Real Climate Science

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Phil Jones claims to be able to do accurate comparisons vs. temperatures from 1850. This claim is ridiculous, because in 1850 the coverage of Northern Hemisphere land masses was less than 20% – as seen in the picture below.

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/data/HadCRUT3v.nc

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Heavy winter snows will likely be delaying the opening of a major road into Yosemite National Park.
Park officials say Highway 120 through the Tioga Pass, which connects the park to the east side of the Sierra, will open to traffic later in the year than it usually does.
The road is closed during the winter because of snowfall and the threat of avalanches, but normally opens around Memorial Day. A park spokesman says with 15 feet of snow still on the roadway, there’s no estimate of when it will open.

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h/t to Marc Morano

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#1 military target Osama Bin Laden was killed this week in his million dollar mansion while Obama and Hillary watched live, after a massive firefight in his heavily armed compound where he pushed his wife into the line of fire while he fired an AK-47. The US troops tried to take him alive but his resistance made that impossible. The gun battle was so extreme that Hillary had to cover her mouth in horror.

The fog of war made it impossible for Obama to know at the time that he didn’t see the firefight live.

Scientists measure Arctic soot in bid to slow global warming, oceans’ rise

BY RENEE SCHOOF
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON — American scientists working on an island far above the Arctic Circle have been launching unmanned aircraft and digging snow samples to measure how soot helps melt Arctic snow and ice.

Satellite observations in recent decades show longer warm seasons and more melting throughout the region. One reason for this is black carbon, the basic component of soot. The black pollution absorbs light energy, increasing temperatures that speed melting.

The measurements over the past month on a Norwegian island of the Svalbard group, east of northern Greenland, could help show the most useful places to reduce soot – one part of broader efforts to slow Arctic warming and the rise in sea level that it will bring to coastal communities worldwide.

Different sources of black carbon have different chemical tracers, said Patricia Quinn, a chemist and co-leader of the team. The tracers, along with models of airflows, allow scientists to figure out where the soot came from.

“So we can say this is coming from forest fire burning in this region, or oil burning in this region, indicating that those are the sources that really need to be targeted and reduced,” Quinn said.

Black carbon stays in the atmosphere for days or weeks. Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, the main heat-trapping gas, accumulates in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. Scientific studies say there’s no way around the need to reduce carbon dioxide from energy use, but black carbon reductions in the meantime would bring immediate benefits.

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According to GISS, the coldest April on record in Nuuk was -8.9C in 1949. GISS data isn’t out yet for April, but Weather Underground shows a mean temperature last month of 16F, which is also -8.9C.

How odd that Vicky Pope isn’t making any more press releases about Greenland.

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/BGGH/2011/4/8/MonthlyHistory.html

Greenland ice cap ‘doomed to meltdown’

18:00 07 April 2004 by Fred Pearce

The Greenland ice sheet is all but doomed to melt away to nothing, according to a new modelling study. If it does melt, global sea levels will rise by seven metres, flooding most of the world’s coastal regions.

http://www.newscientist.com/

The meltdown will start – right after the record cold ends.

http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/alfis/1/show.html

Venus has magical properties and its own set of unique physical laws. No education, knowledge (or the ability to think rationally) is required to write a global warming textbook.

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