Real Climate Science

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 …..

CO2 must have been extremely high in 1927.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/klaus.wolter/MEI/table.html

The period from 1977-2000 was dominated by strong El Ninos. It also was a period of warming, surrounded by periods of flat or cooling, which purely coincidentally were ENSO negative.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1952

Being the good peer-reviewed climate scientists that we are, the obvious explanation is that the 1977-2000 warming is due to CO2. All weather is unequivocally due to CO2. We need billions and billions of dollars to make computer models in order to prove that it is due to CO2.

Peer review strikes again, as the west prepares for flooding from excess snowpack.

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY JANUARY 2005

DECLINING MOUNTAIN SNOWPACK
IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA*
BY PHILIP W. MOTE, ALAN F. HAMLET, MARTYN P. CLARK, AND DENNIS P. LETTENMAIE

only a small fraction of the variance of precipitation is explained by any of the Pacific climate indices, and, more importantly, the widespread and fairly monotonic increases in temperature exceed what can be explained by Pacific climate variability and are consistent with the global pattern of anthropogenic temperature increases.

http://www.livingrivers.org/pdfs/LRlibrary/ClimateDocs/MoteHamletClarkLettenmaier.pdf

May 13, 2011 – five weeks away from the summer solstice.

The Vikings named this place Greenland, because they were early global warming deniers who wanted to confuse people in the 21st century. There never was an MWP – as proven by peer-reviewed research.

Below is a closeup of Nuuk, where Hillary is solving the global warming crisis and making Greenland colder.

OSLO (Reuters) – Trees in the Arctic region may grow 500 km (300 miles) further north by 2100 as climate change greens the barren tundra and causes sweeping change to wildlife, a leading expert said.

A quickening melt of snow, ice and permafrost will enable more southerly species such as pine trees or animals such as foxes to move north.

“Changes seem to be happening even more rapidly than we had anticipated just 10 years ago,” Aevar Petersen, chair of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), told Reuters from Greenland on Thursday, where foreign ministers of Arctic countries agreed steps to bolster regional cooperation.

“Scientists estimate the treeline could move 500 km north by 2100 from now,” he said, based on CAFF projections. If that happened, as much as half the Arctic tundra from Siberia to Canada could vanish.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE74B7B020110513

And monkeys could fly out of his @$$ too.

NEVADA
  NORTHERN GREAT BASIN .........................  4 of  4     224       142 
  SNAKE RIVER ..................................  3 of  3     188       139 
  OWYHEE RIVER .................................  5 of  6     191       132 
  UPPER HUMBOLDT RIVER .........................  5 of  5     257       147 
  LOWER HUMBOLDT RIVER .........................  4 of  6     182       143 
  CLOVER VALLEY ................................  1 of  1     247       149 
  EASTERN NEVADA ...............................  3 of  3     258       149

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/snotelbasin

The ice was too thick

The ice was too thin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1935_Labor_Day_hurricane_track.png

The 1935 Labor Day hurricane made landfall in Florida with winds of 185 MPH. It was the only hurricane to hit the US with a barometric pressure lower than 900 mbar. It was one of only three category five hurricanes to make landfall in the US (the other two happened in 1969 and 1992.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_hurricane

Grist is hoping that a hurricane stronger than Katrina hits Florida. Too bad they weren’t there 75 years ago to live the dream.

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Obama halted drilling last year, but with an election looming he has suddenly become concerned about the cost of fuel.

The US will seek to expand domestic oil production in an attempt to reduce dependence on imported oil and bring down fuel prices, President Obama says.

Using his address to tell Americans that he understood their concerns about rising prices, President Obama focused particularly on the price of fuel, which has spiked in recent months.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13399360

He was for high fuel prices before he was against high fuel prices.

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

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