Real Climate Science

If you could dredge out the Grand Canyon to a depth of 50km, atmospheric temperatures would be very hot – close to Venusian temperatures.

Would your hole change the height of the troposphere? Of course not. Would it change the composition of the atmosphere? Of course not. Would it change the lapse rate? Of course not.

Enough of the strawman arguments. Venus is hot because it has a thick, high pressure atmosphere. The heat has little or nothing to do with CO2. If Earth’s atmosphere were as thick as Venus, it would be incredibly hot here too.

Earlier I reported on a new paper which says that sea level rise rates have doubled since the last century. Even the IPCC graph shows nothing of the sort. Climate science seems to be dominated by people willing to say anything to get attention and money. The fastest recent sea level rise occurred during the 1940s.

We are a full half a standard deviation below the mean, with extent dropping by  a minuscule amount every day.

http://arctic-roos.org/

The paper confirms that the ocean has been rising in fits and starts since the 19th century. And both the tide gauges and satellites show that the rate of sea-level rise appears to have accelerated in the early 1990s, so that the ocean is now rising at about a foot per century, perhaps slightly less. That is almost twice the rate of increase that prevailed through most of the 20th century.

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/

Konrad Steffen, the Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), provides an analysis of Greenland’s ice sheet. He predicts that the Earth’s sea level will continue to rise to at least one and a half meters by the year 2100.

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/403902

http://www.fastcompany.com/17

This must include Freeman Dyson.

This begins to explain why so many conservatives do not believe in global warming and science in general.

When you have an unshakable belief in your own little world — that cow farts are responsible for greenhouse gases and, by the way, the EPA should not be allowed to regulate them — you are not going to embrace the science that has proven human involvement beyond a doubt.

Pretty simple. And simple minded, eh?

http://themoderatevoice.com/

Yes, you are very simple minded – Mr. moderate.

2011 : “I want to embrace the country that I love. The country that I know is positive and fair and there’s so much of that out there, that’s it very easy to kind of push the other stuff aside and not take it in. It’s easier than you’d imagine,” Michelle Obama said.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

2008 : “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “and not just because Barack has done well

http://www.boston.com/

2003 : The Obamas’ long-time spiritual mentor :  ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,”

http://abcnews.go.com/

ROFLMAO

http://content.usatoday.com/