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Temperatures in Santa Cruz have dropped more than a degree over the last 80 years.

Monterey Bay climate change summit fights global warming

By Jason Hoppin
Posted: 06/04/2011 01:30:07 AM PDT

SANTA CRUZ — Local elected, environmental and business leaders met Friday to discuss how the Central Coast can tackle climate change, refining an effort that began in 2007 and striving to make the region a leader in preventing global warming.

Held at the headquarters of Ecology Action in Santa Cruz, the Monterey Bay Climate Action Summit included academics, leaders of local nonprofits and policymakers.

The effort is based on the belief that the region is well-positioned to confront the problem, not only because of the Monterey Bay’s pro-environmental politics, but also because of homegrown scientific expertise and ready access to the capital need to tackle complex environmental problems.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_18205668

http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/alfis/1/show.html

Garnaut the snake oil salesman, is telling people in Perth that the drought is their fault and that his tax can fix it. There is zero evidence to support either assertion. There is no evidence that drought has increased in Australia – it is and always has been part of the climate.

Area of Australia experiencing drought

The history of Australian droughts also shows that when one side of the country is wet, the other side is dry.

First, is the obvious comment that drought is a frequent event, occurring somewhere in the continent every three out of four years and having the size to create potential societal damage on average every one in three years. On the past record we do not expect the whole of the continent to be drought-affected in any one year and thus the impact of regional droughts can be somewhat muted by ‘normal’ seasons elsewhere in the continent. However, for individual states or territories, six of the eight of which have had over three-quarters of the state or territory’s area in drought in past years, individual droughts may have extensive adverse impacts.

http://www.rgsq.org.au/rgsqsite/heath9c.htm

What is unusual now is that so little of the country is dry.

What is unusual is that a scandal of such massive proportions has been foisted on the Australian people by their own government.

Once thrown out, biodegradable products — everything from trash bags and diaper liners to pens— are designed to break down relatively quickly and disappear into the natural environment. But these products may not live up to their green image, new research indicates.

“The implication is, it’s biodegradable, therefore, it’s better for the environment  —  and our point is: Well, not necessarily and not so fast,” said study researcher Morton Barlaz, who heads North Carolina State University’s Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering.

These biodegradable products release a potent greenhouse gas, methane, as they break down in landfills, a problem aggravated by the relatively rapid rate at which they decompose.

http://www.mnn.com/

 

“I know it’s not politically correct to refer to such things, but the science has been predicting it and when it starts to happen you can’t help but noticing it.”

http://www.perthnow.com.au/

Anyone can predict that a drought will happen somewhere in Australia, because they happen on a regular basis and always have.

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http://trove.nla.gov.au/

They used to tar and feather snake oil salesmen.

Ten years ago it became obvious that the MWP had to be disappeared to make the CO2 narrative work. Nobel Prize winner Mikey Mann stepped up to the plate pushed that sucker down.

http://drtimball.com/

Now that they have given up on warming and changed the meme to “extreme weather” – it has become obvious that much of the 20th century needs to be disappeared. Leading this effort is NOAA, which has recently lost most of it’s tornado records prior to 1953. The Dust Bowl never happened.

2011 is the most extreme weather in Earth’s history.

Hitler affected the course of history, countries, human development, industry, technology – and ultimately CO2 production. This means that all weather events are caused by Hitler.

Same could be said for Donald Duck or Noah. In fact, it could be argued using Trenberth logic, that George Washington caused the tornado in Joplin.

“Tear down this wall!” was the challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall!

The communists changed their color from red – to green.

The great transformation will require that “The world citizenry agree to … surrender spontaneous and persistent desires” – i.e., citizens will need to accept that their lifestyles are unsustainable and collectively accept the need for government to make decisions on their behalf, without the public having a veto over government decisions that could “impede the transition to a sustainable society.”

Germany’s Scientific Advisory Council on Global Environmental Change

http://opinion.financialpost.com/

Tornadoes are not unheard of in Massachusetts, or in the Capital Region. Federal weather records listed on Tornadohistoryproject.com, show that prior to the Springfield tornado, there had been more than 150 recorded tornadoes in the Bay State since 1953, which had killed a total of 90 people.

you can say that some events, like more intense storms from more moisture in the atmosphere, are what we would expect in a changing climate. We are seeing in the Northeast that 100-year storms are no longer 100-year storms. They seem to be 60-year storms.”

For example, the northeastern cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton, and Burlington all had their wettest Aprils and Mays combined this year, the center reported this week. On the now-flooded Lake Champlain, Burlington had more than 16.5 inches of rain, shattering the old record by almost four inches. In contrast, the middle Atlantic states are getting much less rain than normal.

http://www.timesunion.com/

If you have 3000 cities, and an historical record which now only goes back to 1953, you would expect 60 cities have their wettest Aprils and Mays combined.

Climate change advocacy invariably has a an underlying element of stark raving stupidity. And this new game of ignoring everything prior to 1953 is simply fraudulent.

Events like droughts, wildfires, heat waves and heavy downpours get my short answer. We know they are going to become more frequent, more intense, and last longer. In fact, we can already see this playing out in historical data.

– Heidi Cullen

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Heidi believes that meteorologists who spread climate misinformation should be de-certified. Perhaps she is on to something. Consider the year 1900, which had the most destructive forest fires and the deadliest hurricane in US history. Clearly Heidi has no idea what she is talking about.

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h/t to Marc Morano