Real Climate Science

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Fort Collins police appear to be directing climate refugees to a centralized area at the CSU football stadium parking lot.

Viewed from above, you can see that many have lost everything, except for their pickup truck, hot dogs, hamburgers, barbecued chicken, potato chips, nachos, salsa, and a large aluminum container on the tailgate containing some sort of beverage which looks and tastes similar to horse piss (Coors Light perhaps?)

Our friends keep pointing out that current Arctic ice gains are irrelevant, because the trend since the peak in 1979 is down.

This argument is ridiculous. In order to break the post 1979 downwards trend, the summer minimum would have necessarily had to have been over 21 million km². Even the sudden onset of an ice age wouldn’t break the post-1979 trend for several years.

Five weeks ago this blog hit ten million page views. It will pass eleven million in a few hours. Currently getting two clicks per second.

September 14, 2013 at 4:30 pm

You can’t make up stupid like this. First they claim that global warming is causing glaciers to retreat away from the sea.  Now they claim that global warming is causing glaciers to advance towards the sea.

Until they noticed that their theory wasn’t working a few weeks ago, they were screaming that all of the ice would be gone this year because of global warming. Now they say the exact opposite.

Sea ice forms at the periphery of the ice pack as cold air freezes seawater. The contribution of glacial ice is tiny, and occurs near land.  Record Antarctic sea ice (by definition) forms far away from land.

Syria pretends to get rid of their chemical weapons, Obama takes credit for it, UN discussions begin to condemn US support of the “rebels” – and Russia has cover to help Iran speed up their nuclear weapons program.

Kerry and Obama make Neville Chamberlain look like a brilliant strategist. Can you imagine what Putin says about Obama in private?

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The Poudre River in Fort Collins drains more than 500 square miles of mountains and empties through a narrow canyon.

The Big Thompson River in Loveland drains more than 500 square miles of mountains and empties through a narrow canyon.

The St. Vrain River, Lefthand Creek and Boulder Creek drain more than 500 square miles of mountains and empty through narrow canyons.

Upslope winds force humid air from the plains up into the mountains. The air expands, cools and drops below its dew point. Rain falls and floods occur.

In 1976, the Big Thompson drainage received 14 inches of rain in four hours and produced one of America’s most deadly floods. This week’s rains have been nowhere near that intense.

In 1997, Spring Creek in Fort Collins received 10 inches of rain in four hours, and produced a flood with killed five people. Again, that rainfall was much more intense than this week.

In 1965, the South Platte River drainage received 15 inches of rain in 14 hours, and produced a flood with killed twenty-one people. Rainfall was much more intense than this week.

In 1921, a similar rain killed 1,200 people in Pueblo, Colorado.

People talking about biblical or 1,000 year rainfall have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. These floods can be expected somewhere along the Front Range every couple of decades.

• Forests burn. Some species of pine trees in Colorado can not reproduce without regular catastrophic crown fires. If you build your house in the pine forest, it will burn.
• Flood plains flood. If you build your house on a flood plain below a constricted canyon draining 1,000 square miles of the Rocky Mountains, it is going to flood. Upslope winds on mountains frequently produce extreme amounts of rain and snow.
• Coloradans like rifles. Shooting is one of the most popular forms of recreation. If you don’t like rifles, stay in California where the Bill of Rights is illegal.
• Winter here is very long. Don’t make a decision to move here based on a vacation you took in August.

Most important. If you do move here with your Prius smug and build your house in a stupid place, don’t blame CO2 for your stupidity. And keep your hands off the Bill of Rights.

Obama cancelled White House tours for schoolchildren earlier this year, because he said his record high budget didn’t contain enough money – despite the fact that one of his golfing vacations would have paid for a year’s worth of tours.

But now Obama says we have plenty of money to start a new war in Syria – for the benefit of the kids, of course. 

Parts of Longmont, Colorado are flooded. One of the main recreational attractions in Longmont is Golden Ponds, which is a series of old gravel pits along the St. Vrain River – that are now filled with water. How did billions of eight inch diameter river rocks get transported 10 miles from the mountains?

Longmont sits on the flood plain of Lefthand Creek and the St. Vrain River.  Much of the newer parts of the city are built on flood detritus.  The older parts of the city are built on higher ground and do not flood. One hundred years ago, few people were foolish enough to build their house on the flood plain.

The climate isn’t getting worse, people are just getting increasingly stupid.