Real Climate Science

www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt

During the 19th century, Texas got hit by hurricanes an average of every two years. Now it is about once every three years. It has been seven years since Texas got hit by a major hurricane.

In 1886, Texas got hit by four hurricanes including two major hurricanes – one of which wiped Indianola off the map with 150+ MPH winds.

1886 Indianola hurricane – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yesterday I made this post :

Scary Headline In The New York Times

Posted on November 20, 2012

Clinton to Visit Middle East in Move to Defuse Gaza Conflict

President Obama sent Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East on Tuesday to try to defuse the conflict in Gaza, the White House announced.

Clinton to Visit Israel in Effort to Defuse Gaza Conflict – NYTimes.com

The last time I saw a headline like that was in the year 2000, when Bill Clinton went to seal the final peace deal, and left with the Intifada raging and suicide bombers detonating on Jerusalem buses every other day.

Sorry … I pulled this post because the USHCN adjustments are fairly linear from 1979-2011, and there is no reason to expect that they will change the RSQ values in any meaningful way.

I will revisit this topic later when I have more meaningful stats.

A U.N. report on rising greenhouse gas emissions reminded world governments Wednesday that their efforts to fight climate change are far from enough to meet their stated goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius

UN report warns of widening climate gap – News – Boston.com

Over the past century, measured US temperatures have declined slightly. The more important question is “what will it take to limit temperature data fraud at NOAA and NASA to two degrees?”

The EPA says that Alaska is warming dramatically.

Average annual temperatures in Alaska are projected to increase an additional 3.5 to 7°F by the middle of this century

Alaska Impacts & Adaptation | Climate Change | US EPA

Peer-reviewed research says that Lisa Jackson is FOS

The First Decade of the New Century: A Cooling Trend for Most of Alaska

Alaska Climate Research Center, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA

We looked at the temperature trend of the first decade of  the 21st  century for the 20 first order stations in Alaska and   found that 19 of the 20 stations showed a cooling trend.

www.benthamscience.com/open/toascj/articles/V006/111TOASCJ.pdf

Last Thanksgiving was lovely in Alaska

Posted at 12:48 PM ET, 11/17/2011
Record smashing cold in interior Alaska, Fairbanks
By Jason Samenow

A frigid Arctic air mass, unusual even by Alaska standards, is dropping the mercury in the state’s interior to unheard of levels in mid-November. Stunningly low temperatures in the -35 to -50 range have gripped the region since Tuesday. These temperatures are some 25 to 40 degrees colder than average.

This morning, Fairbanks airport dropped to 40 below zero, breaking the old record of 39 below. That’s after setting a record low of 35 below Tuesday morning, breaking the old record of 33 below from 1956. Wednesday’s low of -39 just missed 1969’s record of -41.

Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks dropped to an incredible 42 below Wednesday morning, shattering the old record of 37 below set in 1956. This morning, it dropped to 42 below again, setting another new record low. The average low is -7.

A diifficult to imagine -49 degree reading was measured unofficially at UAF Smith Lake Wednesday, and, according to the National Weather Service (NWS), infrared satellite imagery sensed 50 below readings in the coldest valley locations.

Record smashing cold in interior Alaska, Fairbanks – Capital Weather Gang – The Washington Post

You can’t make this stuff up.

Global warming targets Thanksgiving Native cranberry crop faces uncertain future

Heat waves may sizzle, storms rage and shorelines disappear, but the plight of the humble American cranberry might be the issue that finally puts climate change on the table this Thanksgiving.

Despite enjoying a near-record, 768 million-pound nationwide harvest in 2012, growers are voicing concern that global warming will sour the industry’s long-term outlook, increasing losses to weather-related blights and fruit rots and tempting more producers to grow the tangy berry offshore.

Global warming targets Thanksgiving | The News Journal | delawareonline.com

Greens long for the good old days, because they care about people.

20 Apr 1947 – “White Plague of the Aretic BY A SPECIAL CORRESP…

Climate experts tell us that Alaska is the canary in the coal mine.

Sea ice off western Alaska has been increasing, with four of the five iciest years occurring since 2007. This year shattered all records for ice area.

Bering Sea ice area has been normal or above normal every day for the past year.

University of Illinois – Cryosphere Today

According to some in the Boulder snow and ice data community, time began in 1979. Since then, October snow extent has increased by 20%

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab