Real Climate Science

Nenana Ice Classic

The latest that the ice has ever broken up is May 20th (going back almost 100 years.)  This year will certainly end up in either the #1 or #2 spot.

Bill McKibben announces that “we melted the Arctic” just as Arctic ice extent is poised to go above normal.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Whereas food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health;

Bill Text – 113th Congress (2013-2014) – THOMAS (Library of Congress)

Based on recent comments by Bill McKibben and Katherine Hayhoe, I find it quite plausible that climo-prostitution is already happening.

“Somehow in the last 50 ppm we melted the Arctic,” said environmentalist and founder of activist group 350.org Bill McKibben

We’ve Hit the Carbon Level We Were Warned About. Here’s What That Means. | Mother Jones

Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there.

Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago.

The study in Nature suggests Antarctic winter temperatures exceeded 10C, while summers may have reached 25C.

BBC News – Palm trees ‘grew on Antarctica’

Vostok, Antarctica Weather Forecast from Weather Underground

“If we are to believe in Wegener’s hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the past 70 years and start all over again.”

Geologist R. Thomas Chamberlain

Greensburg Daily Tribune – Google News Archive Search

California is a place where you can actually watch the continents move, but despite the abundant and overwhelming evidence for continental drift, the consensus of experts could not accept it.

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“Utter, damned rot!” said the president of the prestigious American Philosophical Society.

Anyone who “valued his reputation for scientific sanity” would never dare support such a theory, said a British geologist.

“further discussion of it merely incumbers the literature and befogs the mind of fellow students.”    Geologist Barry Willis

What kind of moron would make a statement like this?

On Benghazi probe, GOP’s Issa says ‘Hillary Clinton’s not a target’ – First Read

Of course she is a target. Issa’s diarrhea of the mouth will come back to haunt him.

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h/t to Kirk Meyers

With the White House putting all blame on the agency, expect push back this week — nuclear push back. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the former director forced to resign after a sex scandal, is a dangerous man to the Obama administration. Mad and intent on getting even, he’s already talking, telling one reporter the talking points were “useless” and he preferred not to use them at all. The floodgates will open this week, and by EOB Friday, the scandal will be full blown.

CURL: Watch out for Petraeus in Benghazi scandal – Washington Times

While Woodrow Wilson was president, the US was hit by seven major (category 3-5) hurricanes, including three category 4 hurricanes (130-156 MPH winds.)

No major hurricanes have hit the US while Obama was president.

Chronological List of All Hurricanes

Obama says that hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more powerful, and that anyone who disagrees with him is evil.