tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41166371316021874132024-03-14T05:04:53.790-07:00Global Climate ChaosFeynman 1 - "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Feynman 2 - "There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made."Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-70036304570897625612013-01-14T07:37:00.002-08:002013-01-14T07:39:00.127-08:00Noting second line in Kingston Trio song: There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain. <br />
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They're Rioting In Africa Lyrics
Artist:<br />
The Kingston Trio<br />
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They're rioting in Africa, they're starving in Spain.<br />
There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.<br />
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.<br />
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.<br />
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.<br />
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And I don't like anybody very much!<br />
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But we can be tranquil, and thankful, and proud,<br />
For mans' been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.<br />
And we know for certain that some lovely day<br />
Someone will set the spark off, and we will all be blown away.<br />
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They're rioting in Africa, there's strife in Iran.<br />
What nature doesn't do to us, will be done by our fellow man.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/L8-BI89mb9A"> http://youtu.be/L8-BI89mb9A</a>Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-31813320243956904032013-01-08T19:05:00.001-08:002013-01-08T19:05:16.178-08:00<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/08/the-other-big-story-today-bbc-forced-to-admit-global-warming-static/">BBC forced to admit global warming ‘static’.</a> The UK Met Office has revised one of its forecasts for how much the world may warm in the next few years.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-16546560632321298652013-01-07T18:35:00.000-08:002013-01-07T18:35:58.246-08:00<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/06/does-noaas-national-climatic-data-center-ncdc-keep-two-separate-sets-of-climate-books-for-the-usa/">Does NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) keep two separate sets of climate books for the USA?</a>Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-89753712831076782382012-12-09T13:27:00.003-08:002012-12-09T13:27:50.490-08:00<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/geomagnetism/">Geomagnetism Reference Page</a>Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-43684628140561544522012-12-09T13:25:00.000-08:002012-12-09T13:26:08.874-08:00<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/08/introducing-the-new-wuwt-extreme-weather-reference-page/">The New WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference</a> Page<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/08/introducing-the-new-wuwt-extreme-weather-reference-page/"></a>Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-10548788317908696132009-12-09T09:59:00.000-08:002009-12-09T10:25:42.659-08:00Global Warming Skepticism 101Global Warming Skepticism 101<br /><br />Informative summary <a href="http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/12/global-warming-skepticism-101/">From Dr. Roy Spenser 12/9/09</a><br /><br />A few excerpts from Spenser with [my notes]:<br />1. [AGW]Skeptics deny global warming. <br />No, we deny that warming has been mostly human-caused. [Scientists should be skeptical, even of skeptics. Science is not pitch a view, it is to advance understanding].<br /><br />2. Skeptics are paid by big oil. <br />The vast majority of skeptics have never been paid anything by Big Oil (me included). [It's not as easy to get a grant as an AGW skeptic. Note: several recent revelations show big oil is pandering to AGW folks.]<br /><br />3. Skeptics don’t publish in the peer reviewed literature. <br />Wrong…but it is true we do not have nearly as many publications as the other side does. But it only takes one scientific study to destroy a scientific hypothesis, which is what anthropogenic global warming theory is.<br /><br />4. Skeptics are not unified with an alternative explanation for global warming. Well, that’s the way science works in a field as immature as climate change science. The biggest problem is that we really don’t understand what causes natural climate variability.........<br /><br />5. But the glaciers are melting! <br />Many glaciers which have been monitored around the world for a long time have been retreating since the 1800’s, before humans could have been responsible. A few retreating glaciers are even revealing old tree stumps…how did those get there? Planted by skeptics?