Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #680
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Saturday, November 05, 2011
Global temperatures: All over the map
"Some people mistakenly think peer review means secret review by anonymous referees at journals," Mr. Muller says. "We're getting wonderful peer review, from McIntyre, from Briggs, from other people. That's the process of science."
Jackson says effort to get Michael Mann’s e-mails ‘criminal’ | JunkScience.com
She may not have called Conrgessional GOP "jack-booted thugs", but Lisa Jackson did call the America Tradition Institute's effort to get Climategater Michael Mann's e-mails through the Freedom of Information Act "criminal."
Arctic Ice Extent Has Increased 85% Since September
While the LSM talks endlessly about record melt in the Arctic, a record freeze up is occurring. Arctic autumn temperatures have been the coldest in at least a decade, and possibly since 1996.
Shock: New Zealand fart tax "deeply unpopular"
The so-called "fart tax" – which would charge farmers for the harmful gas emissions from fertilisers and livestock – is deeply unpopular with the agriculture sector.
Moore emissions
Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore joined a growing crowd at the "Occupy" Denver protest Thursday evening, but his encounter with CBS4 left him fuming when he was asked about whether he represented the "99 percent" that the protesters stand for, or the "1 percent" they claim to be rallying against....
Moore said a few words to the crowd and then was escorted by two security guards in an SUV ...
Emissions Rules Face New Mood
In fact, the Environment Department, now under the administration of Gov. Susana Martinez, has filed testimony opposing it. It also won't support a rule -- crafted by the New Energy Economy and facing repeal hearing next month -- for a statewide emissions cap starting in 2013 if the cap and trade program doesn't materialize.
No High Tide Sea Level Change At La Jolla, California Since 1871
Some of the world's leading sea level alarmists are located at Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California – where sea level has not changed since the camera was invented
IPCC Lead Author Caught Lying On ABC News Video | Real Science
Given that Richard Somerville is an IPCC lead author, he should probably be aware that one decade ago the IPCC predicted the exact opposite of what he claims.
US Wildfires Dropping 10% Per Decade
According to the US Government National Interagency Fire Center, US wildfires occur half as often as they did 50 years ago. The 1970s (ice age scare) had a huge number of fires. The IPCC predicted the exact opposite
Global Cooling is Here
Global warming (i.e, the warming since 1977) is over. The minute increase of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere (0.008%) was not the cause of the warming—it was a continuation of natural cycles that occurred over the past 500 years.
The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling, perhaps much deeper than the global cooling from about 1945 to 1977. Just how much cooler the global climate will be during this cool cycle is uncertain. Recent solar changes suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if that is likely.
The Ecologist talks sense
No, really. I found a really quite sensible article in the Ecologist about global warming and in particular about climate models.
"Apps4Africa Climate Challenge" - Courtesy of American taxpayers
The warmist US State Department seem to think that Africans - particularly young Africans - have not shown enough interest in global warming/climate change recently. That´s now going to change: The State Department is the main sponsor of a new climate missionary project, "Apps4Africa Climate Challenge":
Friday, November 04, 2011
Running Out Of Time
Alarmists have been wildly overplaying their hand, and their time is running out. For example, the sea level team has been making multi-metre claims for some time now, which is incredibly stupid – because people would probably notice something like that.
Conference conversations
There were two interesting topics that revealed some tension among participants: the future of climate modelling, and the attribution of extreme events (they are of course connected, but that wasn't really the issue).
Greenland Farming Update
Nuuk is the capital of Greenland and has been very cold ever since Hillary flew in there this spring to solve global warming. It is one of Greenland's warmest locations. They had barely three frost free months this year, which is tough for farming
Warm Oceans Can Cause Storms to Linger ǀ Oceans, Oceanography & Weather Systems ǀ Climate Systems | Our Amazing Planet
The team removed the effect that global warming has on water temperatures, and found that blocking events occurred up to 30 percent more often from the 1930s to the 1960s and during a period that started in the late 1990s to the present, all times when the North Atlantic Ocean was warmer than usual.
New climate ‘road map’ by 2015: EU diplomat | Oman Observer
On Thursday, small island nations facing rising seas driven by warming slammed the slow pace of the climate talks and suggestions by Japan and Russia that a 2015 target for a global agreement is unrealistic.
Russia's top climate diplomat said such a deal was more likely for 2018 or even later.
Russia's top climate diplomat said such a deal was more likely for 2018 or even later.
Politics Blog » Obama’s Solomonic choice
Obama said this week he would decide himselfwhether to approve the pipeline. It's no wonder. His presidency may be at stake. One the one hand are jobs and energy security, and the other the planet.
Morningside to host speaker on climate change [hoax]
Loorz has been a climate change activist since the age of 13 and has spoken to more than 200,000 people in venues like schools, conferences and the United Nations. His work has been featured on CNN, CBS, ABC, Discovery Channel, Fox News, National Geographic and the New York Times.
Art Horn: Late October Northeast Snowstorm Is Not Unprecedented
The massive snow storm that buried the parts of the Northeastern United States on the last weekend of October was not an unprecedented event. Claims have been made that this storm was something new and strange and that it was caused by global warming. The people that made these claims have not done their homework. In order to understand the present we must know and understand the past. One can't put current events in proper prospective if we are ignorant of past events. That is why we teach children history in school.
Reversing the null hypothesis
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/CpSVbqsZc18/reversing-null-hypothesis.html
The proofs have been so consistent and the AGW-inspired hypotheses have been so consistently failing that we may also say that science (including rudimentary psychiatry) has also proved that whoever believes that man-made CO2 is an important and detrimental factor affecting the climate has been proved to be a psychopath, too.
Recommended Book on Climate Change
A new book has been released by climate blogger John Kehr called "The Inconvenient Skeptic". I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in climate change, and especially to those who still buy into the AGW theory.
"Definitive" Global Warming Study Criticized As Fraud - HUMAN EVENTS
So, yeah, Muller flagrantly misrepresented the data, but it's not really a "lie," because all those gigabytes of raw data were right there in the open on the BEST website, where any layman could analyze them and determine the truth… after investing a few years in obtaining an advanced meteorology degree. It's your fault for paying attention to all those op-eds blasting through the global media instead of becoming a scientist and checking the numbers yourself, you stupid taxpayers!
