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Looking at the ECMWF sequence at the moment next weekend looks as if it could be cold and windy although wouldn't have thought much snow around. Certainly not in these parts. Mind that's along way off to be taking it too seriously.

Snow Cover May Help Usher in Historic Cold to Northwest http://www.climatecentral.org/news/snow-cover-may-help-usher-in-historic-cold-to-northwest-16787

Heartland Institute tries to fool yet again. http://blog.ametsoc.org/uncategorized/going-to-the-source-for-accurate-information/

Usual layer of Sc. Temp 9.3C and wind NE light.

So Mark Twain was right then?

Oh great joy. A new word in the lexicon of the Skeptic. Calamastrologists. Anyway HotWhopper having some whimsical thoughts on the lakes under the ice in Greenland. May I call Poe in Greenland? More denier weirdness at WUWT

Time 1823.

Critical time? 1837 closest to the sun.

Interactive map showing past major droughts and their impacts http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7468_supp/interactive3/drought-map.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NATURE_1311_AGRICULTURE

I could have swore it says forecast..........................................

A diamond and dotted line. Promise me you will buck up.

Wouldn't dream of it. Too busy trying to keep warm. Just a couple of things. I've never actually read a climate scientist state this., "Many climate scientists and their supporters have insisted that ‘extreme weather events’ have been increasing in frequency and intensity since the Industrial Revolution, and especially over the past half-century". I think it remiss of Brian Pratt not to link to these scientists for the benefit of those, like me, who missed it. A quick word about the GWPF founded by social anthropologist Benny Peiser, and it is chaired by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson. Their call for transparency doesn't actually apply when it comes to their funding about which they are very coy.. Their list of members reads like a who's who of the Great and the Good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation

Roger Brugge temp forecast for Camborne. http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/cgi-bin/forecast_charts.cgi?place1=camborne&place2=None&place9=None&place5=None&place6=None&place3=None&place4=None&place7=None&place8=None

Galloping Willis Eschenbach is at it again. Just in case you are not familiar with WE's career. Very impressive and varied but nought to do with Climate. http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/10/who-is-willis-eschenbach.html And Nick Stokes runs this blog. http://blogs.planet3.org/author/nickstokes/ Back to the business in hand. Dear oh dear. IMO yet again this does science no favours irrespective of which side of the line you stand. Partial to Carbon Dioxide - Why Willis Eschenbach Wonders at WUWT

Great blog post by TX State Climatologist pointing out (again) the intellectual bankruptcy of climate skepticism. CFACT, are a piece of work. http://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2013/11/and-now-a-positive-voice-on-climate-issues/

Source: NASA Source: University of Colorado Source: NODC/NOAA

True but two swallows marks September which is the end of summer. Which is why I assume Andy Lee Robinson compiled the video for that month. For a fuller picture.

Daily updated map of sea-ice thickness, derived from SMOS satellite | and whole dataset http://icdc.zmaw.de/l3c_smos_sit.html?&L=1

Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog The busiest travel day of the year in the U.S. is at hand this Wednesday, and Winter Storm Boreas continues to slow travel over much of the Eastern U.S. with a nasty mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain, heavy rain, and high winds. Dangerous snowy and icy travel will continue to cause trouble in many of the high elevation areas from the Smoky Mountains to Maine Wednesday. The greatest snows of 6+ inches will fall in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and strong northwest winds will bring lake effects of 2 - 4" to Rochester, NY and much of the south shore of Lake Ontario.

Very dull with a layer of SC. Temp 10C and wind NE 10mph.

OOPS wrong thread. Still never mind. ...ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin (1871) The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex

A hifty short video on sea level. An oblate spheroid is a special case of an ellipsoid where two of the semi-principal axes are the same size. Quite.

That's big leap jonboy. There is nothing clearly about it but I'm having a bit a of trouble finding an AGW fanatic along the lines of Watts, Goddard, Monkton, and his pals at Heartland, Gosselin, et al, so specifics would be welcome. And I don't have a problem with any arguments as long as there is a semblance of science behind them and not just cheap jibes.

An interesting example of the debate using the modern interpretation as more or less defined by Galton. It would seem that as many think, environmental factors can overcome nature even in quite extreme cases. The scientist is a distant cousin of Lizzie Borden To my mind there remains the question, what if something disastrous had happened during his adult life such as a complete breakdown of his marriage? Would nature then come to the fore? Meet the neuroscientist and married father of three who discovered he was a PSYCHOPATH after accidentally studying his own brain scans http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512640/Meet-neuroscientist-married-father-discovered-PSYCHOPATH-accidentally-studying-brain-scans.html#ixzz2lb9EsXHS

Always good to end the evening with laugh and Tisdale is usually good for one. Perennially Puzzled Bob Tisdale writes a fan letter to George Clooney and Lewis Black