Daily Archives: October 14, 2010

They got that right. UCS is doing everything they can to drive people nuts worrying about things they have no control over. A sure fire approach to driving individuals and society as a whole over the brink.

Canuck reporter making fun of Americans for not being stupid like he is. Global warming confuses Americans The poll reveals that almost half of Americans — 49 per cent — incorrectly believe that the space program contributes to global warming, … Continue reading →

Yes, Hansen actually made these forecasts (degrees C) in the year 1988. We should be baking already, and Manhattan should be drowning. The standard response from our friends is that “well … ummm … we know a lot more now … Continue reading →

http://www.physorg.com/news204901293.html

Last winter’s non-existent snow http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8061737/Snow-to-hit-Britain.html This must be in error. Ten years ago, the top climate scientists at East Anglia told us that :

Faced with a huge La Niña, temperatures realized they were doomed. But the Polar Bears and Penguins are doing just fine.

Tamino calls the mid-1970s the start of the “modern global warming period” and reports temperature trends from that date. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/plot/hadcrut3vgl/trend Never mind that the long term trend is about one third of the post 1975 trend.

When their web site is working, NSIDC has a graph showing the decline of Arctic ice from the start of the satellite record in 1978 through 2007. But something else happened in 1978. Something very important for understanding the climate.