Real Climate Science

They claim that SSTs in January were “2nd warmest on record” – when globally they were among the coldest in the last 30 years.

http://www.drroyspencer.com

January was near the peak of the second coldest La Nina on record.

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

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif

There is one small warm spot east of Virginia……

That should win hearts and minds in the Middle East.

A NATO airstrike on Tripoli killed the youngest son and three grandchildren of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan government announced Sunday.

The airstrike and resulting deaths are likely to increase the accusations that NATO has overstepped the bounds of a United Nations Security Council resolution that authorized it to protect civilians. It comes after Libyan rebels rejected Colonel Qaddafi’s offer Saturday of a conditional cease-fire and negotiations.

http://www.csmonitor.com/

There seems to be a subculture out there of people trying to mentally erase Ehrlich’s ludicrous predictions. No matter how many original books, magazines and newspaper articles they are presented from the time period, they refuse to accept the truth.

Walter Williams wrote a column a dozen years ago in which he made some wild claims about Stanford population biologist Paul Ehrlich.

Recently Williams revived that claim for another column, and the revived claim is all over conservative sites.

Steven Goddard, who appears to be making a living on screwing up references to the work of others, though had restricted most of his error to sciency issues like climate change denial, put up a post repeating Williams’ claim.

I imagined Ehrlich might have said something like that, but most likely in one of his “scenarios” like the three much different disaster scenarios he proposed in his 1968 book Population Bomb.  So I asked Goddard for a reference (pollution and economic scarcity, disease, and food shortages, were the three apocalyptic horsemen Ehrlich wrote about then).

http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/

This is the identical behaviour of Holocaust deniers – refusal to accept the historical record.

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/

Arctic ice extent almost exactly the same as 15 years ago. And 30 years ago.

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.gif

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/

Hansen says that changes in TSI (Total Solar Irradiance) can’t account for temperature rises during the last century, because the increase in TSI was too small and because it has flattened.

At the same time, he argues that small increases in CO2 forcing are having a much larger impact on temperature – due to feedback and accumulated heat in the ocean. His argument is that as long as CO2 forcing is out of equilibrium, the temperature continues to rise.

The problem is, the feedback/accumulated heat argument would apply equally to high levels of TSI. Until ocean temperatures equilibrate, temperatures continue to rise.

His selective use of logic to support a pre-determined result reeks of an agenda.

Now that it has been almost 1,000 days without a hurricane, can we can conclude that American SUVs save lives?

The underlying psychology is that the left hate themselves, all humans, and Americans in particular. It has nothing to do with science.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/sep/23/usnews.hurricanes20051

h/t to Marc Morano and Tom Nelson

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