Real Climate Science

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

Global warming can mean record heat or record cold. That is why Hansen talks about heat all the time.

First Florida Cold-water Bleaching Event in 30 Years

NOAA and partners from 12 organizations surveyed sites in the Florida Keys to determine the extent of coral bleaching, and death, in the wake of record low-water temperatures. Scientists assessed coral health at more than 78 sites from January 25 to February 12 to determine the severity of coral bleaching and reefs most affected.

During the first two weeks of January 2010, water temperatures in some parts of the Keys dropped into the upper 40s and lower 50s, which is about
20 degrees Fahrenheit lower than the typical temperatures of the upper 60s and lower 70s. The lethal lower limit for corals is 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

According to reef biologists, the influx of cold water from Florida and Biscayne bays appears to be responsible for the coral deaths in nearshore waters of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The hardest hit areas were the inshore and mid-channel reefs from Biscayne Bay (southeast Florida) to Summerland Key (island in the Florida Keys). Fortunately, the offshore reefs most frequented by divers and sportfishers were buffered by warmer waters of the Florida Current and spared severe impact.

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/

h/t to Ivan

CO2 was a very safe 310 ppm at the time.

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h/t to glacierman

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h/t to glacierman

For millions of years Earth’s climate has been completely stable, but it is about to start changing.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4563179,00.html

Shock news. Rainfall in Brazil is below average during half of the years. Why can’t rainfall be above average every year?

There are signs their predictions may be coming true, with last month’s unusual tornado becoming the latest example of bad weather to destroy crops and houses in the country’s south.

“We’re seeing the beginning of climate change. The frequency and intensity of rains changed measurably and will continue to do so,” says Jose Marengo, an INPE climate expert.

In Varginha, in central Minas Gerais state, Ivo Bueno Paiva points to his infested and depleted coffee trees. In five of the past 10 years, rainfall was well below the historic average, shriveling leaves and drying out flower buds.

http://www.reuters.com/

Climate Change

Human-induced climate change is a global issue and is the primary environmental challenge of this century.  Increased levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide act to enhance the natural greenhouse effect and accelerate irreversible changes in the climate.

What is distinctive about the current period of global warming, compared to previous cycles of climate change, is the extent and rate of change, which exceeds natural variation.  The impacts of climate change present very serious global risks and threaten the basic components of life, including health, access to water, food production and the use of land.  As the earth gets warmer the damage from climate change will accelerate.

http://www.epa.ie/whatwedo/climate/

http://www.latimes.com

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

http://www.independent.co.uk/

Since Catholicism is the one true religion, we should be able to  convert everyone eventually.

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