Real Climate Science

Four weeks ago, crack government scientists¹ told us that the drought was going to get worse.

2013 drought may be worse than 2012, says NOAA : TreeHugger

And today ….

Rain-soaked Midwest braces for more flooding

By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News
Flood-weary residents in parts of the Midwest were still trying to stem the tide of murky river water Friday, as late snow-melt combined with days of spring rain sent rivers toward high-water records.

Floodwaters had begun an inch-by-inch retreat in inundated Peoria, Ill., after the Illinois River crested Tuesday at 29.35 feet, eclipsing a 70-year record.

In central Indiana, more heavy rain through Wednesday morning prompted a request for voluntary evacuation along the Tippecanoe River near Lafayette.

The Grand River at Grand Rapids, Mich., which reached record levels, began to fall below flood stage Thursday and some of the hundreds of people evacuated were starting to return home.

Along the Mississippi, the biggest concern was that the flood is expected to linger into May, potentially straining longstanding earthen levees and hastily-built sandbag walls.

Rain-soaked Chicago had its wettest April on record, the National Weather Service said, according to NBCChicago.com.

Rain-soaked Midwest braces for more flooding – U.S. News

¹ government scientists on crack

Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is using roughly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more per person than the U.S. Army, as he and other lawmakers sharply questioned DHS officials on their “massive” bullet buys.

“It is entirely … inexplicable why the Department of Homeland Security needs so much ammunition,” Chaffetz, R-Utah, said at a hearing.

The hearing itself was unusual, as questions about the department’s ammunition purchases until recently had bubbled largely under the radar — on blogs and in the occasional news article. But as the Department of Homeland Security found itself publicly defending the purchases, lawmakers gradually showed more interest in the issue.

Democratic Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., at the opening of the hearing, ridiculed the concerns as “conspiracy theories” which have “no place” in the committee room. 

Anyone who dares to question Obama is a conspiracy theorist.

But Republicans said the purchases raise “serious” questions about waste and accountability.

Chaffetz, who chairs one of the House oversight subcommittees holding the hearing Thursday, revealed that the department currently has more than 260 million rounds in stock. He said the department bought more than 103 million rounds in 2012 and used 116 million that same year — among roughly 70,000 agents.

Comparing that with the small-arms purchases procured by the U.S. Army, he said the DHS is churning through between 1,300 and 1,600 rounds per officer, while the U.S. Army goes through roughly 350 rounds per soldier.

Reps challenge DHS ammo buys, say agency using 1,000 more rounds per person than Army | Fox News

Muslim convert Katherine Russell-Tsarnaev has apparently been lying her lilly-white butt off regarding purported ‘surprise’ and ‘shock’ in hearing of Tamerlan Tsaranev’s involvement with terrorism, as she had claimed on Monday through her attorney. Seems she also found nothing strange about his bringing home a dozen pressure-cookers, either.

RR: Rather than Dialing Authorities when FBI Photos Were Released, Katherine Russell-Tsarnaev Warned Her Husband Instead

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Ontario has some of the strictest gun control laws in North America. That doesn’t seem to keep people from killing each other.

“Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts “.

– Thomas Jefferson

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

– George Washington

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples’ Liberty’s Teeth.”

– George Washington

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

– Thomas Jefferson

Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.

– Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural Address

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give to another power over your liberty.

– Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

– Benjamin Franklin

Man will ultimately be governed by Godor by tyrants.

– Ben Franklin

The extent of summer sea ice during the  19th century, insofar as it is shown in patterns  of navigability inferred from ship tracks, the  direct observations of explorers, and a number  of native accounts, is remarkably similar to  present ice climatology. A chart of northern  Canada (Figure 2) shows the routes followed  by discovery expeditions and their wintering  locations between 1818 and 1859, and also  displays the frequency that sea ice has  occurred during the recent 30-year reference  period 1971–2000. It is perhaps surprising that  most of the Northwest Passage was navigated  during the 19th century, with expedition ships  coming within 150 km of completing the passage on a number of occasions. Most   significant is that even in years that were   recognized as unfavorable at the time, ships  were still able to reach locations that would  be consistent with the worst ice conditions  that have occurred during the modern reference period. Of 33 expedition or supply ships  bound for the western part of Lancaster  Sound between 1819 and 1859, only two  failed due to unfavorable ice conditions.

seagrant.uaf.edu/nosb/2005/resources/arctic-explorers.pdf

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Even the dogs moved out. They couldn’t take the heat.

Quote It Completely: – Google Books

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK”

– Barack Obama

Data is from here : Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

The only year when the spring started colder was 1975.

Tide gauges show that sea level is rising at 6.9 mm/year in Grand Isle, La. Alarmists love to quote this fact.

Data and Station Information for GRAND ISLE

But satellites show less than half that rate.

sealevel.colorado.edu lat 29 long 271

Most of the claimed sea level rise in Louisiana is due to the land sinking.