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.
“if people were to get their protein from nuts rather than beef, you see, there’d be no global warming
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.
Australia’s climate changes with every ENSO shift. A little science education and history is a lot cheaper than drowning the country in taxes and mindless superstition. Even if you believe the climate models, the tax has zero impact on the weather.
Australia’s PM shows political courage on climate change
Last Sunday night, the Prime Minister of Australia went on national television.
Prime ministers in democratic countries take to the airwaves only if they have something extremely important to say. And Prime Minister Julia Gillard did. She said something inconceivable in Canada, at least under Stephen Harper’s government.
“Most Australians now agree our climate is changing,” she said. “This is caused by carbon pollution. This has harmful effects on our environment and on the economy. And the government should act.”
And act it did. Next July 1, the Australian government will put a price of $23 a tonne on carbon for the country’s 500 largest emitters. Three years later, the government will convert that tax into an emissions trading scheme, or cap-and-trade, whereby the government will mandate emission limits and let the market set the price.
At a press conference, Ms. Gillard explained her thinking: “The avalanche of science tells us our climate is changing. The science is in. We know that out planet is warming. We know that warming is changing our climate.”
