Real Climate Science

Climate models are amazing. They can predict mutually exclusive behaviour without any consequence to the operator!

“Cold and snowy winters will be the rule, rather than the exception,” says Dr James Overland of the NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States. Dr Overland is at the International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference (IPY-OSC) to chair a session on polar climate feedbacks, amplification and teleconnections, including impacts on mid-latitudes.

Loss of sea ice causes major climate change

Continued rapid loss of sea ice will be an important driver of major change in the world’s climate system in the years to come.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611093710.htm

Not just clueless, but paranoid and delusional!

This, Hansen wants to warn us, is a recipe for global warming disaster. The recent warm winters that Britain has experienced are a clear sign that the climate is changing, he says.

“We are fast approaching a series of tipping points. Changes such as the melting of the Arctic ice cap, the acidification of the oceans and the global rises in temperature could be approaching the point of becoming irreversible.

We need a moratorium on the construction of coal-fired power plants and we must phase out the existing ones within two decades.”

Hansen, however, has come to the conclusion that coal will destroy the planet. “If we release all that carbon into the air it will be catastrophic,” he says

Hansen went back to his laboratory, spending the next few years refining his global climate model, a computer simulation of the planet’s climate that allows him, for example, to add extra CO2 to the atmosphere and see what happens.

“Then they also forced us to remove all our data about the latest temperature rises from the website,” says Hansen. “I realised they really were going to stop me communicating.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3341039.ece

h/t to hauntingthelibrary and Marc Morano

The entire continent of Antarctica has been running far below normal temperatures for the past six weeks.

And the north pole has turned cold as well.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/ANIM/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.30.gif

In addition to warmer winters, Europe’s northern regions will experience more precipitation and run-off. The expansion of forests and agricultural productivity will be accompanied by greater flooding, coastal erosion, loss of species and melting of glaciers and permafrost.

http://www.unep.org/

h/t to Marc Morano

We were warned about this just last week!

http://www.accuweather.com/us/az/tempe/85281/city-weather-forecast.asp

http://www.scientificamerican.com/

Arnie warned us this was going to happen!

http://www.accuweather.com/

Remember, floods are not weather!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/29/naidoo.climate.weather/

We all know that Hansen is a completely neutral source of information with no stake in this game.

Relegate them. It is embarrassing watching Chelsea play.