Snowing hard on Mt Rainier WA right now

21 to 32 inches of snow in next 24 hrs.

NSIDC Naughtiness Returns | Real Science

A few weeks ago, I caught NSIDC pulling some mathematical nonsense in their sea ice graphs. A few hours before the Arctic extent line was about to cross the mean line, they changed their plotting scheme to use a five day trailing average for the current ice and a nine day trailing average for the climatology. I pointed out to them that they can’t do that because it puts a two day relative shift in the data – and they fixed it the next day.

Amazingly, they have made a new mistake in their latest Sea Ice News. The graph below shows all recent years far below climatology.

Cascais launches beach season despite cold and rain

Cascais last week became the first region in Portugal to launch ‘beach season’, placing lifeguards on its beaches ready for the summer masses despite the rain and dreary, cold weather.

Advice for graduates « The Greenroom

Today, who’s Galileo and who’s the Church in the climate change debate? Assuming you, like the Church fathers of yore, haven’t read all the scientific literature on the subject or conducted your own experiments or scientific observations to confirm or debunk theories, what do you base your opinions on in this debate? Which scientists do you believe?

...So, beware. Don’t smugly assume you’re not part of the Inquisition. Nobody expects to be.