Real Climate Science

Thanks Joe. That explains the record high levels of sea ice, and temperature anomalies running far below normal.

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_daily_extent.png

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Global warming skeptics disregard the facts

12/15/2010 7:00:10 AM

I was dismayed to see the online comments posted on the Post-Bulletin’s article, “Snow emergency declared in Rochester.” By 9:45 a.m. there were 18 comments. Six of these declared global warming to be a hoax.

We see too much of this phenomenon: people’s beliefs about climate change science fluctuate with the daily weather reports. On hot days they are believers; on cold days they’re not. I call on all of our local news outlets to do a much better job of educating the public on the basic facts.

And the basic facts are not up for debate. First, weather (a daily event) simply is not the same thing as climate (the average of all regional weather over extended periods of time). Second, nobody disagrees that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. The only disagreement seems to be whether or not the CO2 that comes out of tailpipes and smokestacks has the same effect as CO2 that occurs naturally.

Anyone who doesn’t understand that CO2 is CO2 regardless of where it comes from, or doesn’t understand that today’s weather is not an indicator of regional climatic shifts over time, needs to be educated, not given a public forum. All of us are entitled to our own opinions, but none of us are entitled to our own facts.

Steve Bein

Rochester

http://www.postbulletin.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11999633

http://www.google.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.observer.com/2010/media/another-fox-news-slant-mongering-memos

Debate is unacceptable.

North and south are both close to 12 million km^2. The Arctic is deficient about 1 million km^2 while the Antarctic has an excess of almost 2 million km^2.

The record snow winter in the Northern Hemisphere (1978) was also the coldest.

That should wipe out all the remaining forests in short order.

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

Sunshine in the UK winter is very reliable.

This has been going for over a century, due to Victorian Hummers and soccer moms.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/antarctica-melting-warming-penguins-101214.html

One minor problem though – SSTs around Antarctica are running well below normal.

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html