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From July 11 to August 30 1936, Altus Oklahoma was over 100 F every day but two.  This included thirty-five days over 105F, fourteen days over 110F and two days over 120F.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

Check out this comment at the Guardian

19 July 2013 2:30am

Makes sense. Zimmerman (the half Hispanic half Jew) killed an unarmed black child because he hated Hispanics and Jews. It had nothing to with the fact that Martin was trying to kill him.

As you enter Glacier Bay in Southeast Alaska you will cruise along shorelines completely covered by ice just 200 years ago.

Explorer Captain George Vancouver found Icy Strait choked with ice in 1794, and Glacier Bay was barely an indented glacier. That glacier was more than 4000 ft. thick, up to 20 miles or more wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St.Elias Range of mountains.

By 1879 naturist John Muir found that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. By 1916 the Grand Pacific Glacier headed Tarr inlet 65 miles from Glacier Bay’s mouth.

http://www.glacierbay.org/glaciers.html

The glacier that filled Glacier Bay during the Little Ice Age began its retreat from the mouth of the bay more than 200 years ago and has exposed a magnificent fjord system about 100 km long. The massive glacier retreated past Sitakaday Narrows ~190 years ago, retreated past Whidbey Passage ~160 years ago, and reached the upper end of the main bay by 1860 (~140 years ago). There the glacier bifurcated and the multibeam data set terminates. The amount of fine sediment reaching the lower bay is largely restricted to local runoff and plankton debris. In addition, the currents through Sitakaday Narrows can be as fast as 7 kt, scouring the bottom of fine sediment. So a long history of morphologies is clearly visible on the bottom.

Spring Multibeam Cruise in Glacier Bay Provides Spectacular Images

“There is no question that the time to prepare for sea level rise is now… We will definitely see 7 feet of sea level rise — the only question is when,” Josh Willis, a scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told FoxNews.com.

“Our best estimates of sea level rise in the next 100 years are 3 to 4 feet, but we can’t completely rule out 6 or 7 feet. Such a rise would devastate coastal communities that are unprepared,” Willis said.

States battle surging seas — despite uncertainty among climate scientists | Fox News

The highest IPCC estimate is less than half of that, and the highest measured rates are less than a third of what he is claiming. Who is he speaking for? Him and the mouse in his pocket?

FAQ 5.1 Figure 1 – AR4 WGI Chapter 5: Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level

As far as Fox News claim that the seas are surging – that is complete unmitigated nonsense. The west coast of the US has seen no sea level rise for 30 years. Where do these people come up with this crap?

Data and Station Information for ALAMEDA (NAVAL AIR STATION)

The rowers seem to be stalling. Why don’t they just get out there and row through that one hundred mile wide patch of 70-100% concentration ice blocking their path?

Before they left, they told everyone that global warming made their trip possible.

Most of Oklahoma was over 110F on July 19, 1936 and Altus reached 120F.

Tomorrow’s forecast for Altus is 25 degrees cooler than the same date in 1936.

Twenty-seven Kansas HCN stations reported on July 18, 1936.

Three were over 110F. Seventeen were over 105F, and all were over 101F. The two hottest stations were at Coldwater and Sedan.

JAMES HANSEN: There are two things that are cause of concern. First of all, if we look at the history of the Earth, we know that at the warmest interglacial periods, which were probably less than 1 degree Celsius warmer than today, it was still basically the same planet. Sea level was perhaps a few metres higher. But if we go back to the time when the Earth was two or three degrees Celsius warmer, that’s about three million years ago, sea level was about 25 metres higher, so that tells us we had better keep additional warming less than about one degree. And the other piece of evidence is not from the history of the Earth but from looking at the ice sheets themselves, and what we see is that the disintegration of ice sheets is a wet process and it can proceed quite rapidly. We see that the ice streams have doubled in their speed on Greenland in the last few years and even more concern is west Antarctica because it’s now losing mass at about the same rate as Greenland, and west Antarctica, the ice sheet is sitting on rock that is below sea level. So it is potentially much more in danger of collapsing and so we have both the evidence on the ice sheets and from the history of the Earth and it tells us that we’re pretty close to a tipping point, so we’ve got to be very concerned about the ice sheets.

The 7.30 Report – ABC

I Broke the Dam! – Video Clips – South Park Studios

Stan and Cartman broke the beaver dam and nearly destroyed the planet with global warming – and now it is happening for real in Fort Collins.

Ellen Wohl, a geology professor at Colorado State University, has published a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, describing the role beavers play in climate change. In a field study she undertook, she found that carbon is sequestered when beavers build dams and is released after the beavers abandon the dams they’ve built.

Most people are aware that beavers build dams. They’re responsible for river and stream blockage across many parts of North America. What has not been known, until now, is what sort of impact beaver dams and their backed up water have on carbon sequestering.

Geoscientist finds beavers play a role in climate change

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h/t to Blade