Mmegi Online :: Global warming limiting resources for the youth
Global warming is fueling social injustice and presenting generational crisis because limited or no resources would be transferred to the youth for socio-economic development says climate change expert, Dr Julius Atlhopheng.Biased BBC Advice Based On Sloppy Statistics
This is a dismaying standard of scientific literacy from a BBC correspondent. Following Black’s presentation the BBC audience went away with the opposite impression of what is the case. Given the severe cutbacks the BBC is experiencing at the moment it would be like saying there will be more jobs, not fewer. I do hope that when those cuts are explained to the staff that a somewhat more sophisticated use of statistics is used.
Back when CO2 levels were safe, a southwestern U.S. drought only lasted nearly 50 years
Scientists find evidence of Roman period megadrought
Almost nine hundred years ago, in the mid-12th century, the southwestern U.S. was in the middle of a multi-decade megadrought. It was the most recent extended period of severe drought known for this region. But it was not the first.
A cross section of wood shows the annual growth rings trees add with each growing season. Dark bands of latewood form the boundary between each ring and the next. Counting backwards from the bark reveals a tree's age. Credit: Daniel Griffin/Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
The second century A.D. saw an extended dry period of more than 100 years characterized by a multi-decade drought lasting nearly 50 years, says a new study from scientists at the University of Arizona.
When the IPCC Makes an Error, Is it the Journalist’s Fault? « NoFrakkingConsensus
So let me get this straight. The IPCC makes an error and Betts says I’m the one who should check more carefully? If the IPCC’s own website can’t be trusted, where should I have looked for the correct list of Chapter 3 authors?
Bloomberg: "Mind boggling" GOP candidates don't believe in [junk] science - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday let off some steam about the Republican presidential field, complaining that some candidates are skeptical of the science surrounding issues like global warming.Flashback: RyanAir CEO: "Global Warming Is Bull$#it" - Business Insider
"We have presidential candidates who don't believe in science," Bloomberg said at a Columbia University economic forum, the New York Daily News reports. "I mean, just think about it, can you imagine a company of any size in the world where the CEO said 'oh I don't believe in science' and that person surviving to the end of that day? Are you kidding me? It's mind-boggling!"
The CEO of Europe's largest airline Ryanair has called global warming "bullshit" and "horseshit" in an interview with the Irish Independent.
0.0000% Of Australia Is Experiencing Drought | Real Science
According to Australia‘s BOM, as of the end of October no place in Australia is experiencing drought.Peatland carbon storage is stabilized against catastrophic release of carbon
That has never happened in the US. where 80% of the country experienced drought in 1934.
Concerns that global warming may have a domino effect -unleashing 600 billion tons of carbon in vast expanses of peat in the Northern hemisphere and accelerating warming to disastrous proportions - may be less justified than previously thought.An earthquake under Britain’s energy supply | Rob Lyons | spiked
The policies put forward to deal with possible global warming have been myopically obsessed with reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, even at the expense of inflated fuel bills and lower economic growth. A compromise solution like gas that reduces emissions while providing cheap energy would avoid some of the harm such policies might otherwise cause. It would also buy us some valuable time to see if this climate change fuss is really all it’s cracked up to be, and it would reduce the cost of importing energy into the UK.
No wonder greens are quaking in their boots.
Norway backsliding on climate issues : Views and News from Norway
Environmentalists were calling Norwegian Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe “a public relations agent” for Statoil on Friday, while industrial firm Aker reportedly may shut down its Aker Clean Carbon unit. Concerns are rising that Norway’s government and industry are backsliding on lofty promises to hinder climate change by cutting carbon emissions.Antarctic crack could cause city-sized iceberg - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
When the ice breaks apart, it will produce an iceberg more than 880 square kilometres, said Mr Studinger, who is part of the US space agency's IceBridge project.Thrill-seeking for Gaia « The Daily Bayonet
But the process is not a result of global warming, he said.
"We expect that later this year or early next year there will be a pretty large iceberg forming as part of a natural cycle," he said.
"These are cyclical events that occur every few years. The last big carving event occurred in 2001, so in general people have been expecting something to happen like that very soon.
DeCarteret is a member of ICECAAP, the ‘International Consortium of Explorers Concerned for the Arctic, Antarctic and Poles‘. In fact, ICECAAP is so concerned about it that the Latest News on their site is from March 2007. Someone should tell the concerned explorers that they need to keep their greenwash current if they don’t want pesky bloggers calling them thrill-seeking climate dilettantes, or something.NBC Nightly News Regarding The Recent October Snowstorm And A Quote From John Nielsen-Gammon | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
One of the quotes in there, from my colleague John Nielsen-Gammon, does not appear to conform, regarding the October snow news report at NBC, to what he had written earlier on the drought in Texas.1925, 1930 October Blizzards Buried New England | Real Science
Survey of more than 1000 Iowa farmers: 90% don't believe that climate change is caused mostly by human activities
In Iowa, some farmers see changing climate | Harvest Public Media
Nearly two-thirds of Iowa farmers believe climate change is real and more than 60 percent say farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased rainfall.
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Still, only 10 percent of farmers said they believe climate change is caused mostly by human activities, even though that is the consensus in the scientific community.
CO2 Equals Temperature – Even If It Doesn’t
The theory that CO2 rise causes temperature rise is no longer a theory to Warmists. It is an axiom: An unquestionable truth. That it is false is impossible for them to see. Their minds just cannot handle the equation being wrong, even when it obviously is. They have a sort of short circuit in their brains that skips over all evidence on the question -- JRMichael Mann - Speakers | TEDxPSU
The graph has received acclaim and criticism since its publishing. He has received many awards and honors including, but not limited to, the Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by NOAA in 2002 and also was named one of the 50 Leading Visionaries in Science and Technology by Scientific American. Michael is also one of the founders of RealClimate.org, a highly acclaimed climate science website that was chosen in 2005 as one of the top 25 “Science and Technology” websites by Scientific American and as one of the top 15 “green” websites by Time Magazine in 2008.Fox Scraping The Barrel For Attacks On UN Climate Panel | Media Matters for America
Fox identified only one graduate student who worked on the 2007 report. 1 out of over 1250 authors.The human cause of climate change: Where does the burden of proof lie?
Curry also suggested that the desire to reverse the null hypothesis may have the goal of seeking to marginalise the climate sceptic movement, a vocal group who have challenged the scientific orthodoxy on climate change.
"The proponents of reversing the null hypothesis should be careful of what they wish for," concluded Curry. "One consequence may be that the scientific focus, and therefore funding, would also reverse to attempting to disprove dangerous anthropogenic climate change, which has been a position of many sceptics."
