Real Climate Science

Temperatures around the North Pole have dropped down to nearly -5C, meaning that new ice should start forming fairly soon.

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They reported that sea level is rising at 1-2 mm/year, which means that Miami won’t actually drown for another 3,000 years or so.

First IPCC report

The story line is that communists have taken over the coastal regions of the US, and disarmed the citizenry. This is a reasonably well researched documentary about life in America in the year 2013. Available now in your neighborhood.

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A high-ranking Yemeni security official speaking on the condition of anonymity told McClatchy that the claims of a foiled plot had no basis in fact. That source bemusedly attributed media reports about imminent terror strikes to a single official’s comments, which he cast as a misguided attempt at shifting public opinion in the face of increasing and unpopular American drone strikes.

U.S. embassies in Muslim world reopen amid still-murky threats | McClatchy

A spokesman for the National Union of Mass Murderers, Rapists, Armed Robbers, Kidnappers, Home Invaders, and People Who Believe They Are Fictional Arch-Villains, has issued a statement promising to abide by all new gun laws, and not use them to the unfair advantage of the criminals.

Additionally, James Holmes has discussed this with Count Vertigo and Lex Luthor – and received similar assurances.

A spokesman for the California Assembly added :

Confiscating guns from law abiding citizens makes the work of criminals much easier, safer and more productive. The Second Amendment has been a terrible burden on criminals, who share the same mindset as many government officials.

Twitter / KHayhoe: This blew my mind: marine species …

Shock news! There was a time when climate scientists actually did science.

docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-02-0093a.pdf

This summer has seen the largest increase in sea ice area on record. August 8 ice area was 1.26 million km² larger than the same date in 2012, beating the old record increase set in 1996.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008

NOAA describes this record increase in ice as being a record loss.

Noaa report says Arctic sea ice is disappearing at unprecedented pace | World news | theguardian.com

UN Charts ‘Unprecedented’ Global Warming Since 2000 – Bloomberg

The unprecedented warming is plainly visible in satellite data – which shows an increase of 0.00 degrees since the start of the year 2000.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

But it is worse than it seems. The new century actually began in 2001. Even the UHI afflicted surface data shows a decline this century.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs