Real Climate Science

Andrew Freedman of Heidi Central claims that the Boulder rainfall last week was a 1,000 year event. Here is how his scam works.

The CSU map below (h/t Omnologos) shows rainfall during the 1997 Spring Creek flood in Fort Collins – which was more intense than last week’s Boulder rain. Freedman’s argument is based on the spectacularly deceptive concept that the odds of one particular rain gauge being right under the peak precipitation are very low.

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The University of Colorado says that last week’s flood was a 25-50 year event in Boulder, but no matter how many times this gets pointed out to Andrew Freedman, he continues to insist that it was a 1,000 year rainfall. It is equivalent of saying that the odds of there being a Colorado lottery winner are very low, because the odds for any individual ticket are very low.

Lyons was severely damaged by the flood and won’t be functional again for months. It was a disaster waiting to happen.

“Pundits say President Obama is starting to lose support from his own Party. Give you an idea how bad it’s gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter.”

– Jay Leno

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In July, the Arctic experts told me I am not allowed to look at the Arctic until September. Now that September is here, they tell me that I am not allowed to look at the Arctic at all.

And extent is no longer a legitimate measurement – the only valid measurement is phony volume numbers from PIOMAS – which only show a 46% increase.

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Seventy-five years ago today, a major hurricane narrowly missed New York, but devastated Long Island and New England. Had it made landfall 70 miles to the west, it would have destroyed New York City. My mother remembers seeing trees in Brooklyn bent over to the ground.

26 Sep 1938 – NEAR 700. DEATH ROLL IN U.S.A. HURRICANE. Story …

California also suffered massive deadly flooding in 1938

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Green shows new ice formation over the past week.

Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor

We’ve had the opportunity to decompress over the last week and reflect on our arctic experience. We communicated with Eric Solomon  – Vancouver Aquarium’s Director of Arctic Programs –  to share our experience and he made some interesting points in regard to the ice we experienced on the strangely cold year in the arctic:

“It’s about putting it all in context, really.” He states, “For example, this year’s sea ice extent is still 1.41 million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average, and is the 6th lowest sea ice extent in the satellite record. The ice that (you) guys encountered says more about where the ice was over the last 2 months than how much ice there has been over-all. There is, for example, a big hole in the ice near the North Pole right now. Meanwhile, the winds have been blowing a lot of ice down into the Archipelago and into the region where (you) guys have been rowing.”

Climate change is happening and is being evidenced even during a cold year like we just experienced.

How much ice is really out there this year?

The ultimate proof of global warming would be a new ice age.

An eight year-old child bride died in Yemen on her wedding night after suffering internal injuries due to sexual trauma. Human rights organizations are calling for the arrest of her husband, who was five times her age.

Al Nahar, Lebanon, reported that the death occurred in the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia. This brings even more attention to the already existing issue of forced child marriages in the Middle East.

It is reported that over a quarter of Yemen’s young girls are married before the age of 15. Not only do they lose access to health and education, these child brides are commonly subjected to physical, emotional and sexual violence in their forced marriages.

8-year-old Yemeni child dies at hands of 40-year-old husband on wedding night | Al Bawaba

President Obama has been working hard to spread Islamic fundamentalism throughout the Middle East.