Real Climate Science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12493628

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There just wasn’t much moisture in the atmosphere when CO2 was below 350 ppm.

h/t to Andy Revkin

“To those who think climate change is something for the future,” the report states, “let’s be clear that today we already face a clear and present danger in Groton from hurricanes and major nor’easter storms.

The most important actions the town should take involve increasing energy efficiency to reduce the town’s output of greenhouse gases that are the main drivers of climate change, and preparing for a sea level rise that threatens to flood coastal neighborhoods, the report states.

http://www.theday.com/article/20110224/NWS01/302249554/1019&town=

There can be little doubt that emissions from the cars of of Groton, Connecticut control the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic. And it has been 20 years since a hurricane (Bob category 2) hit Connecticut, but no doubt things will pick up in the future.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

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Bastardi sees modern climate scientists as inordinately fixated on carbon dioxide at the expense of other major factors (an example of their narrow, model-focused approaches, versus his tendency toward holistic empirical observation). “It’s almost the equivalent of saying, ‘Your big toe runs your body,’” he says. “Carbon dioxide is a trace gas, a tiny gas, part of this huge system. You’re trying to tell me that’s going to control the system and influence the energy of the system? When you have things like the sun, which is obviously the greatest contributor to the world’s energy? It almost defies common sense.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/257040

It is impossible for the city dweller to form any idea of the utter desolation and misery wrought by the drought in Queensland. East from Clermont to Aramac, across fiery sandhills on which the spinifex is burnt black; north to the Burde kin ; south to the Dawson, and west to Nebo and St. Lawrence, it is all the same – one long stretch of withered wilderness. Miles of parched desert, empty creeks and water-courses, shrivelled scrub and stunted trees, under which famine stricken sheep and bullocks grotesque, blear-eyed, loony-looking beasts-stagger pathetically while the hateful crow clamours in fiendish exultation, and skeletons and scattered bones are to be seen every where. The strings of motherless calves following the pads out of the empty water-holes tell their own tale. The stations are deserted save for a manager and a black boy or so. All the Downs country is now a howling wilderness. Lake Elphin stone, which should be seven miles in circumference, has hardly any water. Everyone is making for the coast and northwards. At intervals you meet men in small parties grim, sullen, hopeless-looking men shouldering heavy swags and carrying large water-bags and billies, some almost bootless in the blistering sand, looking for a job they have no chance.of getting.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

http://www.theage.com.au
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/24/us-libya-usa-idUSTRE71K6D520110224