Real Climate Science

Despite years of warnings,  scientific consensus,, global treaty negotiations, and the appearance of predicted increased instances of violent weather and climate refugees, nearly half of Americans don’t worry about global warming.  According to Gallup, the number of Americans who worry “a great deal” or “a fair amount” about climate change has decreased from 63% of respondents in 2001 to 51% today. In the poll of attitudes toward nine major environmental issues, about three quarters of  Americans were very or somewhat concerned about water issues, including toxic contamination of water, pollution of bodies of water, and pollution of drinking water, and 72% worried a great deal or a fair amount about air pollution.

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Emergency rescue from anticipated warming.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

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On June 23, 1988, (Hansen) delivered his testimony in an unusually toasty hearing room. Why was it so warm? As then-Sen. Tim Wirth (D., Colo.), told ABC’s Frontline: “We went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right, so that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room . . . it was really hot.”

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h/t to Marc Morano

The climate is changing. The earth is warming up, and there is now overwhelming scientific consensus that it is happening, and human-induced. With global warming on the increase and species and their habitats on the decrease, chances for ecosystems to adapt naturally are diminishing.

Many are agreed that climate change may be one of the greatest threats facing the planet. Recent years show increasing temperatures in various regions, and/or increasing extremities in weather patterns.

http://www.globalissues.org/

Climate change is like a very patient sniper. It lies in wait for its victims, and then at the worst possible moment pulls the trigger.

So far, Hansen’s team of crack sharpshooters has been only firing blanks.

Clock ticking on climate change

IT IS abundantly clear from the bickering in Bangkok last week that the latest round of climate talks will not lead to the adoption of a comprehensive agreement at the United Nations climate change summit in Durban next December. The United States and several other developed countries are seeking a deal that would simply build on the “incremental progress” achieved at last year’s conference in Cancún, whereas the developing world wants firm commitments that their richer cousins will make substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions under a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. The resulting Mexican stand-off has been, and will continue to be, at the core of these tortuous negotiations in the run-up to Durban and beyond.

One of the most significant aspects of the Cancún agreement was that, for the first time, governments of both developed and developing countries recognised that deep cuts in global emissions “are required . . . so as to hold the increase in global average temperatures below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”. How this is to be translated into reality is the fundamental question that faces not only the 194 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, but humanity in general. Even US negotiator Jonathan Pershing conceded that current pledges to cut emissions fall “wildly short” of what would be needed if there is to be any chance of achieving the declared objective.

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Desai adds: “The number of days below zero has decreased statewide; nighttime lows are not as low as they used to be. This winter, the Weather Service in Milwaukee reported there had been a record 723 days — virtually two years — since the last below-zero day. Even though Milwaukee does not get below-zero as much as Madison, this is still a pretty incredible stretch.”

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Weather Underground reports that January 21, 2011 was -6F. February 10 was -8F, and two other days made it to 0F.

http://www.wunderground.com/

Q: Is global warming evident in the temperature records of Wisconsin for the past 30 or 40 years? Winters seem to be getting a whole lot warmer.

A: Indeed, and winter is actually warming faster than summer in Wisconsin, says Ankur Desai, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison. “The annual average temperature has risen 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit, which is pretty consist with global trends, but what is different in Wisconsin is the strong increase in winter temperatures, of about 2.5 degrees in winter, and almost 4 degrees in the Northwest.”

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They are using a pretty ugly trick. Over the last thirty years there has been no change in Wisconsin winter temperatures.

Over the last decade, winter temperatures have plummeted.

So what’s the trick? There were three very cold winters in the late 1970s which pull the left side down.

Winters in Wisconsin are just as cold now as they were ninety years ago.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/wi.html

If they have to pull tricks like that, their science stinks. The winter of 2009 was the 19th coldest on record in Wisconsin and the winter of 2008 was the 32nd coldest. This past winter was the 44th coldest.

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