From the El Nino didn’t come this year department Source: http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/ WASHINGTON – Warm temperatures in February contributed to further snowpack decline in the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, according to data from the third 2015 forecast by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Snowpack in Nevada, Utah and Idaho also…
Guest essay by Robert A. Cook, PE Last week, in my previous article, several critics noted an apparent decline in their Arctic Sea Ice Extents when it dipped back down from a high point over the March 7-8-9 period. Was this an “early” Arctic Sea Ice Extent maximum? Was today’s Arctic Sea Ice in a…
There are problems with oil, gas and coal, but their benefits for people—and the planet—are beyond dispute From The Wall Street Journal, 14 March 2015, via The GWPF By Matt Ridley The environmental movement has advanced three arguments in recent years for giving up fossil fuels: (1) that we will soon run out of them…
…that some of the warming nearer to the surface came from the deep ocean. Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The paper is Liang et al. (2015) Vertical Redistribution of Oceanic Heat Content. The abstract reads (my boldface): Estimated values of recent oceanic heat uptake are of order of a few tenths of a W/m2, and…