<br /><br />6. But the sea ice is melting! <br />Well, the same thing happened back in the 1920’s and 1930’s, with the Northwest Passage opening up in 1940. It was just as warm, or nearly as warm, in the Arctic in the 1930’s. Again, this is before humans could be blamed. There were very low water levels in the Great Lakes in the 1920’s too, just as has happened recently. We have accurate measurements of sea ice cover from satellites only since 1979, so there is no way to really know whether sea ice cover is less than it was before.<br /><br />7. But we just had the warmest decade in recorded history! <br />Well, if thermometer measurements had started in, say 200, AD (rather than in the 1800’s), and it was now 850 AD, the same thing might well have been said back then. The climate system is always warming or cooling, and the Industrial Revolution (and thus our carbon dioxide emissions) just happened to occur while we were still emerging from the Little Ice Age…a warming period.<br /><br />8. But the Antarctic ice shelves are collapsing! <br />Well, sea ice around Antarctica has been expanding since we started monitoring by satellite in 1979….so which do we use as evidence? There is no convincing evidence of warming in Antarctica, except in the relatively small Antarctic Peninsula, which juts out into the ocean. Just as glaciers naturally flow to the sea, ice shelves must eventually break off. It is very uncertain how often this happens through the centuries, and what has been observed in recent years might be entirely normal. Similarly, it was warmer in Greenland in the 1930’s than it has been more recently.<br /><br />9. But the sea levels are rising!<br />Yes, and from what we can tell, they have been rising since the end of the last Ice Age. Again, the more recent rise might be just a consequence of our emergence from the Little Ice Age, which bottomed out in the 1600’s.<br /><br />10. But we keep emitting carbon dioxide, which we know is a greenhouse gas! <br />But the direct warming effect of moré CO2 is agreed by all to be small…and I predict that when we better understand how clouds change in response to that small warming influence, the net warming in response to more CO2 will be smaller still. This is the “feedback” issue, which determines “climate sensitivity”, the area of research I spend most of my time on. I and a minority of other scientists believe the net feedbacks in the climate system are negative, probably driven by negative cloud feedback. In contrast, all twenty-something IPCC climate models now exhibit positive cloud feedback.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-52809085479005734312009-12-07T16:29:00.001-08:002009-12-07T16:32:12.183-08:00AGW Skeptic Video SummariesSummaries from 4 skeptics for consideration of alternative views<br />D'Aleo <a href="http://www.kusi.com/home/78477122.html?video=pop&t=a">http://www.kusi.com/home/78477122.html?video=pop&t=a</a><br />Coleman <a href="http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a">http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a</a><br />Lindzen <a href="http://www.kusi.com/home/78477177.html?video=pop&t=a">http://www.kusi.com/home/78477177.html?video=pop&t=a</a><br />Soon <a href="http://www.kusi.com/home/78477312.html?video=pop&t=a">http://www.kusi.com/home/78477312.html?video=pop&t=a</a>Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-62277126677614336782009-11-10T07:33:00.000-08:002009-11-10T07:47:38.514-08:00Climate catastrophe canceledFinish TV discussion on problems with the Mann hockey stick temperature graphs<br /><a href="http://ohjelmat.yle.fi/mot/taman_viikon_mot/transcript_english"><br />Climate catastrophe canceled</a> <br /><br />A couple excerpts:<br />Korhola: "Especially now with the Copenhagen conference approaching, one gets the impression that also among scientists, many have lost control. Especially when you compare original studies to how they are presented to the public, in the mass media, there is a huge gap in what comes out. We get a lot of material with terms like dramatic, catastrophic, unprecedented, and among some researchers there is even talk of planetary doom and saving the planet." <br /><br />Lindzen: "The real question is, why the last few years have seen this huge boost with all these crazy movies - “Inconvenient truth” - nonsense spewed out, hysteria? We are all going to die, if we don't change our light bulbs immediately. I can only say, somebody must have noticed that the temperature has stopped increasing and they had all these agendas by now to make billions of dollars, and do this and do that, get people to pay taxes and feel happy about it, because they are saving the earth and so on. So you have the politicians, the bureaucrats, the scientists and so on, and all felt you know that if the temperature continues this way, this is finished if we don't get it through immediately so the volume has increased.”<br /><br />This ten-year-old figure, dubbed as the hockey stick, was meant to revolutionize the dominant view of global climate history.<br /><br />But in the hockey stick graph, the Medieval Warm Period and the little ice age after it have disappeared.