I have some other things to attend to this weekend, posting will be light from me. But I’ve arranged for some entertainment.
Willis will be posting some of his tales of the sea, which will appear below this posting.
Other WUWT authors are welcome to make submissions also.
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Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial think tanks
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network
Where’s my money?
ENSO meter fans:
Warmed up a bit, but still negative at -0.30
Opening http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/pdisp_sst.sh?ctlfile=oiv2.ctl&ptype=ts&var=ssta&level=1&op1=none&op2=none&day=19&month=jan&year=2013&fday=18&fmonth=feb&fyear=2013&lat0=-5&lat1=5&lon0=-170&lon1=-120&plotsize=800×600&title=&dir=
Found target /png/tmp/CTEST136118880125901.txt
Opening http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov//png/tmp/CTEST136118880125901.txt
Data file
data from 00Z19JAN2013 to 00Z18FEB2013
“———-”
-0.561866
-0.114537
-0.481587
-0.476145
-0.302259
Length of data file 102, most recent value: -0.302259
file_last -0.476145
anomaly -03
FYI, I’ve posted a look at, and discussion of, the recent revisions to the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index (caused by the switch in sea surface temperarture datasets):
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/a-look-at-the-new-and-improved-giss-land-ocean-temperature-index-data/
http://grist.org/climate-energy/remembering-rebecca-tarbotton-head-of-rainforest-action-network-who-died-this-week/
On Dec. 26, Rebecca Tarbotton, executive director of the Rainforest Action Network, died while vacationing along the west coast of Mexico, north of Puerto Vallarta. In a freak accident at the beach, she got tossed around in rough surf, took too much water into her lungs, and asphyxiated. She was 39 years old.
Tarbotton had been at the helm of RAN since August 2010, and had worked with the organization for almost six years. Under her leadership, RAN has focused on the intersections between forests, fossil fuels, and climate change, and run aggressive campaigns pushing corporations to change the way they do business. Most recently, Tarbotton helped convince entertainment giant Disney to adopt a major new policy that will eliminate the use of paper connected to the destruction of endangered forests.
Was not there a post yesterday by Mr. Monckton? I don’t see it today.
Er, Never mind, found it.
I posted my question on dancing village lights a couple of days ago, then suffered an internet failure.
This is to thank everyone who took the trouble to comment. When my connection is stable, I will comb the tread again, taking notes on this and indeed other matters.
Best wishes to all here.
WillR Thanks for the update. It must be our fault.
>Why do the “scientists” studying asteroid impact missions ALWAYS reject nuclear blasts that would break up the asteroid/comet – so at least SOME of the asteroid/comet would miss earth
Because the area affected by an explosion scales as the cube root of energy.
Suppose we have an asteriod that on impact releases x energy and destroys and area y. Now break it into 27 pieces, all of which impact separately. Each piece has an destructive area equal to the the cube root of 1/27 or 1/3 of the original, but since there are 27 pieces the total area destroyed is 3 times the original.
So to reduce the damaged area, you have to ensure that 2/3 of the pieces miss the earth completely. That’s a high requirement to meet.
Additionally, even if all pieces miss on the first pass, you now have 27 fragments, each significantly descructive, to track. Their orbits will diverge over time, making a cloud of debris that is more likely to this the Earth on he next encounter.