Analysis by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center revealed that April’s global average temperature was the warmest on record. Combined land and ocean temperatures were 58.1°F (14.5°C), which is 1.37°F (0.76°C) above the 20th Century climatic average. Additionally, the period of January through April, 2010 was also the warmest global average temperature on record. These [...]
Al Gore – Reflecting on Climate Change and Global Warming
I invite you to take 10 minutes to reflect on climate change and Global Warming. Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. Global average air temperature near the Earth’s surface [...]
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Discover this fascinating series which targets the specific and critical areas of geographic knowledge defined by educators as profoundly lacking in today’s students. The Geography Tutor video series is designed to sharpen basic geography skills and teach concepts that students find difficult to understand.
Each video is 15-18 minutes.
This episode explores various types of maps and [...]
The globe is warming, but is it really all our fault? And is it true the debate is over? No. What you think you know may not be so. Over the next 100 years, sea levels are expected to rise seven to 24 inches, not 20 feet says the IPCC. Polar bears appear to be [...]
November 30, 1998
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average (for example, greater or fewer extreme weather events). [...]
A prominent scientist who’s followed the science of global warming from the beginning, Dyson explains why climate models have no scientific merit, why average global ground temperature is a great fiction, and what he believes the real dangers of increased CO2 in the atmosphere are. He suggests that the relatively simple solution of land use [...]
The worlds ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August summer season, according to NOAAs National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. World-wide records began in 1880. Shown here is a visualization of the August global temperature anomalies–or in other words, how the [...]
The NOAA polar-orbiting satellites (POES) have been collecting sea surface temperature data for over 22 years. This animation is a compilation of that data from January 1985 – January 2007. Of note are the changes in the Gulf Stream, El Nino and La Nina cycles in the Pacific, and the seansonal changes in [...]
Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter – NOTHING HAS CHANGED! Trust your senses, not the climate models – and then put on your thinking cap:
CONSIDER THIS: A GLOBAL AVERAGE OF 59 DEGREES WILL NOT MELT ICE IN ANTARCTICA WHERE ITS -50 DEGREES; IT WILL NOT MELT ICE ANYWHERE THE TEMP IS BELOW FREEZING. THE LAWS OF [...]
Satellites have been observing ocean temperatures long enough so that we can understand how temperatures change on average over a long period of time–otherwise known as climate. Shown here is the temperature of the ocean over one year, averaged from 1985-2008. The data repeats so you can see annual changes all over the [...]
