James Hansen of NASA is another brave exception, defying government gag orders. Hansen told Reuters, quote, “”The reason so much (of the Arctic ice) went suddenly is that it is hitting a tipping point that we have been warning about for the past few years.”
http://www.ecoshock.info/2007_12_01_archive.html
Why would anyone want to gag this comedian?
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
Lewes MP and Lib Dem Shadow Environment Secretary Norman Baker has uncovered new government figures that show that dreams of a White Christmas are increasingly unlikely to become a reality. Since 1957 there have been 25 instances of a white Christmas anywhere in the country, yet because of global warming the future chances of snow on Christmas Day will drop by a third by 2010 and by over two thirds by 2050. London, which has only seen snow on Christmas Day six times in the last 45 years, will be even less likely to see snow in future, and coastal areas such as the Lewes constituency will also suffer.
Commenting on this, Norman said:
“Britons will soon be left with only dreams of a white Christmas, as the chances of it actually happening become more remote. Global warming is the main reason for this shift in seasonal weather and is responsible for changing the world as we know it.
“It is not only Christmas that will be affected. In the New Year we can expect to see more of the extreme weather, floods and gales suffered across the continent this year.
“This is a global issue, but the UK Government needs to make reducing greenhouse gases one of its top New Year’s resolutions.”
http://www.cix.co.uk/~normanbaker/pr/2004/041214_white_christmas.htm
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-uxW7eQXnM]
Now that we know from top climate science research that CO2 hangs around in the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years, and that dinosaurs ate a lot of beans – it seems a foregone conclusion that dinosaurs made themselves extinct from a runaway dutch oven effect.
http://nsidc.org/images/arcticseaicenews/20101206_Figure4_thumb.png
The NSIDC graph above shows something very interesting. From 2000-2008, multiyear ice melt (solid red line) increased every year over the previous year. But in 2009, the amount of melt plummeted by 80%.
This hints that there has been a large shift in Arctic conditions over the last two years. It is a safe bet that there will be more multiyear ice in Spring 2011 than there was in Spring of 2010.
“High temperatures in 2010 have also been matched by a series of extreme weather events across the world, including droughts and floods in China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the US,” the HSBC report noted. “But are these driven by man-made global warming?
“Nasa’s James Hansen is clear: ‘Would these events have happened if atmospheric carbon dioxide had remained at its pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million?’ His answer is ‘almost certainly not’.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/1220/1224285916531.html
This is starting to sound like Alzheimer’s disease. Does he really believe the stuff that comes out of his mouth?
The ten worst floods in history :
1. Huang He (Yellow) River, China
1931 Death Toll: 1,000,000 to 3,700,000
2. Huang He (Yellow) River, China
1887 Death Toll: 900,000 to 2,000,000
The census shows us that global warming isn’t happening – physically or politically.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month’s devastating elections.
The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a trend the Census Bureau will detail in its once-a-decade report to the president. Political clout shifts, too, because the nation must reapportion the 435 House districts to make them roughly equal in population, based on the latest census figures.
The biggest gainer will be Texas, a GOP-dominated state expected to gain up to four new House seats, for a total of 36. The chief losers – New York and Ohio, each projected by nongovernment analysts to lose two seats – were carried by Obama in 2008 and are typical of states in the Northeast and Midwest that are declining in political influence.
“Our simulations reveal a rather pronounced nonlinear response of air temperatures and winds to the changes of sea-ice cover,” Petoukhov, a physicist, says. “It ranges from warming to cooling to warming again, as sea ice decreases.” An abrupt transition between different regimes of the atmospheric circulation in the sub-polar and polar regions may be very likely. Warming of the air over the Barents-Kara Sea seems to bring cold winter winds to Europe. “This is not what one would expect,” Petoukhov says. “Whoever thinks that the shrinking of some far away sea-ice won’t bother him could be wrong. There are complex teleconnections in the climate system, and in the Barents-Kara Sea we might have discovered a powerful feedback mechanism.”
In other words, we are just making stuff up as we go along, knowing that the useful idiots in the press will suck whatever we say right up.
Lots of anomalously cold weather, particularly in Europe and Asia.
http://wxmaps.org/pix/clim.html
Look what is headed for Canada the following week!
