Thursday, April 16, 2009

Why Third Year Arctic Ice Will Increase Next Year « Watts Up With That?
No wonder people are pushing so hard for “climate legislation” in 2009. Graphs like the one below don’t look very scary, with global sea ice area 683,000 km2 above normal, and Catlin reporting wicked cold - day after day.
Climate Models -vs- Climate Reality: diverging or just a dip? « Watts Up With That?
Here’s something really interesting: two comparisons between model ensembles and 3 well known global climate metrics plotted together. The interesting part is what happens in the near present. While the climate models and climate measurements start out in sync in 1979, they don’t stay that way as we approach the present.
Melbourne: the last time it was colder this early in the year was 1996 « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze
Tatura in the Northern Country dropped to chilly 1.5 degrees, their coldest night this early in the year in 14 years. Melbourne fell to 7.3 degrees, the last time it was colder this early in the year was 1996. Sale recorded 1.1 degrees their coldest night this early in 46 years.
Sapping America's Energy - WSJ.com
The Waxman-Markey plan intends to give the federal government near-total control of America's energy supplies and usage. Depending upon how the allowances are organized, it may also create the largest redistribution of money from American families to the federal government since the creation of the American income tax. To keep America prospering, our economy growing, and jobs expanding, we need not less energy, but more of it; not higher energy prices but lower ones; and more energy generation through nuclear power, clean coal and offshore oil and gas as well as possible new energy sources. Waxman-Markey will take us in one direction, but to keep America prospering we need to go in the opposite one.

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