Real Climate Science

Between 1794 and 1879, the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska retreated an average of eight feet per day. Retreat has been much slower over the last 100 years. Emission controls established by the first Continental Congress halted the decline of the glacier.

As you enter Glacier Bay in Southeast Alaska you will cruise along shorelines completely covered by ice just 200 years ago.

Explorer Captain George Vancouver found Icy Strait choked with ice in 1794, and Glacier Bay was barely an indented glacier. That glacier was more than 4000 ft. thick, up to 20 miles or more wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St.Elias Range of mountains.

By 1879 naturist John Muir found that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. By 1916 the Grand Pacific Glacier headed Tarr inlet 65 miles from Glacier Bay’s mouth.

http://www.glacierbay.org/glaciers.html

The physical records may not support global warming theory – yet.

But later they will, and those in positions of responsibility have a moral imperative to keep public awareness alive – even if it means fabricating or intentionally misinterpreting data.

Remember, any period of time where trends go in the direction you expect is evidence for AGW. Even if the evidence is a single hot afternoon in Los Angeles in the middle of a record cold summer.

We all know that during the last decade of this century, sea level will drown everyone who hasn’t already died from heat prostration.

http://www.arctic.io/observations/

Not much changing over the last three weeks.

Here are some good links to fire activity in the Southwest.

http://nmfireinfo.wordpress.com/

http://www.azcentral.com/

The monsoon season is expected to start in the next few days.

http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec1.html

Our leading sea level scamsters insist that sea level is rising at 3+mm/year and that it has accelerated since 1993. This obviously isn’t true, but facts never slow down the AGW gravy train.

Our analyses do not indicate acceleration in sea level in U.S. tide gauge records during the 20th century. Instead, for each time period we consider, the records show small decelerations that are consistent with a number of earlier studies of worldwide-gauge records. The decelerations that we obtain are opposite in sign and one to two orders of magnitude less than the +0.07 to +0.28 mm/y² accelerations that are required to reach sea levels predicted for 2100 by Vermeer and Rahmsdorf (2009), Jevrejeva, Moore, and Grinsted (2010), and Grinsted, Moore, and Jevrejeva (2010). Bindoff et al. (2007) note an increase in worldwide temperature from 1906 to 2005 of 0.74uC. It is essential that investigations continue to address why this worldwide-temperature increase has not produced acceleration of global  sea level over the past 100 years, and indeed why global sea level has possibly decelerated for at least the last 80 years.

http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/

Hansen says multi-metre sea level rise this century is “dead certain.”

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/063/mwr-063-07-c1.pdf

It is well known that 2010 was the hottest year ever for the universe as a whole, but a CO2 anomaly sitting over the US made the 1930s the hottest decade.

Disclaimer : The US makes up a relatively small percentage of the universe. If global warming stupidity persists for more than three hours, see your doctor.

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/062/mwr-062-07-c1.pdf

The entire country had above normal temperatures, with ten degrees above normal in the center.

I got a kick out of this story. Hollister is known as “the earthquake capital of the world.” They get dozens of earthquakes every day.

The hundred or so geologists and seismologists who turned up for the informal monthly meeting of California’s Pick and Hammer Club expected an evening of socializing and routine gossip about faults, core samples and volcanoes. Instead, they heard scientific history in the making. As part of his work for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Research Center, Seismologist Malcolm Johnston had just finished analyzing data from seven monitoring stations set up along the San Andreas Fault in the quake-prone Hollister area. His figures, Johnston told his colleagues, showed that the strength of the local magnetic field had suddenly risen between two of the stations, then gradually subsided over a period of one week. Furthermore, the surface of the earth in the same area had undergone slight but noticeable changes in tilt. Those changes, he said, were just “the sort one would expect to see before a quake.” John Healy, another USGS scientist, was even more emphatic. Johnston’s data, he said, left little doubt that Hollister could expect a moderate earthquake of up to magnitude 5 on the Richter scale.* When? “Maybe tomorrow,” said Healy.

The next afternoon, Nov. 28, 1974, while residents of Hollister were sitting down to their Thanksgiving Day dinners, the earth began to sway and rumble beneath them. The brief 1-to 2-sec. quake measured 5.2 magnitude and did little damage.

http://www.time.com/

“We haven’t seen a terrorist threat emanating from Afghanistan for the past seven or eight years,” one boasted, finding “no indication that there is any effort within Afghanistan to use Afghanistan as a launching pad to carry out attacks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

http://www.postindependent.com/