Real Climate Science

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

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

Mitt Romney, arguably the leading Republican candidate for president of the United States in the 2012 election, recently significantly diminished his prospects for obtaining the support he needs from the right wing of his party. How did he do this? He simply declared that he believes the Earth is warming, and that human activities are responsible. To most scientists, such a statement would be considered fairly innocuous, and an accurate assessment of current understanding. But to a large fraction of the US Republican party, this is a completely unacceptable position – ranking alongside gay marriage, gun control and abortion rights. Anthropogenic climate change has become a litmus test for Republicans in the United States.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

I wonder if the Guardian actually surveyed “most scientists.” Even most hardcore warmists admit now that the Earth is not warming, and they are scrambling to make exceptionally stupid explanations as to why.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/p

http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/Ice_Can/CMMBCTCA.gif

It is blocked with ice now, and will start to freeze up with new ice in about five weeks.

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/wrcc/nw/Last1mTDeptWRCC-NW.png

Live Science claims that the heatwave hit every single state, yet there was no place in Washington above normal in July.

1895 was the first year of the USHCN dataset. Every single station (about 1,000 of them) set a record high and record low on every single day that year. That is 365,000 record highs and 365,000 record lows set during the year 1895. (Many of these were broken in later years.)

Can I have a job writing for Live Science now?

No state in the union was safe from July’s blistering heat wave, according to data from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center.

The horrible July heat wave, lasting weeks in some cities, the entire month in others, affected nearly 200 million people in the United States at some point. Preliminary data show that 2,712 high-temperature records were either tied or broken in July, compared with 1,444 last year, according to the NCDC. At least one weather station in all 50 states set or tied a daily high temperature record at some point during July.

http://www.livescience.com/

If you have 100 stations in a state and a one hundred year record, you would expect to have on average one high temperature record set somewhere in the state every single day. Their article is junk science alarmism at it’s worst. Look at the stats for Idaho. It has been a very cold summer in the Pacific Northwest.

Idaho
Highest Max : Out of a possible 180,955 records: 0 (Broken) + 4 (Tied) = 4 Total
Lowest Max : Out of a possible 180,955 records: 14 (Broken) + 12 (Tied) = 26 Total

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/daily/maxt/2011/07/00?sts[]=ID#records_look_up

Washington
Highest Max : Out of a possible 180,955 records: 0 (Broken) + 2 (Tied) = 2 Total
Lowest Max : Out of a possible 180,955 records: 29 (Broken) + 16 (Tied) = 45 Total

They should withdraw their article. It is a wildly misleading joke.

Obama believes that borrowing another $2.4 trillion improves confidence that we will be able to pay off the debt.

That is as clever as being trapped in a well and trying to dig your way out through China. Strong evidence that cocaine does irreversible damage.

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

2011 in red. 2006 in green. If the analogy is correct, it should almost bottom out in two weeks.

http://www.wunderground.com/

Temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula in degrees F. Almost 20 degrees below normal.