Real Climate Science

The world’s leading high school truants and bartenders agree on the need for dramatic climate action. Otherwise the world will end by the year 2023 or 2030.

Greta Thunberg on Twitter: “”A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.” https://t.co/AOr2DDZORc” / Twitter

“Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains
Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists’ attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a “time capsule” into the past”

Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains | New Scientist

The EPA shows a large increase in US burn area.

Climate Change Indicators: Wildfires | US EPA

The National Climate Assessment shows the same thing.

Full Report | Fourth National Climate Assessment

They mysteriously forgot to graph all the years before 1983, when burn acreage was much higher.

National Interagency Fire Center

“In the conterminous United States during the preindustrial period (1500- 1800), an average of 145 million acres burned annually. Today only 14 million acres (federal and non-federal) are burned annually by wildland fire from all ignition sources.”

Wayback Machine

It has been fifteen years since the National Trust predicted a Mediterranean climate for Britain.

“National Trust campaign highlights how gardens will look if global warming brings Mediterranean weather to Britain”

24 March 2010

National Trust campaign highlights how gardens will look if global warming brings Mediterranean weather to Britain | Daily Mail Online

From The Onion in 2008

On June 17, 1917 it was 115F at Santa Barbara, California, and Ojai and Carpinteria burned to the ground.

Jun 17, 1917, page 2 – The Morning Press at Newspapers.com

Jun 18, 1917, page 9 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com

July 12, 1976

“The weather seems to have gone berserk lately. The tennis courts at Wimbledon in England have not been as parched since the 1920’s. The same is true for croplands in northern France, the Soviet Union, Minnesota and the Dakotas. It’s so dry, brush fires have started several weeks early in California, and water is being rationed.

They believe that the earth’s climate has moved into a cooling cycle, which means highly erratic weather for decades to come. And that, they say, has profound implications—most of them bad—for world food production, economic stability and social order.”

Climatologists Forecast Stormy Economic Future – The New York Times

March 8, 1977

“Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., warned here today that drought?stricken California was “facing a disaster of immeasurable magnitude.”

TimesMachine: March 8, 1977 – NYTimes.com

“Miliband’s ‘reckless obsession’ with renewables leaves consumers with record bills”

Ed Miliband’s ‘reckless obsession’ with renewables leaves consumers with record bills

“according to recent reports, renewable energy is generally considered cheaper than traditional fossil fuels”

It has been 21 years since the Guardian announced the end of skiing in Scotland.

“Scottish ski industry will cease to exist within 20 years.”

Fri 13 Feb 2004

Global warming forces sale of Scottish winter sports resorts | UK news | The Guardian

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(40) David Kurten on X: “UK has coldest night in 15 years. Whatever happened to global warming? https://t.co/FDh6UGPs63” / X

Fifty years ago, global cooling was causing collapse of the Gulf Stream.  Now. global warming is causing collapse of the Gulf Stream.

“Pack ice around Iceland is becoming a serious navigation hindrance to an extent unmatched since a “little ice age” in the 17th and 18th centuries.

England’s growing season has shortened a week to two weeks since 1950 and the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12 per cent since 1964.

North Atlantic surface waters have been cooling for the last 30 years. The tepid Gulf Stream, a major warming influence on Western European weather, has retreated south about a sixth as far as it did at the height of the last full-fledged ice age, 20,000 years ago, according to ocean bed fossil records.”

Jun 15, 1975, page 250 – The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com

“Yes, global warming is considered a significant factor in the potential collapse of the Gulf Stream”