To highlight the horrific drought which the US Drought Monitor says we are having, I am revealing a horrifying picture I took this afternoon riding my bike to the Whole Foods Market in Fort Collins.
Shortly after taking this picture, I had to take a diversion because the bike trail was flooded.
Life was better when life expectancy was 35 years, infant mortality was 50%, people’s teeth wore out by 40, infectious diseases were rampant, and people went hungry often and lived their lives in the cold and dark.
Please send money to your favorite environmental charity today.
Even Hitler wasn’t able to wreck relations with an entire continent in a single day.
Nicaragua and Venezuela willing to grant asylum to Edward Snowden | Fox News
Since January 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, the United States has seen 54 straight months with the unemployment rate at 7.5 percent or higher, which is the longest stretch of unemployment at or above that rate since 1948
Reggie claims that 2013 Arctic summer temperatures have been similar to 2007
Let’s check his claim out. The graph below has the 2013 area (degree-days) above freezing colored in red.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The next graph shows the same thing for 2007. Note that the YTD number of degree-days above freezing in 2007 was almost ten times greater than 2013.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The 10X difference in area is unrealistic however. Given that the latent heat of melting ice significantly depressed the temperature in 2007, it is safe to assume that the amount of heat available for melting ice in 2007 was much more than 10X the amount of heat in 2013.
Climate experts tell us that sea level rise is caused by global warming, because they believe that ice can’t melt unless the temperature is increasing. (Quite alarming that they actually graduated from pre-school with critical thinking skills like that.)
Anyway, I plotted Manhattan sea level versus GISS global temperature anomaly for the period 1893 to 1910, to make this relationship clear.
Data and Station Information for NEW YORK ( THE BATTERY)
Yes – this is the actual data.
Yesterday one of the usual clowns on the thread was trying to claim that there has been an increase in the amount of hail in New Mexico due to global warming – citing this graph.
He forgot to mention this part :
the significant increase since 1987 is likely due to an increase in population and land use, and an increase in public awareness of severe weather through more aggressive spotter training at the WFO in Albuquerque
But ignoring the meaningless data above, let’s have a look at the theory. Convective hail is formed in violent thunderstorms which have very cold air in the mid to upper troposphere.
Global warming theory expects warming in mid-troposphere, so global warming should reduce the frequency of hail.
