Real Climate Science

Greens long for the happy times – before CO2 destroyed civilization.

Days Out: Oxford Castle – UK – Travel – The Independent

High winds have picked up and the visibility is too poor for good golf. At -11F, temperatures are 100 degrees warmer than Antarctica.

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Al is still thawing out from his Antarctic meltdown trip, but not too soon for a repeat performance.

History | Weather Underground

He is still in shock about Antarctica, and is now back to making up nonsense about the Arctic.

Arctic Death Spiral May 25, 2012 : 2:47 PM

Climate Central paints a scary picture:
“That’s the simple version of the story, but things look even worse when you dig into the details. For one thing, all that open water does re-freeze each winter, but it freezes into a relatively thin layer known as seasonal, or first-year ice. Because it’s so thin, first-year ice tends to melt back quickly the following season, giving the ocean a chance to warm things up even more in what National Snow and Ice Data Center director Mark Serreze has called a “death spiral” that could lead to ice-free Arctic summers by 2030.”

“But it’s worse than that, says a new analysis by scientists at the U.S. Army’s Cold Regions Research Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. “First-year ice is not just thinner, ” said Donald Perovich, lead author of a report in Geophysical Research Letters, in an interview. “We’re also beginning to realize it has other properties.” The most important: new ice is less reflective than old ice, for most of the year, anyway. It absorbs more heat from the Sun, which means it doesn’t just melt faster: it actually speeds up its own melting.”

Al’s Journal : Arctic Death Spiral

h/t to Marc Morano

The 1990 IPCC report was quite clear that there was a global MWP.

I propose a competition between California and Texas. California runs for one year completely off green energy, and Texas runs for one year completely off fossil fuels.

At the end of the year, we can see if there is anyone left in California, and if the people who emigrated away are still left wing morons.

The failure in chief is spending the week criticizing Romney for being a successful businessman.

Feb. 2009
Solyndra CEO suggests energy secretary help showcase company

July 2009
DOE staffer criticizes Chu for implying Solyndra has already won loan.

Aug. 2009
White House aide pushes OMB for final decision on Solyndra loan.

March 2010
Auditors raise concerns about whether Solyndra can continue operating.

March 24, 2010
Obama donor warns White House about president visiting Solyndra.

March 26, 2010
Obama visits Solyndra, touts it as model of clean tech and job creation.

Dec. 2010
Solyndra executives learn that the company is out of cash.

Aug. 31, 2011
Solyndra shuts down, lays off most workers.

Solyndra scandal timeline – The Washington Post

Joe D’Aleo sent over this picture of the critical Yamal tree. The image shows external humidity factors – which may be influencing its growth patterns.

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Fossil fuels are what makes our modern lifestyle possible. Life was very short and completely sucked for most people before the days of fossil fuels.

I would be embarrassed to be associated with Chevy Volt, or Solyndra or a wind farm that kills thousands of Golden Eagles.

Green – because someone puked all over it.

Living Green Magazine

This of course didn’t compare with the ferocious 35 MPH winds which caused Obama to evacuate Martha’s Vineyard last August.

The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635:

One such storm was known as the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635, striking the Jamestown settlement and Massachusetts bay colony in that year. The storm had a storm track similar to the Great Atlantic hurricane of 1944 which was parallel to the coast.

The eye of the storm evidently passed between Plymouth and Boston, and winds were estimated at 140mph, a deadly Category 4 hurricane. In Narragansett bay the tide was 14 feet above the ordinary tide and drowned many native people. There was severe damage to houses along Plymouth with complete blowdowns in rural areas of Eastern Massachusetts.

New England Hurricanes 

Note in the post below this one, that 1635 was the coldest year ever ….. Global cooling must have loaded Hansen’s dice.