Real Climate Science

I’ve been sitting at the bar tonight in Burlington, Onario, watching the Canadian women’s hockey team massacre Norway.

Temperatures here have been running about 7C below normal, and I am reminded of the unprecedented heating of Mann and Marcot.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

The dice just weren’t loaded in 1899.

The Bathurst Bay Cyclone, also known as Tropical Cyclone Mahina, which struck Bathurst Bay, Australia on March 5, 1899, is generally credited with the world record for storm surge. The cyclone’s storm surge is variously listed at 13 – 14.6 meters (43 – 48 feet). The Category 5 cyclone was a monster–with sustained winds in excess of 175 mph and a central pressure between 880 and 914 mb.

World storm surge records | Weather Underground

Prof. Hansen and his colleagues argue that rapidly melting ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland could cause oceans to swell several metres by 2100 – or maybe even as much as 25 metres, which is how much higher the oceans sat about three million years ago.

Will oceans surge 59 centimetres this century – or 25 metres? — Department of Physics at University of Toronto

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit – The Washington Post

His banker friends must be demanding another $1 trillion gift.

Obama is in Colorado today on his 2nd Amendment destruction tour. Meanwhile, responsible people in Colorado are protecting themselves from other criminals.

DENVER – An intruder who forced his way into the mountain home of a Colorado deputy district attorney was shot dead by either the prosecutor or her police officer husband, authorities said on Tuesday.

A spokeswoman for one of the agencies investigating the incident told Reuters that the prosecutor and her husband, himself a sheriff’s deputy, both fired at the intruder, but it is too early in the probe to know who fired the fatal shot.

Intruder killed while breaking into Colorado prosecutor’s home – U.S. News

Nature Magazine reaches for new levels of stupidity!

Ocean warming may be a major driver of sea-ice expansion in the Antarctic, researchers report today in Nature Geoscience

Global warming expands Antarctic sea ice : Nature News & Comment

Warmer water causes more sea ice? Waikiki Beach must be frozen solid.

It would be far more truthful to say that stupidity causes increased global warming funding.

The stench of Chicago/New York mob politics is flying into Denver today.

DENVER — When President Obama arrives here Wednesday to cheer the state’s newly passed gun control laws, don’t expect Colorado’s county sheriffs to join in the celebration.

At a forum Tuesday, Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith blamed the state’s gun control agenda in part on the White House

Critics of the measures have accused the White House and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg of orchestrating the state legislature’s push for gun control. The three bills passed the Democrat-controlled legislature last month without a single Republican vote.

Obama faces mixed reception in Colorado over gun fight – Washington Times

18 January 2009

‘We have only four years left to act on climate change – America has to lead’

Hansen’s … warning to Barack Obama, who will be inaugurated as US president on Tuesday. His four-year administration offers the world a last chance to get things right, Hansen said. If it fails, global disaster – melted sea caps, flooded cities, species extinctions and spreading deserts – awaits mankind.

Jim Hansen warns of threat of climate catastrophe | Environment | The Observer

Hansen said that the climate ran out of time in January 2013, but apparently we actually have 44 more months.

One Hundred Months

Capitalism is based on the Darwinian model of competition and survival of the fittest. A healthy economy requires that inferior ideas and companies are weeded out and die.

Communism is the opposite, and is based on the idea of everyone reduced to the lowest common denominator. Communists believe that government should pick technologies and products. Sound familiar?