Sunday, April 21, 2013

Only 19 % of U.S. pastors age 18 - 44 believe in man made global warming
What is encouraging is that younger pastors are the biggest skeptics.
Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » 114 years of rainfall at Merredin in the heart of the Western Australian wheat belt
Recent numbers are similar to those from 1900 to before WWI – same pattern we see in Perth.
Extreme Drought – With Normal Snowpack | Real Science
The US Drought Monitor shows northwestern Colorado in extreme drought, despite the fact that they have had dozens of snowstorms and the snowpack in the mountains is normal.
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Northeastern Wyoming has more than 200% of normal snowpack, and is listed as being under extreme drought.
Copenhagen to be carbon neutral by 2025; Hilarious photo | JunkScience.com
A photo accompanying the article is captioned “Copenhagen already gets much of its electricity from wind power (photo: Justin Gerdes)”. Note coal plant blazing away in background.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another potential solar amplification mechanism
A paper published today in Theoretical and Applied Climatology finds the 11-year solar cycle is correlated to the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO), a wind reversal that "dominates" variability of the lower stratosphere and in turn "affects a variety of extratropical phenomena including the strength and stability of the winter polar vortex." The IPCC AR4 states that the IPCC climate models do not include the quasi-biennial oscillation due to inadequate understanding of the causes, and "Due to the computational cost associated with the requirement of a well-resolved stratosphere." The paper adds to many others finding solar amplification mechanisms that are not included in the climate models the IPCC uses to dismiss the role of the Sun.

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