In the Forbes item Patrick Michaels lightly touches on the demise of the
Weather Channel’s Forecast Earth program and the layoff of most
of their climate change staff.
Your readers may recall Dr. Heidi Cullen od Forecast Earth and her
call (threat) for the AMS to pull the Certification of any meteorologist who
did not subscribe to the goodthink concept of “global warming” back then. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528
Where is she now ? Still doing her thing as a member of the American
Geophysical Union (like Mike Mann) and the American Meteorological
Society, and a sometime CEO of ClimateCentral. http://www.climatecentral.org/about/people-bio/heidi_cullen
Please take special note this citation in the publications part of her bio:
H.M. Cullen, R.D. D’Arrigo, E.R. Cook and M.E. Mann, 2000:
Multiproxy Reconstructions of the North Atlantic Oscillation, Paleoceanography,
16(1): 27-39. (emphasis added)
Stu Ostro, The Weather Channel’s Senior Director of Weather Communications
seems to now be satisfied allowing folks like Mike Bettes, Jim Cantore and even
Stephanie Abrams the occasion personal comment under the guise of a “scientific”
observation plugging man made climate change.
Since The Weather Channel is currently running a whole bunch of half hour
extreme weather and situational “infotainment” shows, the spirit of an “angry
Earth” is still part of their corporate agenda.
…at least until Mike Mann’s emails are allowed to escape court sequestration.
Robert of Ottawa
January 28, 2012 2:41 pm
Al Gored says anuary 28, 2012 at 1:55 pm Canadian government has really rattled the eco-extortionist business by threatening to look at their ‘charitable’ tax status while…
You cannot imagine how happy I am. I have advocated this line of attack for some time; I have worked tirelessly to get this government elected (yes, I am a realist, not a Fabian).
Environmnetal realists around the world should publicly question the “charitable” status of the enviromental (sic) groups. David Suzuki … watch out fruit-fly man,
Robert of Ottawa
January 28, 2012 2:45 pm
Joachim Seifert (BTW that’s a famous name) the atmosphere does expand and contract in volume; it has, during the recent solar minimum, been at its lowest level since measurement began. We’re talking Ionosphere here.
Thanks Robert,
some literature if possible…. be grateful…..
The atmospheric losses, however, are what counts, if the atmosphere wobble
around….well, let it wobble up and down…..
…The air LOSSES and the ENERGETIC losses have to be accounted for and
SUBTRACTED in Warmist GCMs…..otherwise they just ADD CO2 and forget the
losses into space……which is clearly wrong….
(it is also not new knowledge, rather long time around….)
Strange also is that WUWT does not take this losses into its list of Climate Variables
Reference Page…..what happens there…?
JS
Anthony Watts @ur momisugly 11.35 am
Anthony, mods and writers; the very best wishes and congratulations to all for your extraordinary work and commitment.
“But the sense of free inquiry and thought Watts has fostered on his site has shamed the climate apocalypse machine into inconsequence.”
Interstellar Bill
January 28, 2012 3:44 pm
Just had to laugh at the latest copy of Nature, 26-Jan-12,
with its alarmism article of the week (p. 433)
being even more ridiculous than usual.
Did you know that (gasp!)
‘OIL’s TIPPING POINT IS PASSED’
Yeah, and if we (Govt) don’t do something right away,
why , why… there’ll be…. (gasp!)… economic crises!!!!!!!!!!
Did you know that (gasp!)
the recent Crash was all Oil’s Fault?
Yup. First the oil price ran up, then the Crash followed.
Ipso fatso, ‘major spikes in fuel prices CAN cause economic crises’.
This trite drivel from two professors, of oceanograph and environmentalism.
Their solution, of course, is to waste even more on ‘renewables’.
Nature magazine seems to have reached an advanced stage of desperation,
if this is all they can come up with.
P.S. to the Professors:
ALL economic crises are caused by Government Interventionism.
Without Government bungling, there’d only be problems, not crises.
Oil price shocks are merely a trigger for the Bunglers to cripple us again.
Judy F.
January 28, 2012 4:05 pm
grzejnik,
I went to the USDA link and found some of the info on the algorithm they used. It does look impressive, using almost 8,000 stations and grid cells of 1/2 mile per side.
You are right about the GDD, although for me with only 14 inches of precipitation a year, that limits me almost as much as GDD.
Good luck finding someone to talk more in depth on algorithms.
Pics from the climb Anthony?
Us hams are always interested.
cui bono
January 28, 2012 5:52 pm
Re: Dr. Michaels. Well done, Anthony! You will have a statue, somewhere, sometime, when the present stupidity is over.
Re: climbing radio tower. Trying to knock out Russian space probes again? They’re still very upset about the last one you sabotaged!
