Daily Archives: November 21, 2010

New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer details in a recent, in-depth article that billionaires David and Charles Koch, titans of the oil industry, have been spending millions of dollars waging a covert disinformation campaign to thwart climate change legislation in the … Continue reading →

The proxy is their past predictions http://newsbusters.org/node/11640

http://io9.com/ It is a stance that defies the findings of our country’s National Academy of Sciences, national scientific academies from around the world and 97 percent of the world’s climate scientists. http://www.washingtonpost.com/  

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http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao.sprd2.gif This winter is looking bleak. We have the triple whammy of a low AO, low SSTs and below normal Arctic temperatures. Will there be enough fossil fuel generating capacity this winter? How many people will die as a result … Continue reading →

http://img.snow-forecast.com/images2/europesnownext3to6days.17ca.jpg November snow forecast for Exeter. I wonder when was the last time that happened?

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html Changes from September 20 to November 20.

It is claimed that prior to the 1960s, tree ring data matched thermometers within a few tenths of a degree. I don’t see much evidence to support that in the Briffa/GISS  comparisons below. There are lots of places where one … Continue reading →

This story was reported by a Florida newspaper yesterday, claiming that we are short of snow along the Colorado Front Range. In fact, we are far above normal for the Front Range river basins. http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/snotelbasin Last year, Trenberth wrote this … Continue reading →

Detection and attribution It remains uncertain whether past changes in any tropical cyclone activity (frequency, intensity, rainfall, and so on) exceed the variability expected through natural causes, after accounting for changes over time in observing capabilities. Tropical cyclone projections Frequency. … Continue reading →