Real Climate Science

One 1930s record which USHCN can’t adjust downwards, is Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath. The story centered around people surviving the extreme heat, drought and hardships of the 1930s.

Dr. Hansen wrote in 1999

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

Hansen’s graph at the time was consistent with his statement. The 1930s was the hottest decade – by far. But since then, some people have been rewriting history.

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1974 – Same story, different crisis

when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

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Mr. Bonds has been accused using performance enhancing drugs, yet the data clearly shows that there is a better explanation.

When CO2 levels were low in the year 1876, the most home runs anyone could come up with in a single season was 5. But by the year 2001, atmospheric CO2 levels were so high that Barry Bonds was able to hit 73 of them. The graph below plots home run records vs. CO2. and leaves little doubt that correlation is equivalent to causation.

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The PIPS video below makes it easy to understand the behaviour of Arctic ice during September.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLPN3knzPBE]

During the first three weeks of September, southerly winds blew the ice towards the pole. This compacted and melted the thinner ice, leaving a large area of cold water where the ice used to be.

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Blink comparator above, showing US Navy PIPS ice – September 30, 2006 vs today.

As you can see, the extent and thickness of Arctic ice is similar today to what it was four years ago – before Dr. Hansen declared it to have reached a tipping point.

[PAST THE TIPPING POINT]
James Hansen of NASA is another brave exception, defying government gag orders. Hansen told Reuters, quote, “”The reason so much (of the Arctic ice) went suddenly is that it is hitting a tipping point that we have been warning about for the past few years.”

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Humans generate 3% of the earth’s annual CO2 emissions. Of that 3%, the US generates about 20%. So if we cut US CO2 emissions by 50%, the total reduction in emissions would be :

0.03 X 0.2 X 0.5 = 0.003 or 0.3%

Is anyone actually gullible enough to believe that is going to affect the climate?

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/

Despite the largest government propaganda campaign since the fall of the Soviet Union, most people still think global climate/warming/weirding/disruption is a don’t care.

Fortunately, the Internet has allowed many people to bypass the useful idiots in the press this time. Perhaps the Internet could have stop the Bolsheviks in 1916?

In a fine propaganda piece specifically directed at young impressionable minds, NASA released the forecast above – which predicts regions near Antarctica warming up 10ºC from 1960-2060.

We are at the halfway point now in 2010. Let’s see how they are doing.

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http://spriteland.wordpress.com/

People will find ways to see what they expect to see.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

Let’s see if that “Six of the 10” claim makes sense.

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The Guardian regularly tells us that a change of 0.0001 CO2 concentration  in the Earth’s atmosphere will make the planet uninhabitable.

NASA forecast

Today the Guardian reports on another planet, which they say may be habitable.

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