Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Mother Nature Just Won’t Give Them A Break | Real Science

Our friends were very excited to declare a 1930s repeat (10 year drought) after a few weeks of dry weather, but they just can’t deliver the human misery which they long for so badly.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The Schwarzenegger legacy: San Bernardino third Californian city to file for bankruptcy

The question is, when will the entire state of California file for bankruptcy? It can´t take too long now, when one remembers how the Schwarzenegger global warming legacy is impacting  life in the Golden State.  

June 2012 NOT Hottest June in US | Planet3.0

June 2012 was 14th hottest June of the 118 years on record in the “lower 48″, certainly warm but not record-setting at the monthly time scale.

The only state to set a monthly record was Colorado which did have its hottest June on record. Washington and Oregon were abnormally cool.

Government Inspectors In Your Wardrobe » Climate Resistance

What is interesting about this is the way in which the environment is used as the pretext for expanding the role of government bodies, making it their responsibility to monitor lifestyles.

Skeptics Are Not Deniers: A Conversation (part 3) | Climate Abyss | a Chron.com blog

[John Nielsen-Gammon] Precisely how much of a CO2 perturbation it would take to melt Antarctica is a challenging question (and there probably aren’t enough fossil fuels available in the ground to pull it off).

RB: Agreed.  There is also the probable timescale of melting — THAT I can easily believe will be thousands to tens of thousands of years (and indeed have read worst case estimates that agree).  Greenland would take a damn long while too.

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