Real Climate Science

Welsh winters will soon be snow-free, but they are still getting snow in the summer. This is just what the models predicted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-13731216

http://online.wsj.com/

“Global warming can have a profound and negative impact on our outdoor recreation opportunities and businesses,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D, Calif.). “We are already seeing decreases in the amount of snowpack in certain western areas of the United States. These decreases in snowpack and in the length of the snow season can directly impact activities like skiing and snowmobiling, which are key aspects of outdoor winter recreation.”

“It is up to us to face this challenge squarely and to act immediately to avert the worst effects of global warming,” Boxer concluded.

http://www.firsttracksonline.com/

They have had the same guy for over a week now. That might be a new record for Abramovich.

When the Sarah Palin emails – from her time as Alaska’s governor – were released on 10 June there was a media frenzy. And – much to the horror of many of our readers – the Guardian was right in the thick of it. It dispatched three journalists and a scanner to Juneau, the state capital, where they began mining the 13,000 emails (running to more than 24,000 printed pages) released following US freedom of information requests.

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

In 2009, they were against FOIA and disclosure of incriminating East-Anglia E-mails.

The alleged emails illustrate the persistent pressure some climatologists have been under from sceptics in recent years. There have been repeated calls, including Freedom of Information requests, for the Climate Research Unit to make public a confidential dataset of land and sea temperature recordings that is “value added” by the unit before being used by the Met Office. The emails show the frustration some climatologists have had at having to operate under such intense, often politically motivated, scrutiny.

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

 

“All the evidence shows that we are nearing the end of man’s tragic experiment in independence from God.”

Wow, I thought. They get it. And suddenly I felt a burst of solidarity with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The words are from one of their tracts, which was given to me because I have this passion for talking about God — a wild glee, almost, for stepping up to The Big Serious and wrestling theology with the neighborhood proselytizers.

I think the Christian End Times movement (the message of my Jehovah’s Witness tract), the growing buzz over the Mayan calendar prediction (we shift into a new age on Dec. 21, 2012… you can even order end-of-world mugs and T-shirts) and the science-based urgency of climate-change warnings all emanate from the same rawly intuitive sense: an unprecedented planetary shift is under way, which we can aggravate and perhaps turn into Armageddon if we continue ignoring our own thoughtless contributions to the situation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/the-end-times_b_887967.html

London to drown in melting ice-cap Armageddon – report

Monday, July 4, 2011
10:01 AM

Catastrophic climate change will see London disappear beneath the waves of melting arctic ice-caps within the coming decades, warns a new report.

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Current predictions of how fast the polar ice-caps are melting are too low, with London way behind on the construction of adequate tidal defence systems.

Temperatures in warming oceans around Greenland and Antarctica will raise the by up to 2C, with sea levels rising by three feet as a result, said the University of Arizona

http://www.london24.com

Rick Perry Was Al Gore’s Texas Campaign Chairman in 1988
Political observers have noted that Jon Huntsman is likely to take some flack from conservatives for having served as President Obama’s Ambassador to China until recently. But Huntsman isn’t the only prospective GOP candidate who has worked for a prominent Democratic politician in years past.

Rick Perry, who entered the Texas legislature as a Democrat in 1984, served as Al Gore’s Texas Campaign Chairman in the 1988 presidential campaign. Soon after the campaign, Perry switched parties and was elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner as a Republican in 1990. “Going through that (Gore experience) was part of what started me through the process of changing parties in 1989,” Perry later said. “I came to my senses.”

http://www.enviroknow.com/

News release

11 April 2007
Met Office forecast for Summer 2007

The latest seasonal forecast from the Met Office issued today, reveals that this summer is, yet again, likely to be warmer than normal.

Following the trend set throughout 2006 and the first part of 2007, seasonal forecasters say there is a high probability that summer temperature will exceed the 1971-2000 long-term average of 14.1 °C.

They also suggest the chances of temperatures similar to those experienced in 2003 and 2006 are around 1 in 8.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Snowdon will be snow-free in 13 years, scientists warn
By Ian Herbert
Thursday, 18 January 2007

Those who originally named the peak spoke as they probably found it, calling it “Snow Dun”, from the Saxon for “snow hill”. But Snowdon may lose its snow cover within 13 years as a result of climate change, Welsh scientists say.

http://www.independent.co.uk/

Mt. Snowdon, December 1, 2010

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