Real Climate Science

Colorado River stream flow shows 30 year cycles, but no long term trend in runoff over the past 500 years.

UofAZ-SoCal-tree-ring-report-dec-2017.pdf

Only a carbon tax could have prevented this.

Relying on solar energy seems like a really good idea, if you don’t need electricity at night, on cloudy days, or during the winter.

Of course, we could manufacture hundreds of billions of environmentally destructive batteries. Just make sure to charge your electric car at night, when the sun isn’t shining – to save the world.

Then you can describe your electric car as “coal fired.”

Building work has restarted at hundreds of Chinese coal-fired power stations, according to an analysis of satellite imagery. The research, carried out by green campaigners CoalSwarm, suggests that 259 gigawatts of new capacity are under development in China. The authors say this is the same capacity to produce electricity as the entire US coal fleet.

China coal power building boom sparks climate warning – BBC News

The Orwellian New York Times calls this : “joining the climate fight.”

As Beijing Joins Climate Fight, Chinese Companies Build Coal Plants

Chinese corporations are building or planning to build more than 700 new coal plants at home and around the world, some in countries that today burn little or no coal, according to tallies compiled by Urgewald, an environmental group based in Berlin. Many of the plants are in China, but by capacity, roughly a fifth of these new coal power stations are in other countries.

Over all, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries, according to Urgewald’s tally, which uses data from the Global Coal Plant Tracker portal. The new plants would expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by 43 percent. The fleet of new coal plants would make it virtually impossible to meet the goals set in the Paris climate accord

As Beijing Joins Climate Fight, Chinese Companies Build Coal Plants – The New York Times

The average maximum temperature in Missouri during November was 46 degrees. It was the coldest November on record, and twenty degrees cooler than 1999. November afternoon temperatures have been declining in Missouri since the 19th century.

I’m sure that the New York Times will be all over this story.

Climate scientists want to pollute the atmosphere in order to prevent extreme weather.

Sun-dimming aerosols could curb global warming – CNN

They know this will work, because they say people tried this experiment in 1974.

The Telegraph – Google News Archive Search

So how did that 1974 experiment work out?

The worst tornado outbreak in US history.

TIME Magazine Archive Article — Another Ice Age? — Jun. 24, 1974

On Christmas Day, 1974 – at the peak of the ice age scare – winds from category 4 Cyclone Tracy destroyed 90% of the homes in Darwin, Australia.

The worst monsoon flooding in Bangladesh history also occurred in 1974.

15 Biggest and Worst Floods Ever in History – RankRed

What could possibly go wrong with the experiment? Other than frozen people, tornadoes, hurricanes and flooding. And of course, reduced sunlight for people relying on solar generated electricity.

November afternoon temperatures have been declining in Illinois since the 19th century. This November was the coldest on record, twenty degrees cooler than November, 2001.

I’m sure that CNN will be all over this story.

November afternoon temperatures have been declining in the Midwest since the 19th century. This year was second coldest behind 1996. Temperatures were 19 degrees colder than 2001.

The New York Times says global warming was settled science and beyond debate by the late 1970’s – based on data collected during the prior thirty years.

Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979. By that year, data collected since 1957 confirmed what had been known since before the turn of the 20th century: Human beings have altered Earth’s atmosphere through the indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels. The main scientific questions were settled beyond debate.

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change – The New York Times

They had a slightly different story in the late 1970’s.

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere – The New York Times

Most people saw Orwell’s novel “1984” as a warning, but the New York Times saw it as an instruction manual.

Almost five years after the New York Times announced the end of snow, and twelve years after they announced the endless summer – Vermont has broken their November snowfall record.

Vermont breaks November snowfall record – VTDigger

Snow has been a thing of the past for almost twenty years.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

With Warmer Weather, Different Decisions to Make – New York Times

Of 21 Winter Olympic Cities, Many May Soon Be Too Warm to Host the Games – The New York Times

The End of Snow? – The New York Times

Autumn/Winter snow extent has been increasing for 50 years.  Why would the New York Times ever look at actual data?

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

The global warming is brutal in New Mexico today too.

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15 Biggest and Worst Floods Ever in History – RankRed

Imagine how much worse the 18 foot storm surge would have been with an extra 0.0001 mole fraction CO2 in the atmosphere!

If only the Dutch had used windmills, this tragedy could have been prevented.