Real Climate Science

“Holy bargain basements, Batman!” The Arctic is out of ice!

IQALUIT — New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says the most recent global climate report “fails to capture trends in Arctic sea-ice thinning and drift,” and in some cases “substantially underestimates these trends.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, forecast an ice-free Arctic summer by 2100.

But that might happen much earlier, according to research by Pierre Rampal from MIT’s department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, says an MIT news release on research to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Oceans.

http://www.vancouversun.com/

USA today is claiming that the hot July in Oklahoma is proof of global warming. As usual, they didn’t do their homework.

http://www.usatoday.com/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/ok.html

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

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

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

http://www.smh.com.au/

I certainly hope SMH finds out and publishes the information, because I haven’t had any luck finding anyone funding skeptics

Call it off! Spurs stars want Premier League opener scrapped amid fears of ongoing riots

Terrified Tottenham players have called for this weekend’s opening day Premier League fixture to be called off amid fears over the London riots.

Spurs are set to host Everton at White Hart Lane on Saturday but the match is in doubt after trouble erupted in the surrounding area of the stadium last weekend following the shooting of local man Mark Duggan.

England’s international with Holland was the first big sporting casualty after outbreaks of disorder swept the capital and forced tonight’s friendly to be scrapped, while four Carling Cup games and Ghana v Nigeria were axed.

And Wednesday’s schedule has also been affected with Bristol Rovers’ home clash with Watford in the Carling Cup now postponed on police advice.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

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It used to be that warm winters and cool summers proved global warming. Now it is the other way around.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community. Average temperatures in Britain were nearly 0.6°C higher in the Nineties than in 1960-90, and it is estimated that they will increase by 0.2C every decade over the coming century. Eight of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the Nineties.

However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

The effects of snow-free winter in Britain are already becoming apparent. This year, for the first time ever, Hamleys, Britain’s biggest toyshop, had no sledges on display in its Regent Street store. “It was a bit of a first,” a spokesperson said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/

There is not one shred of evidence to support the idea that any of this is happening. Corals evolved with CO2 levels 20X higher than today. These people are completely FOS and should be on medication.

There is the acidification of the oceans, which is leading to extinction of corals and many more species. There’s the rising of sea level, from warming oceans and melting land ice (It’s small so far, but if      1. small glaciers and marginal polar ice caps melt:  a 1 ½ ft rise in sea level;  2. The Greenland ice sheet melts:  a 24’ rise;    3. West Antarctic ice sheet melts: a 20’ rise; and 4. East Antarctic ice sheet melts: over 200’ rise. The last 3 are very unlikely, but possible.)

http://blog.seattlepi.com/