Thursday, November 03, 2011

UAH Global Temperature Update for October 2011: +0.11 deg. C « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
The Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, and tropics have all cooled substantially, consistent with the onset of another La Nina, with the tropics now back below the 1981-2010 average.
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WHAT MIGHT THIS MEAN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE?
…taking a line from our IPCC brethren… While any single month’s drop in global temperatures cannot be blamed on climate change, it is still the kind of behavior we expect to see more often in a cooling world. ;)
Airlines Ballyhoo Greenhouse Plans, Then Complain About Cost | National Legal and Policy Center
Nevertheless the U.S. air transport industry has played the game, spent money to become “sustainable,” crowed about it, but now balks at EU efforts to make them a full team player? Corporate executives need to learn that environmentalism never stops, because even though you comply with their initial demands, they will always clamor for more.
Can Vulnerable Species Outrun Climate Change? by Emma Marris: Yale Environment 360
The newt might just make it, says Early, “if it moves forward when it gets warmer, and it doesn’t move backwards when it gets cooler, and moves 24 kilometers a decade.”
...anthropogenic climate change is occurring much faster than the gradual changes that took place over the last 21,000 years. Indeed, Sandel says the rate of warming over the next 70 years could easily be 10 times as fast as the warming that occurred as the planet emerged from the last Ice Age.
Must See: Extraordinary Map of Climate Change | Peter Lehner's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC
This is one of the best demonstrations of climate change I've seen in a while. It vividly shows, as it moves from mostly cool blues in the 19th century to angry splotches of red in the 21st, both short blips in temperature and the much longer overall warming of the planet.

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