Re: Camburn says:
January 28, 2012 at 2:50 pm
In Maine old timers stated snowy owls coming south were a sign of a cold winter. I never heard any talk about the summer before being especially good to the north, leading to an abundance of snowy owls. The fact this year’s appearances are mostly to the west, “as far south as Oklahoma,” may have something to do with the extreme cold in Alaska spilling southeast through the Yukon into the western provinces, from time to time.
I can relate a personal experience with a snowy owl appearing in Maine in early November. It was in 1976, and the northwest wind had already set in, in a way that had old geezers muttering ominous threats about the coming winter. Considering the winter of 1976-77 was one of the worst I ever experienced, many of the “signs” the old timers pointed out have stuck in my head. One was that the smoke was “falling from the chimblies,” day after day.
Back then L. L. Beane was still small, though the mail order business was starting to take off. It was the only place open in Freeport after eleven o’clock, because hunters often drove north in the dead of night, and L.L. Beane was still primarily known as an outfitter of hunters. I’d go there late at night to get cigarettes, because there was no place else to go. They operated from a single building, though there was talk about expansion.
Now, where did the snowy owl choose to sit, in broad daylight, (because snowy owls, unlike other owls, are out at day, due to living in “midnight sun,”) when it came south? It sat right upon the L.L.Beane sign, in downtown Freeport. Talk about great advertizing! (There was a picture in the front page of the local paper.)
I’m not sure whether the snowy owls are an ominous sign about the second half of this winter. However the businesses they land on in Montana and Oklahoma may very well be about to succeed beyond investor’s wildest dreams.
evilincandescentbulb
January 28, 2012 6:18 pm
Behavior speaks louder than words: obviously, the liberal utopianism of the Left is simple self-defeating nihilism.
evilincandescentbulb
January 28, 2012 6:28 pm
Scientists know that what occurs on the Sun can be described as a pattern for change and that these patterns determine the interactions within the Sun-Earth connection.
• In something that consists of many parts, the parts usually influence one another.
• Thinking about things as systems means looking for how every part relates to others.
Truthseeker
January 28, 2012 6:50 pm
I noticed the following in the “about me” part of the author of the Forbes article (which was excellent) … I am a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
High praise from the enemy camp no less!
A modification my comment earlier on an out of cycle post:
Gene, ok, I agree [that we can’t have “our own Greenpeace”]. So I make a revision of sorts. We need a PAC — all we need is a few smart people to start, and $£ money. Once going, the plan for it would be to grow big via additional donations — both from individuals sympathetic, to pirate a warmist phrase: to “the cause” (like us !), and from organizations & angels.
The goal won’t be like to push for clean or dirty water in any specific case, but to change public sentiment about one thing: AGW. This can be sold as important (to donaters) because sentiment on AGW has a major impact on public policy, and on elections. In the U.S., with Republicans generally anti-AGW now, a change in public sentiment on AGW will thus favor the election of conservatives, across the board. So I say ‘Greenpeace’ with a lot of latitude.
I add also that, even if it looks like we are going to ‘win’ this one, it make all the sense in the world to carry forward with the PAC idea anyway. We should strive to run up the score, and embarrass the opposition — because we need to make sure that the perpetrators of AGW don’t succeed in rising again like Zombies with a rebranded de-industrializatin Chicken Little “the sky is falling” scheme (this may not even involve CO2, but it will involve de-industrialization!).
Camburn
January 28, 2012 7:15 pm
Caleb says:
January 28, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Interesting observations about Snowy Owls. I have not seen any so far this winter, so maybe they just flew over on their way south. Mid Jan thru Mid Feb is usually when we see the most numbers of them.
Wherever they landed, may they prosper and eat well.
I noticed the following in the “about me” part of the author of the Forbes article (which was excellent) …
I am a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
High praise from the enemy camp no less!
“But the sense of free inquiry and thought Watts has fostered on his site has shamed the climate apocalypse machine into inconsequence. David whupped Goliath, one of the most amazing achievements in the history of science communication.”
There’s got to be room for that somewhere…
Anthony,
Re:
In the Forbes item Patrick Michaels lightly touches on the demise of the
Weather Channel’s Forecast Earth program and the layoff of most
of their climate change staff.
Your readers may recall Dr. Heidi Cullen od Forecast Earth and her
call (threat) for the AMS to pull the Certification of any meteorologist who
did not subscribe to the goodthink concept of “global warming” back then.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528
Where is she now ? Still doing her thing as a member of the American
Geophysical Union (like Mike Mann) and the American Meteorological
Society, and a sometime CEO of ClimateCentral.
http://www.climatecentral.org/about/people-bio/heidi_cullen
Please take special note this citation in the publications part of her bio:
H.M. Cullen, R.D. D’Arrigo, E.R. Cook and M.E. Mann, 2000:
Multiproxy Reconstructions of the North Atlantic Oscillation, Paleoceanography,
16(1): 27-39. (emphasis added)
Stu Ostro, The Weather Channel’s Senior Director of Weather Communications
seems to now be satisfied allowing folks like Mike Bettes, Jim Cantore and even
Stephanie Abrams the occasion personal comment under the guise of a “scientific”
observation plugging man made climate change.
