Real Climate Science

There is enough information now, in my opinion, to make it a near certainty that IPCC BAU climate forcing scenarios would lead to a disastrous multi-meter sea level rise on the century timescale.

– James Hansen

Scientific reticence and sea level rise – IOPscience

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”

Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Fifteen Foolish Forecasts: How did environmentalists get it so wrong on Earth Day 1970?

Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

Earth Day, Then and Now – Reason.com

The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America – Daniel J. Kevles – Google Books

Skiing forecast: No snow here by year 2020

Claude Villeneuve, a leading expert on climate change, said yesterday that by 2020 there may not be enough snow for skiing on Mount Orford.

“The trend is for winter temperatures to rise,” Villeneuve said later. “It will be high enough that, starting in 2020, there will be no snow, or no significant snow accumulation.

Skiing forecast: No snow here by year 2020

SEP 16, 2012

“Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated– response to what had transpired in Cairo,” the American ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said this morning on ABC’s This Week.Libyan president Mohammed el-Megarif is saying the attack Benghazi that killed the American ambassador was planned well beforehand. His statements on this topic firmly contradict the Obama administration’s version of events.   ”

The idea that this criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous,” Megarif says in an interview on NPR. “We firmly believe that this was a precalculated, preplanned attack that was carried out specifically to attack the U.S. Consulate.”

Libyan President: ‘Preposterous’ to Think Attack Was ‘Spontaneous Protest’ | The Weekly Standard

Clearly, if we burn all fossil fuels, we will destroy the planet we know. Carbon dioxide would increase to 500 ppm or more. We would set the planet on a course to the ice-free state, with sea level 75 metres higher.  Climatic disasters would occur continually.

James Hansen: Coal-fired power plants are death factories. Close them

06 May 1940 – Greenland’s Climate Becoming Milder

Obama says that YouTube made them do it.

Islam: Making a True Difference in the World

Lewes MP and Lib Dem Shadow Environment Secretary Norman Baker has uncovered new government figures that show that dreams of a White Christmas are increasingly unlikely to become a reality.

the future chances of snow on Christmas Day will drop by a third by 2010

Christmas

This is what Christmas, 2010 looked like.