Real Climate Science

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told “Fox News Sunday” that congressional Republicans think the president abused the government’s separation of powers by using the executive orders to sidestep Congress and delay the law’s employer mandate.

However, he said critics would be challenged to win in court because Congress lacks the so-called “legal standing” to present the case and they would have a “tough time” finding somebody hurt enough by the delays to be a good plaintiff.

Republicans: Obama violating Constitution, but little can be done about it | Fox News

In other words, Republicans are giving Obama the green light, and cover – by pretending that they are trying to stop him.

If February ended today, this would be the third coldest winter on record in the US, after 1979 and 1899.

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A report by the Environmental Protection Agency three years ago said the warming trend could start by the 1990’s and could reach as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit by 2040, but this was attacked by President Reagan’s science adviser at the time, George A. Keyworth, as ”unnecessarily alarmist.”

SWIFTER WARMING OF GLOBE FORESEEN – NYTimes.com

Now we are stuck with pathetic losers like Romney and McCain.

Remarkable Snow Cover In Scotland – InTheSnow | Ski Magazine

The same large oscillations in the jet stream which made the US cold this winter, have the potential to cause major heatwaves this summer. I will describe it as excess cold Arctic air dislodging tropical heat.

Palm Occasionalius

Sochi: The warmest Winter Olympics in history? A warm winter isn’t unusual for Sochi, a city often warm enough to support palm trees.

Sochi: The warmest Winter Olympics in history? | MNN – Mother Nature Network

Apparently the palm trees come and go with the moods of the weather.

The EPA says that the 1930’s were much hotter

www.epa.gov/climate/climatechange/pdfs/print_heat-waves.pdf

Afternoon temperatures have been plummeting in the US for 80 years. NOAA/NASA hide this by tampering with the data.

Very hot days were much more common during the 1930’s

Hansen was aware of this in 1999, but seems to have mysteriously forgotten.

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.

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