Real Climate Science

It is nineteen degrees warmer in downtown Denver than it is here in Fort Collins. I have no idea why.

http://wxug.us/10ki5

The US had much worse and longer lasting droughts in the 1930s and 1950s, and the trend has been towards less drought.

But rumour is that the climate models predicted that all kinds of really bad stuff was going to happen, so that proves that the current drought is due to climate change*.

* No one has any idea what climate change means, but we do know that higher taxes and Obama worship are essential to prevent it.

Warm air from the rapidly melting Arctic is freezing Minnesota solid.

Roseville OVAL Closed Due to Cold Weather | KSTP TV – Minneapolis and St. Paul

Jan. 8, 2013:  In the galactic scheme of things, the Sun is a remarkably constant star.  While some stars exhibit dramatic pulsations, wildly yo-yoing in size and brightness, and sometimes even exploding, the luminosity of our own sun varies a measly 0.1% over the course of the 11-year solar cycle.

There is, however, a dawning realization among researchers that even these apparently tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate. A new report issued by the National Research Council (NRC), “The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate,” lays out some of the surprisingly complex ways that solar activity can make itself felt on our planet.

Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate – NASA Science

NASA has almost caught up with the state of climate science in the 18th century.

h/t to Tom Nelson

Twitter / ClimateOfGavin: Pliocene, perhaps 400ppm CO2 …

h/t to  Tom Nelson and Marc Morano

Vermont Webcams on Vermont.com

Last winter, CO2 made the eastern US warm. This winter it is making the eastern US cold.

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

The canary in the coal mine keeps flying to a new location, though he is having a tough time finding anywhere to go now.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

Obama thinks he controls the climate, but a more practical explanation is ocean circulation patterns. ENSO peaked in the mid-1990s, right when global warming ended.

MEI timeseries from Dec/Jan 1940/50 up to the present

It isn’t completely clear how investing in more green energy scams is going to alter El Nino and La Nina, but the White House seems to have it figured out.

“The Sun is god!” cried JMW Turner as he died, and plenty of other people have thought there was much in his analysis. The Aztecs agreed, and so did the pharaohs of Egypt. We are an arrogant lot these days, and we tend to underestimate the importance of our governor and creator.

As a species, we human beings have become so blind with conceit and self-love that we genuinely believe that the fate of the planet is in our hands — when the reality is that everything, or almost everything, depends on the behaviour and caprice of the gigantic thermonuclear fireball around which we revolve.

I say all this because I am sitting here staring through the window at the flowerpot and the bashed-up barbecue, and I am starting to think this series of winters is not a coincidence. The snow on the flowerpot, since I have been staring, has got about an inch thicker. The barbecue is all but invisible. By my calculations, this is now the fifth year in a row that we have had an unusual amount of snow; and by unusual I mean snow of a kind that I don’t remember from my childhood: snow that comes one day, and then sticks around for a couple of days, followed by more.

It’s snowing, and it really feels like the start of a mini ice age – Telegraph

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

Obama: ‘We Will Respond to the Threat of Climate Change’ | The Weekly Standard

As usual, Obama has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.

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