Since The Weather Channel is currently running a whole bunch of half hour
extreme weather and situational “infotainment” shows, the spirit of an “angry
Earth” is still part of their corporate agenda.
…at least until Mike Mann’s emails are allowed to escape court sequestration.
Al Gored says anuary 28, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Canadian government has really rattled the eco-extortionist business by threatening to look at their ‘charitable’ tax status while…
You cannot imagine how happy I am. I have advocated this line of attack for some time; I have worked tirelessly to get this government elected (yes, I am a realist, not a Fabian).
Environmnetal realists around the world should publicly question the “charitable” status of the enviromental (sic) groups. David Suzuki … watch out fruit-fly man,
Joachim Seifert (BTW that’s a famous name) the atmosphere does expand and contract in volume; it has, during the recent solar minimum, been at its lowest level since measurement began. We’re talking Ionosphere here.
Thanks Robert,
some literature if possible…. be grateful…..
The atmospheric losses, however, are what counts, if the atmosphere wobble
around….well, let it wobble up and down…..
…The air LOSSES and the ENERGETIC losses have to be accounted for and
SUBTRACTED in Warmist GCMs…..otherwise they just ADD CO2 and forget the
losses into space……which is clearly wrong….
(it is also not new knowledge, rather long time around….)
Strange also is that WUWT does not take this losses into its list of Climate Variables
Reference Page…..what happens there…?
JS
Ok…help me here. IF the Arctic is warming, won’t that produce more grass? The grass that lemmings eat? And with that said, wouldn’t there be more lemmings? And food for snowy owls?
Something amiss with that “reason” isn’t there?
http://news.yahoo.com/snowy-owls-soar-south-arctic-rare-mass-migration-175336821.html
Climbing onto this radio transmitter is piece of cake; also of interest to the early mobile radio enthusiasts.
I don’t really think the USA wants to “double down” on any more of these charitable investments:
http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/27/drip-drip-drip-yet-another-green-energy-stimulus-recipient-hits-the-skids-the-third-this-week/
Anthony Watts @ur momisugly 11.35 am
Anthony, mods and writers; the very best wishes and congratulations to all for your extraordinary work and commitment.
“But the sense of free inquiry and thought Watts has fostered on his site has shamed the climate apocalypse machine into inconsequence.”
Just had to laugh at the latest copy of Nature, 26-Jan-12,
with its alarmism article of the week (p. 433)
being even more ridiculous than usual.
Did you know that (gasp!)
‘OIL’s TIPPING POINT IS PASSED’
Yeah, and if we (Govt) don’t do something right away,
why , why… there’ll be…. (gasp!)… economic crises!!!!!!!!!!
Did you know that (gasp!)
the recent Crash was all Oil’s Fault?
Yup. First the oil price ran up, then the Crash followed.
Ipso fatso, ‘major spikes in fuel prices CAN cause economic crises’.
This trite drivel from two professors, of oceanograph and environmentalism.
Their solution, of course, is to waste even more on ‘renewables’.
Nature magazine seems to have reached an advanced stage of desperation,
if this is all they can come up with.
P.S. to the Professors:
ALL economic crises are caused by Government Interventionism.
Without Government bungling, there’d only be problems, not crises.
Oil price shocks are merely a trigger for the Bunglers to cripple us again.
grzejnik,
I went to the USDA link and found some of the info on the algorithm they used. It does look impressive, using almost 8,000 stations and grid cells of 1/2 mile per side.
You are right about the GDD, although for me with only 14 inches of precipitation a year, that limits me almost as much as GDD.
Good luck finding someone to talk more in depth on algorithms.
Thanks to http://spaceweather.com for the through links to
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/27jan_annulareclipse/
and Telling the folks that there will be is nice annular eclipse for viewing in
our western and southwestern states this coming May 20th, 2012.
A good depiction of the viewing swath is at:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2012-Fig02.pdf
Need we really need say more?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/27/global-warmings-dirty-laundry/
Judy F:
Care to share that link where the methodology was presented?
Camburn,
It was the same link as referenced by grzejnik upthread: http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/ Go to “about” then “mapmaking”
Thank you Judy F.
Pics from the climb Anthony?
Us hams are always interested.
Re: Dr. Michaels. Well done, Anthony! You will have a statue, somewhere, sometime, when the present stupidity is over.
Re: climbing radio tower. Trying to knock out Russian space probes again? They’re still very upset about the last one you sabotaged!
