Wonk Room » Jim Inhofe’s Non-Communicative Communications Director, Matt Dempsey

[Alarmist Brad Johnson] Do I believe that a climate system that hadn’t been perturbed by man-made warming could have generated storm patterns largely equivalent to this year’s? It’s certainly possible, although there’s no record of it happening.

[Back when the ice was a mile thick at what is now Chicago (not long ago, in geologic time), I wonder what sort of storms hit the Eastern US]

When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago--an enormous weight that depressed the land beneath.

2010 Thermometer Langoliers Hit List « Musings from the Chiefio

Well, They Are At It Again

Don’t know what to make of this list yet, other than it directly ‘gives the lie’ to the assertion that thermometer ‘drops’ were / are entirely an artifact of GHCN being a creation at a historical moment in time (i.e. made in 1990’s era so that’s why they drop out then in The Great Dying of Thermometers – which itself ignores The Lesser Dying in 2006).

It also shows that the excuse of things being dropped for not electronically reporting is pretty much a lie, too. I note that Dallas Fort Worth Airport is on this list and I’m pretty sure they have electronic reporting…

And in a Blink of an Eye Summer is Gone | Antarctica

The sun is very noticeably lower in the sky and temperatures the past week have been much colder. Today is the coldest day since I arrived here last October at -40F. Hard to believe it’s just about here but it is. Winter!

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE INSTA-DAUGHTER JUST SAW THE AUDI ‘GREEN POLICE’ COMMERCIAL for the first time...

[Joe Tetreault] I just can’t believe an intelligently designed car would be marketed so poorly.

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley opens his diary

Perth: Packed ballroom, packed overflow hall, extra public meeting the following day, also packed. Back to Sydney (extra public meeting) and home to our beloved Highland hills for just five days. Two months in the US next. Suddenly, climate scepticism is popular worldwide. Feels good, that.