- Bishop Hill blog - Australian temperatures
In overall summary, it is clear that increased solar insolation, caused by a combination of decreased clouds and decreased anthropogenic aerosols (and I argue particularly black carbon), is the primary cause of increasing minimum and increasing maximum temperatures, and hence the increase in the land surface 'global average temperature' calculated from these values.Temperatures Plunge As CO2 Soars | Real Science
CO2 is rising much faster than expected to record levels, and temperatures have dropped 0.37C since last year - with every single day in 2011 cooler than the same day last year.Coldest Year In Western Greenland Since 1993 | Real Science
Using GISS data, with Weather Underground filling in the missing holes that Hansen can’t find – Nuuk, Greenland is averaging -1.1C for the year to date. The last year which was colder was 1993.Global Weirding Out Of Control | Real Science
So far, November is the coldest on record – going back to 1885.
A generation of children in the southeastern US are growing up with snow, but no hurricanes.
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Warmist Gleick, who trashed Donna's book without reading it, now praises a warmist grad student for also trashing the same book without reading it
Twitter / @PeterGleick
Superb letter to Laframboise (who will ignore it, though her climate denying supporters will flame it). wp.me/p1VaMF-3JTom Nelson: Worse and worse: Warmists Mann and Mandia tweet their approval as a grad student defends grad school "experts" becoming IPCC lead authors
86-year-old Mass. woman found dead in unheated home, son said had no power since Sat. | The Republic
Early said 59-year-old Willis Hall called 911 when he found his mother sitting wrapped in a blanket in a living room chair. Hall told police the house had been without power since late Saturday afternoon, and his mother had complained of the cold Wednesday night. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of a medical condition and possible hypothermia.Twitter / @PeterGleick: What's scarier? This story ...
What's scarier? This story, or the stunningly ignorant/stupid comments? Biggest jump ever in global warming gases - news.yahoo.com/biggest-jump-e…Arctic Sea Ice Remains Near-Record Low Despite Fast Freeze | Alaska Dispatch
Summer sea ice also provides habitat necessary to maintain healthy populations of polar bears, walruses and seals. When this hunting and denning platform disappears, marine mammals must swim farther or spend time on shore, making it hard to find enough to eat or avoid predators.Question: What predators, other than polar bears, are walruses and seals trying to avoid when they're on shore?
The New York Times (Inadvertently) Demolishes Mann’s Defence « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
For the reading-challenged amongst us, the point is that secrecy and refusing to share research material is the perfect environment for fraud. That’s why every sharing tool is important including FOI.CO2 Equals Temperature – Even If It Doesn’t | Real Science
CO2 is increasing very quickly, but temperatures have been flat or down for almost 15 years. Someone with a functional brain might recognize that they need to mentally decouple CO2 from temperature.Biggest Jump Ever in Global Warming Pollution in 2010, Chinese CO2 Emissions Now Exceed U.S.'s By 50% | ThinkProgress
Chinese emissions now exceed ours by a whopping 50%. They will be double ours by 2010 if they keep on their rapacious, immoral path of weekly coal-plant building — and we keep on our rapacious, immoral path of doing nothingFour Corners To Get Slammed With Snow Again | Real Science
Heavy snow in Arizona in mid-autumn. A sure sign of excess trapped heat. Wolf Creek Ski area in Southwestern Colorado had the earliest opening on record a month ago – with three feet of snow.Not a skeptic | Climate Nonconformist
Journalists have been quite happy to expand their definition of a “skeptic” when it suits them, as in the case of Muller, but when assessing the number of skeptics in the population, just as easily tighten their definition in order to pass us off as an “endangered species“.
More brain-dead reporting from the New York Times: They carefully avoid acknowledging Richard Muller's very recent climate realist statements
Dr. Muller’s Findings on Global Warming - NYTimes.com
Flashback to yesterday: Muller: "I never said you shouldn't be a skeptic. I never said that."
This may not be exactly the result the Koch foundation had in mind when it forked out one-quarter of the $600,000 it took to do the study. Charles Koch and his brother, David, are oil and gas billionaires who argue that warming is a hoax. They spent heavily to defeat California’s global warming initiative in a 2010 state referendum. Still, we should thank them for helping to change the mind of an influential scientist.Flashback to yesterday: Muller: "I certainly feel that there is lots of room for skepticism on the human component of warming"
Mr. Muller says he doesn’t know how much of the warming is caused by humans, what its effects will be or what should be done about it. He shows little interest in entering the political fight. Still, his acceptance of the reality of warming may help move the conversation — once and for all — away from questions about whether it exists to smart strategies for addressing it.
Flashback to yesterday: Muller: "I never said you shouldn't be a skeptic. I never said that."
Muller: "Al Gore camp? That's ridiculous...what I point out is that most of what appears in An Inconvenient Truth is absolutely either wrong, exaggerated, or misleading."
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Muller: "...some people say I proved that there was no ClimateGate. No. NO! The ClimateGate thing was a scandal. It's terrible what they did. It's shameful the way they hid the data."
Sea life 'must swim faster to survive’ (Science Alert)
Under current global warming, land animals and plants are migrating polewards at a rate of about 6 kilometres a decade – but sea creatures may have to move several times faster to keep in touch with the water temperature and conditions that best suit them.
International carbon trading halfway between fantasy and fraud | The Australian
EVEN more than the carbon tax itself, the central mechanism of the Gillard government's clean energy bills now making their way through parliament is the international carbon trading market.The Loud Fringe: Pluralistic Ignorance and Democracy
People who hold the majority view that the climate is changing and that humans are causing the change underestimate the support for their view
Why do non-Europeans hate everyone's grandchildren? Outside of Europe, no one seems excited about coughing up cash for carbon dioxide swindle
Asia airline body raps plan for carbon tax
SEOUL: The director-general of an Asian airline association criticised plans for a carbon tax on carriers flying to and from Europe, saying it pits the continent against the rest of the world.
“Essentially, it’s Europe versus the rest,” said Andrew Herdman of the Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines, which is holding its annual meeting in Seoul.
Warmist Jerry Brown schedules climate hoax conference that builds on IPCC report that hasn't been released
Calif. Governor Brown Announces Conference on Climate Risks and California’s Future
SACRAMENTO, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and environmental, business and public health and safety leaders will come together on December 15 in San Francisco at “The Governor’s Conference on Extreme Climate Risks and California’s Future.”
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The Governor’s conference builds on the findings of a United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report outlining the link between global warming, extreme weather events and their economic impact. The IPPC report will be released later this month.
