Real Climate Science

The Christian Science Monitor | Dec 04, 2012

If the United Nations, Al Gore, and hurricane Sandy can’t convince skeptics of the threats of global warming, then who can?

Perhaps the Terminator.

Showtime network has unveiled plans for a six- to eight-part documentary miniseries to air next year, called “Years of Living Dangerously,” brimming with Hollywood’s A-list – from producer James Cameron to narrators Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Alec Baldwin.

It’s an impressive roster, but there’s something missing, some say.

“Imagine what it would be like in terms of substantive impact if the head of Exxon or the corn lobby were involved. Or Rush Limbaugh. Or [Republican] Sens. [Mitch] McConnell and [Lindsey] Graham,” says Len Shyles, professor of communication at Villanova University. “Then you’d have something.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new crusade: Global warming, climate change | Alaska Dispatch

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As the World Keeps Getting Warmer, California Begins to Cap Carbon | TIME.com

The world isn’t getting warmer, and even if was and it was due to CO2 – California’s token gestures would be a complete waste of time. Nature generates about 1,000 times as much CO2 as California.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

NASA says that increased CO2 is proof of climate change.

The logic goes as follows :

1. We believe that CO2 causes climate change. 
2. We know that CO2 is increasing.
3. Therefore CO2 causes climate change, proving our assertion.
4. The evidence for climate change is that CO2 is increasing. CO2 causes climate change, as we just proved.
5. If you have the IQ of a turnip, you can get a job at NASA.

Climate Change: Evidence

Obama promised to bankrupt the coal industry, and he has succeeded.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Weakening demand for coal has prompted Canadian Pacific Railway Co. to mothball plans to extend its Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad network into the Powder River Basin to ship Wyoming coal to power plants in other states, the company announced Monday.

The DM&E project had been controversial from its inception. The Sierra Club and other groups have pushed to try to block federal coal leases in the Powder River Basin on the grounds that burning coal mined there would contribute to global warming.

Railroad mothballing Powder River Basin extension – Business, Government Legal News from throughout WV

When Obama is in California, he promises to bankrupt coal – but when he is in Pennsylvania, Ohio or West Virginia he says that he is a huge fan of coal.

The Obama campaign motto is “51% of Americans are idiots, as is the entire press corpse”

National Park Service Webcam

Kids in the Pacific Northwest just won’t know what trees look like.

2 May 2004

Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week.

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

Temperatures are currently -26C on this fine summer day at the South Pole, and the golfing is excellent.

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The new normal is to lie about past predictions, and claim that non-existent global warming is worse than they predicted.

In 1988, Hansen made predictions for three scenarios. Scenario C assumed that mankind quit using fossil fuels after the year 2000. Temperatures are now (red dots below) lower than Hansen’s zero-emissions scenario C.

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data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt

Webcams from ski resorts in Great Britain

In 2009, The Met Office told us that skiing in Scotland is doomed

Alex Hill, chief government advisor with the Met Office, said the amount of snow in the Scottish mountains had been decreasing for the last 40 years and there was no reason for the decline to stop.

He added: “Put it this way, I will not be investing in the ski-ing industry.

Scottish ski industry could disappear due to global warming, warns Met Office – Telegraph

CO2 emissions rises mean dangerous climate change now almost certain Research by Global Carbon Project says emissions growth placing world on path to warm between 4 and 6C

“I am worried that the risks of dangerous climate change are too high on our current emissions trajectory. We need a radical plan,” said co-author Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Britain and professor at the University of East Anglia.

CO2 emissions rises mean dangerous climate change now almost certain | Environment | guardian.co.uk

That is very queer, because temperatures have been going down for the past decade. But then again, climate science seems to have nothing to do with science, math or reality.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

– Richard P. Feynman