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 If I had five minutes I would have withdrawn my post.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/
This article from NASA seems to indicate CO2 actually prevents heat from entering the earth’s atmosphere. Might it be some sort of game changer?
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/
Quite remarkable … I just chanced upon this old moderator edit in SKS … apparently their forecast global warming is no longer regarded as catastrophic.
Does that mean we can all now get back to normal business?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/examining-the-latest-climate-denialist-plea-for-inaction.html
• Adam S at 14:48 PM on 1 February, 2012
@Albatross
It will be very hard to convince a mostly scientifically-challenged public, who have become accustomed to an energy rich lifestyle, to give it up. Attempt to take it away and they will rebel (politically). In addition, as the Yale study concluded, the more educated one is, the more skeptical he/she is of CAGW. This combination of the selfish undereducated and skeptical educated should repel any attempt at CO2 mitigation legislation. Thank goodness!
Moderator Response: [muoncounter] There is no C in front of ‘AGW.’
Notice that when SKS wish to counter skeptical arguments, they go on the attack, belittling the qualifications of their opponents.
But when someone like Cook wants to construct a consensus, he will accept any old author of any old paper as having a valid opinion:
How well do the authors of these titles below understand atmospheric physics?:
1. Biological Diversity And Neptune Realm
2. Biological Diversity, Ecology, And Global Climate Change
3. Climate Change Negotiations Polarize
4. Climatology And Society
5. Global Warming – Evidence For Asymmetric Diurnal Temperature-change
6. Model Estimates Of Co2 Emissions From Soil In Response To Global Warming
7. Photovoltaics And Materials Science – Helping To Meet The Environmental Imperatives Of Clean-air And Climate Change
8. Potential Impacts Of Global Climate Change On Pacific-northwest Spring Chinook Salmon (oncorhynchus-tshawytscha) – An Exploratory Case-study
9. Response To Skeptics Of Global Warming
10. Alternative Energy-resources – A Kenyan Perspective
11. Carbon Tax As A Dynamic Optimization Problem
12. Climate Forcing By Anthropogenic Aerosols
13. Deriving Global Climate Sensitivity From Paleoclimate Reconstructions
14. Ethical Issues Concerning Potential Global Climate Change On Food-production
15. Global Climate Change
16. Global Climate Change – Ecosystems Effects
17. Interactions Between Hydrodynamics And Pelagic Ecosystems –
Relevance To Resource Exploitation And Climate Change
18. The Social And Public-health Implications Of Global Warming And 19. The Onslaught Of Alien Species
20. The Use Of Iron And Other Trace-element Fertilizers In Mitigating Global Warming
21. Time-dependent Greenhouse Warming Computations With A Coupled Ocean-atmosphere Model
22. Agriculture In A Greenhouse World
23. An Empirical-analysis Of The Strength Of The Phytoplankton-dimethylsulfide-cloud-climate Feedback Cycle
24. Co2 And Climatic-change – An Overview Of The Science
25. Global Vegetation Change Predicted By The Modified Budyko Model
I have listed completely the first 25 titles of the search, and italicized those which may have specific knowledge on the topic … but, the rest?
(Titles only. All are Category 2, endorse but not quantify – search term ‘climate’ on SKS http://www.skepticalscience.com/tcp.php?t=search&s=climate&c=&e=2&yf=&yt= )
Re markx says: May 22, 2013 at 9:03 pm above:
Typical SKS prose taking this approach :
…. it only includes four scientists who have actually published climate research in peer-reviewed journals, and only two who have published climate research in the past three decades. Nearly half of the list (at least 7 of 16) have received fossil fuel industry funding, and the list also includes an economist, a physician, a chemist, an aerospace engineer, and an astronaut/politician. These are apparently the best and brightest the climate denialists can come up with these days?….
http://www.skepticalscience.com/examining-the-latest-climate-denialist-plea-for-inaction.html
Buyer Liability Insurance Now Available for California’s Cap-and-Trade Offset Program
In a unique alliance, Parhelion offers insurance on compliance offset credits that originate from the Climate Action Reserve.
http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20130522006404/en/Climate-Action-Reserve/cap-and-trade/carbon-offsets
My brain hurts now. -Paul
A recent study indicating the main ice sheets are stable at high global temps. The study combines the disciplines of mantle tectonics with paleoclimate and shows ancient shorelines do not correlates to collapsed ice sheets.
It looks like E-Cat is working – this could be world changing news. See:
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/e-cat-found-to-work-by-independent-investigators/
Proof that real science is still out there. Astrophysicists confronted by conflicting data rethinking theories of how solar systems form.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/05/06/181613582/our-very-normal-solar-system-isn-t-normal-anymore
Heh, first Cook and Lew classify Richard Betts as a d****r and now “scooter” dana1981 has turned on Richard Tol for commenting on their horrible paper.
As P Gosselin points out, “Dana Nuccitelli is becoming a real asset for the skeptics, one that we certainly don’t want to lose.”.
http://notrickszone.com/2013/05/23/dana-nuccitelli-refuses-reality-richard-tol-calls-john-cooks-survey-silly-idea-poorly-implemented/
@Ian W
Yep, nice to see somebody else noticed this. Here’s a related link from a somewhat more balanced article from phys.org: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-rossi-e-cat-energy-density-higher.html
New record low for May in Iceland, It just isn’t Alaska it seems experiencing the cold.
Regards
Keith Gordon
http://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/nr/2691
The use of “Climate Change” as a weapon in the arsenal of Big Money against working people seems to be coming to a head in the struggle over the Keystone XL Pipeline. Some of the unions are coming out swinging. Regarding the role of moneyed interests, here’s another “activist” outfit whose donor list and board of directors are revealing: the World Resources Institute. http://www.wri.org/
In the Guardian Article (link below) the last 3 paragraphs (in italics) below reference a NASA paper that might be worth a look.
The most telling argument against greenhouse gases has come from a recent study by NASA, which declared that when the upper atmosphere, or “thermosphere,” heats up, molecules of carbon dioxide and nitric oxide push the heat back into space. So the villains in the greenhouse drama are natural thermostats that protect the Earth.
CO2 and NO are good.
This is an embarrassment by proponents of the greenhouse gas theory. However, they may not accept the notions that greenhouse gases act like gigantic air conditioners to save us from harm.
http://guardianlv.com/2013/05/global-warming-solved-by-a-giant-ac/
California Governor Jerry Brown says: News Media Ignoring Climate Change:
MOUNTAIN VIEW – Gov. Jerry Brown complained bitterly this morning that the news media ignores climate change, in a speech attended by more than a dozen photographers and reporters.
“If you take a look at Google and type in ‘global warming news,’ I venture to say on most days in the news, 20 to 30 percent, if not more, of the news, will be by climate deniers or skeptics, whatever you want to call them,” Brown said at a conference with climate scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
“Everything these guys are saying either is not true, not relevant or totally distorted — or it’s not important.”
Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/05/23/3311354/capitol-alert-jerry-brown-says.html#storylink=copy
Ford Australia has just announced it will cease manufacturing cars in 2016. But it still has time to wallow in the trough of ‘green’ funding:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/green-funds-to-continue-to-flow/story-fn59niix-1226649531548
“TAXPAYER funds will keep flowing to Ford Australia for the next three years to finish vehicles including a six-cylinder diesel wagon that receives $47 million in industry aid because it is considered a “green” car.
As a political row flared over car subsidies, the Gillard government confirmed that the $34m top-up it promised Ford last year had already been handed over and that more would be paid before the company closed its Victorian factories in 2016.”
Here’s the Consensus Statement signed today by Jerry Brown at NASA Ames Research Center
http://mahb.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Consensus-Statement.pdf
This is a Religious Crusade.
I should say “supported” by Jerry Brown.
I’m not sure he actually signed it along with the 500+ “scientoclimatologists”.
Re: Kevin Hearle Says:
Very interesting. We hear that the “atmosphere” protects us from solar and space events, but the role of CO2 is usually omitted.
Let the bickering begin. You knew they wouldn’t accept a record disputing their religion.
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/professor-disputes-whether-new-nenana-ice-classic-record-set/article_06b291b2-c2b6-11e2-a622-001a4bcf6878.html
Currently active comment debate about the Precautionary Principle (aka Pascal’s Wager) on PBS. Plenty of “denier” references going on.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/05/the-odds-of-disaster-an-econom-1.html#comments
type carefully, mi-styped http://www.watsupwiththat.com put a trojan on my machine.
http://home.mcafee.com/VirusInfo/ThreatSearch.aspx?term=JS/Redirector.ar
@brad. yes this is a common thing going on these days, scammers take popular websites and register a domain one letter off, and do unscrupulous things with it.
I just don’t get L Svaalgard “Solar expert” it seems that solar flux *radiation heat is 100% correlated to SNN so how come SNN is NOT related to climate?
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/f10.gif
Elon Musk is calling for carbon tax. http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/301649-tesla-ceo-musk-reframe-climate-argument
All of the NOAA weather stations across the Russian Federation’s Arctic Tundra have been off air since Midday (local time) on Wednesday. See the work of art that is http://weatherspark.com Zoom out the map and see all those yellow dots across the warming faster than the rest of the Planet Siberian Tundra. Maybe the permafrost just melted beneath them ;-)
Dave
Is there anyone analysing the Carbon Price review yet?
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44223_Carbon_0.pdf
letter to time magazine
Dear sirs,
Can I please draw your attention to the pictures of the Alaska Columbia Glacier published in Time 20/05/2013, purportedly showing climate change due to global warming.
Note that if we compare the picture of 1997 with that of 2012 we see that the rivers that bring melted water into the glacier are much more iced up in the 2012 picture. The difference in the colour between the two pictures is that there more ice in the picture of 2012 and less snow, compared to 1997.
This is in line with global cooling, where you expect (at the higher latitudes) more ice due to more cold and less snow due to reduced precipitation.
The following news articles clearly show that it has been cooling in Alaska and not warming.
http://www.adn.com/2012/07/13/2541345/its-the-coldest-july-on-record.html
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130520/97-year-old-nenana-ice-classic-sets-record-latest-breakup-river-1
I find it strange that Time Magazine continues to report that the earth is warming, when everybody can see that it is getting cooler.
(Due to global cooling, we can expect more cold and droughts at the higher latitudes and the farmers up north need to be warned about this).
Blessings,
Henry Pool
PO Box 912887
Silverton
0127
South Africa
tel. 0128043469
cel.0836297690
fax.0865035174
http://blogs.24.com/henryp/2013/04/29/the-climate-is-changing/
here is the booklet from German Environment Ministry (Umweltbundesamt)
http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/uba-info-medien/4419.html
Especially the list „Klimawandelskeptiker“ in Deutschland (Climatedenier in Germany)
p. 111.
The booklet sets a “negative list” of sources – that one should avoid – and a “positive list” of information sources, like PIK, IPCC, etc.
Hello Anthony,
Have you heard of Fred Colbourne? He was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1931. He has a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, an M.A. in social science from Miami University (Ohio) and an M.S. in physical science from Emporia State University (Kansas). He lives with his wife in Penang (Malaysia) and London (England) and still does short-term consulting work.
He has a couple of websites, one of which contained the PDF below.
It’s his introduction that caught my eye.
“The Little Ice-Age (LIA) was a time when global cooling brought Arctic conditions farther south and Antarctic conditions farther north, threatening the livelihoods of people in both northern and southern hemispheres. Icelandic data for sea ice suggests that the LIA cooling may have started around 1200 AD, followed by a short pause when temperatures rose briefly before falling again. Ice core data from Greenland confirms this. Possibly human activity is an important factor in global warming since 1900. A simpler explanation would be that the Earth is still recovering from the Little Ice Age and that human activity is a minor factor in global climate change. ”
http://www.geoscience-environment.com/lia/lia.htm
There are other interesting articles on his site.
http://www.geoscience-environment.com/menu.html
P.S. There is another Fred Colbourne.
http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~fcolbour/Fred_Colbourne/Home.html
Cordially,
Perry
Eugene Robinson in Washington Post references “… A new study looked at nearly 12,000 recently published papers by climate scientists and found that, of those taking a position on the question, 97 percent agreed that humans are causing atmospheric warming by burning fossil fuels, which releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases” The whole Oped is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-obamas-mission-on-climate-change/2013/05/23/fee2f5a2-c3e7-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html
Can someone review the article and provide a sample response. I would like to write a letter to the editor of WAPO ….for what good it will do. I hope this guy will not go unchallenged..
Check out this story from Science Daily that could affect a lot of underlying assumptions built into climate models:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523143743.htm
Earth’s Mantle Affects Long-Term Sea-Level Rise Estimates
May 23, 2013 — From Virginia to Florida, there is a prehistoric shoreline that, in some parts, rests more than 280 feet above modern sea level. The shoreline was carved by waves more than 3 million years ago — possible evidence of a once higher sea level, triggered by ice-sheet melting. But new findings by a team of researchers, including Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth Sciences in The College of Arts and Sciences, reveal that the shoreline has been uplifted by more than 210 feet, meaning less ice melted than expected…
“PROOF” 1,026 Days Left Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.
http://feww.wordpress.com/
you know proof as in the sense an wildly extreme eco-blog published it so it must be true
- Ironically the page is scraping data from the NOAA page which carries CORRECTED data for CO2 readings, so it shows despite the hype daily CO2 only scraped past 400ppm on 3 days in modern history by a (max of 400.15)
Just found these images of unusual snow & ice from NH winter of 2011/12:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/slideshow/europes-big-freeze-15517143
Just WX, of course. Same as exceptionally cold winter of 2012/13 & current tardy spring. But imagine the alarm that would be raised by two comparably warm NH winters in a row, with a warm winter in the SH in between to boot (actually cold, of course, with egregious snow in South Africa).
The Haida Gwaii saga continues…
Geoengineering by dumping iron sulphate in the ocean, and trying to sell the carbon credits.
Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. drops lead scientist ahead of second experiment
Russ George disputes firing
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Company+responsible+iron+sulphate+dump+fires+lead+scientist/8426552/story.html
Anthony,
Noticed that two more have subsequently pointed out here on tips and notes the latest on LENR. There is another important revelation from yesterday that has not yet been brought to your attention here.
The funding(hence accountability) source for the third party test is a major R & D player and gave an initial positive report: http://www.elforsk.se/Aktuellt/Svenska-forskare-har-testat-Rossis-energikatalysator–E-cat/
Will need translation.
Thanks,
R.
Governor Jerry Brown touts tipping point in today’s San Jose Mercury News: http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_23309303/enviromentalists-question-whether-gov-jerry-browns-actions-match
Judith Curry has a marvelous post, citing Greg Melleuish on the dangerous (to all concerned) seductiveness of academic abstraction-addiction. “‘Model’ academics tend to be driven to abstraction”
(My bolding)
This, if true, could be a game-changer: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/156393-cold-fusion-reactor-independently-verified-has-10000-times-the-energy-density-of-gas
Rossi and Focardi apparently have discovered a “secret sauce that significantly reduces the amount of energy required to start the reaction”. They call it an Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat).
Color me skeptical, but who knows?
Bruce Cobb says:
May 24, 2013 at 3:32 pm
And what sauce would that be? Red, brown or fishy think you? Seems pretty strange to me since it goes against all the known laws of physics.
Still if a miracle is wanted there is always a charlatan to claim he can provide it at a price. And especially if it is changing the weather. Rain dances and all that.
Kindest Regards
SORRY Mods I simply could not resist. Sauce indeed.
@a jones: the inventor didn’t just “claim”, this time he actually submitted the device for testing (solely to determine that more energy than any known chemical or nuclear source does get produced, regardless of its nature) by a group of university professors and researchers who have written a paper about such experiments:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913
Since there apparently is some confusion on this matter, Forbes tried to investigate a bit on who the authors of this paper/report are:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/24/the-e-cat-testing-team-real-or-ringers/
Several people from different universities have been involved with this study, and more than it would apparently seem, by checking the acknowledgment section in the actual paper. To me it seems they would have much to lose if results were found out to be false or worse a fraud, if you remember what happened with Fleischman and Pons in 1989. Almost nobody with a scientific career to protect wants to be associated with cold fusion anymore because of that.
On top of this, Elforsk AB, the swedish consortium of the national power grid and major swedish energy utilities for R&D in the energy sector ( http://www.elforsk.se/In-English1/ ), funded this research and is actually endorsing it. They apparently are quite impressed with them and will perform more tests to asses the exact nature of the unexplained excess energy:
http://www.elforsk.se/Aktuellt/Svenska-forskare-har-testat-Rossis-energikatalysator–E-cat/
(google translation needed)
http://ecat.com/news/elforsk-publish-news-about-the-ecat-test
(in English on the inventor’s official website if you don’t mind the source)
In my opinion this isn’t the “usual scam” and might be worth of serious attention. Unlike what you’re implying, black box testing is perfectly scientifically acceptable as long as external parameters are under control and this does not interfere with the aim of the performed experiment, which in this case was as I previously stated, to determine if something unusual was happening. And it did, if you take time to read the paper and understand well how measurements have been performed.
This could easily become another case where “consensus” actually turned out to be dead wrong.
(Writing this while my previous comment gets unmoderated. I guess it was the amount of links)
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That being said, I guess it would be wise for WUWT to wait reporting about it (in case Anthony or other authors feel to) until it becomes more mainstream (given the premises I described, it might not take too long). I can already imagine the AGW brigade happily feasting on a WUWT blogpost covering that, which would probably do more harm than good at this stage, unless you’re prepared and well-informed.
Grenville eathquakes not from magma – @usgs Greenville, California area earthquakes are tectonic, not magmatic. Historic seismicity outlines fault zone: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/external/reports/08HQGR0027.pdf …
Winter continues today in the Italian Alps, canceling today’s stage of the Giro d’ Italia bike race :
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-ditalia-will-reach-tre-cime-di-lavaredo-in-spite-of-snow-says-vegni
Extremely challenging for the race organizers this week with multiple modifications to the race needed due to winter weather conditions.
Anthony, can you take some time away from refuting crap data and do something positive. What is your opinion on the Super Grid (Nuclear, Hydrogen, Super Conducting Power Grid).
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/SA_Supergrid.pdf
It intrigued when I first heard it a long time ago. It seems to have very real positive solutions for all concerns. AGW is such a waste of a science degree considering how much work needs to be done.
This Super Grid is the most logical way out.
Sadly, it will be the AGW believer who will stand in the way, just to prove him/herself right!
Ed D
It is easier to sell a book if it has controversy, makes headlines, attracts loud criticism.
Past master at this ploy Dan Brown, author of psuedo-scientific travelogue thrillers like “The DaVinci Code” and “Angels and Demons” has come out with a new one – “Inferno”. Most of his other novels only trash religion and patriotism, but this one comes out in support of the long disproven wacky theories of Thomas Robert Malthus. Though never mentioned by name, I think we are also supposed to be reminded of Paul Ehrlich.
Of interest to science watchers there is a completely erroneous graph on page 170 showing temperature, CO2, population, GDP, loss of rain forest, species extinctions, motor vehicles, water use Ozone depletion and even Foreign Investment(!?!). All are pretty flat from 1750 to 1900, when they explode into a screaming hockey stick to 2000. Weirdly 2000 ends the graph. It is the same goofy trick that Al Gore played in his famous fake scissors lift scare tactic: end the graph at the peak of the El Nino of 1998 or soon after and it all looks like a scary elevator ride to hell. Extend the data another decade and it is a very different story.
This would not be an issue in a work of fiction except for the disclaimer at the beginning: “FACT: All artwork, literature, science and historical references in this novel are real.”
This is similar to the old saw about man being an invasive species. I guess I can’t condemn someone for not liking his own species, but when the proffered solution is mass murder I definitely draw the line.
I know this is not a literature blog but I would love to hear what Willis thinks about this. Or Bob Tisdale. I got interested in the climate wars when I read Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear”. Literature influences public opinion and when obvious lies like the psuedo-science in “inferno” get glorified I get all fired up.
Anyone else reported this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22640512
PLEASE! You are a regular writer, a known quantity with a reliable reputation here at WUWT.
But, when you submit a link or article like this, let the next reader know what
they are going to be clicking on and “why” they will gain something for the effort and risk of going to another site: Is it “Safe for Work”? NSFW? Humorous? Could get you fired if clicked from a company computer? OK if kids are in the room? Should the kids be invited into the room? Will be dangerous to a CAGW alarmist? In any case, let the readers know “why” they should go to the link you have provided. Mod]
a jones says:
May 24, 2013 at 3:53 pm
They are probably wrong, but I wouldn’t say they are charlatans necessarily. The proof will be in the pudding. Sauce, or no sauce.
Our friends at RealClimate are pushing a new site, PubPeer.com, another science-by-consensus effort.
“To successfully impact the publication process, this database of knowledge has to accomplish two important tasks. First it requires participation by a large part of a given scientific community so that it reflects an average impression instead of an outlier’s impression. Second, it requires that the collective knowledge is centralized and easy to search in order find out what the community collectively thinks about an individual paper or a body of work.”
Offhand, I can’t think of a single great name in science whose work was based on “an average impression” and “what the community collectively thinks.” To what a shameful state has climate science fallen!
Anthony,
In similar vein to the Dr. Laurie Johnson display of gross scientific ignorance, Small Dead Animals, http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/y2toyota.html, dug up an old column by Dr. David Suzuki showing why he should have stuck to fruit fly studies.
A part of the UK Department of Health have just published their 2013 ‘Heatwave Plan’.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/201039/Heatwave-Main_Plan-2013.pdf
This patronising garbage contains really important information like advising us to wear light clothes and open some windows if the weather should get hot. They tell us in all seriousness that by 2040 we will be getting major heatwaves every year and so they need to plan for it. Makes you wonder how other countries where summer temperatures always get above what this lot call a heatwave manage to survive at all without this wonderful plan. No wonder the economy is shot when taxpayers money is wasted on this kind of rubbish.
Obama’s new Energy chief: Climate change ‘not debatable
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/301287-new-energy-secretary-need-to-address-climate-change-not-debatable#ixzz2UMzWqugF
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Professor Hans Rosling has a bit of a rant about climate change and population growth, gets it all mixed up and comes to the wrong conclusion with the wrong theory too. He might know his data and statistics but he doesn’t understand economics nor how population growth changes as their economies grow nor what the real sources of CO2 are.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2013/may/17/population-climate-change-hans-rosling-video
Anthony,
For those who are hoping to electrically power their cars (or boats), May 27th 2013 should reveal whether Zenn Motors & EEStor have a supercapacitor.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/zen…04-24-16173446
OTOH, are we seeing a little gold being “salted”in the accumulator? All shall be revealed?
http://lubec.mainememory.net/page/960/display.html
Cordially,
Perry
An article in today’s ‘Mail on Sunday’ in the UK from Prof Myles Allen who appears to be rowing back somewhat from an extreme alarmist viewpoint with this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331057/Why-I-think-wasting-billions-global-warming-British-climate-scientist.html
Folks may want to take a quick look at the ENSO page, looks to be a bit of a La Nina setting up – all graphs. Negative PDO, lowest solar cycle in a 100 yrs – throw a La Nina into the mix and things may really get interesting. Love these reference pages.
ANH says:
May 26, 2013 at 1:14 am
Nice quiz at the end of the story, everyone should do it.
“SO WHAT ARE THE FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
TRY OUR MYTH-BUSTING ECO QUIZ TO FIND OUT”
Lord Stern, author of the 2006 alarmist report on economic consequences of global warming admitted that temperatures have been “pretty flat” for 10 years. He then went on to say: “It is a dangerous extrapolation of the short term phenomenon into a long term trend”. Of course he was referring to the implications of the period of flat temperatures. His phrase would be equally pertinent to the period of rising temperatures between 1975 and 1997.
Franny Armstrong, who brought us the lovely video showing sceptics being blown up and the film “Age of Stupid” is all of a flutter about CO2 being at 400ppm and suggests that global warming will be so bad that we may have to kill ourselves and our children with cyanide.
“Should we stockpile cyanide? You think I’m exaggerating, but a close friend of mine, who has four children, said she plans to kill herself and them when it comes to it.”
http://www.spannerfilms.net/400ppm
The reference for Lord Sterns slight change of heart, (he has noticed the flat temperatures) is from the telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10081250/Hay-Festival-2013-global-warming-is-fairly-flat-admits-Lord-Stern.html
Keith mentions it above at 5.41.a.m.
i just heard some NOAA spokesperson on CBS Radio News claiming “its only gonna get worse” and i think they were referrring to the upcoming hurricane season and implying that there was a relationship between the tornado in Oklahoma and hurricanes?? might be worth a listen to if you can track it down.
Internet Forces Global Warming into Retreat?
http://www.thedailybell.com/29147/Anthony-Wile-Internet-Forces-Global-Warming-into-Retreat
Why has the font here at T and N changed ? I can barely read it .
http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-are-the-real-climate-deniers/
In case this article by Canadian Solway hasn’t been posted.
Electric car company Better Place goes bankrupt.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19258957&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2F
I know weather isn’t climate, but …. 3 ft of snow in the northeast Memorial day weekend – that’s some interesting weather. I am sure the alarmists will say is because of AGW – because what isn’t because of AGW. Anyway, interesting & very cold weather :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/memorial-day-weekend-storm-dumps-up-to-3-feet-of-snow-on-new-york-vermont-ski-mountains/2013/05/26/a20fdb5e-c678-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html
I am guessing there are plenty of other links out there to this storm as well.
Since the alarmists publish alarming news with any severe &/or heat related event, we should do the same for any unusually cold event. just so the public gets a balanced view point of weather events.
Another $4bn sacrified to the climate gods
“The financial collapse of Better Place, 28%-held by shipping-to-fertilizer conglomerate Israel Corp., ILCO.TV -1.83%is a blow for Renault and its chief executive Carlos Ghosn, who had championed the technology as one of the pillars of the French auto maker’s ambitious €4 billion ($5.17 billion) electric-vehicle strategy. ”
I think of many Better Places to spend that money.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323855804578507263247107312.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories
Quote of the week/month/year/decade suggestion:
On NoTricksZone Pierre quotes the Max [Planck] institute with saying in a press release on new modelling:
“Prognosis confirms Forecast”
http://notrickszone.com/2013/05/26/max-planck-institute-for-meteorology-prognoses-confirm-model-forecasts-warming-postponed-hundreds-of-years/
Bill says:
May 26, 2013 at 6:20 am
Franny Armstrong, who brought us the lovely video showing sceptics being blown up and the film “Age of Stupid” is all of a flutter about CO2 being at 400ppm and suggests that global warming will be so bad that we may have to kill ourselves and our children with cyanide.
“Should we stockpile cyanide? You think I’m exaggerating, but a close friend of mine, who has four children, said she plans to kill herself and them when it comes to it.”
http://www.spannerfilms.net/400ppm
Read the comments. Absolutely amazing insight into the minds of CAGW zealots. They discuss using argon rather than cyanide to kill their children. And seriously, building an Ark.
Well, after praising a Judith Curry post to the skies, I get my just desserts. In this post, she reveals herself by unconditionally supporting mandated CCS. And by implication every idiocy that leads to that one. http://judithcurry.com/2013/05/26/myles-allen-why-were-wasting-billions-on-global-warming/
Too bad.
Viable windpower ?
Have you seen this about airborne wind turbines, kites with turbines:
http://www.makanipower.com/home/
Birds would probably be able to relate to the danger and avoid them, they use a lot less construction material than those towers, and of course, are much easier to disassemble. Besides, they are somewhat cool.
Anthony,
A very good friend in Galicia sent me an article from Iberia Nature. It contains this thought provoking sentence: “Climate history, always a complex game, is doubly difficult in a country with such an inherently variable climate, subject to violent changes from one year to the next.”
The article goes on to describe ice storage buildings that were built and maintained “between the 16th and 19th centuries along the Eastern Mediterranean, some in areas where it no longer snows even one day. The storage and distribution of ice was a lively business involving whole sections of the rural population.”.
Please take a look. http://www.iberianature.com/material/iceage.html
Cordially,
Perry
Who can answer this question:
When the AR4 contained the misinformation about the Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035, that information was used by scientists and the media for many years as proof of the seriousness of AGW.
Just Google “IPCC Himalayan Glacier melt 2035″, between 2007 and October 2009, you will see thousands of references to this misinformation.
Why didn’t any of those science academies in Wiki that support the IPCC pick that up, why did it take over two years before the IPCC was told to correct it.
The science community let it slide for two years..
Collusion or incompetence ?
I found this article fascinating. In many ways, it describes the bias associated with the global warming/climate change “debate”.
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/
“Jenolan Caves sheltering climate secrets”
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/jenolan-caves-sheltering-climate-secrets-20121215-2bgck.html
“Experts from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and the CSIRO are working at the Blue Mountains site on a world first to study the growth of stalagmites and stalactites – which directly relates to climate at the time.”
“”We can calibrate our measuring instruments against weather records going back to the 1930s,” he said. “We could be able to assess what the climate was doing back hundreds of thousands of years.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01slvvg
5 minute piece starting at the half hour point.
Wind power blows into Africa
http://www.winddaily.com/reports/Wind_power_blows_into_Africa_999.html
…..”And the Global Wind Energy Council secretary general Steve Sawyer says public financing will always play a role in smoothing out erratic investment flows.
However, he said, there was growing understanding among governments that “in order to create a sustainable energy system, a large degree of private investment is required”.
“That level of investment can only be achieved by creating the kind of policy environment which sufficiently reduces the risks to investors such that they are willing to do project finance,” he added………….”
I always wondered what it might feel like to be an indentured servant- for some reason my gut twists a bit when I hear comments like- “creating the kind of policy environment which sufficiently reduces the risks to investors.”
Iron dumping near the Queen Charlotte Islands in the news again, may not happen again any time soon.
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/dumping-of-iron-into-sea-off-haida-gwaii-suspended-amid-acrimony-1.229839
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-let-s-just-say-no-to-iron-dumping-1.138496
Note the other scheme mentioned in the first article, which makes no sense because alders are a fast growing but short-lived species that will be replaced by evergreen conifers without human intervention.
Clive Hamilton buys into CAGW, but then quotes MIT’s Ronald G. Prinn to the effect that, “How can you engineer a system you don’t understand?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/opinion/geoengineering-our-last-hope-or-a-false-promise.html?ref=opinion&_r=1&
I haven’t seen any updates on WUWT on the “50 to 1″ project.
With just 35 hours to go, they have only received $47,059 which is just 36.2% of their goal.
Are we seeing a developing La nina?
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_daily.php?plot=ssa&inv=0&t=cur&expanddiv=hide_bar
The similar NASA site is down
How does this work then?
The Guardian report that Climate Change caused dolphin and fish deaths and quote “Biosecurity SA aquatic pests manager, Vic Neverauskas, said it was logical to assume a higher risk of similar events because seas were following a warming trend due to climate change.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/28/south-australian-dolphin-deaths
However, a report in the Australian quotes Vic Neverauskas as saying
“Nor did he think the number of deaths this year had any connection to climate change despite Adelaide experiencing one of its warmest summers on record.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/sa-mass-fish-deaths-a-natural-phenomena/story-fn3dxiwe-1226611861146
Both can’t be correct can they?
This seems to be latest update, still inconclusive it would appear.
http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/fishmortalities
The latest results of the CLOUD experiment in CERN are published: http://science.orf.at/stories/1717291/. It’s a German article with the following statements of Jasper Kirkby (head of the CLOUD experiment):
What show your experiments?
At the present time we can not say whether cosmic rays affect the climate. What we have investigated so far, is the production of condensation nuclei for cloud droplets, namely those arising from gases: The technical term is “gas-to-particle conversion”. They make up about half of condensation nuclei in the atmosphere. The remaining germs come from soot and dust.
Which gases are involved in this process?
We first looked at sulfuric acid and ammonia. The results of the first tests were: the cosmic rays enhance the formation of condensation nuclei from gases by a factor of ten. But that alone is not enough to significantly affect the formation of clouds. According to our previous experiments, there must be other gases or vapors that enhance this process. Presumably organic substances.
Which substances?
The results are currently under review in a journal. Unfortunately, I can not say more about it. Only this: The results are very interesting. During the year some results will be published.
Suppose you demonstrate that cosmic rays affect the formation of clouds actually at a greater extent. What would that mean?
I believe that these experiments are significant in two respects. Firstly, because they would show a new natural source of climate change. And secondly, because it would change the understanding of anthropogenic climate change. We are well informed about greenhouse gases. But we know too little about aerosols. Also airborne particles that pass through our industry in the atmosphere.
You have a cooling effect with certainty. But we have no idea how big this effect is. It might be small, but also very large. Maybe it is so large that it compensates for the effect of additional CO2 in the atmosphere. We do not know.
There are new charges that the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey falsified data to make a local oyster farm look bad.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/allegations-scientific-misconduct-oyster-farm-020821493.html?.tsrc=o2de
Bad science. It’s not just for climate.
David Schofield says:
May 27, 2013 at 12:36 am
Bill says:
May 26, 2013 at 6:20 am
Franny Armstrong, who brought us the lovely video showing sceptics being blown up and the film “Age of Stupid” is all of a flutter about CO2 being at 400ppm and suggests that global warming will be so bad that we may have to kill ourselves and our children with cyanide.
“Should we stockpile cyanide? You think I’m exaggerating, but a close friend of mine, who has four children, said she plans to kill herself and them when it comes to it.”
http://www.spannerfilms.net/400ppm
Read the comments. Absolutely amazing insight into the minds of CAGW zealots. They discuss using argon rather than cyanide to kill their children. And seriously, building an Ark.
——-
It really is amazing. They are honestly advocating killing themselves and their children because of global warming.
No blogs seem interested in covering this, though.
Looks like a strong low-pressure sysem has been ripping apart sea ice in Arctic over the past week or more:
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticice_nowcast_anim30d.gif
Too early in the season to cause a big dip in ice extent, but will the fractures repair enough to hold together, or could it have a similar effect to the storm last August that cut off a significant amount of ice to then drift south and melt?
Other things being equal, I’d say we’re perhaps headed for a September minimum similar to 2008 and 2009, but quite a sizeable amount of multi-year ice appeared to pass through the Fram Strait over the winter, so it may be a bit lower than that. Summer weather will be the deciding factor.
Well, this is the mother of all scares – doom anytime between 8000 and 500000 years, possibly.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/05/27/earth-may-still-lie-in-path-of-potential-gamma-ray-burst-grb-say-astronomers/
Here’s an odd paper: Independent confirmation of global land warming without the use of station temperatures
“Confidence in estimates of anthropogenic climate change is limited by known issues with air temperature observations from land stations. Station siting, instrument changes, changing observing practices, urban effects, land cover, land use variations, and statistical processing have all been hypothesized as affecting the trends presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others. Any artifacts in the observed decadal and centennial variations associated with these issues could have important consequences for scientific understanding and climate policy. We use a completely different approach to investigate global land warming over the 20th century. We have ignored all air temperature observations and instead inferred them from observations of barometric pressure, sea surface temperature, and sea-ice concentration using a physically-based data assimilation system called the 20th Century Reanalysis. This independent dataset reproduces both annual variations and centennial trends in the temperature datasets, demonstrating the robustness of previous conclusions regarding global warming.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50425/abstract
More evidence that the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period existed – http://phys.org/news/2013-05-year-arctic-anew-glaciers-retreat.html
La chaine meteo in France predicts the 2013 summer will be the coldest in 30 years for Western Europe:
http://actualite.lachainemeteo.com/actualite-meteo/2013-05-25-09h04/meteo-2013—une-annee-sans-ete—21057.php
They predict a year without summer.
4 strike and you’re out. Pre ,moderated at the Guardian yet again.
@Dana – I am now pre-moderated yet again. All I do is present facts, peer reviewed if at all possible and ask pertinent questions. Are you happy that the moderators here are suppressing counter-views in order to further your cause.
I will post this at WUWT too.
User comments are also subject to PCC guidelines, I checked. I may refer this to them.
Saw this link on Kate’s site.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/05/26/to-the-horror-of-global-warming-alarmists-global-cooling-is-here/
@Steven Devijver – I live in the alps, 968 m high and it snowed last weekend. I have balcony flowers in my lounge and dining room because it’s too cold to put them out yet. More snow this weekend too but 200 m higher than last weekend.
And now the Guardian says not only do we deny AGW we actually deny the existence of science.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/28/global-warming-consensus-climate-denialism-characteristics
The Teleread site takes credit for naming a new subgenre of fiction: Cli-Fi
http://www.teleread.com/around-world/cli-fi-is-a-new-literary-term-that-npr-blessed-and-approved/
We should adopt it immediately in reference to the claims of Mann, etc.
Stuck at home in Southern New Zealand at the end of Autumn. Snowed in by global warming that has swept right up the country and closed my local roads for the second day.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/258883/warning-over-treacherous-roads
this ihttp://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/04/30/global-warming-alarm-continued-cooling-may-jeopardize-climate-science-and-green-energy-funding/ is a good read all true
Apparently Canada’s Natural Resources Minister doesn’t think much of Al Gore or James Hansen and doesn’t think a couple of degrees of “Global Warming” is much to worry about. Good for him.
Joe Oliver: Al Gore’s Comments On Canada’s Climate Change Record ‘Wildly Inaccurate’
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/06/joe-oliver-al-gore-climate-change-oilsands_n_3223170.html
Good article on the hypocrisy of Al Gore:
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/10/al-gore-carbon-hypocrite
More about the failure of peer review— or more precisely its inconsistency in producing reliable assessments of the value of the submitted article
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6577844
Abstract
A growing interest in and concern about the adequacy and fairness of modern peer-review practices in publication and funding are apparent across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Although questions about reliability, accountability, reviewer bias, and competence have been raised, there has been very little direct research on these variables.
The present investigation was an attempt to study the peer-review process directly, in the natural setting of actual journal referee evaluations of submitted manuscripts. As test materials we selected 12 already published research articles by investigators from prestigious and highly productive American psychology departments, one article from each of 12 highly regarded and widely read American psychology journals with high rejection rates (80%) and nonblind refereeing practices.
With fictitious names and institutions substituted for the original ones (e.g., Tri-Valley Center for Human Potential), the altered manuscripts were formally resubmitted to the journals that had originally refereed and published them 18 to 32 months earlier. Of the sample of 38 editors and reviewers, only three (8%) detected the resubmissions. This result allowed nine of the 12 articles to continue through the review process to receive an actual evaluation: eight of the nine were rejected. Sixteen of the 18 referees (89%) recommended against publication and the editors concurred. The grounds for rejection were in many cases described as “serious methodological flaws.” A number of possible interpretations of these data are reviewed and evaluated.
Sadly Apple has made a huge mistake [maybe one of many...]
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57586558-37/apple-names-former-epa-admin-as-environmental-officer/
@Margaret that paper seems to be from 1982??
A delightful piece of nonsense which made me splutter into my coffee this morning, of no climatological significance whatever. I’ll probably go into moderation just for mentioning the title … “Kettle that looks like Hitler brewing trouble for J.C.Penney”:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10084348/Kettle-that-looks-like-Hitler-brews-trouble-for-JCPenney.html
I want one!
Quite a surprise from Tim Yeo. Although couched with a few caveats, it might cause a few flutters in the CAGW community http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10086694/Tim-Yeo-humans-may-not-be-to-blame-for-global-warming.html
If you’ve been on facebook the last couple weeks, you’ve probably noticed there seems to be a massive anti-GMO propaganda blitz. Post of (unsupported) claim like, bee colony collapse correlates with the location of industrial/GMO farms; you know, the same places we grow bees.
Canadian satire finds an easy target: http://www.thelapine.ca/monsanto-cucumbers-cause-genital-baldness-immediately-banned-nova-scotia
One would question whether they were used properly.
Hey Anthony,
A journalist called Matthew Holehouse has just written a poorly-researched article in the Daily Telegraph about global warming featuring the slimy Tim Yeo, arch supporter of the IPCC and an investor in renewables (what a surprise!).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10086694/Tim-Yeo-humans-may-not-be-to-blame-for-global-warming.html
Holehouse quotes the Cook et al 2013 ‘study’, so despite its clinical dissection in these pages it is evident that the MSM is starting to give it traction.
I left this response to the article:
Matthew, you write: “One recent survey of 12,000 academic papers on climate change found 97 per cent agree human activities are causing the planet to warm”.
It is hard to believe that you are unaware of the trouncing this paper has been given. You can catch up with it over several posts at http://www.wattsupwiththat.com although, presumably, as someone writing on AGW, you are a regular reader.
If not then, as a journalist, you are failing in your professional duty. By the way, I notice that you do not mention Mr Yeo’s business interests. Any reason for that?”
Other WUWThatters please do dive in and show Mr Holehouse the error of his ways.
Poster animal for global warming: polar bear out, American pika in….
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/don-t-something-climate-change-153742402.html
Repeating from my comment in the “97% Undercooked Uncertainty” thread:
The BBC’s Roger Harrabin seems to be in a bit of a spin with this article about the sourcing of biomass fuels. I think he would love to be in favour of it, but something seems to be holding him back.
His article entitled — ‘Renewable energy: Burning US trees in UK power stations’ actually seems to have some balance, putting forward more reason for caution than forgoing ahead. I wonder if even he considers transporting wood (as pulp or otherwise ) for fuel from the US to the UK is a step too far.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22630815
Is this a new term – Weather whiplash. Caused by global warming:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/29/weather-whiplash-is-a-symptom-of-climate-change-report/
Looks like a rumble at 5000 NASA Blvd. WV.
http://mckinley.house.gov/press-releases/rep-mckinley-to-host-discussion-on-the-origins-and-response-to-climate-change/
9:00 AM EST
Confirmed Attendees:
• Annie Petsonk, International Counsel of Environmental Defense Fund.
• Marc Morano, Executive Director and Chief Correspondent for ClimateDepot.com; former senior advisor, speech-writer and climate researcher for Senator James Inhofe.
• Jim Hurrell, Director, NCAR Earth System Laboratory.
• Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
• David Kreutzer, Ph.D., Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change, The Heritage Foundation.
• Thomas Sheahan, Ph.D., MIT educated physicist and author.
• Dennis Avery, Director, Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute and author of “Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years”.
• Sarah Forbes, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute.
• A. Scott Denning, Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University.
• Dr. John Christy, Distinguished Professors of atmospheric science, and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Might be of interest to note that NOAA is shutting down the current MMS site as of June 10, replacing it with the new Historical Observing Metadata Repository (HOMR). I suppose that will mean a few revisions to the surfacestations instruction pages, if that is to continue.
Comparing the two, I notice what I should have noticed a long time ago, that somewhere around 2005, they reduced the precision of reported location coordinates from 5 (and occasionally 6) digits to four-a full order of magnitude. Doesn’t actually make much difference in resolution on the ground – leaves about 36 feet for latitude, that much or less for longitude. Hey, I’m happy if they get me within a couple of blocks.
More BBC Harrabin spin. Wicked dirty coal etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22711416
Hi Brian
The coal scare is absolute nonsense. The bigger worry for the UK is this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Combustion_Plant_Directive
One cold snap and our lights will go out in the run up to 2015.
The Nuclear Stations are going off (which is good news) but turning off perfectly viable Coal Stations and not allowing new ones to be built (See Kingsnorth 6) will leave us perilously close to being max’ed out. http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
When modern life comes to a halt in the UK and we go back to the Tilly Lamps of 1973….finally the penny will drop
Unfortunately the Country is sleepwalking into this constantly being told it is getting “alarmingly” warmer by Politician’s and their Scientists.
All the while the Thermometer tells us otherwise. May is guaranteed to be the 5th Month this year colder than average in the UK. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html (that will make 9 out of the last 12 months below the 1961-90 average) 2013 is running 1C below the 1961-90 average. We are going to need some extra GW (not less) to keep warm in the the UK if this “warming” trend continues.
This farce, and scientific tragedy, doesn’t have too much longer to run
Dave
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/05/29/energy/first-wind-proposes-new-englands-largest-wind-farm-in-central-maine/
This is part of the UPC group of companies that is known for failures , cronyism and some very interesting offshore banking ties.
I just noticed that as of today, May 30, 2013, there is now more arctic sea ice extent than any year since 2003 per JAXA, and most other sources agree. Possibly this news deserves a mention. Also why Nenanan breakup was so late this year? Are the alarmists correct that the warm is making cold colder? Heh? (lol)
Saw that yesterday too Wayne. WUWT needs a sea ice update….
Happy belated Sesqui-centum million.
WUWT passed 150 million views about two days ago.
150.198 million now
148.038 million on May 8.
Wind farms gets pass on eagle deaths
http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/May-Issue-4-2013/Wind-farms-gets-pass-on-eagle-deaths/
The Congressional Budget Office has released an analysis of the effects of a carbon tax:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44223_Carbon_0.pdf
At $20 a ton. they estimate about $1.2 trillion in revenues over a 10-year period. A money quote for me is:
“Without accounting for how the revenues from a carbon
tax would be used, such a tax would have a negative effect
on the economy. The higher prices it caused would
diminish the purchasing power of people’s earnings,
effectively reducing their real (inflation-adjusted) wages.
Lower real wages would have the net effect of reducing
the amount that people worked, thus decreasing the overall
supply of labor. Investment would also decline, further
reducing the economy’s total output.”
The CBO goes on to soften this by saying that certain ways of spending the revenue (e.g., reducing deficits or marginal tax rates) might result in a net benefit. But just returning the revenues to the low-income homes most affected by the rise in cost of electricity (16%; range 7% (California) to 27% (Illinois, West VA, etc.)) would not decrease the total cost of the carbon tax.
Maybe an economist (McKitrick?) could write a short post on this for WUWT.
Now is your chance Anthony.
Our lonely and very well lit wind turbine here in Newcastle is for sale. The catch, you must take it away, they want to build a coal loader in its place. If ever there was a sign sceptics are winning…this must be it.
Perhaps Chico City Hall would like it?
Warmer Seas Fuel Maine Crab Invasion, Clammers Say
An invasion of European green crabs, encouraged by rising ocean temperatures, is eating its way north through Maine’s clam flats, threatening the state’s third-largest fishery and an iconic summer treat for tourists.
Already, warming temperatures on land and at sea have facilitated the spread of such high-profile invasive species as lionfish in the Caribbean Sea and forest pests like the Asian hemlock woolly adelgid – a tree parasite – in the Eastern United States, both of which have caused extensive economic and ecological damage, say scientists.
http://www.newsmax.com/touch#home
Extreme hate speech from a Warmist
http://snorphty.blogspot.com/2013/05/extreme-hate-speech-from-warmist-hate.html
Hate speech against “deniers” is stock in trade for Warmists. It must be annoying to have your profitable racket exposed. But one Warmist appears to be pushing the envelope. A French Warmist scientist, Dr. Jean-Luc EGM Melice [Email: jlmelice@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr], left racist abuse on Marc Morano’s site. The comment read: “Still waiting for the hate mails from Morano, the greasy, fat, mafiosi-type, Italian immigrant asshole.” I think a lot of Italians would be immediately incensed by such a deliberate attempt to offend but Marc so far has simply circulated the content to those on his mailing list, which includes me.
One of the people on the mailing list said of the Warmist: “He sure acts like a climate scientist”
Dr Luc Melice appears to be an employee of a French Oceanographic laboratory. He’s on their staff list here but may be working in South Africa
The EU has fairly strict laws about hate speech so I think we may hear more about this.
I imagine that he might claim that someone stole his identity in making the comment so we might have to wait and see about that.
Incidentally, Morano was born and bred in the USA, not Italy. Not that being Italian is any disgrace, Two of the months of our year are named after Italians: July and August.
UPDATE:
I sent a brief email to the address above and got a reply from his hotmail address. It’s a lot of fun. I reproduce it below:
“Hi there,
I have first to know who you are…
Are you part of that asshole Morano team?
I am going to write you in french. Please remember that french is the language of every educated gentleman.
Please also remember that your country would not exist without the help of the French. Just remember La Fayette…
Je suis français et spécialiste en modélisation du climat et des océans, êtes-vous capable de comprendre ce que j’écris?
Morano is a fat, asshole mafiosi-type italian immigrant, he has no scientific degree, he knows nothing about climate dynamics.
He gets a lot money from the oil industry to say that global warming is a hoax…
To bad, you are now in the USA, in a sacry climate change situation. We know, for instance, that you wiil have an awful drought this summer.
I hope that you will be clever enough to get rid of that Morano asshole, and that you will be able to wake-up…
Hard to educate mugs!!!
Cheers,
Dr. Jean-Luc EGM Melice
jlmelice@locean-ipls.upmc.fr
ps. it is easy to check my scientific peer-reviewed papers by typing “JL Melice” in google scholar.
It is also easy to check that Morano and his friends/team, like the all climate deniers, have no scientific background….
We are still waiting for hate e-mails from asshole Morano… he is an expert in that…”
I found this interesting. A large asteroid (~ 9,000 feet in diameter) will pass within 3.6 million miles of the earth tomorrow (Friday 5/31). That’s a sizable ‘rock’! Big enough that it has a gravitationally bound ‘moon’ (companion asteroid) of ~ 2,000 feet diameter!.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/05/30/asteroid-flying-by-earth-tomorrow-has-its-own-moon/
More info on Near Earth Orbit objects and this particular asteroid ’1998 QE2′ at http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
MtK
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/
Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
“For the three day period, March 8th through 10th, the thermosphere absorbed 26 billion kWh of energy. Infrared radiation from CO2 and NO, the two most efficient coolants in the thermosphere, re-radiated 95% of that total back into space. “
Protected by both a yellow cloak of political protectiveness and a Teflon cloak of green righteousness, they’re above criticism but to my mind, those greedy pigs are no better than vicious muggers, beating an elderly pensioner to death in the street for her pennies.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/politicians-thieves-and-those-grey-areas-in-between/
Pointman
Mac the Knife…
Thanks for the nasa link to the asteroid with the little moon.
Antony have you seen this?
REPLY: Thankfully, no. – Anthony
Solar panels are failing en masse, 2 years into their supposed (“projected?”) 25 year lifetime. This unfolding fiasco is reported in the new York Times yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/business/energy-environment/solar-powers-dark-side.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Survey article: Lots of solar panels are failing or underperforming worldwide; factory inspections reveal lots of corner-cutting:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-05-30/next-shoe-drop-shoddy-solar-panels-china
Anthony,
from the “Interesting Weather Phenomenon”-department comes THIS:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/thirty-mile-ice-jam-floods-alaska-town-and-forces-residents-to-flee/
Quote: “A massive “ice jam” on the Yukon River has caused flooding in the town of Galena, Alaska, forcing residents to flee their homes. According to the Associated Press, the flooding has lifted homes off their foundations and is currently straining at the dike protecting the community’s small airport.”
and
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said National Weather Service hydrologist Ed Plumb to the AP. “And I don’t think these people here (have) either. The ice jam is amazing.”
You should read the comments over there. HILARIOUS!
BTW: Would you mind to cut the comments in Tips and Notes somewhat, please? The thread has become so long it’s taking HOURS (well: sort of…) to load with my relatively slow internet-line, when I try to send you something of (potential) interest.
Regards,
Mogamboguru
“Elevated carbon dioxide making arid regions greener”, 31 May 2013, AGU Release No. 13-24
http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2013/2013-24.shtml
Marshall Islands deadly threat of climate change.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pacific-islands-face-a-deadly-threat-from-climate-change/2013/05/30/86ff1956-c7a9-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html
From LLNL, reported in PNAS:
Using ocean acidification to generate “clean” hydrogen fuel:
http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-invent-super-clean-hydrogen-fuel-technique-could-212148287.html
Just a little science lesson from one of our congresscritters, need some levity occasionally:
Anthony, have you seen this paper that may show a 60-year sea-level cycle that relates to the PDO? http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/there-60-year-oscillation-global-mean-sea-level
How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change…
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/how-engineering-the-human-body-could-combat-climate-change/253981/
Mad mad mad!!!
FWIW, there is a huge tornado on the ground straight west of Oklahoma City which is moving ESE and may in fact impact More, OK again. It is over a mile wide and travelling between !-40 and 10th street (my location). The weather guys have called this one so huge that it doesn’t even look like a tornado. There are multiple vortices…
They just announced the storm changed direction- the sirens just went off- it’s coming straight at central OKC- straight at me
At least a mile wide- wind speeds as high/higher than any seen before
KFOR storm spotter reports Weather Channel chase crew had vehicle rolled … other storm chasers affected as well in area west of OKC and south of I-40 …
Live coverage:
http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/
Global literary circles warm to climate fiction
The Financial Times By Pilita Clark, Environment Correspondent May 31, 2013 4:20 pm
The literary world already has plenty of genres, from chick lit to gran lit, cyberpunk and sci-fi. But as the Arctic melts, the planet warms and carbon dioxide levels reach their highest point in human history, a new class of fiction is being added to the list: climate fiction, or cli-fi.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8a8adf10-c9e3-11e2-af47-00144feab7de.html#ixzz2UuqaIBbA
Obama: No ‘patience’ for climate skeptics
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/302537-obama-has-no-patience-for-climate-skeptics
President Obama, echoing his new Energy secretary’s recent comments, said late Wednesday that he’s open to new climate policy ideas but has no interest in battling over whether climate change is real.
“If I’ve got somebody who has a different approach to dealing with climate change — I don’t have much patience for people who deny climate change, but if you’ve got creative approaches, market-based approaches, tell me about them,” Obama said at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago.