The Governor will be joined by Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Rajendra Pachauri
Worse and worse: Warmists Mann and Mandia tweet their approval as a grad student defends grad school "experts" becoming IPCC lead authors
Michael E. Mann (michaelemann) on Twitter
AGW_Prof Scott A MandiaAn open letter to Donna Laframboise (or, You have got to be F*!$*%@&! kidding me) | Molecular Love (and other facts of life)
retweeted by MichaelEMann
An open letter to Donna Laframboise (or, You have got to be F*!$*%@&! kidding me) bit.ly/shaiUc
First, I didn’t read the book because, honestly, I could barely make it through the terribly written Fox News piece. I don’t think I would have survived the book (nor do I have the time to read it).
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For example, the article on foxnews.com states, “Grad students often co-author scientific papers to help with the laborious task of writing. Such papers are rarely the cornerstone for trillions of dollars worth of government climate funding, however — nor do they win Nobel Peace prizes.” I will assume that the bit about “Nobel Peace prizes” was a mistake made by the Fox News writer, since as I’m sure you’re aware, scientific achievements do not lead to Peace prizes. Further, most science of any kind doesn’t lead to a Nobel Prize. They really don’t hand out that many of them.
But let’s de-construct this one a little more. Grad students often are the lead author on scientific publications, because they carried out the work.
...The fact is, if you are working toward your Ph.D. under the supervision of an established researcher, you *are* qualified to write scientific articles, including reviews, and to be on advisory panels. Getting your Ph.D. is not a magical transition from being a useless grunt to having all the tools necessary to do science. It’s a long road. You have to perform world-class science, be published in peer-reviewed journals, and present your work at national and international meetings, among other things. By the time a grad student receives their Ph.D. he or she should most certainly be “on the radar”. Their names should be known to top scientists in the field. They should be an expert in that field long before they get a magic piece of paper that gives them the right to say “Doctor” before their name. The expertise doesn’t come after.
But while grad students do author many papers, and are often the corresponding authors on those papers, they are always co-authored by their mentor, an established researcher in the field, one who goes by Doctor. This author is often called the “senior author,” not “lead author.” I think that’s where you got confused. Those “top experts” in a larger field are the senior authors. The lead authors, often graduate students, are in training to be top experts in a large scientific field, as well. However, they are the top experts in their own narrower research field, which is why they are called upon as experts by the IPCC.
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Brooke LaFlamme (a graduate student).
Sign of the times: Warmist Steven Chu gives a lengthy speech on energy, but never once mentions global warming
Secretary Chu: America Faces a Choice to “Compete in the Clean Energy Race” or “Wave the White Flag” | ThinkProgress
The speech only disappoints because Chu never once mentions global warming, which is clearly a major reason why other countries are putting so much money in renewables and why clean energy is ensured of staggering market growth in the coming decades. Chu used to be blunt on this, too, back in early 2009 — see Chu on climate change: “Wake up,” America, “we’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.”
I suspect the White House communications shop has, subtly or not, told Chu they (idiotically) believe climate change is not a winning political issue, which is the exact opposite of the truth
Durban beach police prepares for arrival of the COP 17 delegates
Preparations for the annual UN climate change jamboree COP 17 are are intensifying in Durban. The host city has now proudly announced that it has acquired ten electric bicycles for police officers who patrol along the beachfront area. According to eThekwini mayor James Nxumalo the bicycles have been bought "in a bid to turn it (the city) a bit greener ahead of the COP 17 conference".$40K for a Ford Focus? - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Would you pay $40,000 for the brand new electric Ford Focus over a $16,500 gas model? You already did.Feeding the World in a Warming World - A New Reason Report - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Global warming will clearly affect what, how, and where farmers will grow food in the future as rainfall and temperature patterns shiftSolar cheaper than fossil fuels in a decade, says Steven Chu | Grist
Solar power will be cheaper than fossil fuels at some point between the end of this decade and 2016, said U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at the Washington Post's Smart Energy conference this morning.Twitter / @suzyji
Chu just punted on #keystone. Says decision rests w/ State, tho he expects to be consulted #nokxl #cleanenergy
Fred Singer: Why I Remain a Global-Warming Skeptic - WSJ.com
Searching for scientific truth in the realm of climate.[Trust us, we're scientists]: Noted Dutch Psychologist, Stapel, Accused of Research Fraud - NYTimes.com
A well-known psychologist in the Netherlands whose work has been published widely in professional journals falsified data and made up entire experiments, an investigating committee has found. Experts say the case exposes deep flaws in the way science is done in a field, psychology, that has only recently earned a fragile respectability.NBC Nightly News Blames Halloween Snowstorm on Global Warming | NewsBusters.org
In their view, whatever is happening today couldn't possibly have happened before records starting being kept, and therefore all weather events outside "the norm" are considered extreme and therefore proof of climate change.LegalNewsline | N.D. AG says Minn. anti-global warming law will hurt his state
Quite confirms Bernie Goldberg's point this week about nightshift employees at 7-Eleven having more introspection than today's journalists.
BISMARCK, N.D. (Legal Newsline) - North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says he has filed a lawsuit against neighboring Minnesota over its anti-global warming law.
- Bishop Hill blog - Blackening the name of the BBC
Richard Black briefs colleagues on covering climate change.Book Sightings & an Invite to Germany « NoFrakkingConsensus
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He is quite a piece of work isn't he?
Six weeks ago I was invited to become a regular contributor to the Canadian version of the The Huffington Post. To the immense credit of its new Managing Editor, Danielle Crittenden, the offer remained firm even after she learned what my book is about. (The Huffington Post is so closely aligned with the standard environmentalist worldview it has a permanent section labeled Green.) Yesterday, an excerpt of my book appeared on The Huffington Post and I am hard at work on my first blog post for that venue which will be titled Why I’m a Climate Skeptic.A level playing field | Australian Climate Madness
“The alarmists have power over our lives.” That is the key point that differentiates the alarmists from the sceptics. If we reverse the situation, with the consensus position being that the likelihood of catastrophic climate change is minuscule and in any event climate mitigation is practically useless, and the sceptics arguing that we should turn our economies upside down to counter what they allege to be a real risk, spending billions of dollars which could be otherwise spent on alleviating poverty or disease, which side of this hypothetical argument would be subjected to the greater scrutiny?Extreme measures: The push to make climate research relevant | Climate Spectator
I am not suggesting such uneven scrutiny, merely a level playing field. But at the moment, we are a very long way from that.
"There's this very strong connection between attribution and prediction," noted Stott, who spoke on these issues before colleagues last week at the World Climate Research Programme conference here in Denver.
Warmist Peter Gleick still ranting about book he forgot to read before reviewing
Twitter / @PeterGleick: Shocking? Fox turns sloppy ...
