Joseph Romm interviews Michael MacCracken

[MacCracken] One of the popular ones that people talk about is changes in the amount of solar radiation coming out. If the sun were getting hotter, that would presumably warm up the atmosphere. It would warm up not just the lower atmosphere, the surface, but it would warm the upper atmosphere. The interesting thing is that we have observations showing the lower atmosphere, the surface are warming, but the upper atmosphere is cooling, sort of in direct contradiction to what solar radiation increase would be expected to do.

Flashback: Even gurus of warming admit the hot spot went missing « JoNova

“Model results and observed temperature trends are in disagreement in most of the tropical troposphere, being separated by more than twice the uncertainty of the model mean. In layers near 5 km, the modelled trend is 100 to 300% higher than observed, and, above 8 km, modelled and observed trends have opposite signs.”

Douglass et al 2007

Letter to the Editor: Florida

My 14-year-old daughter Pearl is a freshman at Ft. Myers High School and my 11-year-old daughter Lily is in 5th grade at Three Oaks Elementary. Here are some of the things they have relayed to me concerning what they have been learning in our public schools:

1. Lily said, "I would rather just shoot myself in the head because it would be a less painful death than to suffer and die from global warming."

Global Warming Is Frozen Over: Phyllis Schlafly

The main cause of unemployment and poverty is the lack of enough energy. Rather than expanding government to limit energy, we should be increasing the use of energy to eradicate hardship.

Dr. Pachauri is the product of subprime world polity « the Air Vent

[Guest post by Dr. Ismael Bhat Professor & Head,  Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Kashmir] Dr. Pachauri is not simply subprime for the job he is entrusted with. He is totally alien and he has proved it horribly well to the world. No wonder ever-increasing demand for his ouster. He must not blame it on skeptics or seek refuge in conspiracy theories. Even his main promoter, the Green Peace, sees him now as harmful weed in their green grass. But really matters most, it is the current public mood that sweeps the world: No more cons. “He may think he is going to remain in office, but then so did [President] Nixon,” writes Richard North who together with Christopher Booker brought out some of the most damning reports on IPCC and its Chief. When the world was yet to fully focus its eyes through the first “gate” others began to open up in a cascade. So there you have: the “climategate,” the “glaciergate,” and now the “Amazongate.” Regardless whether the AR4’s section on risks of extinction to plant and animal species stops at just being “confusing” to Andrew Revkin of the New York Times or opens up another “gate,” all the gates lead to the all important “Pachaurigate.” That is what makes people like North feel sure about Dr. Pachauri’s exit. Nixon had one aggrieved people (Americans) that caused him exist through his only “gate” – the Watergate. Dr. Pachauri has aggrieved 192 countries and left so many gates wide open to get pushed through.