In spite of the fact that a recent study said that hurricanes are not becoming more frequent when you allow for improving observational techniques, the Hockey Team leader himself, Michael Mann, has just published a paper claiming that there are more Hurricanes now than at any time in a thousand years! No, obviously not now as in “right now” (zero is greater than any integer, after all, and as of now, there aren’t any.) Sound familiar? Well this is just another example of what goes on the Climate of Extremes …

NOTE: I’ve mentioned this previously, but I just noticed the official NOAA press release. Not bad for government work!
Study: Better Observations, Analyses Detecting Short-Lived Tropical Systems
August 11, 2009
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/
A NOAA-led team of scientists has found that the apparent increase in the number of tropical storms and hurricanes since the late 19th and early 20th centuries is likely attributable to improvements in observational tools and analysis techniques that better detect short-lived storms.
The new study, reported in the online edition of the American Meteorological Society’s peer-reviewed Journal of Climate, shows …

The following is reproduced in full from my blog.~Itscoldinhere
I Don’t Get It
UPDATE UPDATE! The National Hurricane Center has a better hurricane graphic. I’ve added it to the hurricane section.

What exactly makes people so scared of “global warming” or “climate change”? I can’t understand this issue, honestly. I see zero evidence for the supposed catastrophe heading our way, and yet people persist in being alarmed…Are people scared of sea level  rise? How irrational can you possibly be to be scared of sea level rise on the order of a less than …

by Marlowe Hood
PARIS (AFP) – The world faces a growing risk of “abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts” as fallout from global warming hits faster than expected, according to research by international scientists released Thursday.
Global surface and ocean temperatures, sea levels, extreme climate events, and the retreat of Arctic sea ice have all significantly picked up more pace than experts predicted only a couple of years ago, they said.
The stark warning comes less than six months before an international conference aiming to seal a treaty to save the planet from …

 
Summers In UK ‘Will Be Like Mediterranean’
Catherine Jacob, environment correspondent
British summers could soon be akin to those in the drought-ridden Mediterranean and our winters characterised by severe flooding, according to a new report on climate change.
UK Climate Impacts Report predicts extremes of temperature will hit the UK if global temperatures continue to rise.
The report is the Met Office’s most comprehensive assessment yet of what might happen by the middle to end of the century.
The head of climate predictions at the Met Office, James Murphy, told Sky News Online: “Certainly we …

Get this: the latest AGW science is apparently that AGW is actually reducing winds blowing over the US, thereby causing problems for wind power. Wait-models don’t predict such a decrease, but it is still due to AGW? What gives? Go figure.
~Itscoldinhere

Global Warming
May 23rd, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
EXCERPT:
Climate science took another step backward last week as a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was announced which claims global warming by 2100 will probably be twice as bad as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted.
The research team examined a range of possible climate scenarios which combined various estimates of the sensitivity of the climate system with a range of possible policy decisions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which (presumably) cause global warming. …

NEWSBUSTERS
April 28, 2009
By Jeff Poor
EXCERPT:
An Associated Press story dated April 28 takes swine flu fears to a whole other level.
A report datelined Washington by Ricardo Alonsozaldivar and Eileen Sullivan examined the worst-case scenario “if the swine flu gets out of control.”
“Two million dead,” Alonsozaldivar and Sullivan wrote. “Hospitals overwhelmed. Schools closed. Swaths of empty seats at baseball stadiums and houses of worship. An economic recovery snuffed out. We’re nowhere close to what government planners say would be a worst-case scenario: a global flu pandemic. But government leaders at all levels, …

I hate the media
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am
EXCERPT:
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom & Gloom Extravaganza.
Ignore them. They’ll be wrong. We’re confident in saying that because they’ve always been wrong. And always will be.
Need proof? Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 …

