Global warming has nothing to do with climate. They used to be green on the outside, and red on the inside. Now they are red all the way through.
McKibben thinks China is a wonderful place
Global warming has nothing to do with climate. They used to be green on the outside, and red on the inside. Now they are red all the way through.
McKibben thinks China is a wonderful place
Think of the Colorado River. If a lot of snow falls one winter, then six months later there will be a lot of water in the river. If the following winter there is little snow, the response six months later is a reduction in river flow.
There is no gain or loss of water, just a delayed steady state response.
Glaciers are rivers of ice. If a lot of excess snow falls in the interior of Greenland for a few years, the response will be a delayed increased flow of ice, and vice-versa.
Climate morons calculate the “mass balance” of the Greenland ice sheet (including flow) and scream that Greenland is melting down – even though it obviously isn’t. If there actually has been a reduction in net ice accumulation, this will eventually lead to a reduction in flow (like any river) and a return to equilibrium. There is no gain or loss of ice over the long term, just temporary changes in flow. Greenland is not melting down.
These people are brainless, and clueless, and lacking the most fundamental understanding of how natural processes work.
A few days ago, people were trying to claim that the Northwest Passage is open. Some people might get lucky and get through the ice, but the passage is definitely not “open.”
JAXA shows an increase in sea ice extent since yesterday. This is the first time since 2006 which this has occurred so early in the autumn (today being the first day.)
JAXA ice extent is 3% higher than last year, and 49% higher than 2012.
Obama has opened the borders to millions of undocumented low wage earners and welfare recipients, then he blames low wages on Texas.
His goal is always to create discord and strife, and pin the blame for the mess he is making on somebody else.
In 1986, Hansen told Congress that the US had warmed 1-2 degrees since 1958, but his own graph showed no warming since 1958, and cooling since the 1930s.
NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?
Whither U.S. Climate?
By James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Jay Glascoe and Makiko Sato — August 1999in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country (Figure 2).
Some parts of Greenland have gained more than a metre of ice over the past 365 days, and more than 90% of the ice sheet has seen a net gain (accumulation minus melt) in surface ice.
Experts and journalists who say Greenland is “melting down” are lying through their teeth.
Map of the accumulated surface mass balance (in mm water equivalent) from September 1st (2013) to now.
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Pacific islands growing, not sinking
Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.
Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment.
The findings, published in the journal Global and Planetary Change, were gathered by comparing changes to 27 Pacific islands over the last 20 to 60 years using historical aerial photos and satellite images.
Auckland University’s Associate Professor Paul Kench, a member of the team of scientists, says the results challenge the view that Pacific islands are sinking due to rising sea levels associated with climate change.
“Eighty per cent of the islands we’ve looked at have either remained about the same or, in fact, gotten larger,” he says.
“Some of those islands have gotten dramatically larger, by 20% or 30%.
Pacific islands growing, not sinking › News in Science (ABC Science)
h/t to Bill Pounder and others
Twenty-five years ago, the UN announced that we had until the year 2000 to save these islands
Climategate scientists said they wanted to get rid of the 1940’s blip, and they did. They don’t want people to know what the climate was like in the past, because it wrecks their story and exposes their graphs as complete nonsense.