I’m afraid the USDA’s new Carboncultist zone map is going to cause some serious problems. On this morning’s KXLY Gardening Show, the host was delighted by the new map because it rates Spokane as less frigid than before. She’s hoping to try some warm-tolerant plants that wouldn’t grow here before.
Classic case of following theory instead of reality. She’s going to be disappointed with the results. Spokane’s actual winter temps haven’t changed in any linear or permanent way; we’re in a somewhat less frigid period on average, but it looks the same as the period around 1900.
NCDC records for Eastern Wash: (Spokane is on the boundary between these two divisions):
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/index.php?parameter=tmp&month=2&year=2011&filter=4&state=45&div=9
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/index.php?parameter=tmp&month=2&year=2011&filter=4&state=45&div=10
Re: Camburn says:
January 28, 2012 at 2:50 pm
In Maine old timers stated snowy owls coming south were a sign of a cold winter. I never heard any talk about the summer before being especially good to the north, leading to an abundance of snowy owls. The fact this year’s appearances are mostly to the west, “as far south as Oklahoma,” may have something to do with the extreme cold in Alaska spilling southeast through the Yukon into the western provinces, from time to time.
I can relate a personal experience with a snowy owl appearing in Maine in early November. It was in 1976, and the northwest wind had already set in, in a way that had old geezers muttering ominous threats about the coming winter. Considering the winter of 1976-77 was one of the worst I ever experienced, many of the “signs” the old timers pointed out have stuck in my head. One was that the smoke was “falling from the chimblies,” day after day.
Back then L. L. Beane was still small, though the mail order business was starting to take off. It was the only place open in Freeport after eleven o’clock, because hunters often drove north in the dead of night, and L.L. Beane was still primarily known as an outfitter of hunters. I’d go there late at night to get cigarettes, because there was no place else to go. They operated from a single building, though there was talk about expansion.
Now, where did the snowy owl choose to sit, in broad daylight, (because snowy owls, unlike other owls, are out at day, due to living in “midnight sun,”) when it came south? It sat right upon the L.L.Beane sign, in downtown Freeport. Talk about great advertizing! (There was a picture in the front page of the local paper.)
I’m not sure whether the snowy owls are an ominous sign about the second half of this winter. However the businesses they land on in Montana and Oklahoma may very well be about to succeed beyond investor’s wildest dreams.
Behavior speaks louder than words: obviously, the liberal utopianism of the Left is simple self-defeating nihilism.
Scientists know that what occurs on the Sun can be described as a pattern for change and that these patterns determine the interactions within the Sun-Earth connection.
• In something that consists of many parts, the parts usually influence one another.
• Thinking about things as systems means looking for how every part relates to others.
I noticed the following in the “about me” part of the author of the Forbes article (which was excellent) …
I am a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
High praise from the enemy camp no less!
A modification my comment earlier on an out of cycle post:
Gene, ok, I agree [that we can’t have “our own Greenpeace”]. So I make a revision of sorts. We need a PAC — all we need is a few smart people to start, and $£ money. Once going, the plan for it would be to grow big via additional donations — both from individuals sympathetic, to pirate a warmist phrase: to “the cause” (like us !), and from organizations & angels.
The goal won’t be like to push for clean or dirty water in any specific case, but to change public sentiment about one thing: AGW. This can be sold as important (to donaters) because sentiment on AGW has a major impact on public policy, and on elections. In the U.S., with Republicans generally anti-AGW now, a change in public sentiment on AGW will thus favor the election of conservatives, across the board. So I say ‘Greenpeace’ with a lot of latitude.
I add also that, even if it looks like we are going to ‘win’ this one, it make all the sense in the world to carry forward with the PAC idea anyway. We should strive to run up the score, and embarrass the opposition — because we need to make sure that the perpetrators of AGW don’t succeed in rising again like Zombies with a rebranded de-industrializatin Chicken Little “the sky is falling” scheme (this may not even involve CO2, but it will involve de-industrialization!).
Caleb says:
January 28, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Interesting observations about Snowy Owls. I have not seen any so far this winter, so maybe they just flew over on their way south. Mid Jan thru Mid Feb is usually when we see the most numbers of them.
Wherever they landed, may they prosper and eat well.
Truthseeker says:
January 28, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Pat Michaels is definitely not enemy camp.
http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels
http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Extremes-Global-Warming-Science/dp/1933995238
http://www.skepticalscience.com/patrick-michaels-serial-deleter-of-inconvenient-data.html [go there if you dare]
“But the sense of free inquiry and thought Watts has fostered on his site has shamed the climate apocalypse machine into inconsequence. David whupped Goliath, one of the most amazing achievements in the history of science communication.”
There’s got to be room for that somewhere…