Real Climate Science

Maybe UHI adjustments will do the trick.

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

History for Summit, Greenland

http://www.wunderground.com/history/station/04416/2011/1/9/MonthlyHistory.html

History for Alert Airport, NT Canada

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/CYLT/2011/2/9/MonthlyHistory.html

Near-record snows have occurred this winter in parts of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and the South, and in many cases these snow events were followed up with arctic intrusions of air. These occurrences have many asking, “What happened to global warming?”

Temperatures continue to warm in most locations on our planet, even though the most populous regions of the United States, Europe, and Australia saw below-average temperatures in this map from December 2010 (courtesy of the UK Met Office). The important thing to take into account when looking at our departures from normal is “Is it representative of the entire planet, or is it just happening here?” There are extremely warm temperatures still occurring in eastern Russia, Canada, and Greenland this winter … the likes of which more than cancel out the colder spots on the planet.

http://www.rrstar.com/

http://seagrant.uaf.edu/nosb/2005/resources/arctic-explorers.pdf

h/t to Dennis Ambler and Marc Morano

Daily Snow – February 8, 2011 (Day 39)

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/

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

http://imperialbeach.patch.com

Never mind that it hasn’t risen at all for 30 years, and is not perceptibly different than it was 140 years ago.

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9410170

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

-26C at midnight. And plummeting. Time to take the dogs for a walk.

A Wisconsin panel has issued a more detailed report that looks at how climate change may affect specific parts of the state.

It’s the first report from the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, a collaboration between the UW-Madison and Wisconsin DNR.

Jack Sullivan directs the DNR science team and helped with the new report. He says the forecast is for a warmer Wisconsin, with a six to seven degree increase by mid-century. And it’ll be a wetter region as well.

Gilbert says unlike some other climate change modeling, this report can make very geographically detailed projections.

http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id/50426/group/News/

No problem, warming just needs to speed up about 30X to reach the projections of the very accurate climate model.

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

Bush EPA Recognized Global Warming Threat
— By Kate Sheppard| Tue Feb. 8, 2011 3:20 PM PST
Pop quiz: Which administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency sent a missive to the president informing him that the agency is “compelled to act” under existing law in response to “the latest science of climate change”?

Hint: It wasn’t the Obama administration’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson (though, during her tenure, the agency would make that same determination). It was her predecessor, Stephen Johnson, the EPA administrator under George W. Bush, who was certainly no big friend to environmentalists during his time at the agency.

In recent months, the EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions has become a prime target for Republicans (and some Democrats) in Congress who raise the specter of a government bureaucracy gone wild under the Obama administration. Foes of the regulations have gone so far as to propose throwing out the very scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health. But a letter released Tuesday once again makes it clear that even the Bush administration knew it needed to act on global warming—it just chose not to.

http://motherjones.com/

Someone needs to cool this planet down. I’m melting in this -10F weather.