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Boulder’s carbon tax has been astonishingly effective.

How Boulder Taxed its Way to a Climate-Friendlier Future | InsideClimate News

 Temperatures at NCAR never made it out of single digits for 24 hours.

Winter Park Resort to open Saturday, earliest first day in 80-year existence | FOX31 Denver

I don’t think I have ever seen the pond frozen before Thanksgiving before.

I’m not convinced the cold weather is due to the carbon tax, however. More likely it is my red straw which caused the cold weather.

A temperature of -35F in Utah this morning breaks the 1917 record of -33F.

Record low -35 degrees recorded in Logan Canyon sink | Local News | hjnews.com

Looks like a beautiful day in the Maldives.

Live Cam Kuredu Island Resort

In 1988, authorities said the Maldives would be underwater by 2018, and they would run out of fresh water by 1992.

26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands

Experts now say the Maldives will be underwater and run out of fresh water within decades.

Most low-lying atoll islands are likely to become uninhabitable by the middle of the century, according to a new study.

Scientists predict that as sea levels rise, thousands of islands will be afflicted by frequent flooding, lack of freshwater and damage to infrastructure.

Rising sea levels could make thousands of islands from the Maldives to Hawaii ‘uninhabitable within decades’ | The Independent

The difference between now and 200 years ago, is that scientists 200 years ago actually knew something about science. They were aware in 1837 that coral reefs are dynamic and come and go on their own.

ACCOUNT OF THE MALDIVES.

Hobart Town Courier   Friday 17 February 1837, page 4

The natives observe the atolls to be wasting away; in some the cocoanut trees are standing in the water ; in another the black soil of the island is discernible at low water thirty feet from the beach ; the south-east side of an island in Phaidee Pholo Atoll is entirely gone, but is marked by a banyan tree in the water. They say that some islands have disappeared entirely.

Some of the outer edges of the islands have fallen into the sea, which is fathomless in those parts. It is, however, acknowledged that reefs, have arisen from the water and gradually formed islands ; and the inhabitants of Male remember the outer edge of a circular reef in their harbour to have had two fathoms in the shoalest part, which is now dry at low water.’

17 Feb 1837 – ACCOUNT OF THE MALDIVES. – Trove

This rock is dressed up as a crocodile. A lot of CO2 went into making that costume.

Lots more snow on the way tomorrow.

#FakeGraphs #DenierBots

Michael E. Mann on Twitter:

The graph Mann is calling fake, is the official US Forest Service graph.

2010-sustainability-report.pdf

In 1936, fire was considered the greatest threat to prosperity in the Bay Area.

05 Dec 1936, Page 7 – Santa Cruz Evening News at Newspapers.com

Western landscapes in presettlement era were very smoky places.

In Unexpected Places, Clues to Ancient and Future Climate; Warming? Tree Rings Say Not Yet – The New York Times

Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – The New York Times

In 1906, San Francisco burned to the ground. If only they had a carbon tax to prevent earthquakes.

Update : Anthony Watts spoke with Ryan Maue, and Ryan said he was just trolling Michael Mann and didn’t really believe what he was saying.  Yet these tweets don’t show any indication of sarcasm and were retweeted by Greta Thunberg – and seen by at least three million people. Anthony asked him to delete his tweets, and Ryan has not done that. I hid this post for a few hours to give Ryan a chance to try to set the record straight, but he hasn’t done anything.

No one seems to know what the real story is with this.  Bizarre .. to say the least.

Extreme Weather of 1976-1977 | Real Climate Science