This can’t be good:
In last 24 hrs, correspondence w 3 multi decade members of The American Meteorological Society, we all quit due to AMS position on #climate
— Tim Kelley NBC10 Boston (@TimNBCBoston) June 21, 2013
It gets worse:
Officers of American Meteorological Society writing position papers based on dogma, not science. Members not allowed to disagree #climate
— Tim Kelley NBC10 Boston (@TimNBCBoston) June 21, 2013
h/t to Steve Milloy
Re wildfire preparation:
http://blogs.usda.gov/2013/06/21/the-first-step-to-help-avoid-wildland-fire-disaster-is-acting-wisely/
Recommends Cleared, defensible space at least 100 feet from a structure.
Average global temperature actually has little to do with meteorology (the study of how energy moves around the planet) so the wrong experts have been trying to figure it out. It is more correctly understood as a problem in radiation heat transfer, and a fairly simple one at that. It consists of only average surface temperature and effective surface emissivity and average cloud altitude (temperature) and average effective cloud emissivity, or, of slight change in average cloud area. As shown at http://lowaltitudeclouds.blogspot.com/ increase in average cloud altitude of less than 200 meters (and thus reduction in average cloud temperature and reduction of energy radiated to space) or a decrease of albedo (or reflectivity which is a bit more than albedo) from 0.3 to the slightly lower value of 0.2928 would account for all of the 0.74 °C average global temperature increase of the 20th century.
Hal Lewis best line:
“the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.”
Use it often, with feeling.