Real Climate Science

I was amused when I watched the national news reports where global warming experts used the blizzards that struck the Northeast as proof of global warning.

One explained that warmer air can hold more moisture, which is true. He said these warmer blizzards can unleash heavier amounts of snow.

A good story, but the air temperatures don’t support his theory and certainly not with our snows earlier this week. There was nothing warm about the air that was in place when our blizzard began.

Global warming is credited when there are more hurricanes, and cited as the reason we have fewer hurricanes in a season.

But, I will say this: I am not sure what is going on. We are in a pattern called La Nina, which is characterized by an abnormal cooking of the Pacific Ocean waters near the equator. It tends to produce dry conditions to much of the country, which is exactly the pattern we have been in.

But this does not mean we will have 26 inches of snow in a month. It does not produce record-breaking temperatures that date back to the beginning of statehood.

In my 30 years of forecasting the weather, I can’t recall a more dramatic time to be a meteorologist. Not quite ready to blame it on man-made global warming, but I will certainly listen to all theories now.

Just please don’t make me listen to rap, that is as offensive to my ears as the record-breaking cold is to my senses.

http://www.kjrh.com/

The public is invited to attend and learn about the connection between climate change and public health in the Virgin Islands. The research center is seeking input on the best ways to communicate information to the public about adapting to climate change, such as extreme weather, flooding and shoreline loss due to sea level rise, and related public health issues, such as fish poisoning and dengue fever.

The meeting is a forum for evaluating methods Virgin Islanders currently use to communicate climate-related health challenges and help researchers determine how to get people to change their behavior.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/02/11/5307283.htm

There isn’t any sea level rise in the Virgin Islands

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9751639

Researchers demonstrate that Romm and Masters have no clue what they are talking about.

“In the climate models, the extremes get more extreme as we move into a doubled CO2 world in 100 years,” atmospheric scientist Gilbert Compo, one of the researchers on the project, tells me from his office at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “So we were surprised that none of the three major indices of climate variability that we used show a trend of increased circulation going back to 1871.”

In other words, researchers have yet to find evidence of more-extreme weather patterns over the period, contrary to what the models predict. “There’s no data-driven answer yet to the question of how human activity has affected extreme weather,” adds Roger Pielke Jr., another University of Colorado climate researcher.

http://online.wsj.com/

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

Winter extent shows no correlation with summer minimums.

http://scienceblogs.com/

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=20625&count=0

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/11/DDT51HHARF.DTL

A couple of minor problems with his belief system. There is no warming or sea level rise.

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9419750

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12433168

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp4.html

Leif says they don’t have anything to do with each other.

More likely there has been a sudden reduction in CO2, because Gavin says that CO2 controls the earth’s temperature.