Real Climate Science

The 2007 IPCC report was full of mistakes, like the claim that Himalayan Glaciers would be gone by 2035. Another error appears to have been a graph which indicated 2mm/ sea level rise per year

a “best estimate” by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007, which projected that by today, the rise would be 2 mm (0.078 inches) per year.

AFP: Seas rising 60% faster than UN forecast: study

If the IPCC did say that, it was an error. The sea level graphs which their numbers are based on showed more than 3.1 mm/year prior to 2007, and a sharp slow down since 2007.

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Based on this nonsense, the Washington Post reports :

a group of climate researchers released calculations that indicate the world’s oceans are rising 60 percent faster than the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change anticipated five years ago

sea levels appear to be on track to rise by several feet over the next century, with every inch putting more Americans at risk. Sea-level researchers Robert Kopp and Benjamin Strauss estimate that a five-foot rise would produce Sandy-like floods in New York every 15 years, on average.

Holding back the sea – The Washington Post

An honest statement would be that the train has fallen off the one foot per century track, and that since 2007 sea level is rising 50% slower. The Washington Post is engaging in classic Soviet journalism.

We finished second, and the other team finished next to last

h/t to Marc Morano

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Now that election is over, Obama no longer has to worry about the opinions of Americans. Over the last three weeks we have seen the ousting of General Petraeus, collapse of Egypt into an Islamic dictatorship (the day after Obama praised Morsi) war in the Middle East, declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, mass layoffs – and we are about to see a $1.6 trillion tax hike.

All of this is just a coincidence, no doubt.

Emperor Barack Nero Obama is responding by taking a three week $4 million golfing vacation to Hawaii.

Bill Illis found this NCDC graph from 1991. It correctly shows that 1934 and 1921 were the two hottest years in the US.

www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/bams-sotc/climate-assessment-1981-1990.pdf

The graph below is NCDC’s current US graph.

CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES Climate Summary

I overlaid them on each other, normalized to 1934. The 1991 version is shown in blue below.

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Hansen wrote this recently :

We conclude that extreme heat waves, such as that in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010, were “caused” by global warming, because their likelihood was negligible prior to the recent rapid global warming. We discuss practical implications of this substantial, growing climate change.

US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Quarter to half of species on earth may die from global warming

That is easy enough to put to the test. I counted the number of 40C+ temperature readings in Oklahoma, at all GHCN HCN stations which have been continuously active since at least 1930. It turns out that 2011 was tenth hottest, and had fewer than half as many 40C readings as 1936, 1934 and 1955.

Hansen is either wildly incompetent, a liar, or both. He is counting on the fact that most people have little or no knowledge of history.

1936 had the most extreme temperatures in US history, and it also brought extreme weather to Australia.

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The Interior Alaska town of Chicken wins the winter prize as the first locale to hit 50 below zero this winter.

While Chicken recorded minus 52 this morning, Tok came in at minus 46, with Eagle close behind at minus 44. At the Fairbanks International Airport, temperatures of minus 28 were recorded Thursday morning.

Cold enough? Chicken is first Alaska town to hit 50 below in winter 2012. | Alaska Dispatch

The people who bring us Big Bird, also tell us that Alaska is hot – and it is your fault.

Scientists say Alaska is like a canary in a coal mine, foreshadowing the types of changes we can expect for the rest of the world.

Scientific American Frontiers . Hot Times in Alaska. Canary in a Coal Mine | PBS

A good look at how climate science ignores science, and are helped along by their fellow Bolshevik travelers in  the press and government.

Brad Johnson, campaign manager of Forecast the Facts and former editor of ThinkProgress Green, stood up and interrupted

“This nation is facing a fundamental threat to its existence, and the people of New York and people all across America are already suffering the effects, the consequences of carbon pollution, and the president has been silent on that threat and is promoting an agenda of increased dependence on fossil fuels. Even with the aftermath of Sandy, the president has still been silent on the reality of this threat, and that silence needs to end.”

Valerie Jarrett’s RootsCamp Speech Interrupted By Climate Activist Brad Johnson

The fundamental threat is from liars like Brad Johnson, and are pushing a political agenda. Huffington Post knows that he is lying, yet happily goes along with him.

Martin Hoerling, who chairs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s climate variability research program and oversees NOAA’s Climate Scene Investigators, debunked the assertion global warming played a significant role in Hurricane Sandy.

“Great events, like this meteorological one, can happen with little cause,” Hoerling further explained in the Huffington Post. “Individually, neither the tropical storm nor the extratropical storm that embraced it, were unusual. What makes this a rare, perhaps once in a lifetime event, is the fortuity of their timely (“untimely” as far as most are concerned who sit in harm’s way) intersection.”

The Huffington Post reported Hoerling’s colleague Randall M. Dole said the convergence of events that made Sandy a superstorm was just “random bad luck.”

NOAA Climate Investigator Says No Link Between Global Warming, Hurricane Sandy | Heartlander Magazine

h/t to Tom Nelson

I’m watching the women’s US Soccer team play Ireland right now, and Alex Morgan reminds me of Lionel Messi. She has the same ability to find the open spot in the goal  every time, and appears destined to be the greatest women’s soccer player – ever.

1936 had the most 40C+ maximum temperature readings in US history

1936 also had the most readings below -30C

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1. Houston Will Win
2. LA Will Win
3. I don’t care about soccer
4. I like soccer, but don’t care about American soccer
5. All of the above
6. None of the above