<br /><br />McIntyre: ” It turned out that he had modified a principal components method incorrectly and the modified method produced hockey stick-shaped graphs ninety-nine percent of the time. It also emphasized a class of proxies, strip-bark bristlecone pines that previous authors had said were not actually a temperature proxy”. <br /><br />In the mid 1990's the American geologist David Deming received an astonishing e-mail, in which one prominent climate researcher announced to his colleagues: "We have to get rid of the medieval warm period." <br /><br />Kari Mielikäinen, professor of forest research (Metla, Finland): "We have this long series going back over 7,000 years, and there's no hockey stick there." <br /><br />VO: Briffa's Yamal hockey stick was published in the prestigious journal Science. McIntyre asked for a copy of the raw data from Yamal.<br />McIntyre: ”Briffa refused. The editors of Science refused to require Briffa to provide the measurement data…” <br />VO: It took McIntyre three years to get hold of the data, although one of the most important rules in science is that, raw data should be made available to anybody who is interested in checking and replicating a study.<br />Finally Briffa made a "mistake". He published yet another article based on the Yamal data in a journal of the British Royal Society. The prestigious scientific society held on to the principle of data transparency and forced Briffa to make his raw data public. In September this year, the Canadian climate auditor had his forebodings confirmed.<br />McIntyre: ”So after, after sort of, three years of frustration and trying to examine the data that Briffa had used and probably four years of people saying that this data supported the Michael Mann -work on other grounds, it was really quite frustrating to find that it was built up on ten trees that had been not randomly selected”. <br /><br />McIntyre: "An Australian named Warwick Hughes had asked for the data and Warwick Hughes had published some articles that had been critical of how the temperature histories had been prepared, and Jones said 'Why should I send - we have twenty-five years invested in this, why should I send the data to you when your only objective is to find anything wrong with it?”, which is a very unscientific statement." <br />VO: The CRU database is the most important scientific justification for the demands that the most ambitious treaty in mankind's history should be finalized in Copenhagen in December. In spite of this, there is no way to replicate its' validity.<br />Recently the CRU director Phil Jones has announced that <span style="font-weight:bold;">the original measurement data does not exist anymore because of data storage difficulties.</span> A dog ate the world's most important scientific measurement homework. <br /><br />Ojala: "Based on these studies it seems that this claim is not quite true, at least for the Northern hemisphere, at least for Scandinavia. We've clearly had much warmer winters here in the Nautajärvi and Korttajärvi area, than what we are experiencing now." <br /><br />VO: At least two research teams close to the IPCC added the sediment data collected by Finnish researchers as part of their own paleoclimatic model reconstructions. This was done with agreement, but the Finns were surprised to see that in a study published this September, their data and interpretation of its' meaning had been turned upside down.<br /><br />Atte Korhola: "Some curves and data have been used upside down, and this is not a compliment to climate science. And in this context it is relevant to note that the same people who are behind this are running what may be the world's most influential climate website, RealClimate. With this they are contributing to the credibility of science - or reducing it. And in my opinion this is alarming because it bears on the credibility of the field, and if these kinds of things emerge often - that data have been used insufficiently or even falsely, or if data series have been truncated or they have not been appropriately published (for replication), it obviously erodes the credibility, and this is a serious problem." <br /><br />Richard Lindzen: "This field is completely sick in that way, I mean, you have models you know that they don't work, you know they don't reproduce a - phenomenon, but you bend data to fit the model. I don’t think this can go on for long without being embarrassing".<br /><br />VO: It turned out that, cloud cover changes as the surface warms, but it was not getting thicker; it was thinning. In this way, nature prevents the atmosphere from excessive heating. The cloud cover reacts to temperature changes like an eye's iris to changes in light, by contracting or expanding. Lindzen calls this thermostatic behavior the Iris-effect.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-49116821049086068292009-11-10T07:11:00.000-08:002009-11-10T07:18:02.170-08:003rd Coldest October<a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?report=national&year=2009&month=10&submitted=Get+Report">From NOAA</a><br />Temperature Highlights - October<br /> * The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data.<br /> * For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation's nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for October.