AW That Tru TV thing above its got Spencer and Monckton its pretty full on re AGW BS.They did their homework but in a sensacionalist style of course I was actually amazed it even existed haha! I urge to have at least a peek because I presume its quite mainstream in The US? haha
The Weather Channel’s “Tornado Hunt 2013″ driven by Mike Bettis took a hit today, everybody survived, fortunately. Here’s the car that took the hit:
http://i42.tinypic.com/wbtgqu.jpg
Antony I watched this video again (the TRU TV one) I think its a must watch for you.I certainly did not know of its existence until last night. Lindzen is also interviewed and there is also a very worrisome threat against a climate scientist that you and others know well (online at least) .In hindsight I do not think this one is sensacionalist at all.The facts are there for all to see. I leave it to you to whether you can do some sort of posting or just leave it. cheers
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/axing-carbon-tax-a-grey-vote-winner/story-fn59niix-1226654812836
“Axing carbon tax a grey vote winner
BY:PATRICIA KARVELAS From: The Australian June 01, 2013 12:00AM
DITCHING the carbon tax tops the list of vote-switching issues for older Australians, followed by having a world-class healthcare system and a strong economy.
The National Broadband Network and education barely rated as issues for the September 14 election among the 1660 older Australians surveyed by National Seniors.”
Is the Guardian Newspaper the new National Socialist (Nazi) party of the UK media?
Stifle dissent and you have no enemies, Hitler and the S.S. knew this and quickly took out anybody who disagreed with them.
As there was very little dissent remaining, everybody knew they were doing the right thing and concluded with a horrific outcome.
I have long suspected that a similar ploy was being used atthe Guardian. I would post links to peer reviewed papers proposing a different reason for the 20th century warming.
Eventually of course, I was pre-moderated and my posts were never published. But one thing struck me as odd. I hadn’t posted anything for 3 days and was able to post right up to time of the the publication
of a major article on AGW. Had the Guardian “pruned” their commenting membership? I set off to find out.
Just to make sure it wasn’t a coincidence I did the same again and yes, 3 days of no posting and then pre-moderated yet again.
This time I would make notes. I ceated several users all with UK IP Addresses. 2 female, 2 male, 2 would be pro and 2 anti-AGW. I was just getting started when the Guardian S.S. made their move.
These are the posts from HannahW73 31.0.2013.
Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/may/30/carbon-milestone-newspapers
“Interesting that the usual suspects no longer try to present evidence, could that be because they don’t have any?”
To start with I do believe in AGW although my husband thinks the opposite.That’s another story.
Secondly I’ve been an innocent bystander for a while but I do read most comments on subjects that interest me and now I feel I must write something.
I do hope it’s not true because this would be very unfair but I’m beginning to think the “usual suspects” are being banned from posting comments. Is this possible?
Comment removed 18:42
Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/30/humaneness-badger-cull-judged-noise?commentpage=1 *diversion comment*
I feel sick just reading the opening paragraph. Do they have to be killed, can’t they be “moved” somewhere? Isn’t there a Badger sanctuary that could take them in.
Poor things.
GuintyMc had replied saying pre-moderating usually happens in the sports secxtion, especially football as there’s a lot of name calling there. People only get banned from the Climate Change section if they repeatedly troll.
Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/may/30/carbon-milestone-newspapers
@GuintyMc – Thanks for your answer. Why would they post things which need to be moderated? I discuss??? the AGW issue with my husband (sometimes) and he shows me reports and papers which seem to support his views but I can’t in my heart accept them. This may lead to another story later which you may guess but I won’t post here.
I just don’t like anything being treated less than that which they deserve, everything, animals included.
Comment removed. 18:42
As you can see, Hannah was hardly a troll yet her posts were surgically removed.
There are many comments claiming the lack of comments against AGW is proof that they are right.
“Climate change contrarians will attempt clever arguments to explain away the science, or the seriousness of climate change. However, when they are contradicted by evidence they can’t explain away, they react dishonestly or irrationally.
Typically they will just break off from that exchange, and just go and repeat this same constantly repeated falsehood elsewhere.”
“Evidence? ……………..Link?”
If they only knew what a terrible lie they are living.
Anthony, did you see this?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130531105415.htm
Elevated Carbon Dioxide Making Arid Regions Greener
Honda Reduces the Cost to Take Home a Fit EV-
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/30/5457837/honda-reduces-the-cost-to-take.html
…”Honda today announced an attractive new price package for the highly efficient and fun-to-drive all-electric Fit EV including the new competitive lease price of $259 a month beginning June 1. Reduced from $389 a month, the new three-year lease term stretches customer’s electric dollar even further with no down payment, unlimited mileage, routine maintenance, collision coverage and a 240 volt EV home charging station equipment (not including installation),1 from Leviton….”
I wonder if the charging station has to be returned or if the leasee owns it at the end of the lease…………..
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/30/5457837/honda-reduces-the-cost-to-take.html#storylink=cpy
“Fit EV customers also can take advantage of Honda’s partnership with SolarCity to install solar power with no upfront cost, allowing them to recharge their vehicle with clean, affordable power from the sun.”
And how in the world can Honda afford to drop the price so much-
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/30/5458699/cheap-leases-offered-to-spur-electric.html
“…The lower lease prices put an electric car on par with a comparable small car. For instance, you can lease a gas-powered Fit for $169 per month for three years, with about $2,000 down. Automakers can offer the cheap lease deals on electric cars in part because they get the $7,500 tax credit….”
@ Ken S thanks but check the front page of WUWT
The May 2013 Central England Temperature has arrived and it’s 10.4C
Making May 2013 the 5th Month on the trot and the 9th in the last 12 below the 1961-90 Average which rounded for May is 11.2C
This makes the last 12 Months 0.54C below normal averaging 8.93C against the 1961-90 average of 9.47C
It makes Spring (MAM) the coldest since 1891 (ranked 325th warmest out of the last 355 – to make clear ..right down close to the bottom of the list :-) )
and the start of 2013 the coldest since 1986 (27 years)
They can believe the Globe is warming if they like, even alarmingly and at an unprecedented rate on account of our CO2 Emissions.
Me? I prefer the measured reality
all the facts for truth seekers http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/download.html
The effect is not just being felt by us Anglophiles see http://www.theglobalthermometer.com/solaryear.png the raw averaged temperature during our last orbit of our local star from over 2500 NOAA weather stations around the globe updated hourly. The effect measured by the CET is not just local to Central England.
Dave
@Nik Marshall-Blank
The Guardian is a very apt title for the Newspaper. I recently had the similar experience when I tried to join the debate after the horror that is the atmosphere now contains 0.04% CO2 and not 0.0398% the previous year (both are exaggerations btw by minute margins but then the CO2 content of the atmosphere is described as trace already)
That all said it was a massacre of reasonable thought by reasonable people. I got a couple in under the radar but only by deploying irony which confuses them. Never before have I seen so may comments removed concurrently (7)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/10/carbon-dioxide-highest-level-greenhouse-gas?commentpage=1
Sort by newest first
25 comments removed from just that first page
I was pre-moderated after posting links (subsequently removed) to
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/gra…raph_ylybars_uptodate.gif
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGE…ly.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/Sea_Ice_Extent_prev_L.png
The outrage… going around informing society about itself and to making public, things that would otherwise be [essentially] private.
Which I, previously, believed was the definition of Journalism. A different mission statement must be had there and is well guard’ed
Dave (aka SamuelClemens ..it makes me smile)
top 2 links should read
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/graphs/HadCET_graph_ylybars_uptodate.gif
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
copied from another forum which shortens them
This little cartoon rather beautifully sums up the issue of scientific consensus on climate change:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1436
Group think, loyalty oath, or what?
This was near the bottom of a post you or junk science or somebody linked to, but I can’t find the originating link now. You might want to make it more prominent:
http://atmo.tamu.edu/weather-and-climate/climate-change-statement
This is the intermediate link that got me there:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/05/the-apotheosis-of-climate-mccarthyism.php
I have not tried to find out if agreement was coerced.
ET Global Warming….:)
New ET Detection Method Calls for World’s Largest Telescope
by Michael Bakich for Astronomy magazine Washington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2013
Rather than looking for radio waves, the team suggests searching for the heat signatures of nearby planets, which requires a giant telescope that could detect infrared radiation directly from an exoplanet, thus revealing the presence of a civilization.
“The energy footprint of life and civilization appears as infrared heat radiation,” says Kuhn, the project’s lead scientist. “A convenient way to describe the strength of this signal is in terms of total stellar power that is incident on the host planet.”
The technique arises from the fact that a civilization produces power that adds to the heat on a planet, beyond the heat received from its host star. A large enough telescope, idealized for infrared detection, could survey planets orbiting stars within 60 light-years of the Sun to see whether or not they host civilizations.
The Colossus Telescope
The quest for direct infrared detection of extraterrestrial civilizations, along with many other research possibilities, has led the team to the funding and building of a giant telescope. Currently planned large infrared telescopes, the Giant Magellan Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope, and the European Extremely Large Telescope, would not be large enough.
.Sorry, here’s the link….
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_ET_Detection_Method_Calls_for_Worlds_Largest_Telescope_999.html
Looks like another severe dose of “global warming” is heading our way in the UK. Headlines in this mornings Daily Express… http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/276202
Sorry ignore the last.
Try this
From the Daily Telegraph a nice tongue in check commentary
The decline and fall of the liberal empire
By Damian Thompson Politics Last updated: May 31st, 2013
660 Comments Comment on this article
Primrose Hill isn’t looking its best these days
From Saturday’s Daily Telegraph
It’s the summer of 2043. A father and his eight-year-old son trudge across the tundra of north London. Despite the watery August sun, the frozen grass crackles under their heavy boots.
“Look!” says the man. “Do you see the ruins on top of that hill?”
Silhouetted against the sky are the remnants of grand houses. The roofs have fallen in, the grey stucco has buckled and crumbled. It’s hard to imagine that these villas and terraces were once a visual feast of pastel pink and yellow.
“You’re looking at the remains of Primrose Hill,” says the father.
“Daddy, what’s a primrose?”
“A lovely creamy yellow flower.” He sighs wistfully. “They all disappeared in the Great Freeze. Like so much else.”
“And who lived on Primrose Hill?”
“They were a tribe called the liberals, but they don’t exist any more.
“Do you remember me telling you about the Mayans, who disappeared almost overnight? It was a bit like that. Things started going really badly for the liberals in about 2013…”
The boy perks up. “Did they do human sacrifices like the Mayans? Did they worship savage gods?”
“No human sacrifices,” chuckles his father. “But, yes, they had some very bizarre religious beliefs.
“For example, they thought the centre of the earth was in a place called Brussels in Belgium. Like the primroses, it doesn’t exist any more, but it was a mixture of Holland and France and it printed toy money that no one wanted.
“Brussels was famous for its nosey parkers who bossed everyone around. They pretended they were emperors of Europe. Everyone hated them – except the liberals. Eventually the ordinary people rose up and destroyed the empire.”
“Was it as bad as the fall of the Roman Empire?”
“Oh, much worse. And the liberals were doubly upset because, at the same time, they were proved wrong about something called global warming.
“You see, they thought the planet was getting very, very hot and the only way to stop it exploding into flames was to pay extremely high taxes.”
“Global warming? That’s just crazy. It’s never warm,” says the boy, shivering in his duffle coat. “Why did the liberals think those things?”
“Has your history teacher taught you about the BBC? It was a government broadcaster that took everyone else’s money to make programmes specially for the liberals.
“According to the BBC, the North Pole was just about to melt and you’d see camels in Greenland. Also, it encouraged children to spy on their parents in case they were naughty and wasted energy.
“But then some of the global warming prophets – scary rich men with names like Yeo – suddenly changed their minds. They said the planet wasn’t getting hot after all, that the scientists had been tricking them – and of course they were right.”
“Daddy, were the liberals terribly upset when they were proved wrong?”
The man pauses as he surveys the ghostly ruins of Primrose Hill. Should he mention the sudden rush to the Dignitas clinics?
Best not. “Well, they cried a lot and did this strange thing called wringing your hands.” He gives a demonstration.
“How funny,” says the boy. He copies the gesture and makes a mental note to teach it to his school chums. It will be like a secret handshake!
“Anyway, that’s enough about the liberals,” says the father. “Let’s get back in the snowmobile and go home for tea. Mummy’s toasting some crumpets. And the Prime Minister is giving a talk on the wireless.”
“Oh goody,” says his son. “I do like Lord Farage.”
Not doing too well this morning
Here is the link
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100219648/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-liberal-empire/
@Dave A – I also filed a complaint with the PCC but apparently this doesn’t break any editors codes of practice.
As someone else pointed out in an article on this site (I can’t find it but spotted this first). The DMI Arctic Ice 30% is heading into strange territory.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/icecover/icecover_current.png
Could it be that the record melt last year exposed so much open water that it cooled more than normal?
LOS ANGELES — The solar panels covering a vast warehouse roof in the sun-soaked Inland Empire region east of Los Angeles were only two years into their expected 25-year life span when they began to fail.
Coatings that protect the panels disintegrated while other defects caused two fires that took the system offline for two years, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenues.
It was not an isolated incident. Worldwide, testing labs, developers, financiers and insurers are reporting similar problems and say the $77 billion solar industry is facing a quality crisis just as solar panels are on the verge of widespread adoption.
No one is sure how pervasive the problem is. There are no industrywide figures about defective solar panels. And when defects are discovered, confidentiality agreements often keep the manufacturer’s identity secret, making accountability in the industry all the more difficult.
A very interesting op-ed in the LA Times – “Stop the Climate Change guilt trip”. Not sure what it means, but it is different and might be a sea change: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-turner-climate-change-20130602,0,6053461.story
What looks like snow lying on the ground in Cape Town City Centre and Seapoint today. Locals say it is first time ever though it has often been seen on top of Table Mountain at 3000 ft.
Hi Anthony,
Have you seen this…
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-global-chlorofluorocarbons-carbon-dioxide.html
Cheers
Dan
REPLY: Yes, and WUWT had the story two days ago, always check the front page first. – Anthony
Two more pictures of… Wind turbine blade lands on daycare/playground. Canadian Valley Tech, El Reno, OK
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/06/02/wind-turbine-blade-takes-out-daycareplayground-canadian-valley-tech-el-reno-ok-no-injuries-reported/
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/06/02/turbine-blade-sent-into-daycare-by-tornado/
Here’s a couple of older storm turbine damage in related news.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/05/21/crews-in-harper-county-cleaning-up-after-saturdays-tornado/
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/07/07/thunderstorm-damages-wind-turbines-in-lincoln-county/
This piece shows just how silly and misinformed some people are:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1475061-exxon-mobil-ceo-we-re-going-in-can-t-pull-up-brace-for-impact
Here is a quote: “At around 600ppm, fresh air will become difficult to breathe. When approaching 1000ppm CO2 then symptoms of asphyxia commence. Asphyxia would occur in any enclosed space long before fresh air rose to those levels.”
This Julian Cox fellow really thinks he knows what he is talking about.
Go read it for a laugh.
I wonder if we’re missing an obvious rebuttal to the claim by warming cultists that CO2 “traps infrared energy in the atmosphere.” Meteorologists and oceanographers have decades of experience in using IR (8 – 13 microns) for observations of cloud heights, ocean temperatures, water vapor abundance (6.7 um), ozone (9.6 um). The military also has lots of experience using thermal IR for targeting.
But, if increasing CO2 were trapping thermal IR, this should be an obsolete technology; IR sensors would show just a grey monotone. I’m pretty sure NOAA and NASA don’t plan to take the IR channels off future metsats; I’m real sure the military doesn’t plan to give up IR guidance systems.
I know enough about radiative transfer to understand why CO2 is a minor factor in global warming, but explaining it to the hoi polloi is rather difficult. Perhaps showing the man in the street an IR image that shows, e.g., gyres along the Gulf Stream, would be an easier way to put the lie to the “trapping IR” claim.
Australia’s ABC doubles down on its leftist bias. Luckily a Senate committee is watching:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/abc-factchecker-needs-scrutiny-20130602-2nju9.html
I’m sure Steve McIntyre is on top of this, but May 24 Science mag has an article by Lonnie Thompson and wife E. Mosley-Thompson on the ice cores they examined in Peru. They went back 1800 years. Interesting that Thompson clearly identifies a Medieval Climate Anomaly and a Little Ice Age–weren’t they supposed to be a local Greenland effect according to the CAGW crowd? But here they show up in the Southern Hemisphere.
Their main zinger is not based on the ice core at all, but that plants revealed in the last few years by retreating ice are 4000-6000 years old, indicating that the ice cap has not been smaller for six millennia. Not only that, but the retreat has been much faster than the previous advance–25 years compared to 1600 years.
As the Terminator commented on seeing the many pieces of his just-exploded antagonist begin to reassemble, “We don’t have much time.”
Article is paywalled, but supplementary materials are here.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6135/945/suppl/DC1
Nocera in the news:
http://news.yahoo.com/chemist-hopes-artificial-leaf-power-civilization-using-photosynthesis-173654018–abc-news-tech.html
Anthony, since you have had hassles from Bill McKibben and also from Wikipedia, I thought that you might enjoy bringing this elementary and fundamental error to their attention. I looked up the page about McKibben’s book “Deep Economy” (2007) and was surprised (ok, maybe I shouldn’t be) by a glaring error which Wikipedia attributes to McKibben without correction. The article says that McKibben claims that the “Industrial Revolution” began with the invention of the steam engine in 1712 which is off by about 7 decades (according to Wikipedia’s article on the steam engine, James Watt patented his invention of a steam engine in 1781).
This might seem like a minor matter of one historical date, except that it displays massive ignorance on the part of McKibben, the WIkipedia editor(s), and anyone involved with that book or that Wiki page over the past 5-6 years. Anyone with knowledge of 18th century history, science, economics, and technologies would have caught that error instantly, as I did.
So how could McKibben and his acolytes at Wikipedia be propounding such an elementary error for the past 6 years?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Economy
[emphasis added]
Yet more BBC warmist bias from Roger Harrabin……….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22745578
The junk factoids go round and round … Daily Telegraph today (Jun 3):
“Ed Davey attacks papers who report ‘destructive’ climate sceptics”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10095188/Ed-Davey-attacks-papers-who-report-destructive-climate-sceptics.html
And guess what?
“One recent survey of 12,000 academic papers on climate change found 97 per cent agree human activities are causing the planet to warm.”
