Real Climate Science

His bowling score is in the 30s, but he can control the climate.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/

Maybe they can design a special climate teleprompter.

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

London will probably be underwater too.

http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/24688.html?MR=1

-63F in Ojmjakon right now.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/images/fnl/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.anim.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/

Steve Conner at The Independent tells us that the “rapidly disappearing Arctic ice cap” is making the weather cold. Interesting concept given that the Arctic Ocean is frozen over from one end to the other, just like it always is this time of year.

Two years ago, Steve Conner also informed us that “for the first time in human history” the North Pole was going to be ice-free that summer.

http://www.independent.co.uk/

Perhaps he is getting his mis-predictions from two years ago incestuously co-mingled with his nonsensical explanations of the current cold?

Romm and Masters warn us that the climate is becoming dangerously unstable.

It has now been 831 days since the US was struck by any hurricane, and 6,695 days since the US was hit by a category 5 hurricane.

Republicans want to kill the last bear this winter, but may not succeed.

Climate change optimism
Our view: U.N. talks may not have produced binding accords, but there’s still a chance to save polar bears — and human lives
December 22, 2010
The best news to be found on the climate change front this month was a report that the polar bear, a threatened species that has come to symbolize the dangers of global warming, may yet be saved — if greenhouse emissions are reduced over the next two decades.

Unfortunately, that’s a big “if.” International climate talks that ended early this month in Cancun produced no legally binding agreement. They weren’t expected to — nor is the stalemate expected to break in the near future. Negotiators are keeping expectations low for next year’s United Nations-sponsored conference in South Africa.

Between the failures of diplomacy and the post-midterm-election rightward shift in the U.S. Congress, where Republican denial of climate change science appears to be at an all-time high, a person might be tempted to head to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore this winter to bid the species a fond farewell. (How fortunate that for the first time in five years, the zoo will have January and February hours. Tickets are still available.)

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/

2010 is the hottest year ever, which explains why US winter temperatures have been dropping at a rate of more than 30 degrees per century since 1998.

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

Climate experts continue to tell us that it is hot everywhere besides western Europe.

http://orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=23373

h/t to Marc Morano

We all know that the Sun has little or nothing to do with the Earth’s CO2 driven climate, but it is still interesting that new peer-reviewed research indicates the Sun is sending more radiation towards the earth than it was during the LIA. Perhaps human generated CO2 is influencing the behaviour of the Sun?

http://www.mps.mpg.de/projects/sun-climate/papers/uvmm-2col.pdf

h/t to Marc Morano and http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/