What Happened To Texas? What Happened To Tornadoes? | Real Science

One year ago Andrew Dessler from Texas A&M University wrote an editorial in the Houston Chronicle declaring Texas to be in a permanent drought. No one is talking about Texas any more because they have had above normal rainfall this year.

Similarly, back in February, our friends got hysterical about some early tornadoes. The rest of the tornado season turned out slow and they quit talking about it. Same story for Moscow, Europe 2003, snow is a thing of the past, global cooling ……

The Colorado icon only lasted couple of weeks, though the MSM is still trying to get mileage out of it. It is a pathetic three-ring circus.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Natural climate change drove coral reefs to 'total ecosystem collapse' when CO2 was 'safe'

According to a paper published this week in Science, natural climate change 4,000 years ago drove coral reefs to "total ecosystem collapse lasting 2,500 years" for "40 percent of their total history" over the past 6,000 years. The authors believe "an intensified ENSO regime" was responsible, but then erroneously assume AGW will lead to a similar reef collapse, despite extensive peer-reviewed literature showing that changes in greenhouse gases have not and will not affect ENSO intensity

Rapid sea ice retreat in June | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Prior to the onset of melt, the ice was thicker than observed in recent years – around 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) as compared to typical conditions of around 1.4 meters (4.6 feet).

Congress Continues Wasting Our Time With Worthless Witch Hunts | ThinkProgress

Meanwhile, the real waste of taxpayer money is being ignored. Darrell Issa’s Oversight Committee seems to have no interest in a Congressional Budget Office report noting the  waste of carbon capture & storage money (a kind of “clean coal”) – to date, $6.9 billion, or nearly 100 Abounds or 14 Solyndras.

Climate Common Sense: Carbon Sunday the beginning of the end.

Julia Gillard is losing the propaganda battle and is on a slippery slide to the next election. The handouts are seen by voters as bribes and create questions about financial competence when they are funded by debt.

Turning up the heat on climate change - latimes.com

I am a political scientist who studies climate policy and adaptation, and the intersection between climate science and politics. My father is also a scientist — a nuclear engineer. But he's always been a bit skeptical about climate change. Though he's not a full-on doubter, he also hasn't fully embraced the idea that the planet is warming in ways that could be devastating, and that this change is the result of human activity. Events like the Waldo Canyon fire may make him and other climate skeptics easier to convince.

Young Men and Fire - Norman MacLean - Google Books

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned.