Real Climate Science

Experts told us that last winter’s lack of snow in the eastern US was the new normal. They are hoping that you are stupid and don’t remember that the previous five winters were all among the snowiest on record.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

They also are hoping that you were unaware that last winter was the fourth snowiest on record in Europe and Asia, which is where the vast majority of the snow always falls.

They also are hoping that you are unaware that Alaska had their snowiest winter on record, as did parts of the Pacific Northwest.

Why is it that some experts are trying to keep you misinformed?

Harold Camping Admits He Was Wrong About End Of World Prediction

When Camping was wrong about the end of the world, he admitted it. Hansen on the other hand says that the world has been destroyed even more than he forecast.

An honest nutjob is definitely preferable to a dishonest one.

Fun with summer statistics. Part 2: The Northern Hemisphere Land « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

The latest big drought lie is that the 2012 drought is the worst since the 1950s – which is complete nonsense. In 1988 the drought was so bad that they had to shut down the Mississippi River because it ran out of water. They were even talking about diverting water out of the great lakes.

The Deseret News – Google News Archive Search

There is plenty of water in the Mississippi this year. Drought data in 2012 is inflated, just like all other climate data.

Lying about everything is the new normal for climate scientists

By Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers
Posted Aug. 15, 2012, at 8:43 p.m.

WASHINGTON — What can make a bad drought even worse? A sizzling summer, the likes of which the Lower 48 states haven’t seen since record-keeping started in 1895.

This summer won’t be anywhere close to the hottest, even after NOAA tampers with the data..

Fields of crops that are shriveled or still green with unproductive plants are clear signs of how damaging the summer has been, particularly in the Midwest.

But in a warming world, climate scientists say, more hot days and heat waves are a virtual certainty. Humans have altered the background conditions of the atmosphere and increased the risks of extreme weather.

“There have been many severe droughts here before,” said Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University. “What’s really unusual, though, is the heat.

Sizzling summer has worsened drought conditions — Nation — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wheat7.htm

329 months of global warming

August 15, 2012 8:51 PM

NOAA forecast Irene to make landfall at every state along the east coast, and then bragged that they got it right.

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That is the equivalent of betting on every horse in a race, and then bragging that you picked the winner.

It has been almost a year since Hurricane Irene made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina with maximum wind speeds of 48 MPH.

(In Colorado, we would call that a typical spring day.)

http://www.wunderground.com/US/NC/Wilmington.html

The ice-free Arctic will dry up the midwest, and may kill us all before the year 2000.

Climate change is here — and worse than we thought

James E. Hansen directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankind’s use of fossil fuels.

But I have a confession to make: I was too optimistic.

Climate change is here — and worse than we thought – The Washington Post

How could anyone have known in 1988 that by 2012 a key player at NASA would completely dissociate himself from any semblance of veracity, integrity or human decency?

Fun with summer statistics. Part 2: The Northern Hemisphere Land « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

Accuweather says that part of the US is expected to be above normal temperatures this winter. Romm and McKibben will have to shift their tunnel vision to the Northwest.

AccuWeather calling for snowy winter in Baltimore, northeast – baltimoresun.com