Tamino calls the mid-1970s the start of the “modern global warming period” and reports temperature trends from that date.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/plot/hadcrut3vgl/trend
Never mind that the long term trend is about one third of the post 1975 trend.
When their web site is working, NSIDC has a graph showing the decline of Arctic ice from the start of the satellite record in 1978 through 2007.
But something else happened in 1978. Something very important for understanding the climate.
Executing schoolchildren is just the tip of the iceberg. The Guardian reports that Italy wants to cut down a small patch of forest (69 acres) where sex slaves have been forced to work as prostitutes. WWF predictably jumped in with their support of trees over human life, freedom and dignity.
in a statement three environmental groups, including the WWF, said that the scheme would destroy 28 hectares (69 acres) of woodland vital to local ecosystems, saying the only crime of the thousands of trees on the local authorities’ hit list had been to “offer with their fronds shelter and intimacy to sex slaves”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
A new study is out, which appears to be claiming that the Earth is drying up due to climate change. There are all kinds of problems with it, but right now I’m going to focus on one particularly clueless section.
According to NSIDC, most of the loss of older ice occurred in the early 1990s.
Hansen published this map which shows how much upwards adjustment (0.54ºF) is made to the thermometer readings before the data is published.
Explained simply, almost the entire US temperature trend is the result of upwards adjustments made by people at the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.
CDIAC is supported by DOE’s Climate Change Research Division
No confirmation bias there, I am sure.
Imagine the chaos which would ensue if winter temperatures rose from -20 to -19!
What are the health risks in Minnesota?
Climate change could result in more deadly heat waves, and increase the risk of diseases spread by insects and flooding, according to federal and state projections. Among other things, it could affect where and when ticks spread Lyme disease. Globally, diseases like malaria — typically confined to warm areas — could spread to new areas. Changes in air quality could exacerbate asthma and chronic lung disease.
Using this logic, Iowa (to the south) must already be a hotbed of disease. Missouri (even further south) must be littered with dead bodies.
One minor problem though. Summers have been getting cooler in Minnesota for the last 80 years (even after upwards adjustments.) Proving once again that this scam is all about the money.
People are fleeing the White House ahead of the election, and Obama is having to find a new set of experts. Here is his latest recruit.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/12/clooney-meets-with-obama/ re
