George E. Smith; says
“Well Dirk, I can only relay what they told me; as for my German skills, I astonished them by telling them that I was able to literally tour all over Munich on the weekend by picking a road and following that road all over the city. They didn’t know of any such road so they asked me which road that was; “Einbahnstrasse” was my reply. They then clued me in as to what street that really was.”
:-)
For Non-German readers: Einbahnstrasse is one-way street

Don’t spoil it. I like to show videos of the Autobahn to illustrate that they all lead to “Ausfahrt” ;-)

I think not…

Antarctica is losing ICE MASS – seasonal SEA ICE does tell the real picture.

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009GL040222.shtml

http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/Antarctica_Ice_Mass.gif

Figure 2: Time series of ice mass changes for the Antarctic ice sheet estimated from GRACE monthly mass solutions for the period from April 2002 to February 2009. Unfiltered data are blue crosses. Data filtered for the seasonal dependence using a 13-month window are shown as red crosses. The best-fitting quadratic trend is shown (green line).

Natural selection in action- adapt to survive, just like every other species thats ever existed-anywhere.
Headobangosaurus was a dinosaur that lived about a month after nature decided to program it to bash its brains in on a wall for no reason, so quite surprisingly it died out then……

Why do climate scientists and Greens think the earth’s climate should remain the same as it was when they were 20, or 10? With that mindset they are the real ‘deniers’ of climate change. The rest of us accept that climate does change and that the only intelligent response is to adapt to it. Like the fish.

Robert van de Leur

I’ll second that.

Canada! Good for you guys! Others should soon follow suit.

There have clearly been alternating periods of long term warming and cooling in the vicinity of 500 years each between: Roman warming, Dark Ages cooling, Medieval Warming Period, Little Ice Age, 21st or 22nd century warming. There is some indication of this cycle before Roman times also I believe.

We can still detect this long term trend in recorded data for the period since 1900 for example. To do so, we need to compensate for shorter periods of the order of 30 years of warming and cooling, as well as shorter solar cycles.

All this can be done effectively using the concepts of derivatives and second derivatives in calculus. By calculating a 30 year trend every month on a moving basis we can firstly obtain a plot of the rate of change (gradient) and then we fit a logical “axis” trend to that plot. By taking this additional step we overcome “cherry picking” accusations because it makes very little difference whether the initial periods were 20, 30 or 40 years for example. The final trend line is similar.

What this yellow line (at the foot of my Home page http://climate-change-theory.com ) . indicates is that around 1915 the rate of increase was about 0.06 deg.C per decade, but it has now declined to about 0.05 deg.C per decade. There is a reasonable probability that this yellow line will slope down more, heading for zero maybe within 200 years or so. That would indicate a long term maximum in the trend of only about 0.7 to 1.0 deg.C above the current trend, though there could be shorter-term superimposed maxima and minima maybe up to a degree above the trend. However, 500 years of cooling should follow.