Real Climate Science

According to NCDC,

• 1933 was the hottest June on record in the US.
• 1936 was the hottest July on record in the US.
• 1936 was the hottest summer on record in the US
• The summers of 1930-1939 averaged the hottest of any decade since the start of the database in 1895.

Even with all the cheating, bumping post 2000 temperature upwards by more than half a degree, and knocking a tenth of a degree off the 1930s – the 1930s still stands out as the hottest summers.

Next time James Hansen claims that the recent warm spring is proof of global warming, please remind him that he has no idea what he is talking about, and is hurting lot of people with his incompetence.

Trends in Carbon Dioxide

Since 1960, the annual increase in atmospheric CO2 content has more than doubled.

Scenario C would be the horizontal line y = 0 since the year 2000.
Scenario B would be the horizontal line y = 1.5 since 1988.
Scenario A is based on increasing annual emissions over time, and matches the red line above.

Scenario A is the forecast which temperature trends need to be compared against.

If breweries would brew pre-flattened beer², and deliver it by electric vehicles¹ – they would greatly reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Only people who live within 40 miles of a brewery would be able to purchase beer.

¹Budweisier would also be able to deliver by Clydesdale, if they corked the beasts to minimize farting.

²In England, pre-flattened beer is called “ale” and tastes like it came from the Clydsedale.

Rising sea levels a slow 7.7 billion dollar disaster
Sunday, 17 June 2012 06:00

The CCRAC estimates between 18,700 and 28,900 residential buildings in WA to be at risk from a 1.1 metre sea rise, representing $4.9 to $7.7 billion. Image: Stuart Sevastos

SPEAKING as part of the UWA Oceans Institute Dialogue Series, Dr Robert J Nicholls warns a one-metre rise in sea levels could have as great an impact on coastlines as fast onset disasters such as a tsunami.

While the University of Southampton Visiting Fellow would like more international cooperation on climate change, mitigation’s impact on the oceans would be limited.

“Mitigation will reduce and delay sea level rise, but some climate-induced sea level rise will occur irrespective of future emissions,” he says.

Rising sea levels a slow 7.7 billion dollar disaster

This little Dutch boy thinks he can stop sea level rise, and Prince Charles wants to be a tampon.

I vote we send this genius to the beach in Japan or Indonesia for the next tsunami, and he can see how that compares to the non-existent sea level rise WA has been experiencing over the past few decades.

The climate scientific method is

1. Ignore real world data. Replace it with hand waving estimates made by a flaming nutjob.
2. Don’t do any analysis to see if your proposed mitigation would actually have any effect.
3. Go straight to the press with your half-assed analysis, and try to scare people with insulting analogies that make no sense to anyone with an IQ over 12.

docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/061/mwr-061-06-c1.pdf

Every region of the lower 48 states was above 100F, including 113F in Nebraska.

docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/061/mwr-061-06-0181.pdf

China’s carbon emissions could be nearly 20% higher than previously thought, a new analysis of official Chinese data showed on Sunday, suggesting the pace of global climate change could be even faster than currently predicted.

Climate change rate could be faster than thought, study suggests | Environment | guardian.co.uk

These morons are incapable of distinguishing between CO2 and climate – possibly the stupidest group of people in human history.

A more sensible interpretation is : despite rapidly rising CO2 emissions (above scenario A) global temperatures have been constant for 15 years. This indicates that CO2 sensitivity is zero, and James Hansen needs to be retired.

His father wants to be a killer virus “to reduce human population.” He aspires to be a tampon.

The Prince of Wales has warned of the “catastrophic” consequences of inaction on issues such as climate change, at a UN sustainability conference in Brazil.

Prince Charles said he had “watched in despair” at the slow pace of progress on the “critical issues of the day,” in a pre-recorded video address in Rio.

He urged world leaders to adopt a more integrated approach to issues such as climate change and food security.

Waiting for the worst to happen would be “too late to act at all”, he said.

BBC News – Rio+20: Prince Charles in climate change warning

Don’t you love being lectured about morality by Charles,  Al, Arnie, James Edwards and Newt?

The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser  Wednesday 11 March 1846

11 Mar 1846 – ON THE CHANGE OF CLIMATE. 

Ever since Captain Cook introduced the SUV to Australia, CO2 (produced by white men) has been ruining their climate.

One particularly useful approach to uncover local ecological histories has been to use dendrochronological (tree-ring) methods to reconstruct patterns of fire occurrence and forest change over the last several hundred years, primarily in the Jemez Mountains but also in the Sangre de Cristos. Old trees can tell many stories if one knows how to decipher the information contained in their wood. This tree-ring work is being accomplished through a cooperative effort involving the U.S. Geological Survey’s Jemez Mountains Field Station (located at Bandelier National Monument), Professor Tom Swetnam’s group at theLaboratory of Tree-Ring Research (University of Arizona), and the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests. Since 1988 we have determined over 4,000 prehistoric fire dates from fire scars on more than 550 sampled trees, snags, logs, and stumps at 30 sites in the Jemez Mountains. In the Sangre de Cristos we have about 170 prehistoric fire dates from over 50 sampled trees at four sites. Elevations of sampled sites ranged between about 6,500 and 11,000 ft; vegetation varied correspondingly from piñon-juniper woodlands up through ponderosa pine to mixed conifer and spruce forests. Each scar is dated to its precise year of formation, and in most cases even the season in which the fire occurred was determined. Fire dates extend back to 1422 AD in the Jemez Mts. and to 1230 AD in the Sangre de Cristos.

Where Have All the Grasslands Gone?” (part 3 of 5)

I took this picture an hour ago from the top of the ridge  behind the CSU football stadium. If you look closely, you can see a wisp of smoke. (Don’t worry – I rode my bicycle and didn’t contribute a lot of CO2.)

This mega-fire is about 2% the size of the 1890 fire, which burned from Santa Fe well up into Colorado along the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Experts also tell us that the Gila Wilderness fire currently burning in New Mexico is the largest in New Mexico’s history, despite the fact that the 1890 fire was much larger.

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