The Blackboard » RSS: 2010 2nd hottest, exceeded by 1998.

Computing the annual average as the average over Jan-Dec of each year, using this data set, 2010 did not set a new record for warmest calendar year. That honor is retained by 1998 which holds the record for both the highest calendar year average and the highest 12 month average in the RSS record. Both RSS records are held by the period from Jan-Dec. 1998.

Tired of Arguing With Climate Change Skeptics? Describe the Company You Keep! : Wildlife Promise

After going through the list, simply ask the skeptic how it is so many serious businesses, military and conservative leaders could have let themselves be fooled. The answer is pretty obvious.

The Arctic Shuffle « Musings from the Chiefio

I’d been watching this video of Tiny Tim singing “The Ice Caps Are Melting” and got to wondering where he got that idea back in the 1960s during the New Little Ice Age scare. Turns out, the Arctic Ice Cap has had periods of shrinkage at a variety of times (including when various US and Russian Subs surfaced and hung out at the North Pole in clear water). The video is a bit of a ‘hoot’ in any case:

CLIMATE PREDICTION BASED ON PAST MEASUREMENTS

A key assumption in this approach has been that agt increase is predominately caused by atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) increase. The growing separation between the continued increase of CO2 and lack of significant agt increase for several years (graph on page 9 of Ref 3) suggests that this prominent approach and assumption may be flawed.