Experts say that the Arctic will be ice-free in a few weeks, so the polar bears will have to move to Colorado. See if you can spot the Heron next to the partially frozen pond below.
The next picture shows some youth soccer fields, where the kids will finish their spring season next week.
President Obama implied in his State of The Union address that the climate of Colorado has been destroyed by global warming, and that we are doomed to a fiery CO2 hell.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hansen using La Nina as an excuse for his failed 1988 “hottest year ever” prediction.
Ellensburg Daily Record – Dec 7, 1988
If only Hansen could get his Super El Nino. Perhaps then he could get above his zero emissions Scenario C for a month or two.
The current temperature in Fort Collins, Colorado is -9C. It will probably get colder before dawn, but is already the second coldest May temperature in Fort Collins history – beaten only by May 6, 1917 when it was -11C.
We also have a foot of snow on the ground, and are having the snowiest spring on record.
The DC based US drought monitor says that we are suffering an extreme drought.
I predict that a German team will win this year. I also predict that no one will call Barcelona the best team in the world any more.
The same north winds which have been bringing record cold to Western Canada, Alaska and the US have also brought large amounts of 10+ foot thick ice to the Beaufort Sea, where temperatures remain far below normal.
Energy companies are lining up for their shot to drill in the Dakotas and Montana after a new government report revealed that a massive geological formation stretching across the states contains twice the oil and three times the amount of natural gas than was originally believed.
While the new estimate is drawing smaller companies to the game, the larger players like Schlumberger, Halliburton and Continental Resources are pushing forward with ambitious multi-year plans to stake their claim in the industry.
Continental recently announced a five-year plan to triple its production by 2017. The company’s growth is based on success in North Dakota and Montana as well as in parts of Oklahoma.
In 1977, crack president Jimmy Carter warned that we were about to run out of oil.
Unless profound changes are made to lower oil consumption, we now believe that early in the 1980s the world will be demanding more oil that it can produce … Each new inventory of world oil reserves has been more disturbing than the last. World oil production can probably keep going up for another six or eight years. But some time in the 1980s it can’t go up much more. Demand will overtake production. We have no choice about that.
Proposed Energy Policy . Jimmy Carter . WGBH American Experience | PBS
Two years later, President Carter was attacked by a killer bunny while fishing.
While home fishing in Georgia during a summer when his popularity was at low tide, President Jimmy Carter’s small boat was “attacked” by a mysterious swimming rabbit, which the president warded off with a paddle.
At the two-thirds mark for meteorological spring, 2013 was the second coldest spring on record – slightly warmer than 1975.
Data is from here : Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/
But 1975 had an unusually warm May at 17C. The two warmest months of May were in 1934 and 1896.
Both graphs above show the average of all daily temperatures at all US HCN stations, calculated per year.
The forecast for the first two weeks of May is well below normal, so odds are that the spring of 2013 will be the coldest on record in the US. This is what Fort Collins looked like at 7pm today (May 1.)
Crack government scientists with supercomputers, predicted in January that this spring was going to be super hot!
Scientists from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute have offered their explanation of why the sea ice in Antarctica is expanding: global warming is the reason.
They ran out of letters and had to start over again.
Winter Storm Achilles: Snow and Cold Kick Off May | Weather Underground
This is what the early spring looks like in my neighborhood today. The only thing that saved us from a huge mess is it has been so cold, the leaves have not come out yet on the Cottonwood trees. Normally they appear near the end of March.
