Florida and Arizona have a lot of heat in their climate systems, which makes them very prone to severe weather.
When looking for a place to spend your golden years, consider the latest climate research from our top scientists. We now know that places with minimal energy in the climate system have stable, calm weather. A few suggestions below.
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Scientists have known for a long time that tornadoes seek out trailer parks, but climate change is getting even more sophisticated in its directed attacks on the poor.
“For millions of people on the frontlines of climate change, the time since Copenhagen has been the year from sheer hell as floods, droughts, fires, storms and other extreme weather events have wiped out crops and destroyed the livelihoods of some of the poorest people in the world. We know that the destructive impacts of climate change will mean more misery and pain for the world’s poor, and increasing instability and insecurity around the world unless action is taken. As you prepare for a new round of talks in Cancún next week, it is abundantly clear that you must do better. And fast.”
All over the world, climate change has been avoiding the guilty countries who generate the CO2, and has been instead targeting innocent poor people. That is so sinister. If only ministers will pass a meaningless token agreement in Cancun, we can appease the climate change gods.
Applying their model a century in the future, the researchers found a tendency for clouds to thin and cloud cover to reduce – dramatically more so than in any of the current global models. “If our model results prove to be representative of the real global climate, then climate is actually more sensitive to perturbations by greenhouse gases than current global models predict, and even the highest warming predictions would underestimate the real change we could see,” warned co-researcher Kevin Hamilton.?
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20101023223022data_trunc_sys.shtml
Translation – current models suck, and we have no idea what we are talking about. But by making ridiculous alarmist remarks like this to the press we can get our 15 minutes of fame.
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Because there is a lot of heat in Hawaiian climate system. By contrast, the Arctic has very little excess heat – which is why the climate there is so calm and pleasant.
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More CO2 = more heat trapped!
Heat is just one form of energy. So having more heat in system means having more energy in the system. And energy is what’s needed to DO STUFF. Like evaporate water or melt ice or warm up air or water. So, that’s what it gets used for – doing all those things: evaporating more water and making a “typical” storm bigger. Or a “typical” drought drier. Or a “typical” heat wave hotter.
Odysseus was punished by the gods for his vanity of believing he was in control, and Mother Nature seems to be delivering the climate science community a similar thrashing.
During the El Niño months, they loved to talk about the temperature as proof of global warming. Those days are gone, and now temperature is no longer important. Our shape shifting alarmist friends will soon start talking about extreme cold and sub-tropical snow as being caused by “excess heat.” (They assume that we are as stupid as they are.)
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
– Albert Einstein
Global temperature records from HadCRUT and GISS show that the period from 1910 to 1940 warmed nearly as quickly as the period from 1970 to 2000. 1913 set the all time temperature record in North America, and during the 1930s, as much as 80% of the US simultaneously suffered from drought.
1937 saw the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the US, and the 1940s saw the most US hurricane strikes of any decade.
What caused these severe climatic patterns during the first half of the century?
I don’t think I have ever seen a forecast like this before. Heavy snow across almost all of Europe, including half of Spain and Portugal. The UK and France are expected to be nearly covered from one end to the other.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/next3to6days/snow
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/all-that-data/
I found out that the mainstream climate scientists had the right interpretation. Every time. The ones who keep telling us that global warming is real, is man-made, and is dangerous — they’re the ones who were right about what the data indicated, not the so-called “skeptics” who claimed otherwise. Every goddamn time. Of course, I can only testify about the data I’ve actually analyzed myself. But rest assured that’s a helluva lot.
The results are consistent: confirming global warming. Every time.
h/t to Joe Daleo
This reading probably isn’t correct, but the National Park Service is reporting a new all time record low for the lower 48 states, at Glacier National Park -78.7F (-61.5C.)
That can’t be right, because 2010 is the hottest year ever.
h/t to M Carpenter
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
The disaster loving crowd is in hysterics about my June sea ice forecast of 5.5 million km^2, which was 11% too high. What they wanted to see was this :
Sadly for them, they didn’t get their record low. The graph below shows how my forecast error (green) compared to the PIOMAS forecast error (blue.)
But the big story is that there is likely to be a significant increase in 2011 multi-year ice relative to spring 2010. The maps below show why :