Shocking? Fox turns sloppy, error-ridden book against climate science into sloppy, error-ridden news clip. fxn.ws/rU1jdV. laframboise
Biggest jump ever recorded in greenhouse gas - CBS News
(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.Al Jazeera interview on Muller Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study | Climate Science Watch
The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.
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The world pumped about 564 million more tons (512 million metric tons) of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6 percent. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries - China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases.
It is a "monster" increase that is unheard of, said Gregg Marland, a professor of geology at Appalachian State University, who has helped calculate Department of Energy figures in the past.
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"Really dismaying," said Granger Morgan, head of the engineering and public policy department at Carnegie Mellon University. "We are building up a horrible legacy for our children and grandchildren."
“The obstacles to action on climate change are not really about science and science communication anymore, they’re about politics, and the political resistance to taking action,” we told Al Jazeera English TV in a story about the confirmation of global warming by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study led by physicist Richard Muller.Climate null(?) hypothesis | Climate Etc.
The dueling climate null hypothesis papers by myself and Kevin Trenberth are now online.
UK, Germany chop PV subsidies - ElectroIQ
November 3, 2011 - Two of Europe's top solar markets have simultaneously announced new steps to reduce subsidies for solar projects by at least 50%, moves that are aimed at reducing long-term financial impacts -- but might actually spur demand and exacerbate the problem.
Sometime warmist Bill Gates suggests that when you drive Grandma home from the hospital, you're damaging the lives of poor people in Africa
Gates says ‘Robin Hood’ tax has part to play - FT.com
But pressed on which new taxes were most suited to financing development, he stressed that an FTT ranked behind tobacco duties, which are linked to health, and shipping and aviation fuel taxes which are associated with combating climate change. “If you took the money [from fuel taxes] and used it to help mitigate the damage [burning fuel] does to feeding their poor families in Africa . . . then you have a connection as you are using revenues from that activity to mitigate some of the damage caused.”Flashback: Bill Gates and Andy Revkin think you're stupid: They both imagine that you're ready to be lectured on energy efficiency by a guy who lives in a 66,000 square foot mansion
[Gates] More efficient use of energy is important.Are extremes increasing and if so why?
[Joseph D’Aleo] Again these journalists (the term is a stretch nowadays) and global warming scientists have no sense of history.
NBC’s Brian Williams in a special report after the Snowtober storm in the northeast said he did not remember weather like this when he grew up. Brian Williams grew up in Elmira, NY, born in 1959 so was a child during the snowy 1960s. He missed the hurricanes of the 1950s although his family lived in New Jersey then. He was a child when the tornado outbreaks of the 1960s and 1970s occurred and was likely in college (where his 18 college credits from Catholic University in DC likely did not include science) while he interned for Jimmy Carter’s administration when the great winters from 1976-1979 occurred.
...Some extremes of weather have been increasing even as the earth cools. But the causes are natural. La Ninas produce more winter cold and snows, more severe weather from fall through spring, more springtime flooding and summer droughts and heat waves, enhanced landfall hurricane threats with greater economic impact and declining global temperatures. Given the flip of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation to the cold mode which favors more La Ninas like this one, we may be looking back at recent decades when El Ninos dominated as the good old days when weather was unusually benign and favorable.
Warmist Jess Zimmerman tries to make us feel better about grad students being IPCC lead authors: LOTS of grad students are behind large federally-funded climate hoax projects
Fox, don’t make fun of grad students, they just made a terrible life choice | Grist
Okay, the U.S. government contributes $2.3 million dollars to the IPCC (that's with an "m," but we understand if Fox News is still working on the alphabet). The National Science Foundation has eight grants for active large-scale climate projects that are bigger than that (sometimes WAY bigger, and it's also worth noting that sometimes the same projects have multiple grants). You can bet your student loan bill those projects make heavy use of graduate student work and graduate student writing. Come to think of it, my husband's physics experiment has gotten more than $2.3 million from the NSF, and so far all the papers to come out of it have been written by grad students.
Warmist Suzanne Goldenberg vs Climate Resistance on Twitter
Suzanne Goldenberg (suzyji) on Twitter
Suzanne Goldenberg
Chu aides just clarified - $35bn DoE loans created close to 65,000 direct jobs. Entire stimulus created 100,000s of jobs #cleanenergy
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Climate Resistance
@suzyji 65K jobs for $35 billion is over half a $million per job. Are you able to use a calculator, or does the Guardian ban them?
Suzanne Goldenberg
@clim8resistance Your point being?
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Climate Resistance
@suzyji anyone can 'create jobs' by throwing $half a million at people.
@ suzyji that $0.5 million per job does not justify any policy -- it's an extraordinary waste...
Muller: "I certainly feel that there is lots of room for skepticism on the human component of warming"
Richard Muller, Climate Researcher, Navigates The Volatile Line Between Science And Skepticism
"It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic -- only a scientific skeptic," he said in a recent email exchange with The Huffington Post. "Some people called me a skeptic because in my best-seller 'Physics for Future Presidents' I had drawn attention to the numerous scientific errors in the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth.' But I never felt that pointing out mistakes qualified me to be called a climate skeptic."
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"I certainly feel that there is lots of room for skepticism on the human component of warming," Muller said.
Attribution of climate variations and trends to human influences and natural variability - Trenberth - 2011
Past attribution studies of climate change have assumed a null hypothesis of no role of human activities. The challenge, then, is to prove that there is an anthropogenic component. I argue that because global warming is “unequivocal” and ‘very likely’ caused by human activities, the reverse should now be the case. The task, then, could be to prove there is no anthropogenic component to a particular observed change in climate, although a more useful task is to determine what it is. In Bayesian statistics, this change might be thought of as adding a ‘prior’. The benefit of doubt and uncertainties about observations and models are then switched. Moreover, the science community is much too conservative on this issue and too many authors make what are called ‘Type II errors’ whereby they erroneously accept the null hypothesis. Global warming is contributing to a changing incidence of extreme weather because the environment in which all storms form has changed from human activities.
CO2 continues to not devastate Chinese corn crops; "Domestic production will reach a record for the seventh time in eight years"
China Corn Output Jumps 6.7% to Record in 2011, Survey Shows - Businessweek
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Corn production in China, the world’s largest grower and consumer after the U.S., probably rose 6.7 percent to a record this year as farmers planted more and favorable weather boosted yields, a survey showed.
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Domestic production will reach a record for the seventh time in eight years after farmers planted 6.1 percent more land than in 2010,
USGS Release: Flash Forward 100 Years: Climate Change Scenarios in California’s Bay-Delta (11/2/2011 12:30:00 PM)
"As we plan for the future, it is important to consider more than just global warming," said USGS scientist and the study's lead author James Cloern.Ya think?
C3: International Journal of Modern Physics: 90% of Global Warming May Result From Natural Causes
Using advanced statistical techniques, Ludecke et al. concluded that global temperature variation has causes related to both anthropogenic and natural reasons. Depending on a given climate station's temperature measurements, the warming (cooling) trend is likely to be explained, from 40 to 90%, by natural causes. (The remaining anthropogenic causes of temperature change may be a result of greenhouse gases, UHI, land-use, aerosols and etc.)
Grist warmist's belief in the global warming hoax isn't strong enough to convince her to skip her boyfriend's friend's wedding
Again, this is a massive, showstopping problem for global warming hoax promoters: It's so stupid that even the "believers" don't truly believe it.
The Greenie Pig gets religion on global warming | Grist
The Greenie Pig gets religion on global warming | Grist
Forgive me, Earth, for I have sinned.
You see, a dear childhood friend of my boyfriend's got married last Saturday. Our attendance was a foregone conclusion -- there was no way Ted could miss his bro's big day. Problem was, we live in Seattle, and this wedding was in Marfa, Texas, a tiny town a full eight hours' drive from Austin. We had to travel -- a lot -- to reach this blessed event. With travel come carbon emissions, and with carbon emissions come guilt. If it helps, I feel really bad about it.
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Being bad can feel so good, but now that it's over and done with, I'm looking to atone.
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My total damage, then, is 1,858 pounds of carbon. If there's an environmental inferno for sinners like me, I fear my trip would land me in at least the third circle of Hell. You know, the one reserved for gluttons.
...Not even my composting worms will buy me forgiveness.
So what's left for a poor sinner to do?
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov. 3rd 2011 « The Daily Bayonet
Assuming the good folk of Austin don’t mind eating the cost, there’s nothing wrong with a mayor guiding his city to a green and pleasant future. Unless the same Mayor campaigned hard to bring the Gaia-stomping, carbon-spewing Formula One circus to town
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Coke is it, according to the WWF (as they pocket $2 million from Coke).
Irrefutable consensus: Biomass use may help kill us all; also, Al Gore said we should triple biomass use
Question either one, and you're worse than Hitler.
Kevin Grandia | Biomass - bad for trees, bad for the planet
Kevin Grandia | Biomass - bad for trees, bad for the planet
A new report out today finds that using forest timber (biomass) for heating, electricity generation or liquid ‘biofuel’ could severely harm forests and accelerate global warming.Al Gore on Jobs
Triple use of biomass, ethanol, plant-based textiles, etc.
“Our administration’s goal is to triple the use of biomass technologies, ethanol, gasoline additives, plant-based textiles and other environmentally friendly products by 2010. This is just one of the exciting ways our efforts to protect the environment will begin to help America’s ailing farming economy.”
Source: Sustainable Energy Coalition, media backgrounder #2 Nov 18, 1999
Mann-Occhio | Real Science
GISS has tracked below Hansen’s scenario C (zero CO2 emissions since the year 2000.) Either Mann doesn’t understand how graphs work, or he is just blatantly dishonest.C3: The BEST Science PR Fiasco: Rushing To The Ashbin of Climate History
As BEST's Richard Muller woos a skeptical co-author with sweet nothings about romantic number crunching, he then proceeds to provide an interview that has him denouncing his own WSJ opinion piece regarding the preliminary BEST global temperature findings. Needless to say, the BEST 'PR' campaign has become a self-immolation fiasco. Embarrassing may be an understatement.West Coast Birds Defy Climate Change Expectations, Study Shows - NYTimes.com
The general magnitude of the size changes the two research teams found — around 0.03 to 0.11 percent a year — were similar, although the shifts were in opposite directions.
Consensus: Carbon dioxide is allegedly causing trees to move dramatically, and it's also not causing them to move
Climate change causing massive movement of tree species across the West
ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2011) — A huge "migration" of trees has begun across much of the West due to global warming, insect attack, diseases and fire, and many tree species are projected to decline or die out in regions where they have been present for centuries, while others move in and replace them.Flashback: Even the trees are deniers: 79% of tree species refuse to shift northward as predicted by junk science models
National Journal’s Energy and Environment Insiders poll: Only 90% think that climate change is not "the most pressing international energy issue that the president will have to tackle in the years to come"
Insiders: Like It or Not, Next President Faces Climate Issue - Olga Belogolova - NationalJournal.com
“Multilateral negotiations on climate are going the way of the World’s Fairs. They still hold ’em, but no one knows about it or cares.”
“The entire process has been nothing more than a show for years....”
What will be the most pressing international energy issue that the president will have to tackle in the years to come?
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Climate Change 10%
UAH Global Temperature Update for October 2011: +0.11 deg. C « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
The Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, and tropics have all cooled substantially, consistent with the onset of another La Nina, with the tropics now back below the 1981-2010 average.Airlines Ballyhoo Greenhouse Plans, Then Complain About Cost | National Legal and Policy Center
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WHAT MIGHT THIS MEAN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE?
…taking a line from our IPCC brethren… While any single month’s drop in global temperatures cannot be blamed on climate change, it is still the kind of behavior we expect to see more often in a cooling world. ;)
Nevertheless the U.S. air transport industry has played the game, spent money to become “sustainable,” crowed about it, but now balks at EU efforts to make them a full team player? Corporate executives need to learn that environmentalism never stops, because even though you comply with their initial demands, they will always clamor for more.Can Vulnerable Species Outrun Climate Change? by Emma Marris: Yale Environment 360
The newt might just make it, says Early, “if it moves forward when it gets warmer, and it doesn’t move backwards when it gets cooler, and moves 24 kilometers a decade.”Must See: Extraordinary Map of Climate Change | Peter Lehner's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC
...anthropogenic climate change is occurring much faster than the gradual changes that took place over the last 21,000 years. Indeed, Sandel says the rate of warming over the next 70 years could easily be 10 times as fast as the warming that occurred as the planet emerged from the last Ice Age.
This is one of the best demonstrations of climate change I've seen in a while. It vividly shows, as it moves from mostly cool blues in the 19th century to angry splotches of red in the 21st, both short blips in temperature and the much longer overall warming of the planet.
Hogan shifts policy on climate change as Bill 'not a priority' - The Irish Times - Thu, Nov 03, 2011
A RADICAL shift in policy on climate change is to be outlined by Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan today, when he announces that a climate change Bill is not a priority.
