Real Climate Science

“Climate change is leading to other crises, such as the Arab Spring.”

“Somalia and the Arab Spring are examples of our problems,” Parenti said. “It will be interesting to see what effect the drought in the United States will have on grain prices internationally and what it will do politically.

http://wvgazette.com/News/201108071262

The prevailing science provides clear evidence that the polar ice caps are melting. Arctic shipping lanes, which for the centuries of humanity’s existence have been frozen, are now clearing in parts. The air overall is sodden with water vapor, and temperatures worldwide continue to climb. Also note the rising sea levels.

Weather patterns are changing, and severe weather is becoming far more extreme and violent. We have seen it in this region in the heavy snowfalls in some places, droughts and searing heat in others.

http://www.kansascity.com/

virtually all climate scientists, as well as the academies of science of most Western nations, agree global warming is real and dangerous and, for that matter, significantly the result of human activities. Yes, the only real scientific debate is what to do about it.

http://www.suntimes.com/

From the BSES trip log. Looks like The Guardian and BBC entirely fabricated their stories about missing sea ice as the cause.

Sea Ice and Polar Bears!

July 27th, 2011

After arriving in Longyearbyen to see our first midnight sun we were all so relived to see our tents set up and waiting. I think we must of all dreamt of Polar bears because the next day was eagerly waiting for the ice flows to break up so we could move on to base camp. There was a P.bear sighting across the fjord about a mile away. Unfortunately a Westerly wind and freak climatic events have led to an unprecedented amount of ice in the fjord meaning we are marooned here for the time being. Despite this everyone was in good spirits because we encountered another P.bear floating on the ice, this time we were lucky enough to borrow an kind Norwegian guides telescope to see it properly. After that experience I can say for sure that everyone dreamt of P.bears that night. The ice flows are still dominating the fjord and our movements. We understand the depression causing the Westerly wind may not move off until Sunday. In light of this we have planned to strike camp and re locate to a more remote part of the island – should we find ourselves un able to get the boats to base camp again. During our time here we have explored Longyearbyen’s surrounding area. Although we are all itching to move to base camp, many including myself are thinking of home and the people awaiting our return. We are all thinking about you and want you to know everyone is enjoying themselves. Five weeks will fly by out here.

I have written too much now but there is still so much more to say, so be anticipating the many stories we will be coming home with.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com

h/t to Marc Morano

Sea level is almost as high as it was 45 years ago!

http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/822.php

This article is almost completely unintelligible, just like the thought process of climate model true believers.

The CSIRO agrees with Mr Watson’s findings showing a deceleration of sea-level rises in Australasian coastal waters in the second half of the 20th century but argues they have no bearing on IPCC projections of global sea rise this century.

This is despite the IPCC projections – and subsequent CSIRO projections – assuming a dramatic acceleration in sea-level rises this century because of the impact of global warming.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/

On Thursday he was at 45%, and today is up to 47%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/

Maybe a full blown stock market crash and losing WWIII could put him back up over 50?

At a meeting last week I once again encountered resistance to describing those who refuse to accept the science that suggests a possible catastrophic Global Warming as “Deniers”.    We had a discussion of suggestions:

Skeptics: this term is true of the approach of ALL scientists to ALL proposals. As Carl Sagan said; we greet any idea with skepticism, examine the scientific observations and theory, and accept on this basis. So those who deny the scientific observations are actually the opposite of skeptics (similarly for “critics” & “questioners”).

http://blog.seattlepi.com/

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

From 1927 to 1936, summer temperatures in the US warmed at a rate of almost 40 degrees per century, even after USHCN chopped a couple of degrees off the 1930s!

Climate is linear, so we can expect summers over the boiling point in several generations.

Temperatures will cool dramatically in the northern hemisphere over the next six months. There will be lots of snow, and the Arctic will freeze up solid.

This forecast does not apply to the southern hemisphere.