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Back in April, the USGS released a report on Dust-Bowlification that concluded drier conditions were projected to accelerate dust storms in the U.S. Southwest.  In large parts of Texas and Oklahoma now,  the drought is more intense than it was during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

In 2007, Science (subs. req’d) published research that “predicted a permanent drought by 2050 throughout the Southwest” — levels of aridity comparable to the 1930s Dust Bowl would stretch from Kansas to California.

Dust Storm Marks Beginning of Southwest’s “Permanent Drought” | The Energy Collective

Looks like they had up to twelve inches of permanent drought this week.

Intellicast – Weekly Precipitation in United States

Ellensburg Daily Record – Google News Archive Search

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

The green areas below show ice that is present this year, which wasn’t present last year. Red shows the opposite. All of the critical regions at high latitudes have as much or more ice as they did last year.

Climate prophet Hansen says that a rapid acceleration of sea level rise is “almost dead certain”

BAU scenarios result in global warming of the order of 3-6°C. It is this scenario for which we assert that multi-meter sea level rise on the century time scale are not only possible, but almost dead certain

Must-read Hansen and Sato paper: We are at a climate tipping point that, once crossed, enables multi-meter sea level rise this century | ThinkProgress

This is at odds with the other great prophet who says that he is “absolutely certain” that sea level rise began to slow in June 2008.

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Twitter / UCSUSA: Sea level is rising—and at …

h/t to Marc Morano

If we continue using fossil fuels, there is a 0.0% chance that it will lead to a climate catastrophe. CO2 was much higher for most of the last 600 million years, and life thrived.

On the other hand, cutting off the fossil fuel supply has a 100% probability of freezing and starving hundreds of millions of people.

The precautionary principle tells us that Al Gore couldn’t care less about anyone other than himself.

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/May/N_05_area.txt

Arctic ice extent is greater now than it was on this date in 1989. The Sun is highest in the sky in June, so this is the most important month for Arctic ice – as it has peak effect on the SW radiative balance.

Climate morons like to focus on the autumn equinox, when the Sun has already set at the North Pole.

One Meteorologist’s Come-to-Jesus Moment on Climate Change

Like many TV weathermen, Stu Ostro didn’t believe in climate change—until extreme weather and scientific evidence changed his mind.

Ever since he was a kid, Stu Ostro has been, in his own words, “obsessed with the weather.” One day when he was around 11, he recalls, a lighting strike hit the house across the street in Somerville, New Jersey, while he and his brother watched from their porch—sending fire trucks scrambling, and the French fries that Ostro was eating “went flying.” Back then, Ostro’s weather fascination manifested as a “phobia” of thunder and lightning; nowadays, as a senior meteorologist at the Weather Channel and head of its team of tornado and hurricane specialists, his obsession takes a rather different form. Try perusing his 1072 slide long and ever-growing PowerPoint on extreme and unusual weather phenomena—and how they may relate to climate change—and you’ll get some sense of it.

One Meteorologist’s Come-to-Jesus Moment on Climate Change | Mother Jones

The Earth never used to have extreme weather, so we must worship Gaia or be damned to eternal CO2 hell.

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I predict that Arctic ice will decline for the next 85 days or so. After that it will increase. Some Polar Bear cubs will die.  Bill McKibben will blame every weather event on you.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut