Realclimate.org goes dark – is it permanent?

On the one hand Real Climate likely isn’t needed any more, now that the last “western” skeptics have been driven from leadership (in Australia and Canada). On the other hand, it looks as if the political victory can do little more than further inflate the political egos of the Warmunistas. To quote a Warmunist leader of God’s Frozen People, at Paris “We are going to sit down at the table, roll up our sleeves and send a signal.”

All the propaganda outfits are turning up the volume before Paris. For example, the Guardian Environment section is now so fevered only the rabid fanatics comment there; it’s a lonely echo chamber. And that’s al;; it needs to be to keep the zealots on their toes to campaign in Paris.
RealClimate is meant to persuade the intelligent doubters. But there aren’t any of those left. The debate is too politicised and angry. The Alarmists abandoned any option of “It is happening but it may not be a problem” when they attacked Lomborg. That lost them any chance of talking to anyone save the far-out fatalists.
So RealClimate has been redundant as a propaganda tool for a while. And it’s useless as a science site as it refuses to examine the evidence that Climate Sensitivity was vastly over-estimated.
In summary:- RealClimate has been dead for a while. So let’s drink to that.
And let’s remember that the fact it’s ever existed is an argument for sacking Harrabin from the BBC.

Hmmm…..
On “Funny Friday” in response to this:

Ric Werme
November 20, 2015 at 2:17 pm
It’s been over an hour and no one has posted https://xkcd.com/386/ !?
Thank you for leaving it for me. 🙂

I said this:

Gunga Din
November 20, 2015 at 3:25 pm
Perhaps correcting “The Internet” is “hell”?
Being assigned “RealClimate” would be the seventh level of hell.
That or being forced to date a “french model”? 😎
(Reference to a commercial aired in the US a few years ago for those outside the US.)

Perhaps there really is a seventh level of hell? And it’s been very busy! 😎

Real Climate is a who’s who of the cult of CAGW’s inner circle to push/justify the CAGW agenda.
The propaganda effort has however moved on from the pathetic suppressed/manipulated discussion of scientific analysis and observations associated with past and future climate ‘change’ which was initial deemed necessary to justify the existence of CAGW, to a never ending broadcast of manipulated climate ‘change’ news items:
Cult of CAGW scientists’ sciency models predict global warming will be worse than expected (big surprise), polar bear falls off ice and drowns, and cute children hold breaths in effort to convince politicians to print more money to ‘fight’ climate change and to increase the salaries for their teachers, to save their country from the deb crisis and the climate ‘change’ crisis.
The whole dang climate war mess will continual along its obvious course (there is sufficient momentum that a major new issue is required to interrupt/stop the madness) until 1) there is frightening global cooling which the public will demand an explanation for and/or 2) the public/politicians have their eureka moment and understand the practical economic implications of wasting trillions and trillions of dollars on green scams that do not work – tripling of the cost of electricity for example, massive loss of jobs, and zero impact on present/future climate change when the real problem is a never ending economic down turn and global cooling.
It is interesting that the Dansgaard/Oescheger ‘events’ (also called Bond events) have a characteristic period of 1470 years that does not change from the glacial period to the interglacial period. Point is there must be an external forcing function that causes the planet to warm and cool cyclically rather than internal forcing function, as climate internal mechanisms change drastically glacial phase vs interglacial phase and internal forcing would be chaotic not periodic.
Can you see how the planet warms and cools cyclically? Who is denying what?

..with 95% confidence the period is maintained to better than 12% over at least 23 cycles …

Greenland Ice Sheet Temperatures Last 100,000 years
http://www.hidropolitikakademi.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/4.gif
Greenland ice temperature, last 11,000 years determined from ice core analysis, Richard Alley’s paper. William: As this graph indicates the Greenland Ice data shows that have been 9 warming and cooling periods in the last 11,000 years and 14 additional warming and cooling cycles in the last glacial period, same periodicity.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/GISP2%20TemperatureSince10700%20BP%20with%20CO2%20from%20EPICA%20DomeC.gif
http://academic.evergreen.edu/z/zita/teaching/CClittell/readings/Jan31_Overpeck_and_Cole_2006.pdf

ABRUPT CHANGE IN EARTH’S CLIMATE SYSTEM
What do we mean by abrupt change? Alley et al. (2), in a seminal paper arising from a U.S. National Academy of Sciences report (5), followed on the original definition of abrupt change (6): an abrupt climate change occurs when the climate system is forced to cross some threshold, triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined by the climate system itself and faster than the cause. Others have defined it simply as a large change within less than 30 years (7) or as a transition in the climate system whose duration is fast relative to the duration of the preceding or subsequent state (8).
Further analysis of diverse records has distinguished two types of millennial events (13). Dansgaard/Oeschger (D/O) events are alternations between warm (interstadial) and cold (stadial) states that recur approximately every 1500 years, although this rhythm is variable. Heinrich events are intervals of extreme cold contemporaneous with intervals of ice-rafted detritus in the northern North Atlantic (24–26); these recur irregularly on the order of ca. 10,000 years apart and are typically followed by the warmest D/O interstadials.
Cold-climate abrupt change occurs with a characteristic timescale of appro.1500 years, a feature that must be explained by any proposed mechanism. North Atlantic and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) records exhibit a period of approx.1470 years (64, 65). However, the adjacent ice core isotope record from the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) site exhibits periods closer to 1670 and 1130–1330 years, which is in agreement with the independently dated record from Hulu Cave (49, 66) …

Timing of abrupt climate change: A precise clock by Stefan Rahmstorf
Many paleoclimatic data reveal a approx. 1,500 year cyclicity of unknown origin. A crucial question is how stable and regular this cycle is. An analysis of the GISP2 ice core record from Greenland reveals that abrupt climate events appear to be paced by a 1,470-year cycle with a period that is probably stable to within a few percent; with 95% confidence the period is maintained to better than 12% over at least 23 cycles. This highly precise clock points to an origin outside the Earth system; oscillatory modes within the Earth system can be expected to be far more irregular in period.

OMG! We are all so guilty here. Our shared micro aggressions directed at algore and Mr. Gleick, combined with large cash payments for the fossil fuel companies have made us into monsters. I need to retreat to a safe place so I can feel guilty about not clicking on realclimate.org

“Realclimate Goes Dark.
It’s been dark for a l-o-o-o-n-g time. No sunshine there, eh?

There is nothing real about climate. Climate is the average of 30 years of weather, ie, it’s made up.