Shifts, phase-locked state and chaos in climate data | Climate Etc.

Studies of various climate indices suggest that the global climate system is chaotic of low order.  In particular, the ENSO indices show many time segment that are phase locked to an annual cycle probable of Solar origin. These phase locked states have abrupt beginnings and ending, which have occurred at least 18 times since 1870.

Predicting future climate phenomenon depends upon knowledge of the past and an extrapolation to the future that assumes continuity of the relevant climate variables. Continuity of climate indices of interest across an abrupt Climate Shift cannot be assumed and any analysis that does so may be meaningless.

UEA – Sleeping with the enemy « the Air Vent

So the “the fossil fuel industry was crawling all over the [IPCC Chair selection] process” and the UEA was in bed with every oil company they could get in contact with, but those of us who are skeptical of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming narrative are supposedly in the pocket of big oil? The hypocrisy, it burns, unleaded of course…

Greenpeace Gives Climate Change A Face | Greenpeace Africa

Today, Greenpeace will show the true face of the problem in "The Weather Gods", a hard hitting documentary that tells the story of the people in the front line of climate change; rural communities in Mali and Kenya and South Africa.

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“Climate change is destroying Africa. In the harshest of ironies, the cradle of mankind could well become its grave,” says Dianne McAlpine Special Projects Coordinator for Greenpeace Africa.

Global Leaders Call On Canada To Fight Climate Change In New Ad

Environmental groups behind the ad -- including Environmental Defence Canada, Equiterre, Greenpeace Canada, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nobel Women's Initiative and Sierra Club U.S. -- will also be launching a new website with videos of several anti-apartheid activists describing effects of climate change on their home country and calling on Canada to step up in the battle against climate change.