Real Climate Science

When people have a stake in an unsupportable belief system, the only way to keep it going is to silence dissent. Communist governments do this because their system of governance defies human nature, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn documented.

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The Cincinnati Area F5 tornado. April 3, 1974

A common fable of the AGW belief system is that global warming “increases the total energy in the climate system and causes more storms.”

There are a number of things wrong with this statement, but I will just deal one of them right now. Storms are driven by differences in energy, not absolute energy.

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http://www.newciv.org/Synergetic_Geometry/current.htm

A standard high school science problem is to estimate the volume of an irregular solid. There are two ways of doing this.

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Brilliant goal by Scott Parker though.

The amazing amount of press coverage for one large iceberg this summer was indicative of how poorly educated the public is.

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The modified NSIDC  image above shows the maximum possible amount of multi-year ice (MYI) we could have in spring 2011. It assumes that all of the 2+ year old ice from the end of July remained intact.

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2007 was the summer of the record low ice extent. It also was the summer of …

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The image above is an overlay of NSIDC’s end of July ice age map on their most recent extent map.

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I took the UIUC polar ice area daily data since 2000, and calculated 60 day running means for the anomalies. In the graph above, the Arctic data is shifted horizontally to the right by six months (to normalise seasons) and the Antarctic data is shifted vertically upwards by 0.5 million km² to normalise the baselines.

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Web Of Trust (WOT) is an Internet service which provides people useful information about dishonest vendors. Users install a plugin to their browser, and a window will pop up if they go to a site with a bad reputation for commerce, pornography etc. It has saved me several times from bad business dealings.

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