Real Climate Science

I keep hearing from morons on the left that armed citizens don’t deter crime.

They say that the Aurora and Fort Hood shootings both occurred in places where there were lots of guns. I am curious how these people reach such spectacular levels of stupidity.

Cinemark movie theatres and military mess halls are gun-free zones, as were Newtown schools until a couple of weeks ago. That is why the shooters chose those places.

Are lefties actually stupid enough to believe that there were other armed people at these massacres, and they didn’t bother to shoot back? Do they honestly believe that a group of armed soldiers at Fort Hood didn’t bother to defend themselves?

Gun-free zones were invented by the left, and they are an invitation to psychopaths. No one would place their money in a security-free bank, so why would they do that to their children?

Chuck Rice, a professor of soil microbiology and a climate change expert at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, says there is no doubt that droughts are cyclical but temperatures clocked last year in the most recent dry spell have beaten historical records.

“The records weren’t just slightly broken; they were significantly higher,” he said.

Kansas drought part of natural cycle, say farmers – The Irish Times – Mon, Feb 18, 2013

Complete bullshit. Kansas temperatures have been declining for 90 years, and the 1930s were much hotter than the past decade.

2012 didn’t even rank in the top five for record temperatures in Kansas.

During my nearly sixty years on Earth, I have observed that winters are cold and summers are hot. We sometimes get storms and hurricanes and tornadoes and droughts and floods.

Predators like James Hansen are attempting to convince children that these things didn’t used to happen, even though they know that what they are saying isn’t true.

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

– James Hansen 1999

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

I wonder why Hansen decided to start lying about the climate?

Carnival Cruise ship fiasco: a preview of what awaits us all

The fate of the Triumph seemed as eerily prophetic of the 21st century as the Titanic’s did of the 20th. This time we can see what’s coming — not icebergs, but a complete breakdown of systems — providing food, shelter, law and order.

I’m referring, of course, to the effects of climate change and the massive disruptions that promise to shut down entire eco-systems. Except to the willfully blind, the signs of approaching disaster are unmistakable — unprecedented drought, flooding, super-storms, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Ky. Voices: Carnival Cruise ship fiasco: a preview of what awaits us all | Op-Ed | Kentucky.com

0.0004 mole fraction CO2 will bring tsunamis to Kentucky.

h/t to Marc Morano

Reader JohnM says that Arctic winters will become ice-free at -35C.

February 19, 2013 at 1:30 pm

It is difficult to debate against world class stupidity. Temperatures north of 80N are -35C.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

The Antarctic sea ice area anomaly has been increasing at a rate of half a million km² per year. If this alarming trend continues, the planet will be completely covered with Antarctic ice in 1,000 years. The Australian coral reefs will freeze to death in less than 300 years.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008

In related news, the UK’s leading scientist says that global warming will make Antarctica the only inhabitable continent.

Why Antarctica will soon be the <i>only</i> place to live – literally – Environment – The Independent

Polar amplification and the death spiral are hitting hard now. The area of sea ice on Earth is above normal.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008

A huge snowstorm is developing in the permanent drought states of Kansas and Nebraska for later this week.

I forecast that the same morons who were last week blaming the lack of snow on CO2, will now blame the snow on CO2. They believe that CO2 creates excess moisture which causes drought – because they have the IQ of rhubarb.

Remember Envisat – the most sophisticated climate monitoring satellite?

For eight years, it gave sea level rise rate readings close to the 1990 IPCC tide gauges. Then one day, its historical numbers magically quadrupled – to bring it more in line with the fraudulent post-2000 IPCC numbers.