Real Climate Science

Now we know where the 97% comes from.

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Why do you resist? We only wish to raise quality of life, for all species.

Grand Haven High School teacher C.E. Sikkenga noted on his facebook page this morning: “I do not keep accurate records on such things, but I believe the single season record for most snow days in my career stands at eight back in 1993-94. Today makes seven this year. Hard to believe that six weeks ago I was joking about how we do not get snow anymore.

Record snowfall closes schools again | Grand Haven Tribune

h/t to Tom Nelson

We have a government of people obsessed with controlling the climate by legislation or executive order. In the past, these people would have been openly ridiculed as lunatics.

Even if you believe Hansen’s bullshit, the ability of the US government to control global CO2 levels is so small as to be almost irrelevant.

Last winter, when the Eastern US was one of the few warm places on Earth, the US occupied about 90% of the world’s climate, and the lack of snow was proof of global warming.

But now that the same area has turned cold, the US again only occupies a minute percentage of the world’s climate, and the abundance of snow is consistent with global warming.

If Obama goes through with his threat to fire school teachers after four years of failed opportunities to cut spending, he will be eviscerated. It will be obvious that he is using teachers as a political pawn. That is the only place he could think of to cut spending????

Republicans are holding a straight flush, Obama has nothing – and Republicans are about to fold. What a bunch of complete losers.

January 4, 2008

This drought may never break

IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation’s most senior weather experts warned yesterday.

“Perhaps we should call it our new climate,” said the Bureau of Meteorology’s head of climate analysis, David Jones.

This drought may never break – Environment – smh.com.au

Five years later, exactly 0% of Australia is experiencing severe long-term drought.

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Obama needed Ohio and Pennsylvania, so he lied to the people there about his position on coal.

SEATTLE–The White House Council on Environmental Quality has convened a series of meetings with federal regulators over the past nine months as the Obama administration shapes environmental impact analyses for the building of terminals to export coal to Asia.

White House CEQ Meetings on Coal Projects Seen Indicating Major Policy Issues at Sta… | Bloomberg BNA

• Mild is extreme
• Failed predictions are conservative
• Down is up
• Up is down

Note that the trend would be much steeper, except for the cold years in 1993 and 1994 after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.

Why Skepticism About Computer Models Is Not A Good Reason For Skepticism About Climate Change

“The basis for human activities being the primary driver of the recent changes in climate is observation and the physical understanding of the processes that drive our climate system. Models of these physical processes further add to this understanding, especially for the future projections of further changes, but the basic science is based on observation.”

Why Skepticism About Computer Models Is Not A Good Reason For Skepticism About Climate Change – Forbes

Complete bullshit. There has been no warming for 17 years, and Hansen’s whole theory is based on modeled feedbacks. No one thinks that CO2 by itself can produce catastrophic global warming.

h/t to Tom Nelson