How Are The Pikas Holding Up? | Real Science
Colorado has been getting slammed with record cold and snow in recent weeks. I’m concerned that all those Pikas which moved their burrows six inches up the hill may have to move them back down again.- Bishop Hill blog - Two new papers on surface temperatures
Horst-Joachim Lüdecke (who is involved with EIKE, the German sceptic group) emails about two new papers he has on surface temperatures. He tells me that these contradict BEST.After a glorious autumn... Britain prepares for Siberian freeze in just weeks | Mail Online
Forecasters warning temperatures could drop to -15C by December
Overheated planet update: Arctic sea ice extent increasing only 40% faster than "average"
NSIDC: A rapid freeze-up
Arctic sea ice extent increased rapidly through October. Ice extent during October 2011 increased at an average rate of 114,900 square kilometers (44,360 square miles) per day, about 40% faster than the average growth rate for October 1979 to 2000.
Boulder, Colorado Glacier Gained 2-3 Feet Of Ice This Year | Real Science
There is probably another 2-3 feet of new snow already this “winter.” Three years ago, some top-notch CU professors told us that Colorado snow was soon to be a thing of the past.IPCC Snow Forecast Fail | Real Science
Since the world’s best climate scientists made that forecast (under the sponsorship of the UN) Northern Hemisphere winter snow cover has increased by 30,000 Manhattans.- Bishop Hill blog - Black redux
I'm struggling to put an innocent gloss on Black's misrepresentation of what the allegation was.Blizzard expected in Colorado today
Total accumulations of 5 to 10 inches possible.The World's Condom, Electricity and Climate Divides - NYTimes.com
Electricity means children can study at night, electric stoves can be used instead of pollution-emitting coal, and people can have access to a wider community through television or radio. “We can do this without increasing global CO2 by even 1 percent,” he says.
Climate Change Imperils Global Prosperity, U.N. Warns - NYTimes.com
“Even if someone’s a climate skeptic, this report says, ‘Put that aside for a second,’ ” said William Orme, a spokesman for the United Nations agency. “If you believe in something like a moral commitment to the global community and in getting people out of poverty, we must address these environmental problems.”Richard Muller's global warming research points... | Gather
If it's cyclical, we still need to come up with a hypothesis that withstands scrutiny regarding HOW the cyclical thing works.How long can we live in denial? | Climate Spectator
In an environmental impact statement prepared for Hancock Coal’s massive Kevin’s Corner Project in Queensland, it states there is “a direct relationship between GHG concentrations and temperature”Hugh Morgan: climate denier hosts climate change science forum at Commonwealth Business Council | Rooted
Putting a man like Hugh Morgan in a position of influence on climate change is a bit like.. well.. asking an astrologer how we should teach science to kids.Media Lens Message Board: Chomsky on climate change etc - without rapid change 'chances for a decent future are not very high'
We're really regressing back to the Medieval period.
English major Chris Mooney: You know who's the “Galileo of climate science"? Michael Mann
Chris Mooney: Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins A Battle Against Deniers | ThinkProgress
I called Mann the “Galileo of climate science,” and increasingly, I think this is not mere hyperbole.
Time for Another Climate Science Scandal - Guy Benson
Like most conservatives, I'm not "anti-science." I am, however, anti-junk science -- and when I see scientists colluding to "hide" inconvenient data and issuing headline-grabbing pronouncements based on partial information, my skepticism deepens. Feel free to label me a denier. I'd prefer that moniker to "manipulator," which seems to apply to the esteemed Dr. Muller.The Climate Scam Continues - Latest Headlines - Investors.com
Junk Science: In an attempt to revive climate hype, a chart by a Berkeley scientist claims to show global warming has not slowed. In fact, what it shows is no warming for the last 11 years.The End of Climategate? - Reason Magazine
Considering that the warming pause in some temperature records has already been going on for 13 to 15 years perhaps we will soon find out if the climate models are producing valid results or not and get a better idea of how much warming can be attributed to accumulating greenhouse gases.Energy Tribune- Climategate II: Won’t Get Fooled Again?
While statistical quibbling about its results will occur, the BEST project has set admirable standards of scientific transparency with regard to data and how it’s treated. This will help repair a bit of the damage to the public’s trust in climate science caused by the insular authoritarian-minded band of climate scientists involved in Climategate.
The UK’s GWPF’s scientists spotted this for themselves. And we might have assumed that the editors of Nature, along with countless science correspondents, having already been fooled by one hockey-stick ‘manufacturer’, they would not so easily be fooled again.
It seems we’d be wrong.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: A New Study on Insured Losses and Climate Change
[new paper] there is no significant trend in insured losses for storm events (Figure 7b), tropical cyclones (Figure 7c) or precipitation-related events (Figure 7d).Cap-and-Cry: California’s Global Warming Program (avoided warming of 0.005°C by 2050 under CARB regulations) — MasterResource
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So the next time that Munich Re wants to attribute the growing toll of disaster losses to climate change, or you see someone citing Munich Re saying as much, they might be reminded of the Munich Re funded (and peer-reviewed) research which tells quite a different story than that found in press releases.
“… the total is 0.00476°C (0.0086°F) of global warming avoided by the California cap-and-trade program for reducing greenhouse gas emissions out to the year 2050. Such numbers strain the limits of detectability within our current observing systems, not to mention environmental significance.”CO2 emitted by the poor nations and absorbed by the rich. Oh the irony. (And this truth must not be spoken) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Kudos to John O’Sullivan for finding this story; see the note at the end about the extraordinary response his post on this received.Climatologist and Researcher Heidi Cullen Speaks at ISU - MyWabashValley.com
"2011 has seen an extreme amount of extreme weather and I think the point is not to say that's climate change, but climate change is making our weather more extreme. So one of the things that we need to be sensitive to is how we're going to adapt to this more extreme weather," Cullen says.
2-minute video: NBC News blames carbon dioxide for Halloween snowstorm
october2011NBC720.mov - YouTube
["greenhouse gases are the steroids of the climate system!" Muller makes an appearance! Anne Thompson calls the Koch brothers "climate change deniers"! Brian Williams says "All I know is this didn't happen when we were kids"!]
U.N. Hires Grad Students To Author Key Climate Report | Fox News
Klein confirmed in an email to FoxNews.com that he had not yet turned 25 when he was selected to author a portion of the report that would shape the world's climate policy.
“I am happy to leave it to others to reflect on the fact that I was 24 when I was lead author of an IPCC chapter for the first time, and that it was two years after I did a three-month work placement at Greenpeace,” Dr. Klein wrote.
