Real Climate Science

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The total for 2012 so far is 45,816. There were four times as many fires in 1938.

National Interagency Fire Center

The US press corpse says that fire is the new normal, because they have the combined IQ of a celery stalk.

Arctic warming Effects felt across the globe
Those who keep an eye on Earth’s polar ice caps report that sea ice has melted faster in the Arctic Ocean this summer than at any time since scientists began recording its ebbs and flows. In fact, the Arctic ice cap reached its smallest summer expanse ever, and some scientists say it’s at its lowest reach in nearly 1,500 years.

The shrinking ice cap coincides with warming at the poles that has been accelerating twice as fast as in other areas around the globe.

Even climate-change skeptics have to accept the fact that the planet is warming, and it’s happening faster and with greater consequence than during any natural warming cycle in Earth’s history. The massive ice melt is changing weather patterns in North America, and this summer’s record-setting drought throughout the United States is only the first of a pattern of floods, severe storms, drought and wildfires that likely will become the norm.

Arctic warming | The Salt Lake Tribune

Pavlov’s morons. Mention ice – drool. Mention drought – drool.

The US just experienced the quietest summer on record for tornadoes, hurricane strikes are at historic long-term lows, the drought is in no way comparable to the Dust Bowl, and the fire season has been about average. These people are complete morons.

h/t to Marc Morano

Tornadoes peaked during the ice-age scare of the 1970s, because they are caused by global warming.

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Ice still delaying Shell Arctic offshore drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Moving ice may keep a Royal Dutch Shell petroleum drill ship away from a Chukchi Sea prospect for several days, a Shell Alaska spokesman said Tuesday.

Curtis Smith said at midday that a massive ice pack heading toward the Burger Prospect had slowed from 0.5 knots to 0.2 knots — about 1/4 of a mile per hour — and remained 10 to 12 hours away.

“Depending on conditions, it could be a few or, potentially, several days before it’s safe enough to resume drilling,” he said in an email response to questions.

The prospect is 70 miles off the coast. The Noble Discoverer drill ship has moved 30 miles south and will remain there until the ice — 30 miles long, 12 miles wide and up to 82 feet thick — has passed and is unlikely to change course and return.

Ice still delaying Shell Arctic offshore drilling – CBS News

NSIDC’s super-sensitive sensors apparently can’t detect 82 foot thick ice in the Chukchi sea.

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Twitter / climatebrad: Since the beginning of July, …

Things like this never used to happen before you bought your SUV.

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You could walk across the Thames.

Ice is good. Cold is good. Bubonic plague is good. Filth and squalor is good.

I spent last winter in Maryland, where I was subject to day after day of mild, sunny weather, little snow, and perfect cycling conditions. It turns out that I survived the third most extreme winter on record in that part of the world.

I am so proud of myself for surviving NOAA propaganda hell.

U.S. Climate Extremes Index

Twitter / oakden_wolf: @ClimateDepot I think …

Here is the graph he linked to. Note how temperatures were flat from 1930 to 1980.

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This is what temperatures looked like in 1975 – according to NCAR

denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf

It is awesome how Hansen has been able to rewrite history to serve his own ego.