Real Climate Science

The year 2000 was very eventful. The world collapsed due to the Y2K bug, snow became a thing of the past, and the North Pole melted for the first time in 50 million years.

The North Pole is melting.

August 19, 2000

The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday. At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate.

The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago.

Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole Is Now Liquid, Scientists Find – New York Times

‘Frightening’ projection for Arctic melt

The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 – something that hasn’t happened for more than a million years, according to a leading polar researcher.

According to these models, there will be no sea ice left in the summer in the Arctic Ocean somewhere between 2010 and 2015.  “And it’s probably going to happen even faster than that,” said Fortier, who leads an international team of researchers in the Arctic looking for clues to climate change.

‘Frightening’ projection for Arctic melt

Fairbanks high temperature today barely rose above the previous record low.

History | Weather Underground

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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