Warning Signs
Thursday, April 16, 2009
By Alan Caruba
EXCERPT:
It is the height of vanity to think the Earth will come to an end shortly after one’s mortal life ends. Some people think that, without them, the Earth cannot survive and we call these idiots environmentalists and, sometimes, megalomaniacs.
A perfect example of this is James Lovelock, the man credited with coming up with the Gaia Theory that says the Earth is a living creature and, of course, that humans are some kind of horrid cockroach infestation that is destroying it.
Now in his 90s, …

WASHINGTON  —  New information on Antarctica’s regularly melting distant past is giving scientists a glimpse into what may be a flooded future as the planet warms up.
The West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed periodically between 3 million and 5 million years ago, adding more than 16 feet to global sea level, according to the first examination of soil cores far below the surface of the Ross ice shelf.
Also, new computer models suggest that warmer waters nearby attacked the ice from below, triggering those collapses.
Both findings appear in studies published Thursday in …

Only 50-50 Chance of Saving Planet From Warming Catastrophe, Scientists Say
There is a 50-50 chance the Earth’s temperature will rise to a level of disaster over the next century, according to research from British climate scientists.
Even with heavy cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 3 percent a year from 2015, the chance of preventing the temperature rise from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius (3.8 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2050 is no more than half. And every decade’s delay in reducing emissions will cause temperatures to go up by half a degree, say …

An E-Mail posted at GREENIE WATCH
EXCERPT:
An email from Tom Still [rileystill@mindspring.com]
Global warming alarmists who study polar ice behavior delight in using very large numbers to scare the rest of us. In an AP report of a report by a spokesman for the Britian – based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research says the ice down there is melting “…faster than we thought.”
Quoting AP:
The melting “also extends all the way down to what is called west Antarctica,” said Colin Summerhayes, executive director ….” of the Britain-based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. …

REUTERS
Sat Feb 14, 2009
By Julie Steenhuysen
EXCERPT:
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The climate is heating up far faster than scientists had predicted, spurred by sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries like China and India, a top climate scientist said on Saturday.
“The consequence of that is we are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we’ve considered seriously,” Chris Field, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.
LINK

The BBC Attempts to Patch Up the Cracks – botches it, citing AGW could set off “negative feedback”
UPDATE: BBC Can’t even get their reporting correct. The reporter in the video report that accompanies the web article says that “The fear is that increased global warming could set off what’s called negative feedback…..” and that now we are in “scenarios unexplored by the models”.  No kidding, it’s that bad. For those of you that don’t know, some alarmists claim that “negative climate feedback is as real as the Easter Bunny, which is …

The Seattle Times
2-11-2009
By Warren Cornwall
Seattle Times environment reporter
EXCERPT:
A warmer, drier Washington could mean less hydropower and more air conditioners in summer, bigger forest fires and more drought.
Washington’s energy system is in for a double whammy from global warming, as rising demand for power-sucking air conditioners couples with a significant loss of summertime production from the region’s hydroelectric dams, according to a new University of Washington study.
The network of dams along Northwest rivers is a linchpin of the region’s economy, providing relatively cheap, abundant power that, as a bonus, doesn’t emit …

Hawaii Reporter
By Jack Dini, 2/10/2009 9:16:10 AM
EXCERPT:
Since the 1960s Western Society has been in the grip of a remarkable and very dangerous psychological phenomenon. Again and again we have seen the rise of some great fear, centered on a mysterious new threat to human health and well-being.As a result, we are told, large numbers of people will suffer or die. Salmonella in eggs; listeria in cheese; BSE in beef; dioxins in poultry; the Millennium Bug; DDT; nitrate in water; vitamin B6; Satanic child abuse; …

John Lauerman John Lauerman – Tue Feb 10, 12:00 am ET
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — When David Letterman, the late-night TV host, needed a scientist to explain climate change on his show last April, he chose John Holdren, the Harvard University physicist who helped Al Gore earn an Academy Award.
Holdren’s dire predictions about, illustrated in riveting charts and graphs, helped ex-Vice President Gore win an Oscar for his 2006 documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Holdren also helped persuade. and Conoco Phillips Co. executives to accept that climate change caused by gas …

Andrea Thompson just doesn’t know when to quit. Now her latest round of propaganda basically asserts that Miami, New Orleans, as well as other coastal cities will be under water because of Antarctic meltwater.

CReSIS, Haskell Indian Nations University

All the areas in red, including Miami, New Orleans, Cancun and the Bahamas, would be under 20 feet of water if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted.

Washington, D.C., Miami, New Orleans and other coastal U.S. cities could find themselves under several more feet of water than previously predicted if warming temperatures destroy …

This is just unbelievable. Well, coming from a college drop out, it may not be. If you thought it couldn’t get any sillier, read this excerpt from Al:
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus’ atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun’s greenhouse effect, resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Gore added that it’s not Venus’ proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth, because Mercury, …

Unless we buy carbon credits. Here’s more hot air from good ol’ Al. Jeez, you’d think that people would know where the global warming is coming from with all the hot air he spews.

We’re all doomed folks. Pack your bags, we’re going away.
If you thought that all of this Climate Change/Global Warming hysteria couldn’t get any worse, or comical, think again. It seems that those trusty computer climate models are at again with their dire predictions of doom and gloom, causing everyone to go rent The Omega Man for training tips.
According to this new model, we are losing daylight “at an alarming rate…” and not only that, but, we are losing daylight at the rate of 2 minutes a day.
Think I’m joking? Check …

Scientists skeptical of the assertion that climate change is the result of man’s activites are criticizing a recent Associated Press report on global warming, calling it “irrational hysteria,” “horrifically bad” and “incredibly biased.”
They say the report, which was published on Monday, contained sweeping scientific errors and was a one-sided portrayal of a complicated issue.
“If the issues weren’t so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it,” said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting …

California ordered to prepare for sea-level rise
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered preparations for rising sea levels from global warming, a startling prospect for the most populous U.S. state with a Pacific Ocean coastline stretching more than 800 miles.
Yahoo! AP

Global warming cools hopes for Dutch skating race
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer Mike Corder, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 24, 9:27 am ET
Excerpt:
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Global warming is taking a heavier toll than previously thought on a grueling 120-mile speedskating marathon over frozen rivers and canals linking 11 towns in northern Holland.
A study published Friday by the respected Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said the race is likely to be held only once every 18 years because of higher winter temperatures. Three years ago, it estimated the likelihood at once every 10 …

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Prefatory note to the Editor: I can’t get any of the HTML to work here. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, but I DON’T think it’s an error in the html, because when I copy-and-paste into my own website and preview it, it works fine. In any event, I’ll gladly resubmit, and I apologize if I’ve overlooked something obvious, and the error is mine.
From the moment oil first made it into the mainstream, peak oil and the imminent depletion of fossil fuels have been vehemently predicted.
A by-no-means …

Yet more abuse of the word expert.
Greenland’s ice cap melting faster than expected: experts
Excerpt:
COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Greenland’s ice cap, which covers more than 80 percent of the island, is melting faster than expected because of global warming, a Danish researcher said on Monday.
The 1.8-million-square-kilometre (695,000-square-mile) ice cap, which accounts for 10 percent of the planet’s fresh water, is losing about 257 cubic kilometres (62 cubic miles) of ice per year.
In 2080, it is expected to lose 465 cubic kilometres (111 cubic miles) per year, according to new estimates presented by …

Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-the-methane-time-bomb-938932.html
Excerpt:
The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists.
The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic region becomes warmer and its ice retreats.
Underground stores of methane …

Pyrenees glaciers will melt by 2050: Spanish study
Excerpt
MADRID (AFP) – Climate change will melt the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains before 2050, a group of Spanish researchers said Friday.
“The steady increase in temperature — a total of 0.9 degrees Celsius from 1890 to today — indicates that the Pyrenees glaciers will disappear before 2050, experts say,” said a statement published on the SINC website, an official science news site.
The melting of the glaciers is “a result of the global warming we are experiencing,” said Juan Gonzalez Trueba, professor …