Escape Finding Oneself in the Ranks of the Insane!

Before Gore

D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."

The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."

"This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and 1930s," says Mr. Lockwood. "I had read of the just-released NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all."

Worth pondering

Reacting yesterday to word that certain European governments and officials are suddenly trying to abandon their costly "global warming" policies, Royal Astronomical Society fellow Benny Peiser, of the science faculty at Liverpool John Moores University in Great Britain, recalls the teachings of Marcus Aurelius: "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

Darker dome

The Architect of the Capitol estimates that by having installed energy-efficient comfort-control systems and lighting, including occupancy sensors that automatically turn off lights when they are not needed, they are saving American taxpayers more than $2.2 million per year.

The real problem ...

[tomhudson]

... is that it turns out that humans have impacted the environment for 8,000 years. Turns out that we avoided an ice age because of increased agriculture, at a time when the total human population was next to nothing. There are various climactic cyclical effects, caused by long-term variations in solar output, precession of the axis of the earth's rotation, etc. We've imposed our "signal" atop them - either masking them entirely, biasing them towards the warm side, or making them worse (the dirty 30's is a

Four of the hottest 10 years in the US

[benhocking]

Just to be clear, NASA has always claimed that 4 of the hottest 10 years in the US were in the 1930's (during the dust bowl). It just so happens that all of the 10 hottest years in the world, however, have happened since 1990.

Re:Four of the hottest 10 years in the US

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

As measured in an asphalt parking lot.

Instrumental temperature record

[benhocking]

If you're referring to problems with the instrumental temperature record [wikipedia.org], you should realize they agree [wikipedia.org] quite well with satellite temperature measurements [wikipedia.org] that don't suffer from those asphalt effects.