An example of Gorespeak at its very worst from the Aljazeera news agency. Alarmist drivel, devoid of facts and sensationalising natural events/disasters as being 100% man made.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/20135278951818557.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10095188/Ed-Davey-attacks-papers-who-report-destructive-climate-sceptics.html
FRONT PAGE OF THE TELEGRAPH IN THE UK
CHEERS,
Richard Bell
John Cook’s 97% paper
Another falsely classified paper.
“On The Time-varying Trend In Global-mean Surface Temperature,Climate Dynamics,Wu| Zh; Huang| Ne; Wallace| Jm; Smoliak| Bv; Chen| Xy,4,1″
paper claims 50% belief in AGW.
Abstract says otherwise.
“Depending upon the assumed importance of the contributions of ocean dynamics and the time-varying aerosol emissions to the observed trends in global-mean surface temperature, we estimate that up to one third of the late twentieth century warming could have been a consequence of natural variability”
I have added many of these to the article in The Guardian and have been banned for reporting them.
I appologize I made a mistake on that last post, it is over 50% AGW.
Bill Nye makes another funny theory about another fantasy world… how Superman shaves?
http://www.youtube.com/gillette
03 June 2013 – 1:33 pm
~* Al Gore officially designates Santa Claus Koch Bros.’s evil puppet. *~
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Reindeer slow global warming
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According to Professor Lauri Oksanen of the University of Turku, grazing by reindeer keep arctic vegetation in check, thus reducing the solar heat absorption that leads to a self-reinforcing cycle of climate change.
03 June 2013 – Yle News [ Yle: Finland's national public service broadcasting company. ] (Helsinki, Finland)
http://yle.fi/uutiset/reindeer_slow_global_warming/6671465
Yle — http://yle.fi/yleisradio/about-yle/this-is-yle
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Today, the UK Met Office explained recent lack of global warming on oceans storing the heat. Stephen Belcher said this is the reason but global warming is still the biggest threat to mankind.
Report on BBC News (radio) seconds ago. Nothing on website apart from the link below posted before the MO event and citing Ed Davey – a PPE graduate!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22745578
Belcher:- http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~bl_met/people/stephen.html
“A Sunday walk led to the discovery of a subfossil forest which has remained intact for over 13,000 years in the Zurich clay, opening new doors for Central European dendrochronology.”
http://www.wsl.ch/medien/news/subfossiler_wald_binz/index_EN
The EPA issued awards to the EPA administrator’s dog.
No wonder they cannot get anything right when they make these kind of errors
http://freebeacon.com/richard-windsor-model-employee/
“Richard Windsor” may have only been an alias for former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson, but that didn’t stop him from being awarded numerous certificates for ethics and records management.
The EPA awarded certificates naming Jackson/Windsor a “scholar of ethical behavior.” Jackson, under her secret alias, was also awarded certificates for completing training modules on email records management.
Jackson set up a secret email address under the pseudonym “Richard Windsor.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Chris Horner first discovered it in November.
Republicans and government watchdog groups say Jackson may have skirted federal record laws by using the alias, but the EPA claims the secret email address was a common practice—and a necessary one, given the millions of emails that flooded Jackson’s public inbox every year.
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GreenScam victims – story from Irish Times, re Guatamalan Mayans dispossessed;
“The reason for the latest chapter in this country’s land crisis is this: in 2009 the EU issued its Renewable Energy Directive, which tied member states to ensuring that 10 per cent of their transport fuels be derived from renewable sources, mostly biofuels…”
forgot the link to the above: http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/video-this-land-is-mayan-1.1411777?page=1
Anthony, what goes on in Bill McKibben’s head?
One of his utterances on Australian ABC’s Q and A program last night -
“And, as I say, I’m a Sunday school teacher but I’m un threatened – in fact, enjoy working with my Sunday school class to help people understand all the ways that God has been perceived over time and helping them to understand what God is calling us to do in the here and now – to deal with, amongst other things, the incredible threats to the creation that we’ve been left to steward.”
God is now one of the 97% consensus ?
ClinicalPsychology.net wants me to remove links to it’s own Badscience article
- I don’t want to go all conspiracy, but I kept getting insistent emails fom matthew.hauk( a t) clinicalpsychology.net some garbage about could I remove a link from my site cos it would effect their SEO ranking. I replied saying it was BS but never checked where I had used it ..now I see where I had used it :
1. in link to the WUWT Article on Badscience
2. again on My StewGreenDotCom website page titled #20 Reds hiding behind Green ..so it seems to me that the request for link removal was POLITICAL ..maybe
..Did anyone else get that strange request ?
I saw this and thought it was so ridiculous it may be worth a chuckle despite being a couple of years old.
http://www.deepgreenresistance.org/dew/
Here’s a taster,
“ALL-OUT ATTACKS ON INFRASTRUCTURE
In this final scenario, militant resistance would have one primary goal: to reduce fossil fuel consumption (and hence, all ecological damage) as immediately and rapidly as possible. A 90 percent reduction would be the ballpark target. For militants in this scenario, impacts on civilized humans would be secondary.
Here’s their rationale in a nutshell: Humans aren’t going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by primary emergencies, rich people benefit from the status quo, and the middle class (rich people by global standards) are too obsessed with their own entitlement and the technological spectacle to do anything. The risk of runaway global warming is immediate. A drop in the human population is inevitable, and fewer people will die if collapse happens sooner.
Think of it like this. We know we are in overshoot as a species. That means that a significant portion of the people now alive may have to die before we are back under carrying capacity. And that disparity is growing by the day. Every day carrying capacity is driven down by hundreds of thousands of humans, and every day the human population increases by more than 200,000.15 The people added to the overshoot each day are needless, pointless deaths. Delaying collapse, they argue, is itself a form of mass murder.
Furthermore, they would argue, humans are only one species of millions. To kill millions of species for the benefit of one is insane, just as killing millions of people for the benefit of one person would be insane. And since unimpeded ecological collapse would kill off humans anyway, those species will ultimately have died for nothing, and the planet will take millions of years to recover. Therefore, those of us who care about the future of the planet have to dismantle the industrial energy infrastructure as rapidly as possible. We’ll all have to deal with the social consequences as best we can. Besides, rapid collapse is ultimately good for humans—even if there is a partial die-off—because at least some people survive. And remember, the people who need the system to come down the most are the rural poor in the majority of the world: the faster the actionists can bring down industrial civilization, the better the prospects for those people and their landbases. Regardless, without immediate action, everyone dies.”
But then it gets silly…
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/politics/suffolk_mp_tim_yeo_leads_energy_bill_rebellion_1_2221316
MP Tim Yeo leading an “energy rebellion? Carbon capture and “green energy making energy bills cheaper? This press story is all in reverse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/04/decarbonisation-target-defeated-energy-bill-vote
speaks for itself
Oh dear! Chinese made solar PV panels imported in to EU zone will attract a ~15% tax, rising to ~50% because the Chinese are selling them below cost. EU zone exports its Mfg to China and China tries to make a buck? What could possibly go wrong? Trying to find a link.
The El Reno OK tornado has been upgraded to an EF-5 with a track 2.6 miles wide and winds in the 290 range as measured by doppler.
http://newsok.com/el-reno-tornado-upgraded-to-ef-5/article/3841672
There has also been a lot of discussion on why so many people were on the roads – this Oklahoman article talks about one weatherguy who told people to “go south”, which was the wrong direction to go in this storm.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-tornadoes-why-did-so-many-people-flee-their-homes-friday/article/3841422
I seem to remember at least one station talking about getting out of cars and going into ditches and even storm drains – it seems that no one is saying anything on that issue. Some families did that and they are still looking for at least one person.
Not to confuse weather for climate, record snow in the Alps this season ought to be noted:
http://www.weathertoski.co.uk/weather-snow/who-got-the-most-snow-2012-13/
Anthony,
While searching for some info relevant to Willis’s post on Climate Sensitivity Deconstructed, I chanced onto http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/what-the-ipcc-models-really-say/.
At the end of the post Gavin provides an estimate of how long a time one should expect to go without observing a new T record. Based on the range of simulations used to produce the AR4 model projection, he calculates that the 95% probability is for observing a new T record within 8 years; the 95% probability for observing a new record of 0.1 deg C or greater is within 18 years.
Gavin’s post dates from 2008 and is based on the AR4 model issued in 2007.
This may have some bearing on the current dispute over whether the prolonged period of flat T is significant & invalidates the climate models. Of course the length of time without a new high in global T is not the same issue as the length of time without a rising trend in T, but it is clearly related.
Further to Mardler’s post, I have just come across Ed Davey’s speech to the British Met Office on June 3rd 2013. You may like to spot the typos (?) and general sloppiness in his argument. [Ed Davey is the UK Energy Minister.]
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/edward-davey-speech-climate-change-acting-on-the-science
Hello Anthony. It has been many months since the encryption keys to the climate gate files have been released. There was much fanfare at the beginning. I read WUWT and several others like Bishop Hill, and Jo Nova, etc daily, and have seen nary a peep about anything happening on any blog since the keys were released. I was thinking it may be a good time to give an update on where the (teams) are and what (if anything) of interest has been found. Perhaps a description of the mechanics of what is happening and how things are being sorted and pasted together to tell a narative.
Australian scientists say they have found a Queensland lake that has “never been affected by climate change or any other man-made influences”! It’s so remote, its “crystal-clear waters seem to be in the same chemical state as they were about 7,500 years ago”.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/scientists-uncover-remote-lake-untouched-pollution-7-500-190246166.html
Apparently Australian scientists now imagine that the climate never changed before humans showed up & that conditions were the same there 7500 years ago as now. I guess the Quandamooka people had no use for fish from the lake.
In Ontario the mandate for Wind Renewables is firm — indeed they are suing Wind Power protestors. At least NextEra (Previously known as Florida Power and Light) is doing so.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/search/all/source/the-source/taking-on-turbine-towers/2434478593001
See The Source on Sun News tonight for additional details!(Jume 4, 2013) Ezra Levant is covering the story.
Also see:
http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/2013/06/04/head-on-with-giant/
Debora Van Brenk, London Free Press
Canada’s wind energy giant has slapped a Strathroy-area rock gardener with a lawsuit alleging she’s harming its reputation. In a Goliath-vs-David dispute, NextEra Energy Canada says Esther Wrightman is discrediting it, depreciating its goodwill in the community and mutilating its copyrighted logo. NextEra Energy’s operating revenue in 2012 was $14 billion.
On the other side is Wrightman, who says she can’t even afford the $144 fee to file her statement of defence. “It’s totally parody,” Wrightman said, defending her manipulation of the NextEra logo. “It’s parody and it’s fair comment on what they’ve done.”
Feel like having someone be able to monitor all of your movements in your home? Now WiFi makes it possible.
http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/
Oh, it’s innocent enough at the moment, but when you tie that to powerline broadband, motion analysis software embedded into every WiFi capable device, and unlimited ‘data mining’ via smart grid allowed under the Energy Independence and Security Act 2007, all of our movements inside our homes can be determined and recorded. People won’t even know it’s happening.
Green energy is so flawed, I’m convinced those pushing green energy at a higher policy level know it doesn’t scale up and is impractical. However, that doesn’t matter, because green electricity is not the true goal. Once the economic controls are in place and monitoring infrastructure constructed, green power as electricity doesn’t matter anymore. Green power has always been about political power.
The BBC has a sad story about a man who has been sent to prison after his solar panel business failed and he went nuts. The behaviour of Sims, who was described as having a personality disorder and is being treated at Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, was described by his own defence barrister in court as “strange, unusual and very worrying”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22769698
New Legislation Would Restrict EPA Carbon Rules.
Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), along with seven other Democratic and Republican members of Congress, introduced H.R. 2127:
http://beta.congress.gov/113/bills/hr2127/BILLS-113hr2127ih.pdf
The bill would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from setting performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants until
a) The Administrator determines that carbon capture and sequestration is the “best system of emission reduction” and
b) Four government representatives – the director of National Energy Technology Laboratory, the administrator of the Energy Information Administration, the Comptroller General, and the Commerce Department undersecretary for standards and technology – conclude that carbon capture and sequestration is “technologically and economically feasible.”
I guess since CCS is very unlikely to satisfy either a) or b) that the bill, if passed, would hamstring the EPA for decades if not centuries. Of course, it has no chance of passage.
I have a question.
I live in NV, along the eastern edge of the Sierra, ele. ca 4700′
Already the temps are in the 90′s – 10-15 degrees above normal. This town is filled with AGW proponents. Is there any reason why the temps are more like August than June? There has to be an answer to the AGWidiots.
—————— Just noticed this Post above:
‘… Hoser says: June 4, 2013 ……….Green energy is so flawed, I’m convinced those pushing green energy at a higher policy level know it doesn’t scale up and is impractical. However, that doesn’t matter, because green electricity is not the true goal. Once the economic controls are in place and monitoring infrastructure constructed, green power as electricity doesn’t matter anymore. Green power has always been about political power…………’
AMEN! Here in NV they have just given NV Energy the power to close the coal-fired generating plants and replace them with ‘renewable’ energy sources. They MAY also use natural gas.
They have also removed the PUC from having any input in the process. So the rate payers will be shafted and have NO VOICE in how much they will get stuck paying in the future.
Some amazing photos of the Yukon ice jam/dam .. and flooding.
http://www.adn.com/2013/06/04/2908948/2013-yukon-river-flooding.html
Appears to put that MN lake ice event to shame.
I don’t know if this is the right place for this, but one of the things I always loved about WUWT was the clean surfnig experience. I could look at the headlines down the page, click on “continue reading…” when I saw smething I liked, then click on “back” or hit my backspace key to be right back where I left off on the main page. Not any more. Since some recent revision of WUWT or wordpress or both clicking on an article results in an entry in my history list from ib.adnxs.com between the original main page address and the address of the article I clicked on. So back space just reloads the ad and puts me back in the article (with an additional hit for eachpage, I presume) and not back at the WUWT main page.
I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing that (though I’d like to know). And if others are, I don’t know if it was Anthony’s intent for this to be the behavior, or if it’s a wordpress thing, etc. But I don’t like it.
Just sayin…
Antony,
is that “OUR” Joe Romm?
“Joe Romm’s New Book”
“Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga”
“Joe Romm has pulled together the secrets of the greatest communicators in history to show how you can apply these tools to your writing, speaking, blogging — even your Tweeting.”
http://www.amzn.com/dp/B008RZD4L2/
http://junkscience.com/2013/06/05/obama-takes-first-steps-toward-regulating-farmland-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/#comments
Regulating farmland. Food will go up in price. This is a step too far.
Former EPA director Lisa P. Jackson gets job as Apple’s green tsar
Just a heads-up. Someone called wottsupwiththatblog (@wottsupwiththat) on twitter is conversing with Richard Tol. I hope they’re not being confused with you is all.
Anthony: wind turbine into daycare.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/06/02/turbine-blade-sent-into-daycare-by-tornado/
Not sure if you’ve already linked to this story or not…
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/06/04/linking-weather-extremes-to-global-warming/?utm_source=feedly
A science blog is making a valiant attempt to prove the link between Global warming and increased weather extremes. It seems to be blaming the Extreme Weather on changes to the Jet stream.
Hi Anthony,
I found the results of this study ironic after all the alarmist treatment regarding GW and mosquitoes…
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/vt-mri060313.php
Mosquitoes reared in cooler temperatures more susceptible to viruses that can affect human health
Just passing along a personal musing:
Many years ago, a friend taught me the “between the sheets” game. Take a copy of Readers Digest (or similar magazine) and read the titles of the stories, appending the phrase “between the sheets” to the end of each. Many of the titles become hysterically funny.
Today a variation of this pastime occurred to me. Take any headline from mainstream news media, and append the phrase “due to global warming” to the end. Again, many of the results are hysterically funny. Of course you can’t use it with the numerous headlines that already end with “due to global warming.”
Bill Nye the ZPG Guy
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/05/Bill-Nye-Commencement-overpopulation
Don’t know if you have seen this yet…Tropical Storm ANDREA
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT1+shtml/052203.shtml
JFK also spoke against AGW indirectly
May 2013′s average SSN is out, reaching only 78.7 despite it having been the most active month since SC24 begun. See it in this link, together with all other monthly SSN since records exist: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch/spot_num.txt
With May data, we are already in a 128 months run without the monthly average SSN reaching 100, which brings us to the 4th position in the ranking of such runs since records exist. The ranking of the longest runs with monthly SSN below 100 is now:
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), October 2002 – today
4) 128 months (about 10.5 years), September 1750 – April 1761
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
We are very close from the 3rd position which we may reach by the end of the year, and we are even likely to reach second position if the monthly SSN doesn’t reach 100 any month during the current SC24, which again would not be unlikely at all with the current forecasts.
The Social Cost of Carbon
Estimating the Benefits of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/EPAactivities/economics/scc.html
The Obama administration has significantly boosted the value it assigns to the social cost of carbon (SCC), in some cases doubling the $21-per-ton average it had previously assigned to the measure, an approach that will likely aid efforts to justify the costs of upcoming EPA greenhouse gas (GHG) rules as well as other measures that limit GHGs. The White House quietly posted the May 2013 “Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis,” to its website
Social Cost of Carbon – Note that it did not get to the EPA website. A Bloomburg posting gives a link to the May 2013 report. http://www.bna.com/study-finds-rise-n17179874337/
Sorry for the double posting
Rats, rogercaiazza beat me to it!
Did you know the Government had an “Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon”? This working group has a mission statement of:
The purpose of the “social cost of carbon” (SCC) estimates presented here is to allow agencies to incorporate the social benefits of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into cost-benefit analyses of regulatory actions that have small, or “marginal,” impacts on cumulative global emissions.
So now if a law has not direct benefit, it can still be passed because it “Feels Good”.
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/climate/regulations/scc-tsd.pdf
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-roman-seawater-concrete-secret-carbon.html
Assumes, of course, that putting CO2 (the evil “carbon”) into the air is a Bad Thing.
/Mr Lynn
Hi Mr Watts,
The British Government has just changed the planning rules on windfarms, making it much, much easier for local residents to prevent them being built Delingpole has the story. Dave.
