Last December was the coldest on record in Ireland, as has been this summer. This proves conclusively that the earth is headed into an ice age.
December 24, 2010
This has been the coldest start to winter for the last 130 years, when records began. According to Met Eireann, Ireland’s meteorological service, December has officially been the coldest month ever on record.
Last Monday County Mayo recorded low temperatures of -17.2C (1F).
Last summer, Moscow was the proxy for Earth. This year it is Austin!
The fact that it was 105 degrees in Austin [yesterday] makes it impossible to totally ignore the fact that something’s happening with the climate.
“When you start looking at longer-term trends, 50 or 60 years, there’s no escaping the loss of ice in the summer,” Kay says.
Kay and her colleagues also ran computer simulations to answer a fundamental question: why did Arctic sea ice melt far more rapidly in the late 20th century than projected by computer models? By analyzing multiple realizations of the 20th century from a single climate model, they attribute approximately half the observed decline to human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the other half to climate variability.
h/t to Marc Morano and Tom Nelson
Your chances of being killed by a car are several orders of magnitude higher.
A few months ago they claimed that they didn’t know how many people died in tornadoes prior to 1950. This memory loss conveniently avoided the period when the vast majority of tornado deaths occurred, and allowed them to claim that 2011 was the worst year on record. Of course this was a complete lie, as NOAA knows how many people died in tornadoes going back to at least 1875
http://www.norman.noaa.gov/2009/03/us-annual-tornado-death-tolls-1875-present/
Now they claim that they don’t know drought conditions prior to 12 years ago. In business, this is known as fraud.
But I thought they said that shells will dissolve at 500 ppm. Perhaps man-made CO2 is different, and creates more corrosive acids than natural CO2.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2011/aug/11/lyme-regis-jurassic-fossil-coast
The highest gust was only 19 MPH. A completely useless month for generating electricity – at a time when they needed it the most.
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KATT/2011/7/11/MonthlyHistory.html
The largest national footprint of D4 (“exceptional drought”) in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor occurred in July. In Texas “exceptional drought” covers more than 75 percent (201,436 sq mi) of the state. This area is larger than the entire Northeast climate region (196,224 sq mi). Drought conditions are so harsh in some locations that it would take as much as 20 inches of precipitation in one month to end the drought. Conditions in Oklahoma are also dire, with 100 percent of the state suffering from D1-D4 (Moderate-Exceptional) drought. At the beginning of the water year (9/28/2010), drought conditions (D1-D4) covered only four percent of the state.
What a complete crock. NOAA has detailed drought records going back to at least 1900.
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/drought/historical-palmers/
Compare July, 2011 to July, 1934. In 1934, 80% of the US was under moderate to extreme drought. In 2011, more of the country is wetter than normal than is drier than normal.
Why is our government lying to us?
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