Austin hits all-time record low for month of April | Weather Watch

It hit 28 degrees this morning, an all-time record low in Austin for the month of April, according to the National Weather Service. Despite the frigid start, the temperature is expected to climb to the mid 70s by this afternoon.

Before this morning, there had never been a day in April below 30 degrees recorded at either Austin-Bergstrom International Airport or Camp Mabry, according to weather service statistics. Previously, the coldest April temperatures were 30 degrees on April 1, 1926 (at Mabry) and April 14 last year (at the airport). [Via Global Freeze]

The Antarctic, an engineers reconstruction. « The Air Vent

The Antarctic shows a net warming according to the surface station data according to the 50 year timeframe. Sorry guys, I did warn everyone that if that’s what the data shows that’s what we’ll see on tAV. What I find most interesting is that the peninsula warming trend is so incredibly isolated to a single region with a hard cutoff. This makes me question the peninsula station data.

The trend of 0.084 C/Dec is substantially flatter than Steig’s reconstruction, although it is within Steig09’s huge margin of error 0.12+/- 0.07 C/Dec. I do have to point out that this new value is very close to Jeff C and my regridded trend.

Another point is that we know ice levels have grown since the advent of satellite measurement. Despite the numerous explanations by pro-AGW scientists this is most likely due to cooling temps. From Fig 2 you can see values prior to 1967 are significantly negative by eye. Since the RC guys have admitted that Antarctic warming is now consistent with the models, I want to know what happened in the last 40 years where the most CO2 was added to the atmosphere

Haryana afforestation project to get carbon [scam] credits

New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) A small afforestation project in Haryana has become the first in the world to qualify for carbon credits, which the project managers can sell in a developed country.
The European Commission (EC), which has co-funded the Haryana Community Forestry Project - of which this project to get carbon credits is a small part - said in a statement here Thursday that this was the first small-scale afforestation project in the world to get certified by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the UN.
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The project has had other beneficial fallouts too. Most of the 294 Awareness Centres built for the project also serve as a health or veterinary clinic or an extra school classroom, the statement said.