Real Climate Science

Forget the World’s Fair, we now have a new way to celebrate human accomplishment. Instead of going to see a vision of the future, we turn off the lights and sit in the dark for an hour. Earth Hour shows how far we have come from celebrating human accomplishment to celebrating the lack of accomplishment. For all its pretentious activism, environmentalism is a movement that promotes inaction. Don’t build, don’t create and don’t do– are its commandments. Turn off the lights and feel good about how much you aren’t doing right now. Slacker morality at its best.

While we take the electric light for granted– to be able to read and write after dark by a clear light is a technological achievement that has transformed our civilization. Animals are governed by day and night cycles. Artificial light made it possible for us to work independently of the day and night cycle. There is no way to measure the increase in knowledge gained. And there is no better measure of the unthinking contempt of the environmentalist movement for that achievement than a call to turn off the lights and sit in the dark.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/

The David Cameron world apology tour.

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

What a let down.

They promise a shutdown, but can they deliver?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Americans can find out which tiny percentage of the government they actually need.

Joe can stop his ranting now. Nature saves the planet.

Latitude suggested that I try this. The plot below shows Rutgers winter (Dec-Feb) snow cover vs. UAH global Dec-Feb temperatures.

As you can see, there is no correlation. Snowy winters are just as likely during global warm winters and cold winters. Winter 2009-2010 was El Nino and was very snowy. Winter 2010-2011 was La Nina and was very snowy.

However, there is a very strong correlation between mid-latitude NH cold and snow. Unfortunately RSS has not updated their data, and I can’t plot this out yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/

The last one was Andrew in 1992. The other two were in 1935 and 1969. It has been 934 days since any hurricane hit the US – the longest hurricane-free period since before the Civil War.

Extensive northern hemisphere snow cover during the 197os was caused by record cold and global cooling, but now it is caused by record heat and global warming. Like when your broiler starts behaving like the deep freeze.

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=1&ui_sort=0

So far this year, snow cover has been fifth highest on record. Snow cover has been rising steadily for 20 years, in direct proportion to the level of dishonesty from the global warming funded alarmist community.

Each new article about the Amazon drought brings another five inches of rain. This has been going on for months.

http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec8.html

As Hansen always points out – El Nino is climate, but La Nina is just weather.