Real Climate Science

Global warming could impact WA ski industry:

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Protect Our Winters (POW), unless carbon pollution is limited, the nation’s ski industry could be impacted. Winter tourism is a $348 million annual business in Washington state, the groups say.

“Without intervention, winter temperatures are projected to warm an additional 4 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, with subsequent decreases in snow cover area, snowfall, and shorter snow season,” the groups warn in a statement.

Global warming could impact WA ski industry: Report – Puget Sound Business Journal

There are so many things wrong with this that it is difficult to know where to start

US winter temperatures have been declining for 90 years.

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Winter snow is increasing

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

And Washington is having near record snowfall.

Another 6 feet of snow in Cascades since Wed night

But worst of all is the concept that we can “intervene” in the climate. These people are completely insane.

Temperatures on the rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet have risen to -35C, and the ice is too soft for good putting.

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You can’t make this stuff up ….

According to this article, college students are rising up to encourage their universities from divesting in fossil fuels companies, because of climate change problem.

When I was in college, there was an effort among college organizations for their universities to divest from companies who did business in South Africa.

So, in my opinion, what these students ought to be protesting for is (at the least) a carbon tax, to incentivize R&D into non-C energy. Better yet (IMO) is a serious federal research program — $10-20 billion/yr — into technologies like nuclear fusion and air capture and carbon sequestration. Continued tax breaks for solar and wind. Credits for home-based solar panels. Drive up the demand for solar panels, and (unexpectedly) you will help drive down the price.

We can’t stop using energy, and that’s the difference from South Africa

Quark Soup by David Appell: Divestiture from Fossil Fuel Companies

USHCN publishes something called “Raw Monthly” temperatures for the US, which isn’t raw at all. The graph below shows the difference between USHCN “raw” temperatures and the actual GHCN HCN raw data which it is based on.

In their efforts to make 2012 look like a record hot year, they have adjusted the “raw” year to date temperatures upwards more than 0.4 degrees above the actual raw temperatures – before they even start doing their official adjustments.

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Weather Street: Temperature Forecast Movie

NBC News is corrupt beyond comprehension. They framed George Zimmerman for racial profiling (which he is charged with) and now are denying any wrongdoing.

NBC’s editing of the 911 audiotape in the Martin case became a public fixation after the media-monitoring Web site NewsBusters.org noted editing oddities on a “Today” show broadcast March 27. Here’s how NBC News portrayed the audiotape:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.

The full tape went like this:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.

Zimmerman thus didn’t volunteer a racial profile of Martin; he was asked to provide it

When asked about the complaint, NBC Universal issued this statement: “We strongly disagree with the accusations made in the complaint. There was no intent to portray Mr. Zimmerman unfairly. We intend to vigorously defend our position in court.”

George Zimmerman sues NBC over Trayvon Martin reports

Of course the prosecutors are equally corrupt. They are trying to jail Zimmerman for a crime he obviously didn’t commit.

The government said Friday that employment growth was much better than expected in November, with the United States economy adding 146,000 jobs and the unemployment rate falling to 7.7 percent.

The jobless rate was the lowest since December 2008. Economists had estimated the Labor Department would report that only 86,000 jobs were created in November and that the rate of unemployment would remain flat at 7.9 percent

U.S. Adds 146,000 Jobs – Jobless Rate Falls to 7.7% – NYTimes.com

If an extra 60,000 jobs knocks 0.2% off the unemployment rate, that means that there are only 30 million jobs in the US – or one for every ten people.

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GHCN HCN thermometers show that September-November in North Carolina was the sixth coldest on record, and that autumn temperatures in North Carolina have been declining since 1895.

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NOAA needs to generate numbers that show that 2012 is the hottest year on record, so they massively cheat in North Carolina -as they do in the rest of the US.

Autumn 2012 is upwards adjusted by an amazing 1.24 degrees. Apparently over the last six years, the quality of the thermometers in North Carolina has degraded so much that NOAA feels obliged to add an additional 0.7 degrees on to the temperature.

NORTH CAROLINA Climate Summary    Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

November was the coldest since 1976 in North Carolina.

13 Oct 1868 – THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.