Real Climate Science

24 Nov 1917 – DISASTROUS DROUGHT IN TEXAS WASHINGTON, Thursday.

Droughts are known to be extremely responsive to government stealing money from the citizenry.

11 Aug 1930 – AMERICAN DROUGHT WORST IN HISTORY HEAT WAVE IN W…

The onslaught of wild weather that has battered the USA in recent years — from Hurricane Sandy and deadly tornado outbreaks to extremes of drought and floods — looks to be part of a “new normal” for weather patterns in the U.S., new National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini said Wednesday.

Weather Service chief: We face ‘new normal’ of extremes

What a load of garbage. Tornado fatalities have been in sharp decline for 90 years.

US Annual Tornado Death Tolls NOAA Weather Partners

Droughts used to be much worse.

Contiguous U.S., Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI), 36-Month Period Ending in March, 1898-2012

The ten deadliest US floods all occurred below 350 ppm. Louis has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.

The missing heat has abandoned the Antarctic Peninsula, and has moved to South Australia.

sst_anom.gif (800×600)

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

MANY climate sceptics do not trust environmentalists because they consider them “borderline communists” who want to curtail people’s freedom, a leading US social scientist says.  Speaking on Wednesday night, the University of Michigan’s Andy Hoffman said US global warming sceptics had “a serious distrust of the political ideology behind its proponents”.

Climate change a values problem: expert | The Australian

Nothing borderline about it. These people fantasize about human extermination.

h/t to  JunkScience.com

For the record; I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean. The cracks in the sea ice that I reported on my Sierra Club Canada blog and elsewhere over the last several days have spread and at this moment the entire sea ice sheet (or about 99% of it) covering the Arctic Ocean is on the move. Clockwise. The ice is thin, and slushy, and breaking apart. This is abrupt climate change in real-time. Humans have benefitted greatly from a stable climate for the last 11,000 years or roughly 400 generations. Not any more. We now face an angry climate. One that we have poked in the eye with our fossil fuel stick and awakened. And now we must deal with the consequences. We must set aside our differences and prepare for what we can no longer avoid. And that is massive disruption to our civilizations.

(1) Paul Beckwith

Temperatures in the Arctic are -20C, and the ice is slushy and it will all be gone in a few months. What is this guy smoking?

h/t to NoFrakkingConsensus

I rode my bicycle to the gym this morning, and it was very cold outside, around 15F. But while I was working out I saw a local TV forecast of 60F for the afternoon.

This created a dilemma for riding to work, balancing being underdressed in the morning vs.  overdressed in the afternoon. I guessed wrong – temperature at 1:40 pm is only 36F. The weather experts missed the forecast by more than twenty degrees.

The Anasazi returned to Chaco Canyon today, upon receiving news that Marcott has proven that the MWP never happened.

One or more of three intense and persistent droughts impacted some Native American cultures in the early-11th, middle-12th and late-13th centuries, including the Anasazi, Fremont, Lovelock, and Mississippian (Cahokian) prehistorical cultures. Tree-ring-based reconstructions of precipitation and temperature indicate that warm drought periods occurred between AD 990 and 1060, AD 1135 and 1170, and AD 1276 and 1297.

Possible impacts of early-11th-, middle-12th-, and late-13th-century droughts on western Native Americans and the Mississippian Cahokians

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITzOSwZjYAM]