Tom Nelson

2012-01-30T20:31:00.001-06:00

Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes | Watts Up With That?

Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment.

2012-01-30T17:09:00.001-06:00

Climate Change Has Helped Bring Down Cultures | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

a major millennia-long climate cooling event known as the “Younger Dryas” coincides with the end of most settlements along the Nile Delta and in modern-day Syria. Skeletons from the era evince “an unusually high proportion of violent deaths, many accompanied by remnants of weapons,” McMichael noted.

Ultra-harsh Alaska winter prompts fuel shortages…too cold for people to use their snowmobiles « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

“…temperatures dipping as low as minus 60 over the past few weeks…”

“…relentless extreme cold prevented fuel deliveries…”

“It’s been too cold for people to use their snowmobiles…”

Email 611, May 2008: Former navigator informs Phil Jones how critical sea surface temperatures were gathered: "...peering at the thermometer with a weak torch in the middle of a gale, spilling most of the water, making up readings, copying what others had written before (as it was dark, blowing a hooley and you couldn't be bothered to go onto the bridge wing)"

2012-01-30T15:59:00.001-06:00

Email 611

Dear Professor Jones I have just read with great interest the reporting of your work on sea water temperatures. However, am a little confused by what has been reported. Firstly the canvas bucket v sea water intake differences. We were always taught by the met office that only surface temperatures should be taken using the bucket just dipped into the sea. The design of the bucket greatly reduced colling through evaporation as it was double skinned. The sea water intake is by definition below the waterline. This must remain below the waterline at all stages of loading. So if you take a ship with a lightship draught of 2m its sea water intake will be just below the surface. If you now load that ship, the intake is now some 10m below the surface. This must throw up an enormous variation in readings.
Secondly, the UK register after 1945 greatly increased to its heyday in the 1970s before declining again. During this time the number of reports from UK ships must have grown vastly, dwarfing the number of US sources. This must then through up some variation in temperature reading methods post say the mid 50s.
Thirdly, as a former navigator I remember how hit and miss the whole method was. Chucking this bucket over the side, pulling it back in (trying not to hit the side of the ship and wake the Captain), peering at the thermometer with a weak torch in the middle of a gale, spilling most of the water, making up readings, copying what others had written before (as it was dark, blowing a hooley and you couldn't be bothered to go onto the bridge wing). And I was a pretty conscientious officer.
The met reports from the observing ships is pretty dubious at times. I remember crossing the Atlantic one time and could not understand why there was this isolated fog bank following us across as indicated on the weather fax. Then checked the visibility codes for our reports and found that we had all just been copying the wrong number down. Would be interested to hear some thoughts about the above issues though. BR Phil -------------------------------------------------
Dr Phillip Belcher Professional Development Officer Honourable Company of Master Mariners

Email 541, Sept 2006: Fair-and-balanced Andy Revkin writes to a long list of warmist scientists: "i'm just trying to be sure that folks like all of you take an extra couple seconds to use Inhofe against himself"

2012-01-30T14:02:00.001-06:00

Email 541

cc: Anthony Socci , mann@psu.edu, "Raymond S. Bradley" , Malcolm Hughes , Edward Cook , Henry Diaz , Jonathan Overpeck , jcole@geo.arizona.edu, sasha@ucsd.edu, ajmiller@ucsd.edu, Gavin Schmidt , dshindell@giss.nasa.gov, Eric Steig , "Dale P. Winebrenner" , David Vladeck , "David M. Ritson" , Stephen H Schneider , Mike MacCracken , Phil Jones
, Keith Briffa , Kerry Emanuel , Ben Santer , "Wahl, Eugene R" , Caspar Ammann , Scott Rutherford , dhondt@gso.uri.edu, Juerg Luterbacher , Pete Altman , ccappella@ametsoc.org, Dale Willman date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:06:22 -0400 from: Andy Revkin subject: Re: inhofe & mann & me to: Stefan Rahmstorf
I know. but he still speaks to and for a big chunk of America -- people whose understanding of science and engagement with such issues is so slight that they happily sit in pre-conceived positions. that might be one reason he doesn't like this book, which is devoid of easily-attacked spin and scare tactics and lets the science point the way itself. i'm just trying to be sure that folks like all of you take an extra couple seconds to use Inhofe against himself and forward the blog/book link to a few people who might not be aware of this book -- the first on Arctic and global climate change for all readers 10 and up -- and of Inhofe's moves. [1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1L2TYV56JXF2V/ref=cm_blog_dp_pdp/104-4914927-77631 26
Hi Andy, from over here, it is hard to see this kind of Inhofe speach as anything else than an irrelevant piece of absurd theatre. It doesn't even bother me any more - he's simply lost it. Cheers, Stefan

