Real Climate Science

Joe Barton asks the Nobel Prize winner a science question which he doesn’t know the answer to, so he simply tries to BS his way through it.

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Chu tries to claim that North Slope oil formed at low latitudes and later drifted north. In fact, the oil deposits formed when the climate was much warmer, and at about the same latitude where they are now.

Four key marine petroleum source rock units were identified, characterized, and mapped in the subsurface to better understand the origin and distribution of petroleum on the North Slope of Alaska. These marine source rocks, from oldest to youngest, include four intervals: (1) Middle–Upper Triassic Shublik Formation, (2) basal condensed section in the Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Kingak Shale, (3) Cretaceous pebble shale unit, and (4) Cretaceous Hue Shale.

http://aapgbull.geoscienceworld.org/

h/t to Steve McIntyre

1. It was hot last summer.
2. It was cold last winter.
3. There were floods.
4. There were earthquakes.
5. It snowed.

Additionally, my survey of two people tells me that more than 97% of them prefer to keep their paychecks coming.

CO2 was well below Hansen’s safe 350 ppm.

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Multnomah County’s Sustainability department and the Oregon Environmental Council are sponsoring a short film contest on the subject of how climate change will affect Oregon, and what can be done about it.

http://portlandtribune.com/

Right after it gets done flooding.

Report: Climate change worsens Western water woes
(AP) – 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate change is likely to diminish already scarce water supplies in the Western United States, exacerbating problems for millions of water users in the West, according to a new government report.

A report released Monday by the Interior Department said annual flows in three prominent river basins — the Colorado, Rio Grande and San Joaquin — could decline by as much 8 percent to 14 percent over the next four decades. The three rivers provide water to eight states, from Wyoming to Texas and California, as well as to parts of Mexico.

http://www.google.com/

http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/

As you can see, all the snow and ice has melted and all the trees have been killed by beetles.

http://www.nps.gov/glac/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

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