Antarctic fiasco update: Chinese rescue icebreaker now also stuck in ice
Antarctic fiasco update: Chinese rescue icebreaker now also stuck in ice –
Paper: Warming Grinches See A New White Christmas Record – ‘Global warming? Bah, humbug!’
…Global Warming Strikes Antarctic Science Team
…On Dec. 21, Gore accused skeptics of ‘dark money’ funding — 5 days AFTER touting his own ‘ANONYMOUS’ donor would match donations to Gore
Claim: ‘Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change‘ (By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian)
Dr. Lubos Motl responds: ‘Congratulations to all of us. A possible problem – one pointed out to me by the Galileo Movement via Twitter – is that I may find out that we just “may have received” the billion instead of the phrase “did receive” it.’ — ‘The funding of climate skepticism work is at most something of order $10 million a year and much if not most of the most influential work is being done on a budget that is smaller than that by additional orders of magnitude…This figure should be compared to $80 billion that have been paid to promote the climate hysteria pseudoscience, mostly in the recent decade or two…If Suzanne Goldenberg believes that the purpose of this funding is to change people’s minds, well, then I must say that the climate skeptics are more efficient by almost 4 orders of magnitude.’
Climate Depot Response: This new study and the media reports surrounding it are pure bunk! The study counts all money raised by all conservati
1989 NYT Editorial Slammed Former NASA Scientist James Hansen For Pushing Climate BS – ‘Crying Wolf in the Greenhouse’ – ‘Very few of his [Hansen’s] colleagues agree with him’ that ‘the greenhouse effect is already here’
…2013 had the fewest US forest fires since 1984
…‘Least extreme U.S. weather year ever?’ 2013 shatters the record for fewest U.S. tornadoes — 15% lower than previous record — 2013 also had the fewest U.S. forest fires since 1984
Much to the chagrin of man-made global warming activists who want to tie every weather event to so called ‘global weirding’, 2013 has turned out to be one of the “least extreme” weather years in U.S. history. See: New Study: ’2013 ranks as one of the least extreme U.S. weather years ever’– Many bad weather events at ‘historically low levels’
‘Whether you’re talking about tornadoes, wildfires, extreme heat or hurricanes, the good news is that weather-related disasters in the US are all way down this year compared to recent years and, in some cases, down to historically low levels.’
Extreme Heat: The number of 100 degree days may ‘turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records’
Hurricanes: ‘We are currently in the longest period (8 years) since the Civil War Era without a major hurricane strike in the US (i.e., category 3, 4 or 5)’ ( last major hurricane to strike the US was Hurricane Wilma in 2005)
The latest data show both tornadoes and now wildfires in dramatic decline.
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2013 had the fewest US forest fires since 1984 – Via Real Science:
Morano: ‘Global warming promoters have essentially said many bad things will happen due to global warming and guess what, bad things happen all the time so there is no end to their alleged ‘proof’ of global warming induced extreme weather. Any weather event anywhere on the globe. and say ‘well global warming made it worse’ – ‘We have Sen. Barbara Boxer, head of our Senate environmental committee, go down to the senate floor on the day we had an outbreak of tornadoes in Oklahoma and claim this is why she advocates a carbon tax. As though a carbon tax would have prevented these tornadoes! This is medieval witchcraft in modern times.’ – ‘You almost feel sorry for warmists,. but it is the holiday season, so let’s be charitable to them and say they are just flat out wrong.’
LA Times: ‘US wildfire burn acreage far below average’ – ‘Among the quietest of the past decade’ – ‘A wildfire season that began with dire warnings that dry conditions had set the stage for a year of flames