An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces | ThinkProgress

The very latest science suggests we may actually be in the midst of a quantum leap or step-function change in extreme weather because of warming-driven Arctic ice loss

Australian sea levels have been falling for 7000 years « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

During the coldest days of the last ice age (known as a glacial maximum) 20,000 years ago, the oceans were 125m lower than today. They peaked at around 1 -2 meters higher than present between 9000 and 5000 years ago, and have been trending down ever since. Our current rate of 30cm/century (if that continues) hardly seems unprecedented or highly unusual. And 10% of that is apparently due to an isostatic “adjustment”. Worse, if you look at the raw data, the rate is closer to zero. Hmm. Lucky we have all those adjustments eh?

Raimund Muscheler says that a steady high level of forcing can’t cause warming | Watts Up With That?

You can’t heat a pot of water by turning the flame to maximum and leaving it there

Green Weenie of the Week: The Climateers | Power Line

Now, I know I declared climate change to be the Dead Parrot Sketch of American politics last year, and downgraded my Power Line coverage of the issue appropriately, but sometimes a news story is just too juicy to pass up. The news out of the Met Office in England, one of the official keepers of the global warming faith, that global temperatures continue to be flat, and that there has been no rising temperature trend for 18 years now, ought to just about inter the parrot once and for all.