Real Climate Science

May 30 – Greenland still locked in ice. Not a “long and balmy summer”

I rearranged the order of the paragraphs to show how spectacularly daft that magazine has become. In the past, climatic shifts were due to unknown “natural variations” but now they are unequivocally due to burning oil.

If they don’t know what caused the earlier warming, how could they possibly know the same thing isn’t causing the present warming?

Of course, it is the burning of such oil that has led to this warming in the first place, thanks to increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Already, those increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases are warming the planet’s overall climate to the point that the meltdown of Greenland’s ice sheet is speeding up, which could raise global sea levels a meter by 2100 at present rates, among other impacts.

The Norse came to a new land around the end of the first millennium, borne on the backs of their Viking long ships and lured away from Iceland by the promise of Erik the Red’s Greenland. The land was indeed green when they landed—and stayed that way for several centuries until natural variations in the planet’s climate cooled the world’s largest island by 4 degrees Celsius. Years of such cool summers doomed the Greenland Norse, and their outpost froze to death by 1500.

“You have an interval when the summers are long and balmy and you build up the size of your farm,” says D’Andrea of the Norse interlude. “Then suddenly, year after year, you go into this cooling trend and the summers are getting shorter and colder and you can’t make as much hay. You can imagine how that particular lifestyle may not be able to make it.”

That warming indeed looks set to continue and will ultimately doom, at the very least, Greenlanders’ traditional way of life. But the changes in Greenland this time may prove to be global. “If we don’t keep the Greenland Ice Sheet intact, we will lose a lot of coastline,”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/

You heed Camping. After his prophecy went poof, the 89-year-old minister went on his California radio show, said there was a “spiritual” judgment May 21 and revealed the world would definitely conclude its business Oct. 21.

Likewise, the computer simulators are ever revising content, rearranging old prognostications to comply with past reality and telling us that if not all transpired exactly as they originally said, stay tuned. It will next time.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/

The Guardian is no longer capable of differentiating between temperature and CO2. Mention CO2, they drool. It works every time.

Global warming: Bleaker and bleaker
New figures show we are still hurtling towards dangerous climate change – at a time when policymakers are running out of ideas

Sometimes a quotation really does say it all. As chief economist of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol is not given to overstatement – so his comment in our paper today that the latest figures on greenhouse gas emissions are “the worst news” should be taken seriously. It is not just that the statistics showing another record leap in carbon output – 30.6 gigatonnes of CO2 over 2010 – to make the highest annual total in history are grim.

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

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:2010

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This cracks me up every time I see it.

It highlights the sharp distinction between the exuberance and happiness of youth, and the mentally ill adults trying to take their happiness away from them – under the guise of “protecting” them.

People like Gore, Hansen and Obama seem to have an insatiable need to have people pay attention to them 24×7.

 March 22, 2009

WASHINGTON — The United States must look for a way out of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama said, in a signal that the military build-up in Afghanistan will not be open-ended

Mr. Obama also signaled that the United States was redefining its mission in Afghanistan, away from the Bush administration’s broader strategy of promoting democracy, civil society and governance in Afghanistan and toward getting the country to a point where it is not used to start attacks on the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/

Global warming is predicted to raise temperatures in Greenland by 10-15C, which would make living conditions there unbearable.

Sheriff: Floods Are Coming
River May Reach Record Levels

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Emergency managers are gearing up for potential flooding, and say the Colorado River could reach record levels in the coming weeks.

Right now the river is at about nine feet. It peaked at 14 feet back in 1984, causing serious flooding.

“We haven’t seen potential water like this in many years,” says Mesa County Emergency Manager Andy Martsolf.

Martsolf is in charge of the plan once that water overflows its banks.
“We’re proactively filling some sandbags in the Plateau Valley area in Collbran,” he says. “We also have barricades pre-positioned so we can channel water to keep roads open.”

http://www.kjct8.com/news/28027474/detail.html

The latest scam of alarmists has been to pretend that we don’t know what the weather was like before 1950. The consensus of science now consists of the opinion of an assistant geography professor.

The deadliest tornadoes in decades. Severe flooding on the Mississippi River. Drought in Texas, and heavy rains in Tennessee.

What’s up with the weather?

Scientists say there are connections between many of the severe weather events of the past month and global warming.

“Basically, as we warm the world up, the atmosphere can hold more moisture in it,” said Anne Jefferson, an assistant professor in the geography and Earth science department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

“Weather patterns that used to be limited to the South move farther north now,” she said. “Both of those things together will increase the frequency with which we see these big rainstorms, and those are likely to increase flooding in the future.”

Flooding on the Mississippi has become more frequent and more extensive since about 1950, Jefferson said. This year’s huge flood was created by snowmelt and rain-on-snow in the upper Mississippi River basin, and very intense rain in its middle regions.

http://www.kansascity.com/

The forecast for the summer driving season: Hit the road early. Not to beat the traffic, but to beat the higher gas prices expected in mid-July.

Goldman Sachs’ crystal ball is proclaiming that oil will soon soar to $135 a barrel, and likely have service stations jacking up fuel prices to $5 a gallon in New York just like the summer of 2008 that preceded the recession.

Indeed, analysts say Goldman and the other oil trading giant that also has the might to move prices, JPMorgan Chase, have already placed their energy bets for the summer. JPMorgan predicts oil hitting $130 a barrel in the coming weeks.

http://www.nypost.com/

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Rapidly warming temperatures due to CO2 have allowed giant herds of Wildebeest to migrate across the ice into Tasiilaq.

http://www.andreassen.gl/andreassen/webcam.htm