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The Winter That Wasn’t, CON’T

Meteorologists say they are alarmed. It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried. Temperatures in the lower 48 states were 8.6 degrees above normal for March and 6 degrees higher than average for the first three months of the year, according to calculations by …

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The Winter That Wasn’t

The fourth-warmest winter ever. New York City saved tens of millions on the snow removal they didn’t have to do. Don’t forget to spring forward tonight.

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2011 Weather Ranks

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Newt Gingrich On Climate Change

“I’m an amateur paleontologist. I spend a lot of time looking at the Earth’s temperature for a very long time. I’m a lot harder to convince than just looking at a computer model.” – Newt Gingrich, speaking at an Iowa town hall. So now he’s a historian AND a paleontologist! Amazing.

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Canada Withdraws From Kyoto Protocol

In what’s being seen as a major blow to the fight against climate change, Canada yesterday formally withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, the greenhouse gas reduction agreement among most of the world’s nations. The United States signed the treaty in 1998, but the GOP has successfully blocked its ratification ever since. Environment Minister Peter Kent said that Canada is invoking …

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Didn’t We Have A Blizzard Last Month?

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“Unprecedented” Arctic Ozone Hole

Which may cause reductions in the winter wheat crop. Story here.

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The Myth Of Global Warming (Cont)

Scientists say about 20,000 walruses showed up at their Alaskan mating grounds three weeks early this year due to “extreme Arctic sea ice melt caused by climate change.” The northern polar ice cap is at its third-smallest size in recorded history.

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The Myth Of Global Warming (Con’t)

One scientist says he is “gob-smacked” by the extent of the breakup of a Greenland glacier in just the last two years. Located in north west Greenland, the Petermann Glacier accounts for 6% of the area of the Greenland ice sheet, said Dr Hubbard. It terminates as a floating tongue of ice, measuring around 43 miles (70km) long by 12 …

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Huntsman Dooms Himself

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Rick Perry: Climate Change Is A Scam To Make Money For Scientists

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Crazy Eyes Denies Climate Change

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Photo Of The Day

A massive iceberg approaches the shore of Newfoundland.

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Bill Nye On Climate Change

And he takes the Fox News host to school along the way.

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FOTF Denies Climate Change

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Summertime In NYC

It’s mid-June and I’m blogging in a sweater.

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Arctic Sea Ice At Record Low

Al Gore notes on his blog: “The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic sea ice probably reached its maximum extent for the year on March 7, which was 5.65 million square miles.

“The maximum extent was 1.2 million square kilometers (463,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average of 15.86 million square kilometers (6.12 million square miles), …

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Koch Brothers-Backed House GOP Works To Abolish EPA Rules On Climate Change

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is now chaired and dominated by Republicans funded by the oil industry Koch Brothers, is working to abolish EPA rules designed to reduce climate change. (More billions for the Kochs!) Despite daylong expert scientific testimony, GOP committee members repeatedly denounced the evidence and declared that Democrats want to destroy the nation’s energy supply. …

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MONTANA: Tea Party Rep Introduces Bill Declaring Global Warming “Beneficial”

Newly elected Tea Party-backed Montana GOP state Rep. Joe Read has introduced a bill declaring that global warming is not only natural, it benefits the economy of his state. From Montana House Bill 429: The legislature finds that to ensure economic development in Montana and the appropriate management of Montana’s natural resources it is necessary to adopt a public policy …

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Photos Of The Day

NASA published the above satellite photo of this week’s massive storm over North America as another huge system over Australia is being called the worst cyclone in that country’s recorded history. Meanwhile the wingnuts are chortling all over Twitter as to how this winter’s U.S. storms are “the final nail in the coffin of global warming.” Science, they don’t has …

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