Real Climate Science

I got hit by a car riding my bicycle in the bike lane again today. The bike was wrecked. Second time this year this has happened.

Both times I had the right of way and the driver was distracted. Fortunately, I don’t have any serious injuries.

On November 18, 1978 nine hundred followers of cult leader Jim Jones committed suicide by drinking cyanide laced Kool-Aid. Jones convinced his followers that they were all doomed.

“We didn’t commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.”

Jones left his money to the “Communist Party of the Soviet Union”

Sound familiar, Joe?

One team is on an amazing winning streak, and playing brilliantly. The other faces relegation.

These two should be fashion models.

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp1.html

We are already in the deep freeze in Colorado, and looks like it is going to get worse. I’m just glad I don’t live in Canada.

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp2.html

Green shows areas of gain since the same date in 2007. Red shows areas of less ice.

See if you can find the commercial shipping lanes.

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

This has been the coldest autumn in the high Arctic since 2004, after the coldest summer on record.

Hansen’s claim that it is the “hottest year ever” are based on his imaginary Arctic temperatures.

The NCAR graph from the 1970s shows a large decline from 1945 to 1970, which does not appear in the current GISS graph, shown at the same scale in red above.

Interesting how the past has changed.

He noted that ongoing measurements of surface temperature, ice, and sea level provide “consistent signals that the planet is warming…. We need to keep watching the data. We’re confronted with a long-term issue that isn’t going to go away. We need to keep the focus on this issue.”

– Ralph Ciccerone

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2010/11/12/ciccerone-circumspect.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/images/1/1e/Holocene_Sea_Level.png

For the last 8,000 years, temperatures have been falling, while sea level has been rising. Rising sea level does not indicate that the planet is warming. Rather, it indicates that we are no longer in an ice age.

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Shouting fire in a crowded theater is normally considered a crime.

Puck said it best: “What fools these mortals be!”

My children, ages 34 and 32, both decided against having children. Though on many levels I am saddened by their decisions I believe that were I in their position I would, out of compassion and reason, have to make the same bitter choice.

@Robert H
I’m 25. My girlfriend and I have put our plans for children on hold. Until we see meaningful change. We consider the odds extremely low.
I can assure you it’s a heartbreaking choice.
I don’t know what to tell my sister. I haven’t exactly warned her yet, explicitly, but she can read my mind.
It’s so sad.
I wish we could just have a carefree life like your generation has had.

h/t to Marc Morano