Real Climate Science

I ride my bike everywhere, and normally in shorts and a T-shirt – so I notice changes in temperature. One thing that has become abundantly obvious is that temperatures near asphalt are much higher than in open space.

I just did an experiment in Fort Collins, Colorado at 1:30am.  It is a full moon and the air is dead calm. I took a bike ride with a thermometer, which I have permanently affixed to the bike. It turns out that temperatures are 7F cooler in the open space region below, less than 0.2 miles away from the parking lot of a shopping center.

As soon as I rode away from the intersection, temperatures felt much cooler. This was not an isolated incident – I feel it consistently on clear, calm nights.

Hansen’s assumptions about heat islands are based on population, but I believe that the bulk of the effect occurs when a single asphalt road is put in place. Much of the claimed warming during the 20th century was likely due to the appearance of asphalt roads in rural regions.

Muller’s claims about UHI are similarly flawed, as they are based on population. Comparing large cities vs. small towns is largely meaningless, because all it takes is one asphalt road to produce significant warming.

Over on the CSU campus 2.3 miles away, temperatures were much warmer – 57.8 degrees at the official Fort Collins weather station. This station has not moved for 140 years, and shows a lot of warming during that time. It is now located in the middle of a bus parking lot.

I don’t usually do this, but here goes.

1. Chelsea squeaks past Liverpool 2-1
2. City beats Newcastle 4-1
3. Bayern Munich humiliates Chelsea.

“Discussing climate change is not an intellectual luxury, but a reality,” “All of the industrialised countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”

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A warming Arctic climate may be contributing to the declining population of guillemots.

On average Alaska has warmed by about 4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 150 years. There are widespread consequences such as melting glaciers and insect-devastated forest in response to this temerature change. Scientists say Alaska is like a canary in a coal mine, foreshadowing the types of changes we can expect for the rest of the world.

Disappearing sea ice is one reason the Arctic is warming more than lower latitudes, because white Arctic ice normally reflects the sun’s heat into space, whereas dark, open water absorbs heat.

Scientific American Frontiers . Hot Times in Alaska. Canary in a Coal Mine | PBS

Actually, Alaska broke their all time record for sea ice this year, and all of the warming which occurred in Alaska happened at the PDO shift in 1976. Temperatures have dropped 2.5 degrees since 2005.

Considering just a linear trend can mask some important variability characteristics in the time series. The figure (above) shows clearly that this trend is non-linear: a linear trend might have been expected from the fairly steady observed increase of CO2

Temperature Change in Alaska

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One of these two authors is considered a terrorist. The other is considered a respectable journalist.

1. “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro?birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.”

2. “Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.”

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Tide gauges show that sea level in Manhattan is rising about 4mm per year and accelerating.

Data and Station Information for NEW YORK ( THE BATTERY)

But satellite data shows little sea level rise at that same location, and has been flat since 1998.

The graph below superimposes the data from the two graphs above. Essentially all of the claimed “sea level rise” (red line) is actually subsidence.

The map below superimposes lower Manhattan in 1660 on modern day lower Manhattan. Most of the land in modern lower Manhattan is fill dirt. The tide gauge is locate on fill and is subsiding.

Global warming geniuses in government tell us that we can stop subsidence by buying a hybrid or imposing a tax.

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Manhattan

Global Warming’s Impact On Plants Greater Than Predicted

For over two decades, researchers have been conducting experiments that are designed to mimic the effects of rising temperatures on the rates at which plants first begin to leaf and flower each spring. However, a new study has found that that these models are inaccurate, and that the actual impact of global warming on plants may cause the flowering and leafing of plants to occur up to eight times faster than the models predicted.

For many years, researchers assumed that plants would respond in much the same way in experiments that simulate global warming as they would to changes in temperature occurring in the natural environment. To test this assumption, Dr Elizabeth Wolkovich, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and her colleagues compared the data on the timing of the flowering and leafing of plants found in observational studies to data based on warming experiments.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112528250/

 

Two years ago, Suzuki told us that poor skiing conditions in British Columbia were your fault for driving a car.

British Columbia had their best ski season on record this year. Suzuki has been curiously silent about this.

If a glacial front is rapidly retreating, that proves man made global warming. If a glacier front is rapidly pushing forward, that also proves man made global warming. No matter what a glacier does, it is caused by man made global warming.

Data sheds light on speed of Greenland’s glaciers
By Mark Kinver
Environment reporter, BBC News

Ice that is deposited into the sea by glaciers contributes to sea-level rise

As a result, the ice rivers may be contributing “significantly less” to sea-level rise than had been thought.

Previous studies had estimated that the nation’s glaciers would double their flow by 2010 and continue to maintain that speed, they explained.

But the team, writing in Science, said the glaciers could eventually flow faster than earlier studies estimated.

The team of US researchers based their findings on data stretching back to 2000-2001, collected from more than 200 outlet glaciers.

“So far, on average, we are seeing about a 30% speed-up in 10 years,” observed lead author Twila Moon from the University of Washington, Seattle.

This is less than earlier projections, one of which estimated that glacial flow would increase by 100% between 2000 and 2010 before stabilising at that new velocity.

BBC News – Data sheds light on speed of Greenland’s glaciers