A search with google today on wattsupwiththat leads with an ad for vvattsupwiththat at blogspot. Two Vs in the one riding on your coattails.
REPLY: yes I have several immature blog children – Anthony
Narrative Science has already proven that its robot writers can make sentences that are good enough for newspapers and internal company reports. Now they’re going to work for the CIA.
http://allthingsd.com/20130605/the-c-i-a-invests-in-narrative-science-and-its-automated-writers/
Pollen levels around Dayton reach ten times normal. I wonder if this is a response to cooling climate.
http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/news/local/pollen-levels-reach-10-times-normal-level/nYCsf/?icmp=daytondaily_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_daytondailystubtomydaytondaily_launch
I just checked in over at Bishop Hill site and there was a post “Myles, CCS, and theT3 tax” which included a link to an article bt Ross McKitrick published in 2007 http://www.rossmckitrick.com/uploads/4/8/0/8/4808045/t3tax.vv-online.pdf that I had not seen before. Good reading. May be time to bring it up in a post. Lots of good stuff in it not relating to the T3 tax. After almost 6 years I don’t think any tax is now justified. The content been covered on WUWT but would be good for the newbies to WUWT. Just a thought.
Do medieval Irish monks hold key to cold weather?
Irish Annals trawled for evidence of climate change
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/do-medieval-irish-monks-hold-key-to-cold-weather-1.1418141
Could the writings of ancient Irish monks and scribes hold a key to our cold weather patterns? A group of Irish and international researchers think so.
Studying descriptions of weather in the medieval Irish writings and comparing them with measurements taken from ice cores, researchers have successfully linked the climatic aftermath of volcanic eruptions to extreme cold weather events here over a 1,200-year period.
Chris Mooney interviews Stephan Lewandowsky on Point of Inquiry. Lew appears to have no reservations about what he did.
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/stephan_lewandowsky_the_mind_of_the_conspiracy_theorist/
IN case you havnt seen this:
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612457686
Psychological Science 2013 24: 622 originally published online 26 March 2013
Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer and Gilles E. Gignac
Rejection of Science
NASA Faked the Moon Landing–Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax : An Anatomy of the Motivated
http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au/labs/cogscience/documents/LskyetalPsychScienceinPressClimateConspiracy.pdf
http://www.livescience.com/37230-tropical-caves-reveal-climate-history.html
In case you’re looking for another reminder of the CAGW idiocy here’s what I was directed to from Yahoo!:
http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/06/05/google-hangout-al-gore
Join Al Gore and Jeff Skoll for a Google+ Hangout on Climate Change
Takepart.com – Wed, Jun 5, 2013
________________________________________
In 2006, An Inconvenient Truth opened the world’s eyes to climate change and sparked a worldwide conversation that continues today.
In the seven years since the film’s release, the world has seen a nonstop succession of new studies, reports, discoveries and headlines that have underscored just how urgent a threat climate change is to our planet.
For the film’s seventh anniversary, TakePart is asking “what do we know now that we didn’t know then” to keep the spotlight on this evolving and accelerating threat.
On June 10, we’ll launch a five-part editorial series right here on TakePart that looks at what climate change has wrought over the past seven years. From explosion of extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy to last year’s devastating Colorado wildfires, climate change is rapidly changing the world around us. We’ll ask: “What’s next?”
But that’s only the beginning.
(…….)
In Washington, President Obama has created an Assistant to the President for Climate and Energy, and the State Department now has a Special Envoy on Climate Change.
At least 150 bills supporting climate action to some extent have been introduced since 2006.
You can RSVP for the Google+ Hangout on June 11 right here.
And don’t miss our 12 ways you can help combat climate change right now.
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Wow, can’t wait.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/06/06/google-s-eric-schmidt-blasts-liars-who-refuse-believe-man-made-gl
Today is the 69th anniversary of the D-Day invasion during WWII. There were an untold number of heroes.
This utube video “Angel Flight” will bring an emotional response. Not related to D-Day, but sorta. I’ve only watched it more than a few dozen times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=70Ikj1hZDnw&feature=related
Just in….on climate deliberations in Bonn. its ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. Bloomberg is reporting research from Climate Analytics that we have all coughed up $30B over the last three years for climate funding to the developing world to cut their emissions, and will spend anouther $100B over the next few years…..check it out.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-06/un-beats-30-billion-goal-to-fund-climate-aid-in-poorer-nations.html
Good one for the WTF category of odd weather radar anomalies.
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/06/redstone_radar_blob_whatever_i.html
What be it I say?
Checkout the article on Jo Nova’s site, joannenova.com.au, about the Moon causing atomospheric tides that control ENSO. Seems like a highly plausible hypothesis to me.
This needs to be fact checked,
http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/06/04/gms-9800-car-the-one-were-not-allowed-to-buy/
“But what EPA never tells you is that they mean 50 percent off the remaining 3-5 percent of tailpipe emissions that are not yet “controlled.” In other words, a fractional reduction – at ever-increasing cost to consumers. But that doesn’t sound as good as saying the new edict will “cut new car emissions by 50 percent.” So it’s not said.”
http://m.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/06/googles_schmidt_climate_skeptics_and_warming_deniers_are_liars/
Quote:
“Google chairman Eric Schmidt has a low opinion of climate-change skeptics and global-warming deniers.
“You can hold back knowledge, but you cannot prevent it from spreading,” Schmidt told his audience at his company’s “How Green Is the Internet? Summit” in Mountain View on Thursday. “You can lie about the effects of climate change, but eventually you’ll be seen as a liar.”
Speaking to the assembled crowd of engineers and technologists at a conference on the greening of the data center and internet from the cloud to end-user devices, Schmidt was enthusiastic about the promise of the Summit. “I am beyond excited that we’re doing this,” he said, “spending a whole day about something I care a lot about with people who understand the nature of the future in this are. Who get the facts right.”
Schmidt discussed what he referred to as “the fact problem” and how it relates to the media and governments. At Google, he said, people fact-check what they’re told, especially if what they hear doesn’t sound quite right.
“Can you imagine if climate-change discussions were run that way?” he asked.”
There have sometimes been assertions that climate policy has lead to deaths, often indirectly such as pensioners freezing to death in England due to cost of fuel. In Queensland Australia a state govmnt program called “Climate Smart” has had tragic consequences. The policy is to reduce hospitals hot water from between 65 and 70 deg C tp 50 degrees, presumably to save CO2 emmisions. This has lead to 1 person dying from leginaires disease traced to the hot water system. See
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/claim_climate_alarmism_causes_legionaires_disease/
La Nina this summer: http://local.msn.com/forecast-predicts-la-nina
Which anyone who had been paying attention to SSTs would probably know by now…
Not only did these strategies fail, they actually helped the skeptic community grow by acting as recruiting sergeants, funnelling and concentrating the scattered opposition around the globe towards the obscure skeptic sites. That trend was aided and abetted by a complete and utter failure to provide a meaty alternative blogosphere in which the science was being honestly discussed, as opposed to acting as an obsequious mouthpiece for science by propagandist press hand-outs. It was all too blatantly fashionable science lite, so they lost the unaligned professional science demographic.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/how-to-run-a-really-bad-infowar-campaign/
Pointman
A suggestion for modifying the Sea Ice Page: Since that 2007′s low was exceeded by last year’s, consider changing the 2007/present date comparison of ice coverage (the two images side by side) to 2012/present date? (The two Cryosphere Today images)
Interesting piece from the WSJ: http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323844804578528841152512364
Paper finds a better lagged correlation (9 years) between CFCs and temp than CO2
Michael Mann interviewed on WITF Smart Talk radio program.
Covers a wide range of topics regarding climate change, and answers questions from callers.
http://www.witf.org/smart-talk/2013/06/radio-smart-talk-co2-levels-raise-alarm-dr-michael-mann-explains.php
Maybe I am paranoid but it seems RSS has removed trend graphs for the tropics and Southern hemisphere decadal temps. They don’t suit the agenda as they are both flat .. You may want to enquire…
http://www.ssmi.com/msu/msu_data_description.html#msu_decadal_trends
Of course no one will see this but probably the best expose of AGW you will have to watch the whole thing but of course I am a scientist most people could not even concentrate enough to watch it.
Also I would suggest to my great discomfort (because I am a scientist) that WUWT should start concentrating a bit more on the political aspect of the problem and not be scared to confront these people who mainly through ignorance may destroy your childrens lives. The fact is that Gore ect and BIG corporations have a FINANCIAL Interest in AGW.
V
(MANAGUA, Nicaragua) A concession to build a canal across Nicaragua linking the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea will be awarded to a Chinese company, the National Assembly president said Wednesday.
Legislative leader Rene Nunez said the company will use funds from investors around the world to build the $40 billion project.
Nunez talked to local media after two bills for streamlining the process of building the canal and assessing its environmental impact were presented to lawmakers.
$40 billion seems awfully low
Anthony,
This 8:20 news item will warm your heart.
It is a great summation of the state of the art of climate science for the laymen on Canadian National news. It is terrific.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/wherersquos-the-warming/2451913929001
Interesting programme on the BBC radio 4 “Any Questions” which takes questions live from the audience, on mainly political topics, the four panel members included James Delingpole and Owen Patterson the governments new environment secretary, who takes a more skeptical approach to climate change, this climate change question at 29.40min in, looks set up to embarrass Delingpole by turning his own question back on him, but then Patterson weighed in with some surprising reality, well worth a listen. Incidentally the programme was recorded from the Center for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth Wales, with an overwhelmingly warmist audience. No bias there then.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021438w
Enjoy
Keith Gordon
Meteorological emergency, dangerous rainstorm forms and wreaks havoc, inside.
Facebook’s first data center DRENCHED by ACTUAL CLOUD
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/08/facebook_cloud_versus_cloud/
Rain vs power supplies, rain wins.
Jim Bouldin has a couple of new posts in regards to Briffra et al. 2013:
http://ecologicallyoriented.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/briffa-et-al-2013-part-one/
http://ecologicallyoriented.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/briffa-et-al-2013-part-two/
From part two-
“The first issue, potentially extreme nonlinearity of ring response, is not addressed in this study in any way, so that is serious problem number one. More generally however, it is not even clear exactly how that issue should be addressed, or if it even can be effectively addressed, i.e. whether the problem is even tractable. It might not be, but one could, ironically enough, make a reasonable argument that those sites exhibiting the so-called divergence phenomenon between decadal-scale driver-response relationships could be useful here–or even necessary–in helping to at least provide an estimate of the uncertainty inherent in estimating past climate states from (wrongly) assumed linear relationships (if such divergence is in fact due to non-linear responses between driver and ring response, and not to analytical artifacts). That is, by purposely avoiding the inclusion of such sites in analyses, in favor of sites with an apparent linear relationship of a defined magnitude, the very information necessary to get even a first approximation of the full magnitude of possible past climatic variability, given the observed ring responses, is missed.
A very important related point on this issue needs to be stated here. Because positive correlations between instrumental record temperature and observed ring measures during calibration are virtually always the critical selection criterion in these studies (it being assumed that higher temperatures always lead to greater, rather than lesser, ring response), this translates directly into the fact that a true unimodal response to temperature will always potentially lead to temperature under-estimates in the pre-instrumental (historic) period, relative to the calibration period, when a linear relationship between driver and response is computed. Yes, always. I say “potentially” because there could of course be cases in which a positive linear relationship really does hold true for all times present and past; the problem is that there’s no way to definitively know this, given the data. And that is a serious problem indeed…”
As far as my tree rings go- it was very HOT (104.3F at the closest weather station to me yesterday)- I had to run our irrigation systems in order to minimize any potential heat stress for lots of our trees. I am rather glad we had an inch of rain about a week ago so at least some moisture should still be around for the forested part of our parcel that is not irrigated.
More thoughts on Cook’s 97% mythical consensus.
Credibility was not Examined
One of the cornerstones in two previous 97% consensus surveys, was the credibility of the scientists surveyed.
In “Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” expertise was the key to determining
the 97% figure.
“In our survey, the most specialized and knowledgeable respondents (with regard to climate change) are those who listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change (79 individuals in total)”
In “Expert Credibility in Climate Change” :
“We then imposed an a priori criterion that a researcher must have authored a minimum of 20 climate publications to be considered a climate researcher,”
Again credibility was based on expertise.
In Cook’s survey they found 65 papers with a position stating AGW was more than 50%
and surveying the authors opinion a full 237 agreeing AGW was over 50%.
Yet we know nothing about the expertise or credibility of these scientists.
Do they have more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change?
Have they authored a minimum of 20 climate publications.?
It was important before, to make sure they could get to that 97% figure, now all of a sudden it’s no big deal about how credible they are. Talk about a double standard.
Dana Nuccitelli was asked about this and he admitted it wasn’t part of the study.
http://discussion.guardian.co.uk/comment-permalink/24160032
http://discussion.guardian.co.uk/comment-permalink/24161859
I wonder who is going to pay all the costs associated with the closure of SCE’s San Onofre’s facility.
Calif. utility to retire troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57588196/calif-utility-to-retire-troubled-san-onofre-nuclear-power-plant/
I’ve been reading Pointman’s latest article.
Why don’t we turn the table on the alarmists? Why don’t we create a questionnaire with questions about skeptics being funded by Big Oil? Surely a lot of conspiracy ideation must come out of that.
As an added bonus – if done correctly – we could have Lewandowsky attacking his own methods.
This link gives an interesting perspective on Otto et al
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/06/reconciling-the-science,-economics-and-policy-of-climate-sensitivity
http://order-order.com/2013/06/08/sunday-sleaze-tim-yeo-stung-by-sunday-times-offered-to-sell-legislation-and-access-7000-a-day/
Breaking now, It’s all over for Tim Yeo. The Energy and Climate Change select committee chairman has been stung by the Sunday Times, offering to become a paid advocate for a fake firm for £7,000-a-day.
Huge story upcoming for the UK.
Al Gore on Google+
https://plus.google.com/events/crr4hedpll2u0lbt08ut37bdt1c
AW This may be of tremendous interest or of zero value I leave it to you
My guess is that is major. The person sounds like Einstein. It requires very deep concentration and knowledge of Astrophysics to understand
oh my goodness…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22830707
This could blow up into a big story. The Sunday Times have caught out Tim Yeo, who chairs the parliamentary committee on energy and climate change in a sting operation where they offered him a job and he told them about when he had coached a witness to his committee on what he should say. It seems from this report that he may have been suspicious about what was going on but there is a possibility the thing could escalate. I hope it does, the man is a freeloader.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22830707
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The UK uses some 378 “terawatt hours”.of electricity per year
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10107478/MPs-want-to-turn-your-lights-off.-A-shame-no-one-told-you.html
“By 2020, it said, Britain must reduce its electricity use by “103 terawatt hours”, rising by 2030 to “154 terawatt hours”.
So by 2030 the UK must go from using 378 to 224 terawatt hours.of electricity per year.
stupid, stupid, stupid
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/1/3/141.abstract
The 18.6-yr cycle of the Moon’s nodes dominates the annual means of high water, low water, and range at Boston and at other East Coast harbors….The data suggest that the secular sea-level rise during the 20th century is tidal in origin…
Tim Yeo video
video starts at 1:09
Might be a little more risqué than you’d like to post here. But good for a “Funnies” posting.
http://fritz-aviewfromthebeach.blogspot.com/2013/04/global-warming-make-good-women-go-bad.html
Check http://spaceweather.com/ …. today
Only ONE spot on Sun surface facing earth …. I haven’t seen this dearth of spots in a long, long time.
Regarding the Keenan/Met dustup. Hank, a fine statistician did a head to head comparison of the models. AR1 vs ARIMA 3,1,0. Hands down ARIMA out performs AR1 in every possible metric. Well written without the hard to follow statistical jargon and formulas. It utterly destroys the Met position.
http://suyts.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/keenan-confirmed-met-position-laid-to-utter-waste/
“The best way to win an argument? Shout louder than everyone else and people will simply assume you’re right.”
“Being confident and loud is the best way to win an argument – even if you are wrong, a new study suggests.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2333165/The-best-way-win-argument-Shout-louder-people-simply-assume-youre-right.html
This is why alarmist or whoever, talk the way they do. Emotional argument trumps logical argument.
Worst floods EVER due to global warming! Or is it climate change?
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/global-warming/130607/danube-river-will-flood-hungary-record-levels-spurring-e
How could anyone forget this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Flood_of_the_Arno_River
“And the only reason you have not heard of this lawsuit — the Canadian Civil Liberties Association is not defending her free speech, the CBC has not put this on their nightly news — is because the corporate bully here is not an oil company like Exxon. It’s a wind turbine company called NextEra.”
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/06/20130609-073657.html
A very good video has been made (June 6, 2013) by the German TV station ZDF about the forced resignation of EU Health Commissioner John Dalli on October 16, 2012. It is interesting to unravel this complex story but I don’t have at this moment a complete overview of the facts.
A revealing approach can be found in this article:http://www.neurope.eu/article/dalligate-barrosogate, but more has to be said about this story. Many questions remain unanswered. The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aNR_kgfbKFY is a good effort to make us acquainted with the current machinations in the European institutions.
$hift: yet another fanatical utopia circlejerk:
http://vimeo.com/67268257
Norsex sea ice area
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/observation_images/ssmi1_ice_area.png
Compare with same Cryosphere today
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.arctic.png
Again up to tricks by CT and co happens everytime
NH ice: Cryosphere Todayt is showing 9.8mk2 whereas Norsex shows >10.5km2 for 8/6/2013. Of course CT never show dates so you don’t know what there up to quite unprofessional/unscientific me thinks.
I noticed that a public meeting is going to be held in Chico, CA on June 17th to allow the public to provide input on
“Application of Pacific Gas and Electric
Company for Authority, Among Other
Things, to Increase Rates and Charges for
Electric and Gas Service Effective on
January 1, 2014 (U39M).”
https://www.pge.com/regulation/GRC2014-Ph-I/Rulings/CPUC/2013/GRC2014-Ph-I_Ruling_CPUC_20130311_267341.pdf
It appears that PG&E will have folks on hand at the meeting to answer any specific questions from the public-
“5. PG&E shall have a customer service representative at each PPH to answer
any billing or service questions that individual customers may have.”
