Real Climate Science

Hansen takes a cheap (and lame) shot at Hoerling, implying that posting a couple of paragraphs on Revkin’s blog is more disruptive than going to jail, giving thousands of interviews, altering temperature data over and over again, or wasting a month with Al Gore pretending to be observing Antarctica.

Some scientists may be able to spend their time blogging and e-mailing without a significant impact on their scientific productivity — I’m not one of them — but I do make an effort to make my papers understandable to a wide audience.

More on Extreme Weather and the Greenhouse Effect – NYTimes.com

 

Joe from Pickin’ Cherries posted these pictures of Waikiki Beach in 1930 and now. The beach looks bigger now than it did 80 years ago.

“Animals are on the run. Plants are migrating too.”

I wrote those words in 2006 to draw attention to the fact that climate change was already under way. People do not notice climate change because it is masked by day-to-day weather ?uctuations, and we reside in comfortable homes. Animals and plants, on the other hand, can survive only within certain climatic conditions, which are now changing. The National Arbor Day Foundation had to redraw its maps for the zones in
which tree species can survive, and animals are shifting to new habitats as well. Are these gradual changes in the wild consistent with dramatic scienti?c assessments of a crystallizing planetary emergency? Unfortunately, yes. Present examples only hint at the scale of the planetary emergency that climate studies reveal with increasing clarity

pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2008/2008_Hansen_1.pdf

Too bad Hansen wasn’t here 90 years ago to prevent the same thing from happening.

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/

He also could have stopped the planetary catastrophe in 1940

The Courier-Mail  Monday 6 May 1940

By far the largest number of local glaciers in north-east Greenland had receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers were nearing a catastrophe.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

And the one in 1947

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Having been driven out of the Rocky Mountains by global warming, relocated Pikas are rapidly adapting to their new environs in Scotland. Sir Alex Ferguson is rumoured to be starting a Pika plantation north of Glasgow.

Skiing and Snowboarding at Nevis Range Fort William, Scotland :: ski and snowboard resort

Last summer, Joe Romm and Andrew Dessler declared that Texas was in a permanent man-made drought, and that Rick Perry was pure evil for saying that the rains would return.

Intellicast – Weekly Precipitation in United States

Curious that they haven’t apologized for their world class stupidity.

Obama’s first act as the great unifying President, was to organize a lynch mob to go after AIG employees who received government funded bonuses – but he forgot to do that with Solyndra.

Bankruptcy judge approves Solyndra bonuses

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved close to $370,000 in bonuses for certain employees of Solyndra LLC, a solar panel manufacturer that received a half-billion dollar loan from the federal government before declaring bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy judge approves Solyndra bonuses – Boston.com

Fight Climate Change Deniers – Directors Needed

Date: 2012-04-17, 11:12AM MDT
Protect the Environment from Well Funded Polluters

Climate change deniers have powerful financial backers, overriding the lack of scientific proof. The Koch brothers billionaires have sunk nearly 25 million dollars into groups that attack climate change.They use their immense wealth to advocate for false science and their own financial gain.

We do not have their money, but we are activating people who are ready to stand up for future generations.

Grassroots Campaigns is looking for qualified candidates to run campaigns as Assistant Directors all across the United States partnering with leading environmental groups. Every campaign needs a strong leader who is dedicated and able to build and motivate a team to make an impact.

Fight Climate Change Deniers – Directors Needed

Richard Black at the BBC says that government global warming funding is one trillion dollars per decade, which would be four million percent of what this ad claims is available for skeptics. Anyone taking this job should demand their fair share of the trillion dollars.

h/t to dmmcmah

Extreme man-made global warming continues in the Arctic, with another day of extremely normal Arctic ice extent. Climate scientists have determined this year that mild weather in Chicago and normal conditions in the Arctic are due to the extreme influence of man-made CO2.

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All Products by Site – NOAA’s National Weather Service

Same mistake – normal rounded down, observed rounded up. I haven’t seen any even/odd pairs which contradict this rule.