<br />Precipitation Highlights - October<br /> * The U.S. recorded its wettest October in the 115-year period of record. The nationwide precipitation of 4.15 inches was nearly double the long-term average of 2.11 inches. <br /> * Unusually cold and wet conditions across the middle of the country led to several snowfall records. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeWliLx8Fz6TE0tdnsWlAvFJeIA-6J1poR6L-7LMpJUS6F8r5whQRd9BcUEYF0jX38H143EBa6T7ItSSKrinu8E_PzYxgi-lXIy4Ttn80KMi1GZS6C1KTzGvG6c-pBJZZzL2VADgEevLvs/s1600-h/2009.10+US+temps+vs+normal"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeWliLx8Fz6TE0tdnsWlAvFJeIA-6J1poR6L-7LMpJUS6F8r5whQRd9BcUEYF0jX38H143EBa6T7ItSSKrinu8E_PzYxgi-lXIy4Ttn80KMi1GZS6C1KTzGvG6c-pBJZZzL2VADgEevLvs/s320/2009.10+US+temps+vs+normal" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402493535781972162" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eV0i4qlHx0UH4smbYXV-N3q9r6gjZdJJywtlOHpMn9SiZ03CMMo_CGGi_9tWvhjiU1BUhn4G9CDenTDe1RH72ZwDkRGL7G0gSwKgKhQSxRYnPCh_2XgCfj5qFiSsVYHCk9K2Kcnmx1eK/s1600-h/US+Temp.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eV0i4qlHx0UH4smbYXV-N3q9r6gjZdJJywtlOHpMn9SiZ03CMMo_CGGi_9tWvhjiU1BUhn4G9CDenTDe1RH72ZwDkRGL7G0gSwKgKhQSxRYnPCh_2XgCfj5qFiSsVYHCk9K2Kcnmx1eK/s320/US+Temp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402492978671559970" /></a>Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-50186481795403120892009-10-31T10:44:00.000-07:002009-10-31T10:51:27.952-07:00Global tropical cyclone energy remains near 30-year lows !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPngnD7ocl50cKh7Ypn9_6Y5APOyMjXt5hhlXpBLJ8tM9Q7W7AtDX4nADV4Ij7QcRUt44gnK_kVHC-xyDABiS7Iag0xIY5JhyphenhyphenzHmMmG__FOIPAbmW9WPcRhW8eLHjC8VdfxO4Dko3X497K/s1600-h/Tropical.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPngnD7ocl50cKh7Ypn9_6Y5APOyMjXt5hhlXpBLJ8tM9Q7W7AtDX4nADV4Ij7QcRUt44gnK_kVHC-xyDABiS7Iag0xIY5JhyphenhyphenzHmMmG__FOIPAbmW9WPcRhW8eLHjC8VdfxO4Dko3X497K/s320/Tropical.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398822838783887858" /></a><br />Global tropical cyclone energy remains near 30-year lows ! <br /><br /><a href="http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/">Florida State University - Ryan N. Maue's Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Activity Update</a><br /><br />Global and Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity remains near 30-year historical lows -- three years in a row now of considerably below-average activity globallyClimate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-57561281438101956282009-10-30T19:22:00.000-07:002009-10-30T19:34:50.707-07:00Upside Down Mann Hockey StickFrom <a href="http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=7599">Climate Audit Oct 29, 2009</a><br />Upside Down Mann<br /><br />The issue with Mann's use of the Tiljander proxies isn't just that he used them upside down (which he did). The problem is worse than that. The Tiljander sediments are the combination of two unrelated processes: a presumably climatically driven process in which narrow sediments are interpreted by the authors as "warm" and thick sediments as "cold" and a nonclimatic process in which sediments are produced by ditches, bridges and farming.<br /><br />It is definitely and incontrovertibly upside down.<br /><br />The reason why it is upside down is the spurious correlation between the nonclimatic sediments from bridges and farming and temperature, which confuses the Mannian meatgrinder algorithm.<br /><br />Perhaps Connolley is gradually realizing that the problem is not just the upside down proxy, but a package of issues including modern contamination and spurious regression.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-44976779820086936682009-10-30T19:12:00.000-07:002009-10-30T19:17:55.754-07:00<a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/interesting-post-on-biofuels-by-katharine-sanderson-on-the-nature-website/">Dr. Pielke Oct 31, 2009</a><br /><br />Excerpts include:<br />There is an informative post titled Biofuel woes by Katharine Sanderson on the Nature.com/climatefeedback website.<br />Biofuels derived from the cellulosic, woody parts of plants are not having their greenhouse gas emissions properly accounted <br />those biofuels would be shown to actually cause more greenhouse gases to be released than fossil fuels.<br /><br />Timothy Searchinger from Princeton University<br />They say that the assertion that fuels made from biomass can be counted as carbon neutral is wrong. “Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-22697885672445557532009-10-14T20:02:00.000-07:002009-10-14T20:04:50.070-07:00Alternative Energy Sources Offer Minimal Promise<a href="http://www.heartland.org/publications/environment%20climate/article/26141/Alternative_Energy_Sources_Offer_Minimal_Promise.html">From Environment and Climate News Nov 1, 2009</a><br />Discussion of unrealistic expectations of alternative energy sources.<br /><br />For example:<br />"A single 555 megawatt gas-fired power plant in California generates more electricity per year than all 13,000 of the state’s wind turbines. The gas-fired plant occupies just 15 acres. The 300-foot-tall wind turbines affect 106,000 acres, destroy scenic vistas, and kill tens of thousands of birds and bats every year, to provide expensive, tax-subsidized, intermittent, insufficient electricity."Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-56933387998489844262009-10-13T21:56:00.000-07:002009-10-13T22:03:57.294-07:00Temp Data GlitchesHow bad is the global temperature data?<br /><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/13/how-bad-is-the-global-temperature-data/#more-11650">Watts UP With That 10/13/09</a><br /><br />Excerpts Include:<br />The world’s climate data has become increasingly sparse with a big dropoff around 1990. There was also a tenfold increase in missing months around the same time. For many, many stations, you will see the data set in a monthly tabular form has many missing data months mostly after 1990<br /><br />Most of the stations that dropped out were rural. More of the missing data points are having their missing months filled in with more urban data in the grid boxes.<br /><br />Numerous peer review papers suggest an exaggeration of the warming by 30%, 50% or even more<br /><br />One example.. from Maine. Volunteers completed surveys....The survey determined that every one of the stations in Maine was subject to microclimate or urbanization biases. <br /><br />One station especially surprised the surveyors, Ripogenus Dam, a station that was officially closed in 1995. Despite being closed in 1995, USHCN data for this station is publicly available until 2006!<br /><br />Part of the USHCN data is created by a computer program called “filnet” which <span style="font-weight:bold;">estimates</span> missing values.<br /><br />How can we trust NOAA/NASA/Hadley assessment of global changes given these and the other data integrity issues? Given that <span style="font-weight:bold;">Hadley has destroyed old original data</span> because they were running out of room in their data cabinet, can we ever hope to reconstruct the real truth?Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-26881938097083565482009-10-11T19:23:00.000-07:002009-10-11T19:26:08.620-07:00Daring to Question Al Gore<a href="http://maciverinstitute.com/2009/10/daring-to-question-al-gore.html">From McIver Institute Oct 9, 2009</a><br /><br />"However, the former Vice President of the United States was not in the mood to answer any questions from skeptics of global warming. His appearance was highly scripted, and when one filmmaker dared ask a tough question...well, just watch this report."<br /><br />Key point at the end of the video is challenging what is the role of journalists? To be cheerleaders or skeptics?Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-49222049300180912702009-10-10T11:29:00.000-07:002009-10-10T11:31:25.721-07:00What happened to global warming?<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm">BBC Friday, 9 October 2009</a><br /><br />Excerpts include:<br />For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-20071698543347185112009-09-23T17:13:00.000-07:002009-09-23T17:17:02.968-07:00U.N. climate meeting was propaganda: Czech presidentU.N. climate meeting was propaganda: Czech president<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58L6ID20090922"><br />Reuters Sept 22, 2009</a><br /><br />Excerpts include:<br />Czech President Vaclav Klaus sharply criticized a U.N. meeting on climate change on Tuesday at which U.S. President Barack Obama was among the top speakers, describing it as propagandistic and undignified. "It was sad and it was frustrating," said Klaus.<br /><br />Klaus said there were increasing doubts in the scientific community about whether humans are causing changes in the climate or whether the changes are simply naturally occurring phenomena.<br /><br />Klaus said global warming has turned into a new religion, an ideology that threatens to undermine freedom and the world's economic and social order.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-35654527290524861422009-09-11T11:20:00.000-07:002009-09-11T11:29:26.039-07:00Cooling is BeginningSvensmark: “global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning” – “enjoy global warming while it lasts”<br />opinion piece from Professor Henrik Svensmark was published September 9th in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.<br /><br /><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/10/svensmark-global-warming-stopped-and-a-cooling-is-beginning-enjoy-global-warming-while-it-lasts/">From Watts Up With That.com Sept 10,2009</a><br /><br /><a href="http://jp.dk/opinion/kronik/article1809681.ece">Link to original Danish article</a><br /><br />A couple excerpts include:<br />important to recognize that nature is completely independent of what we humans think about it. <br /><br />Indeed, global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth, on the contrary. This means that projections of future climate is unpredictable,<br /><br />solar activity is heading towards its lowest level in about 100 years’. Everything indicates that the Sun is moving into a hibernation-like state,<br /><br />It is important to note that the Little Ice Age was a global event. It ended in the late 19th century and was followed by an increase in solar activity. Over the past 50 years solar activity has been the highest since the medieval warmth for 1,000 years ago. And now it appears that the sun returns and is heading towards what is called ‘a grand minimum’ as we saw in the Little Ice Age.