Will Stocker Retaliate against the U.S? « Climate Audit

The next question: the IPCC said that it would “reconsider” relations with UK scientists if the secret letter were released. Will the IPCC now “reconsider” relations with US scientists now that NOAA has released the secret letter? Or was the threat limited to the UK where UEA employees had previously solicited Stocker’s assistance in obstructing UK FOI legislation? Is there any principle under which IPCC threatens UK scientists, but not US scientists?

The letter sets out IPCC position in the wake of Climategate, with Stocker reassuring AR4 authors that AR5 would be as “effective as possible while at the same time emphasizing the robustness of AR4 findings”. The letter itself does not justify the elaborate tactics that IPCC used to keep the letter secret. Someone should ask Stocker to explain his threats.

Why Can’t We Get All Our Electricity from Wind?

Very high wind penetrations are not achievable in practice due to the increased need for power storage, the decrease in grid reliability, and the increased operating costs. Given these constraints, this study concludes that a more practical upper limit for wind penetration is 10%.

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New UK study: 74% see human role in climate change, 44% see issue as exaggerated, 35% don't trust climate scientists http://www.lwec.org.uk/sites/default/files/LWEC_climate_science_web.pdf …

The Skeptics Are Thrashing The Alarmists In The Global Warming Debate - Forbes

The alarmist climate models say Antarctic sea ice should be shrinking. Instead, Antarctic sea ice is growing and consistently setting new records. When skeptics point out the record growth in Antarctic sea ice, alarmists creatively reinterpret what their climate models predicted and hope nobody notices.

This is why global warming alarmists are so afraid to engage in live, public debates. You can write such rubbish for the Houston Chronicle and most of your readers will never dig deep enough to discover the truth. But if you make such assertions in a live, public debate, you end up being posterized in a YouTube video that will last for all eternity.

Global Warming? Blame the Tides

If climate change theorists want to blame man for warming conditions at Earth’s north and south poles, they may need to start blaming the man in the Moon. Long-term lunar cycles may have more to do with such climate changes due to their effect on tidal patterns than has previously been generally understood.