Real Climate Science

June 24, 2008

“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would.”

Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.

Longtime global warming skeptic Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., citing a recent poll, said in a statement, “Hansen, (former Vice President) Gore and the media have been trumpeting man-made climate doom since the 1980s. But Americans are not buying it.”

But Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., committee chairman, said, “Dr. Hansen was right. Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet.”

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice minimum, mean or maximum extent since then.

https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/S_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv

In 2018, CNN said President Trump was being ridiculous for criticizing California’s handling of wildfires.

Trump’s ‘ridiculous’ tweet about California wildfires | CNN

Surface Air Temperature (GFS 10-day forecast)

So far this month, January has been the 14th coldest on record in the US, after NOAA predicted a warm January.

Climate Prediction Center – OFFICIAL 30-Day Forecasts

The Associated Press documents that Biden’s green policies failed, and is upset that President Trump doesn’t want to pay $7 billion for seven EV chargers.

“Last year set a record for high temperatures across the mainland United States, with the nation also pummeled by a barrage of tornadoes and destructive hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a report Friday.

The announcement came as Europe’s climate monitor confirmed 2024 was the hottest year globally, with temperatures so extreme that the planet breached a critical climate threshold for the first time ever.

President-elect Donald Trump, a vocal climate skeptic, is just days away from taking office and has pledged to expand fossil fuel production — the main driver of human-caused warming — while rolling back the green policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden.”

2024 warmest year on record for mainland US: agency

“Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years”

The US planned to install thousands of EV chargers. Only 7 have been built. – The Washington Post

“Lisa J. Graumlich, who examines the ring patterns of foxtail pine trees and western junipers in the Sierra Nevada, has compiled a detailed record of the year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation over the last thousand years.

She has seen in the North American trees the feathery but unmistakable signatures of the Medieval Warm Period, a era from 1100 to 1375 A.D. when, according to European writers of the time and other sources, the climate was so balmy that wine grapes flourished in Britain and the Vikings farmed the now-frozen expanse of Greenland; and the Little Ice Age, a stretch of abnormally frigid weather lasting roughly from 1450 to 1850. A Crucial Question

“We can now see that these were global climate phenomena, not regional temperature variations,” she said. “The question is, how did we get those warmer temperatures during pre-industrial times, and what can we learn from those conditions about what is going on today?”

By her analysis, the 20th century has seen more exaggerated swings in moisture than during any comparable period in the last millennium. She and others at the laboratory are particularly concerned because the tree rings clearly declare that in the Western United States, the years 1937 through 1986 have been abnormally wet compared with past centuries — and these are the years of the greatest immigration to the supposedly golden coastal states.”

In Unexpected Places, Clues to Ancient and Future Climate; Warming? Tree Rings Say Not Yet – The New York Times

“In Unexpected Places, Clues to Ancient and Future Climate; Warming? Tree Rings Say Not YetDec. 1, 1992

Fires also leave revealing scars in the tree tissue, and if enough trees in a wide enough region prove to bear fire scars at the same time, researchers can guess the year was extremely dry, for aridity invites a blaze’s spread. Studying fire marks in giant sequoias, Thomas W. Swetnam and co-workers have discovered that major conflagrations sweeping across many mountain ranges in California and the Southwest were a long a common feature, occurring at least twice a decade and apparently linked to oceanic currents much farther south, the so-called La Nina events that often result in droughts.

“Finding this synchronicity in fire events was a big surprise to us,” he said. “It tells me that Western landscapes in presettlement era were very smoky places.”

But by the end of the 19th century, settlers seeking to carve out grazing terrain for their livestock had cleared away much of the forest undergrowth that had served as fodder for the fires, and oscillating fire cycles became a thing of the past. So, too, did the long-term vitality and diversity of many forests, and park and wilderness managers are now seeking Dr. Swetnam’s advice on how to recapitulate, in a controlled manner, the synchronous infernos of the past. “We made the forests safe for cattle,” said Dr. Swetnam, “and now we must make them safe for fires once again.”

In Unexpected Places, Clues to Ancient and Future Climate; Warming? Tree Rings Say Not Yet – The New York Times

Climate Reanalyzer

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24, 1938—(U.P.)—Eight brush fires, fanned by high, dry winds from the Nevada desert, were out of control in Southern California today after burning over 50,000 acres of land and destroying more than 600 homes.”

Nov 24, 1938, page 1 – The Montreal Star at Newspapers.com

October 24, 1935 Malibu fire.

Oct 24, 1935, page 1 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com

In 2007, scientists said Mt Snowdon in Wales would be snow free by 2020

“Snowdon will be snow-free in 13 years, scientists warn”

“The warnings come three months after Scottish scientists warned that their country’s ice-capped peaks would become a thing of the past.”

Snowdon will be snow-free in 13 years, scientists warn – Climate Change, Environment – The Independent

This is what Mt. Snowdon looks like today.

Snowdon Webcam

This is Scotland today :

Cairngorm Webcams – All Live HD Cams – OnTheSnow

It has been 25 years since experts announced the end of snow in Britain.

“Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past”
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,”

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent