RSSTemperatures plummeted to the coldest on record for November in parts of the UK overnight. Northern Ireland hit a new low of -9.5C (15F) at Lough Fea, Co Tyrone, and in Wales, a record minimum of -18C (0F) was reached at Llysdinam, in Powys. Snow is still falling in Scotland, Northern Ireland and north-east England, [...]
New peer reviewed paper: Bouwer, L.M. (in press). Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/2010BAMS3092.1 Abstract The increasing impact of natural disasters over recent decades has been well documented, especially the direct economic losses and losses that were insured. Claims are made by some that climate [...]
NOAA on the 2010 Russian Heat Wave (excerpt): Despite this strong evidence for a warming planet, greenhouse gas forcing fails to explain the 2010 heat wave over western Russia. The natural process of atmospheric blocking, and the climate impacts induced by such blocking, are the principal cause for this heat wave. It is not known [...]
A Primer on the Global Death Toll from Extreme Weather Events — Context and Long Term (1900–2008) Trends Background Based on 2000–08 data, extreme weather events are responsible for about 0.05% of all global deaths (31,700 deaths vs. 58.8 million, annually). That is, despite the media attention to such events, extreme weather events have a [...]
Citation: Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, J. Nakamura, M. Ting, and N. Naik (2010), Northern Hemisphere winter snow anomalies: ENSO, NAO and the winter of 2009/10, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L14703, doi:10.1029/2010GL043830. Abstract: Winter 2009/10 had anomalously large snowfall in the central parts of the United States and in northwestern Europe. Connections between seasonal snow anomalies [...]
The unsettled bank holiday weather follows a particularly harsh winter, which has delayed the blooming of bluebells. Woodlands carpeted with the distinctive flowers are one of the sights of spring – but experts say the flowers are about three weeks late this year. Magnolias and daffodils are also blooming late this year because of the [...]
Scotland has suffered some of the coldest winter months in almost 100 years, the Met Office has confirmed. By combining the temperatures of January and December it showed they were the coldest since 1914 – the year data started being logged. Elsewhere, it was the coldest December and January in Northern Ireland since 1962/63 and [...]
5th February 2009. Here’s a picture of my dog enjoying global warming: The view from the front of my house: As the Telegraph reports on 3rd February: ‘Snow is consistent with global warming, say scientists’ “Britain may be in the grip of the coldest winter for 30 years and grappling with up to a foot [...]
Australia: Victoria has just suffered a heat wave. This photo is of a little Koala who just walked into the back porch looking for a bit of heat relief in Maude. They filled a bowl with water and this is what happened: Photo via Caroline McInnes in Adelaide
Americans were today shivering as bitter arctic winds caused temperatures to plunge to record-breaking levels in many parts of the vast country. Daily Mail
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New Booker Book: The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker has a new book out entitled: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With `Climate Change` Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?
Available from Amazon UK here:
More from Booker himself here. (1)
Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Read the AIG News paper here. (1)
Global Warming Ate My Data
We’ve lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests.
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Climate Depot's Arctic Fact Sheet
Climate Depot Arctic Fact Sheet (for additional updates on the Arctic see new articles tagged Arctic) (0)
