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Traveling today, so post on any relevant topic.
Traveling today, so post on any relevant topic.
Article on Tallbloke’s talkshop about lunar-solar infulence on sea surface temperature:
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/greg-goodman-zen-and-the-art-of-climate-analysis/
Animal Rights activists hound a police officer who shot a 4 metre greater white shark that killed a man and was eating his body.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8374184/Shark-shooting-cop-goes-into-hiding
Only an animal rights activist could hear of a man being killed by a shark and have more sympathy for the shark than the man.
Looks like Antarctic sea ice minimum put in ~Feb 21. http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/antarctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
Eyeballing off the global sea ice chart… http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
it appears that this years global minimum extent is close to, if not the highest since 2003 (about the same as 2008 and 2004).
Now about that glacier that’s building at the end of my driveway…
One comment only in the past hour? Hey, maybe the world did end yesterday.
[Reply: Saturday evenings are typically slow. — mod.]
I’m watching the UK’s wind generation figures. At the moment (10 at night, damn cold outside) the windmills are producing .03GW from a rated capacity of over 8GW. The big high (Anthony, I still think of it as the synoptic chart which rather dates me) extends over much of Europe and it would be interesting to know what the whole windmill fleet is producing. I’m burning wood, coal and gas to keep the house warm.
JF
Does anyone have a link to diagrams, equations, and accompanying text explaining how heat is transferred between different layers of the surface/atmosphere? I’m thinking of something that would be closely related to the GCM algorithms, though not necessarily in full detail.
Trenberth’s sketch of radiation in, radiation reflected, and radiation absorbed, radiation out is “sort of” correct.
For an ideal flat earth that doesn’t rotate and has a perfect atmosphere that is constantly exposed to a constant average flux radiating into a perectly “average” global albedo of uiform mass properties.
in other words, totally useless in a rotating real world of real atmosphere and water-covered world.
By the way, more than 990,000 comments so far.
Less than 10,000 to get to 1.0 million comments on WUWT. (And probably 250,000 spam’s.)
I have been wondering about something for a while.
1) SST’s have remained somewhat constant for a while.
2) The Argo float system shows minimal or no heating down to 700m and very little heat gain down to 2000 m.
3) The belief is (among many) that most increases in sea level is due to thermal expansion and glacial run off.
4) Despite the fact that there has been little evidence of increase in heat in the worlds oceans in the last decade, topex has shown a somewhat steady rise in sea level over the last decade with the exception of a decrease in 2010 (believed to be due to a La Nina event) and then a sudden increase to get back to the same rate of rise.
Anyone care to comment on what seems to me to be a paradox?
jorgekafkazar says:
March 2, 2013 at 2:39 pm
http://scienceofdoom.com/ has tons of technical stuff with a good index that makes it easy to find what you’re looking for.
It isn’t easy to find stuff at http://stevemosher.wordpress.com/ but I’ve seen some excellent work there.
Get ready for more (missing) climate refugees. 3,2,1……………..
Did I see the CIA? The very Central Unintelligent Agency that worried about the dangers of global cooling in the 1970s? Surely not, I must be having hallucinations.
How on Earth can the US of A produce such imbeciles?
By the way there is net movement of Mexicans back to Mexico.
@DarrylB
Have you taken account of the glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA)?
Here are the links for the Mexicans going back.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-23/mexican-immigration-united-states/54487564/1
Not only has Germany had 5 colder than average winters, but so has the UK, apparently.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2286041/So-global-warming-4-5-winters-COLDER-average-reveals-Met-Office.html
Al Gore is at it again.
https://realitydrop.org/
http://youtu.be/-6aJzArmYQc
Global warming seems to be on hold in the UK. The Central England Temperature (CET) for the winter, as measured by the Met Office, was 3.83 degrees C. This was the 4th winter out of the last 5 with a value below the 1961-90 average of 4.08, which is the period used by the Met Office in its comparisons. The most recent 30-year period of whole decades (1981-2010) had an average of 4.56 C
2009 3.54
2010 2.41
2011 3.02
2012 5.12
2013 3.83
This is the most consistent run of cold winters since 4 in a row from 1962 to 1965.
The 12-month running mean of the CET is 9.49 C which apart from a short period in 2010-11 is the lowest since 1997.
The Met Office’s theme that, despite year-to-year fluctuations, each decade is warmer than the last, still holds true – just! The running 120-month mean up to February 2013 is 10.19 degrees, just above the 10.16 degrees up to February 2003. However, this is almost certain to come to an end by August this year, bringing the curtain down on 23 years of increasing decadal temperatures. This figure reached a peak of 10.51 in the 10 years ending in June 2007, which included the hottest 12-month period in the whole 350 year record of 11.63 degrees to April 2007.
Well, technically it “was” CAGW that stopped the influx of illegal aliens into the US.
The deliberate destruction of the global and US economies under the democrat/liberal/socialist agenda of CAGW-dominated energy destruction policies destroyed the construction and cheap-labor jobs that the illegals had been occupying, and – with no jobs – the illegals stopped coming north into a better economy.
Now, whether any specific “general or CIA-head who is politically-hired and under politically-corrupt (er, correct) pay-for-positions in the administration is trustworthy? Do you
Well, let us say that I will only trust a political statement from somebody who is NOT employed – now or in the future – because of their politics.
OK, here is my take on what is happening in the
global warming‘climate change’ debate.The
weather‘climate’ has changed and so have Warmist predictions. All entirely consistent with thespeculation, hypothesis, theory ofglobal warmingclimate change. I hope I have made myself clear.What a fraud.
I was checking up on post Hurricane Sandy repairs in New York City
The Queens-Midtown tunnel was reopened Nov. 9, about 12 days after Sandy.
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel was was partially reopened on Nov. 13 and more completely (not yet trucks) on Nov. 20.
So all in all, the recover time was remarkable. But some things will take longer:
Jan. 18, 2013: South Ferry station repair estimate: 3 years, $600 million
On the Statan Island and Brooklyn fronts, add forclosures to the list of problems. On May 1 the rules change.
There is an interesting graphic in this Feb. 28 story.
Book review on Al Gore…..
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/is-al-gores-new-book-political-propaganda-or-a-literary-legacy/article9202938/
@Stephen Fisher Rasey, That was before the union’s estimate AND Chris Cristie’s call to obama.
Steve McIntyre is back, after a long break. He has taken the scalpel to Mann’s latest fudging presentation here:
http://climateaudit.org/2013/03/02/mikes-agu-trick/#comment-402449
February sunspot number was released, and is only 38.0. (www.ips..gov.au/Solar)
At this rate of decline, soon children will only know about sunspots by reading about them in books.
Re: immigration slowdown or reversal in the U.S. (same also in the U.K.) — besides the more obvious explanations based on the decline of the host economy, it appears that there is a limit on the number of immigrants that any settled society can accommodate. The newcomers have to compete not only with the natives but also with the less recent immigrants who have already filled all available niches.
For the lovers of temperature records, here’s one from Calcutta: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21630309