Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Top 10 stories of the decade: No. 3 -- Boulder battles global warming - Boulder Daily Camera
The work of researchers in Boulder helped create the body of science that forms the foundation for arguments like those made in Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." In fact in 2007, Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize for his work bringing attention to climate change with the scientists who formed the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, many of whom live in Boulder.
Flashback to Oct '09: Boulder's Kevin Trenberth writes a key ClimateGate email to a "Who's Who" list of fraudsters including Michael Mann and Phil Jones
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0600
Cc: Stephen H Schneider , Myles Allen , peter stott , “Philip D. Jones” , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl , Gavin Schmidt , James Hansen , Michael Oppenheimer
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Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low. This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather).
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The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

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