Pat Michaels: High School Science Discredits The New York Times’ Latest Global Warming Whopper – Forbes
…More completely, that would be the consensus of scientists who built their careers on the global warming gravy plane and really don’t want to go back to coach.)
Gillis has taken over the Times’ global warming beat from the much more careful Andy Revkin, and he isn’t shy about pushing lurid warming stories. He’s not, because Gillis wants action, which, in its latest incarnation, would be a tax on everything we do that in some way is powered by fossil fuels. That would mean pretty much everything we do.
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North West Passage blocked with ice – yachts caught
‘The North West Passage seems to be reversing its recent warming trend and is threatening to end the dreams of dozens of adventurous sailors. A scattering of yachts trying to transit the legendary Passage are caught by the ice, which has become blocked at both ends and the season may be ended early.’ Source
http://www.sail-world.com/USA/North-West-Passage-blocked-with-ice%E2%80%94yachts-caught/113788
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2013 Northwest Passage CLOSED without Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker escorts for transit.
At least 22 yachts and other vessels are in the Arctic at the moment. Some who were less advanced have retreated and others have abandoned their vessels along the way. Still others are caught in the ice in an unfolding, unresolved drama.”
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Dr. Judith Curry: Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years
‘Recent observed global warming is significantly less than that simulated by climate models. This difference might be explained by some combination of errors in external forcing, model response and internal climate variability.’
‘Dare we hope for sanity from the AR5 in their assessment of detection and attribution? Based upon the ‘leaks’, I am not too hopeful.’
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MIT Climate Scientist Lindzen: Global warming is a ‘religion’
‘Global Warming has become a religion,’ writes Richard Lindzen. “A surprisingly large number of people seem to have concluded that all that gives meaning to their lives is the belief that they are saving the planet by paying attention to their carbon footprint.’
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Al Gore’s Global Warming Desperation
…Eight of those studies predate the thousand-year global extension of Mann’s “hockey stick” graph of 2003, meaning that he had to deliberately ignore a huge swath of scientific evidence, which, if honestly considered, would have caused him to throw it into the trash. Instead, he and others associated with the IPCC essentially pretended that no other meaningful contradictory information existed.
In other words, Mann’s “hockey stick” is a bunch of what Colonel Potter of the TV series M*A*S*H used to call “horse hockey.”
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“Huge canyon discovered under Greenland ice”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23866810
milodonharlani says:
Similar archaeological finds have been made in the wake of retreating Swiss glaciers, yet again demonstrating the cyclical nature of ice advance & retreat during the Holocene, as in prior interglacial phases:
http://climateaudit.org/2005/11/18/archaeological-finds-in-retreating-swiss-glacier/
More on the Greenland canyon
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Gail Combs says: Seems Greenpeace picked the WRONG PEOPLE to irritate.
Today’s Scores From The Arctic – Russian Coastguard 1 Greenpeace 0 or Green Watermelons met Real Reds and lose.
Greenpeace have just made a massive miscalculation of who to mess with in the Arctic, in this case Russia.
The story goes like this Greenpeace wanted to go the Northern Sea Route in Russia’s Arctic and protest, for that read, interrupt the search for oil and gas in the Arctic, the Arctic is reckoned to have 13% of the worlds undiscovered oil reserves and around 31% of the worlds undiscovered natural gas reserves.
Entry to the Northern Sea Route is by permit only, Greenpeace applied 3 times, and 3 times the Russians rejected the application, so the nobly motivated watermelons at Greenpeace decided they would ignore the lack of permit and go anyway….
A Greenpeace icebreaker that entered Russia’s Arctic without permission to protest offshore energy exploration is leaving after being threatened with gunfire by that country’s coast guard….
http://toryaardvark.com/2013/08/27/todays-scores-from-the-arctic-russian-coastguard-1-greenpeace-0/
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Just FYI, the remaining upright Polecam (which rightfully might be termed, at this point, the Spitsbergen Outer Waters Cam) is now completely iced over. At this point it may never thaw again, there may be no more images this year. In any case,seasonal darkness will ultimately overtake it.
arthurpeacock:
At August 31, 2013 at 8:30 am
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/30/the-wuwt-hot-sheet-for-friday-august-30th-2013/#comment-1404622
you assert
I agree that my statement is not a complete definition of religion. It was a distinction between religion and superstition.
You had claimed
I replied to that saying
The only ‘straw man’ is yours, and it is achieved by selectively quoting me out of context.
Also, and importantly to me, I do NOT “want to discredit religion” and I DO understand “what it actually is”. If you think otherwise then formally complain to my Superintendent with a view to getting me struck off the List of Accredited Methodist Preachers. My congregation yesterday seemed satisfied that your views are unfounded.
Richard
Jeff Alberts:
At August 31, 2013 at 9:09 am you say
No! That is rubbish.
The cult of AGW is a religion. To state the fact is not to “denigrate” believers in AGW.
And I suspect you think your comment at August 31, 2013 at 9:11 am was clever. In reality it was ignorant and foolish.
Richard