U. S. Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ): ‘Millions are already dying, or have died, as a result of changes in the climate’
…2nd Coldest U.S. Winter in 35 Years
Via: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/03/2nd-coldest-u-s-winter-in-35-years/
2nd Coldest U.S. Winter in 35 Years
March 3rd, 2014 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
The primary winter months of December, January, and February averaged over the contiguous 48 United States were the 2rd coldest winter in the last 35 years. The average temperature of 32.2 deg. F was barely edged out by the slightly colder winter (32.0 deg. F) of 2009-2010 (click for large version):
The analysis is based upon ~350 NOAA/NWS stations that measure temperatures every 6 hours (or more frequently), many located at airports. The data I use are adjusted for average spurious urban heat island (UHI) warming that increases with population density around the thermometer site. That relationship is shown at the end of this article.
The analysis starts in only 1973 since that is the first year with a large amount of quality-controlled 6-hourly temperature data archived at NOAA. The official NOAA temperature product depends upon stations which generally don’t report hourly temperatures (mostly daily max/min temperatures), and which require large (and controversial) adjustments for varying time of observation.
Note also that 6 of the last 8 winters have been below the 41-year average.
Warren Buffett: Climate Change Not Causing More Disasters
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Buffett-Disasters/2014/03/03/id/555671…
Sen. John McCain on climate change: ‘I just leave the issue alone because I don’t see a way through it’ – ‘I try to get involved in issues were I see a legislative result’
Q. You used to be very engaged on the issue of climate change?
McCain: I’m still interested in it. And I think there are a lot of things that we can do like this transition that we’re making to natural gas thanks to our resources and I still believe in nuclear power as one of the big parts of the answers, and that’s almost impossible to get. And I think we need to address greenhouse gas emissions. But I try to get involved in issues were I see a legislative result… But there’s going to be no movement in the Congress of the United States certainly this year and probably next year. So I just leave the issue alone because I don’t see a way through it, and there are certain fundamentals, for example nuke power, that people on the left will never agree with me on. So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power? I don’t believe that you can really succeed in reducing greenhouse gases unless you have a lot of nuclear power plants. They’re against them. Well, okay, I move on to other issues.
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Analysis: ‘New Global Warming Report a Disgrace’ – ‘Royal Society (RS) and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), does a serious disservice to science and society’
http://pjmedia.com/blog/new-global-warming-report-a-disgrace/?singlepage=true…