Real Climate Science

Never mind that it isn’t heating at all, the world must be heating out of control.

We trust computer models. Reality is just a distraction.

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

http://www.woodfortrees.org/

This is the lead story at The Independent today.

Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says?
President Obama has shown himself to be weak in his dealings with the Middle East, says Robert Fisk, and the Arab world is turning its back with contempt. Its future will be shaped without American influence

Monday, 30 May 2011

This month, in the Middle East, has seen the unmaking of the President of the United States. More than that, it has witnessed the lowest prestige of America in the region since Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz on the USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake in 1945.

While Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu played out their farce in Washington – Obama grovelling as usual – the Arabs got on with the serious business of changing their world, demonstrating and fighting and dying for freedoms they have never possessed. Obama waffled on about change in the Middle East – and about America’s new role in the region. It was pathetic. “What is this ‘role’ thing?” an Egyptian friend asked me at the weekend. “Do they still believe we care about what they think?”

http://www.independent.co.uk/

Obama thinks that because he was in Washington on the day which the CIA shot some old terrorist in the head, that earned him respect.

I’ve often wondered if you could converse with more rational people in a mental institution.

http://content.usatoday.com/

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

The heat in Antarctica is becoming unbearable :

http://www.wunderground.com/

Weird, I thought global warming just went after poor countries.

As an alarm call, the surge in emissions revealed by the International Energy Association is deafening. After the banking crisis of 2008, the cooling of the global economy had appeared to have given our wheezing, warming world pause for breath.

As GDP went into reverse, so did energy use and the pumping of planet-heating gases into the atmosphere. Attempts to agree global action went into reverse at the same time, despite the 120 heads of state who burned the midnight oil in Copenhagen in 2009.

But while the global economy has roared back to life, the UN’s negotiations remain on life support, and with little hope of recovery.

Two truths emerge from this mismatch. First, the link between economic growth and carbon dioxide must be broken. The world’s economy runs on energy, and while most of that power continues to comes from coal, oil and gas, global GDP and carbon emissions will be bound together in lockstep. The latest data show a near perfect correlation, and that shows how little impact, in a worldwide context, renewable and nuclear power is making.

Second, the rich industrialised world and the poor developing world must align their hopes and fears: they inhabit the same planet. All nations are united in understanding that unchecked climate change poses a grave threat in every part of the world.

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

I’ve lived on this planet a long time, and everything seems just about the same as it always did – other than the massive increase in the number of complete morons.

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

Is there some kind of stupid test you have to fail before you can start writing for the Guardian?

Top scientists warned us about this

http://www.aspentimes.com/

If his lips are moving, he is probably lying.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2009/0605/p02s05-usfp.html

Less than two years later ……

http://news.theage.com.au/

This is your government speaking. We don’t have precise figures for other volcanoes, so we can say that the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption was the deadliest in history.

The US National Weather Service says that 2011 is already the deadliest year for tornadoes since 1950, when precise figures were first kept.

The death toll so far this year stands at 520. The previous highest recorded death toll in a single year was 519 in 1953.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13587654

http://news.google.com/newspapers

I spent most of the afternoon with a friend who lived In La Jolla,, CA in the 1940s and married into a third generation La Jolla family. Her husband passed away six years ago, and she showed me a bunch of 19th century photographs. Sea level has not changed a bit in the last 150 years. I hope to scan and post them soon.