Real Climate Science

The blink comparator above shows how SST anomalies have changed since early September.

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Engineers have to get things right. They design things which have to work in the real world. When bridges fall down, there are consequences. If your computer doesn’t work, there are consequences. If a rocket crashes, there are consequences.

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The freeze line is moving quickly south. You can see new ice starting to form at 81N 157E. The blink comparator shows changes over the last week.

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It is not surprising that many people believe that extreme weather events are on the rise. The media constantly exaggerates their weather reporting.

Consider Hurricane Igor, which has 100 MPH winds – a category 2 hurricane. If it drops five more MPH, it will be a category 1.  (Update : Igor is now a category 1 hurricane, with 85 MPH winds.)  By contrast, a major hurricane is category 3, 4 or 5.

So how is the press reporting on it?

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During the campaign, at a stop in Oregon, candidate Obama noted :

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,”

I am not planning on asking the EU permission to drive my Suburban, or eat, or adjust my thermostat.

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Reader “Amino” put together this video, showing how GISS has diverged over the last decade from other data sources.

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As the Sun sets over the pole for the winter, satellites can no longer photograph it with visible light. Note the circular hole in the center of  today’s image.

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Arsenal falls further behind …..

This blog is just over two weeks old and we just hit our 1,000th comment.

Thanks everyone!

Correction – there was an error in my spreadsheet. This past October through March was fourth snowiest after 1973, 2003 and 1978. The corrected graph is below.  Thanks to reader Charlie Williams for pointing it out.

The other graph is unchanged. Winters (Dec-Feb) over the past decade were the snowiest on record.

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According to some top experts, the turn of the last century marked the end of snow.

(March, 2000) According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

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