(Actual 10th century photograph of Lief Ericson)
Crew circles North Pole in one summer
A trimaran sailing boat has circled the North Pole in a single summer season, a feat made possible by global warming and the melting of the Arctic ice cap, the boat’s international crew said Thursday. 100 years ago, a circumnavigation would have taken six years,” the “Northern Passage” crew said in a statement.
They got that right. UCS is doing everything they can to drive people nuts worrying about things they have no control over. A sure fire approach to driving individuals and society as a whole over the brink.
Canuck reporter making fun of Americans for not being stupid like he is.
Global warming confuses Americans
The poll reveals that almost half of Americans — 49 per cent — incorrectly believe that the space program contributes to global warming, and that the hole in the ozone layer, toxic wastes, aerosol spray cans, volcanic eruptions, the sun and acid rain also play a role.
He probably is a fresh graduate of the Suzuki school of dissonant science.
Yes, Hansen actually made these forecasts (degrees C) in the year 1988. We should be baking already, and Manhattan should be drowning.
The standard response from our friends is that “well … ummm … we know a lot more now than we did 30 years ago.”
I was shocked to read this morning that the Iter reactor will be generating large amounts of a potent greenhouse gas.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11541383
Presidential science advisor John Holdren warned us about these pesky reactors in 1969 :
A more easily evaluated problem is the tremendous quantity of waste heat generated at nuclear installations (to say nothing of the usable power output, which, as with power from whatever source, must also ultimately be dissipated as heat). Both have potentially disastrous effects on the local and world ecological and climatological balance.
Last winter’s non-existent snow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8061737/Snow-to-hit-Britain.html
This must be in error. Ten years ago, the top climate scientists at East Anglia told us that :
Arctic winter temperatures have warmed over the last 30 years. People claim this is due to the “greenhouse effect” – as shown above. The Sun shines through the atmosphere easily, but LW radiation has a more difficult time returning to space. As your Prius dumps more CO2 into the air, you literally fry Polar Bears in the blazing heat.
Makes perfect sense … as long as you don’t actually use your brain ….
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Faced with a huge La Niña, temperatures realized they were doomed.
But the Polar Bears and Penguins are doing just fine.
