Daily Archives: August 27, 2012

Plausible estimates for the effect of soot on snow and ice albedos (1.5% in the Arctic and 3% in Northern Hemisphere land areas) yield a climate forcing of
0.3 W
m2 in the Northern Hemisphere. The ‘‘efficacy’’ of this forcing is
2, i.e., … Continue reading →

Live webcams around the Tampa Bay area

Live webcams around the Tampa Bay area Joe Romm says that Republicans are being punished by Gaia for wrecking the climate. He would have done well in Salem in 1692, brimming with hatred and stupidity.

There is a region of low albedo, dirty ice along the western coast of Greenland. The rest of the ice sheet is very bright white. //ARCTIC.IO/OBSERVATIONS/8/2012-08-26/Greenland Summer temperatures in Greenland are as low as minus 35C this week. Weather Forecast Navy Operated, Greenland … Continue reading →

  Eerie similarities: Isaac follows track of Katrina, evacuations ordered for coast – CNN.com

Turquoise represents ice present in 2012 which wasn’t present at the 2007 minimum. Red shows the opposite. There is 28% more ice than there was at the 2007 minimum. http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_alaska.gif http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/AK/2007/ims2007265_alaska.gif Passive microwave measurements are missing vast areas of ice, … Continue reading →

Having a tropical storm 500 miles away could have been  really dangerous.

I was gone for a few hours and a hundred comments showed up from people who don’t know how to read weather maps and don’t know the difference between wind gusts and sustained winds.