Phil said winter was over.

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp1.html

“When we average temperature over five or 10 years to minimise that variability, we find global warming is continuing unabated,” Mr Hansen said.

http://www.news.com.au/

http://www.woodfortrees.org/

http://www.woodfortrees.org/

“Texas temperatures are going up pretty much like the earth’s temperatures are,” North said. “Generally speaking, the global average temperature changes about the same as in Texas, so it is probably going to be warmer in Texas in the next 50 to 100 years. Last summer was a really hot summer, and while I say that is a fluctuation, it does probably indicate things that we might expect in the next 20 or 30 years. And what you can expect in the next 50 years is that the heat we experienced last summer is going to be the average summer temperature.”

http://www.thebatt.com/news/global-warming-affects-texas-1.1492309

In that case, the world has nothing to worry about. Texas shows no warming since the start of NCDC records, and has cooled dramatically since the 1998 El Nino.

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

Texas is running well below normal in 2011.

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/srcc/YearTDeptSRCC.png

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/02/movin-to-montana-soon.php

http://www.wunderground.com/US/MT/Sidney.html

http://news.google.com/newspapers

2010                                                                                 2006

2010 was an exceptional year for Greenland’s ice cap. Melting started early and stretched later in the year than usual. Little snow fell to replenish the losses. By the end of the season, much of southern Greenland had set a new record, with melting that lasted 50 days longer than average.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=49338

A few observations

• Looks about the same as 2006
• The number of days with melting tells you nothing about the amount of melt or the net change in ice over the year
• The vast majority of the ice sheet never got above freezing.

NASA lost the plot 35 years ago.

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The National Institute for Civil Discourse – a nonpartisan center for debate, research, education and policy about civility in public discourse – will open Monday in Tucson. It was created in the aftermath of the Jan. 8 shootings in the city where six people were killed and 13 injured, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor and former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) will serve as honorary co-chairmen. Board members will include former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright; Kenneth M. Duberstein, chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan; Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren; Trey Grayson, director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics; and former congressman Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Giffords’ shooter is apolitical and mentally ill, but I’m sure he is very interested in what this institute has to say.

Obviously this isn’t our own beloved James Hansen at NASA. Just a coincidence with the name.

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