My 13 year old just pointed this out to me :

Go to YouTube, click on the light bulb, and a photograph of Australia’s beautiful and sensuous prime minister appears.

http://www.youtube.com/

They know the lights will be back on in less than an hour. If they tried Earth Month instead, that would be the end of the global warming religion.

Temperatures in the quake-hit areas in northeastern Japan dropped to midwinter levels Thursday, marking 5.9 degrees below zero in Morioka, Iwate, 2.7 degrees below zero in Sendai, Miyagi, and 3.5 degrees below zero in the city of Fukushima.

Fuel shortages have hampered the delivery of relief supplies to shelters where survivors are staying, while also limiting the use of heavy machinery and heating appliances, rescuers said, according to Kyodo news agency.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/

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

I spent a week in Danbury, CT earlier this month, and I thought it was very cold with deep snow. Turns out that I was just denying the obvious truths of the Spanish Inquisition Church Of Global Warming.

This year, the sap has been running well in the maple trees at Warrups Farm in West Redding.

“It’s been a very good year,” said Bill Hill, the farm’s owner.

The deep snow cover on the ground made the taps in the trees hard to get to, he said, but once the snow melted, the trees just sucked the water up, making a lot of sap.

…………………

Which is why climate change could profoundly alter the maple syrup business — in Connecticut, in New England.

That means a part of the taste of life here could slip away. Denying it is happening won’t change anything.

“Climate change is happening,” said Thomas Philbrick, professor of environmental and biological science at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. “We know it’s happening.

“Will it affect the maples in Connecticut? Yes,” Philbrick said this month, speaking about the science of maple trees and maple syrup-making in WestConn’s Science at Night series.

http://www.newstimes.com/

http://www.globalwarming.org/

Jeff Masters has been telling us that more CO2 causes more precipitation – due to larger amounts of water vapor in the atmosphere. Now we find out that more CO2 also causes less precipitation due to a drier atmosphere.

Public release date: 24-Mar-2011

Contact: Ken Caldeira
[email protected]
650-704-7212
Carnegie Institution

Cutting carbon dioxide helps prevent drying

Washington, D.C.—Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research from Carnegie Global Ecology scientists Long Cao and Ken Caldeira offers a novel explanation for why climates are wetter when atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations are decreasing. Their findings, published online today by Geophysical Research Letters, show that cutting carbon dioxide concentrations could help prevent droughts caused by global warming.

Cao and Caldeira’s new work shows that this precipitation increase is due to the heat-trapping property of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide traps heat in the middle of the atmosphere. This warm air higher in the atmosphere tends to prevent the rising air motions that create thunderstorms and rainfall.

As a result, an increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide tends to suppress precipitation. Similarly, a decrease in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide tends to increase precipitation.

The results of this study show that cutting the concentration of precipitation-suppressing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would increase global precipitation. This is important because scientists are concerned that unchecked global warming could cause already dry areas to get drier. (Global warming may also cause wet areas to get wetter.) Cao and Caldeira’s findings indicate that reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide could prevent droughts caused by climate change.

“This study shows that the climate is going to be drier on the way up and wetter on the way down,” Caldeira said, adding:”Proposals to cool the earth using geo-engineering tools to reflect sunlight back to space would not cause a similar pulse of wetness.”

The team’s work shows that carbon dioxide rapidly affects the structure of the atmosphere, causing quick changes precipitation, as well as many other aspects of Earth’s climate, well before the greenhouse gas noticeably affects temperature. These results have important implications for understanding the effects of climate change caused by carbon dioxide, as well as the potential effects of reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

“The direct effects of carbon dioxide on precipitation take place quickly,” said Cao. “If we could cut carbon dioxide concentrations now, we would see precipitation increase within the year, but it would take many decades for climate to cool.”

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-03/ci-ccd032411.php

h/t to suyts

Tens of thousands killed in Japan by a Tsunami. North Korea is running out of food due to the cold weather, and 25% of their people are starving according to the UN.

Meanwhile the press obsesses about CO2 and radiation – and emulating the North Korean lifestyle tonight.

CO2 is actually a remedy for Asthma and Hyperventilation

The Buteyko Breathing Technique is based on the premise that raising blood levels of carbon dioxide through shallow breathing can help people with asthma. Carbon dioxide is believed to dilate the smooth muscles of the airways.

A study involving 60 people with asthma compared the effects of the Buteyko Breathing Technique, a device that mimics pranayama (a yoga breathing technique), and a placebo. Researchers found people using the Buteyko Breathing Technique had a reduction in asthma symptoms.

http://altmedicine.about.com/od/aznaturalremedyindex/a/asthma.htm

h/t to Marc Morano

March 23, 2011
Annual maximum ice extent reached … equal (within 0.1%) to 2006 for the lowest maximum extent in the satellite record.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/032311.html

Not so fast … DMI shows ice extent increasing and above the two years with the highest summer minimums.

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/

Wrong on all counts.

IPCC 15.2.4.1.2.4. Ice Storms

Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms

http://observatory.ph/resources/IPCC/TAR/wg2/569.htm#1524123

http://www.accuweather.com/