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The map below compares Arctic ice vs. 1938. green is 2012 and red is 1938.

brunnur.vedur.is/pub/trausti/Iskort/Pdf/1938/1938_08.pdf

The graph below plots sea level at New York for the last 160 years. The fastest period of sea level rise was the 1930s. Since 1950, sea level has been rising at about half the 1930s rate.

Why did you lie to Congress yesterday and tell them that sea level rise has tripled over the last ten years?

http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/rlr.annual.plots/12_high.png

Climate change the cause of summer’s extreme weather, Congress told | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The US is experiencing the lowest hurricane activity on record. It has been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US.  This year is likely to have the fewest fires since 2003. Droughts were much worse in the 1930s and 1950s.

Isn’t it illegal to lie as an expert witness in a Congressional hearing?

The committee also heard from James McCarthy, a Harvard oceanographer and IPCC author, who warned that sea-level rise was occurring about three times faster than scientists believed even a decade ago.

Complete bullshit. The numbers are changing only because they are tampering with them.

Tracking The Impressive Paper Trail Of The Sea Level Fraudsters

 

oedoakes202 • 10 hours ago

 

“You didn’t build that . . .”

– President Obama

July 27, 2012

Dear Mr. Obama,

Normally when you utter something so colossally idiotic I tend to see what everyone else does and if its all been done I’m not going to throw out my opinion on the matter. The “Obama Depression” is about to claim the last bit of my 401K and I’m trying to get this new idea off the ground so I’m a bit busy. This little letter writing gig is a voluntary effort, with all due respect to those who seem to think I’m a some famous writer grand standing their true self, or some rich guy doing this because I need to vent. I’m none of that. If I did make that claim I would be as bad as you. Because through out these reactions to that utterance I realized something.

You, Sir, did not build you. Please allow me to explain. Every step of your life has been prepared for you. Every moment you were pampered and buffed for the next phase like some kind of imaginary character in a television program. From your mother to your girlfriends to your job history and your lack of real world skills. It’s frankly miraculous that you kept the facade up for so long. To repeat; you did not build you, someone else did that.

Well, us common folk “Joe Doakes’s” out in the hinterland don’t have that option. We don’t have the safety net of a group of rich socialist friends that are going to protect us at every turn. We are on our own. And for every improvement we make in our lives there is someone out there, thanks to all of your class rhetoric, that thinks they have a legitimate claim on my labor or my dwindling wealth.

You never felt blame. You never had to stare back at your wife and explain why that second mortgage isn’t getting paid. You never had to live with less so others could have more. You never had to sacrifice what you wanted so someone else could have a shot. You never built a life on merit and exposure to risk nor attempted to serve the public good in the vain of politicians like Henry Clay. You never did that.

There’s this guy running for office. His name is Mitt Romney. He has done nothing but that. No one told him when to “zig” or “zag.” No one told him to do what when. He just did it. Mr. Romney is a “Do the right thing” machine. That’s what he does. He’s like one of those perpetual motion machines that you could buy. You can just count on it. That’s what America needs, someone it can count on to relieve it from the madness that is Washington D.C. by any means necessary. Because if you haven’t noticed you didn’t build that city.

We did.

Respectfully,

Joe Doakes

Colorado Business Owners Speak Out On Obama’s Business Comment « CBS Denver

The closest USHCN station to Oklahoma City is at Meeker. The temperatures on August 9 through 12, 1936 were 114, 119, 118 and 115.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

So why is Mike Seidel of the Weather Channel spreading such blatant misinformation? 1936 was much hotter than 2012. He posted the image below on Twitter

http://twitter.com/mikeseidel/status/230807001406525441/photo/1

Guthrie is the next closest weather station to Oklahoma City. Temperatures there from August 9 to August 12 1936 were 114, 114, 116 and 116.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

Michael Mann demonstrates the critical thinking skills of a turnip.

Twitter / MichaelEMann: Reply @mikeseidel ‘Ok. City …

h/t to Marc Morano

Climate change science is a load of hot air and warmists are wrong

Date August 2, 2012

Climate scientists’ theories, flawed as they are, ignore some fundamental data.

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Ocean temperatures have only been measured properly since 2003 when the Argo program became operational. Some 3000 Argo buoys roam the oceans, measuring temperatures on each 10-day dive into the depths. Before Argo, we used sporadic sampling with buckets and diving darts along a few commercial shipping lanes. But these measurements have such massively high uncertainties as to be useless. Since Argo started, the ocean temperatures have been flat, no warming at all.

