Daily Archives: July 9, 2011

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I extrapolated out the precipitation trend for the last 120 days (10 inches) and now project that Fort Collins will receive 30 billion inches of rain over the next billion years. This will be deep enough to swim well past … Continue reading →

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php I extrapolated out the most recent DMI trend and now see that the Arctic will be ice-free on August 1, 2011.

Red line is USHCN raw data. Blue line is Hansen’s 2001 adjustments to the data. Green line is Hansen’s 2011 adjustments to the data, normalized to 1934. http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2001/2001_Hansen_etal.pdf    

The last hurricane to hit Florida was Wilma in 2005. The only other period that long since 1850 without a Florida hurricane strike, was between 1979 and 1985. http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt  

  Jeff Masters is wrong – on all counts. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/ms.html  

In 2008, Obama made this promise : http://moveleft.org/obamas_promises/www-barackobama-com_issues_fiscal.pdf What he meant was: I’m going to run the debt up to $15 trillion in only three years and then try to fool you again in 2012. I like all the parties … Continue reading →

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png (In case it wasn’t completely obvious how FOS some people around here are.)

http://lakepowell.water-data.com/index2.php?as_of=2011-07-07  

Lake Powell is nineteen feet below 2001 water levels, and gaining almost one foot per day (relative to 2001.) This is due to the declining spring snowpack and early melt which the experts have been telling us about.