‘Medieval Irish chronicles reveal persistent volcanic forcing of severe winter cold events, 431–1649 CE ‘
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024035/article
Thirty eight (79%) of 48 volcanic events identified in the sulfate deposition record of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 ice-core correspond to 37 (54%) of 69 cold events in this 1219 year period. We show this association to be statistically significant at the 99.7% confidence level
An email arrived Jun 10, 10am from Organizing for America…The 98% of scientists idea…
“[Addressee]-
It is 2013, right?
Why is it then that in 2013 we have to convince some of our lawmakers to believe in science?
Ninety-eight out of 100 climate scientists agree: Climate change is real, human activity is contributing to it, and it poses significant risks to our environment and our health.
But apparently, that’s not enough for the climate deniers in Congress.
Some have compared this so-called “warming period” to what they say are similar events during the Middle Ages. (No word yet on whether any of them were able to hop in a DeLorean to see it for themselves…)
The truth is that the warming we’ve seen in the last 100 years is much worse — and much faster — than what we’ve seen in any time period before.
If we want to get anywhere on combating climate change in Washington, we need to change the conversation — and it starts with calling out every single one of these climate deniers.
Check out this list of every climate denier we could find walking the halls of Congress — then add your name to hold these guys accountable today:
http://my.barackobama.com/Climate-Deniers
Thanks for everything — and keep up the great work.
Ivan
Ivan Frishberg
Climate Campaign Manager
Organizing for Action”
I have noted the use of running averages or 12 to 18 month point-centered averages to treat data sets in attempts to “smooth” data in order to see trends. These approaches are mathematically sloppy. I have also noted the use of running sums (actually an integral). Again, this approach is not always the best way to extract trends. If one applies a mathematically rigorous low-pass filter to the data, one achieves better results. For example, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Temperature data can be filtered at 0.01 the Nyquist frequency for these data (where fn ~ 1/[2(month)]) to get nice trends with no quirks. Figure and data set are available. In addition, the use of wavelet deconstructions can achieve similar results in a mathematically rigorous fashion. Trends that are similar to running sums become obvious.
Polar bear Science – Bear population increase over the last 20 years in Davis straight may have reached it’s natural limit due to population density, not lack of sea ice.
From Polar Bear Science:
“Hard to believe, isn’t it? Rather than being proven victims of Arctic sea ice in a “death spiral” due to global warming, when they finally present the data, biologists have to admit that they cannot actually tell the difference between a polar bear population that is so large that it can no longer increase and one that is suffering a population decline because of reduced sea ice”.
http://polarbearscience.com/2013/06/10/signs-that-davis-strait-polar-bears-are-at-carrying-capacity/#more-2059
New report from US Energy Information Administration will be unwelcome news to anti-gas fanatics, who will be quick to disparage and divert attention from this (both oil and gas are looking more promising in shale formations, and technologies for extraction continue to improve dramatically):
Shale oil and shale gas resources are globally abundant
and this….
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11611#
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2013.06.10/table2.png
I came across this story on a friend’s FB page. I don’t claim to understand it properly and assume, given its source, it’s the usual worse than we thought b/s. Any chance it can be pcked aprt by someone who knows the detail?
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/10/1214936/-The-N-Hemisphere-s-Atmospheric-Circulation-Has-Collapsed-Creating-a-Persistent-Polar-Cyclone
This wide-ranging exchange with David Appell at Quark Soup is “instructive”. The initial article is about the ‘paradox’ of totalitarian China being so enlightened re grobal walming:
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28837843&postID=7419306985859692475&page=1&token=1370287376322
From today’s California Water News, add noctilucent clouds to the list of things caused by AGW:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/08/climate-change-suspected-early-arrival-ephemeral-noctilucent-clouds-149787
[begin quote]
Climate Change Suspected in Early Arrival of Ephemeral Noctilucent Clouds
ICTMN Staff
June 08, 2013
Diaphanous, ephemeral, the clouds of summer sunsets that usually arrive in June are early this year, and some researchers believe that may be fueled by climate change.
Tim Yeo MP has stood down as chairman of the commons Energy and Climate Change committee.
Here is a environmental sciences PhD at University of British Columbia who in her politically correct thesis pans children’s books because they have bad messages, like turtles have daddies and other things she calls racist, sexist and homophobic in the stories of the animal world. Berenstain bears come in for special sanction! “Do you know what they do in the woods?”
http://www.theloop.ca/living/life/parenting/article/-/a/2494518/Stop-reading-to-your-kids-It-gives-them-bad-messages
No thought about her profession teaching scary bullshit stories about CAGW, though. Will it be possible for universities to put the shoddy science explosion back in the bottle. I remember back in my U days that of 400 first year engineers (the limit they allowed!), fewer than 100 finally graduated (I was in a fourth year class of 3). Meanwhile, the liberal arts seemed to pass everyone and they were a lot more restrictive in entrance requirements in the 1950s – only 5% of high school graduates went to Universities and precious few were engineers and scientists. As a smart kid, I can remember being intimidated by how smart my fellow students were.
The free-for-all of the last generation or so have watered down science for sure and they get turned out on our children and society (witness the damage of the CO2 stuff) and become the next professors. I think the only thing to do is to create new gifted-student universities. I think this could be a good topic to generate lots of commentary at WUWT as I see this as a huge problem for the future, with another trillion wasted.
Stories like this are becoming almost too common to post. Here’s another snowflake in the anti-Green avalanche:
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/economics-dont-stack-up-green-square-energy-plan-collapses-20130611-2o1ba.html
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A deal to provide low-emissions “green energy” for Sydney’s massive new Green Square development has collapsed, in a setback for Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s plan to take the city off the coal-fired energy grid.
The City of Sydney said on Tuesday morning that it would not proceed with its agreement with Cogent Energy to develop the Green Square plan – which included several “trigeneration” power plants sprinkled around the inner city suburb.
The trigeneration plants, which burn gas but capture extra heat for warming and cooling and are much more efficient than standard fossil-fuelled power plants, have now been deferred indefinitely.
Cogent Energy had been unable to provide a plan that was remotely close to the council’s cost ceiling of paying about $25 per tonne of CO2, Cr Moore said.
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Just out of curiosity I looked at the Skeptical Science website http://www.skepticalscience.com/.
Not many people comment on the articles there. Perhaps 97% of all comments on Climate Change are made at WUWT? LOL
IEA: Energy CO2 emissions hit record high in 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/10/iea-energy-emissions-rose-to-record-high-in-2012/2407555/
Global climate talks are aimed at keeping the temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) compared with pre-industrial levels. The IEA found the world’s on track for an increase of 3.6-5.3 C (6.5-9.5 F).
The IEA report, presented in London, said emissions could be reduced significantly by 2020 by improving energy efficiency in buildings industry and transport, limiting the use of coal-fired power plants, halving the oil and gas industry’s release of methane, and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.
IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven admits however that “climate change has quite frankly slipped to the back burner of policy priorities”, but she is not asking the reason of it.
http://scienceblogs.com/significantfigures/index.php/2013/05/10/the-last-time-atmospheric-co2-was-at-400-parts-per-million-humans-didnt-exist/#.UbTbQ07egSc.twitter
In which Peter Gleick argues that when CO2 reached 400ppm last time:
Global average temperatures were 3 to 4 degrees C warmer than today (5.4 to 7.2 degrees F).
Polar temperatures were as much as 10 degrees C warmer than today (18 degrees F).
The Arctic was ice free.
Sea level was between five and 40 meters higher (16 to 130 feet) than today.
Coral reefs suffered mass die-offs.
I wonder why it isn’t like that now?
He seems to be arguing against CO2 forcing.
I expect an answer some time never.
Preparing NYC for bad weather is fine, but they seem to need the alarmism to get it done.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/11/bloomberg-to-discuss-prepping-new-york-city-for-warming-world/?test=latestnews
One of the interesting aspects of the current temperature standstill is that it persists despite several El Ninos and La Ninas. Since 2006 the influence of these events has been more pronounced in satellite data; El Ninos in 2007 and 2009-10, La Ninas in 2008, 2010–2012. These events have increased the ‘noise’ of the global temperature data in recent years. Removing this noise is tricky, but without it there is a hint, just a hint, that sans El Nino/La Nina effects and volcanic dips, the global temperature might be reducing. As usual, five more years of data will be fascinating to analyse. –David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 11 June 2013
http://www.thegwpf.org/temperature-standstill/
Polar Bear Population Growing Despite Declining Sea Ice
Great News! But Where Is The News Coverage?
Exciting news about polar bears in eastern Canada: a new the peer-reviewed paper concludes that despite sea ice having declined since the 1970s, polar bear numbers in Davis Strait have not only increased to a greater density than other seasonal-ice subpopulations, but it may now have reached its ‘carrying capacity.’ This is great news. But where is the shouting from the roof-tops? This peer-reviewed paper was published February 19, 2013. No press release was issued that I could find and consequently, there was no news coverage. Funny, that. –Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, 10 June 2013
http://polarbearscience.com/2013/06/10/signs-that-davis-strait-polar-bears-are-at-carrying-capacity/
When the Little Ice Age caused widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and disease in populated Europe some centuries ago, the enlightened ones blamed the climate-related misery and misfortune on the black magic of sorcerers and witches – who were promptly tried and burned at the stake. In other cultures, people performed rain-dances, human sacrifices, or other bizarre rituals, all in a futile attempt to appease the weather gods. Of course the victims of these rituals were often political opponents. Today nothing has changed apparently, as Der Spiegel poignantly demonstrates with its latest online round of hysterics titled Flood Drama in Germany: We’re to Blame! by Jakob Augstein. According to Augstein, today’s German flooding is a result of man’s sins against the climate. Climate deniers are mostly to blame for the “Katastrophe“.–Pierre Goselin, No Tricks Zone, 11 June 2013
http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/11/maxeiner-miersch-and-magdeburg-superstitious-spiegel-devolves-to-the-dark-ages/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10112302/Cow-power-could-propel-planes-of-the-future.html
Hi Anthony. I hope you are well. I have just had a laugh at this.
Hank busted Keenan, Keenan won’t reply to Hank’s emails about it…
Anthony, I’m going to bump this again…you need to take a min and look at it
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James Sexton says:
June 9, 2013 at 11:53 am
Regarding the Keenan/Met dustup. Hank, a fine statistician did a head to head comparison of the models. AR1 vs ARIMA 3,1,0. Hands down ARIMA out performs AR1 in every possible metric. Well written without the hard to follow statistical jargon and formulas. It utterly destroys the Met position.
http://suyts.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/keenan-confirmed-met-position-laid-to-utter-waste/
NYT finally admits to a plateau in global warming.
Claims deep ocean collecting heat rather than land. They did not explain why the ocean suddenly decide to collect heat now, whereas the earth’s temperature previously warmed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/science/earth/what-to-make-of-a-climate-change-plateau.html?_r=0
Hey, Anthony. Have you seen this yet? – http://jobcreatorsnetwork.com/global-warming-may-have-been-solved-in-1989/
The link is to NASA video concerning the earlier arrival and increasing territory where noctilucent clouds are observed. If I understood the video correctly the first time that nlcs were observed was in the late19th century following the eruption of Krakatoa. Apparently NLCs were first noticed that year. Since that time they have become a well known phenomenon at the poles. NASA indicates that the clouds form as water vapor crystallizes on particulate matter left over from meteors vaporizing in the upper atmosphere.
New York lays out $20 billion plan to combat effects of climate change
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/us-climate-newyork-plan-idUSBRE95A10120130611
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades.
The plan, which follows widespread destruction wreaked by Superstorm Sandy last year, included about 250 recommendations ranging from new floodwalls and storm barriers to upgrades of power and telecommunications infrastructures.
And the sun is really diving as far a SSN is concerned 21SSN today (check Solar 24 ham). I would still maintain that the max occurred 4-5 months ago? so Svaalgard and hathaway still off (a slight double peak but not enough has occurred) although it remains to be verified until the this months data is analyzed. I would surmise that the real dive to 0 SSN has now started. On an aside the strident posting of people towards the warmists is getting quite strong re NYT article to such a point that Steven Goddard no longer needs to post climate articles it seems it all collapsing for the warmists haha i Cheers
This very very funny watch the language though a bit strong
AW:This page is getting to big I would suggest Tips and Notes 1, 2, 3 or something akin
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/11/exclusive-China-rebuttal-climate-change
Tornadoes on the Sun June 10, 2013
Solar Tornadoes: NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory Captures Footage of Tornadoes On the Sun [VIDEO]
http://www.ibtimes.com/solar-tornadoes-nasa-solar-dynamic-observatory-captures-footage-tornadoes-sun-video-1300615
‘Tornado Season’ On The Sun Returns With New Sighting | Video
Graphic video
Truth about Global Warming:
http://i.imgur.com/xGFeqcx.png
‘Former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer says U.S. knows about UFOs and has even developed new forms of energy using technology from outer space invaders. These forms can allegedly save our planet.’
- from the destruction caused by fossil fuels of course.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20036960-71.html
(Save your time and go to 7.00)
NASA: ”QUIET SUN: With the sunspot number dropping to almost zero, solar activity is very low. No strong flares are expected today. NOAA: 1% chance of X-flares.”. (Sunspot count today is 14.). – and this is barely past the peak!!!! Twelve years ago, we had around 100 sunspots each day.
Size of ‘World’s Largest’ Solar Plant Cut by More Than Half:
http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/solar/nextera-cuts-size-of-blythe-solar-project-by-more-than-half.html
Obama increases carbon tax:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/tougher-regulations-seen-from-obama-change-in-carbon-cost.html
Changing the cost of a metric ton of carbon to $38 from $23.80 in a rule concerning microwave ovens? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/tougher-regulations-seen-from-obama-change-in-carbon-cost.html
Now we have too many polar bears? (By Susan Crockford)
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/06/12/junk-science-week-now-we-have-too-many-polar-bears/
Anthony,
I thought the following might be of interest to you and your readers.
Obama Quietly Raises ‘Carbon Price’ as Costs to Climate Increase
Did you know the Government calculates a social cost for Carbon needed to heat your home and drive your car?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/tougher-regulations-seen-from-obama-change-in-carbon-cost.html
“Buried in a little-noticed rule on microwave ovens is a change in the U.S. government’s accounting for carbon emissions that could have wide-ranging implications for everything from power plants to the Keystone XL pipeline.”
“The increase of the so-called social cost of carbon, to $38 a metric ton in 2015 from $23.80, adjusts the calculation the government uses to weigh costs and benefits of proposed regulations. The figure is meant to approximate losses from global warming such as flood damage and diminished crops.”
“ For example, the administration’s vehicle fuel-efficiency standards would cost industry $350 billion over the next 40 years, while benefits in energy security, less congestion and lower pollution totaled $278 billion.”
“With the change, government actions that lead to cuts in emissions — anything from new mileage standards to clean-energy loans — will appear more valuable in its cost-benefit analyses. On the flip side, approvals that could lead to more carbon pollution, such as TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone pipeline or coal-mining by companies such as Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) on public lands, may be viewed as more costly.”
“As we learn that climate damage is worse and worse, there is no direction they could go but up,” Laurie Johnson, chief economist for climate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in an interview. Johnson says the administration should go further; she estimates the carbon cost could be as much as $266 a ton.”
All this is possible through a little known (to me) executive order:
Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866.
This uses IPCC 4 report information/data to calculate the social cost of carbon to create models that provide a basis to issue regulations. Of course these models include IPCC exaggerated global warming projections based on IPPC sensitivity models
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/inforeg/for-agencies/Social-Cost-of-Carbon-for-RIA.pdf
“Under Executive Order 12866, agencies are required, to the extent permitted by law, “to assess both the costs and the benefits of the intended regulation and, recognizing that some costs and benefits are difficult to quantify, propose or adopt a regulation only upon a reasoned determination that the benefits of the intended regulation justify its costs.” The purpose of the “social cost of carbon” (SCC) estimates presented here is to allow agencies to incorporate the social benefits of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into cost-benefit analyses of regulatory actions that have small, or “marginal,” impacts on cumulative global emissions. The estimates are presented with an acknowledgement of the many uncertainties involved and with a clear understanding that they should be updated over time to reflect increasing knowledge of the science and economics of climate impacts.”
“The SCC is an estimate of the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon emissions in a given year. It is intended to include (but is not limited to) changes in net agricultural productivity, human health, property damages from increased flood risk, and the value of ecosystem services due to climate change.”
“We rely on three integrated assessment models (IAMs) commonly used to estimate the SCC: the FUND, DICE, and PAGE models.2 These models are frequently cited in the peer-reviewed literature and used in the IPCC assessment. Each model is given equal weight in the SCC values developed through this process, bearing in mind their different limitations (discussed below).”
“These models are useful because they combine climate processes, economic growth, and feedbacks between the climate and the global economy into a single modeling framework. At the same time, they gain this advantage at the expense of a more detailed representation of the underlying climatic and economic systems. DICE, PAGE, and FUND all take stylized, reduced-form approaches (see NRC 2009 for a more detailed discussion; see Nordhaus 2008 on the possible advantages of this approach). Other IAMs may better reflect the complexity of the science in their modeling frameworks but do not link physical impacts to economic damages. There is currently a limited amount of research linking climate impacts to economic damages, which makes this exercise even more difficult. Underlying the three IAMs selected for this exercise are a number of simplifying assumptions and judgments reflecting the various modelers’ best attempts to synthesize the available scientific and economic research characterizing these relationships. “
“The three IAMs translate emissions into changes in atmospheric greenhouse concentrations, atmospheric concentrations into changes in temperature, and changes in temperature into economic damages. The emissions projections used in the models are based on specified socio-economic (GDP and population) pathways. These emissions are translated into concentrations using the carbon cycle built into each model, and concentrations are translated into warming based on each model’s simplified representation of the climate and a key parameter, climate sensitivity. Each model uses a different approach to translate warming into damages. Finally, transforming the stream of economic damages over time into a single value requires judgments about how to discount them. “
“Finally, we note the IPCC judgment that the equilibrium climate sensitivity “is very likely larger than 1.5°C.” Although the calibrated Roe & Baker distribution, for which the probability of equilibrium climate sensitivity being greater than 1.5°C is almost 99 percent, is not inconsistent with the IPCC definition of “very likely” as “greater than 90 percent probability,” it reflects a greater degree of certainty about very low values of ECS than was expressed by the IPCC.” See figure 2 below.
