Real Climate Science

The mindless fearmongers of the global warming cult are telling us that methane from melting permafrost due to global warming is going to kill us all.

Ivan collected these newspaper accounts of melting permafrost going back more than 130 years.

1. 1880:

   “The Tundras or wastes along the border of the Arctic Ocean are of the dreariest description, covered with ice and snow in winter, and in summer metamorphosed into mosquito-haunted marshes.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/95042351

2. 1891:

   “Partly in this region are the vast tundra, or great shaking, quivering bogs, which cover an immense area of the north of Siberia. They are estimated by some authorities as covering 1,000,000 square miles, but that is merely an estimate. The north of this tundra can never be anything else but a bog ; regarding the southern tundra the Russians differ. Some are of opinion that they are like the northern, and can never be anything else but desolate bogs; others think they can be drained, reclaimed, and turned into first class pasture land, or even used for crops.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/65531499

3. 1896:

   “On the maps the tundra has a bad name. It is called the ” region of treeless swamp.” It is uninhabited ; and for eight months out of the twelve it is covered with snow.”
   “The tundra was, in fact, a moor, with here and there a large flat bog and abundant lakes.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/20444537

4. 1899:

   “In winter the Tundra is, of course, one vast frozen sheet. In the brief summer it is swampy, steamier and swarming with mosquitoes”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/52560339

5. 1901:

   “To the north, the Tundra, stretching inland from the Arctic Sea, swampy and treeless, ranging from 150 to 400 miles in width.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/55672719

6. 1902:

   “The “tundras” are vast areas of swamp and marsh lands hardened by frost and covered with snow in winter, but in the short summer teeming with vegetation and swarming with wild birds,”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/68874793

7. 1906:

   “Then comes the hot sun, and the low, wide tundras along the coast are turned into great fresh water lakes”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/82681836

8. 1907:

   “There is in the north the half-frozen Tundra.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5052392

9. 1908:

   “arriving just after the ice melts on the largest swamp in the world called the Tundra, extending over 2,000 miles east and west.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/12678897

10. 1910:

    “Another danger that threatens them is that they may be delayed over-long on the way, so that summer overtakes them, in which case they will run grave risk of being engufed, together with their machines, in the thawing tundra.”
    http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/66386801

The graph below plots the total number of all time record daily maximums plus record daily minimums set or tied for all 595 GHCN HCN stations which have been active from 1900 to the present. Both record maximums and record minimums have been on the decline, indicating that the climate is becoming less extreme. The year 1936 was by far the most extreme year in US history. It had the coldest February and the second hottest July on record.

NOAA claims that temperature extremes are increasing, because they are incompetent, dishonest, and using bogus statistics (like including recently added stations.) When an Appells-to-Appells comparison is done, the current year doesn’t even crack the top 50.

You can’t legislate the weather. You can’t prevent hurricanes. You can’t prevent tornadoes. You can’t prevent droughts. The forces behind bad weather are poorly understood, and unless you understand them, you certainly can’t even begin to consider controlling them.

Atmospheric models are largely useless more than 72 hours in the future. That gives a good feel for how limited human knowledge is.

In 1886, the US was hit by seven hurricanes, including two major hurricanes. CO2 was below 300 PPM at the time. Anyone who says that reducing CO2 will prevent hurricanes is an absolute raging moron (Bloomberg, Cuomo, Figueres, etc.)

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13,926 reasons the deniers don’t matter

November 27, 2012 11:39 PM

A new study finds that 99.82 percent of all scientific papers published in the last two decades on the subject of global warming or global climate change accepted that humans were the cause.

Redding.com Blogs: Doug Craig’s blog

Only 0.18% of scientists believe that the climate changes naturally – which proves that Vikings built their farms underneath existing ice, and that the last ice age was caused by Fred Flintstone.

Doug Craig is determined to believe that all evil in the world is caused by the greed of white males – like himself. Perhaps he needs a psychiatrist?

If you are James Hansen, you get to just make numbers up and have the press believe you.

The research by a man often called the “godfather of global warming” says that, from the 1950s through the 1980s, the likelihood of such sweltering temperatures occurring was rarer than 1 in 300. Now, the odds are closer to 1 in 10, according to the study by James Hansen. The NASA scientist says that statistically, what’s happening is not random or normal, but pure and simple climate change.

Droughts show global warming is ‘scientific fact’ – World – CBC News

Hansen is either an idiot, a liar, or both. The odds of hot weather in the US have decreased considerably.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

15 Feb 1915 – VIOLENT HURRICANE. TIDAL WAVE AND EARTHQUAKE. SA…

Latest word from Gaia is that she will honor the treaty, and make the climate safe like it was during the 1930s.

14 Feb 1933 – NEWFOUNDLAND ORDEAL Hurricane After Tidal Wave G…

17 Feb 1937 – WEATHER EXTREMES. DUST STORMS AND BLIZZARDS Amer…

10-Day Temperature Outlook

Earth is about the same size as Venus, but temperatures are much cooler here. The primary difference between Earth and Venus is that we have oceans which absorb CO2 and form limestone – CACO3. Without the massive limestone deposits we have on Earth, the atmosphere would be much denser and temperatures would be much higher.

Venus is too close to the Sun to have liquid water. The water evaporated away, so volcanic CO2 kept accumulating, and their atmosphere became 100X more dense that of Earth.

The world’s leading climatologist – James Hansen – based his PhD dissertation on the idea that Venus was hot because of aerosols. Carl “Reefer Madness” Sagan later convinced him that Venus was hot because of a “runaway greenhouse effect” and now Hansen says the exact opposite – that Chinese aerosols make earth cool.

In order to become the world’s leading climatologist, you have to demonstrate that you have no clue about atmospheric physics.

Meet The Climate Denial Machine Blog

Despite the overwhelming consensus among climate experts that human activity is contributing to rising global temperatures, 66 percent of Americans incorrectly believe there is “a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether or not global warming is happening.” The conservative media has fueled this confusion by distorting scientific research, hyping faux-scandals, and giving voice to groups funded by industries that have a financial interest in blocking action on climate change. Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets have shied away from the “controversy” over climate change and have failed to press U.S. policymakers on how they will address this global threat. When climate change is discussed, mainstream outlets sometimes strive for a false balance that elevates marginal voices and enables them to sow doubt about the science even in the face of mounting evidence.

Meet The Climate Denial Machine | Blog | Media Matters for America

The consensus agrees that humans are driving the increase in temperatures, except for the minor detail that temperatures aren’t increasing.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs