Real Climate Science

If climate was linear, the Earth would either be like Venus or Pluto. Why are people always force fitting straight lines?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

It cooled until 1920, warmed until 1980, and has been cooling since.

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif

But the hurricanes we aren’t having are very intense.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt

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

Yes, Afghanistan is another Vietnam. Or maybe another Afghanistan

The Taliban lured US forces into an elaborate trap to shoot down their helicopter, killing 30 American troops in the deadliest such incident of the war, an Afghan official said Monday.

US President Barack Obama pledged that the incident — which killed 38 people — would not keep foreign forces from prevailing in Afghanistan, and the Pentagon called the downing of the Chinook a “one-off” that would not alter US strategy.

http://news.yahoo.com/

The country is bankrupt and the government is wasting almost a million dollars on Soviet style art propaganda.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to the Civilians, a New York theater company, to finance the production of a show about climate change. “The Great Immensity,” with a book by Steven Cosson (“This Beautiful City”) and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman (“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”), tells the story of Polly, a photojournalist who disappears while working in the rain forests of Panama.

http://www.nytimes.com/

h/t to Marc Morano

2011 in red. 2006 in green.

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png

Obama plan: Destroy Romney

In a move that will make some Democrats shudder, Obama’s high command has even studied former President George W. Bush’s 2004 takedown of Sen. John Kerry, a senior campaign adviser told POLITICO, for clues on how a president with middling approval ratings can defeat a challenger.

“Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney,” said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House.

The onslaught would have two aspects. The first is personal: Obama’s reelection campaign will portray the public Romney as inauthentic, unprincipled and, in a word used repeatedly by Obama’s advisers in about a dozen interviews, “weird.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60921.html

I guess there is a reason why coral grows in the tropics.

SUMMIT COUNTY — Amid all the concern over the impacts of rising sea temperatures to coral reefs, University of Georgia researchers have found that cold water is just as bad.
An extended cold snap in Florida in January and February 2010 killed nearly all the coral in a 200- to 300-year-old reef that had survived other extreme events, including the 1998 El Niño bleaching that damaged coral reefs across widespread regions of the world’s oceans.

During the 2010 cold snap, water temperatures at inshore reefs in the upper Florida Keys dropped below 54 degrees and remained below 64 for two weeks. The University of Georgia team had planned to sample corals at Admiral Reef, an inshore reef off Key Largo. When they arrived, they discovered that the reef, once abundant in hard and soft corals, was essentially dead.

http://summitcountyvoice.com/

YTD cooler than 1896, 1900, 1910, 1911, 1921, 1925, 1931, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1946, 1952 and  1954.

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