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Not only did La Liga bomb out of the Champions League this week, but the Spanish green economy hit 24.4% unemployment

Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million

Unemployed people in Spain describe their hunt for work
Spanish unemployment has hit a new record high, official figures have shown.

The number of unemployed people reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, the national statistics agency said.

The figures came hours after rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Spanish sovereign debt.

Official figures due out on Monday are expected to confirm that Spain has fallen back into recession.

BBC News – Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million

Obama sees the Spanish economy as a model for the US to follow.

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Tasiilaq gets yet another heavy dump of snow. Leading experts tell us that Greenland is rapidly melting down and will drown us all.

Hendriks webcam i Tasiilaq

The Evening News – Google News Archive Search

John Holdren is Paul Ehrlich’s lifetime scientific partner, and Obama’s top science adviser.

…if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it’s going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.

– John Holdren

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090119_10989.mp3

http://select.nytimes.com

Ehrlich thinks that mentally disturbed people like himself should be allowed to snip other people.

Merced Sun-Star – Google News Archive Search

Author is worried that a longer growing season and less severe winters would be devastating to Canada’s economy.

OTTAWA — Canadian businesses are putting their bottom line and the country’s economic health at risk by neglecting to prepare for anticipated impacts of a changing climate, says a new report released Friday by a federal government-funded advisory panel.

The study, produced by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, says that securities regulators also have a role to play in requiring better information from businesses for the public and investors.

“Despite guidance to the effect already issued by the Canadian Securities Administrators, climate change risk disclosure in financial filings is limited, at best,” said the report, entitled Facing the Elements: Business resilience in a changing climate. “Better enforcement of disclosure requirements is necessary, as are effective approaches for companies to demonstrate the value of climate change risk management and adaptation actions to investors.”

Canadian businesses unprepared for global warming, panel says

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008

In 2008 Mark Serreze declared that the Arctic was in a death spiral

Arctic Ice in “Death Spiral,” Is Near Record Low
Mason Inman
for National Geographic News
September 17, 2008

The Arctic Ocean’s sea ice has shrunk to its second smallest area on record, close to 2007’s record-shattering low, scientists report.

The ice is in a “death spiral” and may disappear in the summers within a couple of decades, according to Mark Serreze, an Arctic climate expert at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Arctic Ice in “Death Spiral,” Is Near Record Low

In 2008, James Hansen declared that we were at a tipping point due to ice loss at both poles which was going to decimate life on the planet. (Note that Romm describes Hansen as being plural.)

Since the same date in 2008, Arctic ice has increased by more than 15%. Global sea ice area is fifth highest on record for the date. The breathtaking ignorance of the experts is indeed breathtaking.

The graph below shows April 1 to April 1, which was the peak day in 2012.

The only recent years with more ice than 2012 were 1982, 1979, 2009 and 1987.

Climate experts tell us that global warming causes massive sea ice loss at both poles, in the form of a “death spiral.” They also say that skeptics are “breathtakingly ignorant” about sea ice.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

It is always good to look at the raw data before our friends have had a chance to tamper with it.

State College Pennsylvania has had seven July days over 100 degrees. Four were in the 1930s, and six were below 350 ppm CO2. As you can see in the graph above, the 1930s was by far the hottest decade, and the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act had no effect.

Would we expect Harvard researchers to actually do some research before publishing?