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At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed an amendment to her Assault Weapons Ban legislation that would allow military veterans to continue to buy the firearms that would be banned. Feinstein says a veteran may be mentally ill and should be prevented from purchasing firearms.

Feinstein: Veterans May Have PTSD And Should Not Be Exempt From Assault Weapons Ban | RealClearPolitics

She probably needs to keep a watchful eye on her cupcake, though she would undoubtedly prefer to just cut off any protruding member from his physique.

h/t to MikeTheDenier

Twitter / billmckibben: Temperature now changing 50x …

There has been zero temperature change over the last sixteen years. If you divide the temperature change by McKibben’s IQ, you get NaN.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

I am an engineer. I am used to working on very tightly defined problems with very tightly defined schedules.

By contrast, we have hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being stolen to study and fix “climate change.” No one knows what climate change means, much less how to identify it or fix it. Global warming had some sort of definition and structure (until the temperature quit going up) but climate change doesn’t seem to mean anything.

People who claim that they are fixing climate change, cite things like a hurricane or snowstorms or lack of snowstorms, or rain, or lack of rain as evidence of climate change.

These are just weather events which have plagued man since the dawn of history. Coming from an engineering world, climate change people appear to be complete nutcases – which is exactly what they are. Nutcases and criminals.

Day Lodge Movable Webcam – Sunrise Ski Park | Sunrise Ski Park

Last week they told us the drought in the SW was going to get worse. This is our second huge snowstorm since they made that forecast.

This week they predicted a big snowstorm for DC which never materialized. They can’t forecast six hours out, but they do know what the weather will be like in 50 years.

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Ten thousand years ago, most of Canada was covered with ice. This would have reflected most of the summer sunlight received there back into space, and would have had a huge cooling effect on the planet. The 1990 IPCC report correctly showed this, with temperatures about 4C cooler than the Holocene Maximum.

First IPCC report

But the new hockey stick shows temperatures 10,000 years ago within 0.1C of the Holocene Maximum. This is nonsensical and impossible. That huge mass of ice would have kept the planet very cool.

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But it is worse than it seems. The latent heat of melting ice also would have had a huge cooling effect. Between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago, most of the ice melted. This would have dominated the energy balance and kept air temperatures very cool.

Additionally, Paul Homewood points out that the melting ice would have flowed into the oceans and cooled sea surface temperatures, compounding the cooling effect.

There is a zero percent chance that the new hockey stick is correct – as they have run afoul of several fundamental principles of physics. Temperatures 10,000 years ago could not have been close to the Holocene maximum.

h/t to michaelstrickland92 and northernont

The latest hockey stick shows that current warming is unprecedented. Dr. Walt Meier from NSIDC says something different.

The current Greenland warming, while not yet quite matching the temperatures of 70 years ago …..

– Walt Meier NSIDC

“Examination of several proxy records (e.g., sediment cores) of sea ice indicate ice-free or near ice-free summer conditions for at least some time during the period of 15,000 to 5,000 years ago”

– Walt Meier NSIDC

In 1940, Greenland was approaching a catastrophe.

The Courier-Mail  Monday 6 May 1940

By far the largest number of local glaciers in north-east Greenland had receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers were nearing a catastrophe.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

In 1922, Arctic melt had made it unrecognizable

Norwegian report from 1923

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/

In 1911, glaciers were disappearing

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/72280521

The Muir Glacier retreated eight feet per day between 1794 and 1879

As you enter Glacier Bay in Southeast Alaska you will cruise along shorelines completely covered by ice just 200 years ago.

Explorer Captain George Vancouver found Icy Strait choked with ice in 1794, and Glacier Bay was barely an indented glacier. That glacier was more than 4000 ft. thick, up to 20 miles or more wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St.Elias Range of mountains.

By 1879 naturist John Muir found that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. By 1916 the Grand Pacific Glacier headed Tarr inlet 65 miles from Glacier Bay’s mouth.

http://www.glacierbay.org/glaciers.html

I need a good source of ice sheet coverage maps from 15,000 to 5,000 years ago. TIA

http://select.nytimes.com

The Evening News – Google News Archive Search

Setting the record straight in the Daily Mail

They are hoping that nobody remembers.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

News release

11 April 2007
Met Office forecast for Summer 2007

The latest seasonal forecast from the Met Office issued today, reveals that this summer is, yet again, likely to be warmer than normal.

Following the trend set throughout 2006 and the first part of 2007, seasonal forecasters say there is a high probability that summer temperature will exceed the 1971-2000 long-term average of 14.1 °C.

They also suggest the chances of temperatures similar to those experienced in 2003 and 2006 are around 1 in 8.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/