<br /><br />In 1996 we discovered a surprising influence of the sun – its impact on Earth’s cloud cover. High energy accelerated particles of exploded stars, the cosmic radiation, are helping to form clouds.<br /><br />Giant solar flares can have the cosmic radiation on earth to dive suddenly over a few days. In the days after the eruption cloud cover falls by about 4 per cent. And the content of liquid water in clouds (droplets) is reduced by almost 7 per cent.<br /><br />This means that projections of future climate is unpredictable.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-60244991517449941152009-09-10T16:39:00.000-07:002009-09-10T16:42:23.867-07:00California Wildfires not due to Global WarmingAccuWeather’s Joe Bastardi makes mincemeat of Greenpeace claim that California Wildfires are caused by Global Warming<br /><br /><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/10/accuweathers-joe-bastardi-makes-mincemeat-of-greenpeace-claim-that-california-wildfires-are-caused-by-global-warming/">From WattsUpWithThat.com Sept 10,2009</a>Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-48246908312623908412009-09-09T18:56:00.000-07:002009-09-09T19:03:35.908-07:00New Web SiteI found a new interesting web site for consideration in the climate debate. I have only begun to review the information on the site.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.greenworldtrust.org.uk/Science/MyStory.htm">Reclaiming Climate Science</a><br />http://www.greenworldtrust.org.uk/Science/MyStory.htm<br /><br />A couple excerpts include:<br />I was an environmentalist who believed in Global Warming.<br />I was then challenged by contradictory evidence -<br />- that there is no science "consensus" - there is no consensus - and any claim that "the debate is over" is at best unscientific, at worst fraudulent<br /><br />Global temperatures have been falling for ten years, yet CO2 is rising as steadily as ever<br />Climate Science has been taken over by people with political agendas, headed up by the UN IPCC<br /><br />Official Climate Science has increasingly abused public trust, <br /><br />Through slander and silence in the media, many do not even realize of the existence of friendly, informed, active skeptics networks where real science happens.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-3544717254763115642009-09-01T13:36:00.000-07:002009-09-01T13:43:56.178-07:00Climate Change and Ensuring that America Leads the Clean Energy Transformation<a href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=f00c25c0-802a-23ad-4f96-ad1f99ff974c&Region_id=&Issue_id=">EPW Committee Aug 6, 2009 Inhofe comments</a><br />OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JAMES M. INHOFE<br />Climate Change and Ensuring that America Leads the Clean Energy Transformation<br />August 6, 2009 <br /><br />Excerpts include:<br />....so I think it's appropriate to take stock of what we've learned.<br />...this committee has held over thirty hearings on climate change. <br /><br />We learned, for example, from President Obama that under his cap-and-trade plan, "electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket."<br /><br />We learned from Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) that cap-and-trade is "a tax, and a great big one."<br /><br />We learned from Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) that "a cap-and-trade system is prone to market manipulation and speculation without any guarantee of meaningful GHG emission reductions. A cap-and-trade has been operating in Europe for three years and is largely a failure."<br /><br />We learned from Sen. Dorgan (D-N.D.) that with cap-and-trade "the Wall Street crowd can't wait to sink their teeth into a new trillion-dollar trading market in which hedge funds and investment banks would trade and speculate on carbon credits and securities. ..... most of the investment banks have already created carbon trading departments."<br /><br />We learned from Sen. Cantwell (D-Wash.) that "a cap-and-trade program might allow Wall Street to distort a carbon market for its own profits."<br /><br />We learned from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson that unilateral U.S. action to address climate change through cap-and-trade would be futile. She said in response to a question from me that <span style="font-weight:bold;">"U.S. action alone will not impact world CO2 levels."</span><br /><br />We learned from Sen. Kerry (D-Mass.) that "there is no way the United States of America acting alone can solve this problem. So <span style="font-weight:bold;">we have to have China; we have to have India."</span><br /><br />We learned from Sen. McCaskill (D-Mo.) that if "we go too far with this," that is, cap-and-trade, then "all we're going to do is <span style="font-weight:bold;">chase more jobs to China and India,</span> where they've been putting up coal-fired plants every 10 minutes."