Real Climate Science

The dumbest global warming story below claimed a 1000 year storm surge as proof of sea level rise and global warming. We already established that sea level isn’t rising there, but there is another problem.

The world has over 200,000 miles of shoreline. If we broke that up into 10 mile sections, there are 20,000 of them. The odds of any one of them having a 1,000 year storm surge during any given year are 1,000 to 1. That means that we would expect about 20 of them per year somewhere on the planet, or one every 2-3 weeks.

The one in the article referred to a storm occurred ten years ago, so we can multiply by 10 to get the decadal frequency. We expect to see about two hundred “1,000 year” storm surges per decade.

Alarmists scour the planet for statistically meaningless events, and then present them to the faithful congregation as proof that witches really are destroying the Earth.

Last summer was the coldest on record in Los Angeles, and the pattern has not changed much.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another winter-like storm is bearing down on California with up to 2 feet of snow expected in the southern Sierra Nevada, and more rain and cold forecast for Southern California through Wednesday.

Heavy snow and strong winds were expected to begin Tuesday night in the mountains from Yosemite to southern Tulare County, the National Weather Service said. A winter storm warning was in effect until 11 a.m. Wednesday.

http://www.timesunion.com/

The only day Romm noticed the California weather was October 4 – when he reported on their one hot day of the summer.

In this country, the record-smashing temperatures in Southern California got most of the attention.

It is clear that Romm’s agenda is not science.

Soviet Pravda style journalism is now the norm.

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/

The picture shows  the terminus of a glacier, where icebergs are breaking off. If the boat tried to “skim through the ice” it would end up like the Titanic.

Members of the Arctic Council — the United States, Russia, Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden — plan to sign an agreement on Thursday to coordinate search-and-rescue operations across 13 million square miles of ocean that are becoming more navigable as Arctic sea ice decreases.

There is exactly one ship in the Arctic Basin right now – a Russian icebreaker which seems to be almost motionless.

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=UFTA

The Arctic Council was founded in 1996 to address environmental issues, but has since broadened its focus to include other challenges and opportunities brought about by the effects of climate change — from oil and gas exploration to increasing traffic of cargo and cruise ships in areas formerly icebound for much of the year.

The Love Boat in the Arctic. I’m sure that is going to happen real soon.

But the longer-term consequences could prove devastating to the planet, many say. A report by the Arctic Council’s scientific arm warns that sea levels could rise three to five feet in the next century, well about previous estimates, threatening the flooding of coastal cities.

There is no evidence from any sea level record that this is happening. It is pure hype and speculation being presented as scientific fact.

Canada may have set a new record for mindless global warming research!

Scientists investigating reports made by the Inuvialuit of the northwest Arctic of a massive storm surge in 1999 have been shocked at the devastating impact on the ecosystem and environment.

The researchers from Queen’s and Carleton Universities studied growth rings from coastal shrubs and lake sediment from the Mackenzie Delta, the location of the widespread 1999 storm surge. The researchers found that the impact of the salt-water storm surges is unprecedented in the thousand year history of the region.

“One of the most ominous threats of global warming today is from rising sea levels, which can cause marine waters to inundate the land,” says the team’s co-leader, Queen’s graduate student Joshua Thienpont. “The threat is especially acute in polar regions, where shrinking sea ice increases the risk of storm surges.”

http://planetsave.com/

Sea level at the Mackenzie Delta is falling at a rate of nearly 20 mm per year. It is probably a good idea to reach conclusions after you look at the data – rather than before.

http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/

Quebec has been losing Arctic ice at a shocking rate since March. Experts expect this disturbing trend to continue until at least September. Presidential science adviser John Holdren expects it to disappear entirely and remain that way forever.

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png

The Polar Bears are probably in a huge panic right now.

http://seaice.alaska.edu/gi/observatories/barrow_webcam

http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/drought.html

http://www.bom.gov.au/

There is no debate that Earth is experiencing climate change; in fact, the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), along with Al Gore, won the Nobel Peace Prize with this conclusion:

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level…Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely [>90% chance] due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations (1).

http://diamondbar.patch.com/

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

Climate change is real. It’ll cause significant damage. But aspects of the science of global warming aren’t resolved. And many of the political approaches being used to address climate change are naive or ineffective.

David Victor, a professor of political science at UC San Diego, delivers this message in unapologetic terms in his new book, “Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet.”

http://www.signonsandiego.com/

We survive swings of 120F every year here in Colorado, but I think that half a degree of change over 70 years is probably going to kill us all.

That denial industry, to employ a term used by the professor Anthony Lieserowitz, the director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, is the conglomeration of industry, media, and politicians who all have an interest in publicizing doubt about climate change. Companies like Exxon and Koch Industries fund think tanks and political advocacy groups that conveniently publish papers skeptical of climate change and protest climate policy. These papers and deeds then get picked up by sympathetic pundits and media outlets, and the doubt is effectively promulgated. It’s one of the main reasons many Americans remain skeptical about climate change.

http://www.treehugger.com/

A more tenable possibility is that 30+ years of incredibly stupid exaggerated predictions haven’t come true, and the public isn’t buying it any more.