Real Climate Science

From the Monthly Weather Review : November, 1922

In August, 1922, the Norwegian Department of Commerce sent an expedition to Spitzbergen and Bear Island under the leadership of Dr. Adolf Hoel, lecturer on geology at the University of Christiania.

Continue reading →

Today’s US Open men’s final was delayed again by an extreme weather event (a thunderstorm) no doubt caused by global warming. Rather than spending trillions of dollars to reduce CO2 emissions, they got out some vacuum cleaners and are now ready to play again.

You can watch it here :

If you aren’t watching, you should be. It is an incredible match.

The modified NSIDC image above shows ice growth over the last three days in green.

Continue reading →

UAH Channel 5 temperatures have dropped below 2009, for the first time this year.

Continue reading →

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9I73A080.htm

Kansas anger over EPA

TOPEKA, KAN.
Kansas legislators opposed to regulating greenhouse gases are doubly upset because the federal government is forcing the state into limiting emissions, and they don’t yet see a good strategy for preventing it. Some members of a legislative committee reviewing new rules from the federal Environmental Protection Agency argued last week that regulating greenhouse gases will hurt the economy. The committee had a hearing to allow regional EPA officials to explain the changes but used the meeting to vent their frustrations.

Rep. Carl Dean Holmes, a Republican from Liberal who’s long been influential in energy debates, suggested President Barack Obama’s administration of deliberately trying to raise energy prices and export manufacturing jobs overseas.

Discovery News reports that global warming is creating salt.

Every day seems to bring another bad piece of news about global warming. Just this month, we found out the oceans are saltier than ever and 2010 will probably be the warmest on record, so it’s clear that we have a serious problem on our hands.

The oceans have been getting saltier for the last few billion years, because rainwater steadily dissolves salts which get washed into the ocean. I’m puzzling over how you turn CO2 in to NaCl ….Any theories?

Wales is just as warm as it was 80 years ago, so it makes sense for people there to be concerned about global warming.

Continue reading →

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRl5HWZS6JY]

We are now almost two years into the Obama administration. I wonder how his January 17, 2008 promise to bankrupt the coal industry is coming long?

Continue reading →

It appears almost certain that GISS will declare 2010 to be the hottest year ever.

Continue reading →

Sea ice data from UIUC shows that there has been no change in date of the Antarctic minimum, the date of the maximum, or the length of the Antarctic winter/summer.

Continue reading →