The BBC complains that claim change deniers are evil men, but they may have not thought their position through very clearly – given that the corrupt men are on the other side of the debate.
Climate experts on how to reform the IPCC | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Hansen doesn’t go far enough. We should go back to the CO2 levels of the last decade of the 19th century, which brought record heat, fire, tornadoes and hurricanes.
The hottest decade in Arizona was the 1890s.
New Mexico’s worst forest fire occurred in the 1890s.
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The deadliest tornado season was 1897
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The deadliest hurricane, and massive forest fires occurred on the same day in 1900.
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Not to mention a whole decade of spectacular weather disasters.
Katherine has been misleading the flock about Texas weather, and is getting her just rewards. The hot pink circle sits over Katherine – the only place in Texas or Oklahoma still experiencing drought. I have been watching the radar recently, and Lubbock keeps getting missed by a mile or two. The area west of Lubbock actually got slammed with heavy rain yesterday, but the NOAA map seems to have missed it.
h/t to hauntingthelibrary and Marc Morano
April 28 was the last update at CT. I hope everything is OK.
I noticed something in GISS attempt to cover up their Iceland fraud from a couple of months ago. The graph below blinks between the original non-homogenized data, and current non-homogenized data. Note that they have now wiped out the well documented warming prior to 1940.
This is supposed to be the original temperature record. How can the data change ex post facto?
This isn’t quite as bad as their original fraud, which showed a non-existent warming trend over the last 90 years.
NOAA’s extreme weather expert, Martin Hoerling, slammed Hansen on Andy Revkin’s blog yesterday.
“Over the next several decades, the Western United States and the semi-arid region from North Dakota to Texas will develop semi-permanent drought, with rain, when it does come, occurring in extreme events with heavy flooding. Economic losses would be incalculable. More and more of the Midwest would be a dust bowl. California’s Central Valley could no longer be irrigated. Food prices would rise to unprecedented levels.”
He doesnt define “several decades,” but a reasonable assumption is that he refers to a period from today through mid-century. I am unaware of any projection for “semi-permanent” drought in this time frame over the expansive region of the Central Great Plains. He implies the drought will be due to a lack of rain (except for the brief, and ineffective downpours). I am unaware of indications, from model projections, for a material decline in mean rainfall. Indeed, that region has seen a general increase in rainfall over the long term during most seasons (certainly no material decline). Also, for the warm season when evaporative loss is especially effective, the climate of the central Great Plains has not become materially warmer (perhaps even cooled) since 1900. In other words, climate conditions in the growing season of the Central Great Plains are today not materially different from those existing 100 years ago. This observational fact belies the expectations from climate simulations and, in truth, our science lacks a good explanation for this discrepancy.
The Hansen piece is policy more than it is science, to be sure, and one can read it for the former. But facts should, and do, matter to some. The vision of a Midwest Dustbowl is a scary one, and the author appears intent to instill fear rather than reason.
The article makes these additional assertions:
“The global warming signal is now louder than the noise of random weather…”
This is patently false. Take temperature over the U.S. as an example. The variability of daily temperature over the U.S. is much larger than the anthropogenic warming signal at the time scales of local weather. Depending on season and location, the disparity is at least a factor of 5 to 10.
Less than three weeks of meteorological spring remaining. It was -42C in the center of the Greenland Ice Sheet last night. Hansen continues to talk about a Greenland meltdown.
Still no children at the playground in the capital.
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Possible yellow snow in Tasiilaq.
Zwally said that the Arctic may be ice free this summer, but Maslowski gave it until next summer.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Earlier this year, GISS cooled the past way down in Iceland, despite the fact that both the Icelandic Met Office and The UK Met Office agreed with the original data.
Today, GISS partially corrected the problem, thanks to bloggers and Mark Johnson pointing out their ridiculous data manipulation. Paul Matthews sent yesterday and today’s images over – seen in the blink comparator below. Still way off the mark, and still not up to speed for US government plausible deniability standards.
GISS has no valid reason to be tampering with this data. If the present refuses to get warmer, then the past must become cooler.
