Daily Archives: August 11, 2011

“When you start looking at longer-term trends, 50 or 60 years, there’s no escaping the loss of ice in the summer,” Kay says. Kay and her colleagues also ran computer simulations to answer a fundamental question: why did Arctic sea … Continue reading →

Your chances of being killed by a car are several orders of magnitude higher. http://www.norman.noaa.gov/

A few months ago they claimed that they didn’t know how many people died in tornadoes prior to 1950. This memory loss conveniently avoided the period when the vast majority of tornado deaths occurred, and allowed them to claim that … Continue reading →

But I thought they said that shells will dissolve at 500 ppm. Perhaps man-made CO2 is different, and creates more corrosive acids than natural CO2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2011/aug/11/lyme-regis-jurassic-fossil-coast

The highest gust was only 19 MPH. A completely useless month for generating electricity – at a time when they needed it the most. http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KATT/2011/7/11/MonthlyHistory.html  

The largest national footprint of D4 (“exceptional drought”) in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor occurred in July. In Texas “exceptional drought” covers more than 75 percent (201,436 sq mi) of the state. This area is larger than … Continue reading →

How can any responsible person forecast an ice free Arctic in the foreseeable future?