http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/indicators/pdfs/ClimateIndicators_full.pdf
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Facts are apparently not important to the EPA. 2008, 2010 and 2011 were actually three of the four snowiest winters on record in North America. 2010 was the snowiest winter on record. April, 2011 was the tenth snowiest April on record in North America.
Not only is the winter extent increasing, but the western US and Canada likely has the deepest snowpack ever measured in mid-May.
Cabinet ministers have agreed a far-reaching, legally binding “green deal” that will commit the UK to two decades of drastic cuts in carbon emissions. The package will require sweeping changes to domestic life, transport and business and will place Britain at the forefront of the global battle against climate change.
The new budget puts the government on target to meet a reduction by 2050 of 80% of carbon emissions compared with 1990 levels. The committee has said that to reach this carbon emissions should be cut by 60% by 2030.
How quickly people forget.
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
Hansen’s GISS shows just how poor Hansen’s 1988 forecasts were. The GISS trend line since 1960 is overlaid in red on Hansen’s 1988 forecast graph (Fig.3.) The green dot is the GISS reading for April, 2010. Scenario C assumed that CO2 would remain fixed at 368 ppm.
The fact that even bloated GISS numbers are falling below scenario C is a clear indication that Hansen’s understanding of the climate is fatally flawed. Since Hansen made those predictions, CO2 has increased faster than linear. During the 1990s, CO2 increased at 1.5 ppm/year. During the past decade, CO2 increased by 2.0 ppm/year.
ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/co2_annmean_mlo.txt
Where is the heat Hansen forecast? The US was supposed to have warmed more than 1C.
Where is the mid-troposphere hot spot?
Why is government setting policy based on the views of a scientist who’s own data falsifies his theory?
Note the picture on the right.
http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/climate-change-activists-to-rally-in-denver1/
First the good news :
LOS ALAMITOS – A new high school advanced placement class that addresses global warming has prompted the school board to start requiring teachers to present opposing views in courses that include controversial topics.
Los Alamitos Unified School district trustees unanimously agreed to update the policy on controversial issues at the request of board member Jeffrey Barke, who said he is concerned about “global warming dogma” and wants students to be offered a balanced perspective on the topic.
“There are two clearly divergent opinions on global warming,” Barke said in an interview. “There are those who believe that global warming is a fact, created by man’s impact on the environment and the consequences will be devastating. There are others on the conservative side who believe it’s much ado about nothing. It’s overhyped and politically motivated, and the science is not solid, and there’s room for more studies.”
Since news of the board’s decision was posted on a numerous national blogs, Barke said he has received more than 100 e-mails criticizing the district’s move and attacking him personally.
And always the clown :
Los Alamitos resident J.M. Ivler, who has a daughter at the high school, did not e-mail Barke, but he was critical of the school board.
“There is consensus in the field that we have global warming happening, it is getting warmer and it is related to what we are doing to the planet,” he said. “That is not in dispute in the scientific community. It is in dispute in the political community. This is a science class. Teach science.”
Bill Maher made a movie ridiculing fundamentalists a few years ago, apparently not realizing that he was one of the worst of them.
“we used to hear about tornados that were a few hundred yards wide. This ran 300 miles. They used to just touch down.”
“This is global warming,” Maher declared. “This is global warming – there’s more moisture – it’s what scientist always said. There’s more moisture in the atmosphere. It’s going to cause these giant disasters.”
Bill Maher
March 18, 1925 – a large tornado tore through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people over 3.5 hours on its 219-mile path. The Tri-State Tornado was not the only tornado on this day; several other tornadoes were reported in the region, bringing the total death toll to some 750 or more, and leaving over 2000 people injured.
http://www.greenskychaser.com/blog/2010/03/18/tri-state-tornado/
By Andrew FreedmanMay 11, 2011What Does Climate Change Have to Do With the Flooding?
Climate change cannot be blamed for causing the flooding, but scientists have detected large-scale trends indicating that extreme precipitation events are becoming more likely as temperatures warm in response to increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the air. This means that heavy rainfall events are more frequent than they used to be, in part because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture that can be wrung out by storm systems.
Scientists are working to detect the “fingerprint” of climate change in specific extreme weather events, and their methods are still in their infancy. It will take many months for studies to be completed on whether climate change may have made April’s heavy rains more likely. For now, though, we can look at studies that have already been completed that offer some clues about the relationship between climate change and heavy precipitation events.
That is the equivalent of racist claims from the 1960s. We used to hear this all the time : “We can’t say for sure that a colored person committed this crime, but as more colored people move into the neighborhood, we expect crimes of this type to increase.”
Either they have evidence or they don’t. This type of reporting is intended to mislead and is fraudulent.
Expectations are not a cause of weather.
Boulder Youths Sue Colorado For Global Warming
10-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, 11-year-old Haiden Inskeep and 18-year-old Cecelia Kluding-Rodriguez are joined by WildEarth Guardians, an environmental activist and protection organization of which Martinez is a member, to sue the state as a concerted effort to establish the “atmosphere as a public trust resource” and for damages due to health issues that have surface for the three youths due to a failure to protect the natural environment, according the lawsuit filed by their attorneys.
Roske-Martinez says that part of the reason she is so vested in environmental causes is that she had friends who lost their homes in the Fourmile Canyon Fire, the most destructive fire in Colorado history.
Apparently Colorado never had fires before people started building their suburban homes in the middle of the forest.
I hope these kids can survive the heat. It is 38F (3C) in Boulder this afternoon.
In 2002, Monbiot spread some of his left wing holiday cheer in a piece titled “Christmas Famine”
24 December 2002
Within as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable farming either continues to feed the world’s animals or it continues to feed the world’s people. It cannot do both.
2012 is just seven months away. The clock is ticking ……..
He must have had a really interesting childhood.
35 million years ago, Giant Sequoias grew in Colorado. This fossilized stump is almost 4 metres in diameter and was probably 90 metres tall. These trees are now only found in California.
It kind of pisses me off that we used to have a nice climate like California, and then global cooling came along and made it cold all the time. I blame you, because you simply aren’t generating enough CO2.
You can see the trees here :
http://www.nps.gov/flfo/index.htm
Definitely worth a visit. I used to go to summer camp near there as a child, but I don’t think they had found any of the stumps at the time. Or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention …..
