Cleaned 4/20/13
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Anthony, did you see this? http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/02/512725/tree-ring-circus-paleoclimate-redux
Apparently it’s defamatory to use the phrase “Tree-Ring Circus” when Mark Steyn does it, but just fine for Professor Mann to make it the title of a post.
Anthony – from Costa Rica:
La Nacion has not offered a Krugman opinion, recently; today,
we have a contribution from P. Singer, dated 11 April.
I think it deserves attention.
http://www.nacion.com/2013-04-20/Opinion/
Equidad-y-cambio-climatico.aspx
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/
fair-distribution-of-rights-to-carbon-emissions-by-peter-singer-and-teng-fei
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI
Please add a 5 minute apology option for posts – a borehole.
I have no idea if this is possible. but it would have benefit.
If you post in anger then, after 5 minutes , repent – having the option to throw it in the borehole would:
-acknowledge your error
-not sidetrack the debate
-provide a record of your folly
For example, I just jumped into my Dad’s bare-knuckle fight. This was not fair. It’s his fight, StanW does not deserve a bullying ganging-up. I made a mistake. If I had five minutes I would have withdrawn my post.
If technically possible, a “Sorry” borehole would be useful.
And if the mods think my comment on ‘The unravelling of Global Warming is Accelerating’ is rude then feel free to delete it.
Has Climate Change created a new literary genre?
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/20/176713022/so-hot-right-now-has-climate-change-created-a-new-literary-genre
Or is it still just fantasy?
Just thought I’d try to focus your attention on weather in Minnesota. Spring 2012 was literally the earliest on record for the state. This is significant considering that reliable records in Minneapolis go back to 1819. But spring 2013 could very possibly end up being the latest on record for northern Minnesota (going back to 1880). Fargo has already smashed the record for latest 50*F temp in the calendar year, breaking the April 17th, 1881 record. No 50*F temps are expected in Fargo at least through the next week. But to the point of this: The record snows that dumped up to 23″ of snow on areas of Minnesota on the 18th and 19th, plus the already extensive snowcover (we received 1″ from that storm here in Bemidji, yet we still have 25″ on the ground from previous storms in January-present) has led to record cold weather. Embarrass, MN (aptly name for the embarrassingly cold temps they report… a true frost hollow) got down to -14*F this morning. International Falls set a new record of 4*F this morning, breaking the old record of 18*F!!! set in 1966… which was itself a nasty winter and a very cold spring in Minnesota. At temps in the teens, the lakes can actually make ice. To put this in perspective…. last year, every lake in MN, all 15,000 of them.. was ice free by April 10th. This year, only a handful of lakes in the far southern part of the state are ice free… and many set records for latest ice out date. Here in northern MN, there’s still 2-3 *FEET* of ice on the lakes when most even in Bemidji, in the northern 1/5 of the state, tend to lose their ice between the 15th and 25th of April. The flood forecast models for the Red River of the North are predicting a 40% chance of a record crest at Fargo… which would break the record set all the way back in…. 2009. This will mark the 4th time in 5 years that Fargo will see major flooding and set a top 10 crest. Except this year, the models are in uncharted territory as the thaw and crest gets pushed well into May. The only precedent, before models, is spring 1950. Currently that is the latest spring on record in Minnesota and with so much snow on the ground still and so widespread (record high snow pack for the month of April for the state is already “locked in”) and so much thick ice on the lakes, there’s a high chance that a significant portion of the state will be unfishable for the walleye fishing opener on May 11th due to ice still on the lakes. Just anecdotal food for thought. But the fact that what could be the latest spring on record following the earliest spring on record is not lost on us hardy Minnesotans. And the Star Tribune certainly hasn’t been ignoring it. I only hope California is more pleasant!
An unusually fine comment at MIT Technology review, responding to ‘The Real Casualties of Global Warming Haven’t Been Born Yet’. The site isn’t noted for its kind treatment of scepticism while, at the same time, comments from sceptics themselves haven’t been of the sort to inspire admiration generally. As I’m not sure how to link to an individual comment there, do please forgive cut and paste. It’s longish:
@jpontin Ok, so to a couple of your points:
“You may not like it, but we do not believe that what passes for climate-change skepticism is within the mainstream of current earth science”
Actually, I don’t mind at all that you don’t take people seriously who quote bad science or claim that we have no impact on the Earth. Clearly we do, just as clearly there are natural changes in climate. What I do react to is, and perhaps I’m reading something in here that you don’t intend, is that you seem to be lumping together with the people you call “deniers” anyone who disagrees with your conclusions about what we should do with the knowledge – which would very definitely include myself.
The entire history of science demonstrates that not only progress will remain at least linear, but for the most part actually accelerates over time – so you will forgive me if when you make statements such as the following:
“No existing advanced alternative energy is cost-competitive with the levelized cost of natural gas (around 10 cents a kilowatt hour). It’s difficult to see, on their current cost curves, how they would ever be so.”
… and …
“Put another way: the economics of the energy markets means that if there are to be cost-competitive renewable energy sources, it will be because the threat of climate change motivates us to create them.”
…that I (and others) perceive you as engaging in histrionics to create a false crisis where there is none – because that final statement simply isn’t borne out by the facts nor by historical comparisons. When people shout “crisis” and there is no smoke, others will naturally suspect they have some undisclosed motivation for it. While I don’t think you intend it that way, if you think about it you may understand how others might perceive the sentiment you express above – it suggests a somewhat condescending attitude about humanity overall, that in essence you believe we are collectively / figuratively such dolts that unless beaten nearly to death we won’t get out of a rising river. Too, in this case the actions you are calling for are clearly aligned with a particular political party, which is unfortunate because it would make many suspicious in any event. The trouble with your position is, the data does not support either of your conclusions (either that we won’t innovate without a cattle prod, or that we must take immediate action).
The price-performance curve, for solar cells and for batteries and for electronic support equipment, has been on a steady downward slope for decades. Without any major breakthroughs, the three-to-five year return on the installed cost of solar grid-tie power will be less expensive than gas for businesses within a decade – there will be a large number of businesses adopting on their own for purely financial reasons. Grid storage will be a bit longer coming but the capital investment return curve will clearly hit the positive side of the ledger over the longer run. We don’t need to force anyone to do these things, because they will become the obvious (read: cheapest) solution all by themselves, probably within 2 decades at most without a breakthrough.
The history of science, however, and indeed several articles posted over the past few years on your site, leads inescapably to yet another conclusion. There will be a breakthrough. No, there will be several breakthroughs, or leaps, which will jump us past the linear progress curve. It is as inevitable as the sunrise. And, if we submit to spending ourselves into poverty now for the wrong solution, we will be too broke and exhausted and perhaps too embarassed to admit the mistake to switch again once the right solution comes – at least not quickly.
This pattern has been repeated throughout history, with government interfering in the market “for our own good,” and the result has been, statistically, always the same. Read “Basic Economics” by Thomas Sowell – it is filled with historical examples of price and wage manipulation, and with the results. Even without the aspect of corruption and graft, that some of the people making those decisions were often well-intentioned just makes it all the more tragic.
So we are essentially disagreeing here not about climate science, but about whose predictions to trust, and all predictions are notoriously fickle. Yet we have some hedge bets already in place – we have inexpensive alternatives available to control temperatures (IF we decide they are getting too hot) in our hip pocket. That means we can afford to wait a bit before taking drastic (and expensive) measures to see if temperatures really do go up enough to be a nuisance. We know that prices are coming down on alternatives, so that waiting a bit longer will make it cheaper, not more expensive, to wait. And what else do we know for certain? We know that in a few more years we will have more information than we have right now with which to make a more informed decision.
Thus, the creation of an artificial crisis now is not only unnecessary, it is actually harmful to a theoretical future where it might be truly necessary (that occurring only if for some mysterious reason technological progress halts, or even more bizarrely, reverses), because like the Boy who cried “Wolf,” if the real threat does emerge no one will listen.
Interesting speculation
An extrapolation of the genetic complexity of organisms to earlier times suggests that life began before the Earth was formed.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3381.pdf
NASA – New study shows that CO2 COOLS atmosphere
http://iceagenow.info/2013/04/nasa-study-shows-co2-cools-atmosphere/
Ladies and gentlemen, Hanssen has left the building!
The real cause of global warming…
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2013/04/21
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Anthony, can we turn the ratings off, please. They offer no useful relevance to the posts, are of no statistical value, are subject to crowd-sourcing, and can influence a naive reader’s takeaway incorrectly about a post’s content. WUWT is about getting people to think about science, not about being swayed by “consensus”…
Apparently for some Scientists “Math is Hard”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/19/science-vs-math/
Another Vote to turn off ratings.
Property rights is an ugly aspect of pipelines: http://business.financialpost.com/2013/03/07/keystone-xl-pipeline-faces-property-rights-challenge-in-texas/ (Texas landowners take on Keystone).
“Eminent domain” is immoral. I recommend http://www.ij.org for information.
WTF says on April 21, 2013 at 7:04 am
Apparently for some Scientists “Math is Hard”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/19/science-vs-math/
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This is very interesting though probably more likely discussed in Judith Curry’s etc. blog (yes that pun was intended in this specific case).
I would actually hope or even wish that Willis Eschenbach would weigh in on this subject – because he is BOTH a mathematical genius AND knows ordinary people from many walks of life – a VERY unusual combination.
In my humble opinion, the basic idea is worth considering. For example, consider some well known (notorious?) climate scientists – would their research be better if they had consulted professional statisticians/mathemathicians?
Hi Anthony, You need to examine the link between observed cloud changes and temp changes.
There was a large 5% decrease in clouds between 1987 and 2000 which no one hardly has noticed. It explains 75% of the warming in the satellite period, explains the subsequent stabilisation of temp, and constrains climate sensitivity to less than 0.4degC/W/m2
Ole Humlum at http://climate4you.com/ has an enormous amount of info on his climate an clouds pages although i’m not sure if he calculated climate sensitivity from it.
I have an unusual Hypothesis that volcanoes have multidecadal effect on climate, not the normally assumed 1-2 year effect. This is based on a blindingly obvious signal in the temperature of the lower Stratosphere which is graphed on you atmospheric page ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/graphics/tls/plots/rss_ts_channel_tls_global_land_and_sea_v03_3.png
The plot shows that outside of the volcanic events, the TLS is flat, and that the volcanic events caused a lowering of TLS in a boom and bust relationship.
The explanation of this is quite simple, the injection of SO2 into the stratosphere results in the loss of water vapour (SO2 goes up, sulfuric acid comes down)which cannot be replenished due to the inversion above the tropopause.
Considering a cooling stratosphere is correlated with a warming troposphere, it way be that High SO2 volcanic events cause global warming through jet stream changes.
Revolutionary I know!
Cheers
Rob
Carbon sequestration with a purpose:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2296223/Lightest-material-Graphene-aerogel-balanced-atop-petals-flower.html
Move over Aerogel, carbon has come home ;)
One more follow-up:
http://www.dvice.com/2013-3-28/world-has-new-lightest-material-graphene-aerogel
Great photo. Make one wonder about the wasted billions $US could have been allocated for something useful. Looks like the Chinese space program is off to a good start.
Research supports global warming theory.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aed6f1e4-a920-11e2-bcfb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2RAmC9FQV
Sarcasm on:
Spanish Navy plans to dissolve CO2 in ocean waters. Is this acceptable to AGWarmists?
Four S-80 Class AIP (air independent propulsion) submarines have been ordered for the Spanish Navy & three are under construction by the Spanish company Navantia at its yard in Cartagena.
The bioethanol-processor also produces a stream of highly concentrated carbon dioxide and other trace gases that are not burned completely during combustion. This gas flow is mixed with sea water in one or more ejector venturi scrubber and then through a new system called SECO2 (or CO2 Removal System), developed by Bionet, and whose purpose is to dissolve the “bubbles” of CO2 in water to undetectable levels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-80_class#Propulsion
But, but, but, I’ve been told CO2 is a pollutant! It is, isn’t it? The EPA says it is, so it must be true.
Sarcasm off:
“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Cordially,
Perry
Green madness in my home city. The local council -city authority is planning on banning ice cream vans due to pollution and C02 levels. http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/sheffield-ice-cream-van-ban-madness the greens are now stealing your ice cream. Utter madness. ;-)
http://solarcycle24com.proboards.com/ is the link to Solar Cycle 24 board. The current link on your site goes to solarham which no longer links to the board
warning, the 350.org types are unleashing a new propaganda wave now:
“Do the Math” the movie:
http://act.350.org/signup/math-movie?source=fb-AK
I haven’t bothered to look at the trailer, but judging from the reactions of some ppl I know (yes I have all kinds of friends and family, ha) this is supposed to be the Next Big Thing for activists.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-benefits-of-being-stupid-at-work-190339721.html
….”A recent article in the New Scientist addressed the never-ending ignorance-as-bliss debate with the following question: If being intelligent was an evolutionary advantage, “why aren’t we all uniformly intelligent?”…”
……..”Stupidity can increase efficiency, claims Mats Alvesson, professor of organization studies at Lund University in Sweden. In a Journal of Management Studies article titled “A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organisations” Alvesson and colleague André Spicer explain how what they call “functional stupidity” generally helped get things done. “Critical reflection and shrewdness” were net positives, but when too many clever individuals in an organization raised their hands to suggest alternative courses of action or to ask “disquieting questions about decisions and structures,” work slowed.”………………..
In the US, it is way too cold for planting this Spring:
http://www.agweb.com/mobile/newsdetail.aspx?ArticleId=334021
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Power-Grab-San-Antonios-CPS-Looks-To-Eliminate-Net-Metering?utm
….”Without warning, last Tuesday CPS Energy’s homepage featured an article laying out the utility’s rationale for replacing net metering with a new tariff called “SunCredits.” The new program is set to go into effect for all new solar customers and all current commercial solar energy users in November, with residential solar customers grandfathered into net metering for ten more years. The move is sending shock waves through the solar industry and solar consumers in San Antonio…….”
PG&E would also like to get rid of net metering. If it happens lets hope the CPUC lets legacy users stay with their Net Meter program.
The correct link now to SolarCycle24 site is: http://www.solarham.net
Anthony, go to http://www.thiniceclimate.org a collaboration between Ooxford uni and Victoria uni of wellington NZ. Haven’t watched it yet but it is free till midnight our time according to the NZ Herald. It appears from the press to have a world wide release.
Kevin Hearle
this is the url for the Herald article in NZ on the thin ice climate film
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10879152
Great post here on the polar land ice.
http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/new-ice-surveys-finds-slower-ice-sheet-melting
Here you go, I had to read to the end but there is the “money quote”; “reduces our carbon footprint.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174105739/from-pets-to-plates-why-more-people-are-eating-guinea-pigs
But they do say (oddly enough) that it DOSEN’T TASTE A LOT LIKE CHICKEN
Cheers, Kevin.
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-snail-shells-hint-future-global-warming-191044808.html
No mention in the article of the fact that about 34 Ma Antarctica was finally separated from the other continents by deep ocean channels, creating the Southern Ocean.
Rate this—When is recess?
Hint: This should not become a site for 5th graders.
Local weather (on a continental basis) is not global climate, but still. I suspect that the AGW folks will blame global warming for this regional cooling. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-23/record-freeze-in-u-s-extending-wheat-crop-damage-commodities.html
Role playing games to cope with climate change…
http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/2021
Couldn’t the Government have saved a bunch of money by buying old copies of D&D?
http://brunnur.vedur.is/pub/trausti/Iskort/Pdf/
Arctic sea ice maps per months since 1900. Most of the ice is described as “State of ice unknown”, but ice borders around Canada and Spitsbergen islands are marked.
It now seems to the fearmongerers that if we DON’T use the oil ..we’re all gonna die.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/19/carbon-bubble-financial-crash-crisis
Climateaudit site is not displaying correctly. The sidebars are gone and the main page is shifted over the left margin. All three of my browsers give the same result.
National Academies Press has just released “A Review of the the Draft 2013 National Climate Assessment.” This has been produced for the President’s edification by the National Academy of Science Board on Atmospheric Science and Board on Environmental Change and Society. Peeking at the exec summary, it starts at the point of assuming man-made global warming is true, and goes from there. All of this can be found at Nat Academies Press website. Registration is not difficult.
United Nations Environmental Skulldugery
http://www.foxnews.com/world/interactive/2013/04/23/investigative-report-united-nations-environmental-program/
You may be interested in this little entry from Steve Goddard’s blog -
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/no-mechanism-required-here/#comment-218455
That says -
” Andy Oz says:
April 23, 2013 at 11:57 pm
http://www.pointcarbon.com/polopoly_fs/1.2241772!CMANZ20130329.pdf
Reading this publication, I think it is game over for us skeptics, because the finance guys have got it all set up and the government bureaucrats have “seen the light”, including forcing companies to buy offsetting domestic carbon credits at a much higher price than the international market. Australia is doing that now with A$23 per tonne versus Euro 2.50 per tonne on the Euro market and New Zealand looks like it is about to follow. Once Obama introduces a carbon tax, its done. Only major electoral changes across the OECD countries could reverse it.
The fact that it is a scam is probably a moot point now.
Its a bit like the introduction of Income Tax in WW1 to fund the imperial wars, on the recommedation of banks to western governments.”
The attached Reuters Point Carbon News publication pdf is the interesting bit. I’m not so sure about Andy Oz judgment on this but it is worrisome.
Money and power runs the whole kiboodle.
3 years of SDO in 3 minutes. Amazing structure seen in 171 Å. You might not notice it without the animation.
Apparently we already have the means to generate endless supplies of energy
http://www.sirius.neverendinglight.com/
If you are a true “believer” that is
Andi
4/24/2013 — Tornadoes created by Microwaves: http://youtu.be/AEjVK0YTUyM via @youtube
More bilge from BBC’s Roger Harrabin. UK CO2 ‘problem’ apparently – yawn…..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22267231
Dana is back on form with another “it`s worse than we thought” using 20/20 hindsight.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/apr/24/reuters-puzzled-global-warming-acceleration
Anthony:
Interesting March 2013 article on the solar wind, earth rotation and terrestrial climate effects:
http://www.sciencedomain.org/abstract.php?iid=201&id=4&aid=1050#.UXc6V7Wko9Y
The Guardian has gone full loony:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/apr/24/reuters-puzzled-global-warming-acceleration?CMP=twt_gu
You’ve no doubt seen the Guardian’s new troll-bait, ‘Climate Consensus 97%’ – it’s mentioned above but I link it anyway as it opens with a slightly emotional use of units.
“The rate of heat building up on Earth over the past decade is equivalent to detonating about 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs per second. Take a moment to visualize 4 atomic bomb detonations happening every single second. That’s the global warming that we’re frequently told isn’t happening.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent
My question is, “What is the Guardian doing?”
Are they trying to double-down and stand by the most extreme predictions of doom? Or are they trying to stir up contempt to get comments and so ad revenue?
And is this a split from SkS or a franchise?
If the latter, should the strategy be copied by WUWT?
Coldzilla lurks below:
Chilly air now coming into southern California from the Pacific (the “marine layer”) http://www.latimes.com/ reminds us of that huge mass of cold water in the oceans and the precariously shallow zone of warmth that supports human life on this planet.
Anthony, don’t know if you’ve missed this…
EU carbon credits hit a low of 1 cent and are trading between 1 and 3 cents overnight.
More about “Sirius” here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/sirius-documentary-dna-re_n_3135628.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Seriously?
Canadian Resources minister dumps on Hansen http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/resources-minister-touting-keystone-in-us-slams-climate-scientist/article11526244/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-24/fisker-new-solyndra-obama-kept-pumping-taxpayer-cash-company-was-failing
Fisker – The New Solyndra: Obama Kept Pumping Taxpayer Cash As Company Was Failing
It appears, once again, that the government’s inept approach to spending ‘other people’s money’ has blown up in their face. As HotAir.com reports, newly obtained documents show the Obama administration was warned as early as 2010 that electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. was not meeting milestones set up for a half-billion dollar government loan, nearly a year before U.S. officials froze the loan. Just as with Solyndra, Congress seemed convinced to spend billions of taxpayer money ‘investing’ in green-tech startups – only to lose everything. Simply put, in our humble opinion, the pattern is explained by the ‘monopoly money’ perspective we suspect these funds are viewed as in light of Bernanke’s inexorable funding of the government’s largesse. None other than the great Joe Biden reveled in the news in 2009 that Fisker would re-open a closed GM plant creating jobs, jobs, jobs; it never completed the task and never created one job. When the money isn’t yours, ‘investing’ public funds is oh so easy and it appears, with zero consequence for the decision makers – again.
Via HotAir.com,
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. An administration walks into Congress and insists on billions of dollars to “invest” in green-tech startups, then loses its shirt on bad bets – even while knowing the bets were bad. If that sounds like Solyndra, well, you’re right…
… Fisker Automotive, which continued to get millions in taxpayer funds even while failing to meet the conditions of its loan:
Newly obtained documents show the Obama administration was warned as early as 2010 that electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. was not meeting milestones set up for a half-billion dollar government loan, nearly a year before U.S. officials froze the loan after questions were raised about the company’s statements.
An Energy Department official said in a June 2010 email that Fisker’s bid to draw on the federal loan may be jeopardized for failure to meet goals established by the department.
Despite that warning, Fisker continued to receive money until June 2011, when the DOE halted further funding. The agency did so after Fisker presented new information that called into question whether key milestones — including the launch of the company’s signature, $100,000 Karma hybrid — had been achieved, according to a credit report prepared by the Energy Department.
Some may wonder what will happen to all of the American manufacturing jobs that the loans helped create. On that score, we don’t need to worry … because all of that cash didn’t produce a single job anyway:
Vice President Joe Biden announced in late 2009 that Fisker would reopen a shuttered former General Motors factory in Wilmington, Del., to produce plug-in, electric hybrid vehicles. The plant was never completed and never produced any cars.
Climate-cooling effect ‘stronger than volcanoes’ is looking solid.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/25/new_criegee_cooling_intermediate_probed/
Scientific sensation from Norway: Unique observations of optical lightning and terrestrial gamma flash
http://www.uib.no/birkeland/en/nyheter/2013/04/unique-observations-of-optical-lightning-and-terrestrial-gamma-flash
might be of interest to some of the WUWT denizens interested in lightning…
A rating button has at least two positive qualities: It can allow readers to express appreciation for quiet, sensible, but otherwise unremarkable comments, thereby encouraging their authors to post more.. And it can indicate the absence of general WUWT support for wackier comments, undermining their usefulness as horrible examples of our thinking to be cited by alarmists.
A take from UK on Obama’s intention with ‘saving the world from Climate Change’
http://bogpaper.com/2013/04/22/marx-on-monday-agenda-21/
JONOVA is down
This is new and rather interesting:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/global-cooling-the-other-side-of-the-equation/5454/
As they’ve asked for blogs to read, I’ll be passing them on a list.
Led to this from Caligula above:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-or-global-cooling-a-new-trend-in-climate-alarmism/14504
Quote: “The Argo data is extraordinarily difficult to find on the Internet. There is no official or unofficial website showing the latest ocean temperature. Basically the only way to get the data is to ask Josh Willis …. The graph above come from Craig Loehle, who got the data from Willis, analysed it, and put the results in a peer reviewed paper available on the Internet. Given the importance of the ocean temperatures, don’t you think this is extraordinary?
If the Argo data showed a warming trend, don’t you suppose it would be publicised endlessly? ”
By Dr David Evans.
He worked for the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005, building the carbon accounting model that Australia uses to track carbon in its biosphere for the purposes of the Kyoto Protocol. He is a mathematician and engineer, with six university degrees including a PhD from Stanford University.
Solar panels in Edinburgh. I’m sure they will work. Not!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2314726/Are-sure-going-work-Scotlands-solar-meadow-opens-grey-skies-rain.html
People who read The Australian rather than the Sydney Morning Herald tend to have money, and want to keep it. And people who have money tend to have a more realistic grasp on the world:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/no-insurance-cost-surge-from-climate-change/story-e6frg6xf-1226629617872
“CLIMATE change is predicted to have a much smaller impact on private insurance costs over the next 60 years than inflation, despite dire warnings from climate change experts about an increase in extreme weather.
The Actuaries Institute, in a submission to a Senate inquiry into preparedness for extreme weather, predicts the impact of climate change on insurance costs will be about 0.5 per cent a year using a mid-range scenario for global warming.”
That’s assuming it happens at all, mind you.
New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears
Posted By Marc Morano – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov – 4:44 PM ET
Washington DC – An abundance of new peer-reviewed studies, analyses, and data error discoveries in the last several months has prompted scientists to declare that fear of catastrophic man-made global warming “bites the dust” and the scientific underpinnings for alarm may be “falling apart.” The latest study to cast doubt on climate fears finds that even a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would not have the previously predicted dire impacts on global temperatures. This new study is not unique, as a host of recent peer-reviewed studies have cast a chill on global warming fears.
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=84E9E44A-802A-23AD-493A-B35D0842FED8
NASA not entirely sure…..but its a hoax.
The great space junk hoax….http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/8601253/New-Zealand-space-balls-had-everyone-fooled
Obama campaign launches plan to shame climate sceptics in Congress
Campaign group Organizing for Action says it is time to call out US politicians who deny the science behind climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/25/obama-for-america-shame-climate-sceptics
Just found this…
http://www.nature.com/news/announcement-reducing-our-irreproducibility-1.12852
An excellent report on the debate on AGW published in Norway by SINTEF, which is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia:
http://www.sintef.no/upload/Teknologi_og_samfunn/Teknologiledelse/SINTEF%20Report%20A24071,%20Consensus%20and%20Controversy.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22300050
The headline says Britain’s Shale Gas Bonanza ‘not assured’ and is a nasty article by Roger Harrabin with selective comment from such impartial people as Greenpeace and WWF.
I really despair for my country.
Anthony, you are, no doubt, aware of Lean. Here’s an article quoting (but not naming) two new science papers confirming the Mann schtick. Deserves a WUWT response:-
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100213990/did-the-contentious-global-warming-hockey-stick-graph-get-it-right-after-all/
Spain has discovered that when the subsidies are higher than the cost of diesel fuel, solar cells will generate electricity at midnight. Another renewable miracle!
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/its-an-ill-wind/
Pointman
Obama apparently wants a debate. In response, we should demand one.
This is interesting:
From: ‘Continental-scale temperature variability over the last 2000 years», PAGES 2k Consortium, Nature Geoscience, in print (doi:10.1038/NGEO1797)’
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1797.html
and
http://www.igbp.net/news/pressreleases/pressreleases/first2000yeartemperaturereconstructionsforindividualcontinentspublished.5.561163a13d60576e122dd.html
Some quotes of interest:
“Cooler 30-year periods between the years 830 and 1910 AD were particularly pronounced during weak solar activity and strong tropical volcanic eruptions. Both phenomena often occurred simultaneously and led to a drop in the average temperature during five distinct 30-to 90-year intervals between 1251 and 1820.”
” In Europe, a period during the Roman Empire between 21 and 80 AD was likely warmer than the period 1971-2000.”
Will this have any affect on Climate Scientology models?
“New measurements suggest the Earth’s inner core is far hotter than prior experiments suggested, putting it at 6,000C – as hot as the Sun’s surface.”
(that’s a thousand degrees hotter)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22297915
There was a panel presentation by Lawrence Berkeley Lab
on April 22 titled, “How Hot Will It Get” at a theater in Berkeley.
I thought some of your contributors might want to critique it.
Carbon Dioxide Levels In Atmosphere Reaches All-Time High in 5 Million Years
http://www.hngn.com/articles/2165/20130425/carbon-dioxide-levels-atmosphere-reaches-time-high-5-million-years.htm
Factcheck checks OFA Climate Change video…and uses the 97% figure.
http://factcheck.org/2013/04/democrats-distort-vote-on-climate-change/
Earth’s core far hotter than thought
New measurements suggest the Earth’s inner core is far hotter than prior experiments suggested, putting it at 6,000C – as hot as the Sun’s surface.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22297915
Please sir, may we have a Friday Funny post?
Here’s my suggestion:
Great New Massive Breakthrough In Fusion Energy!
Limitless Cheap Energy Coming Soon! Environment Saved, Fossil Fuels Unneeded!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-mankind-13bn-iter-project-makes-breakthrough-in-quest-for-nuclear-fusion-a-solution-to-climate-change-and-an-age-of-clean-unlimited-energy-8590480.html
The fuel “blanket” design for the outrageously-budgeted decades-old ITER project, cleared committee.
Joy. Happiness. Earth is saved.
A breakthrough in nuclear fusion?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-mankind-13bn-iter-project-makes-breakthrough-in-quest-for-nuclear-fusion-a-solution-to-climate-change-and-an-age-of-clean-unlimited-energy-8590480.html
The Socialists spew propaganda about the effectiveness of “carbon markets.”
“Carbon Markets Drive China, India Climate Efforts, Center Says
By Mathew Carr – Apr 26, 2013 11:55 AM CT
Carbon markets are a key driver for investment in the biggest emerging nations’ greenhouse-gas reducing efforts, and allowing them to collapse would be a “disaster,” according to the Center for American Progress.
The United Nations carbon market has spurred $356 billion of investment in emission cuts, encouraging climate-protection policies in at least 10 nations including China, India and Brazil, the Washington-based policy institute said in a study, citing UN data. More than 3,000 projects in China supported $202 billion in investment and seven pilot carbon markets.
Confidence in carbon markets is faltering as a surplus of emission permits and offsets pushes prices to record lows, deterring companies from investing in low-carbon technologies. Unflattering media coverage has also encouraged an incorrect perception worldwide that carbon markets are “fatally flawed,” according to the center’s report. ”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-26/carbon-markets-drive-china-india-climate-efforts-center-says.html
Is Fusion the future? – Iter designed for 10x more power out than in. About 2022.
One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in quest for nuclear fusion, a solution to climate change and an age of clean, unlimited energy
It may be the most ambitious scientific venture ever: a global collaboration to create an unlimited supply of clean, cheap energy. And this week it took a crucial step forward. Steve Connor reports
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-mankind-13bn-iter-project-makes-breakthrough-in-quest-for-nuclear-fusion-a-solution-to-climate-change-and-an-age-of-clean-unlimited-energy-8590480.html
Friday Funny indeed. Two people posting the same link as me, starting right after my post. But without the appropriate sense of the ridiculousness, seemingly due to not reading more than the title and maybe first paragraph.
Am I the only one who scans the previous entries before even writing a comment?
A movable trigger: Fossil fuel CO2 and the onset of the next glaciation. Archer Ganopolski
G3 Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Research Letter Volume 6, Number5 5 May 2005
http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/reprints/archer.2005.trigger.pdf
and
A. D. Wissner-Gross1,2,* and C. E. Freer (2013). Causal Entropic Forces, PRL 110, 168702 (2013) PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS,19 APRIL 2013
This paper may be a very important development in thermodynamics and in climate studies.
The abstract reads:
There is also a brief review on BBC – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22261742 that seems somewhat confused. The signicant aspect is that the study addresses thermodynamics in open systems (systems that cannot in any forceable time scale come to thermodynamic equilibrium) and comes to some profoundly counter intuitive results.
For the Sea Ice page … the web cams are still operating in the Arctic but the URL has changed:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2013/webcam1.html and http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2013/webcam2.html
It changed from NPEO2012 to NPEO2013 in the link.
Hey Anthony, how about Interplanetary Climate Change:
http://www.enterprisemission.com/_articles/05-14-2004_Interplanetary_Part_1/Interplanetary_1.htm
.LM., 29, Mexico City
… with sources from NASA.
At realclearscience.com; from NYT Magazine April 26th 2013; “the mind of a con man” by Yudhuit Bhattacharjee.
Dutch academic psychologist revealed as fraud.
Goes into:
- data fabrication and manipulation
- tailoring of research interest to cater to contemporary requirements (eg racism)
- salesmanship and funding requirements
- the ability through status to avoid scrutiny
- reluctance of colleagues to challenge even in the face of observably doubtful methodology
Extremely relevant to AGW.
Second coldest start to spring on record of US history:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/second-coldest-start-to-spring-in-us-history/
Also this article is featured on Drudge.
Some brilliant cartoons here deserve wider coverage!
http://www.globalwarmingskeptics.info/thread-14-page-9.html
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/YearTDeptUS.png
Can anyone tell us why Bangor, Maine is showing a red spot (6 degrees or more above “normal”) since the beginning of the year?
Isn’t the temp sensor located at Bangor “international” airport?
A frightening taste of the Big Brother/communist future caused by green energy and loved by Watermelons. Today the EU tomorrow the USA.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10023508/Fridges-could-be-switched-off-without-owners-consent-to-reduce-strain-on-power-stations.html
AGW still accepted as fact in South Africa by msm
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/04/28/yachtsmen-rats-global-warming-threaten-chile-s-humboldt-penguins
Attention: Registered Democrats and Unenrolled voters in Massachusetts
This Tuesday, April 30th, we have a chance to stop the most egregious Climatist/Alarmist in the Congress from advancing to the Senate. Yes, the vile Ed Markey, affectionately known as Malarkey, is running in the Democratic Party primary for the open Senate seat vacated by John Kerry.
Markey’s opponent is Rep. Stephen Lynch, from the 8th Congressional District. His positions on energy and the environment are not perhaps a whole lot better than Markey’s, but he is in general more conservative, and does not appear to share Markey’s maniacal enthusiasm for policies like Cap and Trade.
There are three Republicans running in their party primary, but realistically none stand much chance of defeating a 32-year incumbent congressman in ultra-liberal Massachusetts. So if you are Unenrolled but would normally take a Republican ballot, this time take a Democrat one and vote against Malarkey. It won’t affect your Unenrolled status; you don’t even have to make a point of changing back.
My recomendation for Climate Realists: Vote for Lynch in the primary, then vote Republican in the general.
/Mr Lynn
Sneering Bloomberg article on a bill in Kansas to refuse funding for “sustainable” projects; 218 comments:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-09/kansas-s-self-destruct-button-a-bill-to-outlaw-sustainability.html
Bloomberg story on Peak Fossil Fuels:
“About 80 percent of the world’s fossil fuels must remain buried in the ground if we have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change, according to the International Energy Agency. That’s the bad news.
“The good news is that advances in fuel-efficient and renewable-energy technologies are curbing demand for fossil fuels. Liebreich projects that ‘peak fossil fuels’ will occur around 2030, years or decades before most forecasters are planning for. [See chart on left]
““By 2030, the growth in fossil fuel use will almost have stopped,” Liebreich told renewable-energy investors yesterday at the BNEF 2013 annual summit in New York.”:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-24/-peak-fossil-fuels-is-closer-than-you-think.html
Bloomberg story:
“Annual spending on clean-energy projects that don’t add to greenhouse-gas pollution may rise to $630 billion at the end of the next decade from $190 billion last year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a report today. That’s 37 percent more than estimated in November 2011 and means renewables would account for half of all generation [faceplate] capacity by 2030.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-21/renewables-investment-seen-tripling-amid-supply-glut.html
Just found this in Forbes – Yikes!
The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/04/28/the-disgraceful-episode-of-lysenkoism-brings-us-global-warming-theory/
Now here is a good one, California worried Condors and eagles dyeing from lead poisoning but no mention of the birds killed by wind generators.
“In November, one of the oldest condors in Central California died from lead poisoning after being found with tiny bullet fragments and a .22-caliber slug in his gullet that he apparently swallowed with a mouthful of meat.”
“The 9-year-old giant was one of the earliest released in a condor recovery program along the Big Sur coast. His death — and the recent death of a golden eagle near Sacramento — are being highlighted by health and environmental groups who want California to become the first state to impose a statewide ban on the use of lead bullets for hunting.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/28/california-lawmakers-weigh-first-statewide-ban-on-lead-ammo/#ixzz2Rmrrfhhy
Anthony, I see JO Nova’s blog is up for an award for best Australian blog. But voting ends tomorrow (Monday 4/29/2013) for the US. Would you want to highlight this?
Should have included the link for the Auistralian blog vote, although this is also supplied in Jo NOva’s most recent article.
http://www.writerscentre.com.au/bloggingcomp/peopleschoice-thankyou.html
Plant a Seed of Doubt in Their Minds
The true believers and the average person who has not been following Climate Change generally will not read anything that might upset their world view. There are too much information, too many competing scientists, theories and studies. Therefore I have condensed the strongest argument into a short letter which is below. I have had amazing sucess with opening minds with this simple message which plants a seed of doubt in their mind and leads them to the Economist article.
Climate Sensitivity May Have Been Overestimated.
The Economist Magazine has a new article on Climate Sensitivity that is a must read.
See http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissions
The top climate scientists in the world have acknowledged that the global temperatures are trending way below their forecasts despite higher CO2 releases. The Climate Sensitivity to changes in CO2 may have been over estimated. This means that something may be wrong with the theories in the computer models.
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) has three main theories that each depend on the previous theory. The first theory is that the first doubling of CO2 will cause about 1 C of warming due to back radiation from the increased CO2. Subsequent doublings have minimal effect due to the logarithmic decline in back radiation.
The second theory is called the amplification or positive feedback theory. The 1 C warming should cause higher humidity and more low clouds which should trap more heat. The problem is that clouds can also reflect sunlight or condense into precipitation which will cause cooling. The net effect may even be negative so the models may be way off. The article refers to various new peer reviewed studies that now estimate climate sensitivity to be less than 2 C.
The third theory is that the estimated warming will large enough to be bad. The world has warmed about .8 C so climate sensitivity estimates of a total of 2 C are very unlikely to lead to extreme weather as there is no scientific mechanism for CO2 to influence the climate without warming. Mild warming has many benefits like less fuel use, less cold deaths (see Europe for last 2 winters), minor sea level rise and easier lives. Mild warming combined with higher CO2 concentrations also increases crop yields and greens the earth.
This will be great news for the world if the Climate Crisis has been over estimated and overstated. The 150 billion dollars that the world has spent to date is gone (not counting 100’s of billions on wind and solar) but the world may not have to spend the trillions that scientists and politicians forecasted. The Climate Sensitivity Questions need to be resolved as quickly as possible but we may have to wait for actual temperatures to be the judge.
They say ‘But that does not mean the problem is going away’ because of this:
http://www.enterprisemission.com/_articles/05-14-2004_Interplanetary_Part_1/Interplanetary_1.htm
A good article on Professor Don Esterbrook’s testimony in Washington State on American Thinker -
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/the_snows_of_rainier.html
Freeman Dyson and Will Happer get their say in the local media: Climatologists are no Einsteins:
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2013/04/climatologists_are_no_einstein.html
Here is an interesting blog utilizing data from NOAA/ NASA that this is shaping up to be the second coolest spring in US history.
Wonder why no mention in the MSM?
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/second-coldest-start-to-spring-in-us-history/
Will JR Alexander, Prof. Emeritus
Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering,
University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Honorary Fellow, South African Institution of Civil Engineering
Email alexwjr@iafrica.com
Prof. Emeritus Will J. Alexander predicted a six year drought in Southern Africa 2009 – 2015 based on his identification of a 22 year Hale solar pattern in runoff and oscillations between extensive wet and dry periods.
See: The current drought period extends from year 14 (2009) to year 20 (2015).
http://www.droughtsandfloods.com/DROUGHT%20PREDICTION.pdf
Recommend inviting Prof. Alexander to present his theory and how well his theory matches data to date.
See his website: http://www.droughtsandfloods.com/
WJR Alexander
The Likelihood of a Drought in 2009-2016 Civil Engineering June 2008, 22-26
http://www.droughtsandfloods.com/Alexander%20drought%20warning.pdf
Anthony, I posted a link yesterday about this EU proposal. This is vitally important, IMHO, as it points up not only the truth of renewable energy but also how the stories are being spun.
This is a Facebook post I just made:-
“BBC bias.
BBC Today program just had a piece on the EU proposal (fronted by the EU energy suppliers’ consortium) to control all domestic appliances i.e. turn them off when power supply sags.
At no time did Humphries explain why this is needed, so, once again, I will: renewable energy doesn’t work so there will now be many times (i.e. no wind) when you will not be able to cook, keep food in your fridge, shower, clean your house and keep warm etc.
Humphries’ piece perfectly dovetailed with an earlier one where the greens were all pontificating on the post “peak energy” world – note the change from peak oil to peak energy. This is the green state’s way of insidiously introducing the lie that the world is running out of energy when the truth is exactly the opposite.
Somehow, rational, logical, real science based people must take over this movement and stop it. (Reminds me of the article yesterday that explained that the main driver of such crap is art subject graduates who have no science knowledge or ability at all but are rampant in the, leftist, media (that’s virtually all of it but primarily the BBC and Grauniad)).”
Mr Lynn says:
April 28, 2013 at 6:51 am
Attention: Registered Democrats and Unenrolled voters in Massachusetts
I agree! Here is a recent spat between Markey and Tom Steyer:
http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/2013/04/04/tom-steyer-obamas-rent-seeking-cal-pal/
Somehow, I would be inclined to believe that Steyer is indirectly supporting Markey’s campaign with Markey’s blessing. We have seen Mike Bloomberg support ‘wind scamster’ Angus King’s campaign in the same fashion.
Here’s some pretty big news: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/epa-fracking-environment-climate-change_n_3174590.html
According to the scientific organisation known as the EPA, fracking is now OK, because methane leaks are down. Enviromaniacs are having a cow, of course, which also produce lots of methane, thereby contributing to their much-ballyhooed warming.
http://www.thegwpf.org/we-cooling-period-lasts-200-250-years-russian-scientists-claim/
Sun only explains 20% of climate change? I would have thought it would be more.
Dr. Severin Borenstein has new new blog post up requesting feedback from folks who have experience with critical peak pricing (ie Smart Rate, etc.)
http://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/peak-electricity-pricing-can-save-you-money/
……………. “If you are a PG&E customer in the Bay Area (or other milder climate where you don’t have A/C or don’t use it much), their SmartRate will almost surely save you money. At my house in Orinda (east of Berkeley and somewhat warmer in the summer), we signed up for it last year. We saved about $40 on electricity, about 13% over the 6 months of the program (May through October). We did avoid running laundry or the dishwasher between 2 PM and 7 PM during the 15 critical peak days that were called, but our adjustments were fairly minor. If you live in the Bay Area and have not signed up, I urge you to at http://www.pge.com/smartrate . You can’t really lose during the first year, because the PG&E program has “bill protection,” which guarantees that your electricity bill in your first year on the program will be no higher than it would have been under the standard rate.
PG&E’s program isn’t perfect:…………”
“I discuss these and other issues at greater length in my paper on opt-in critical peak pricing.
Saving money is fine, but the real reason I want you to sign up is to get more direct experiences with critical peak pricing that can shape the way utilities and policymakers design such programs.”
I think it would be great to have a single page with links to all of the peer reviewed journal articles that are favorable to the skeptic side. Do you know of any repository such as this? If not, would WUWT be interested in assembling such a page? I would be willing to help manage such a list. Thank you.
Jason J.
Christopher Booker in the U.K. Telegraph gives “shout-out” to WUWT:
Hilary Ostrov
Oh…this is good. Now CC really does cover everything!
Dem resolution warns climate change could push women to ‘transactional sex’
By Pete Kasperowicz – 04/29/13 11:06 AM ET
“Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to “transactional sex” for survival.
The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other Democrats, says the results of climate change include drought and reduced agricultural output. It says these changes can be particularly harmful for women.
“[F]ood insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health,” it says.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/296679-dems-warn-climate-change-could-drive-women-to-transactional-sex#ixzz2Rso72zTM
George Monbiot has left himself wide open with this headline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/29/beware-rise-government-scientists-lobbyists
Our ex-NASA buddy being the prime example
With regards to ipad scrolling to bottom of page.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/27/phase-2-of-wuwt-upgrade-implemented/#comment-1291424
More on tomorrows special election in Massachusetts to replace John Kerry’s seat.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/38503/massachusetts-special-election-gabriel-gomez-is-most-likely-to-win-the-general-election
Fox news just reported a huge influx of Democrat absentee ballots coming in and the Sec. of State (Galvin) said the turnout will be low (<700,000 voters).
Newspapers are focused on promoting Ed Markey so tomorrow will be interesting.
Tripped over this,
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/sea_ice_south.php
and you haven’t chilled out with an ice article…and…it has a cool (haha) player to choose the year of ice extent.
GWPF appears to be down and giving a 403.
‘Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /usr/sbin/php-fpm.fcgi/index.php on this server.
Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at http://www.thegwpf.org Port 80′
Maintenance? Or something other?
http://www.thegwpf.org/
Climate Change = More Prostitution
http://twitchy.com/2013/04/29/were-screwed-cong-dems-fear-that-climate-change-will-drive-women-to-prostitution/
DOE, Stanford Unveil Solar, Wind Battery
http://www.energymanagertoday.com/doe-stanford-unveil-solar-wind-battery-091385/
….Currently the electrical grid cannot tolerate large and sudden power fluctuations caused by wide swings in sunlight and wind. As solar and wind’s combined contributions to an electrical grid approach 20 percent, energy storage systems must be available to smooth out the peaks and valleys of this “intermittent” power – storing excess energy and discharging when input drops. ”
…………….”The new Stanford/SLAC battery design uses only one stream of molecules and does not need a membrane at all. Its molecules mostly consist of the relatively inexpensive elements lithium and sulfur, which interact with a piece of lithium metal coated with a barrier that permits electrons to pass without degrading the metal. When discharging, the molecules, called lithium polysulfides, absorb lithium ions; when charging, they lose them back into the liquid. The entire molecular stream is dissolved in an organic solvent, which doesn’t have the corrosion issues of water-based flow batteries.
In initial lab tests, the new battery also retained what Stanford calls “excellent” energy-storage performance through more than 2,000 charges and discharges, equivalent to more than 5.5 years of daily cycle………….”
The GWPF site is fine. No error messages.
The Atmosphere reference page Specific humidity graph when clicked actually goes to a U Col sea level full-size.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/epa-methane-report-further-divides-fracking-camps
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change?
quotes Roger Pielke Jr:
That is money going up into the air,” said Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, adding he isn’t surprised the EPA’s new data show more widespread use of pollution control equipment. Pielke noted that the success of the pollution controls also means that the industry “probably can go further” in reducing leaks.
Hey Anthony;
We have seen the temperature signal from the tree ring proxies…
But where is all the data that show the rainfall, cloud cover, fertilization, and…. xyz
in order to differentiate the temperature signal from all these other signals?
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/minister-joe-oliver-slams-green-activist/2338450624001
Marc Morano shreds Hanson in interview with Sun News Media’s Ezra Levant.
Marc is relentless….. I felt sorry for Hanson.
From Peter Lilley MP an article in the Telegraph about our reluctance to frack.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10025517/The-green-spin-of-environmental-activists-has-skewed-the-fracking-debate.html
Global man made climate change will cause prostitution according to some Democrats. You no longer have to parody these guys. They do it to themselves. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/296679-dems-warn-climate-change-could-drive-women-to-transactional-sex#ixzz2RxB06PjI
“What if we never run out of oil”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/05/what-if-we-never-run-out-of-oil/309294/5/
This is an extensive article which touches on many common topics seen on WUWT – climate change, Peak Oil, alternative energy, fracking…. all rolled up & tied together in pretty balanced package. The article is long. I don’t have time to turn into a post submission but I thought I would provide the link for someone who would like to – just give me a H/T :))
Urban Heat Island goes mainstream:
A few minutes past halfway through NCIS tonight, Mcgee analyzed a video of Central Park and made an interesting comment regarding how the deciduous trees in the park bloom weeks earlier in the spring than elsewhere in the East due to the urban heat effect (he used different wording) of New York City. Should be rebroadcast on HULU in a couple days if you would like to see it.
The small city of Ellensburg, Wash has a “community renewable park” with residential size wind turbines.
I think the idea was to harvest some other people’s money, some green press for the City, and a bit of wind power. The odd looking turbines are being “evaluated” – thus, somehow, justifying this “park.”
I think they had five up and planned another.
Today there are only 4. One blew over.
Not much yet known except the wind, while gusting in the 40s, was not excessive by local standards.
Reported in the local paper, Ellensburg’s Daily Record.
If this becomes more interesting, I’ll let you know.
http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/paywall/top_story/wind-topples-turbine-in-ellensburg-minor-flooding-of-mercer-creek/article_9612d8f6-b1ce-11e2-a4d9-001a4bcf887a.html
FYI: http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/denying-sea-level-rise-how-100-centimeters-divided-state-north-carolina
Denying sea-level rise: How 100 centimeters divided the state of North Carolina
“Based on the latest scientific studies done both locally and globally, the Science Panel found that by 2100 a 40-centimeter sea-level rise is certain, 100 centimeters is likely, and 140 centimeters is possible. “
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/all-new-generation-in-california-system-for-2h-2013-to-be-solar-and-biomass?utm
“..There are 1,633 megawatts of new generation capacity in the 2H 2013 queue, according to the 2012 Annual Report on Market Issues and Performance from the California Independent System Operator (the ISO). Of that, 1,581 megawatts are new solar and 52 megawatts are biomass. “………………
“The ISO’s total estimated cost of meeting California’s load in 2012 was $8.4 billion. That is just under $36 per megawatt-hour, a 2 percent drop from the 2011 cost of just over $36 per megawatt-hour. The main factor in the decline was a 30 percent drop in the price of natural gas..”
The Time of Delivery Factors (TOD) for peak time generation for those mega watts of PV coming on line will be costing the utilities $.24 to $.30 kWh (depending on the PPA term and which of the big three is buying the output of the plants) in the summer at peak times. It a good thing the price of natural gas has gone down our the electric rates in CA would be increasing a lot faster then they are currently.
Survey by Yale Climate Change Center & Mason Center for Climate Change Communication finds majority blames extreme WX on climate change. A real shocker!
http://news.yahoo.com/most-americans-blame-global-warming-extreme-weather-174950480.html
Climate change not considered to be important in New Zealand – misses out on funding.
A panel chaired by the Prime Minister’s chief science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman has been appointed to identify the top science challenges New Zealand needs to solve over the next five to ten years.
Dr James Renwick, Associate Professor of Physical Geography, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, comments:
“But, I am puzzled that climate change gets no explicit mention in the top ten ‘biggest science-based issues and opportunities facing New Zealand’, given that climate change is the number one environmental issue for the globe and will play a critical role in New Zealand’s future. “Life in a changing ocean” will only become more difficult as ocean acidification carries on unchecked, yet all we hear is that we’ll find better ways to exploit our marine resources.
http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2013/05/01/national-science-challenges-unveiled-experts-respond/
My Guide to WUWT isn’t getting updated, I assume one of the recent changes has blown up my web page scraper. No surprise. The 28th was okay, yesterday failed.
I ought to be able to get it going again tonight.
$ python wuwtload.py -l 14
Processing http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/16/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “wuwtload.py”, line 343, in
process_date(None, time_tuple[0], time_tuple[1], time_tuple[2])
File “wuwtload.py”, line 265, in process_date
if not process_soup(BeautifulSoup(page), year, month, day):
File “wuwtload.py”, line 217, in process_soup
title = h2a['title'].replace(‘Permalink to ‘, ”).replace(‘ ’, ‘ ‘)
File “../BeautifulSoup.py”, line 438, in __getitem__
return self._getAttrMap()[key]
KeyError: ‘title’
make: *** [last_week] Error 1
Fixed. HTML for getting the title is now more readily fished out of the comment link.
$ python -i wuwtload.py -l 14
Processing http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/17/
Temperature models vs temperature reality in the lower troposphere
On the scales of warming worry magnitudes– Part 2
Watching the death of the EU Carbon Market
Another solar to climate amplification mechanism found?
Climate Craziness of the Week: James Hansen’s human free vision of the future
A Different Perspective on Trenberth’s Missing Heat: The Warming of the Global Oceans (0 to 2000 Meters) in Deg C
Processing http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/18/
Now I’ve heard everything
Numeracy in Climate Discussions – how long will it take to get a 6C rise in temperature?
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Electric-Car Maker Coda Files for Bankruptcy to Seek Sale
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-01/electric-car-maker-coda-files-for-bankruptcy-to-seek-sale-1-.html
BTW, sounds like the planned Coda sedan was a repackaged, fancied-up Chinese car.
The green death
http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2013/04/green-death?et_cid=3228350&et_rid=54771695&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ecnmag.com%2fblogs%2f2013%2f04%2fgreen-death
Change just a few words in this excellent piece on fraud in the social sciences, and it would apply equally well to climate science.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/05/interpreting-statistical-evidence.html
Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson on six pricipal of seprating lies from statistics. Plus Alex Tabarrok’s rules for evaluating statistical studies:
In Why Most Published Research Findings are False I offered a slightly different version of the same idea
SWs second principle:
That’s correct but there is another point worth making. Tests of statistical significance are all conditional on the estimated model being the correct model. Results that should happen only 5% of the time by chance can happen much more often once we take into account model uncertainty not just parameter uncertainty.
I am mostly in agreement but SW and I are partial to natural experiments and similar methods which generally can be explained to the lay public while other econometricians (say of the Heckman school) do work that is much more difficult to follow without significant background and while being wary I also wouldn’t reject that kind of work out of hand.
Yes, be Bayesian. See Bryan Caplan’s post on the Card-Krueger minimum wage study for a nice example.
Does anyone still do this? I know the answer is yes. I often find, however, that the opposite problem is more common among relatively sophisticated readers–they know that correlation isn’t causation but they don’t always appreciate that economists know this and have developed sophisticated approaches to disentangling the two. Most of the effort in a typical empirical paper in economics is spent on this issue.
Good advice although I also run across the opposite problem frequently, thinking that a study done in 2001 doesn’t tell us anything about 2013, for example.
According to one TV weather forecast in the Los Angeles, it is going to be real HOT in the Desert area: How about 700 degrees!!!
As seen on the Ellen Show.
http://web.stagram.com/p/446355086570303885_18918467
I think we’re gonna need some sunscreen. #photos4ellen – @theellenshow- #webstagram
Recurring Slope Lines may show salty subsurface water flows on Mars.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-arduous-quest-find-flowing-water-on-mars-over&offset=2
http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/imported/mars-in-motion_2.jpg
Oil & Gas as “clean” technology :
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/clean-technology-investors-shift-focus-165436531.html
An absolutely fascinating article on the failure of “green” energy relative to oil & gas. “Clean” is now defined in ways to extract oil & gas with less impact vs 5 years ago when “clean” was strictly solar, wind, biofuels etc. What also is interesting how venture capitalists completely missed the potential for the oil & gas business to re-invent itself , which it did through much improved technology, a revolution which was brought forward via market forces ( higher prices as impetus to do the R&D needed to take horizontal drilling & frac technology to the next level). Clearly, they thought O&G was soon to be a thing of the past & made investment bets on that promise. I wonder how much capital that destroyed in the process?
Wish I had time to turn this into a post, but I don’t. Anyone who wants to run with this, please do (… calling David Middleton ???? )
“Valley Fever” stirred up by solar power projects – yesterday’s LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/
BBC news: Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector – Lords Committee
http://bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22372088
An interesting piece by Andrew Nikiforuk on the looming endgame on solar in Spain written in a mag on Canada’s left coast, so it is unusual. I don ‘t always agree with Andrew’s positions so etimes, but he tells it like it is in this instance
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/05/01/Solar-Dreams/
NPG journal club: How has Earth’s climate changed in the past 2,000 years? #NPGjclub
http://blogs.nature.com/ofschemesandmemes/2013/05/02/npg-journal-club-how-has-earths-climate-changed-in-the-past-2000-years-npgjclub/?WT.mc_id=FBK_NPG&buffer_share=627e6&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer%253A%252BNatureBlogs%252Bon%252Btwitter
“The first ever NPG Journal Club
On May 9th, the worlds of Geoscience and Google+ will meet as we present our inaugural NPG journal club. The focus of discussion: How has Earth’s climate changed in the past 2,000 years? This big climate question was recently brought to the forefront with the publication of a progress article in Nature Geoscience. In this paper, 78 members of the PAGES 2k Consortium reanalysed more than 400 records of continental temperature.
Trawling through all these records, the authors found that the late 20th century was probably the warmest period in the past 1,400 years. This result certainly made the news. But the paper’s wealth of data and analysis, and the finer details of each continent’s temperature ups and downs over the 2,000 years, are ripe for further discussion.
The panel
We’ve therefore invited two authors of the paper, #PAGES executive director Thorsten Kiefer and postdoctoral researcher Nick McKay to discuss their work. They will be joined by Nerilie Abram, who is working on the marine side of the PAGES 2k project and is an author of a paper looking at 1,000 years of ice melt in Antarctica, and Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeller and blogger at RealClimate, as well as editors from Nature Geoscience
How to watch
To get involved, RSVP to the event on Google+. The video’s URL will be available on the event page and will also be embedded at the bottom of this blog post. So make sure you add these links too your bookmarks.
How to ask a question
The panel is waiting to hear your questions, too! You can post your questions on the event page now, and throughout the live discussion. You can also tweet questions using #NPGjclub hashtag. Or you can post questions at the bottom of this blog post in the lead up to the event, but we won’t be monitoring the blog during the actual discussion.
Finally, don’t forget to read up: you can download the paper free of charge until the end of 9 May.”
Join us there!
NPG journal club: How has Earth’s climate changed in the past 2,000 years? #NPGjclub
RSVP:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c0k6d8eprmit6irlk4hsomq0r9s
In the online survey of representative national samples, 58 per cent of Canadians believe that global warming is a fact and is mostly caused by emissions from vehicles and industrial facilities. The proportion of respondents who feel the same way is considerably lower in the United States (47%) and Britain (45%).
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/48745/less-than-half-in-u-s-and-britain-believe-in-man-made-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=less-than-half-in-u-s-and-britain-believe-in-man-made-climate-change
Cold spring in Minnesota: Lake Minnetonka, the largest lake in the Twin Cities was officially declared ice free today, May 2nd. That ties the record in 1950 for latest ice out date in the 20th century. Only two years in the incomplete records taken beginning in 1855 had a later ice out, and one of them was recently discounted. So, the May 2nd date has only been beaten once, in 1859 (May 4th)… and tied one other time. May ice out dates are exceptional on Lake Minnetonka having been recorded in 1859, 1950, 1965, and 2013. The records from 1861-1886 are spotty, and we know the winters of the 1860s were particularly severe in the region, likely meaning there have been later ice outs since whites settled in the area.
San Jose St. Uni had a proud record of forecasting which it displays on their web-site http://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/about_us/forecasting_honors/index.html
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The Department of Meteorology is proud of its long tradition of forecasting excellence.
Honored SJSU Meteorology Forecasting Teams:
•1998-99 2nd Place Finish Overall, National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest, NCWFC (30 Teams)
•2003-04 2nd Place Finish Overall, NCWFC (39 Teams)
•2005 Fall 1st Place Finish Overall, Collegiate Weather Forecasting Challenge, CWFC (8 Teams)
•2005-06 1st Place Finish Overall, NCWFC (42 Teams)
•2005-06 1st Place Finish – Top 5 Forecasters, NCWFC (Nick Osterloh, Mike Delman, Kim Campo, Jeff Olveson, and Massoud Fazal)
•2006-07 3rd Place Finish Overall, Collegiate Weather Forecasting Challenge, CWFC (45 Teams)
•2007-08 6th Place Finnish Overall, Collegiate Weather Forecasting Challenge, CWFC (50 Teams)
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Looks like it is tailing off. What could be wrong? Where are the results after 2008?
Here they are http://www.wxchallenge.com/challenge/cumulative_results.php
2008-2009 6th
2009-2010 9th
2010-2011 28th
2011-2012 17th
2012-2013 28th
Could their predictions be tried to dogma?
Here’s a good one for Climate Madness of the Week:
‘Almost all of Sheffield’s ice cream vans are set to be banned from the roads – under a move to reduce the city’s ‘carbon footprint’.
Sheffield Council’s licensing board has approved a ban on ice cream vans more than five years old ‘to reduce emissions and improve vehicle standards’.
Angry traders say 90 per cent of ice cream vans would be too old for the new rules – and replacing them could force firms out of business.
Rosita Hunt, of Sheffield’s oldest ice cream firm Granelli’s, which has been going for 138 years, said: “If a vehicle is roadworthy and up to required standards I see no reason for an age restriction.’
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/business/local-business/sheffield-ice-cream-van-ban-madness-1-5600044
It’s really just a f*cker for him that this ain’t Sweden
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/they-sit-with-god-in-paradise/
Pointman.
Some ‘cool’ news:
Antarctica Climate Change and Environment Report 2013
http://www.scar.org/publications/occasionals/ACCE_Update13_Top_10_Points.pdf
Melting in Antarctica is worst in 1,000 years
http://www.aljazeera.com/weather/2013/04/201341493439476979.html
The Antarctic’s Ice Paradox
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/05/why-climate-change-means-more—-and-less—-ice-for-the-antarctic.html
Here’s a funny skit on a green-powered electric chair:
It reflects the surreal nature of many green solutions.
It’s all getting a bit out of hand now.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/02/white-house-arctic-ice-death-spiral
What happened when we didn’t know about the arctic ice and it went away in the summer?
Update from 4/30 post. Just thought it interesting that it wasn’t blamed on AGW:
Dialogue from this week’s NCIS regarding urban heat island effect:
Mcgee “Look at the deciduous trees. The leaves are in full bloom. They’re approximately three to four weeks ahead of Washington DC and the rest of the East Coast. It’s unique to New York City.”
Vance “And, why is that?”
Mcgee “Because of the heat from the surrounding buildings and the subway system, the seasons in New York are altered. The trees lose their leaves later and bloom earlier.”
For your Friday entertainment: Oslo, Norway gets most much of its electricity by incinerating its garbage. (Hmmmm, I wonder what that does for Oslo’s “carbon footprint.”) Oslo is in danger of brown or even blackouts because it is running out of enough garbage to support its incinerators/co-gen plant.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/oslo–norway–needs-your-trash-122853209.html
Anthony – Appears the EPA “…will now ensure that the public has the opportunity to review and comment on a peer review panel’s composition when influential scientific documents are being considered”. Landmark event? As follows..
CONTACT:
Cathy Milbourn (News Media Only)
milbourn.cathy@epa.gov
202-564-7849-office
202-420-8648-mobile
202-564-4355
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 3, 2013
EPA Strengthens Conflict of Interest Review Process for Science Review Panels
WASHINGTON — The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it has improved its conflict of interest review process for contractor-managed peer reviews. EPA has put a new oversight process in place to ensure that contractors follow all existing conflicts of interest guidance and requirements. In addition, EPA will now ensure that the public has the opportunity to review and comment on a peer review panel’s composition when influential scientific documents are being considered.
“We are committed to scientific integrity at EPA,” said EPA Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe. “Improving the contract-managed peer review process and increasing transparency will lead to stronger science at the agency.”
This revised process will apply to all future technical documents designated as Influential Scientific Information or Highly Influential Scientific Assessments where independent peer reviews will be conducted by panels selected and managed by independent contractors. For future peer review panels, EPA will now publish the names, principal affiliations and resumes of candidates being considered for the panel. Members of the public will be able to provide comments on the candidates for a period of at least three weeks.
After selecting the final peer review panel, the contractor will consult with EPA to review whether the contractor followed existing conflicts of interest guidance and requirements, and identify and provide input on any issues. In addition, the names of the final peer review panel members will be posted publicly before the meeting takes place. This process will ensure that existing conflicts of interest guidance and requirements are applied correctly and where a potential conflict of interest is identified, allow EPA to determine whether the contractor’s plan to address the conflict is acceptable. The new process does not change EPA’s existing standards for determining conflicts of interest.
More information about scientific research at EPA: http://www.epa.gov/ord/
This service is provided to you at no charge by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Respectfully submitted for your potential use,
Michael C. Roberts
April UAH is out. +0.103
Ocean Wave Breaking Stirs Up Atmosphere
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/51
“Simulations show that breaking ocean waves contribute most of their energy to the air, rather than the water, which could affect cloud formation and climate evolution.”
http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
April UAH temperate 0.1C.
Study: When Republicans understand climate science, they support climate action
http://grist.org/news/study-when-republicans-believe-scientists-they-support-climate-action/
Anthony (or mods)
Opened this morning’s Pueblo Chieftian and saw two articles that may be of interest. Both discussions ongoing on WUWT.
1. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper stated for the record that he believes “fracking” is safe and the state has enough regulations in place to deal with oil companies that pollute. He also denied he’s in the pocket of “”"”BIG OIL”"”". Hickenlooper is a degreed geologiest by training.
2. Johathan Fahey writes for the Associated Press about the new hydrocarbon findings throughout the US and the world. He quotes Michael Greenstone an environmental economics professor at MIT saying “Suddenly out of nowhere the world seems to be awash in hydrocarbons.” The article also talks about the future of “alternative” energy sources as becoming cloudy.
Thot you’d be interested – nice to see some of this in print on the MSM.
Mike
It looks like WUWT has competition. Not!
http://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/doubleplus-ungood.html
Are you aware of this UK-based site said to be authored by Russell Seitz?
When Nike missile fire control was my job the operative number was 400 million degrees Celsius. That is approximately the detonation temperature of a thermonuclear – “hydrogen” – bomb. Our mission was to protect our cities and bases from that kind of “sudden anthropogenic warming”. (BTW, those bombs/warheads are still very much alive). That is a far cry from the one degree per century worldwide that alarmists cite today. Not that the latter has no significance, but it lacks the drama – what used to be called “bang for a buck”. Hence it is not surprising that apocalyptic rhetoric is used in some quarters – self-defeating though it is.
Check out the SAM site http://nikemissile.org/
West Australian drought ‘could be worst for 750 years’
February 9, 2010
http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/climate-change/wa-drought-could-be-worst-for-750-years-20100205-niee.html
Of course, they also state:
It suggested human influence was likely to have played a role in the drought, Dr van Ommen said.
West Australian drought ‘could be worst for 750 years’
February 9, 2010 (reformatted)
http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/climate-change/wa-drought-could-be-worst-for-750-years-20100205-niee.html
Of course, they also state:
Hang on, so what happened 750 years ago? And 5,400 years ago? And 38,000 years ago? Please explain.
The Macedon Ranges Sustainabilty Group claims David Karoly is a Nobel Laureate supporting their wind farm. Looks like another Michael Mann effort. http://wisegroup.org.au/research/karoly_wise_letter/
Honey bees are suffering from poor nutrition. This report says they need better forage from a wider variety of plants than they are getting in agricultural areas. Makes sense to me, any living thing suffers greater from parasites and disease when they are weak.
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2013/05/0086.xml&contentidonly=true
Department of Heads They Win, Tails You Lose. Wind turbine operators were paid not to generate power when there were windy conditions. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10038598/Scottish-wind-farms-paid-1-million-to-shut-down-one-day.html
For those who can read norwegian , or use google translate
http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/Forskere-til-Bergen-for-a-drofte-CO2-virkning-pa-havet-2890972.html#.UYaRqbWeNy0
Read the method , no real life investigation , but tanks with sea water and the injection of Co2 which they think the sea will take up in the comming 20-30-50 years.
Assume you saw this. Good for a laugh?
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/would_we_give_up_burgers_to_stop_climate_change/
/Mr Lynn
From phys.org:
Organic vapors affect clouds leading to previously unidentified climate cooling
“University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions and manmade pollutants can both have an unexpected cooling effect on the world’s climate by making clouds brighter.”
Catchy headline with nothing much else… didn’t take long.
Global Warming Connected to Rise in Valley Fever Cases | The Guardian Express
http://guardianlv.com/2013/05/global-warming-connected-to-rise-in-valley-fever-cases/
This is more realistic, a few years of rain and the bad fungus proliferates.
http://www.keyc.tv/story/22165874/fever-hits-thousands-in-parched-west-farm-region
Hi Anthony! BBC at it again – check this one on Arctic Acidification. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341
Ben
Media release from the CSIRO in Oz. 16 April 2013.
Maria Island joins international ocean monitoring network
A key facility in an international observing network to detect increasing ocean acidification is monitoring carbon cycling in the Tasman Sea from a site near Maria Island.
16 April 2013
The A$150,000 mooring with its suite of environmental sensors is one of three in Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) that are included in the international network in which Australian scientists at CSIRO and the Australian Institute of Marine Science are playing a central role.
[. . . . . .]
Leading the acidification research is Dr Bronte Tilbrook from CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans Flagship, who said the uptake and storage of carbon dioxide by the ocean is causing changes in the seawater chemistry and increasing acidity levels of surface waters.
The potential for impacts from the tropics to the polar oceans is large, and the resilience of ecosystems to these changes is poorly known.
“Elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have made the oceans about 30 per cent more acidic in the past 200 years.
“The ocean takes up about 25 per cent of annual carbon dioxide emissions generated by human activity. The ocean uptake is a great benefit because it removes human-generated emissions, but it comes at the cost of increased acidification of ocean waters.”
“Australia contains many ecosystems that may be sensitive to ocean acidification, including the extensive coral reefs of Northern Australia and down to the polar regions.
“Predicted impacts range from a decline in the growth of shells and skeletons of important species including corals and some shellfish, to shifts in the structure and dynamics of ecosystems,” he said.
Full details see:
http://www.csiro.au/en/Portals/Media/Maria-Island-joins-international-ocean-monitoring-network.aspx
Long investigative article on Gore’s wealth:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-06/gore-is-romney-rich-with-200-million-after-bush-defeat.html
More dramatic news about the ocean acidification.
A three year study by Richard Bellerby shows a dramatic reduction in the oceans ability to absorb CO2. Norway, the cradle of climate scare!
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bt.no%2Fnyheter%2Fklima%2F–Dramatisk-mye-surere-hav-i-Arktis-2891309.html
This is huge. If the average base temp has dropped this much it means the anamoly we “see” is actually almost (or completely) an artifact of data processing.
http://notrickszone.com/2013/04/21/coming-ice-age-according-to-leading-experts-global-mean-temperature-has-dropped-1c-since-1990/
This morning’s Department of Water Resources California Water News reports that “The year 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record”:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-2012-record-heat-20130502,0,2784525.story
“The United Nation’s weather agency has confirmed that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since record keeping began in 1850, and the 27th consecutive year that global land and ocean temperatures were above average.
“Last year exceeded the global average temperature of 58 degrees Fahrenheit despite the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s annual climate report.”
[...]
The report concludes with a call for continued funding:
“It is vital that we continue to invest in the observations and research that will improve our knowledge about climate variability and climate change,” Jarraud said. “We also need a better understanding of the changing behavior of extreme weather and climate events as a consequence of global warming, as well as the need to assist countries in the most affected areas to better manage climate-related risks with improved climate early warning and climate watch systems.”
Another gem from the BBC (Arctic Ocean ‘acidifying rapidly’):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341
It includes classic statements, such as:
- The Arctic seas are being made rapidly more acidic by carbon-dioxide emissions, according to a new report…[Of course, if this was the mid-80s sulphur dioxide would be blamed for having caused acid raid]
- It is well known that CO2 warms the planet…[As someone once said, "If you repeat the lie often enough..."]
- Many creatures, including commercially valuable fish, could be affected…[classic journalistic speculation in place of hard facts]
- The researchers say there is likely to be major change to the Arctic marine ecosystem as a result. Some key prey species like sea butterflies may be harmed. Other species may thrive. Adult fish look likely to be fairly resilient but the development of fish eggs might be harmed. It is too soon to tell. [In a similar vein to the above, except for the get-out clause at the end.]
Have you seen the latest paper by Svensmark explained for the layman at Nigel Calder’s Blog. This paper puts the climate “Really Big Picture ” in context. Shades of the insignificance of man and how egocentric we are in the celestial scheme of things.
Anthony, I received a summary of a new Physical Review Letter describing wave interactions with the air. It says that 3/4th of the wave energy goes into the air, creating vortexes that will go as high as 200 m. This was done with one-dimensional waves.
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/51
I do not know if this is new, or one field reinventing the work of another. But this could fit into the meme of all the things we do not yet know about the atmosphere and its interactions, which are not, or can not be in the climate models.
Lewandowsky’s Moon Hoax paper is being pedestalized at Scientific American blog: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2013/05/06/climate-change-denial-laissez-faire-economics-and-conspiracy-theories-a-productive-pairing/
WUWThis? Arctic Ocean ‘acidifying rapidly’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341
I’ve been playing a little bit with the register of the monthly SSN kept by NASA here: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch/spot_num.txt
I noticed that 127 months have passed (roughly 10 years and a half) since the last time the monthly SSN reached a value over 100. And I thought, hey, that’s quite a long period. So I wanted to compare it to other previous long periods when the same happened. I’ve created a top ten of such periods in the existing record:
1) 481 months (about 40 years) during Dalton mimimum, March 1790 – March 1830.
2) 233 months (about 20 years), March 1873 – July 1892
3) 135 months (about 11 years), August 1894 – October 1905
4) 128 months (about 10.5 years), September 1750 – April 1761
5) 127 months (about 10.5 years), October 2002 – today
6) 125 months (about 10.5 years), September 1919 – November 1929
7) 122 months (about 10 years), March 1907 – April 1917
8) 101 months (about 8.5 years), March 1851 – September 1859
9) 97 months (about 8 years), April 1861 – April 1869
10) 97 months (about 8 years), August 1970 – August 1978
It seems interesting, we are currently in the 5th position in that ranking, and very close from the 4th and 3rd positions, which we may reach soon. We are even likely to reach second position if the monthly SSN doesn’t reach 100 any month during the current SC24.
Anthony and all, I received this e-mail from the Space Weather Center yesterday. Maybe some of you would be interested in participating in this survey.
john
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The survey below will close on Midnight Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, May 10th:
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has been asked to make you aware of a space weather survey being conducted by the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab (LMSAL). By participating in this survey, you can provide valuable feedback that may enhance space weather information and services and improve civil society’s long-term resilience to the impacts of the space environment.
This survey will help LMSAL evaluate which sectors of society are impacted by space weather and how severe the impacts are. LMSAL will provide the results to anyone who requests them and will publish the key findings of the survey for general use and make it publicly available to assist in assessing the value and importance of space weather services.
SWPC has not sponsored this survey nor is it involved in any way other than to provide notice of its existence. The survey is completely anonymous – no respondent information will be tracked – and will be used only to assess the impacts of space weather. You can access the survey by visiting http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1207430/impacts-of-space-weather
Peter Gleick as the anti-Pangloss!
This deserves some serious mockery for the ludicrous hyperbole.
Voltaire in his “Candide” famously mocked excessive optimism with a character named Pangloss who continually proclaimed “the best of all possible worlds” in the midst of every catastrophe. This was based very loosely upon the philosopher Leibniz arguing that God would have created the “best of all possible worlds.”
Now we have Peter Gleick declaring “the worst of all possible worlds” to be imminent in the midst of countless improvements to human health, quality of life, and longevity. Someone call Matt Ridley!
Peter Gleick on “the worst of all possible worlds
Amusing Alarmism:
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681872/the-deadly-rise-of-sea-levels-in-one-simple-infographic
Apparently the North American painted turtle, which “is thought to be the most widespread native turtle on the continent”, is in danger of extinction if the climate warms by just 1.1 degrees C:
http://www.wunderground.com/news/painted-turtle-global-warming-all-female-20130506
This despite the claim in the article itself that the species has survived for over 15 million years. As if the climate has never changed in the past…
Carbon beneath the crust:
http://news.yahoo.com/lava-hints-earths-deep-carbon-cycle-142211306.html
What if fossil fuels are renewable resources?
Megafauna victims of ‘climate not humans’
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/05/07/3753520.htm
Did China’s agriculture sprout in Ice Age?
http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/did-chinas-agriculture-sprout-in-ice-age/
“We know that during the Ice Age, populations were under pressure. I think that our finding suggests that there was some general evolutionary trend, and that people around the world reacted to climate change in a similar way, although independently.”
English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/ice-age-language/
“The model hints at a group of people living somewhere in Southern Europe as the glaciers were receding, speaking a language that might resemble those spoken today,” Pagel says. “It’s astonishing that spoken language can be transmitted through millennia with enough fidelity to give us information about our early history.”
In the Sydney Morning Herald: they were obviously reluctant to report it themselves, so they got it from AAP:
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Tax cuts worth $1.4 billion linked to the carbon tax will be dumped in next week’s budget because a slump in the European carbon price has forced a revision of revenue forecasts.
Despite previously ruling out dumping the 2015 tax cuts, Fairfax reports Treasurer Wayne Swan will next Tuesday announce the budget savings measure, the latest in a series of broken promises caused by plummeting revenues.
The tax cut was part of household assistance packages linked to the carbon tax, with the tax-free threshold slated to increase from $18,200 to $19,400 in 2015.
The backflip follows a decision to scrap a planned increase in the Family Tax Benefit Part A worth $1.8 billion, after the government confirmed the revenues for this financial year had plummeted by $17 billion.
Treasury had forecast a carbon price of $29 a tonne in 2015 when the local emissions trading scheme is linked to the European ETS, but was forced to halve that to $15 after a price collapse in Europe.
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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/tax-cuts-to-go-because-of-carbon-price-20130508-2j6fm.html
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_rankings.php?ui_set=1#namgnld
Rutgers University Global Snow Lab is in for April 2013.
It tells it’s own story. It’s very nearly an extra Saudi Arabia of snow cover above the mean
I think tis recent article by Dr. Tim Ball would make an excellent guest post or WUWT:
http://drtimball.com/2013/temperature-the-blinding-obsession-its-the-precipitation-stupid/
I have wondered why there is not a lot more emphasis upon getting a handle on the clouds and “precipitation budget” of earth’s atmosphere. Any variations in surface temps could be dwarfed by the energy transfers in clouds and precipitation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341 Arctic becoming more acidic from CO2
I’ve had a feeling we might see some eruptions soon, that is more than the long ongoing Etna show. Cleveland and others have been puffing. Something going on in Mexico.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/explosive-eruption-at-mexicos-popocatepetl/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/five-climbers-killed-in-small-explosion-at-mayon/
I did not know there was another climate junket going on – this time in Bonn, Germany.
As per usual, full of the same tired old rants by the goofies/greenies.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/20135715406432198.html
If things a re quiet how about this one
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-acid-ocean-arctics-soaring-co2-leaves-fish-and-hunters-gasping-for-life-8606805.html
First impression I get is that it’s complete bollocks.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/is_roy_spencer_the_worlds_most_important_scientist.html
Expect a renewed push of climate change as the US economy looks for new ways to invest the 85Billion handed to banks each month.
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/5/7/the-next-big-thing-the-fear-of-climate-change.html
Once again, after a brief respite here is my latest.
http://dailybail.com/home/green-corruption-the-five-circles-of-carbon-tax-hell.html
WWUT mentioned on Fox News. San Jose State University has removed the book burning photo from their servers.
Forgot the link. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/08/photograph-california-professors-ready-to-burn-climate-change-book-removed-from/
Damn keyboard gremlins.
Patent filing claims solar energy ‘breakthrough’
May 8, 2013
In a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planet’s reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost – a transformation that also could blunt global warming.
Inventor Ronald Ace said that his flat-panel “Solar Traps,” which can be mounted on rooftops or used in electric power plants, will shatter decades-old scientific and technological barriers that have stymied efforts to make solar energy a cheap, clean and reliable alternative.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/08/190683/patent-filing-claims-solar-energy.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323528404578452483656067190.html?mod=opinion_newsreel
Good Wall Street Journal article on CO2 by Schmitt and Happer.
When your solar panel business is not getting enough grants sue for more.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324582004578457431235673210.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
(Don’t)Think Progress has an article “99 one-liners rebutting deniers talking points” with links. Comments, please.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/07/1972581/99-one-liners-rebutting-denier-talking-points-with-links-to-the-full-climate-science/
The Arctic sea ice webcams have been updated for 2013 :-) Links are basically the same as last year, but with 2012 substituted for 2013 in the urls:
Webcam 1: http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2013/9.jpg
Archive: http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2013/webcam1.html
Webcam 2: http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2013/18.jpg
Archive: http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/NPEO2013/webcam2.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-russian-evidence-notion-lightning-cosmic.html
Russian physicists Alex Gurevich and Anatoly Karashtin claim, in a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, they have found more evidence to support their idea that lightning is caused by cosmic rays. The notion was first proposed by Gurevich back in 1992, and has been a source of debate ever since.
Abstract
The particular electric pulse discharges are observed in thunderclouds during the initiation stage of negative cloud-to-ground lightning. The discharges are quite different from conventional streamers or leaders. A detailed analysis reveals that the shape of the pulses is determined by the runaway breakdown of air in the thundercloud electric field initiated by extensive atmospheric showers (RB-EAS). The high amplitude of the pulse electric current is due to the multiple microdischarges at hydrometeors stimulated and synchronized by the low-energy electrons generated in the RB-EAS process. The series of specific pulse discharges leads to charge reset from hydrometeors to the free ions and creates numerous stretched ion clusters, both positive and negative. As a result, a wide region in the thundercloud with a sufficiently high fractal ion conductivity is formed. The charge transport by ions plays a decisive role in the lightning leader preconditioning.
“Green Venture Capital Firm Flails As Investments Go Bust”
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/05/09/green-venture-capital-firm-flails-as-investments-go-bust/
“The venture capital firm behind some of the most prominent recent green tech flops, led by major Dem donors and advised by Al Gore, is in big trouble as the green bubble bursts and one highly touted green investment after another goes belly up”
Anthony,
Southern Utah University is selecting speakers (monthly) for addresses to the entire university on relevant topics. This time, Walter Maxwell Gibson College of Science & Engineering get to make two picks! Would you (or perhaps Willis or Bob Tisdale or Lord Monckton himself!) be willing to present the actual science and data (i.e. the skeptical side) associated with the popularly claimed CAGW? This is a completely on-the-level request. There will be no “opposing view” or “response” associated with the presentation. On the other hand, there are some travel and stipend funds for compensation. I’m supposed to suggest some candidates by 5pm MDT on Friday May 10.
Regards,
Eric Freden, Associate Dean
Walter Maxwell Gibson College of Science & Engineering
Southern Utah University
Two more articles about Al Gore, and his criticism of Canada’s oilsands, because of the oilsands’ CO2 emissions.
Al Gore ignores some inconvenient truths
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/l-ian-macdonald-al-gore-ignores-some-inconvenient-truths-1.174015
Canada unfairly Gored; We outperform the U.S. in carbon emissions reductions
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/05/08/canada-carbon-emissions/
Is Roy Spencer the world’s most important scientist?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/is_roy_spencer_the_worlds_most_important_scientist.html
“Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who may be the world’s most important scientist. He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine. That doctrine has always been dubious and is often defended by attacking the integrity of anyone who dares to raise questions. Spencer is a rare combination of a brilliant scientist and a brave soul willing to risk his livelihood and reputation by speaking plainly.”
This is a lengthy article written by Norman Rogers.
Norman Rogers, educated as a physicist, is a retired computer entrepreneur, a volunteer Senior Policy Advisor at the Heartland Institute, a member of the American Geophysical Union and of the American Meteorological Society.
The one thing we must not allow to happen, is to win this war, and by default leave a policy vacuum there. Let it drift without direction and leadership, and it’ll be taken over by the same sort of venial creatures we’ve just beaten. It’s obviously not over, but it’s undoubtably heading in that direction and now is the time for what few real policy leaders we have, to start thinking about what comes next and make some sound proposals.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/some-thoughts-about-policy-for-the-aftermath-of-the-climate-wars/
Pointman
Google Earth has a 1984-2012 Landsat timelapse. Highlights contain mostly things related to human influence but many other very interesting things can be found there, too.
http://earthengine.google.org/#intro/CreationOfDubai
There’s also Time feature about it:
http://world.time.com/timelapse/
It’s Hedgehogs Now
Apparently in the UK, Numbers plummet from 36 million in 1950 to just one million – all due to Climate Change
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322257/Farewell-hedgehogs-Numbers-plummet-36million-1950-just-million-today.html
Well, New Zealand has hedgehogs too, and what beautiful animals they are too – so much so that early settlers introduced them here in the 1870′s to control garden pests.
And here too, the humble hedgehog is all too rare a sight these days – but I put that down to increased use of chemicals. I have lost count of the numbers of confused and barely-alive specimens I have rescued from rural roads here following spraying – maybe one in 20 will survive.to be released.
I’m running out of burial plots in my back yard
Andi
Kasuhas tip (May 9, 2013 at 7:57 pm)
on Google Earth Engine http://earthengine.google.org
might become quite interesting if Google provides several examples in the future. For example, the expansion of Las Vegas 1984-2012 (one of the current examples) is quite illustrative of the extent of land use changes and eventually also UHI:
http://earthengine.google.org/#intro/LasVegas
Guess the year this is from:
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Climate craziness entry.
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/28/is-global-warming-killing-football-players/
Recently Prince Charles made comments about “saving the planet” by cutting our emissions, and this is a satirical look at his comment
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/charles-injured-by-heavy-irony-2013051068183
Global temperature evolution 1979–2010
Abstract. We analyze five prominent time series of global temperature (over land and ocean) for their common time interval since 1979: three surface temperature records (from NASA/GISS, NOAA/NCDC and HadCRU) and two lower-troposphere (LT) temperature records based on satellite microwave sensors (from RSS and UAH). All five series show consistent global warming trends ranging from 0.014 to 0.018 K yr−1. When the data are adjusted to remove the estimated impact of known factors on short-term temperature variations (El Niño/southern oscillation, volcanic aerosols and solar variability), the global warming signal becomes even more evident as noise is reduced. Lower-troposphere temperature responds more strongly to El Niño/southern oscillation and to volcanic forcing than surface temperature data. The adjusted data show warming at very similar rates to the unadjusted data, with smaller probable errors, and the warming rate is steady over the whole time interval. In all adjusted series, the two hottest years are 2009 and 2010.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/044022/fulltext/
Someone posted this link at NPR to show that temps have been going up the last 15 years.
Is this study good?
Just listed on Realclearscience.com : Feature Article: “Weird Stuff Attributed to Climate Change”
A list. Starts with kangaroo scrotum size. Fearsome stuff.
The absurdities are starting to go mainstream. Ridicule mockery and contempt are not far away.
PS
The above appears on Realclearpolitics, as the feature in their science section. Within the articles listed above that is the effusion from one ALGORE (Huffington Post) you have just posted on. Nice juxtaposition. Which will have more weight?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/10/carbon-dioxide-highest-level-greenhouse-gas?commentpage=1
Just having fun seeing what can be slipped past the moderator
An average of 25% of comments are purged in proper Orwellian style.
There’s no freedom of speech in the British Press. Try having a go. I started mine with Be Greener. This throws them as investigating links containing valid information is way past their modern Journalistic skills
See how inventive you can be at getting inconvenient truths – you know like reality – onto the Guardian Website
Another grossly sensationalist pitch from alarmists: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-10/greenpeace-blames-coke-for-channel-9-27choke27/4682548
Has a raving looney warmist taken over @barrackobama twitter account? Several stupid anti denier tweets over last few days.
per JC’s note, see:
Weird Stuff Blamed on Climate Change
A Shortage of Kangaroo Scrotums
More Hookers
UFOs
Salem Witch Trials
etc.
The Sydney Morning Herald keeps the bullshit coming hot and strong:
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/global-carbon-dioxide-levels-hit-landmark-high-20130511-2je8u.html
But no comments are invited — I wonder why?
This is classic misleading alarmism from AlJazeera, the news agency in which His Boreness is financially involved.
It starts with pictures of people wearing masks during a smog event somewhere.
It then quotes MM, the world’s most discredited ‘climate scientist’, who has a rant producing lots of scary images about the evil gas CO2. He then makes a quote about global temperatures during the Miocene, which are higher than today, but that was when the Panama Isthmus did not exist and when ocean currents were very much different to today, leading to significantly higher global temperatures.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/05/201351017254358318.html
Researchers use graphene quantum dots to detect humidity and pressure
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-graphene-quantum-dots-humidity-pressure.html
……….”The research has numerous applications, particularly in improving sensors for humidity, pressure or temperature.”………….
A new thermometer in the future?
http://washingtonexaminer.com/team-obama-calls-global-warming-doubters-crazy/article/2529291
Hi Anthony! Every morning, I step outside & see a small wind turbine that the City of Aurora, IL installed to generate power for a set of stoplights. Well, the numbers are in:
http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/19711687-418/aurora-stoplight-turbines-fall-short-of-expectations-in-energy-production.html
…$100,000 doesn’t buy what it used to I guess. Cheers, Chuck the DrPH
Europe Sinks Its Flagship Carbon Trading Scheme
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/05/europe-sinks-its-flagship-carbon-trading-scheme?cmpid=SolarNL-Saturday-May11-2013
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But Europe’s center-right EU parliamentarians, taking their cue from a powerful business lobby, blocked the efforts in a razor thin vote. They noted that Europe is already close to meeting its 2020 emissions goals, a result not of climate protection measures but of weak economic activity. Today the price of carbon is less than three euros, a record low.
Just how much the ETS impacts renewables growth is a matter of contention.
“The ETS has to date not been able to drive investments in renewable, and it is unlikely that it could even were it healthy, namely reflecting the true price of carbon,” explains Luci Tesniere Senior Policy Advisor at the European Council on Renewable Energy in Brussels. “Renewable energy developments would not have happened at all without renewable targets. Now more than ever, binding 2030 renewable energy targets are needed to show the direction to investors in the renewable energy sector…………”
I concur with the “Renewable energy developments would not have happened at all without renewable targets.” statement.
New post by Joe Bastardi on ICECAP :
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Is_the_Cooling_Worse_than_Thought_-3_(5).pdf
This would be an excellent post for WUWT – brings meteorological common sense to forecasting the climate vs. a “black box” model based on CO2 & not much more.
At the very least, I strongly recommend everyonet o follwo the link & read.
CBS Nightly “News”
This may have been one of the WORST stories of garbage ever put out on CBS:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57583995/carbon-dioxide-levels-highest-in-recorded-human-history/
“Most scientists believe…………..”
Oh Really?? DO tell us how you came to that BS conclusion !!
Another one to add to the list of horrid things that climate change can do. Not sure if it’s carbon dioxide-induced climate change, let alone anthropogenic carbon dioxide-induced climate change (I suppose the voting sheeple are too f*cking stupid to even know the semantic hoodwinking anymore). Atlantic turbulence:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22076055
Anthony, Please have a look at May 11 Briggs. I thought it might be worth reposting here.
The following is the intro: “A Common Fallacy In Global Warming Arguments
Posted on 11 May 2013 by Briggs.
Our post today is provided by Terry Oldberg, M.S.E., M.S.E.E., P.E. Engineer-Scientist, Citizen of the U.S. That’s a lot of letters, Terry! Oldberg joined our Spot the Fallacy Contest, which had been laying fallow. He says he found multiple instances of equivocation in global warming arguments. What say you?……”
Oops here’s the link!
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/
Remember about 8 years ago (when the UK was promised a Mediterranean climate?) one farm decided the future lay in crops for hot summers and mild winters. Apricots in May anyone?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/crops/5785670/Olives-and-peaches-blossom-in-Britain-as-farmers-adapt-to-climate-change.html#disqus_thread
Well he’s had enough and is moving abroad. South of France. I wonder if he’s changed his mind on AGW??
http://www.otterfarm.co.uk/blog/
Oh the irony!
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sju/?n=climo01
NWS in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands has 1-2 pics of the surface stations along with a climate graph. Some sitings are questionable based on the pic.
Some of the stations are rain guage only, some are the airport stations.
Yesterday, my paper entitled “A common fallacy in global warming arguments ” was published under peer review at wmbriggs.com. The referee was Dr. William Briggs. Briggs holds a PhD degree in statistics plus a master’s degree in climatology. He is a professor of statistics at Cornell University and is active in climatological research.
In the paper, I demonstrate that the inquiry into global warming that has been mounted by the climatological community has failed to provide a basis for control of our climate. That this is so has been covered up through repeated applications of the equivocation fallacy in reaching conclusions about the methodologies of global warming studies.
From todays LA Times (in my country also in the Internet newspapers):
Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says
WASHINGTON — Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a new study released Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The study’s authors looked at 50,000 common species. They found that more than half the plants and about a third of the animals could lose about 50% of their range by 2080 if the world continues its current course of rising greenhouse gas emissions.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-common-plants-animals-threatened-by-climate-change-20130512,0,707585.story
Mass extinction doom and gloom from UEA…
Climate change will cause widespread global-scale loss of common plants and animals.
More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change
– according to research from the University of East Anglia.
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2013/May/climate-change-warren-common-species
AW:
For your ‘Did they really write that!’ file:
From the BBC 5-11-13 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22498274]
“The Cambridge-based National Institute of Agricultural Botany has combined an ancient ancestor of wheat with a modern variety to produce a new strain.” . . .
“Around 10,000 years ago wheat evolved from goat grass and other primitive grains.
The scientists used cross-pollination and seed embryo transfer technology to transfer some of the resilience of the ancient ancestor of wheat into modern British varieties.
The process required no genetic modification of the crops.”
Dean
Found this in the Daily Mail today but could not find a reference to warming which is a big surprise
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323605/Get-used-bad-weather-causing-chaos-roads–report-claims-gritter-corner-save-extreme-conditions.html
This HAS to appear on Watts Up With That…. as the prefect response to Lewandowsky. ‘moon hoax’
Tribute video to “Space Oddity – David Bowie” from the International Space Station
The coolest video ever?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo&feature=player_embedded …
“floating in a tin can”
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Telegraph: Commander Chris Hadfield bids farewell to the International Space Station with a recording of David Bowies “Space Oddity”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/10052916/Commander-Chris-Hadfield-bids-farewell-to-ISS-with-recording-of-David-Bowies-Space-Oddity.html
Europe not likely to get North African electricity
http://www.dw.de/europe-not-likely-to-get-north-african-electricity/a-16807096
How to stop Climate Armageddon with a screen shot and a screwy idea (which he’ll be glad to tell you for a fee.)
http://www.examiner.com/article/climate-change-solutions-to-a-big-problem
“I study the idea almost daily and have found the idea can reverse many of the ill effects of climate change that fossil fuels are bringing us today such as higher sea levels, higher sea surface temperatures, red tide, lower PH levels in our oceans, coral bleaching, loss of Northern summertime arctic ice, loss of albedo, skin cancer, lung cancer, war, heart attacks, stroke, asthma, loss of polar bears, sea lions, narwhals, walrus, kril, shrimp, rain forest’s, soil moisture and more desertification etc. etc. etc.” Well, if can cure acne, then I’m for it.
You read through the whole article waiting for them to tell you what his great idea is, but they never quite do. That makes me suspicious from the get go. I am sure if you send any crazy, hurricane stopping scheme to Drs. Willoughby or Marks the first thing they will politely tell you is that you should ‘run some computer simulations first.’ That is not to say your idea has merit, only that they hope once you’ve run the simulations you will realize that your plan is quite hopeless.
The BBC/Met Office have some hints of what the summer has to offer us. From their previous efforts, I think I’ll invest in sun cream shares.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/22511992
story of WWII plane that crashed in Greenland. Recently dug out of 250ft of ice.
… despite ‘unprecedented’ melting since?
Roy Spencer links to
Surface radiative fluxes as observed in BSRN and simulated in IPCC-AR5/
CMIP5 climate models
http://www.gewex.org/BSRN/BSRN-12_presentations/Wild_FriM.pdf
Still major uncertainties in radiation budgets
Models do not replicate brightening/dimming
When climate science is reduced to “retrospective predictions”!
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1863.html
Debate tip for folks in Colorado. Centennial Institute is holding a debate tonight (May 13) re: Global Warming tilted: Debate: Are People the Problem?
Here is the link:
http://www.ccu.edu/Calendars/CCU_Events_Calendar/Debate__Are_People_the_Problem__May_2013/
The funny thing is that the first time it was scheduled in April, it had to be cancelled because of a snow storm!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2003824/Earth-facing-mini-Ice-Age-years-rare-drop-sunspot-activity.html
Ice Age prediction….(c;]
Did everybody see this news about world crop yields? It’s a pretty big nail in the alarmist coffin.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-25/world-grain-harvest-seen-jumping-7-by-igc-on-corn-crop-surge.html
NOAA’s Climate At A Glance, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/, is not updated for April 2013 as of 5/13/13. Do you suppose they’re too embarrassed by the cold weather, or is it the “sequester”?
Damned if I can follow this, but it sure is pompous. Perhaps one of your friends can dissect this:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/05/global-warming-halfway-to-a-mass-extinction-event.html
From the piece:
“There we took the long view and noticed that the big temperature spike in the early days of the Cambrian, some 540 million years ago when life on earth was exploding in number and diversity of species, is a match for the temperature spike we could very well see in 2100 under the “do nothing” carbon scenario. The Cambrian temperature spikes reached 7°C (12.5°F) above pre-industrial (pre-1800) norms, which is also where we could be headed if we don’t stop.
We also saw that the entire period of time from the Cambrian (again, about 540 million years ago) until now is divided into just three geologic eras, or major divisions …
The Paleozoic Era — the era of life before the Age of Dinosaurs, 540–250 million years ago
The Mesozoic Era — the Age of Dinosaurs, 250–65 million years ago
The Cenozoic Era — the Age of Mammals, which we’re now in
… and that each of the first two eras ended in a major mass extinction event. Will a mass extinction end the Cenozoic Era, the Age of Mammals? If we hit a warm enough temperature, yes. This piece explains why and looks at the broad consequences for man under a couple of warming scenarios.
What Does “Major Mass Extinction” Mean?
In order to discuss global warming and mass extinction, we need to look at mass extinctions in general to get a sense of the scale of these events and their effect.
Consider again the chart of extinctions since the Cambrian, 540 million years ago. (This chart was presented in slightly different form here.) The labels across the top — “Cm” and so on — are geologic “periods”. For your convenience I’ve added the larger divisions, the three geologic eras as well, and indicated where the current geologic period, the Quarternary, fits in….”
Questions lead to questions, science is hard.
I loved this Michael J. Fox quote (skip to the 10:30 mark or watch the whole interview): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBQ04iKtYSs&t=4m18s
Edit: in climate science this reads: Questions lead to forgone conclusions, science is easy with pal review.
For Climate Fail files etc.:
March 12, 2013 Lennart Bengtsson: Global climate change and its relevance for a global energy policy.
sic – “by the models”?
A summary is posted at Climate Etc.
http://judithcurry.com/2013/05/13/lennart-bengtsson-on-global-climate-change/
The title says it all here: “…Retrospective prediction…” indeed. How could a researcher keep a straight face and write such a title? (Maybe a subversive element at work?)
Retrospective prediction of the global warming slowdown in the past decade
Virginie Guemas, Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, Isabel Andreu-Burillo
& Muhammad Asif
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1863.html
Today’s Matt cartoon in the Telegraph is a saver.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/
Hi Anthony
http://www.nle.nl/Kom_erbij/Jokkebrokken
A big dutch energy company has placed a page size add in the papers and on their website stating that all energy companies that are selling “green” energy in holland are lying, thought you might find this interesting (sorry it is in dutch but Google translate will take care of that, if not i can lend a hand)
Interesting – at the Nenana Ice Classic in Alaska
http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/
Ice breakup has not been this late since 1964, and still may break that record if it lasts until 5/20.
http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/Breakup%20Log.html
Must be all that warming causing the cooling!
Interesting paper on CO2 (that I didn’t find mentioned in a cursory search of WUWT): “180 Years accurate CO2 – Gasanalysis of Air by Chemical Methods (Short version)”; Ernst-Georg Beck, Merian-Schule Freiburg, 8/2006
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/180_years_accurate_Co2_Chemical_Methods.pdf
I am not qualified to judge the validity of the methodology or conclusions, and would be interested in your and some of your readers’ opinions.
Paper’s conclusions (abbreviated):
1. There is no constant exponential rising CO2 concentration since pre-industrial times.
2. The NH average in the 19th century is 321 ppm and in the 20th century 338 ppm.
3. Todays CO2 value of 380 ppm (and higher) has been known several times in the last 200 years.
4. Accurate chemical measurements of CO2 had been done from 1857, but were ignored reconstructing the CO2 concentration in modern warm period.
5. Authors of modern greenhouse theory ignored a big part of available technical papers and selected only a few values to get a validation of their hypothesis; and the few selected results used were presented in a faulty way and propagated an unfounded view of the quality of these records.
6. Antarctica ice cores are not accurate enough to show the variations of CO2 in the NH.
The link to the above was in a comment to a story here: http://notrickszone.com/2013/05/12/the-real-reason-why-the-warmists-totally-dread-the-future-of-rising-co2-divergence/
Oy vey…
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/05/13/natural_disasters_forced_32_million_people_from_their_homes_last_year.html
An ethanol plant here in Oregon went belly up (no surprise to anyone), but only after duping the State and fleecing the taxpayers out of $36 million. Here’s the irony — now the facility stores and ships crude “fracked” from North Dakota. News story here:
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/05/former_ethanol_plant_in_clatsk.html
So climate zone shifts will accelerate because the climate models say so.
http://researchmatters.noaa.gov/news/Pages/climatezones.aspx
When will they realize that the models ARE NOT REALITY???? Jeesh.
Nice article on solar power by engineer. Comments on practical aspects of solar installations: https://www.sustainableplant.com/2013/05/alternative-ways-to-waste-energy-and-money/?show=all
Interesting proposal here to eliminate the Obamacare medical device tax and make up the loss to the government by eliminating windpower subsidies. GE is in both businesses…
http://medicaldesign.com/blog/could-device-tax-repeal-be-blowing-wind
Apparently a new study out with realistic sea level rise estimates:
“Ice2sea, a four-year project to narrow down uncertainties of how melting ice will pour water into the oceans, found that sea levels would rise by between 16.5 and 69 cm under a scenario of moderate global warming this century.”
http://news.yahoo.com/ice-melt-sea-level-rise-less-severe-feared-180053857.html
Open Access Article at Science Direct:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X13001597
More BBC Bias as per normal…..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22527273
We just had a provincial election here in BC.
I was reading the results. The last sentence of the article:
“Canada’s first Green MLA was also elected Tuesday night. Andrew Weaver defeated Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong in Oak Bay-Gordon Head.”
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/bc-liberals-win-majority-clark-humbled-by-results-1.1280473
So I wondered if that was the well-known climate modeler Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria, which would make sense since “Oak Bay-Gordon Head” is where UVic is and an association between Andrew Weaver & the Green Party would not be a surprise …but I had not heard anything about him running for office …so I checked and found this:
http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/andrewjweaver
“He was a Lead Author in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2nd, 3rd and 4th scientific assessments and is also a Lead Author in the ongoing 5th scientific assessment. [...] His second book, Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming was published by Raven books in 2011.”
Conclusion:
Climate modeler & IPCC lead author Andrew Weaver has become an MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) in British Columbia, Canada.
Climate Etc. has a post regarding this gem:
http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.no/2013/03/lennart-bengtsson-global-climate-change.html#more
The Swede Bengtsson may come across as liberal/left/Socialist in the US but by European standards its close to Pielke Sr. or Lindzen.
AGW will not got away but the NGOs are about to be trown from their favourite vehicle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324803/UK-weather-Snow-falls-amid-65mph-winds-town-gets-month-rain-just-24-hours.html
Snow across ENGLAND, 15th May, 2013
Just WEATHER of course!
Remember the MET Office UK being refreshingly honest about what they did not know about the icy winters and the jetstream?
I’d cut and pasted a phrase out of that page, and just went back to check for more …. (I’d cut and pasted the link too) …. but it seems it has been completely re-edited… the doubts no longer exist or they are shrouded in layers of ‘climate-speak”.
Here is what I had, below, but he same link seemingly goes to a revised story. Does anyone have the original in full? (Have I got this right?)
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/cold-spring-2013
Climate Scientist Andrew Weaver is British Columbias first Green Party candidate elected to the Legislature. Business focused Liberal party increases their majority in the May 14 election.
http://www.theprovince.com/touch/story.html?id=8378904
With the glaciation in Minnesota and the snow in England, this is a nice survey of scientists’ concerns about the coming ice age, dating back over 100 years:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-or-the-new-ice-age-fear-of-the-big-freeze/30336
“On 2 May the automatic weather station at Brúarjökull registered a minimum temperature of -21.7°C. This is the lowest temperature ever measured in Iceland in May”
http://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/nr/2691
Andrew Weaver, part of the UN IPCC Team, has won a seat in the provincial legislature in British Columbia — the most westerly province in Canada. He campaigned successfully to become the first and only Green Party candidate every elected in British Columbia.
The incumbent BC Liberal government was handily elected. Its political philosophy is business friendly and faced down a serious threat from the left wing New Democratic Party.
BC has a carbon tax that the government decided to cap at about 6.5 cents per litre of gasoline.
http://www.timescolonist.com/andrew-weaver-and-the-greens-make-history-in-oak-bay-gordon-head-1.178392
Stray gray whales’ epic journey attributed to global warming:
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/gray-whale-photographed-off-namibia-is-first-ever-documentation-of-species-in-southern-hemisphere/
There were Atlantic gray whales until hunted to extinction in the 18th century.
OK S. says:
May 14, 2013 at 8:38 pm
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Thanks for this. Japanese scientists have been very good on extinction research, including analysis of the Great Dying at the Permian-Triassic boundary ~252 Ma.
Are we really in May? Britain hit by SNOW as 65mph winds sweep across the country and a month’s worth of rain falls in just 24 hours
Up to 2in snow reported in Princetown, Devon, and Rhayader, Powys
And 3in snow fell on high ground in Shropshire near Welsh border
Month’s rain in 24 hours to 7am today in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
Slates come off roofs and trees block roads in Devon and Cornwall
Today and tomorrow will see mixture of sunshine and showers in UK
England and Wales will be mainly dry on Saturday but wet on Sunday
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324803/UK-weather-Snow-falls-amid-65mph-winds-town-gets-month-rain-just-24-hours.html
De Bilt (Netherlands) did not warm up for the last 21 years! See http://www.klimaatgek.nl
Anthony – We are all interested in safe, non-harmful, low cost solutions to provide power for the world. Perhaps this unique design is a step toward harnessing wind power in some locations. We are due for some important breakthroughs. Time will tell whether this unique system will be part of our futures. Enjoy.
Funnel Wind Turbine Generates Jaw-Dropping Power
http://news.discovery.com/tech/alternative-power-sources/funnel-wind-turbrine-generates-jaw-dropping-power-130515.htm
In order to get off oil as our main energy source, renewable energy needs to be cost-competitive with natural gas and coal. Innovations in solar and wind power are making strides toward that goal, but it will take a major paradigm shift to bring them both down in cost.
The Chaska, Minn.-based company Sheer Wind thinks it has a design that could bring the cost of wind power down to a price competitive with natural gas. Daryoush Allaei, Sheer Wind’s chief technical officer, told DNews that a utility-scale system of these wind turbines — that is a 100 to 500 MW power plant — the cost could be as low as 1 cent per KWh. For comparison, conventional tower and blade wind power plants cost about 45 to 80 cents per KWh and natural gas plants cost about 2 to 3 cents per KWh.
Probably not worthy of a post, but I found this huge glacier movement interesting. And it was nice that they stated at the end that it was not due to climate change. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovMhspvwpmw&feature=player_embedded
Scratch that. The above was in today’s news, but I am not certain it is current. I think it may not be. But it was on MSNBC today.
Several tornadoes approaching the DFW area from west and NW … very impressive hook echoes appearing on RADAR as shown by TV meteorologists, notably CH 5.
coverage: http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/NBC-5-Forecast.html
.
… damage/injuries now being reported … in areas to the west and south of Ft. Worth … RADAR returns indicating ‘hook’ echo over Arlington (btw Ft. Worth and Dallas) attm …
9:25 PM S. of Cleburn, N. of Rio Vista (all S. of Ft. Worth) … reported 1 mile wide tornado …
9:37 PM Funnel cloud sighted over downtown Dallas (I-35E and Jefferson) …
9:46 PM NWS continues TWarn for Dallas County until 10:15 PM
[www.freerepublic.com also has a live thread going discussing the on-going storm. Mod]
Hi Anthony and/or Mods:
Looks like the FIRST HURRICANE of the season, in the Eastern Pacific, may occur iby Friday. THis from the National Hurricane Center website, it is Tropical Storm Alvin at that moment.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPEP1+shtml/160242.shtml
Wow, temperatures running ‘cooler’ this winter/spring, but now a hurricane. I can’t wait for the Lamestream Media to spin this one . . .what ‘globar weirding . . !
BBC Radio Five Live Podcast
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/drkarl/drkarl_20130516-0551a.mp3
Around 13:41 a stream of Warmist propaganda and later he pays homage too the Prophet….
James Hansen!
http://news.sky.com/story/1091357/snow-in-may-white-stuff-hits-parts-of-uk
During the most recent cold season, the snow extent for areas north of the equator covered a full 41.79 square kilometers. That’s a lot of snow! That breaks the old record of 41.73 square kilometers back in the famously cold and snowy winter of 1977-78.
What’s more, three out of the top 10 snowiest seasons in the Northern hemisphere have occurred since the turn of the new century. 2002-2003 finished seventh with 41.3 square kilometers of snow extent. The 2010-2011 cold season finished ninth with 41.2 square kilometers of snow cover.
Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/weather/weather_news/Mark-Johnson-Northern-hemisphere-snowfall-sets-an-all-time-record#ixzz2TRp27000
Its OK guys were all saved according to the Mail Nasa’s new supercomputer can stop global warming, a Stellar remote control now that’s a serious technological leap lol
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2325371/Google-Nasa-unveil-superfast-quantum-cure-diseases-stop-global-warming-learn-drive-car.html
97%…again!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/climate-research-nearly-unanimous-humans-causes
SMA is dumping the Windy Boy inverter. Seems that small wind turbines can’t exist without the help of government hot air.
“For example, the UK government has cut funding for wind power plants below 1.5 kW – the size typically used in domestic applications — making it is simply no longer worthwhile for the customer.”
http://www.smainverted.com/2013/05/14/sma-to-part-ways-with-windy-boy-inverters/
fanatical McKibbenites take over Board meeting at Swarthmore College, shout down all other views!!
This is the kind of “dialogue” and “democracy” that fanatical McKibbenites stand for — if you are not “with us” you are the enemy to be silenced, demonized, and destroyed:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324216004578483080076663720-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwNjExNDYyWj.html
Danielle Charette: My Top-Notch Illiberal Arts Education
At Swarthmore, it’s fine to smash ‘hegemonic power structures’ and silence other students.
re: previous item, this is only one small college but it’s an example of how extremist are the McKibbenites and how contemptuous they are of all dissenting views which do not go along with their notions of “climate justice” — making ”justice” one of the most ill-used words in the modern lexicon:
http://swatmountainjustice.wordpress.com/blog/
Hansen is at it again:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-16/hansen-says-tar-sands-oil-makes-climate-change-unsolvable.html
Hansen Says Tar-Sands Oil Makes Climate Change Unsolvable ……..
Exploiting oil and gas trapped in tar sands and shale threatens to make climate change “unsolvable,” said James Hansen, the former NASA scientist ……….Conventional reserves of oil, gas and coal already have more carbon embedded in them than is safe to burn without causing “dangerous” levels of warming beyond a rise of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) since industrialization, Hansen told a U.K. panel of lawmakers today. …..“The potential amount of carbon in these unconventional resources is huge,” Hansen told the Environmental Audit Committee. “If we introduce the tar shale and the tar sands as a source and exploit those resources to a significant extent, then the problem becomes unsolvable.” ……………
There’s more:
The scientist also said he’s working on a paper based on “speculative” research that indicates accelerating ice loss from Greenland will eventually cause the North Atlantic to cool, creating the conditions for more powerful storms along the lines of Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. …………“The cold freshwater coming out from Greenland is going to likely cause this cooling,” said Hansen. “That’s what I call the ‘storms of my grandchildren’ because you get cooling of the North Atlantic; warming of the tropics continues to increase, so the temperature gradient get stronger and it drives much stronger storms.” ……………
And some more. Read it at the above URL
This is not about the science, but it merits attention because it shows Michael Mann in his true métier, as a radical left-wing political activist:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/13/1208429/-Why-the-Attorney-General-Matters-in-Virginia#comments
Michael Mann as guest columnist for ThinkProgress and now for DailyKos, showing his radical left colors….. No real scientist would be writing for a fruitcake lefty non science blog like DailyKos.
Twenty facts about CO2 that have been kept as a top secret by man-made global
warming community
By Dr Darko Butina
1. We know everything about physico-chemical properties of CO2 there is to know since its
discovery 200 years ago, and categorical statement can be made that the physico-chemical
properties of CO2 in its pure state, including IR properties, have nothing to do with its
properties as part of the mixture called air
2. We know that no gas molecule of the open system, as our atmosphere is, can possibly control
temperature
3. We know that there are two very different mechanisms that drive dynamics of CO2 exchange
between air-water and air-biomass and therefore there is no such a thing as global levels of
CO2. Levels of CO2 above the water mass, covering 70% of the Earth surface is control by
solubility of CO2 in water which is solely driven by temperature, while levels of CO2 above
the biomass that covers most of the land surfaces is solely driven and control by
photosynthesis
4. We know that the only way to know exact numbers about CO2 concentrations above the
water and biomass surfaces is to measure them at the surface levels, which we do not do, and
therefore use of CO2 levels measured at a single point on the globe and at 4000 meters
altitude (Mauna Loa Observatory, MLO, at Hwaii) represents one of the most miss-used high
accuracy dataset in history of modern science
5. We know that the total emissions/reabsorption of CO2 by nature makes emissions of CO2 by
burning fossil fuels totally insignificant and lost in the instrumental accuracy levels
6. We know that the levels of CO2 that we live our everyday lives have nothing in common with
the observed CO2 levels at MLO based at altitude of 4000 meters high
7. We know that there is no difference between CO2 levels accurately measured 200 years ago
and last year – they all go up and down depending when and where you measure them
8. We know that there is no possible correlation between CO2 levels dissolved in water in its
liquid state and CO2 levels found in ice, i.e. water in its solid state
9. We know that it is CO2 that makes major contribution to the width of tree rings. So, no CO2
no tree rings and no life
10. We know that human body ignores CO2 levels in air when breathing-in and the only function
of breathing out is to get rid-off CO2 that is created in every cell of human body by the
complex bio-chemical process that maintain life
11. We know that CO2 levels should reach concentration in air of 60,000 ppm (from current
levels of 390 ppm) to become toxic for humans
12. We know that every single molecule of CO2 is surrounded by 2500 molecules that are NOT
CO2 and therefore any theoretical blanket built from CO2-fibers that supposedly is
surrounding the Earth is practically made of NOTHING
13. We know that every single molecule of CO2 is surrounded by 2500 molecules that are NOT
CO2 and therefore one has to offer some explanation what those 2500 ‘other or NOT-CO2’
molecules are doing while 1 molecule among them is receiving and ‘back radiating’ all that
heat energy
14. We know that every molecule of CO2, irrespective from which source it comes from, can go
up-and-down (in Z-axis) due to its molecular weight, its heat capacity and its solubility in
water (rain or snow) and along (X-Y space) carried by wind. Therefore someone has to be
able to explain how does molecule of CO2 generated by SUV in Los Angeles gets transported across 2500 miles of water mass to Hawaii and then go up another 4000 meters, while
avoiding all the biomass available within few miles of land surface in California and all the
water mass along its journey to the CO2 detector at MLO, Hawaii
15. We know for certain that at 200 ppm of CO2 plants stops to grow and that the optimum levels
for plants grow is between 1300 and 1500 ppm, and yet the advice to all the governments
around the globe is to commit a massive suicide of all species by reducing CO2
concentrations to 200 ppm levels
16. We know that there is no difference whether we grow or dig fuel in terms of CO2 emissions,
we know that CO2 emissions from burning fuel are irrelevant to the CO2 dynamics of
emissions/absorption and yet we use our precious food-growing surfaces to grow fuel and
thus create famine and kill life
17. We know that there is no such a thing as self-heating greenhouse and yet new theories have
been invented to argue something that cannot be argued
18. We know that there is nothing in common in IR spectra between CO2, methane and water and
yet they have been classified together as ‘greenhouse gasses’ because they absorb in IR,
together with millions of other molecules
19. We know that CO2 in the atmosphere could not be detected by a standard IR-spectrometer
and yet that property of CO2 has been used to argue existence of greenhouse effect
20. We know that all the knowledge about physical world comes from experiments that can be
validated and not from calculations that cannot be validated. And yet, everything about manmade global warming is about calculations and NOTHING about measurment.
A very interesting new blog, and name, that is going to become a lot better known, very quickly…
http://www.l4patterns.com/Home_Page.php
saw this r(e)written on Grist:
http://grist.org/news/97-out-of-100-climate-scientists-agree-humans-are-responsible-for-warming/
then:
http://news.yahoo.com/melting-glaciers-cause-one-third-sea-level-rise-180709507.html
then
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100743032?__source=yahoo|finance|headline|headline|story&par=yahoo&doc=100743032|Food%20Supply%20Under%20Assault
All in a pretty row on Yahoo News….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9338939/Global-warming-second-thoughts-of-an-environmentalist.html
“Global warming: second thoughts of an environmentalist
Fritz Vahrenholt, one of Germany’s earliest green energy investors, is not convinced that humanity is causing catastrophic global warming.”
Scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are quite certain: by using fossil fuels man is currently destroying the climate and our future. We have one last chance, we are told: quickly renounce modern industrial society – painfully but for a good cause.
For many years, I was an active supporter of the IPCC and its CO2 theory. Recent experience with the UN’s climate panel, however, forced me to reassess my position. In February 2010, I was invited as a reviewer for the IPCC report on renewable energy. I realised that the drafting of the report was done in anything but a scientific manner. The report was littered with errors and a member of Greenpeace edited the final version. These developments shocked me. I thought, if such things can happen in this report, then they might happen in other IPCC reports too.
Good practice requires double-checking the facts. After all, geoscientists have checked the pre-industrial climate, over the past 10,000 years: this isolates natural climate drivers. According to the IPCC, natural factors hardly play any role in today’s climate so we would expect a rather flat and boring climate history.
Far from it: real, hard data from ice cores, dripstones, tree rings and ocean or lake sediment cores reveal significant temperature changes of more than 1°C, with warm and cold phases alternating in a 1,000-year cycle. These include the Minoan Warm Period 3,000 years ago and the Roman Warm Period 2,000 years ago. During the Medieval Warm Phase around 1,000 years ago, Greenland was colonised and grapes for wine grew in England. The Little Ice Age lasted from the 15th to the 19th century. All these fluctuations occurred before man-made CO2.
……
David Spurgeon says: May 16, 2013 at 2:46 pm (redrafted for readability)
Twenty facts about CO2 that have been kept as a top secret by man-made global
warming community
By Dr Darko Butina
1. We know everything about physico-chemical properties of CO2 there is to know since its
discovery 200 years ago, and categorical statement can be made that the physico-chemical
properties of CO2 in its pure state, including IR properties, have nothing to do with its
properties as part of the mixture called air.
2. We know that no gas molecule of the open system, as our atmosphere is, can possibly control
temperature.
3. We know that there are two very different mechanisms that drive dynamics of CO2 exchange
between air-water and air-biomass and therefore there is no such a thing as global levels of
CO2. Levels of CO2 above the water mass, covering 70% of the Earth surface is control by
solubility of CO2 in water which is solely driven by temperature, while levels of CO2 above
the biomass that covers most of the land surfaces is solely driven and control by
photosynthesis.
4. We know that the only way to know exact numbers about CO2 concentrations above the
water and biomass surfaces is to measure them at the surface levels, which we do not do, and
therefore use of CO2 levels measured at a single point on the globe and at 4000 meters
altitude (Mauna Loa Observatory, MLO, at Hwaii) represents one of the most miss-used high
accuracy dataset in history of modern science.
5. We know that the total emissions/reabsorption of CO2 by nature makes emissions of CO2 by
burning fossil fuels totally insignificant and lost in the instrumental accuracy levels.
6. We know that the levels of CO2 that we live our everyday lives have nothing in common with
the observed CO2 levels at MLO based at altitude of 4000 meters high.
7. We know that there is no difference between CO2 levels accurately measured 200 years ago
and last year – they all go up and down depending when and where you measure them.
8. We know that there is no possible correlation between CO2 levels dissolved in water in its
liquid state and CO2 levels found in ice, i.e. water in its solid state.
9. We know that it is CO2 that makes major contribution to the width of tree rings. So, no CO2
no tree rings and no life.
10. We know that human body ignores CO2 levels in air when breathing-in and the only function
of breathing out is to get rid-off CO2 that is created in every cell of human body by the
complex bio-chemical process that maintain life.
11. We know that CO2 levels should reach concentration in air of 60,000 ppm (from current
levels of 390 ppm) to become toxic for humans.
12. We know that every single molecule of CO2 is surrounded by 2500 molecules that are NOT
CO2 and therefore any theoretical blanket built from CO2-fibers that supposedly is
surrounding the Earth is practically made of NOTHING.
13. We know that every single molecule of CO2 is surrounded by 2500 molecules that are NOT
CO2 and therefore one has to offer some explanation what those 2500 ‘other or NOT-CO2’
molecules are doing while 1 molecule among them is receiving and ‘back radiating’ all that
heat energy.
14. We know that every molecule of CO2, irrespective from which source it comes from, can go
up-and-down (in Z-axis) due to its molecular weight, its heat capacity and its solubility in
water (rain or snow) and along (X-Y space) carried by wind. Therefore someone has to be
able to explain how does molecule of CO2 generated by SUV in Los Angeles gets transported across 2500 miles of water mass to Hawaii and then go up another 4000 meters, while
avoiding all the biomass available within few miles of land surface in California and all the
water mass along its journey to the CO2 detector at MLO, Hawaii.
15. We know for certain that at 200 ppm of CO2 plants stops to grow and that the optimum levels
for plants grow is between 1300 and 1500 ppm, and yet the advice to all the governments
around the globe is to commit a massive suicide of all species by reducing CO2
concentrations to 200 ppm levels.
16. We know that there is no difference whether we grow or dig fuel in terms of CO2 emissions,
we know that CO2 emissions from burning fuel are irrelevant to the CO2 dynamics of
emissions/absorption and yet we use our precious food-growing surfaces to grow fuel and
thus create famine and kill life.
17. We know that there is no such a thing as self-heating greenhouse and yet new theories have
been invented to argue something that cannot be argued.
18. We know that there is nothing in common in IR spectra between CO2, methane and water and
yet they have been classified together as ‘greenhouse gasses’ because they absorb in IR,
together with millions of other molecules
19. We know that CO2 in the atmosphere could not be detected by a standard IR-spectrometer
and yet that property of CO2 has been used to argue existence of greenhouse effect.
20. We know that all the knowledge about physical world comes from experiments that can be
validated and not from calculations that cannot be validated. And yet, everything about manmade global warming is about calculations and NOTHING about measurement.
oops … sorry mods – misplaced HTML tag in title above… !!
Sorrry mods … was trying to help but am cluttering up the thread … last try, hope you can delete previous!
David Spurgeon says: May 16, 2013 at 2:46 pm (redrafted for readability)
Twenty facts about CO2 that have been kept as a top secret by man-made global
warming community
By Dr Darko Butina
1. We know everything about physico-chemical properties of CO2 there is to know since its discovery 200 years ago, and categorical statement can be made that the physico-chemical properties of CO2 in its pure state, including IR properties, have nothing to do with its properties as part of the mixture called air.
2. We know that no gas molecule of the open system, as our atmosphere is, can possibly control temperature.
3. We know that there are two very different mechanisms that drive dynamics of CO2 exchange between air-water and air-biomass and therefore there is no such a thing as global levels of CO2. Levels of CO2 above the water mass, covering 70% of the Earth surface is control by solubility of CO2 in water which is solely driven by temperature, while levels of CO2 above the biomass that covers most of the land surfaces is solely driven and control by photosynthesis.
4. We know that the only way to know exact numbers about CO2 concentrations above the water and biomass surfaces is to measure them at the surface levels, which we do not do, and therefore use of CO2 levels measured at a single point on the globe and at 4000 meters altitude (Mauna Loa Observatory, MLO, at Hwaii) represents one of the most miss-used high accuracy dataset in history of modern science.
5. We know that the total emissions/reabsorption of CO2 by nature makes emissions of CO2 by burning fossil fuels totally insignificant and lost in the instrumental accuracy levels.
6. We know that the levels of CO2 that we live our everyday lives have nothing in common with the observed CO2 levels at MLO based at altitude of 4000 meters high.
7. We know that there is no difference between CO2 levels accurately measured 200 years ago and last year – they all go up and down depending when and where you measure them.
8. We know that there is no possible correlation between CO2 levels dissolved in water in its liquid state and CO2 levels found in ice, i.e. water in its solid state.
9. We know that it is CO2 that makes major contribution to the width of tree rings. So, no CO2 no tree rings and no life.
10. We know that human body ignores CO2 levels in air when breathing-in and the only function of breathing out is to get rid-off CO2 that is created in every cell of human body by the complex bio-chemical process that maintain life.
11. We know that CO2 levels should reach concentration in air of 60,000 ppm (from current levels of 390 ppm) to become toxic for humans.
12. We know that every single molecule of CO2 is surrounded by 2500 molecules that are NOT CO2 and therefore any theoretical blanket built from CO2-fibers that supposedly is surrounding the Earth is practically made of NOTHING.
13. We know that every single molecule of CO2 is surrounded by 2500 molecules that are NOT CO2 and therefore one has to offer some explanation what those 2500 ‘other or NOT-CO2’ molecules are doing while 1 molecule among them is receiving and ‘back radiating’ all that heat energy.
14. We know that every molecule of CO2, irrespective from which source it comes from, can go up-and-down (in Z-axis) due to its molecular weight, its heat capacity and its solubility in water (rain or snow) and along (X-Y space) carried by wind. Therefore someone has to be able to explain how does molecule of CO2 generated by SUV in Los Angeles gets transported across 2500 miles of water mass to Hawaii and then go up another 4000 meters, while avoiding all the biomass available within few miles of land surface in California and all the water mass along its journey to the CO2 detector at MLO, Hawaii.
15. We know for certain that at 200 ppm of CO2 plants stops to grow and that the optimum levels for plants grow is between 1300 and 1500 ppm, and yet the advice to all the governments around the globe is to commit a massive suicide of all species by reducing CO2 concentrations to 200 ppm levels.
16. We know that there is no difference whether we grow or dig fuel in terms of CO2 emissions, we know that CO2 emissions from burning fuel are irrelevant to the CO2 dynamics of emissions/absorption and yet we use our precious food-growing surfaces to grow fuel and thus create famine and kill life.
17. We know that there is no such a thing as self-heating greenhouse and yet new theories have been invented to argue something that cannot be argued.
18. We know that there is nothing in common in IR spectra between CO2, methane and water and yet they have been classified together as ‘greenhouse gasses’ because they absorb in IR, together with millions of other molecules
19. We know that CO2 in the atmosphere could not be detected by a standard IR-spectrometer and yet that property of CO2 has been used to argue existence of greenhouse effect.
20. We know that all the knowledge about physical world comes from experiments that can be validated and not from calculations that cannot be validated. And yet, everything about manmade global warming is about calculations and NOTHING about measurement.
markx: A link to the article would be helpful. I can’t find a “David Spurgeon” in the climate science field. Nor does a Search with the title words (Twenty facts…..”) find anything.
Some of the “We know that” points are not obvious.
More than that, there’s a post at blog.hotwhopper.com claiming that Dr Butina made measurements only at an observatory n Ireland.
By measurement the IPCCs carbon cycle model goes down in flames!
Simple math ! Easy to understand!, Easy to present, and devastating for the IPCC !.
Professor Gösta Pettersson has written a peer reviewed book about .”False alarm” and you really don’t have to read the hole book in chapter seven with only two graphs anyone will see the proof of the IPCCs total failure depending on the “Bern model” to calculate current and future carbon dioxide levels.The conclusions in the book is confirmation of what Ole Humlum and Murry Salby concludes but coming from an other angle and one important explanation to WHY they are right!
http://www.theclimatescam.se/2013/05/17/klimatsimuleringar-och-observationer-strider-mot-varandra-bombprovskurvan/#comment-334584
Even if you use a simple internet translation from Swedish to English .. you still easy get the picture!
Imagine if you will, George Armstrong Custer’s defeat at Little Big Horn by the hand of Crazy Horse and the Sioux, freezing the present day USA’s western border in Montana rather than the Pacific, and you’re in the picture. For once and almost uniquely, the natives permanently stopped a more technologically advanced culture devouring them.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/working-together/
Pointman
Anthony,
as a follow up to Willis’ story about the ice break-up on the Nenana River, there is this article on the BBC about the late appearance of rare butterflies in the UK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/22546675
According to the article
“The second-coldest March on record contributed to the delayed emergence of many rare species, according to the charity Butterfly Conservation.
First sightings recorded by the public showed the insects typically appeared a fortnight later than normal.”
John Cook tweeted by Obama
I’m 100% climate change skeptic but give this guy his dues and report on the news. His grinning face is enough to tell people what his true motivation is.
You may be interested to hear the short report and interviews on the BBC Today programme this morning. Starting at 1:34 from the commencement, a report on the lack of global warming including interviews with Andrew Montford, Sir James Houghton and Sir Brian Hoskins. Then later at 2:23 an interview with James Hanson.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sdtxc
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/16/oldest-water-on-earth-found-deep-underground/?intcmp=features
2.6 billion year old water. Looking for life in it.
Funny typo in a job-listing: “CLIMATE SCIENTIST – AFRICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE (ARCC)”
It was actually a job looking at Resilience to climate change.
https://tetratech.tms.hrdepartment.com/jobs/12837/CLIMATE-SCIENTIST-AFRICAN-AND-LATIN-AMERICAN-RESISTANCE-TO-CLIMATE-CHANGE-ARCCArlington-VA?lcid=en-US
Dr. Happer of Princeton appeared Friday morning on CNBC on the early show with Joe Kernan, for a discussion of Global Warming issues, and his article about CO2 in the Wall Street Journal.. CNBC has a nice video of the discussion on its website. A healthy, open discussion among adults.
It seems we can “drive” from Russia to Canada in two motor vehicles. Do you think the MSM will shout that global warming is over? sarc/
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-russians-russia-canada-north-pole.html
Thought you may find this research interesting:
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/seismic-activity.html
I posted on it here, but I doubt your interested in my engineering views on the science:
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/19622
Enjoy!
Geoffrey Lean is making stuff up again:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100217205/fijis-villagers-move-uphill-to-escape-global-warmings-rising-seas/
As of 05-17-2013, 11:00 AM PDT, the ice on the Nenana River has still not broken. According to the Nenana Ice Classic brochure (Side B), this puts 2013 in second place for the latest break up. The only later date is May 20, 1964.
Just more global warming!!
Russian explorers headed home Thursday after proving it is possible to drive from Russia to Canada across the North Pole, in buses with bloated tires over drifting ice, using a pickaxe to clear the way.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-russians-russia-canada-north-pole.html
Coming soon, a brave new world:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Google-Berg_Merger_Ushers_in_Planned-Opolis_Future_in_the_%E2%80%9CHybrid_Age%E2%80%9D/26047/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Something is wrong, very, very wrong. Crane flies (aka Daddy Long-legs) insects of the family Tipulidae always hatch out in late August or early September here in Southern West Sussex. Tonight (17 May at 2200) I have found swarms of them around the outside lights of my house.
This has never happened before. Why are these insects hatching to breed two months early?
Here is a report on the recent talk by Prof Hansen given in London: “An Evening with Hansen”
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/an-encounter-with-the-climate-liars/#more-19783
Realpolitik always wins in the end — even in Australia.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/anger-as-green-projects-slashed-funds-diverted-to-help-cattle-exports-20130517-2js0c.html
“Australia has all but dumped $75 million worth of projects regrowing forests in the developing world and shelved a $100 million forest carbon partnership with Indonesia.
Simultaneously, millions of dollars in foreign aid will be channelled into the live cattle export trade, sparking claims by the Greens that aid money is being misused to help the embattled industry.
Australia’s contribution to global environment programs will drop from $74.1 million in 2012-13 to just $1.5 million next year, the budget papers reveal.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324030704578426280702003120.html?KEYWORDS=ETS
NY Times today reported new proposed fracking rules from Dept. of the Interior. 30 day comment period. They must be pretty reasonable, since both environmental groups and industry are unhappy. Great statement from the new head of DOI, Sally Jewell: “I know there are those who say fracking is dangerous and should be curtailed, full stop. That ignores the reality that it has been done for decades and has the potential for developing significant domestic resources and strengthening our economy and will be done for decades to come.” Big improvement over Salazar. And a straw in the wind re Keystone; I am now betting it will be approved.
Interesting post on an ongoing Russian expedition to drive across the North Pole to Canada. It has already passed the NP:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/05/russians-have-proven-land-invasion-of.html?m=1
Hansen’s forthcoming paper reported in Bloomberg here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-17/james-hansen-says-greenland-melt-may-cool-north-atlantic.html
Rob Hopkins, founder of the brilliantly silly ‘Transition’ movement, vowed never to fly again after watching ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in 2006.
Now the ppm has reached 400, he’s going to start flying again. Because, you know, he’s allowed to because he’s “enlightened”. All of you plebs who aren’t saving the world, you’re not allowed to fly.
Cue pretzel-logic attempt to justify his decision to Gaia.
http://transitionculture.org/2013/05/16/why-im-marking-passing-400-ppm-by-getting-back-on-an-aeroplane/
Warmer springs causing loss of snow cover throughout the Rocky Mountains
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Warmer_springs_causing_loss_of_snow_cover_throughout_the_Rocky_Mountains_999.html
Regional patterns and proximal causes of the recent snowpack decline in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.
Gregory T. Pederson,
Julio L. Betancourt,
Gregory J. McCabe
Abstract
[1] We used a first-order, monthly snow model and observations to disentangle seasonal influences on 20th century,regional snowpack anomalies in the Rocky Mountains of western North America, where interannual variations in cool-season (November–March) temperatures are broadly synchronous, but precipitation is typically antiphased north to south and uncorrelated with temperature. Over the previous eight centuries, regional snowpack variability exhibits strong, decadally persistent north-south (N-S) antiphasing of snowpack anomalies. Contrary to the normal regional antiphasing, two intervals of spatially synchronized snow deficits were identified. Snow deficits shown during the 1930s were synchronized north-south by low cool-season precipitation, with spring warming (February–March) since the 1980s driving the majority of the recent synchronous snow declines, especially across the low to middle elevations. Spring warming strongly influenced low snowpacks in the north after 1958, but not in the south until after 1980. The post-1980, synchronous snow decline reduced snow cover at low to middle elevations by ~20% and partly explains earlier and reduced streamflow and both longer and more active fire seasons. Climatologies of Rocky Mountain snowpack are shown to be seasonally and regionally complex, with Pacific decadal variability positively reinforcing the anthropogenic warming trend.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50424/abstract
Earth’s Mantle Affects Sea Level Rise Estimates
http://www.livescience.com/32060-mantle-flow-changes-topography.html
Dynamic Topography Change of the Eastern United States Since 3 Million Years Ago
David B. Rowley,
Alessandro M. Forte,
Robert Moucha,
Jerry X. Mitrovica,
Nathan A. Simmons,
Stephen P. Grand
Abstract
Sedimentary rocks from Virginia through Florida record marine flooding during the mid-Pliocene. Several wave-cut scarps that at the time of deposition would have been horizontal are now draped over a warped surface with a maximum amplitude of 60 m. We modeled dynamic topography using mantle convection simulations that predict the amplitude and broad spatial distribution of this distortion. The results imply that dynamic topography and, to a lesser extent, glacial isostatic adjustment, account for the current architecture of the coastal plain and proximal shelf. This confounds attempts to use regional stratigraphic relations as references for longer-term sea-level determinations. Inferences of Pliocene global sea-level heights or stability of Antarctic ice sheets therefore cannot be deciphered in the absence of an appropriate mantle dynamic reference frame.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/05/15/science.1229180.abstract
Disgraceful 3-part, 1-hour episode of “This American Life,” “Hot in My Backyard,” was broadcast today, May 17, 2013, on NPR. Summary here:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/495/hot-in-my-backyard
Free MP3 file will be available tomorrow (Sunday) at 7PM Central time. No transcript appears to be available yet.
Globe and Mail Business columnist falling prey to intense CO2 Hysteria.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/ignoring-the-cost-of-climate-change-is-bad-business/article11995289/
“We can argue until we turn blue in the face whether anthropomorphic carbon dioxide emissions are to blame for rapid climate change. What we do know is that the planet is getting warmer and the incidents of extreme weather are becoming more frequent and devastating. The extreme weather trend could (there is no “will” in climate change) accelerate now that the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million, a rise of a quarter in 55 years and a rate of increase three times faster than it was in the 1960s. If that’s not scary, what is?
Munich Re, the world largest re-insurer (that is, the insurance companies’ insurer) knows the planet’s weather is changing radically and quickly because it is writing the cheques to cover the losses. Last autumn it said that natural catastrophes have doubled in the last three decades; extreme weather can take most of the blame. Some parts of the world are changing faster than others. In North America, the weather-related disasters are up almost fourfold, Munich Re said in a report carried in February by the National Journal. The damages bill has climbed from hundreds of billions of dollars to more than $1-trillion (U.S.).”
It would be an interesting exercise to survey the authors of the 66% of papers from Cook’s survey which did not express an opinion on AGW in the abstract.
Perhaps just two questions:
1. “In your opinion; Is modern warming most likely to be predominantly man-made?”
2. (If ‘yes’ to 1 above): “In you opinion is it very likely that the situation is so dire that major action must be taken immediately?”
Found this interesting paper on the oldest preserved sea level gauge in the world.
http://www.historicalgeophysics.ax/sp/01.pdf
Forested Arctic likely by middle of century
“Two independent groups of climatologists have predicted that the Arctic will become ice-free and covered in trees by the middle of the century.”
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/19/forested-arctic
And now for something completely different.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2326869/Is-universe-merely-billions-Evidence-existence-multiverse-revealed-time-cosmic-map.html
Off topic, a little. …
Here’s a Hockey Stick the gov’t WON’T be telling you about, much less bragging about…
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/obamacares-cadillac-tax-wont-be-as-big-as-thought.html/?a=viewall
(My healthcare premium already went up $71/month starting LAST July… I called my carrier, Hometown Health, and they said it was because of increased Obamacare costs that would occur.)
I’ve got GIStemp ported, about 3/4 done, to the Raspberry Pi ( $35 single board computer http://www.raspberrypi.org/ ) BUT as part of the process I did a ‘fresh’ download of the source code. It looks like it is the same old GHCN Version 2 based code, not what they are presently running at the GISS site that claims to use V3 data.
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/gistemp-no-new-source-code/
At the same time, the GHCN v2 temperature data is now deleted from the NCDC site.
The “net net” is that you can get code that will not run the present data set.
I’m doing my port / testing with an old Dec 2009 copy of V2 data for now, but the ability to evaluate and test what is actually being run by GISS today is broken.
Japan is moving toward reactivating some of its nuclear reactors:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-19/crushed-soaring-energy-costs-japan-prepares-reactivate-its-nuclear-power-plants
Here’s an alarming weather story from NZ…
http://www.thecivilian.co.nz/meteorologists-concerned-about-large-offshore-h/
Finally, independent third party report appears to undeniably confirm LENR after two years of ‘Rossi says’.
http://ecat.com/files/Indication-of-anomalous-heat-energy-production-in-a-reactor-device.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023
BBC begins long climb down
I think this is more important than Climategate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/19/climate-change-meltdown-unlikely-research
Horrible piece in the Guardian, ,with this quote, intended to refute observations that warming has stopped (although even when mentioning the observation, they have to beg the question by using “paused”, affirming their own conclusion in their argument). Anyway:
“Otto said that this most recent pattern could not be taken as evidence that climate change
has stopped. “Given the noise in the climate and temperature system, you would need to see
a much longer period of any pause in order to draw the conclusion that global warming was
not occurring,” he said. Such a period could be as long as 40 years of the climate record, he
said.”
No mention that this could also apply to 40 years of warming … …
Doh!
Oil industry research sheds light on where life exists on Earth and beyond
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-oil-industry-life-earth.html
As well as providing a greater insight into sand injections, the seismic and core analysis studied by the University of Aberdeen in conjunction with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) has contributed to a greater understanding of where life exists deep within the Earth. The research has been published in Scientific Reports online journal.
“Microbial life can live between spaces in sand but the food that sustains these microbes comes from within mud. So the best place for this life to thrive is in the area between a layer of sand and a layer of mud”, explained Professor John Parnell, a Geoscientist from the University of Aberdeen.
“If you’ve got sand moving around under the Earth’s surface it will inject itself through layers of mud or pass through mud and that creates more of these prime areas where mud and sand interact.
“Our research has revealed this extensive habitat in the subsurface for microbes that we didn’t know for sure was there. This proves it is, and that it’s been there for at least 600 million years.”
The research also has wider scientific ramifications in terms of shedding light on the distribution of life on Earth.
“This research means it is quite possible that there is more life in the subsurface of the Earth than on the surface itself. Microbiologists have been discussing for a long time what the ratio is and if we’re showing there’s a big new habitat in the subsurface then we’re shifting that balance towards there being more life in the subsurface”, Professor Parnell added. “It also informs us about where life may have evolved because it may have evolved below the surface as opposed to on the surface.
Anthony,
LENR independent third party confirmation of anomalous heat originally published May 16 at Cornell University Library: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913
Know you have been (justifiably!)hesitant to follow LENR on WUWT, but this new report may change your mind.
Thanks!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023
There is a very funny 3-part interview with a “troll” at Grist, also at MotherJones
http://grist.org/climate-energy/feeding-the-trolls-meeting-with-a-climate-denier-face-to-face/
which backfires badly. Two naive young climate activists go and visit the “troll” at his house, and are amazed to find that he seems really normal. Maybe they expected him to have red horns and a tail. Then in part 3 they say what a shame it is that the debate has become so virulent and that there is so much namecalling, and go on to write an article calling him a “troll” and a “denier”.
If you aren’t feeling suicidal then this is the cure for you . . .
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/17-1
That these folk actually still exist is a tribute to hypocrisy because their “woe, woe” is just palpable.
This morning’s Department of Water Resources California Water News reports yet another climate poll:
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/may/18/climate-change-survey-university-san-diego/
Climate change worries 4 in 5 San Diegans
More than half think warming not caused by human activities
The telephone survey of 1,211 residents found that 84 percent of respondents believe climate change is happening, but that more than half think it’s not caused by human activities. About 72 percent believe climate change will affect them personally, while 58 percent believe their actions can make a difference in curtailing its effects.
[...]
In a bid for political balance, the coalition commissioned a bipartisan polling team made up of Public Opinion Strategies, a national Republican political and public affairs research firm, and FM3, a California-based polling group that skews Democratic, Boudrias said.
Interesting article on biofuels at Counterpunch.org. Here is the link: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/17/navy-captain-guns-down-biofuels/. A Navy captain makes a strong case for the Navy to abandon its biofuels program, but the brass seem committed to it for reasons having nothing to do with reason.
Time online:
Why Summer in the City Will Get More Deadly
By Bryan WalshMay 20, 2013
Heat kills. In 1995 five days of stifling heat lead to more than 750 deaths in Chicago, as mostly elderly and sick people died in their ovenlike apartments. In 2003, a record heat wave struck much of Europe, which led to as many as 70,000 additional deaths due in part to heat. France, which was unused to lingering heat in the summers and which mostly lacks air conditioning, was hardest hit. Thousands of elderly people died during the heat wave in August of that year, so many that some bodies were left unclaimed for weeks. Undertakers in Paris ran out of space to store all the corpses.
So you can imagine that researchers—and officials in big cities—are worried about the effect of killer heat waves in the future, supercharged by climate change.
http://science.time.com/2013/05/20/why-summer-in-the-city-will-get-more-deadly/?xid=rss-topstories
Just heard Ken Cuccinelli is running for Governor in Virginia. I don’t know that there’s any story in that or anything :> Mann’s gotta be thrilled about it though!
Oh Dear Lord, Have Mercy
I’m in Oklahoma City keeping an eye on 2 TV weather reports showing another F5 size tornado ripping through town. They just now reported that there might be a second one right behind the first… they are reporting the storm as a repeat of the terrible May 3, 1999 tornado in which the highest wind speeds on earth were recorded… they are telling everyone in it’s path to get below ground or out of it’s path or die.
The May 3 tornado took all structures to the slab- down to ground- and if it could catch a corner of concrete- it took the slab and/or paved streets.
They just said again that right now, the storm is EF4 or EF5 and that you must get below ground or out of the way to survive.
Kyrie Eleison
Lord have Mercy
Reported again shelter below ground or leave town to survive
Seismic activity that might warrant further monitoring.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/eventlist/index.phtml?region=N_Pacific&lon=160.45&lat=52.34
I do not think that the May 16 post by DocMartyn on Judith Curry’s “Climate Etc.” was sarcastic. Rather it appears to be a serious effort to model global temperature from 1880 to 2012. It certainly more closely matches observations than have the IPCC models. The key element is that it not only shows the pause over the past 16 years but predicts another 16 years of the same. This should be of interest to WUWT readers.
As for the energy news comparment, I remember that WUWT has covered Andrea Rossi and his LENR E-Cat device a few times in the past. It appears that a third party report about one of his latest prototypes has been published on ArXiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyteknik.se%2Fnyheter%2Fenergi_miljo%2Fenergi%2Farticle3697489.ece
No surprises here:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/its-easy-being-green-at-the-abc-survey-finds/story-fn59niix-1226647246897
“MORE than 40 per cent of ABC journalists who answered a survey question about their political attitudes are Greens supporters, four times the support the minor party enjoys in the wider population.”
An interesting set of observations discussed by Jo Bastardi at Icecap. Interestingly, the focus of his discussion is on the fall in Relative Humidity. He suggests that the PDO is seriously pushing the climate to a colder state until at least 2030. Worth a scan.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/IS_THE_COOLING_WORSE_THAN_WE_THOUGHT.pdf
In a recent New York Times article about CO2 levels reaching the numeric milestone of 400 ppm, environmental reporter Justin Gillis painted a picture of impending doom and casted all who differ as lacking in scientific credibility. This article debunks that falsehood:
http://www.justfactsdaily.com/do-those-who-doubt-climate-catastrophism-lack-scientific-credibility
Bad Weather as Climate Change:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/20/democratic-senator-goes-on-anti-gop-rant-over-climate-change-as-tornadoes-hit-oklahoma/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
“Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming
While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters.
“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”
Whitehouse went on to condemn the current Republican position on global warming, citing economic, environmental and diplomatic damages.
“You drag America with you to your fate,” he continued. “So, I want this future: I want a Republican Party that has returned to its senses and is strong and a worthy adversary in a strong America that has done right by its people and the world. That’s what I want. I don’t want this future. I don’t want a Republican Party disgraced, that let its extremists run off the cliff, and an America suffering from grave economic and environmental and diplomatic damage because we failed, because we didn’t wake up and do our duty to our people, and because we didn’t lead the world.”
There’s more but this gives you an idea of his mind-set
I think Sheldon Whitehouse’s rant deserves a measured, thoughtful response.
….Lady in Red
A couple more links in reference to my previous comment about Rossi’s E-Cat.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/20/finally-independent-testing-of-rossis-e-cat-cold-fusion-device-maybe-the-world-will-change-after-all/
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/05/third-party-ecat-report-on-arxiv.html
http://ecat.com/news/ecat-ht-validated-by-top-physicists
McCarthyism seems to be alive and well under @BarackObama.
Or is it a return to the Salem witch hunts?
“Call Out the Climate Change Deniers”
http://www.barackobama.com/climate-deniers/
It’s set up so that with one click you can send a tweet to “call them out”. That’s called astroturfing isn’t it? And it’s all from Obama’s official campaign team.
Younger Dryas collision theory makes it to TV:
“Evidence for Deposition of 10 Million Tonnes of Impact Spherules Across Four Continents 12,800 Years Ago,” (PNAS).
Tankersley’s research also was included in the History Channel series “The Universe: When Space Changed History” and will be featured in an upcoming film for The Weather Channel.
This research might indicate that it wasn’t the cosmic collision that extinguished the mammoths and other species, Tankersley says, but the drastic change to their environment.
“The climate changed rapidly and profoundly. And coinciding with this very rapid global climate change was mass extinctions.”
http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=17831
Anthony, O2 (a large, multinational, European telecom-service provider) and Symantec have decided that your blog is not fit for juvenile consumption. Check http://urlchecker.o2.co.uk/urlcheck.aspx and enter your URL to find out more.
Published originally in French in 2011, but out in English yesterday. This book by Pascal Bruckner places today’s climatism in the context of our long history of doomsday cults. http://www.amazon.com/The-Fanaticism-Apocalypse-Punish-Beings/dp/074566976X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369143180&sr=8-1&keywords=fanaticism+of+the+apocalypse
Michael E. Mann and Sanal Edamaruku join TAM 2013 Speakers Lineup
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/jref-news/2124-michael-e-mann-and-sanal-edamaruku-join-tam-2013-speakers-lineup.html
The money quote from Mann:
Anthony, this is an interesting poster presentation on “Urban Heat Island Effect in Nuuk, Greenland” – http://posterhall.org/igert2013/posters/409
….I seem to recall you writing about UHI once or twice.
Also, that Moore, OK tornado was a real SOB, I’m surprised you haven’t written about it in WUWT. It’s been highly analyzed, and poor Moore, OK has been hit twice in a decade by those things. I thought this was an excellent article: http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/tornadoes-in-america-the-oklahoma-disaster-in-context/276063/
Cheers, Charles the DrPH
Chamber: Greens using ‘sue and settle’ to coerce EPA
http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/energyenvironment/300851-chamber-greens-using-sue-and-settle-to-coerce-epa
You’d think that the unusually cold spring we’ve had in the US would pose a problem for the warmists, but there is always a way to square the circle.
http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/opinion/9534/putting-spring-s-cold-context
NCAR’s Bob Henson explains how “all this fit into the bigger picture of a warming climate.” All you hafta do is compare record highs and lows with last year, wave your hands a lot, and global warming is right as rain again.
Hi Anthony,
Over at Skeptical Science today they have announced that they are withdrawing a video, which from their description, gave an honest view of the problems in explaining the lack of surface warming, because ‘the conclusions do not reflect the scientific consensus’.
The recent SKS paper on ‘consensus’ was bad enough, but to kow- tow to the consensus in this manner is disgraceful and makes a mockery of their title.
Did you see this follow up on a past story?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/20/finally-independent-testing-of-rossis-e-cat-cold-fusion-device-maybe-the-world-will-change-after-all/
Work for Greenpeace, stop global warming- Posted on Craigslist Orange County CA.
http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/edu/3819536847.html
now global warming means giant ice meteors – http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/073#.UZl284KhUeM
I don’t know if this is relevant because weather is not climate, but a Dayton, Ohio weather story said this:
“[Local meteorologist] said sun early in the afternoon will help to destabilize the atmosphere and a chance for thunderstorm development will be enhanced as a result.”
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local/rain-wind-possible-hail-in-the-forecast/nXxyZ/
REPLY: Normal meteorology, nothing out of the ordinary there. But thanks. – Anthony
Remember the EPA?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-21/irs-lois-lerner-plead-fifth-house-oversight-committee
I feel Brandon Shollenberger makes some strong points very succinctly here: (On Cook et al classification issues):
Note he had 7 categories, which were then rolled into 3 categories
1. Endorsements (including implicit and explicit; categories 1–3
2. No position (category 4)
3. Rejections (including implicit and explicit; categories 5–7).
Brandon Shollenberger (Comment #113188) May 17th, 2013 at 2:13 am
(on degree of AGW responsibility for warming).
The topmost category (1) covers everything from 50% to 100%.
The other top categories (2 & 3) cover everything from 0% to 100%.
The bottom categories (5 to 7) cover from everything from 0% to 50%.
Note; also according to Shollenberger only 65 of 12,280 papers (he extracted) fell in the top category.
Brandon Shollenberger (Comment #113191) May 17th, 2013 at 2:50 am
This study found ~4,000 (of THE 12,000 plus surveyed) abstracts that say humans cause some amount of global warming. Only 143 of those indicate how much warming humans are responsible for.
Of those, 65 say its a lot, 78 say it isn’t much.
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2013/on-the-consensus/
Climate debate is perhaps at last becoming more sensible, with Pachauri being very careful to warn against tying the Oklahoma tornado to climate change:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-dont-pin-tornado-climate-panel.html#nRlv
More from the “Weather isn’t climate” files.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/snow-set-to-hit-the-dolomite-stages-at-the-giro-ditalia
Please visit and vote on my 3-min video on the Urban Heat Island effect in Nuuk, Greenland http://posterhall.org/igert2013/posters/409 click on ‘public choice’ then click the ‘like’ button and leave a comment.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/eu-panel-penalties-to-hurt-solar-firms-from-china-to-u-k.html
This showed up in the Astronomy Picture of the Day:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130522.html
The image is of a “red sprite” within an aurora. The interesting points are that the image has remarkable similarity to some cloud and bubble chamber images, and a remark in the caption that notes that “… red sprites may start as 100-meter balls of ionized air that shoot down from about 80-km high at 10 percent the speed of light …” Ten percent of the speed of light is an enormous amount of energy when considering the mass of a “100 meter ball” of plasma. Willis Eschenbach may find the association between sprites, jets, ELVES and the rest with thunderstorms to be very interesting.
I think it would be an interesting thing for WUWT to do to get someone to plot the daily arctic + antarctic sea ice anomaly for the past few years and see how many days per month/quarter/year the figure is above average. I’ve not been monitoring rigorously, but I’m sure the frequency of the anomaly being above average is increasing steadily since 2010.
It would be a good little plot to have, much like the temperature anomaly plots.
It would keep the warmists honest and provide journalists with a useful resource to use if they actually want to write a truthful story.
An update video on the 50 to 1 project: The true cost of ‘action’ on climate change. They have raised about $41k of the $130k goal. If they don’t reach the goal it doesn’t mean the video won’t be made, just that they will have to cut some production crew from the project. The video will still be high quality but may not have all the cinematographic grandeur that $130k would have allowed.
They’re hoping for more word of mouth since each additional dollar will have a lot of bang for the buck.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/50-to-1-project-the-true-cost-of-action-on-climate-change?c=activity
Scotusblog.com (another award winning blog) has an article regarding the petitions before the Supreme Court on the EPA’s rulings on Greenhouse Gas emissions. I find that blog to be slightly left of center, but generally balanced on most issues. In the article it makes a number of claims regarding the EPA and their regulation of greenhouse gas emissions that I wasn’t aware of, and may be worth exploring. In particular, that they were not given a choice as to whether to regulate greenhouse gases by a 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court, and that they have, in fact, been regulating to REDUCE the number of businesses to be affected by the ruling.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/05/greenhouse-gas-case-explained/#more-163869
Fisker fields $20 million offer from Bob Lutz, Wanxiang: sources
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-autos-fisker-sale-idUSBRE94L13M20130522
This is with regard to A-123 a few months ago.
http://dailybail.com/home/links-chinas-wanxiang-wins-us-taxpayer-funded-a123.html
Found at the Daily Caller–
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/21/newsweek-in-1975-tornado-outbreak-blamed-on-global-cooling/