Shipping emissions 'should be included in UK carbon targets' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Some of the more novel technologies suggested by the CCC include a form of return to the age of sail, using kites or new forms of sail to harness the winds.An Important Victory for Climate Science : Greg Laden's Blog
ClimateGate was a very successful but illegal campaign by anti-science to discredit climate science and climate scientists. Rest assured, the climate science is fine and the climate scientists are just trying to do their jobs, and doing quite well at that.Dispute erupts on timing of global climate pact - Taiwan News Online
Small developing countries are protesting calls by Russia and Japan to delay a global climate change agreement.Noted Warmist: Scientists 'Endorse Al Gore Even Though They Know What He’s Saying Is Exaggerated and Misleading' | NewsBusters.org
(video follows with transcript and commentary)Carbon trading "a pyramid marketing scheme" | Australian Climate Madness
So says John Baird, Canadian Foreign Minister.
Prince William hosts important global warming case - The State of NoVa - The Washington Post
There are apparently about 12,000 e-mails being sought by the ATI, and U-Va. is resisting turning over most of them. On Tuesday in court, both sides exchanged harsh rhetoric, Mann’s request to become a party to the case was granted, and a judge said he would order a third party to review which e-mails should be released and which ones were exempt from Virginia’s FOIA laws.
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U-Va. said in court papers that it wants to protect the “confidential scholarly and scientific communications of University faculty.” Mann said outside the courtroom that scientists banter candidly, sometimes heatedly, over important issues. “You need to be able to bounce ideas off each other,” Mann said, “that aren’t always ready for prime time.” He noted that various scientific organizations have urged U-Va., and the courts, to resist ATI’s inquiries.
“The issue isn’t FOIA,” Mann said. “It’s a partisan witch hunt.”
Schnare disagreed. “The public has a right to see that these professors are following their own university’s rules,” he said. “This is about the balance between the public’s right to know under FOIA, and the university’s need to protect academic freedom.”
Schnare said he wants to dig into Mann’s research. “You want to know what are the assumptions? What are the records? We have ‘Climategate’ e-mails to show he can’t even find the data.” He said U-Va. had already spent more than $750,000 in legal costs to keep the e-mails secret.
Debate on Climate Change, Environmental Effects
...According to Mann, the earth warms and cools naturally, however, based on solely natural models the earth should have cooled slightly in the last 100 years instead of warmed.Twitter / @MichaelEMann: Nice writeup in student pa ...
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Critics might argue that all of these results are based on models and that it is impossible to accurately model something as complex as climate. Mann countered this argument by pointing to models such as Hansen’s Three Predicted Global Warming Scenarios, which have predicted very accurately the amount of global warming we have experienced in the last 50 years.
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Since it is possible to already see such profound effects, it is reasonable to ask why no action has been taken. This is because the subject is highly politically charged. The first example Mann used to show this political masking was a memo written in 2002 by Frank Luntz, owner of the political consulting firm Luntz Global, which coached politicians in how to argue against climate change. Mann’s next example was of an event called “Climategate,” when private emails of scientists researching climate change were stolen and released to the public. Oddly enough, the following political attention was not focused on the theft but on the supposed fraud that the scientists discussed in the emails. Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, wrote an opinion article in The Washington Post declaring that the scientists were deliberately hiding a decline in global temperature. This was not true, according to Mann. What the scientists had been discussing was how to shift people’s attention away from tree ring data that was wrong after 1960 so that it did not confuse people.
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The political debate and battle for acceptance of the reality of climate change is ongoing. This is a shame, according to Mann, because the scientific community accepted the reality of climate change two decades ago. The debate now should be how to fix the problem. If we stay on this track, says Mann, “[the] coral reefs will be gone within 40 to 50 years” and crops in the tropics will suffer significantly. If we want to avoid this, we have to bring our CO2 emissions to a peak within the next decade and below the levels of those in the 1990s by the mid-2000s. This cannot be accomplished by individuals reducing their carbon footprint; we need to put a cost on emissions.
“I don’t want a world where my daughter can only show her children polar bears in zoos and that is what we are heading towards,” Mann says
Nice writeup in student paper of my talk at St Mary's college last week [links to article above]
Warmist Mary Robinson: Hey, who's up for a brand-new, hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-per-year carbon dioxide hoax swindle?
The G20 must tackle climate change | Mary Robinson | Global development | guardian.co.uk
Oxfam and WWF have calculated that a moderate carbon price of $25 per tonne would generate $25bn per year by 2020, while raising the cost of global trade by less than $2 for every $1,000 traded.
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A joint statement by the finance ministers of France and South Africa last month named shipping and aviation taxes as one of the building blocks of a potential deal when UN negotiations resume in Durban this month. The statement also set out the two countries' "strong support" for the other opportunity presented by Gates's report: financial transaction taxes (FTTs).
Dubbed Robin Hood taxes by campaigners, these involve a tiny levy on transactions of banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions. The taxes would raise tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
Press Release: ATI Welcomes Michael Mann to the Case
ATI welcomes Dr. Mann to the case. Now he will have to defend his email content before a neutral court and offer more than slurs and innuendo to support his contention that he can hide his behavior and his emails from the public who paid for them in the first place.Medical climate metaphors--Revkin
Medical climate metaphors, new, newish and much older. One big issue with medical metaphor: Greenhouse symptoms are often far from cause (the sources of emissions are separated in both space and time from the worst impacts). The metaphor only works if the world’s citizens see themselves as cells in a single vulnerable body - and there’s scant evidence of that if you track the climate talks over the years, and now decades.U.S. Considered Taking Partial Ownership of Solyndra - NYTimes.com
In the days just before the solar panel maker Solyndra sought bankruptcy protection, the Obama administration considered another emergency debt restructuring that would have made the government the owner of 35 to 40 percent of the company, according to e-mail messages provided to House investigators.Pollution makes powerful cyclones more likely, claim scientists | Science | The Guardian
A thick layer of pollution over the Indian Ocean may be creating atmospheric conditions that promote fierce cyclonesFlashback: IPCC thinks you're stupid: With 29 of the 30 deadliest tropical cyclones occurring more than 20 years ago, they're ready to claim that CO2 will lead to "sharply increased risk for large swathes of humanity in coming decades"
RealClimate: Keystone XL: Game over?
The kind of climate we wind up with is largely determined by the total amount of carbon we emit into the atmosphere as CO2 in the time before we finally kick the fossil fuel habit (by choice or by virtue of simply running out).Twitter / @Revkin: Solid look at climate impl ...
Solid look at climate implications of #kxl pipeline by Ray Pierrehumbert at RealClimate: [points to the "Game over?" post above]
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