Real Climate Science

The White House says that heat waves are getting worse in the US, but the data says the exact opposite. Summer maximum temperatures have declined sharply in the US, and are near historic lows.

The White House is claiming that hot spells are becoming more severe and frequent in the US. This is utter nonsense, with no factual basis. The number of 100 degree readings in the US have declined sharply since the 1930’s and are near historical lows.

The White House is claiming today

Winter storms have increased in frequency and intensity

The IPCC says the exact opposite.

The Great Lakes are normally ice-free in May. This year they are still 15 % ice covered, which is 300% of the previous record.

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NOAA says that many years were colder in the upper midwest, because they tamper with data and have completely lost touch with reality.

Prior to the passage of the Clean Air Act, the US had some serious air pollution problems. This is what LA looked like in 1948.

There were many days when you could hardly see across the Grand Canyon, because of smoke from coal fired power plants. Government solved those problems through regulations passed in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Unfortunately, those same government agencies have outlived their usefulness, and are now regulating imaginary pollution. The EPA is obsessed with CO2, which is not a pollutant.

The EPA needs to be defunded, because they are now hurting America rather than helping. Much of the Federal government has become a malignacy, which exists only for its own benefit.

The donate button has gotten an excellent response so far. Readers from at least seven countries have donated, with the largest response being from the People’s Republic of Boulder.

Very gratifying to see that my efforts are being appreciated. It takes a lot of time and has a huge opportunity cost, as my big oil denier check seems to get lost in the mail every month.

With several cold months left to go in 2014, Michigan has already recorded the second largest number of below 0F readings in a single year. Only 1963 had more.

From Obama’s climate assessment :

Over the past century, global sea level has risen by about 8 inches. Since 1992, the rate of global sea level rise measured by satellites has been roughly twice the rate observed over the last century.

Satellite measurements of sea level began in 1992, so the claimed comparison is impossible. There isn’t any satellite sea level data from before 1992.

If you do an apples to apples comparison of tide gauges from before/after 1992, there is no acceleration. Obama’s claim of acceleration is based entirely on switching between two uncalibrated measurement systems, a mistake which would get him fired from any engineering job.

The 1990 IPCC report said that there was no acceleration during the 20th century.

Does anyone seriously believe that sea level rise suddenly doubled in 1992?

In 1991, Barack Obama was still a birther – promoting himself as being born in Kenya.

Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’

Climate experts experts say that nights below 0F don’t happen any more because of global warming, but West Chester, PA has broken their record already this year for most nights below 0F in a single year, with eight.

Most of my childhood was spent in Los Alamos, New Mexico, surrounded by public lands. I went hiking in the national forest every day. You could go target shooting just about anywhere in the Santa Fe National Forest. It was fantastic there, and still is.

Now I live on the Front Range of Colorado, where public lands are much less accessible. People build houses in the mountains (many of which burn down or flood every summer) and they block access to the forest.

I never understood why people want to live in the mountains, anyway. As far as I am concerned, lots of public land is a good thing – and building houses in the Front Range foothills benefits nobody.