The assumed temperature amplification due to changes in humidity and clouds exhibits itself in all the models as prominent warming about 10 kilometres up over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmospheric warming pattern since the 1960s using weather balloons, released twice a day from 900 locations around the planet, many millions of them in total, and no such ”hot spot” has been detected. This is direct observational proof that the amplification is missing.

The climate models predict that the outgoing radiation from the earth decreases in the weeks following a rise in the surface temperature, due to aggressive heat-trapping by extra humidity. But analysis of the outgoing radiation measured by NASA satellites for the last two decades shows the opposite occurs: the earth gives off more heat after the surface temperature rises. Again, this suggests that the amplification assumed in the models simply does not occur in reality.

Government climate scientists tend to excuse away these failings, often blaming unmeasured aerosols whose effects are only dimly understood. These excuses wear ever thinner as the CO2 level continues to rise but the temperature plateau of the last 12 years persists.  There are huge vested interests in the theory of man-made climate change. They will soon have to face up to the fact that they have been unwittingly relying on assumed amplification by humidity for most of the predicted temperature increases, and that the amplification is not there in reality.

Dr David M. W. Evans is a mathematician and engineer who consulted full-time for the Australian Greenhouse Office (now the Department of Climate Change) from 1999 to 2005. He says he changed from being a warmist to a sceptic after ”evidence supporting the idea that CO2 emissions were the main cause of global warming reversed itself from 1998 to 2006”.

Climate change science is a load of hot air and warmists are wrong

http://query.nytimes.com/

 Americans who win bronze will pay a $2 tax on the medal itself. But the bronze comes with a modest prize—$10,000 as an honorarium for devoting your entire life to being the third best athlete on the planet in your chosen discipline. And the IRS will take $3,500 of that, thank you very much.

There are also prizes that accompany each medal: $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver, and $10,000 for bronze.

Silver medalists will owe $5,385. You win a gold? Timothy Geithner will be standing there with his hand out for $8,986.

So as of this writing, swimmer Missy Franklin—who’s a high school student—is already on the hook for almost $14,000. By the time she’s done in the pool, her tab could be much higher. (That is, unless she has to decline the prize money to placate the NCAA—the only organization in America whose nuttiness rivals the IRS.)

ATR notes that the real twist of the knife is that most other Olympians won’t pay any taxes on their medals because America is one of only a handful of countries which taxes “worldwide” prize income earned overseas.

Go for the Gold! (Pay the IRS.) | The Weekly Standard

No Jason, the 1930s were much hotter.

Searing heat in the Heartland: Oklahoma’s hottest day ever?

By Jason Samenow

Searing heat in the Heartland: Oklahoma’s hottest day ever? – Capital Weather Gang – The Washington Post

And the answer is no. Not even close.

August 12, 1936 averaged 112.2 at all of the USHCN stations in Oklahoma. Today averaged 109.5 at all of the Weather Underground stations in Oklahoma.

1936 was almost three degrees hotter. In 1936, there were eleven stations hotter than the hottest today.

August 12, 1936                   August 1, 2012
  ALTUS IRIG RSCH	120           112
  ENID           	118           113
  JEFFERSON      	118
  KINGFISHER     	118           113
  CARNEGIE 5 NE  	117           113
  CHEROKEE       	117           110
  MANGUM         	117           110
  GEARY          	116           112
  HENNESSEY 4 ESE	116
  HOBART MUNI AP 	116           111
  PERRY          	116
  MEEKER 5 W     	115           113
  MUTUAL         	115
  NEWKIRK 1NW    	115
  WEATHERFORD    	115
  BUFFALO 2 SSW  	114
  GUTHRIE 5S     	114
  STILLWATER 2 W 	113           115
  LAWTON         	112           110
  PAWHUSKA       	112
  BEAVER         	111           108
  DURANT         	111           104
  PAULS VALLEY 4 	111
  TAHLEQUAH      	111           106
  CLAREMORE 2 ENE	110           108
  HOLDENVILLE 2SS	110
  OKEMAH         	110
  WAURIKA        	110
  ADA            	109           108
  ARDMORE        	109           108
  BARTLESVILLE MU	109           103
  OKMULGEE WTR WK	109           115
  HOOKER         	108           104
  MIAMI          	108           109
  MUSKOGEE       	108           108
  GOODWELL RSCH S	107
  ANTLERS        	105           103
  KENTON         	103           100
  BOISE CITY 2 E 	102           100