The beauty of recession. At the cost of only 9% unemployment, the US has reduced global temperature rise by 0.00001 degrees.
Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006
Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006 | The Vancouver Observer
h/t to Marc Morano
Romm says it is almost 80 degrees in Greenland
But they are using that new kind of snow, which doesn’t melt until it hits 100 degrees.
Weather Webcams | Weather Underground
Twenty eight degrees exaggeration is close enough for government work.
Julia’s tax has shown immediate benefits to the climate, even before it is in place.
h/t to Bill Pounder
A hard-hitting campaign from a new group called Forecast the Facts persuaded many of the corporations backing Heartland to withdraw US $825,000 in funding;
That $825,000 is almost as much as the University of Colorado received to study the effects of global warming on Prairie Dogs, in a place which hasn’t recorded any warming for 70 years.
But damn, it’s a hard fight, up against a ton of money and a ton of inertia. Eventually, climate denial will “lose”, because physics and chemistry are not intimidated even by Lord Monckton. But timing is everything – if he and his ilk, a crew of certified planet wreckers, delay action past the point where it can do much good, they’ll be able to claim one of the epic victories in political history – one that will last for geological epochs.
Earth to Bill – the graph below shows recent temperature and CO2 changes on a geological timescale. McKibben has absolutely no idea what he is talking about, which is why he is welcomed on so many University campuses.
Our top scientists generated this graph, which shows that the area of summer melt in Greenland is faster than it was in 1981.
Arctic Report Card – Greenland Ice Sheet – Box, et al.
Of course, they didn’t bother to mention that they started their “normal” period right at the coldest years of the ice age scare.
Had they used the 1930-1950 average as their normal period, their graph would have been no use to Joe Romm.
North and South Polar ice extent are both right at 12 million km² and both right at “normal”
Hansen predicted massive ice loss at both poles, particularly in the Ross Sea – which has gained a substantial amount of ice over the last 30 years.
www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/downloads/Challenge_chapter2.pdf
In 2010, the press corps(e) went completely hysterical about an ice cube which broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland.
August 13th, 2010
Greenland ice melts at record pace
In what he calls ‘a manifestation of warming’, Dr Richard Bates who helps monitor the Greenland ice said he was ‘amazed’ to see such a huge area of ice break off the Petermann glacier. Reported in the Telegraph a team from the University of St Andrews said that a huge 106 square mile chunk of ice had broken away at the start of August. This is the largest ever seen to come from Greenland. The US National Ice Center has named the iceberg the ‘Petermann Ice Island’. They also report that the Petermann glacier, which is located in North West Greenland to the East of the Nares Strait and one of the largest in the Northern hemisphere, has retreated back to a level not observed since 1962.
Of course, they didn’t bother to follow up in 2011.
9 of 39 glaciers grew in area relative to the end of the 2010 melt season. These nine include some of the most productive marine-terminating glaciers, in terms of ice volume discharge. The top ice area gainers included Petermann glacier (+13 km2)
The Great Fire of 1910 was a wildfire which burned about three million acres (12,000 km², approximately the size of Connecticut) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana
24 Aug 1910 – FOREST INFERNO AMERICAN WOODS BLAZING TERRIBLE L…
Twenty-four hours of sunlight is really hotting the place up.
Weather Forecast Summit, Greenland | Summit Weather | Wunderground
When Hillary or Al travel on a global warming fact finding trip, they are inevitably met with record cold. Al nearly froze his chakras off in Antarctica a few months ago. The important thing is that the alternative narrative is written before the trip is made.
Meanwhile, Bill slams Obama for being the lying socialist that he is.
