One of the reasons that the climate effects Dr Lobell and his colleagues have dug out of the data are not worse is that, although the planet as a whole has warmed up during the past 30 years, growing seasons in the parts of America which produce 40% of the world’s maize and soyabeans have failed to follow suit. No one is quite sure why this might be and no one knows if it will last. That climate change has not yet done very much harm may be cheering, but the past offers no firm guarantees for the future.

http://www.economist.com

In poor sections of the world, CO2 traps heat. But in the US and Canada, CO2 has suspended its evil powers and has decided not to trap extra LW radiation.

Five days after the WTC came down, Obama’s pastor and long time spiritual mentor gloated and preached that 9/11 was our fault. Obama continued to attend that church for seven more years until he realized that it was going to keep him from getting elected.

“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”

“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,”

Pastor Wright

http://abcnews.go.com/

Why did planetary energy imbalance decline during the past decade?

The observed rate of ocean heat uptake since 2003 is less than in the preceding 10 years. Indeed, early reports suggested ocean cooling after 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006).  That apparent cooling was a result of instrumental artifacts, but even after corrections the rate of heat uptake was smaller than in the prior decade (Willis et al., 2007).  Observational error makes it difficult to measure heat uptake on short time scales, especially pre-Argo, but the slowdown in heat uptake since 2003 seems to be robust (Levitus et al., 2009; Lyman et al., 2010). The slowdown of ocean heat uptake, together with satellite radiation budget observations, led to a perception that Earth’s energy budget is not closed (Trenberth, 2009; Trenberth and Fasullo, 2010), as summarized in Fig. 19A.  However, our calculated energy imbalance is consistent with observations (Fig. 19b), implying that there is no missing energy in recent years.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110415_EnergyImbalancePaper.pdf

My translation. After Willis published the data showing the oceans cooling, I took him behind the woodshed and told him that he better get that fixed and quick. Trenberth embarrassed everyone with that Climategate E-mail, so we massaged his numbers to make them appear to fit the First Law.

October 09, 2009

The committee said it honored Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

Obama said he viewed the decision less as a recognition of his own accomplishments and more as “a call to action.”

http://articles.cnn.com/

Tens or hundreds of thousands of climate refugees go to the warm climate of Arizona every winter to escape the cold climate of the midwest. They normally drive their Winnebago with their SUV in tow at 2 MPG.

The CO2 they generate somehow aggravates the climate problem, causing neurotic 16 year olds under the influence of Al Gore to feel suicidal.

Farewell to Arizona
May 02, 2011|By Kendall P. Stanley

Community is where you find it and make it, and as we escape the cold and snow of winter, Southern Arizona has become community.

Yes, we are part of that annual mass migration of creatures known as snowbirds. In our little part of Green Valley half to two-thirds of the people in our complex are here for anywhere from two to four months.

The question “Where are you from?” could be tiring, but here everyone is from somewhere else — given the age restrictions for residence in the majority of the housing developments, no one is born and raised here and there are no schools.

http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2011-05-02/bikers_29497565

Crop yields fall as temperatures rise

“Yields went up, but they didn’t go up as much as they might have,” says Wolfram Schlenker of Columbia University in New York City.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20449-crop-yields-fall-as-temperatures-rise.html

Right – and temperatures went down, but they didn’t go down as much as they might have without global warming.

Hansen forecast a strong El Nino for this summer. Fortunately for us, there are some competent scientists out there too.

I believe the odds for a two-year event remain well above 50%, notwithstanding the possibility of temporary weakening during boreal summer.

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

Thank you James Hansen and Al Gore for creating a generation of spectacularly  neurotic children.

I am 16 years old. This morning I filed a lawsuit against the United States of America, for allowing money to be more powerful than the survival of my generation, and for making decisions that threaten our right to a safe and healthy planet.

Our parents’ and grandparents’ generation have created a problem. They’ve developed a society that depends on burning fossil fuels, like coal and oil, to survive. They never realized that there were any huge consequences to running our lives with fossil fuels. But now, we do.

Our addiction to fossil fuels is messing up the perfect balance of nature and threatening the survival of my generation. If we continue to hide in denial and avoid taking action, my and I generation will be forced to grow up in a world where hurricanes as big as Katrina are normal, people die every year because of heat waves, droughts, and floods, and entire species of animals we’ve come to know disappear right before our eyes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

22 Apr 2011

At least 25 people have been killed in a US drone strike in the troubled Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan, officials told the BBC.

Missiles were fired on a large compound in the town of Spinwam, but five women and four children in a nearby house were also killed.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/

By Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times
May 5, 2011, 10:57 a.m.

Reporting from Baghdad  — A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people in southern Iraq on Thursday as the country braced for attacks from Al Qaeda in Iraq in the aftermath of the death of Osama bin Laden.

The car bomber blew up his vehicle at a police headquarters in the mainly Shiite Muslim city of Hillah before 7 a.m. as the police switched from overnight to day shift. It was the second major attack in Iraq since Bin Laden was killed early Monday.

http://www.latimes.com/

Nenana, Alaska has been tracking the date every year when the ice on their river starts to break free. This year it happened on May 4. The graph above shows the dates since Tamino’s period of modern global warming began in 1975.

There hasn’t been any trend, contrary to this week’s spew of Arctic global warming BS.

http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/Tripod%20Days.htm

h/t to Marc Morano