Real Climate Science

Can there be any doubt that 2011 will set a record low? PIOMAS says that the ice is the thinnest on record. AMS says that the oceans are the hottest on record. Extent is the lowest on record. Hansen says 2010 was the hottest on record and that this summer will be a very strong El Nino. How could you possibly lose a bet like that?

Romm is keeping a snapshot of the US drought monitor on the top of his blog, as the US Gulf Coast gets slammed with torrential rain.

Damn tree rings quit working in 1960. Especially those stupid Briffa trees. How is a mann supposed to do good science, when the data doesn’t do what you planned for it to do?

As CO2 has increased, the number of hurricane strikes has decreased.

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europasaurus_holgeri_Scene_2.jpg

“if people were to get their protein from nuts rather than beef, you see, there’d be no global warming

http://www.treehugger.com/

Amazing how cows have the ability to spontaneously generate carbon.

The map above overlays the NSIDC ice age map from April on the current JAXA map. Green is MYI (multi-year ice) and turquoise is 1-2 year old ice. So far the MYI is holding up very nicely. There is very little ice loss occurring in the Beaufort Sea and almost none in the Arctic Basin.

If current patterns continue for the next six weeks, a lot of 1-2 ice will become MYI in mid-September, and we will once again see an increase in MYI – as we have every year since 2008. It appears that there may be a large increase in 3+ year old ice.

So far my forecast appears to be right on track.

many, including me, believe we’ll see virtually ice-free summers within a decade.

 

So who caused it in 1956?

Or 1925?

or 1918?

Had Romm been born 400 years ago, he would be out burning witches.