Figure 2: Estimates of the Probability Density Function for Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (°C)
Does anyone believe that these economic models for the social cost of carbon will be adjusted to reflect the fact that the IPPC 4 and computer models have exaggerated global warming and that temperature has remained flat for circa 15 or more years?
Here is a question that I have been thinking about for a while. Has anyone taken all of the scary looking alarmists graphs and redone them them with whole degrees or multiple degrees instead of fractions of degrees. That would be very interesting.
It has probably already been done by someone on this site.
I’ve never heard of this Professor Salby before, from Australia. Sorry but the video is embedded in this page.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/06/another-nail-in-the-climate-change-coffin.php
Obama Quietly Raises ‘Carbon Price’ as Costs to Climate Increase
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/tougher-regulations-seen-from-obama-change-in-carbon-cost.html
Someone predicted a derecho event for my Midwestern area, Chicago to be precise.
Freaked out my sister, who for some reason trusts my whether predictions (pun intended).
She was facebooked by the scare story, as was (apparently) our local racetrack (Arlington International Racecourse).
It is raining to be certain, but the dread “derecho” never showed up.
Update: It is raining buckets out of this moisture laden atmosphere !!
Anyway, the wind never showed up.
This is a bit vacuous so you may not be interested in it, however, it is on one of the leading economics bllog sites
http://www.voxeu.org/article/facing-uncertainty-climate-change-economics?utm_source=feedly
Obama slips in some Carbon Pricing (ex Bl;oomberg) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/tougher-regulations-seen-from-obama-change-in-carbon-cost.html
“A charity swim from Sidmouth to Ladram Bay has been postponed until September after the coastal waters were deemed unseasonably cold. ”
Maybe you have cover this. Maybe not.
Climate Change in Classrooms: Here Come the New Science Standards
Science teachers will soon need to adjust their curriculum.
The NGSS aim to prepare students to be better decision makers about scientific and technical issues and to apply science to their daily lives,”
Mario Molina, deputy director at the Alliance for Climate Education, told The Guardian that 35 percent of the sections devoted to climate change were cut in response to public comments.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/04/11/new-science-standards-welcome-climate-change-and-evolution-into-schools
These energy tables for 2012 make interesting reading:
Renewables as a % of Total Energy Consumption:
Total World: 1.9%
China: 1.2%
USA: 2.2%
Germany: 8.3%
Germany’s cost of electricity, already high, is currently soaring and threatening to strangle its economy.
http://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/pdf/statistical-review/statistical_review_of_world_energy_2013.pdf
Anthony, as an experienced weatherman can you tell us if it is true that windfarms mess up doppler radar? This quote is from a local site (Canberra, Australia).
“I’ll say again that wind farms are hard for doppler radars to deal with. Some of the smartest people on the planet (not including me) work in the radar world. If doppler spoofing from windfarms was an easily solved problem, it would’ve been solved long ago I can assure you.
The issue is that all the signal processing system has to work with is the pulse envelope compression or expansion caused by a moving target. And the doppler from one moving object is pretty much the same as that from another moving object. So the doppler from a moving wind farm rotor looks very very very similar to that from any other moving object.
It can be fixed via clutter maps for example, which say “this area always produces bogus doppler so ignore it”, but that tends to throw out the baby with the bathwater, in the sense that good signal may be discarded with the bad.
At the end of the day, the simplest solution is for a human to look at the signal and say, “Meh…that ain’t no rain, that’s the Lake George wind farm”.
If that is right, it is surely a hazard for people who rely on doppler radar to tell them what sort of weather – especially storms – is coming their way.
CAGW is anti-enlightenment. Logic, meh. Reason, meh. Skepticism, NOPE! Superstition, ye. Intolerance, ye. Abuse, ye!
Poke one part of Leviathan and another responds. As more pillars of establishment credibility crumble and buckle, will we now see a ramping up of “Climate Fear”?
Just heard an advert on the radio from Isla Earth claiming that the border between Switzerland and Italy is now in dispute because global warming is shrinking the glacier upon which those countries adjacent borders are based.
Here is the perp’s website:
oops – ill try the URL again:
perp’s website
So, if your country’s weather is cold, damp and miserable, who do you call?
Yep, global warming experts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/13/met-office-uk-bad-weather-cause
“Washout summers. Flash floods. Freezing winters. Snow in May. Droughts. There is a growing sense that something is happening to our weather. But is it simply down to natural variability, or is climate change to blame?
To try to answer the question the Met Office is hosting an unprecedented meeting of climate scientists and meteorologists next week to debate the possible causes of the UK’s “disappointing” weather over recent years, the Guardian has learned.
The one-day gathering will be led by Stephen Belcher, head of the Met Office Hadley Centre and professor of meteorology at the University of Reading, and will include up to 20 experts from the UK’s leading climate research institutions.”
Consider this a wild ass guess, but it’ll all be our fault.
Too funny! In a comment ‘The Jack’ writes: “NEWS FLASH: “Former Vice-President Al Gore announced today he will lead an expedition to the Sun to study its effect on ‘Global Warming’. When advised they would burn-up approaching the Sun, Gore said they planned to land at night.”
How climate change is affecting Dauphin County: As I See It | PennLive.com
By Michael E. Mann & Adam Garber
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/06/dauphin_county_is_in_the_path_of_the_storm_as_i_see_it.html
Apparently tornadoes are no longer tornadoes. High winds are now tornadoes. That plays into the hands of the climate fr**ds.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/winds-in-auglaize-county-classifed-as-tornado/nYKpt/
The BBC is reporting that the Met Office has called a conference to be held shortly to discuss the abnormal weather: which implies they are now concerned about the current cold spell in Europe. over the last few years. The usual suspects are to participate I think but I cannot at the moment find any other reports of this.
Kindest Regards .
The foot soldiers have successfully been sold the romantic dream of a grand mission to save the planet and a coming pastoral living in tune with nature fantasy, and the only thing stopping that happening is some vast pervasive but never quite defined conspiracy by big business, money, right-wing politics, and most especially those well-funded and overwhelmingly powerful Panzer divisions of that evil skeptic Wehrmacht. They’re all totally prepared to hurl their pink little bods into the path of advancing but frankly non-existent Tiger tanks.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/know-your-enemy-the-foot-soldiers/
Pointman
Expect some totally arrant alarmist nonsense on ‘climate change’ from this meeting planned for next Tuesday.
What made me read and chuckle at this article in the Huffington Post was that the reference title was: “Met Office calls in experts over unusual flooding, snow and droughts.”
I thought the Met Office were supposed to be the experts,
http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/WEBMAIL/thumbnail/386×217/http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1191126/thumbs/a-UK-FLOODING-WEATHER-386×217.jpg
Now HERE is a hockey stick!
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/06/us-oil-output-in-2012-largest-one-year-gain-in-us-history/
Here is another “puzzling thing” for you, from ace researchers in the Misandry field: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22886668. The paper must be quantitative and rigorous, because it is published in something called “Computational Biology.”
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-california-efforts-diesel-impact-climate.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10120055/Met-Office-to-hold-summit-on-unusual-UK-weather.html
I live in the UK. I have not experienced any weather here that I would call unusual over the past several years. In my experience (I am 64) we have hot summers and cold wet summers, we have mild winters and we have freezing winters – a rich pattern of variety in our weather, which is why we talk about it so much.
These guys seem to have decided we are having unusual weather, well this morning it was overcast and cool but this afternoon it is now warm and sunny – very typical weather for this part of the world at this time of year. My guess, just a shot in the dark here, is that they will blame it all on Climate Change.
Apparently flying first class is six times worse than flying coach.
http://qz.com/94268/first-class-airline-passengers-are-to-blame-for-global-warming/
Anthony, pretty pretty please publish an article about this:
http://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/3839324-environmental-group-calls-for-warning-labels-on-gas-pumps/
I’m looking forward to the comment section so much. Here’s my suggestion:
“Warning: The gasoline you’re pumping into your car contributes to poisoned weather, prostitution, bad sex, climate catastrophes and colder winters.”
Actually, once several suggestions have been contributed we could vote on the best ones, have stickers made and actually put them on gas pumps! It’s going to be hilarious.
Sleeping Giant? http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-197&cid=release_2013-197
Draft NASA Authorization Bill Nixes Asteroid Retrieval Mission, but more importantly reduces spending on Climate Change research.
http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/35799draft-nasa-authorization-bill-nixes-asteroid-retrieval-mission#.Ubt93djpxLp
The money quote:
“NASA Earth Science is reduced to 2008 spending levels to provide better balance of funding for NASA’s planetary science programs. Thirteen different federal agencies fund $2.5 billion annually in climate science research, but only NASA has space exploration as its primary mission. NASA is still involved in climate change research—spending $1.2 billion annually. NASA must remain focused on building weather satellites for NOAA to meet our nation’s urgent weather-monitoring needs, as well as building LANDSAT satellites for the US Geological Survey.”
Ok, need to page Leif on this one.
I’m out on the East Coast right now and a local TV station was interviewing some ppl from Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) about how we are in a Solar Max and how the Sun is incredibly active right now. No mention of the fact that the current “max” is much lower than the past several cycles.
The Met Office in further disarray withdrawing their report/endorsement of Marcott et al. See here at Bishop Hill:
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/6/14/met-office-withdraws-article-about-marcotts-hockey-stick.html
Obviously they need that ‘conference’ urgently.
Kindest Regards
Anthony, this amused me.
While checking the weather for a cricket match, the Met Office site displayed this message.
Chief Forecaster’s Commentary
There is a lot of uncertainty with regard to the potential spread of rain from the south across England and Wales during Sunday.
A lof of uncertainty about the weather in 2 days time is fine, but not about the climate in 100 years time.
Having many new developments and a very busy schedule, I want to get this out now…
RE: PMSS of TUV SUD group consulting for Cape Wind
I was alarmed by the paucity of information in the news regarding TUV SUD to provide expertise in environmental, health and safety, quality assurance, etc., for Cape Wind as consultant, I’ve done a bit of research on them.
This is explosive—Carbon credit fraud suspended by the UN, TUV SUD! Cape Wind’s consultant on all matters impacts!?!
Answering—Who is TUV SUD? (See more attached on them)
Next from this link UK Telegraph>
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/rowenamason/100004692/carbon-offsetting-needs-to-stop-looking-like-a-medieval-religious-practice/
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In the past week, the United Nations has been forced to suspend the world’s second biggest carbon offsetting auditor TÜV SÜD under its “clean development mechanism” (CDM) programme over concerns about its practices that were revealed in a spot check. This follows the temporary suspension last year of the biggest and third biggest auditors – between them, the top three are in charge of verifying 70pc of the world’s $30bn offset market.
TUV SUD said that the increase in number of temporary suspensions indicates that “the provisions for (firms) are not clear enough,” to allow them to “carry out their activities in compliance with the standard.” The UN’s move appears to be serious, with it claiming that TÜV SÜD had approved projects despite knowing there were problems with their authenticity. Some previous suspensions were connected to worries about the qualifications of monitoring staff.
TÜV SÜD, recently voted the best verifier of climate change projects by carbon financiers, has checked more than 1,200 projects over the last eight years.
Dozens of big UK and other European utilities, banks, investment funds and energy companies use these firms to approve their purchase of offsets. China – which has had 4bn euros of offsetting business from Britain – lists big names like Barclays, RWE, Scottish and Southern, Shell, BP, Citigroup and many others among those registered to buy offsets on its official CDM website. It’s a widely accepted way for Western companies to stay within their carbon allowances allocated by the European Union.
Undoubtedly not all projects are improperly verified, but there has been a series of scandals about wind farms supposedly delivering carbon savings that lie idle and unconnected to the grid, a massive dam that received offset money despite being under construction two years before applying for the subsidy – and now the blow of further
auditing suspensions.
Incidentally, TÜV SÜD was the auditor that approved offsets in the controversial Xiaoxi dam (that displaced 7,500 Chinese people from their homes), maintaining it had net environmental and social benefits despite public outcry. RWE, the owner of npower, was due to buy the offsets and decided to “make its own inquiries” about the project last year.
The UN is at least facing up to cracks in the system by enforcing suspensions, but its member countries failed to make any progress on reform of the entire CDM offsetting programme at the Copenhagen climate change conference in December. If it is to persuade sceptical countries like America that carbon trading is a genuine way to reduce emissions, it’s going to have to make a lot more effort to prove the environmental promises attached to offsets are worth the paper they’re printed on.
Report on Carbon credit fraud-
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1738940/report-carbon-credit-fraud-how-big-firms-faked-green-to-mint-gold
Announcement of PSS TUV SUD consulting group to be used by Cape Wind was in:
North American Wind Power
Cape Wind Hires Firm To Assist With Project Management
in News Departments > Projects & Contracts
by NA Windpower Thursday June 13 2013
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U.S.-based offshore wind developer Cape Wind has signed a consulting services agreement with the North America division of PMSS – a European offshore wind consulting firm and a part of the TUV SUD group.
Under the agreement, PMSS will assist Cape Wind’s project management team. The PMSS staff will be a collaboration of both U.S. engineers and consultants and U.K. offshore wind experts, and will provide expertise in environmental, health and safety, quality assurance, risk management and other strategic advice.
http://www.nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.11633
cut–please see the attached information for “TUV SUD”.
The comment thread for the article on the NIPCC publications translated into Chinese by the CAS has just reignited and it ain’t pretty. The Empire is striking back, and the smell of rats is intense.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/12/heartlands-nippc-report-to-be-accepted-by-chinese-academy-of-sciences-in-special-ceremony/#comments
Gee. 350.org appears to be deserted –
I posted a comment on an article about a wondrous speech by Bill McKibben, and a day later have not been deleted or disputed.
There are only 9 comments each with 2 or 3 ‘likes’ there on the article which was posted 9 days ago.
I see the lonely sound of the few crickets in the room there as a good sign.
http://350.org/en/about/blogs/my-foreigners-eye
Low salmon counts in Alaska due to Global warming?
Don’t think so……
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130614/alaskas-copper-river-sockeye-return-shifts-famine-feast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/15/weather-festivals
The last sentence re. GreenPeace and frozen nitrogen snowballs is just crying out for some perspective..
The Independent in the UK is allowing a journalist called Bob Ward to take fairly strident potshots at Benny Peiser and the GWPF, stating that their charitable status should be withdrawn, amongst other things.
Anyone prepared to put a balanced analysis down on WUWT as to why this is gong on, whether it is justified and whether Bob Ward has an agenda or not??
On the sea ice page, the ‘drifting North pole camera’ page isn’t updating. Has NOAA changed their page?
Seen this one yet?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/14/climate-change-energy-shocks-nsa-prism
The comment section looooves WUWT. (sarcasm)
The URL below gives an interesting political take on the status of climate change in the Green Party in NZ (even as Bill McKibben leaves our shores after a lecture tour) Rodney Hide is an ex leader of the ACT Party(right wing). One problem remains how to get rid of embed legislation and the bureaucracy that it has spawned.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/global-warming-ends-whimper-dc-141467&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATAAOABAtajxjQVIAVAAWABiBWVuLU5a&cd=tJKA4G2IdPI&usg=AFQjCNEXoUu7KQQWJnTwp5hfKU-gYbtoWg
I think that Hadley CRU is either having major problems with part of their website, or else they’re doing a major re-organization. Everything under the http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs hierarchy is unreachable. I get a 504 Gateway timeout error. This includes HadCRUT3, HadCRUT4, CET, and everything else in that section. Can someone try the following URLs to check if it’s just a routing problem for me?
HadCRUT3 http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/monthly
HadCRUT4 http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/data/current/time_series/HadCRUT.4.2.0.0.monthly_ns_avg.txt
CET http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat
[Reply: The first two links did not work for me. The last link downloaded to a text file. — mod.]
> [Reply: The first two links did not work for me. The last link downloaded to a text file. — mod.]
I did some more internet spelunking. It looks like the UK Met Office uses akamai.net for content delivery. For some reason, it’s very slow now. It sorta works when I set my PC to use my ISP’s DNS server. But it fails when I use Google’s 8.8.8.8 server. Strange.
Don’t see it mentioned, ARCUS’ first sea ice outlook of the year is up:
http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/2013/june
We’ll see how the Met Office do on this one ;)
Hi Walter
I emailed the Met Office last week as the CET had stopped reporting on the 9th June. I got a reply the same day
“Thank you for your email advising us that the Central England Temperature series is not reporting. Unfortunately the data is not available because the server that delivers this data has suffered a hardware failure.We hope to have the service restored by the end of next week.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Kind Regards”
It’ll be back. Seem they have the same problems we all have from time to time, though I must say I’m surprised it’s not a dual-homed fully resilient cluster and being the Met Office… Cloudy.
I had a 150 mile round trip to see mine to replace a dodgy CPU fan only last week so I know what it’s like running a service on a shoestring ;-) Sorry what am I talking about I’m sponsored by Big Oil and Big Coal and bankrolled by the Koch Brothers LOL. Click on Dave A above.
Hope the emergency summit about our Weather being typically British has gone well for them.
Have good week Walter
Dave
Is this why DMI Norsex CT are holding back on graphing recent ice?
http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/arctic-sea-ice-area-went-up-40000-sq-km-in-last-two-days/
Is it just me ?
Or is Donna Laframboise on a roll !!
Anthony As you are going to do a piece on the rgbatduke which is excellent for mathematicians and phycists it might be a good idea to give a more down to earth example instead of the carbon atom. eg take say apples and fruit eg 5 apples and 5 pieces of fruit apple, orange, banana, kiwifruit and strawberry, measure some attribute in the two groups. in the second group (the GCMs) what will your statistic tell you about apples. Just a thought to simplify the situation for the non scientific reader.