Real Climate Science

On June 24, 1988 – after sabotaging the air conditioning, James Hansen told Congress:

Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate
New York Times Published: June 24, 1988

Dr. James E. Hansen of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a Congressional committee that it was 99 percent certain that the warming trend was not a natural variation but was caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide and other artificial gases in the atmosphere.

June 24, 1988 was a hot day in DC during the hottest summer of the past 30 years in the US. But something strange was going on with the weather. Temperatures just a few miles away were quite cool. Beltsville, MD was 95 degrees that day, but Laurel (a short bike ride away) was only 82 degrees. And the following day, Beltsville was only 79 degrees.

John Muir said

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I spend hours a day in the forests here in Maryland. Just spent an hour listening to the amazing chorus of Cicadas. This weekend has been absolutely perfect here in Maryland, except that CO2 has turned everything upside down

Fortunately, we have something exciting happening next week, to make up for the 0.0001 mole fraction increase in CO2 over the past century.

 Monthly_HadCET_mean.txt, 1659 to date

 In 1999, Hansen was concerned that the very high quality US temperature record showed 70 years of cooling, while his very low quality, cherry-picked, massively extrapolated global temperature record showed strong warming.

Science Briefs
Whither U.S. Climate?
By James Hansen … August 1999

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

How can the absence of clear climate change in the United States be reconciled with continued reports of record global temperature?

in 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).

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

It made no sense that the high quality US temperature record disagreed with his worthless global temperature graph, so Hansen did the obvious thing. He simply corrupted the US graph to match the crappy global data.

There has been no change in US July temperatures since 1895, and this past July was more than 3C cooler than July, 1901.

Green shows the 56% increase in Arctic sea ice extent since the same date in 2012. Red shows ice loss

As the breathtakingly ignorant deranged blogger in residence predicted, high pressure in the western Arctic has been compacting the ice thus and reducing extent. Red shows ice extent loss, and green shows ice extent gain.

Now compare (below) what happened during the same week in 2012, when a large cyclone broke up the thin ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi  Seas, and overturned the water down to a great depth. This event sharply cooled the deeper seawater, and opened the door for the large increase in ice which has occurred over the past two years.

02 Feb 1935 – DISASTERS OF 1934 REVIEWEL Millions Were Rendere…

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