Real Climate Science

http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/

If someone told all the parents of the world that there was a 98 percent chance that radical environmental changes in the next 10 – 50 years will wipe out half of all known life forms on earth, and that famine, plagues, floods and droughts on a scale not seen in thousands of years would become routine for billions of people, you would think they would tell their kids.

Well most climate scientists in the world have been telling us that, but we don’t do anything about it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

h/t to Tom Nelson and Marc Morano

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/feb/09/climate-change/

h/t to Marc Morano

Hansen 1200 km extrapolated. The Earth has a fever.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/

Hansen 250km on an equal area projection below. Grey is missing data. The man has some creative skills to produce the map above!

http://data.giss.nasa.gov

Hansen thinks that Europe, South America and the Northwest Territories were hot in January.

Satellites saw the world very differently.

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf

GISS reports that temperatures warmed in January from a 0.40 anomaly to 0.46 (red dot above) and remain below scenario C.  Apparently global warming has been solved!

“scenario C assumes a rapid curtailment of trace gas emissions such that the net climate forcing ceases to increase after the year 2000.”

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt

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Meanwhile, back in the real world. UAH reports that global temperatures were in freefall in January.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/

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

http://news.english-online.at/

Hey Joe, was wondering exactly why record snows and record cold is not being covered here. Are records not interesting when they are not heat related?

[JR: Interesting that I’m getting the same exact question from so many different IP addresses.

Did you read the post? Record snow is in no way inconsistent with climate science. As for temps, there weren’t record low temps globally or nationwide — not even close. As for the statistical aggregation of record highs versus lows in the United States, looks like highs won in January!

Yes, I know, if you only read the anti-science blogs, you’d think we had returned to the Ice Age. Try sticking with the science-based blog for a while.]

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As usual, Joe is “not even close” to being correct.

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/44019/coldest-december-on-the-books.asp

http://books.google.com/

Trees from Greenland in 1271?

The challenge for the day is to generate some Romm censorship statistics. It only takes a minute of your time. Please go to :

http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/10/charles-krauthammer-global-warming-is-a-religion-gore/

and post a polite comment asking why Joe is not interested in all the record low temperatures and snow. Then cut and paste the comment over here, including the time and date it went in for moderation.

Later today we can compare notes and find out what “censorship progress” is all about.

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I would just like to ask why, whenever we see a period of hot weather, you publish the details, but you do not publish the details of all the record low temperatures we have seen recorded

[JR: I publish the details of extreme weather events that are way off the charts, 100-year events, 500-year events, 1000-year events, since the deniers say nothing special is happening. This is especially true for events that are sustaining in time and space (i.e. area). Record lows and record highs are set every day. I publish the statistical data on record highs versus record lows on a very regular basis.]