Real Climate Science

Since Time Magazine geniuses wrote that article a few days ago, much of the drought region has received 4-16 inches of rain. (Except for Lubbock, College Station, and Austin.)

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Precipitation/Weekly.aspx

Since the early 1950s, snow accumulation has declined 60 percent and winter seasons have shortened in some areas of the Cascade Range in Oregon and Washington.

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/f101.asp

It is OK to lie when you are saving the planet.

Usually by August, most of the snow on Mount Rainier, the sleeping volcanic giant here, has long since melted. The meadows of wildflowers are abloom, and hikers galore are tramping along the trails.

But this year, temperatures have been colder than usual, keeping record mounds of old snow lying around. This has discouraged everyone, from the most rigorous climbers to backpackers, hikers and Sunday drivers

http://www.nytimes.com/

Are hurricanes getting worse because of global warming?
Models suggest that there may be fewer, but more powerful, hurricanes as the world warms

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

A polar blast has hit New Zealand, bringing freezing temperatures and the heaviest snowfall in 40 years.

Snow is even predicted to fall on the hills around Auckland in what meteorologists are describing as a once-in-a-lifetime storm.

Schools across the country have been closed for the day and most airports are at a standstill.

The bitterly cold southerly blast has now brought snow to most of New Zealand, closing roads and some airports and cutting power to thousands of homes.

Snow has made roads impassable in many areas of both islands.

MetService head forecaster Peter Kreft told the New Zealand Herald the polar blast was “of the order of a 50-year” event and warned it could last for several more days.

“It’s a once-in-many-decades event. We are probably looking at something like, in terms of extent and severity, maybe 50 years,” he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/

China plans to grow CO2 emissions by 25% over the next four years, and the Guardian calls it a “low-carbon plan.”

China to cap energy use in national low-carbon plan

Reuters reported that officials have settled on a total energy cap of 4.1bn tonnes of coal equivalent (TCE) by 2015 – a level more than 25% higher than last year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

China has learned that many western journalists are uneducated fools, incapable of thinking for themselves – and will believe whatever they are told.

The pictures below were taken near the big fire SE Arizona suffered in June/July. Over the last month, the monsoon rains have greened things up quite a bit.

http://www.wunderground.com/

Normal January high temperature in Melbourne is in the 70s.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

I can take a guess how these scumbags feel about global warming.

(Reuters) – Berlin’s mayor said on Saturday he was appalled that some Germans were nostalgic for the Berlin Wall and supported a newly fashionable leftist view that there were legitimate reasons for building it in 1961.
At a somber ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s construction, Mayor Klaus Wowereit, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff paid tribute to the 136 people killed trying to get over the Wall to West Berlin.

Wowereit said the Wall, toppled in 1989, should serve as a reminder of freedom and democracy around the world. Church bells peeled while trains and traffic came to a standstill at noon across Berlin for a moment of silence for the victims.

“We don’t have any tolerance for those who nostalgically distort the history of the Berlin Wall and Germany’s division,” Wowereit said at the ceremony in front of a small section of the Wall recently rebuilt for posterity.

“The Wall was part of a dictatorship,” he said. “And it’s alarming that even today some people argue there were good reasons to build the Wall. No! There’s no legitimate reason nor justification for violating human rights and for killings.”

http://www.reuters.com/