<br /><br />.......Democrats taught us that cap-and-trade is a great big tax that will raise electricity prices on consumers, enrich Wall Street traders, and send jobs to China and India-all without any impact on global temperature.<br /><br />According to the American Farm Bureau, the vast majority of agriculture groups oppose it;<br /><br />According to GAO, it will send our jobs to China and India;<br /><br />According to the National Black Chamber of Commerce, it will destroy over 2 million jobs;<br /><br />According to EPA and EIA, it will not reduce our dependence on foreign oil;<br /><br />According to EPA, it will do nothing to reduce global temperature;Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-30579103183330687762009-09-01T13:26:00.000-07:002009-09-01T13:31:01.185-07:00Britain facing blackouts for first time since 1970s<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/6118113/Britain-facing-blackouts-for-first-time-since-1970s.html">Telegraph UK September 1, 2009</a><br /><br />Excerpts include:<br />The looming problem in Britain is caused by the scheduled closure by 2015 of nine oil and coal-fired power plants. They are the victim of an EU directive designed to cut pollution.<br /><br />In addition, four existing nuclear power plants are set to be shut, adding to the need for new sources of energy. As yet no new nuclear power stations have been put forward for approval by the Government.<br /><br />Demand for power from homes and businesses will exceed supply from the national grid within eight years, according to official figures.<br />The gap between Britain’s energy needs and demand throws fresh doubt on the Government’s assertion that renewable energy can make up for dwindling nuclear and coal capabilities<br />Over the next 10 years, one third of Britain’s power-generating capacity needs to be replaced with cleaner fuels.<br />Under the plan, 40 per cent of the UK’s electricity will need to come from low-carbon energy sources including clean coal, nuclear and renewables<br /><br />“Britain faces blackouts because the Government has put its head in the sand about Britain’s energy policy for a decade. Over the next 10 years we need to replace one third of our generating capacityClimate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-24194327077271410482009-08-03T17:42:00.000-07:002009-08-03T17:46:26.295-07:00STILL No Tropical Storms? Must Be Global WarmingSTILL No Tropical Storms? Must Be Global Warming<br /><br /><a href="http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/08/still-no-tropical-storms-must-be-global-warming/">From Dr. Roy Spenser</a><br /><br />Excerpt:<br />So, where are all of the news stories about the fact we’ve had no tropical storms yet this year? As can be seen in the following graphic, as of this date in 2005 we already had 8 named storms in the Atlantic basin. And tomorrow, August 4, that number will increase to 9. In 2005 we were even told to expect more active hurricane seasons from now on because of global warming.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_8UULJks_c-9VZCTbEEkjJvdybgUYEFXz6q8Pyvab87vxB0E8TCcUfImcgaP1PMfX2xw0ODL00Za6PhuBp-StMCZg5B2S4Ykxp_M2e2rSvzrqP1CL7nSMXJeNT8PtZL4QKMCm3wvc6XMc/s1600-h/Tropical+Storm+copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_8UULJks_c-9VZCTbEEkjJvdybgUYEFXz6q8Pyvab87vxB0E8TCcUfImcgaP1PMfX2xw0ODL00Za6PhuBp-StMCZg5B2S4Ykxp_M2e2rSvzrqP1CL7nSMXJeNT8PtZL4QKMCm3wvc6XMc/s320/Tropical+Storm+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365903337693619682" /></a>Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-39691509831089821832009-07-28T08:42:00.000-07:002009-07-28T08:44:31.854-07:00Chicago Sees Coldest July In 67 YearsChicago Sees Coldest July In 67 Years<br /><a href="http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.coldest.july.2.1103959.html">From CBS Chicago</a><br /><br />The National Weather Service says 2009 has seen the coldest July since the official recording station was moved away from the lakefront in 1942. The average temperature this month in Chicago has been a mere 68.9 degrees.<br /><br />Even in the years before 1942, when the National Weather Service recorded temperatures at the cooler lakefront, there are only three years that had colder Julys through the 26th.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116637131602187413.post-82304364034580001742009-07-22T18:01:00.000-07:002009-07-22T18:04:22.521-07:00AGW $79 billion<a href="http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=104031&cat=12">Transworld News July 22,2009</a><br /><br />The US Government has spent more than $79 billion of taxpayers’ money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, propaganda campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks. Most of this spending was unnecessary.<br /><br />Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks, which profit most, are calling for more. Experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 - $10 trillion in the near future. Hot air will soon be the largest single commodity traded on global exchanges.Climate Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375070925286838162noreply@blogger.com0