Jos, one of WUWT’s readers abroad writes:
“It is very cold here in Beligium. This is from today’s edition of the flemish newspaper ‘De Standaard’:”
You can find in online here, page 21 of the paper, and page 33 of the link below:
http://www.standaard.be/Krant/Beeld/?oDay=07&oMonth=01&oYear=2009
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yes, that just about sums up Al Gore, inventor of the Internet.
Flaming heck ! I enjoyed that.
It’s probably the only worthwhile use for A.I.T.
If we are entering into a Grand Minimum, can we start calling it GoreHansen Minimum? And, if enter into another mini ice age, can we start calling in the GoreHansen Pessimum Period? I really want to put a nose on these two clowns. Maybe we should add Mann, too. It may sound like a law firm, but what is the difference?
Jeff Wiita
Gore’s propaganda has finally landed where it belongs.
Let’s just call it: Fahrenheit Minus 457
Delightful. Gave me a good chuckle.
Like I said before, the whole world is beginning to “GET” the AGW joke.
Let the laughter begin.
In the UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4160258/Freezing-temperatures-Sea-frozen-as-cold-weather-grips-Britain.html
It should produce more CO2 which will help plants grow.
Al Gore finally doing something useful!
OT (Sorry): SolarCycle 24 has the newest Hathaway prediction. It supposed to start…any day now, and peak in 2013.
Hey, I can play this too. Every six months, just make a new prediction. I’m a scientist!
Be careful what you wish for; you may get it.
It would help if the Telegraph reporters (and presumably the sub-editors) understood anything about temperature. Look at Neil’s link and weep! They’re quoting degrees in minus F when presumably they mean minus C.
No wonder these idiots in the MSM are getting given the runaround by the likes of Gore et al. They haven’t a b****y clue about weather, climate, or anything else as far as one can tell.
Global Warmers are just now making propaganda in the southern hemisphere (Australia, South America) and surely they will be back in NH summertime…
Sam, you are absolutely right. If they don’t understand temperature and hence temperature conversion, how can they judge the pros and cons of AGW. No wonder they have been so uncritical of the AGW agenda.
Sam,
You are quite right. There is a lack of basic science education in the UK and the media reporters on most things that involve a smidgeon of science haven’t a clue. The BBC environment correspondents are just as bad. You would think (logically) that some knowledge of science would be a pre-requisite for these jobs. You can’t get much more basic than temperature. Mind you, most people in the media, the Government and it’s advisers don’t realise that energy and power are physically different concepts.
I thought it was funny! I suspect the dvd could be melted to make a useful plant pot too!
I know several comments have been made about apostrophe usage, spelling, & to some extent grammar (married to grandpa – the old ones are the best ones!). Here is a direct quote from a well known website, commenting with some authority on what will happen to the global climate by 2100, “By the same time, Australasia, Central America, & southern Africa is likely to see decreases in winter precipitation”. Note the unusual use of English, I know the modern idiom is in common use all over the place, but would have preferred to see the word ‘are’, & surely one could expect a little better from a multi-million pound taxpayer funded organisation, namely the BBC (which used to pride itself on its English usage) linked to the Met Office site. Google BBC Weather & go to Climate Change, very poor I thought but I won’t tell them. I also found it amusing that they state that, “In the tropics, it’s thought that some land areas will see more rainfall & others will see less”. Wow, what a prediction, I think even I could have done just as well with a wishy washy vague statement like that using a barometer & some seaweed & some second guessing!
Several people have pointed out that Australia is experiencing hot summer weather at the moment. For what it’s worth, in my part of South Africa it has been cooler than usual for the time of year – at least that’s how it has felt. Those who love our hot summers have been complaining.
I also live in Belgium, and it’s indeed very cold here. Last night it was -15 °C here in my garden and a high from -5°C over the day.
The lowest temperature measured in Belgium was -23°C last night.
This week, still a few nights will be around -10°C and he highs are forecasted to stay below freezing all day.
Al Gore sued by over 30.000 Scientists for fraud
From this month’s Physics World in the Once a physicist: Christine Rice column:
What did you do after graduating?
I started a DPhil in the atmospheric physics department at Oxford because I had some idealistic notion of contributing to the world’s knowledge of global warming and its potential dangers. I was rather dismayed to discover how fervently scientists on both sides of the climate-change argument could argue their particular thesis and manipulate the data to prove their conclusions. It seemed a little like religious faith — if you believed a thing to be true, then it could be — and I got the distinct impression that I was about to embark on the same process. Once I got stuck into being at the computer every day, I knew this was not the right place for me.
(She’s now an Opera Singer!)
We had -12c here in South England overnight. The coldest it’s ever been where I live in my long life was -14c back in the late 1970s. So only 2 degrees in it!
Sustaining the Unsustainable
By Dr. Tim Ball Monday, January 5, 2009
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7334
How has the scam that humans are causing global warming worked so effectively? One answer is exploitation of fear, the technique of which was accurately explained in the late Michael Crichton’s book “State of Fear.”
Most of Australia has been colder than normal.
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/images/fnl/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.anim.html
Another benefit of global warming.
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Learning by candlelight
Alan Siddons
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7341
While enjoying a recent effect of Global Warming, a week-long blackout brought on by a freak ice-storm which devastated the central Massachusetts region, I had ample opportunity to contemplate how a candle’s flame behaves.
A physical lid over a heat source decreases the zone of circulating air, thus reducing the cooling rate. But an open “lid” of gas that’s capable of absorbing radiant energy will convect around like any other gas, stealing heat and doing nothing else except radiating the very energy it has received by radiation, having zero power to confine it. Rather than limiting the area in which heat-loss occurs, then, a radiant absorber constitutes no barrier to radiation at all — it’s merely a second radiator that relays heat away. And, just as there’s no such thing as “back-convection” — where a flame makes itself hotter by the air currents it creates — or “back-conduction” — where a colder object raises the temperature of what it’s in contact with — there’s no such thing as “back-radiation.” Redirecting radiant energy back to the source cannot increase its temperature.
In all its forms, heat spontaneously moves from a more intense zone to a lesser. What makes convection particularly dynamic and meddlesome is that a cool mass also keeps moving to the heat source—a double whammy.
A lot can still be learned by candlelight.
The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change will take place in New York City on March 8-10, 2009 (Sunday – Tuesday), at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY.
http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/program.html
There will be four tracks of panel discussions:
1. Paleoclimatology
2. Climatology
3. Impact of Climate Change
4. Economics and Politics
Confirmed Speakers
The world’s elite climate scientists will be among the keynoters and presenters at the second annual International Conference on Climate Change March 8-10, 2009 in New York City.
Headliners among the 70-plus scientists will be:
William Gray, Colorado State University, leading researcher into tropical weather research.
Richard Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world’s leading students of dynamic meteorology, especially planetary waves.
Stephen McIntyre, primary author of Climate Audit, a blog devoted to the analysis and discussion of climate data. He is a devastating critic of the temperature record of the past 1,000 years, particularly the work of Michael E. Mann, creator of the infamous “hockey stick” graph. That graph–thoroughly discredited in scientific circles–supposedly proved that mankind is responsible for a sharp increase in greenhouse gases.
Arthur Robinson, curator of the Oregon Institute of Science & Medicine petition signed by more than 32,000 American scientists, including more than 10,000 with doctorate degrees, rejecting the alarmist assertion that global warming has put the Earth in crisis and is caused primarily by mankind.
Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville, principal research scientist and team leader on NASA’s Aqua satellite.