Donna needs some help:
Donna LaFramboise has been invited to give a presentation to the Environment and Climate Change Committee in London and has today written a column asking for some help in covering the costs (they won’t even cover her return flight!) She has been a good contributor to this debate for 5 years now, and I think there may be a tipping point approaching in England on the political aspects of this fight, so I suspect that her testimony will be very helpful. I am sure the many WUWT readers would like to help if they were made aware of her upcoming testimony in the WUWT main blog in some way.
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2014/01/10/five-years-later/
She’s paying her own way. Hit her tip jar please. – Anthony h/t Lance Wallace
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Spain cutting its “guaranteed for 25 years” subsidy to solar electric producers, leaving them in financial distress.
They’re even taxing producers for the electricity they produce and consume themselves (the “sun tax”)
h/t Quinn
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‘Storms’ link to climate change uncertain – Met Office’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25675937
h/t shadrach
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Good, lengthy article about Lindzen at the Weekly Standard:
What Catastrophe?
MIT’s Richard Lindzen, the unalarmed climate scientist
JAN 13, 2014, VOL. 19, NO. 17 • BY ETHAN EPSTEIN
…”When you first meet Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, leading climate “skeptic,” and all-around scourge of James Hansen, Bill McKibben, Al Gore, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and sundry other climate “alarmists,” as Lindzen calls them, you may find yourself a bit surprised. If you know Lindzen only from the way his opponents characterize him—variously, a liar, a lunatic, a charlatan, a denier, a shyster, a crazy person, corrupt—you might expect a spittle-flecked, wild-eyed loon. But in person, Lindzen cuts a rather different figure. With his gray beard, thick glasses, gentle laugh, and disarmingly soft voice, he comes across as nothing short of grandfatherly.
…Lindzen is no shrinking violet. A pioneering climate scientist with decades at Harvard and MIT, Lindzen sees his discipline as being deeply compromised by political pressure, data fudging, out-and-out guesswork, and wholly unwarranted alarmism. In a shot across the bow of what many insist is indisputable scientific truth, Lindzen characterizes global warming as “small and . . . nothing to be alarmed about.” In the climate debate—on which hinge far-reaching questions of public policy—them’s fightin’ words.”….
Read more
Full Article here:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-catastrophe_773268.html#
h/t donpenim
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The goal posts for the falsification of the climate models are being moved considerably by David Kennedy during a UK Parliament Committee hearing, Wednesday 8 January 2014:
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2014/1/8/deben-and-kennedy-sinking-fast.html
Starting at 10:20:20 in the video recording, Kennedy claims that the models do not involve short times scales under 50 years. Up til now the time window for falsification of the models was after all supposed to be 17 years (per Santer):
h/t Pethefin
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Questions about the link between flooding in the UK and climate change could be answered within two years, according to a leading scientist.
Prof Myles Allen from Oxford University said the only thing holding back the work was the lack of investment.
Around £10m a year would provide a real time attribution system on the role of humans in extreme weather.
He said it was a “scandal” that the public should be denied clarity on this issue.
Scientists are notoriously cautious about linking single weather events, such as the recent storms and flooding in the UK, to rising global temperatures.
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The public is paying that money in the name of doing something about climate change, they deserve to know what climate change is doing to them”
Prof Myles Allen
Oxford University
Researchers can discern a human fingerprint in extreme weather, but it has required huge amounts of computing power to calculate all the possible outcomes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25684933
h/t WillR
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It’s Really, Really Cold. It Must Be Global Warming
- Date: 11/01/14 Kevin Leininger, The News-Sentinel
Between the record low temperatures and the need to rescue researchers whose ship was trapped in a thicker-than-expected Antarctic ice field, the past few weeks have tested the faith of even the most devout global-warming disciples. Their orthodoxy seems to have survived. The same cannot be said for their credibility.
“A growing body of evidence suggests that the kind of extreme cold experienced by much of the United States . . . is a pattern we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues,” predicted President Obama’s science and technical advisor, Dr. John Holgren.
“Winters still get cold, often unbearably cold . . . but no matter how low the temperature dropped in your area, that doesn’t mean global warming isn’t happening,” the Weather Channel warned.
“It’s bitterly cold. Horrifically cold! So what does this tell us about global warming?
Not much,” agreed the Washington Post.
h/t The GWPF
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Infographic: Scientists Who Doubt Human-Caused Climate Change
Review of 2,258 peer-reviewed scientific articles about climate change.
Perfect example of Jones – “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”
h/t Jason
“Around £10m a year would provide a real time attribution system on the role of humans in extreme weather.”
I could write that code for a lot less than ten million pounds. It would have a text input field that would accept a description of extreme weather events. It would have a button that would read “attribute scientifically.” On clicking the button, the following text would appear on the screen: “This event is scientifically attributable to human sin.”
Sorry Frank but a similar thing already exists. Only the name of the button is “submit”. You click on it and a story automatically appears in most left-wing media about this attribution, preceded with the words “Scientists say…” or “climate experts claim…”.
Donna says she would have earned more money working as a barista and with a lot more free time. I made my donation. So much for the big moneys from big oil/gas/coal and big wood too! It has me stuffed how the alarmists really believe that one.
Donation flung to Donna. As a UK pensioner it’s small but it’s the thought that counts…well it is isn’t it? Still 100 at 50 bucks is a start!
Starting at 10:20:20 in the video recording, Kennedy claims that the models do not involve short times scales under 50 years. Up til now the time window for falsification of the models was after all supposed to be 17 years (per Santer):
That’s because they have just realized there is a 60 year cycle and it will be another 45 years before temperatures are buck up near record levels.
“Why power blackouts would be GOOD for Britain: Ed’s aide sparks fury as we brace ourselves for winter’s first Arctic blast”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537860/Why-power-blackouts-GOOD-Britain-Eds-aide-sparks-fury-brace-winters-Arctic-blast.html
“Review of 2,258 peer-reviewed scientific articles about climate change.”
Bye bye article – looks like once WUWT links to it these people get shy suddenly.
Chucked $100 USD to our Canadian raspberry.
@frank. Do you think their code would be any different?
Anyone.
The Pay Pal won’t accept my CC donation.
Wants me to enter a Province. I live in U.S.
Refuses my donation without Province.
Refuses my donation with blank Province, or, my U.S. address with any entered province.
Thanks for any help.
Ron
One of the papers in the Powell collection is titled
“X-ray emission from high-redshift miniquasars: self-regulating the population of massive black holes through global warming”
Come back ET – all is forgiven.
Some other wonderful titles in the Powell collection.
Review of 2,258 peer-reviewed scientific articles about climate change.
Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition
Whole-genome sequencing of giant pandas provides insights into demographic history and local adaptation
Who is moving where? Molecular evidence reveals patterns of range shift in the acorn barnacle Hexechamaesipho pilsbryi in Asia
Warming up a stream reach: design of a hydraulic and heating system
Utilization and performance evaluation of a surplus air heat pump system for greenhouse cooling and heating
USE OF STEEL SLAG TO NEUTRALIZE ACID MINE DRAINAGE (AMD) IN SULFIDIC MATERIAL FROM A URANIUM MINE
Transport Pathways for Light Duty Vehicles: Towards a 2 degrees Scenario
Thermodynamic performance of a hybrid air cycle refrigeration system using a desiccant rotor
More ominously:
What Climate Policy Can a Utilitarian Justify?
I’ll leave others to find their favourites with zero climate relevance.
CRS, DrPH says:
January 11, 2014 at 7:23 pm
All kippers and curtains in the UK or all mouth and trousers 🙂
Ron Richey says:
January 12, 2014 at 6:53 am
Anyone.
The Pay Pal won’t accept my CC donation.
Wants me to enter a Province. I live in U.S.
Refuses my donation without Province.
Refuses my donation with blank Province, or, my U.S. address with any entered province.
Thanks for any help.
Ron
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Ron, start by choosing the country first. At the very top. Then you should be good. Looks like the US decided it was cheaper to develop their own oil rather than invading Canada. So Canada and the USA are still separate countries. Until the water runs out…
I have added my pittance to the travel fund. Barely enough for a cup of coffee and a croissant at today’s London prices and more than the amount I have been able to collect for my two grand daughters University funds this month. Needless to say if they choose Reading or UEA they will get nothing. Why “waste” money on bringing a Canadian to London? Because, no opportunity should be lost to drive some sense into the numbskulls in the UK Parliament. A few more of them waking up to reality could save the lives of countless people in the future. Starting with the old and the sick who may die because of Government energy policy this year and going right through to the poor and deprived in Africa and Asia who are being told by the World Bank that they cannot have money to build reliable coal and gas fired power stations but must instead rely on fairy farts and gloworms to provide the power that will enable them to join in the prosperity that we worked so hard to achieve.
Heard Donna in Munich last year at the sceptics conference. [Brilliant] speech, well researched and spoken. Have donated some money for her travel, she deserves it. I hope she can convince a lot of politicians in London…
Posted by Donna La Framboise today Jan 13
http://nofrakkingconsensus.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/thank_you2014.jpg
Mac the Knife says:
January 13, 2014 at 5:28 pm
Posted by Donna La Framboise today Jan 13
http://nofrakkingconsensus.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/thank_you2014.jpg
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Thank you MtK!! I hope she gets enough to ease the burden she bestows upon herself to get our not-funded-by-oil words out.
WUWT is very kind to lend its readers who are interested in helping others with noble causes.