http://lakepowell.water-data.com/
Reader “rw” wrote in before complaining that I was focused on one “unusual” year of water gain at Lake Powell.
Lake Powell has steadily gained 80 feet of water over the last seven years, and is now 528 feet deep and within 40 feet of full. Another massive climate model fail.
Last month, the White House warned that the Colorado River was drying up.
Due to the unprecedented extreme weather caused by an increase of 0.00009 CO2 mole fraction over the last hundred years, the US has gone 1047 days without a hurricane strike.
Will Don end the streak?
Despite historically large releases of water from the dam, Lake Powell is still gaining elevation and is at the highest level in ten years. Apparently the “biblical flood” must have hit.
http://lakepowell.water-data.com/
Gavin says that Lake Powell drying up is proof of the accuracy of his toy climate models.
On Dec. 19, 2008, a 27-year-old man named Tim DeChristopher, troubled by American energy policy and its contribution to global warming, broke the law.
He did so by attending a federal auction in Utah, where energy developers were bidding on parcels of Utah wildland that the Bush administration had made available for oil and gas development. DeChristopher bid aggressively, driving up the price of some parcels and winning 14 of his own — some 22,000 acres in all — to the tune of $1.8 million. He had no means to pay.
“I understand that prison is a very horrible place,” DeChristopher told me last fall, when I had a chance to sit down with him for a lengthy interview. “But I’ve been scared for my future for a long time. And I think the scariest thing that I see is staying on the path that we’re on right now. Obedience, to me, is much scarier than going to prison.”
He faced 10 years and some $750,000 in fines.
On Tuesday, the now 29-year-old DeChristopher, who was convicted in March of two felonies associated with his exploits, was sentenced to two years in prison and was promptly taken into custody. He also faces $10,000 in fines.
The judge had barred DeChristopher’s defense team from explaining to the jury why he disrupted the auction — because he saw the auction as both illegal and contributing to the “exacerbation of global warming and climate change,” according to court documents.
Government has proven their ability to control things very tightly, like their own spending. Now they hope to do the same thing for the climate.
In conclusion, if climate change is not controlled through timely central government means then health losses will occur worldwide.
Storm namers have been naming storms at a rate 200% percent of normal this season! They are looking forward to naming another storm later today, which coincidentally will have the same name as my rock.
http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2011/Hurricane-Atlantic-2011.htm
The polar bears have come off the ice and some have migrated into the area. One bear has been shot for chasing a tourist who was out alone on the beach photographing. Bonnie’s brother Jack, a manitoba Conservation officer, was not happy with the “fool” for putting himself in that position and in the end causing the bear’s demise. The bear was about half the weight that it should have been…probably the reason it was seeking out some prey.
This seems impossible because bears on ice never get malnourished. Skinny bears are a well known proxy for global warming and a lack of ice.
These ice floes are only 5-15 miles wide and 2-4 metres thick. Can they support a full grown Polar Bear?
http://www.arctic.io/observations/8/2011-07-26/6-N75.319695-W135.468616
Hudson Bay has been ice free for about a week. The entire Hudson Bay bear population will certainly go extinct, because bears can not survive without ice.
Dangerous drought conditions have set in. If that little rain was received every week, the total precipitation for the year would be less than 400 inches.
Climate models show that Julia’s tax could lower temperatures by as much as 0.0001 degrees. The princess wants that pea under her mattress removed at any expense. (And Obama wants us to eat it.)
9:05AM BST 18 Jul 2011
Miss Gillard unveiled a tax on Australia’s top 500 polluters a week ago in a bid to reduce carbon emissions blamed for global warming, starting July 1 next year.
But it has only intensified the unpopularity of the country’s first female leader with support for her and the government at record lows in a new Nielsen poll published in the Sydney Morning Herald.The poll of 1,400 voters has the conservative opposition leading 61 per cent to 39 per cent in a head-to-head race – an 11-point swing against the government since Gillard wrested power last August by ousting Kevin Rudd.
Labor’s primary, or first preference, vote, taking into account all parties, stands at just 26 per cent – the lowest level for any major party in the poll’s history, while just a third of voters approve of Gillard’s leadership.
Despite Miss Gillard launching an election-style roadshow to sell the carbon tax’s merits to a sceptical public, blitzing television and radio across the nation, 53 per cent of respondents felt they would be worse off.
