“Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains
Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists’ attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a “time capsule” into the past”
Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains | New Scientist
The EPA shows a large increase in US burn area.
Climate Change Indicators: Wildfires | US EPA
The National Climate Assessment shows the same thing.
Full Report | Fourth National Climate Assessment
They mysteriously forgot to graph all the years before 1983, when burn acreage was much higher.
National Interagency Fire Center
“In the conterminous United States during the preindustrial period (1500- 1800), an average of 145 million acres burned annually. Today only 14 million acres (federal and non-federal) are burned annually by wildland fire from all ignition sources.”
It has been fifteen years since the National Trust predicted a Mediterranean climate for Britain.
“National Trust campaign highlights how gardens will look if global warming brings Mediterranean weather to Britain”
24 March 2010
From The Onion in 2008
On June 17, 1917 it was 115F at Santa Barbara, California, and Ojai and Carpinteria burned to the ground.
Jun 17, 1917, page 2 – The Morning Press at Newspapers.com
Jun 18, 1917, page 9 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com
July 12, 1976
“The weather seems to have gone berserk lately. The tennis courts at Wimbledon in England have not been as parched since the 1920’s. The same is true for croplands in northern France, the Soviet Union, Minnesota and the Dakotas. It’s so dry, brush fires have started several weeks early in California, and water is being rationed.
They believe that the earth’s climate has moved into a cooling cycle, which means highly erratic weather for decades to come. And that, they say, has profound implications—most of them bad—for world food production, economic stability and social order.”
Climatologists Forecast Stormy Economic Future – The New York Times
March 8, 1977
“Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., warned here today that drought?stricken California was “facing a disaster of immeasurable magnitude.”
“Miliband’s ‘reckless obsession’ with renewables leaves consumers with record bills”
Ed Miliband’s ‘reckless obsession’ with renewables leaves consumers with record bills
“according to recent reports, renewable energy is generally considered cheaper than traditional fossil fuels”
It has been 21 years since the Guardian announced the end of skiing in Scotland.
“Scottish ski industry will cease to exist within 20 years.”
Fri 13 Feb 2004
Global warming forces sale of Scottish winter sports resorts | UK news | The Guardian
Cairngorm Webcams – All Live HD Cams – OnTheSnow
Fifty years ago, global cooling was causing collapse of the Gulf Stream. Now. global warming is causing collapse of the Gulf Stream.
“Pack ice around Iceland is becoming a serious navigation hindrance to an extent unmatched since a “little ice age” in the 17th and 18th centuries.
England’s growing season has shortened a week to two weeks since 1950 and the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12 per cent since 1964.
North Atlantic surface waters have been cooling for the last 30 years. The tepid Gulf Stream, a major warming influence on Western European weather, has retreated south about a sixth as far as it did at the height of the last full-fledged ice age, 20,000 years ago, according to ocean bed fossil records.”
Jun 15, 1975, page 250 – The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com
“Yes, global warming is considered a significant factor in the potential collapse of the Gulf Stream”
June 24, 2008
“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would.”
Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.
Longtime global warming skeptic Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., citing a recent poll, said in a statement, “Hansen, (former Vice President) Gore and the media have been trumpeting man-made climate doom since the 1980s. But Americans are not buying it.”
But Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., committee chairman, said, “Dr. Hansen was right. Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet.”
The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search
There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice minimum, mean or maximum extent since then.
https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/S_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv
