Real Climate Science

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/images/fnl/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.anim.html

Hansen demonstrates that his stance on CO2 is irrational, and that climate science peer-review is complete crap. How does this garbage get published?

Hansen 2003 :

The soot albedo effect operates in concert with regional warming in most of the world, hindering empirical distinction of climate and soot contributions. However, there has been little warming in China, including Tibet, over the past 120 years (Fig. 3), yet glaciers there are retreating rapidly

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/

Hansen 2009 :

“Tibet’s glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate,” said James Hansen, coauthor of the study and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City. “Black soot is probably responsible for as much as half of the glacial melt, and greenhouse gases are responsible for the rest.”

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/carbon-pole.html

If Hansen believes that there has been little warming in Tibet, how exactly is CO2 responsible for half the melt? His stance is completely irrational.

h/t to Jimbo

Three years ago a massive tornado struck Windsor, Colorado – destroying several miles of the city. The morning started with the dew point in the 70s, which never happens in Colorado. I grabbed the kids out of school and we drove up to the mountains to wait the storm out.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfYuT0oalXQ]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfB0eQVFu0]

Paul picked the World Cup perfectly, but he was alive at the time.

Global warming to melt all ice in Arctic Ocean every summer: study

LOS ANGELES, April 17 (Xinhua) — Global warming will melt all the ice in the Arctic Ocean every summer, raising earth temperatures even further, researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) warned.

The findings, available online Sunday in the April issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, a leading journal in geoscience, were based on analysis of the fossilized remains of four-million-year-old mollusks, they said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/

Attributed to von Neumann by Enrico Fermi, as quoted by Freeman Dyson in “A meeting with Enrico Fermi” in Nature 427 (22 January 2004) p. 297

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

What did Von Neumann mean by this? He meant that by using enough input variables, you can get any result you seek.

i.e. the story of climate models.

The vast majority of glacial retreat occurred before humans started burning coal. One  might expect the world’s greatest climatologist to have a grasp of basic science before he talks to the press.

“Tibet’s glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate,” said James Hansen, coauthor of the study and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City. “Black soot is probably responsible for as much as half of the glacial melt, and greenhouse gases are responsible for the rest.”

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/carbon-pole.html

She turned me into a newt.

One of the more colorful cases was filed by a native Alaskan village with a population of 400 suing two dozen utility, energy, and oil companies for $400 million in damages to compensate the villagers for the harms resulting from thinning sea ice that they say was caused by global warming. Another was filed by owners of land on the Gulf coast suing energy companies whose carbon emissions the owners say contributed to climate change that made Hurricane Katrina more intense and damaging than it would otherwise have been.

http://articles.boston.com/

Former AGW poster child Lake Powell water levels have been rising rapidly over the last few years.

http://lakepowell.water-data.com/

There is well above average snowpack across most of the Colorado/Green River drainage. Inflows into Lake Powell will be very large, so the big question will be how much they decide to let out to fill Lake Mead.

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/basinswe.html

http://geology.com/meteorites/impactites.shtml

Here is one on the snow in Siberia

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NRA_Ej2zZU]

In some countries, viewing “An Inconvenient Truth” has actually become a required part of the science curriculum, and with good justification, we think.

http://www.realclimate.org/

How well does the film handle the science? Admirably, I thought. It is remarkably up to date, with reference to some of the very latest research.

http://www.realclimate.org/

Here is a partial list of Gore’s spectacular set of errors.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html