Real Climate Science

The beer cart got stuck in the snow.

Experts tell us that Greenland is melting down at a record pace, and that the albedo is very low as a result.

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Lower Keys Webcam – Fla-keys.com Official Tourism site of the Florida Keys

Issac is about to cross the Florida Keys, and is currently bringing top wind speeds of 45 MPH (near Miami.)

WunderMap® | Interactive Weather Map and Radar | Weather Underground

NOAA is reporting 65 MPH  Yesterday, NOAA issued hurricane warnings for Florida.

This is of course reminiscent of Hurricane Andrew, which hit 20 years ago and had 175 MPH winds.

There are some areas in the Arctic Ocean which have less ice than 1981, and this proves that the Earth is doomed.

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TAMPA— With this city under a tropical storm watch, organizers of the Republican National Convention were set to go forward with an opening night party Sunday while working on packing four days of planned events into three.

Republican National Convention reworking schedule because of Tropical Storm Isaac – The Washington Post

Old Jedi Mind Trick

The goal is to stop Obama from destroying the country, not behave like Joe Romm. Stick with the plan. The (barely) tropical storm Isaac is going nowhere near Tampa.

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NOAA is reporting more than double the wind speed which is being measured on the ground.

WunderMap® | Interactive Weather Map and Radar | Weather Underground

Issac is about to cross the Florida Keys. NOAA reports 65 MPH, which is 15 MPH higher than any station is recording.

After almost losing their last few games, Roberto Mancini has finally decided to start Balotelli instead of waiting until the last 20 minutes to bring him in and save the match.

A reader has been spamming the site today with claims that Greenland is rapidly losing mass, which was based on a spectacularly incompetent study out of the University of Texas

Climate Change: Are the Polar Ice Caps Melting Slower Than We Thought?

Those are scary numbers, but a new study published in the September issue of Nature Geoscience suggests that the true melt rate might be much slower than that. (Access a PDF of the study here.) A joint team of American and Dutch scientists took another look at the GRACE data and found that Greenland and West Antarctica may be melting  just half as fast the earlier studies estimated. As researcher Bert Vermeersen, a professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, told the AFP, the earlier estimates failed to account for glacial isostatic adjustment—the rebounding of the Earth’s crust after the end of the last Ice Age:

http://science.time.com/2010/09/09/climate-change-a-slowdown-on-polar-melt/

The experts who did the original study should be banned from future publication.

As Issac approaches Florida, I will be tracking NOAA to see how much they are exaggerating the wind speeds. Current top wind speed is 30 MPH

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

Key West up to 47MPH

August 26, 2012 at 2:06 pm

Where do these people come up with this crap? The last 13 months has been barely above average, and almost half a degree cooler than 1998

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