Real Climate Science

I did something today that I very rarely do – drove to the mountains. I wanted to check out the snow conditions and pine beetles. The snow is ridiculous – eight feet deep at 10,000 feet elevation. My dogs loved it.

As far as the beetles go, the affected areas show a consistent pattern of about every other tree infested. Basically, the beetles are thinning the forest to the density they would be without fire suppression. They are undoing the damage environmentalists have done to the ecosystem over the last 100 years. Amazing how nature is able to protect itself from clueless do gooders.

Pine beetles – thinning the forest.

Chris Huhne ‘asked others to take speeding points’: Ex-wife of Climate Change Secretary claims he ‘pressurised’ people

Outspoken Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne was at the centre of an extraordinary controversy last night over alleged motoring offences.

The Liberal Democrat vehemently denies the claims. His denial came as his former wife Vicky Pryce said Mr Huhne had asked others to take penalty points on his behalf for a speeding offence.

When approached by The Mail on Sunday, Miss Pryce said: ‘I am aware that he pressurised people to take his driving licence penalty points.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

But …… I thought he was worried about reducing CO2 emissions and telling the truth.

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Over the last 12 months, temperatures in the North Atlantic have cooled dramatically.

One theory about ice ages is that they occur when Arctic winters are warmer and summers are cooler. More snow accumulates, and then does not melt completely in the summer.

This is interesting, because our friends were hysterical about “exceptional mildness” in Greenland in December – temperatures were -20C instead of the usual -25C. Now that the melt season has arrived, temperatures are running below normal.

They still talk about Greenland now, but it is the imaginary Greenland in their minds. Not the real one.

Lab scientists tinker with microbes to battle climate change

By Suzanne Bohan
Contra Costa Times Contra Costa Times
Posted: 05/06/2011 04:51:11 PM PDT
Updated: 05/06/2011 04:51:11 PM PDT

Microbes will take center stage next week as the unusual protagonists in a free talk with local scientists tackling climate change.

The one-celled creatures are now part of a major research initiative at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to explore ways to recapture more of the 6 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide human activities generate annually

The researchers, who will speak Monday evening at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, are working with the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, a federal facility for genetic sequencing of microbes and other life-forms.

The terrestrial ecosystem, meaning everything on land — from plants to soil and other geological features — absorbs about one-third of atmospheric carbon. Much of the credit goes to microbes, said Donald DePaolo, an associate lab director who heads the Berkeley Lab’s Carbon Cycle 2.0 initiative.

“Microbes are doing a huge job of taking carbon out of the atmosphere,” DePaolo said. But how microbes, usually bacteria, do their work is still largely a mystery, he said.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/

Two years ago both White Houses said that getting Osama was no longer important.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

Six months ago they started continuously watching Osama in his house, which he hasn’t left for five years. No doubt they had surveillance on his electronic communications as well. Osama was  marginalized to the point where he was reduced to babbling about global warming.

Last week, someone in Washington or Langley decided to score some political points by finally killing Osama. Suddenly Osama became an important military target again, and Obama a great military leader.

http://news.google.com/newspapers

This past winter was the coldest on record in Florida. Summers in Maine have not warmed for 120 years. The EPA speaks boldly and authoritatively about things they know nothing about.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/me.html

A team of international scientists has unveiled a new report warning that rapidly increasing climate change could raise global sea levels up to five feet, three inches by 2100. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme says temperatures in the Arctic are the warmest ever recorded, putting the region’s ice caps and glaciers, as well as the Greenland Ice Sheet, at risk of melting. Study co-author Dorthe Dahl-Jensen of the University of Copenhagen warned the rising sea levels could threaten coastal areas worldwide.

http://www.democracynow.org/

Human generated CO2 has been demonstrated to be a very tricky and deceptive molecule. In some places it blocks outgoing longwave radiation, but for unexplained reasons the troublesome little buggers have chosen not to do that in North America.

Climate change hardly visible in North America
Canada, U.S. buck trend, scientists say

BY TOM SPEARS, OTTAWA CITIZEN MAY 6, 2011

When your lawn scorches or the geraniums croak, it may be premature to blame global warming. One of the world’s top science journals says climate hasn’t changed in most of North America -yet.

http://www.vancouversun.com/

Disclaimer : CO2 reserves the right to start trapping excess heat at any time.