Gosh, a breakout session on hurricane Sandy with Michael Mann, and they label it “breaking news”. From the Geological Society of America website:
BREAKING NEWS: GSA Session to Address Hurricane Sandy
GSA Annual Meeting Technical Sessions: Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Its Impacts: Past, Present, and Future I and II
Boulder, Colorado, USA – In response to the devastation caused last week by Hurricane Sandy, organizers of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting technical sessions on rapid sea-level rise and its impacts have created a break-out discussion panel consisting of geoscience experts. The idea is to relate early findings and discuss how the changes caused by Hurricane Sandy to the U.S. East Coast tie into the scientific papers already scheduled for presentation.
Session organizers George T. Stone of Milwaukee Area Technical College, Michael E. Mann of The Pennsylvania State University, Stanley R. Riggs of East Carolina University, and Andrew M. Buddington of Spokane Community College recognized early the need to discuss the effects of Hurricane Sandy. The newly revised discussion panel will follow morning talks in room 219AB of the Charlotte Convention Center on Monday, 5 November.
Five GSA Divisions (GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology; Environmental and Engineering Geology; Geology and Society; Hydrogeology; Sedimentary Geology) and GSA’s International Section have teamed up with the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers to bring a multidisciplinary perspective to the problem.
Other talks in this two-part session (morning and afternoon) include “Pulses of rapid sea level rise: Their effect on past, present and future coastal environments and sequences”; Anthropogenic sea-level rise: ethical transgressions; and “Sea-level change during the last 2000 years in southern Connecticut.”
Breakout Panel Discussion: Hurricane Sandy and its Impacts
When: Monday, 5 Nov., 11:30 to noon
Where: Charlotte Convention Center, Room 219AB
Session 14: T121. Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Its Impacts: Past, Present, and Future I: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Session30943.html
Contacts:
George T. Stone, e-mail: stone@matc.edu
Michael E. Mann, cell: 814-777-3136; e-mail: mann@psu.edu
Maybe they can discuss the recent admission by NASA JPL that the satellite sea level data is missing a good baseline reference and is likely corrupted by spurious noise:
Finally: JPL intends to get a GRASP on accurate sea level and ice measurements
New proposal from NASA JPL admits to “spurious” errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the problem.
Likely though, it will be a doom and gloom breakout session with sea level accelerating and all that.
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This is just too silly for words!
So why am I expending words on it? Oh well……
“Anthropogenic sea-level rise: ethical transgressions”… Repent! You sinners against the earth!
“Geological Society of America goes wild”
It sounds like a college annual ball reunion…………..it is a college hop reunion!
Er, what ‘rapid sea level rise’? Did it increase by a tenth of a millimetre per year or something?
Delusions of grandeur and guilt make strange bedfellows.
Atheists and climate alarmists: the crashing bores of the 21st century.
How do these supposedly scientific organisations get away with such blatant untruth and stupidity?
Even taking the flawed and pumped up satellite altimetry data, 3mm per year equals one foot per century. That is not “rapid” in any sense of the word.
This is insignificant in relation to nearly 13ft of swell and the height of autumn full-moon high tides.
I presume Mann will be wearing his false Nobel Prize medallion around his neck to give himself added authority while speaking.
Sounds like the conference on ‘Abrupt Climate Change’ organized by Nick Drake in Michael Crichton’s novel….. Crichton was not exaggerating one bit, was he?
Heh, they posted Mike Mann’s cell #.
“Pulses of rapid sea level rise” Tides?
“Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Its Impacts” yeah right – I wonder how long before they talk about modelled sea level rise since those nasty observations are all wrong now. Thank goodness great nobel laureates will be at the session to make sure they are of the highest integrity!
I too am intrigued by the “transgressions” bit. Perhaps it’s a session for transvestite geologists?
Climate alarmism appears to be controlled by just a handful of individuals. All roads appear to lead to Pennsylvania.
The opinions of government funded geo-scientists are usually of no consequence, as these people have to toe the official alarmist line or there are immediate and very obvious employment consequences.
Can you imagine one of these individuals daring to utter the unspeakable truth of: “Yes, AGW does exist, but it is a minor phenomenon and no threat whatsoever to mankind. No, CAGW does not exist; that’s just a few guys’ overactive imagination.”
This would result in an immediate severance cheque. After all, nothing must be allowed to derail the Global Warming Industry’s gravy train.
A break out session of 30 minutes? They’ll hardly poured their coffee before the session ends. Unless it’s just our Mikey telling them what to say.
Pity Mark Steyn won’t be there.
The guy has no shame. After being given a clip over the ear by the IPCC and the Nobel people about his false claims, and humiliated by the ad in the newspaper on his own campus, he just carries on as if nothing happened.
Mike “Honey Badger” Mann …
What a piece of work is Mann! How Nobel in reason! How implicate in Faculty!
“Session to Address Hurricane Sandy” …
“technical sessions on rapid sea-level rise and its impacts” …
“Anthropogenic sea-level rise: ethical transgressions” …
Talking sense about “climate change” is a bit like talking to yourself, except you keep getting crazy, nonsensical answers.
Global Warming Disproof
Treating the Earth’s surface as a black body and populating it’s atmosphere with a mixture of GHGs and non-GHGs we have three sources of outgoing radiation. Integrating over a sufficient time period to eliminate the effects of seasons and day and night and integrating over the Earth’s surface spatially to eliminate variations with latitude we find that at mean temperature equilibrium the incoming radiation from the sun equals the outgoing radiation from our three Earthly sources of radiation.
We now remove the GHGs from the atmosphere and, if we like, replace them with an equivalent amount of non-GHGs. In order to restore radiative equilibrium (i.e. radiation from the Earth = radiation incoming from the sun) then the outgoing radiation from the black body Earth plus the now non-GHG atmosphere must increase to compensate for the removal of the GHGs.
Q 1) How do we get more radiation out of a black body?
Q 2) How do we get more radiation out of non-GHGs?
A1) Radiation from a black body can only be increased by increasing its temperature.
A 2) Non-GHGs are thermally radiating gasses. We can only get more radiation out of non-GHGs by increasing their temperature.
Q 3) How do GHGs affect mean global temperature?
A3) For the reader to answer.
If GHGs are better radiators than non-GHGs then the hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming is thus falsified. QED.
This makes an interesting counterpoint to the insurance industry position on Sandy in the previous post.
Sponsored by the Rahm Emmanuel School of Climatology.
Jobs Jobs Jobs. It is necessary to invent a reason to spend “others people money” in Geological Society of America. The is nothing better than a Social Construction like Global Warming-Rising Waters etc….
Geologists bringing out the big ethical transgression guns of sea level rise. Shouldn’t they be more concerned about the ethical transgression of raping and pillaging the Pachamama with their drills every day? /sarc
I cannot understand why a bunch of normally sensible geologists want to be associated with that charlatan Mann. The dirt will rub off.
There creating jobs for themselves out of nothing! Outrageous!