Real Climate Science

Al Gore Rants Against Global Warming Doubters

http://www.ibtimes.com/

Speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

No doubt this year’s drought is much worse than the century long drought of the 12th century.

Medieval Drought and Temperatures in Southwestern North
America

The medieval period was characterized by widespread and regionally severe, sustained drought in western North America.

Proxy data documenting drought indicate centuries-long periods of increased aridity across the central and western U.S. In the Colorado and Sacramento River basins, reconstructions show decadal periods of persistently below average flows during several intervals including much of the 9th, 12th, and 13th centuries . The 12th century episode, also reflected in precipitation and drought extent, was particularly severe and persistent and was associated with a peak in solar irradiance and nadir in volcanic activity.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/12/06/0911197107.full.pdf+html

Being a lefty means never having to tell the truth about anything. They never had floods or fires before.

By Lisa Anderson

NEW YORK (AlertNet) – North American Indian tribes, who have lived close to the land for generations, are disproportionately affected by climate change, according to a study released by the National Wildlife Federation.

“Extreme weather events can be devastating for tribes, many of whom already suffer from lack of resources,” said Amanda Staudt, a scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, during a conference call on the report.

Staudt noted that there have been eight weather and climate disasters in the first half of 2011, including flooding of the Missouri River in May, which left much of the Crow nation under water, and June wildfires in Arizona that consumed 21,000 acres belonging to the White Mountain Apache tribe.

Staudt warned that these kinds of events – which have cost some $32 billion in the first seven months of the year in North America – will become increasingly frequent in the years ahead and pose particular challenges to Indian tribes.

“Power disruptions from storms, long dry spells and heavy floods can be difficult to recover from, especially for people who live close to the land and have limited economic resources,” said Garrit Voggesser, senior manager of the National Wildlife Federation Tribal Lands Program.

Voggesser pointed out that while Native American tribes have coped for millennia with climate change – albeit not as acute and severe as currently experienced – tribal boundaries and treaties now limit their ability to move to escape severe effects of climate change.

http://www.trust.org/

h/t to Dave G

Scientists ranting about an ice free Arctic is a psychosis that has been going on for almost as long as there have been scientists.

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http://soa.arcus.org/

NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

http://news.nationalgeographic.com

Because climate change in the Arctic region is occurring faster and to a greater extent than anywhere else, the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free for a short period of time as early as the summer of 2015, according to the 2009 Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment Report completed by the eight Arctic Council Nations.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/

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LAKEWOOD, N.J. –  While millions of Americans hold their collective breath as Wall Street wreaks havoc with their life savings and retirements, residents of Tent City, a tiny makeshift community about 70 miles south of New York City, have more immediate concerns: finding their next hot meal.

For this collective of homeless and unemployed former landscapers, service industry workers and military veterans, the mention of “tarp” is sure to start a conversation about temporary rooftops, rather than a debate over President Obama’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

At Tent City in Lakewood, N.J., very few are lucky enough to leave.

It seems like a scene straight from “The Grapes of Wrath,” but this is no Great Depression novel. This story takes place in 2011, and this New Jersey tent city is one of an untold number of such encampments across the United States, where unemployment has reached 9.3 percent and approximately 3.5 million people are likely to be homeless in a given year, according to the most recent estimates by the National Coalition for the Homeless.

http://www.foxnews.com/

h/t to Dave G

Earlier I posted a video of President Obama laughing while his friend called Rush Limbaugh a traitor as bad as Osama, and said she hoped he died in a very specific manner.

What would have happened had the roles been reversed?

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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

http://www.nationalreview.com/

The closest USHCN station to Austin is at Blanco. July maximum temperatures have declined about five degrees since the 1920s.

The second closest USHCN station is at New Braunfels, which has been cooling since the 1940s.