Sunday, December 19, 2010

Ojmjakon Close To A Record | Real Science
The coldest temperature ever recorded away from Antarctica was -90F at Ojmjakon, Russia in 1933. Temperatures are forecast to get close to that again tonight.

In 1933, the cold was due to a lack of CO2 – but the current cold is due to trapped heat from massive amounts of anthropogenic CO2.
Shock News From Revkin : Scientists Who Depend On Global Warming Money, Believe In Global Warming | Real Science
At least 97% of vegetarians prefer not to eat meat.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper: Arctic Temperatures 2-3C higher only 1000 years ago
A paper presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting this week finds that Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic experienced a "dramatic" Medieval Warming Period from 800-1200 AD with temperatures 2 to 3 degrees C higher than the mean temperature of the past 100 years. Ellesmere Island was also in the news this week due to a discovery of a mummified forest where "no trees now grow" due to its "current frigid state."
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