I’m off this weekend – talk quietly and politely amongst yourselves. Don’t make me come back here.
If you have something worth posting on the front page, flag a moderator. In the meantime I have a couple of stories that will post using the WordPress scheduler. – Anthony
An interesting indication of Alarmist anxiety from the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm
Might be worth posting for WUWT reader’s perusal.
Dave
In spirit of Bill the Cat, ‘Pfft, Ack!’ Seems all I did was comment on a post titled ‘Conflicting Views On Climate Change’ and not a post to comment on. Seems I’m not completely savvy on blog speak or the blogosphere just yet. My apologies.
tallbloke
Without the calculations, is there some way to physically explain ocean heat release mode? My only knowledge as a starting point is that solar heating of the oceans is and should still be decreasing. Also since everything is nonuniform, there will be places with more and less solar heating and places with more and less heat release which should also affect ocean currents and winds.
Since it is an open forum , here’s a little cold weather news from Colorado.
17 deg F & snowing this morning at the house in SW Denver foothills.
Previous record low in denver was 25 – smashed that with 18 officially at the airport!
Today’s high wont be much above the previous record low.
If the Rockies & Phillies play this evening (big if – as it is snowing), I think it might be the coldest major league game ever (game time temp in the mid 20’s , falling to the low 20’s). Can find some definitive info on the coldest major league game – my quick search didn’t turn up much.
2nd ski area has opened here – Arapahoe basin – their earliest opening ever. Loveland ski opened earlier in the week – the earliest opening in 40 years.
10 days straight of below normal temps, models indicate at least another 7 days before even a chance of normal temps. Currently 11 deg below avg for the month (not including today, which will bring that average down even further). 2 record lows broken & 1 tied so far this month (including today)
How’s that for weather isn’t climate ????
Drudge is highly ranking the BBC article “What happened to global warming?”
I have a challenge for any warmists who happen to be reading this:
Briefly summarize the evidence for CAGW without any appeals to authority.
Moderators, Here is a hot topic, going after CRU’s destruction of data:
Request for Reopening of the Record and Extension of the Comment Period,
Re: Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for
Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0171
Full PDF:
http://cei.org/cei_files/fm/active/0/Petition%20Final%20CV.pdf
Juraj V.: You wrote, “Is it me, or there is a nice cold tongue forming along the Peruvian coast?”
If we look at the subsurface anomalies along the equatorial Pacific…
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_update/wkxzteq.shtml
…the cooler waters near the Peruvian coast are shown but there’s a lot more warm water down there that wants to rise to the surface.
Hear, hear. Thank you, my thoughts exactly.
H . Leighton Steward and his new book, Fire, Ice and Paradise getting good coverage in US News & World Reports – Washington Whispers Blog:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/10/09/stewards-10-myths-about-global-warming-and-co2-damage.html
My bad. Kelvins go from West to East. Here is a very good mathematical description of Kelvins.
http://faculty.washington.edu/luanne/pages/ocean420/notes/kelvin.pdf
Juraj V. (01:05:04) :
First!!! 🙂
Is it me, or there is a nice cold tongue forming along the Peruvian coast?
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
It´s the cold Humboldt´s current surfacing, which BTW is normal for the peruvian coast. The abnormal is any El Nino event. So we are back to the 1960´s conditions, not completely yet. Those years were of a big fishing boom along these coasts.
I wanna’ talk about weather, not climate or politics. We have had a very cold winter storm pound us for the past two days. I told people that I couldn’t recall such a cold early storm, and that it must be a record setter. Sure enough from NWS…
A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 11 DEGREES WAS SET AT CHEYENNE WY
YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 15 SET IN 1970.
Back to the ’70s, eh? I am not excited about this propect.
gtrip (03:39:46) :
tallbloke (03:32:40) :
gtrip (03:14:47) :
😉
Wisdom falls on deaf ears 🙂 ….did I get the smiley thing right?
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Depends on watt you you want yer smiley face to do.
