Lots of alarmists popping out of their Pika dens telling me that the 1970s ice age scare never happened, and that the 1975 Newsweek article was a fake.
Last week I was accused of planting fake old newspaper articles in the Australian government archives.
Seadragon (SSN-584), foreground, and her sister Skate (SSN-578) during a rendezvous at the North Pole in August 1962. Note the men on the ice beyond the submarines.
USN photo from The American Submarine, by Norman Polmar, submitted by Robert Hurst.
The New York Times says that there hasn’t been open water at the North Pole for 50 million years.
Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole Is Now Liquid, Scientists Find
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Published: August 19, 2000
The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday.
At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate. The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago.
Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole Is Now Liquid, Scientists Find – New York Times
President Obama will outline new policies for overseas drone strikes and discuss renewed steps to close the terrorism prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during a major national security speech Thursday.
He also will “lay out the framework for U.S. counterterrorism strategy as we wind down the war in Afghanistan, and as he looks forward to the rest of his second term,” said a White House statement on the address, scheduled for 2 p.m. ET at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
In his speech he plans to explain how we need to give up our freedoms, in order to protect them. If he is smart, he will close Gitmo before he gets impeached.
Tornadoes are caused by colliding air masses, rather than some mindless superstitious icon called “climate change” – which all Americans are required by the White House to worship.
File:Tornado Alley Diagram.svg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No one actually knows what climate change is, but according to the President it is the most powerful force in the universe.
Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility – CNN.com
Four years later, he is closing Guantanamo again! Soon he will have closed Guantanamo as many times as he killed Osama.
I normally take the dogs out for a hike in or near the foothills early in the morning and late in the evening. The past few days I have had to wear a down jacket – as we head into Memorial Day weekend.
Barbara Boxer say that global warming is destroying the US, and that we need to immediately confiscate taxpayer money and freedom, in order to avert an out of control heating catastrophe.
Hansen blaming the sun and natural variability for the lack of warming.
Q:The warmest temperatures since 1998, which were in 2005 and 2010, have all been pretty similar. How can we explain that we’ve not had a significantly warmer year than 1998 since then?
A: When you look at a short period, it’s hard to have statistically significant warming. But the rate has been less in the past decade than the prior three decades.
It’s normal. There’s no reason to believe that the temperature is going to be linear. There are a couple of reasons to believe it would be less. Since the 1970s we have been measuring the sun very precisely, and we know that this last solar cycle is the weakest of them all.
But there are other factors involved, some of which are not measured very well, including human-made aerosols [which cause cooling].
Then there’s just a natural variability. We’ve had in the last few years two strong La Ninas. That’s just a natural oscillation of tropical temperature. The 1998 El Nino was a record one, and that causes warming. The La Ninas cause a global cooling. When you have a big warming at the beginning and two La Ninas at the end, that tends to give you a negative trend.
Climate Scientist Hansen Turns Activist, Advocates ‘Fee’ on Carbon Pollution – Bloomberg
Hansen didn’t predict a linear increase in temperature. He predicted an exponential increase in temperature.
One difference between Homer and Hansen, is that Homer has the integrity to admit that he was wrong.
