Real Climate Science

We are lucky to have such smart people looking out for our best interests.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/science/earth/16coral.html

“over the next 8 years a third of our coal-fired capacity, two-thirds of our oil-fired capacity, and nearly three-quarters of our nuclear capacity will be closed down either through age or the impact of the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. Absent a massive and immediate programme of building new power stations, with concrete being poured in the next two years, we will be in serious danger of the lights going out.”,

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2010/11/pouring-concrete-withn-2-years.html

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

Snow in Florida – January 9, 2010

Last winter was the second snowiest on record in the northern hemisphere, and this winter (December-February) is already well ahead of last year.

http://climate.rutgers.edu/

Year	Week	N. Hemisphere
1985	49	48.2
1972	49	47.27
1992	49	44.83
2010	49	44.24

2009	49	41.1

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=0&ui_sort=1

The climate models predicted this, after they didn’t predict it.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/

One to two metres of rain so far this year in many locations.

http://www.bom.gov.au/

Just like Hansen warned would happen.

Look at all that excess heat in the pipeline.

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

I stitched them all together.

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

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php

Prominent climate scientists get full of something with much lower albedo.

Ten years ago we all believed in global warming.

In 1999/2000 I was living in California and working one week a month in Bristol, England and Meylan, France. I remember flying into Heathrow in February with the temperature 15C, and seeing people water skiing on a lake in Windsor. The grass was always green. People in Grenoble complained that they could no longer ski at the 1968 venues. The summer of 1998 was the coldest on record along the California Coast. Colorado suffered a terrible drought from 2001-2003.

We all believed for twenty years that it was due to global warming – as Hansen predicted.

But then something happened. The climate swang back the other direction (like it always does.) This was not a CO2 driven monotonic trend, but rather a cycle.

Most people accepted the fact that they were wrong and moved on. Others just started manipulating the data in hopes that they could control the climate by lying to themselves and everyone else. An adult might label that sort of behaviour – “insanity.”

Warning – most of the male writers at The Guardian will not understand the point of this video.

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