Last week
10 October 2012
Confirmation of one of the worst global harvests in years will come on Thursday
UN warns of rising food costs after year’s extreme weather | Environment | The Guardian
This week
15 October 2012
World grain production last year was the highest on record; this year’s crop is just 2.6% smaller
.
Antarctica could follow same path as Arctic sea ice melt
In the rapidly warming Arctic, the Greenland ice sheet has been melting, leading to substantial net ice loss in recent years. The worry is that if global warming continues on the track predicted by many climate scientists, Antarctica’s sea ice and its vast land-based ice sheet will eventually follow.
No doubt the Greenland ice sheet has been melting like crazy at -35C, and Antarctica is soon to follow.
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008
The moral of the story is – if you get enough government scientists lying at the same time, you can make lots of people very stupid.
The random cellphone and land line poll of 600 likely rural voters in nine battleground states Oct. 9-11 has Romney at 59 percent among the survey’s respondents. Obama’s support is now down to 37 percent among rural battleground voters, a plunge of 10 points from the actual rural vote in those states four years ago.
Corn production in the US is forecast to be eighth largest on record, while neurotic city dwellers obsess about the drought they imagine is coming to get them.
Forest fire counts have been plummeting since 2006, and are currently the lowest on record in the National Interagency Fire database. McKitten must be suffering balance problems.
All things are possible, if you have faith in CO2.
As a scientist, I side with the data. Although, the study has to be kept in perspective, since the ice growth is not enough to cover the ice loss in the Arctic. This infers that while the local temperature at the Antarctic is cooler, the average global temperature is rising. Global warming studies have predicted for many years that the earth will experience dramatic changes in climate. This means that some places will get cooler and some will get hotter due to changes in the air and ocean currents. It has also been predicted that the earth will have more dramatic shifts in summer heat and winter cold, which have also been noted throughout the past decade. Therefore,it is completely plausible that the ice growth in the Antarctic is as expected within the global warming model.
We were warned not to eat from the tree of Antarctic sea ice knowledge, but now that we have sinned – only faith in CO2 can bring us back to grace.
Obama realized he had messed up pretty badly when his ambassador got killed by Al Qaeda, so he lied about it and blamed it on YouTube.
Two weeks later he realized that no one was buying his lies, so he said that he got it right all along.
That didn’t fly either, so now he is blaming Hillary.
Half of the country is considering voting for Obama, because he stole your money to give them a phone.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tpAOwJvTOio]
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,”
The 1950s drought was much worse. Apparently that was more than 1,000 years ago.
New Mexico, Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI), 24-Month Period Ending in August, 1897-2012
h/t to Marc Morano
This week marks seven years since the US was hit by a major hurricane, and it has been more than 20 years since the US was hit by a category five hurricane.
Scientists celebrate the record calm by making up a new way to prove that hurricanes are getting stronger.
New Study Ties Hurricane Strength To Global Warming
One of the major unanswered questions about climate change is whether hurricanes have become more frequent and stronger as the world has warmed. Until now, there hasn’t been enough evidence to settle the question, but a report published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may have changed all that. Using an entirely new method of tallying hurricane power and frequency, a team of scientists say that hurricanes are, indeed, more of a danger when ocean temperatures are higher.
New Study Ties Hurricane Strength To Global Warming | Climate Central
The only well defined number in climate science is the amount of money they receive in funding. All other numbers are completely flexible.
