Hottest Year Ever Update | Real Science

The world’s top climate experts said that an El Nino would make 2012 the hottest year ever.

The El Nino came, and 2012 has been colder than 2010 every day except for nine days – averaging 0.36 degrees below 2010.

1923 Shock News : Radical Climate Change Melting Down The North Pole | Real Science

122 (50C) Degrees In Seville, Spain! | Real Science

That happened 130 years ago. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe. CO2 was 280 ppm at the time.

Karakoram Rising | The Resilient Earth

Contrary to “consensus” climate change wisdom, this remote mountain region where China, India and Pakistan intersect is not losing its glaciers, it is gaining ice mass. Not only is the Karakorum not contributing to sea-level rise, it is responsible for a slight drop in the world's oceans—for now. Did someone say “settled science?”

This is the most unsettling thing about climate change, and nature itself: the “facts” keep changing. Sometimes this is due to science improving and sometimes it is due to nature itself changing. Those who talk about nature, science and climate change in absolutes, those who pretend to know what the future holds, are trying to fool the rest of us, or they are fools themselves.

Quark Soup by David Appell: The Cabo Test

Let's call this the Cabo Test: If today someone offered you a week-long, all-expenses vacation in Cabo San Lucas, in the finest beachside resort, would you turn it down because of the carbon emissions of the plane you'd fly in? I doubt more than a few percentage of people would decline it. Even the environmentally aware would start compromising in their head: I'll fly this time but will skip a vacation next year. I'll fly but will read a book about climate change. I'll fly but will buy carbon offsets.