In 1961, the unanimous consensus agreed that Earth was cooling – but GISS shows a strong warming trend from 1946 to 1961.
data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.txt
SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER — NYTimes.com
* Mosher says that this is all first rate science.
The largest measured New Year’s Day global sea ice area was 17.9 million km² in 1989. January 1 is on pace to surpass that.
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008
Just got this E-mail from the Pinocchio-in-Chief
These are the actual numbers from US Treasury Dept.
Current Issue: Monthly Treasury Statement: Publications & Guidance: Financial Management Service
James Hansen of NASA is the only climatologist to have told Congress that the greenhouse effect is already here. He is a respected scientist but on this point very few of his colleagues agree with him, as Richard Kerr noted recently in Science. The Office of Management and Budget drew criticism when it heavy-handedly made Mr. Hansen qualify testimony to Congress last month. But its caveat, that his warnings ”should be viewed as estimates from evolving computer models and not as reliable predictions,” was scientifically impeccable. The computer models of the greenhouse effect are indeed ”evolving” -they’re somewhere around the amoeba stage.
Environmental lobbyists are tempted to emphasize the threat of the greenhouse effect because it reinforces so much of their other agenda.
The Editorial Notebook – Crying Wolf in the Greenhouse – NYTimes.com
Kook and Nuttercelli say this is impossible.
Using NASA certified adjustment protocol, I have downwards adjusted the number of dead voters who voted for Obama in 2008 – and transformed him into an unemployed community organizer.
Warming could wipe out half of all species | Environment | The Guardian
How many Guardian journalists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
h/t to Kent Clizbe
13 February 2012
Former Vice President Al Gore has taken his fight against climate change to the South Pole, as his Climate Reality Project expedition ship arrived in Antarctica.
Joined by more than 100 other travellers including scientists, ministers and celebrities, the team set off from Argentina last week, crossing the legendary Drake Passage en-route to the Antarctic.
Gore has been joined by James Hansen from NASA, Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, along with Bangledesh’s minister of environment Hasan Mahmud, the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, British billionaire Richard Branson and UNFCCC Chief Christiana Figueres.
Tweeting from the trip Figueres wrote: “Antarctica: highest coldest, windiest and driest continent of the planet. Most importantly: global bellwether of #climatechange.”
And amongst pictures of penguins, icebergs and seals she lamented their future prospects: “Greetings from a chinstrap penguin colony. Populations decreasing due to decreasing sea ice.”
Antarctic sea ice extent has been above normal every day since Q3, 2011.
