Real Climate Science

Only three things in life are certain:  Death, taxes, and the grim consequences humanity faces if we take no serious action to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.

Joe Romm, October 11, 2010

Sea level may not have risen at all in California for 30 years, but apparently the evil water is pooling up around the small Pacific Island States.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/

The shy and enigmatic wolverine — which can roam great distances across some of the harshest alpine environments — could be driven out of its last strongholds in the lower 48 states if emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated, according to a Boulder researcher.

http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_16589926

http://www.canada.com/

Shaun Of The Dead

June 30, 1989

A senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “eco-refugees,”threatening political chaos, said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect…

http://nl.newsbank.com

Hmm … which climate scientist that we know was spreading that sort of crap in 1989?

HadCrut is the black line in the graph above. For the ENSO five year running mean, dominantly El Niño periods are shown in red, and dominantly La Niña periods are shown in blue.

Everybody understands that temperatures warm up during El Niño, and they cool down during La Niña. Looking at the ENSO graph, it is painfully obvious what drove  the post 1975 warming, and what caused the earlier cooling. When the Pacific Ocean is warm, the world is warm.

So why do climate scientists remain in denial?

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How much misinformation can you squeeze into one paragraph?

We are already experiencing the effects of global warming that scientific studies have been predicting for several decades. The most threatening is the effect that it is having on the oceans, which cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface. The oceans are absorbing one million tons of carbon dioxide per hour from the atmosphere — fully one third of the CO2 emission from our burning of fossil fuels, which has raised the acidity of the oceans at an unprecedented rate. This, coupled with the rise in ocean temperature, has resulted in a 40 percent decline in phytoplankton populations since 1950, which has serious implications. Phytoplankton are the foundation on which the entire marine food chain is dependent. A healthy phytoplankton population captures huge amounts of CO2 and puts back into the atmosphere fully as much oxygen as is generated by all of the earth’s land plants. And a decrease in phytoplankton means more CO2 in both the atmosphere and the ocean, increasing temperatures in both and acidity in the ocean, still further reducing phytoplankton — a vicious cycle. Global warming is also the cause of rising ocean levels. Thousands of cubic miles of ice caps and glaciers are melting and flowing into the ocean, and the ocean itself is swelling due to expansion as the water warms.

http://www.postindependent.com/

With temperatures in the Pacific Ocean heating up, hurricane creating thresholds have risen, according to a new study released today.

http://www.kitv.com/r/25764754/detail.html

Looks pretty hot in the Pacific.

BALBOA, Panama, Nov. 11 (UPI) — An abrupt global warming episode 56 million years ago led to an explosion of plant diversity in northern South America, Panamanian researchers say.

A 9-degree Fahrenheit spike in temperatures during 10,000 years — a blink of an eye on a geological scale — had researchers expecting to find evidence of a mass die-off of many tropical plant species, ScienceNews.org reported.

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