“The summer of 2012 is on pace to finish third hottest on the list of 62 summers since 1950,” said Steven Root, a meteorologist with WeatherBank Inc. “But it is still in the running for number two or one.”
U.S. Drought Means Wilting Crops, Higher Food Prices; Officials Pray For Rain
The 1930s never existed.
I wrote a polite response to this idiotic article, pointing out that there are no large fires in Colorado, that we had record snowpack last winter (2011) , that the Colorado Springs Fire Chief said Waldo Canyon was a disaster waiting to happen, as well as a few other problems with the author’s claims. It was censored about a minute later.
This is What the Beginning of the End of the Planet Feels Like
Posted: 07/19/2012 7:12 amThis summer 34,500 people were forced to evacuate their homes in my home state of Colorado. I watched as a dozen wildfires raged through the state with some contained in days or weeks, while others are still not extinguished.
[blah blah blah blah take your meds, moron]
Dion Rabouin: This is What the Beginning of the End of the Planet Feels Like
Huffington Post used to be the one alarmist site where I could post. The Borg is very afraid of disruptive thoughts.
The US Drought Monitor now shows that almost the entire country is moderate drought or worse, which would make it the worst drought in the history of the US.
Millions of Okies are no doubt on their way to California and massive dust storms are enveloping the land!
Pay no attention to the fact that most of the drought area has received one to twelve inches of rain over the last two weeks.
It has been well over 100 years since the phenomenon called thegreenhouse effect was identified, 24 years since the steamy summer of ’88, when many of us first took notice, and, incredibly, 15 years since the Kyoto Protocol. That agreement stipulated that signatories would annually reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases and was ratified (and even acted upon) by almost every country in the world, including every industrialized nation but one. That would be the United States. Now that’s exceptionalism. (Bill Clinton signed Kyoto; George W. Bush, despite an election pledge, repudiated it.)
During the 15 years since Kyoto, the global temperature has been dead flat. The US Senate showed great foresight in unanimously rejecting this worthless treaty.
Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs
Then the NYT nutjob goes on to forecast Manhattan drowning :
The time to avoid calamitous effects has likely passed. This doesn’t mean the situation is hopeless, but the longer we wait to curb emissions, the worse and longer-lasting the effects. Climate Central’s projections show that the biggest cities in Florida, and a great deal of the Northeast coastline (including New York City), will beunderwater by 2100, when almost everyone now alive will have “managed” to leave the scene. Of course, the calamities won’t be limited to North America, nor is 2100 some magical expiration date; the end isn’t in sight.
Tide gauges around New York show that the land has been steadily subsiding at about 10 inches per century for the last 150 years, no doubt due to glacial rebound from the last ice age. The only period of accelerated sea level rise was during the 1930s and 1940s.
Data and Station Information for NEW YORK ( THE BATTERY)
The remarkable thing about these crazy people is that they imagine that they are backed by science, probably because a lot of people posing as scientists are lying to them.
h/t to Marc Morano and Tom Nelson
You can’t make this stuff up
Twitter / billmckibben: Extreme Greenland heat has …
Then he links to this on Neven’s site
In Greenland, it has been very hot over the inland ice in comparison to normal conditions. On July 11th at 15 UTC the recorded temperature at the Summit Camp weather station, which is located at the ice cap’s highest altitude (3200 metres), was 2.2 degrees Celsius. That is quite high for this height, particularly in light of the fact that ice has a relatively high albedo.
2.2 C is hot? Summit Camp is averaging -10C this month and went just barely over freezing for a few hours, like it does almost every summer.
This is what the McKibben/Neven meltdown looks like today
These people live in a constant world of hysterics – over absolutely nothing.
h./t to Marc Morano
Two reports came out recently making wildly inaccurate claims about sea level.
The first claimed that sea level was going to rise 12 inches in California over the next twenty years. Yet satellites show that sea level has been falling in California for the past twenty years. The authors are either incompetent or lying.
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The second claimed that sea level in the Northeast US was rising much faster than average for the planet. Yet satellites show that the entire US coastline has experienced below average (3mm/year) sea level rise over the past twenty years.
Once again, the authors are either incompetent or they are lying.
Twenty five years ago, Ronald Reagan stood in Berlin and said “tear down this wall”
In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: “We will bury you.” But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind–too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.
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President Obama sees things differently. He understands that the purpose of the Berlin Wall was to protect the East Germans from the unfairness and evils of “capital”ism.
While Obama was pretending to be a community organizer, Romney was busy making money and pumping up the US economy at Bain Capital.
Bain Capital Ventures is the Boston-based venture capital group of Bain Capital, whose affiliates manage over USD 50 billion of assets. Founded in 1984, Bain Capital and its affiliates have invested in over 230 companies with such notable successes as Doubleclick, Gartner Group, Taleo, Profitic Logic, m-Qube and Staples. Bain Capital’s history of investing in early stage companies dates back to 1984, having made over 120 venture-stage investments since inception. Since 2000, the dedicated venture group has focused exclusively on growth investments. Bain Capital Ventures currently has over USD 1 billion under management and invests in software, wireless, information-services, healthcare, technology-driven business services, retail, internet and consumer businesses. Bain Capital Ventures makes investments across all stages of a company’s growth: from providing seed capital through offering late stage growth equity.
LinkedIn Secures USD 53M of Funding Led by Bain Capital Ventures
