http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp/from:2002/plot/gistemp/from:2002/trend
Even with Hansen’s phony Arctic pink, he can’t keep temperatures rising.
Had CRUT uses a more legitimate scientific spproach, and they show temperatures declining over the last decade.
People should study history – before talking about it.
Thursday June 16, 2011
“I remain baffled as to how anyone — Democrat, Republican, Progressive — can look at the evidence that’s before our eyes, look at the scientific data and not have [climate change] be the top priority of everything that we do, not only in government, but in our own personal and private lives.” — Governor Peter Shumlin, 2006Two weeks ago I awoke to my daughter telling me that school was cancelled because of flooding. I was awakened many times during the night by the storm, but the flooding and destruction it caused took me, and all Vermonters, by surprise. As we toured the damage, people stopped to ask me whether the heavy rain and floods we experienced this spring are from global climate change. Of course, it is hard to know for sure, but climate scientists have been predicting for years that climate change will result in droughts, floods and other extreme weather events. Indeed, over the past 10 years Vermont has experience eight of the most extreme one-day precipitation events in our recorded history.
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Friday June 17,2011
By Ross Clark
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THE winter of 1684 stands out as the most extreme in a spell of cold weather in the late 17th and early 18th centuries now known as the Little Ice Age.The frost, records the diary of Londoner John Evelyn, had started in mid-December and by January 2 the Thames at London Bridge had begun to freeze over. By the 11th there were “streets of booths set up upon the Thames”. By February 3 “coaches plied the ice from Westminster to the Temple” and all London had taken to the ice. There were horse races, puppet shows and bull-baiting in a “Bacchanalian carnival on the water”.
The cold weather experienced in Europe and North America in the late 17th and early 18th centuries is all the more fascinating for having coincided with a period in which astronomers noted an almost complete absence of sunspots.
According to the US National Solar Observatory we may be entering another such period, raising the question: will we again be plunged into a mini ice age?
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Scientists battling it out over sunspots and carbon emissions, however, prove the great global warming debate of the past 20 years shows how little we really understand about Earth’s climate and the influences upon it. It is pure hubris to pretend otherwise.
For years the global warming lobby has acted as if there was only one thing which drives climate change: man-made carbon emissions. This is the basis of all the mathematical models that have tried to predict the climate 100 years and more into the future. The IPCC report treats Earth’s climate as if it can be controlled like a thermostat: if we cut carbon emissions by such a percentage we will limit the rise in global temperatures to 2C and so on.
It ought to be obvious that this is nonsense: Earth has undergone huge changes in climate, many of which such as the onset of ice ages have occurred incredibly rapidly – and all before mankind started burning fossil fuels. We don’t understand why these ice ages occurred, nor why Earth seems to have warmed up for a few centuries during the Middle Ages so why does anyone preclude the possibility that the recent global warming has a natural cause?
The Arctic summer will end in about 10-12 weeks. Those ships better set sail now.
The warmest spring temperatures in Greenland were during the 1930s. The was a brief period of sharp warming during the late 1990s, but over the last half dozen years, temperatures have been dropping at a rate of over 30 degrees per century.
Hillary expressed her deep concern about global warming last month in Nuuk.
There is still snow on the ground in Nuuk on June 18.
http://lakepowell.water-data.com/index2.php?as_of=1964-06-16
More water is flowing into Lake Powell than has ever been measured before in Mid-June. This comes a few weeks after the Obama administration warned that the Colorado River is drying up.
Despite massive volumes of evidence that climate change has always happened, and that the climate has been exceptionally mild over the last 50 years – arrogant fools continue to think they can control the climate through negotiations.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/17/climate-talks-end-no-agreement
