science behind the temperature reconstructions, let’s have a look at the hockey stick grafted blade. Note how it starts at 1880, right after Australia’s hottest years on record.

Here is the current pre-1966 portion of the graph – a nice hockey stick caused no doubt by Grover Cleveland’s horse flatulence in the 1880’s

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But it wasn’t always like that. NASA used to publish global surface temperatures back to 1866, which showed no net warming during the century from 1866 to 1966

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Apparently Grover Cleveland’s horse wasn’t that bad after all. NASA simply hid the inconvenient pre-1880 data, because it wrecked the hockey stick.

But it is worse than it seems. NASA is not only hiding the pre-1880 warmth, but they are also tampering with the post-1880 data to increase the amount of post 1880 warming. The graph below shows how they have changed their own data over the past 15 years.

All of this wonderful data tampering has brought hundreds of billions of dollars to climate science research over the past 15 years. There must be a word for that.

Burketown is a very small town which would be considered rural by all standard definitions.

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Maximum temperatures there show no net warming since the 1890’s.

But minimum temperatures recorded at Burketown have warmed about 1C, almost all of which occurred during a few years around 1980.

At first glance, Burketown looks very rural.

But closer inspection shows that the thermometer is located near a large area of asphalt.

No too surprising that nighttime temperatures rose, after the roads were paved.

Average temperatures in Australia peaked in 1878, with 1889 also being a very hot year.

Maximum temperatures in Australia peaked in the 1870’s, with 1878 being the hottest. Temperatures declined sharply until the 1930’s and have warmed a little since then.

Absolute maximum temperatures show a strong warming until about 1900, which is an artifact of adding hotter stations.

Minimum temperatures in Australia also peaked in 1878, but generally the trend has been upwards since the start of records. This is likely due to UHI.

Like maximum temperatures, absolute minimum temperatures increased until about 1900, due to the addition of warmer stations.

Climate experts tell us that UHI has almost no effect on the temperature record, and USHCN only corrects by 0.1 F .  The real world tells us something completely different.

The weather station at Fort Collins, Colorado is considered a good station because it has not moved, and has used the same equipment for its entire history. But something else has changed – the environment around the weather station. It used to be in the middle of a farm – now it is in the middle of a parking lot.

Over the past 80 years, Fort Collins appears to have warmed at a rate of 1.1ºC/century, while Colorado has not warmed at all. Note the big spike after 1990 in Fort Collins

In 1937, the station was located in the middle of a farm,

By 1950, the area was starting to get built up.

By 1969, the city had surrounded the weather station.

Now it is in the middle of a parking lot, which was built around the time of the post 1990 spike.

When I was in Fort Collins riding my bike last week, I noticed at least 5-10 degrees F difference between open space temperatures and downtown, where the CSU weather station is located. One evening was beautiful downtown, and frigid along the Spring Creek trail.

People who claim that UHI doesn’t matter – have no idea what they are talking about. The presence of any asphalt (even a single road) in an area makes a huge difference in temperature – as any cyclist can tell you.