We’ve your basic winking smiley up there …
A long-narrow-nosed smiley follows …
But I wear glasses…. 8<)
Temperatures can’t go up because a heat source is lowered or removed.
All we are seeing is heat flow rates. The more dense materials (oceans) heat and cool slower than the less dense air.
A comment left at Ann Althouse blog.
Balfegor said…
“This just reinforces my ongoing impression that we’ve been living out a satire for the past year or two. We elected a callow nobody as President on the strength of a few vacuous speeches. The healthcare debate — driving trillions of dollars in anticipated future expenditures — got turned around by comments someone scrawled on Facebook, and now the Nobel Peace Prize committee has decided to award prizes for good intentions. It’s like no one’s even serious about anything anymore. None of it matters. It’s the Society of the Spectacle.”
The comment fits well with global warming.
Sun to remain spotless till 9/11/2009.
You read it here.
Like Geoff Chambers I am a left wing, radical atheist who doesn’t buy into AGW. It’s not about politics, it’s all about truth.
P Gosselin (04:08:13) :
AWesome and anthemic.
Battlehymn of the Reskeptics
The graphic at the top reminds me…
A string walks into a bar. “Bartender, give me a drink!”
The bartender kicks him out. “We don’t serve strings in here”.
The string throws himself down, ties himself all up. Messes his hair (frays the top enf of the string) and walks back in.
The bartender says. “Hey! Aren’t you that string I just threw out?!?”.
The string says, “No… I’m a frayed knot”
Well the Marxist Socialist British government has really gone & done it this time. Their new hard hitting advert aimed at adults, apparently 40% of us don’t think AGW will affect us. What they really mean is that at least 40% of us don’t believe in the nonsense dished out to us by government, NGO’s, Greenie religeous clap-trappers, & that hurts them more as a result. On BBC News this morning Joan Rubbish Ruddock was droning on about educating adults, & that half-wit presenter encouraging her by saying that it seemed that children were more aware of climate change than adults! Disgraceful, we have been illegally brainwashing our children with this green garbage which is a political opinion & therefore illegal in the UK, (but who cares about a little thing like that) for years that is why. The Government of the United Kingdom of Great & Northern Ireland (WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NUTS!).
Lucy Skywalker (03:09:48) :
Excellent BBC article – at last.
Meanwhile, back at BBC Propaganda HQ………..
“I say, Godfrey!”,
“Yes Geoffrey?”
“Don’t you think it’s about time this Paul Hudson fellow is….err…..re-assigned to a mroe suitable portfolio, like tackling UFOs?”
“Indeed I do Geoffrey, I’ll see to it at once!”
Bye bye Mr Hudson.
Greens more likely thieves and liars, says shock study:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/08/greens_are_thieves_and_liars_say_trick_cyclists/
gtrip.
Good point about the rift between the agenda-driven far left (the Greens) and the political left who have stolen their clothes to hide their own nakedness. Except that in Europe it’s ALL the mainstream parties who are wearing green.
I can forgive your ignorance of British politics, but what are you on about when you say “Why can the English make such good music but not have a clue?” We English haven’t made any good popular music since John Dowland’s Bookes of Ayres in the 17th century. You can’t mean that pathetic aping of Black American music which began c1964 with those fab four insects? Pathetic parasitic parroting – a tick on the Hound Dog.
How cold must it get before the populace cries “B.S.!” California is at least 10 degrees F below average. (approximately 6 deg C)
http://www.calclim.dri.edu/cgi-bin/anomimage.pl?cal1mTvdep.gif
Plus, our weather boffins predict California will be struck by a massive snow and rain storm for Tuesday next week – the remnant of super typhoon Mellor approaching from the Pacific.
The first ski resort in California is already open (Boreal at Donner Summit), and Yosemite Valley has snow on the ground.
And all this, while the CO2 keeps on climbing.
How cold must it get before the populace cries “B.S.!” California is at least 10 degrees F below average. (approximately 6 deg C)
The people have been saying BS for years. Only the politicians pretend to believe in AGW anymore.
http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2009/01/pew_global_warming_dead_last_a.php