Real Climate Science

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

http://www.grist.org/

Angry god punishes the planet for its global warming sins. Last year global warming was blamed for the lack of rain.

And we thought the Aztecs were crazy.

http://climate.rutgers.edu/

December, 2009 was second highest. How odd that the Ministry Of Truth failed to mention this.

Derek Arndt, who heads the climate monitoring branch at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said the new data should be viewed in the context of the record retreat of snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere at the end of the melt season and a near-record retreat of Arctic sea ice.

“Together across the board, it was an unusual year, and a year that in many ways was a culmination of what we’ve been seeing for the past several years,” Arndt said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Record retreat meaning second largest winter snow cover on record.

http://climate.rutgers.edu/

h/t to Marc Morano

NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record

January 12, 2011

Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

In 2010, global temperatures continued to rise. A new analysis from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies shows that 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record, and was part of the warmest decade on record. (Image credit: NASA/Earth Observatory/Robert Simmon)

The two years differed by less than 0.018 degrees Fahrenheit. The difference is smaller than the uncertainty in comparing the temperatures of recent years, putting them into a statistical tie. In the new analysis, the next warmest years are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2009, which are statistically tied for third warmest year. The GISS records begin in 1880.

The analysis found 2010 approximately 1.34°F warmer than the average global surface temperature from 1951 to 1980. To measure climate change, scientists look at long-term trends. The temperature trend, including data from 2010, shows the climate has warmed by approximately 0.36°F per decade since the late 1970s.

“If the warming trend continues, as is expected, if greenhouse gases continue to increase, the 2010 record will not stand for long,” said James Hansen, the director of GISS.

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20110112/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Same paper which promoted film of a teacher blowing up her skeptical students.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The amount of effort being expended by the climate science community to obscure the decline in sea temperatures, land temperatures, and particularly the decline in winter temperatures – is nothing short of epic.

I once heard a definition of cancer as an organism which exists solely to perpetuate its own existence.

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

2011 is continuing the trend of wicked hot weather.

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

The sheriff says that Sarah turned him into a newt.

http://www.mediabistro.com/

http://www.usatoday.com/

As soon as the temperature gets above 0F, I am going to go protest global warming.