Real Climate Science

They appear to be watching something during the 40 minute blackout of the live feed.

You can see the guy who says he killed Osama, slouched in his chair center-left.

Climate-ravaged means either hot, dry, cool or wet.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154]

A reader was complaining that my comparison of March GISS vs UAH wasn’t fair, because I’m not smart enough to know which data set is more valid.

OK, let’s assume I am a complete idiot – here is the same comparison of GISS vs. RSS.

http://www.remss.com/

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http://data.giss.nasa.gov/

Besides the fact that most of their Arctic “data” is fabricated, they use other mind tricks. Note above how their standard press release file smeared the highest color band across the entire Arctic, while their more detailed netcdf file below shows a different story. Also note that their file for public consumption uses hot colors for effect, while the netcdf file looks much cooler.

The mountains of Colorado and Wyoming already have near-record snowpack, and are getting lots more today. This is because of the early spring and declining spring snowpack which the models predicted.

http://www.accuweather.com/

The successful bin Laden mission is a much-needed boost for the unit. The SEALs’ reputation took a hit within the special operations community after a 2010 rescue mission led to the accidental killing of British hostage Linda Norgrove, held by militants in Afghanistan. One of the SEALs threw a fragmentation grenade at a militant when the team stormed their hideout, not realizing Norgrove was curled on the ground next to the militant.

The SEALs originally reported that Norgrove had been killed by a fighter’s suicide vest, but when the SEAL commanding officer reviewed the tape from simultaneous surveillance video, he saw an explosion after one of the SEALs threw something in Norgrove’s direction, U.S. officials say, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a classified operation.

http://www.navytimes.com/

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb/atl_anom.gif

Romm and Masters blamed last week’s tornado outbreak on “near record warm” Gulf of Mexico SSTs. Interesting theory, given that they are below normal.

h/t to Joe D’Aleo

“Contrasting air masses of widely-varying temperatures is the key. Active tornado seasons in the U.S. are always the result of UNUSUALLY COLD air pushing much farther south than normal through the Midwest into Dixie.”

He goes on to add: “For example, the ‘poster child’ for active tornado seasons was the so-called ‘Super Outbreak’ in April of 1974, which took place during a period of widespread global cooling. (Some thought that we were entering a new ‘Little Ice Age.’)”

During this ‘La Nina’ spring, we’ve seen a much cooler and wetter than normal period that has significantly delayed the planting of corn east of the Mississippi River in the Midwest. There is no doubt that these La Nina years favor far more tornadoes than usual.

http://www.cdapress.com/

Temperatures rocketing up close to -20C. All this melting is going to drown Manhattan.

http://www.summitcamp.org/status/webcam/