Real Climate Science

97% of scientists tell us that the poles are melting down at unprecedented rates and will drown us all.

Weather Forecast – Antarctica

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Global sea ice area is higher now than it was in 1980

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13 Apr 1925 – SUNSPOT NOTES. PERIOD TO END OF MARCH.

Global warming is our fault

Humans are now accepting that global warming is not a myth, but some still refuse to claim responsibility for what’s happening to our home. The evidence of global warming is irrefutable. The hole in the ozone layer is widening and is wreaking havoc on our temperature and weather patterns; not to mention allowing more radiation to reach us. Humans put 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year; there is no way that we are not responsible.

Global warming is our fault : Pantagraph.com | Central Illinois

March weather used to be much nicer in Illinois.

20 Mar 1925 – A DEVASTATING TORNADO. AMERICAN STATES SWEPT. BU…

By Michelle Washington
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 1, 2012
Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.

The victim’s friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location.

Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton.

It happened four blocks from where they work, here at The Virginian-Pilot.

Two weeks have passed since reporters Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami – friends to me and many others at the newspaper – were attacked on a Saturday night as they drove home from a show at the Attucks Theatre. They had stopped at a red light, in a crowd of at least 100 young people walking on the sidewalk. Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that’s when the beating began.

The next day, Forster searched Twitter for mention of the attack.

One post chilled him.

“I feel for the white man who got beat up at the light,” wrote one person.

“I don’t,” wrote another, indicating laughter. “(do it for trayvon martin)”

A beating at Church and Brambleton | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

US Economy Faces Risk of ‘Fiscal Cliff’: Fed Officials
Published: Tuesday, 1 May 2012 | 2:32 PM ET Text Size

Two Federal Reserve officials warned Tuesday that the U.S. could be heading for a “fiscal cliff” at year’s end

Milken Institute – US Business News  — US Faces Risk of ‘Fiscal Cliff’: Fed Officials – CNBC

 

According to Monbiot, you are already dead.

24 December 2002

Within as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable farming either continues to feed the world’s animals or it continues to feed the world’s people. It cannot do both.

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/dec/24/christmas.famine

You can talk with him about the afterlife tomorrow.

Join George Monbiot for a Google+ Hangout on the environment
This Wednesday, eight Guardian readers will get to take part in an intimate video chat on the environment with George Monbiot

Join George Monbiot for a Google+ Hangout on the environment | Environment | guardian.co.uk

I just watched the Wigan – Newcastle match. Great passing. Great shooting. Great defense. Next season will be interesting.

The new Bolsheviks are getting quite bold.

Global warming: New research emphasizes the role of economic growth

May 1, 2012

It’s a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we’ll either have to put the brakes on economic growth or transform the way the world’s economies work.

That’s the implication of an innovative University of Michigan study examining the evolution of atmospheric CO2, the most likely cause of global climate change.

The study, conducted by José Tapia Granados and Edward Ionides of U-M and Óscar Carpintero of the University of Valladolid in Spain, was published online in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Policy. It is the first analysis to use measurable levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide to assess fluctuations in the gas, rather than estimates of CO2 emissions, which are less accurate.

Global warming: New research emphasizes the role of economic growth

Spain has 24% unemployment thanks to their green economy. Greens hope to do the same for the US. This has nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with destroying capitalism.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Mann also threw a high, hard one at McCarver’s theory, saying that the carbon emissions behind climate change may even lower home runs. “If anything, anthropogenic carbon emissions and global warming should make the atmosphere slightly heavier, because we’re taking carbon that was trapped in the solid earth and releasing to the atmosphere (in the form of CO2), and a warmer atmosphere will hold more water vapor. Both CO2 and water vapor contribute (slightly) to the mass of the atmosphere.”

Is Global Warming Causing More Home Runs in Baseball?: Scientific American

McCarver is correct that a warmer atmosphere is less dense than a cooler atmosphere. The Ideal Gas Law  (PV = nRT) tells us that a higher temperature makes the volume increase, which means the air is less dense. That is why the troposphere is much thicker at the equator than at the poles. It is also why planes sometimes can’t take off from the Phoenix airport – the air isn’t dense enough on very hot days to provide the needed lift.

As far as Mann’s claim that more water vapor means a “heavier atmosphere” – that is just plain ignorant. The molar mass of H2O is 18g, compared to 28g for N2 and 32g for O2. If an H2O molecule displaces an N2 or O2 molecule, the density of the atmosphere decreases. Increasing CO2 by 0.0001 mole fraction isn’t going to do jack to the density of the atmosphere.

Of course, these are the same geniuses who believe that the missing heat sank to the bottom of the ocean.

The tide gauge at Kiptopeke Beach, Virginia shows sea level rising almost 100mm since 1993.

Data and Station Information for KIPTOPEKE BEACH

But satellite data there shows little or no change sea level since 1993.

The tide gauge data (blue below) has diverged from the satellite data (green below) at a rate of four millimetres per year since May, 1993

This indicates that the land under the tide gauge is sinking. Same problem all over the Gulf and East Coasts of the US.

New Jersey Governor Christie thinks he can stop the land from sinking by reducing CO2. He may be our next vice-president.