Antarctic Sea Ice Sets New Record For August
…Rasmussen Poll: Only 23% would pay more than $100/yr to ‘fight’ global warming. Largest group (48%) wouldn’t pay anything
Poll: Only 23% would pay more than $100/yr to ‘fight’ global warming. Largest group (48%) wouldn’t pay anything. http://goo.gl/yqGjr2
Claim: ‘Extremely cold winter months likely held down the number of tornadoes in Oklahoma this year, resulting in the fewest twisters in the state since 1988’
Only 13 tornadoes hit the state through June this year, which was the latest available data. Only one of those tornadoes — an April 27 EF2 that injured 12 and killed one person in Quapaw — was of any “significance,” said Greg Carbin, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center.
Only numbers through June are officially available at this time, as data is still being collected on July and August, though those months saw no significant action, Carbin said.
The 13 tornadoes on record through the first six months of 2014 is the lowest total in Oklahoma since just 10 were documented during the same time frame in 1988, according to meteorologist Doug Speheger.
“I believe that those are the only years on record since the modern era of tornado documentation in 1950 that Oklahoma has had that few tornadoes in that time period,” Speheger said.…
Storm activity at historic lows: ‘First time for almost 70 years that there have been no tropical storms active anywhere in the world on Sept. 1’
UK Meteorological Office on September 1, 2014: ‘Today is the first time for almost 70 years that there have been no tropical storms active anywhere in the world on 1st September.’
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Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue weights in: ‘No new Typhoons in August in West Pacific basin. My thoughts year to date are that Atlantic is now in dead decade ahead. WPAC middle of decade lull’
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U.S. hurricane drought still in record territory: ‘Almost nine years since the last major hurricane struck the US’ – ‘Remember, we are talking MAJOR hurricanes, of Category 3 strength or higher. The last major hurricane was Hurricane Wilma which hit Florida on October 24, 2005. This is unprecedented in the hurricane record since 1900. Its a full 2 1/2 years ahead of the second-longest US hurricane drought ever recorded.
Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. is a professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He writes: “Since 1900 US hurricane seasons have seen more than 20% less landfalls and are more than 20% less intense.”
The above graph shows hurricane landfalls have declined in the US since 1900. And the strength of storms has declined as well. Using NOAA data, we do see a decline in intensity of land falling US hurricanes since 1900.’
Geologist Rebuts Media-Hyped Draft Of New UN IPCC Report As ‘Nonsense Totally Contrary To Real Evidence’ – Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook takes apart new draft UN report: “What is really astonishing, is how the discredited IPCC can continue to put out such nonsense totally contrary to real evidence and still pretend to be scientists.”
US Major Hurricane Strikes Peaked In The 1950s – Now At An All-Time Record Low
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Claim: ‘World will warm faster than predicted in next five years’, study warns – ‘Expected to silence global warming skeptics’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jul/27/world-warming-faster-study…
UK Met Office issues scary mock 2050 weather forecasts. – WAS WRONG 12 of LAST 13 SUMMERS
UK Met Office issues scary mock 2050 weather forecasts. http://goo.gl/4AUs63 WAS WRONG 12 of LAST 13 SUMMERS. http://wp.me/pyHMP-aKs
Claim: Antarctic sea-level rising faster than global rate, but a ‘pause’ and other studies suggest ice melt isn’t the only factor
Claim: Antarctic sea-level rising faster than global rate, but a ‘pause’ and other studies suggest ice melt isn’t the only factor
From the University of Southampton A new study of satellite data from the last 19 years reveals that fresh water from melting glaciers has caused the sea-level around the coast of Antarctica to rise by 2cm more than the global average of 6cm. Researchers at the University of Southampton detected the rapid rise in sea-level […]…