Real Climate Science

http://summitcountyvoice.com/

Must be the thin mountain air up in Summit County. 2010 had the most snow ever recorded in North America, and 2011 was #3.

http://climate.rutgers.edu/

Yes! We need to get back to the days of the massive floods, droughts, hurricanes  and fires of the 19th century.

300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm

300.org exists to inform people about the Climate Emergency and the need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 ) concentration to a safe and sustainable level of about 300 ppm.

The fundamental position of 300.org is that “There must be a safe and sustainable existence for all peoples and all species on our warming-threatened Planet and this requires a rapid reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to about 300 parts per million”. [1].

300.org urges the World to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (CO2) to about 300 parts per million by volume (ppm). In urging a target of an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 300 ppm, 300.org is informed by the advice of top world climate scientists as set out below.

https://sites.google.com/

 

http://archive.greenpeace.org/climate/ctb/lesssnow.html

They got the old credit card to pay the interest on the previous credit card.

These lunatics expect the rest of the world to take us seriously?

July 31, 2011
Global warming presents a potentially dire future for Winnetka, warns a Park District report.

“This would obviously mean the end of outdoor (ice) skating in Winnetka,” the report says.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/

What is obvious is that there is no long term trend in Illinois winter temperatures, and that over the past decade winter temperatures have plummeted. The last two winters where the 18th and 20th coldest on record.

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This June, less sea ice covered the Arctic than in any year, save one, since records began being kept in 1979. And because of heavy melting in July, the National Snow and Ice Center in Boulder, Colorado, reports that 2011 is now on track to drop below the record low-ice minimum set in 2007.

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

ThisOldMan:
August 1, 2011 at 10:25 am

I am in the Alarmed camp, for the very good reason that I am a scientist (albeit not an atmospheric scientist) and hence I understand how that community works.

http://news.thomasnet.com

Global warming is real, because the scientists can’t be wrong.

Currently there are three four Polar Bears in the Himalayas and they will all be gone by 2350 2035. Sorry, these tricky numbers confuse me. The Arctic will be ice free by 2000 2008 2011 2013 2016 2020 or 2030. And sea level will rise by 1 3 5 or 25 metres.

Russia’s vast permafrost may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, the government’s disaster monitoring department said Friday.

The report also described the risk of a massive gas release. Permafrost traps methane and the thawing soil would release methane into the atmosphere. The release has no reported serious health effects, though it is an asphyxiant at high levels. The gas does however pose combustion risks.

http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-permafrost-melting-2011-07

Yea, I had a fraternity brother who used to do that.

Barber and his colleagues explain in a recent paper in Geophysical Review Letters, the analysis of what the satellites were seeing was wrong. Some of what satellites identified as thick, melt-resistant multiyear ice turned out to be, in Barber’s words, “full of holes, like Swiss cheese. We haven’t seen this sort of thing before.”

In 2008 and 2009, scientists feared the record-thin Arctic ice cover might melt away.

Exactly when a catastrophic melt might occur, however, is unpredictable. The long-term rise in global temperature as a result of greenhouse-gas emissions is overlaid with natural, year-to-year variability in all sorts of interconnected oceanic and atmospheric cycles that slow down warming down or speed it up temporarily. But because these variations tend to be cyclical, the “perfect storm” of conditions that caused the record 2007 melting — a situation Stroeve calls “unusual, but not unprecedented” — will probably return at some point. If they do, the Arctic could be primed for major, even irreversible, changes.

http://www.time.com/