The Arctic was their last hope, and that is collapsing under their feet. Spectacular cold is persisting – as we normally would be heading into the melt season.
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp2.html
Hansen can keep his pink crayon out, but the ice won’t lie for him.
A metre over the next five hundred years….. Scary stuff. How will the next 20 generations adapt in such a short time?
Disruptive thoughts could destroy the Borg. It is dangerous to question scientists and to allow children to ask questions.
North Carolina has the biggest tornado swarm since CO2 was below 350 ppm, so the Time Magazine geniuses immediately try to blame it on CO2.
Superstition, ill-logic and general stupidity reigns supreme.
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg
Climate change policy is EPA’s job, not courts’
THE DEMOCRATS’ global warming bill died in the Senate last year. The new Republican majority in the House wants to gut carbon regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency. President Obama is reluctant even to discuss global warming publicly. So some environmentalists believe that a case being argued before the Supreme Court Tuesday represents the last, best hope to reduce greenhouse emissions.
This is not where environmentalists had hoped to be when the case, American Electric Power v. Connecticut, was launched in 2004. A group of states and New York City sued several electric companies that year, claiming that the greenhouse emissions from their power plants are a “public nuisance” because they contribute to global warming. Climate change directly harms California’s snowpack, New York’s sea level, shipping in the Great Lakes and so forth, the states argued, and so they turned to an element of common law, non-statutory legal norms imported from England centuries ago that allow for nuisance suits when one party’s activity harms others.
A U.S. District Court judge curtly threw out the states’ case, saying that plaintiffs were asking the judicial branch to settle an inherently political question. The states persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit to reverse the district court’s ruling, arguing that, under ancient and recent precedent, courts have settled nuisance claims similar to those in AEP v. Connecticut.
An emission reduction of 15 percent would cost an average family at least $1,400 a year, the congressional agency says.
Commentary: EPA’s iron fist won’t curb ‘warming’
Jay Ambrose / Scripps Howard News ServiceOne way or the other, the powers that be are determined to do something big, bold and dumb to try to stop supposedly catastrophic global warming, and here’s my suggestion: a nationwide voodoo dance.
It’s true that tens of millions hopping crazily about in the streets would accomplish nothing, but neither will the far more mischievous plot in which the Environmental Protection Agency will do the hopping, going from source to source to stifle greenhouse gas emissions. J. Scott Armstrong is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and someone alarmed about alarmists. With two other students of forecasting, he has observed that apocalypse predictors have been repeatedly wide of the mark.
I hate this feeling that we are degenerating into a dark ages mentality, but that seems to be where we are headed. Plate tectonics really has nothing to do with liberal neuroses. The mantle couldn’t care less how stupid the people are at the surface.
PUNTARENAS, Costa Rica (Alex Leff) – Scientists set off from Costa Rica on Sunday to drill a hole deep under the sea and directly extract rocks from record depths that could add to the understanding of climate change.
The rocks dug up from the lower part of Earth’s crust in the coming weeks will be the closest anyone has come to the vast, churning part of the planet called the mantle, which lies between the crust and the core.
On a 140-meter (460-foot) ship that resembles an oil platform, the 30-member scientific team will bring back rocks from 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) beneath the sea off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.
“This will be a big step forward but we’re still not getting to the mantle — the mantle is still 3 kilometers (2 miles) away,” said the expedition’s co-chief, Damon Teagle, of Britain’s University of Southampton.
An examination of rocks from the crust and mantle could shed light on how tectonic plates — vast pieces of the Earth’s crust — formed and how they move. When the plates move against one another they can cause earthquakes.
Scientists also think details about the composition of the lower crust might help them better understand climate change.
The world’s oceans trap greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, making the oceans important for models that try to predict how these gases fuel climate changes from global warming to altered weather patterns.
Mars has huge erosional features formed by water. How could this be? It is far too cold for there to be liquid water on Mars.
You can’t blame it on the Sun, because according to astronomers the Sun used to be dimmer.
You can’t blame it on CO2 (even if you believe that nonsense) because the atmosphere is already nearly 100% CO2.
So what could it be?