2012-01-30T13:59:00.001-06:00

Scientists Challenging Climate [Junk] Science Appear to Flunk Climate Economics - NYTimes.com

(Of course Climate Depot finds the letter breathlessly exciting.)

German Fear Of Warming Plummets…Yet-To-Be-Published Skeptic Book Climbs To Amazon.de No. 4!

The Church of Global Warming is shattering in Germany, one of the last bastions of the movement. Even the environmental bishops are leaving the Church.

Comment On Gavin Schmidt’s Post On His Weblog Real Climate Regarding The Dominate Role Of Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Concentrations On The Global Average Temperature Trends | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Actually, it is straightforward to shed doubt on Gavin’s (and the IPCC) claim. If the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentration were so dominate we would expect the global average [annual] lower troposphere temperature to more-or less monotonically continue to rise in the last decade or so. This clearly has not occurred, as illustrated, for example, in the figure below for the lower troposphere

New Scientist on the dangers of green energy « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

The green energies could lead to a 3 degree C warming just from waste heat!

2012-01-30T12:10:00.001-06:00

Global warming study casts doubt on “missing heat” hypothesis - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

In a response that was published at David Appell’s Quark Soup blog, Trenberth dismissed the new study’s findings, saying the uncertainties in the ocean heat content data remain too large to draw the conclusion that observational uncertainties are the best explanation for the missing heat. The new study, Trenberth wrote, “seems to have its main point that our earlier paper was wrong. I will certainly disagree with that.”
According to Trenberth, scientists need to significantly reduce the uncertainties in the ocean heat content data before they can suspend the search for the missing heat. “The discrepancies among [upper-ocean heat content data sets] remain huge. We MUST do better,” he told Appell.

[In case you're curious: Pictures of several ClimateGate scientists are available here] | Fellowship of the Minds

Last Tuesday, a new spate of “warmist” e-mails were anonymously released to the public. The e-mails were exchanged among scientists who claim humans are causing a global warming crisis, which requires drastic and coordinated measures on the part of the world’s governments.

Sydney finally cracks 30 degrees

Sydney has just ended its longest summer spell below 30 degrees in 15 years, weatherzone.com.au reports.

Pachauri’s 5-Star Sustainability Summit « NoFrakkingConsensus

it’s taking place in an over-the-top, five-star hotel

Chris Mooney | In Which Climate “Skeptics” Drop the Lysenko Bomb. No, I’m Not Kidding….

the Lysenko charge is self refuting—really, a lot like the charge that President Obama is a socialist.

Arctic Ice Extent The Same As Before The Ice Age Scare | Real Science

The graph below shows what ice extent must have been before satellites were launched. Right where it is now.

BEST Fails To Account For Population and Cold Winters

In the BEST paper, Dr. Muller failed to notice the change in UHI effect in northern stations, and thus missed the fact that cooling is really taking place in the continental U. S. as for myself, I wonder how cold it will be before Berkeley Earth discovers the cooling.

Email 1414, March 2007: Kevin Trenberth on the political process of changing the IPCC Summary for Policymakers in a 2007 meeting at which journalists were barred: "It was hardly a closed meeting or process"

2012-01-30T10:53:00.001-06:00

Email 1414

A brief response along the lines that there were various drafts of the report, but the final process of building a consensus among the political delegates who were present in Paris is obviously not understood. It was hardly a closed meeting or process. The SPM was indeed approved line by line by governments in Paris from 29 January to 1 February, 2007. The rationale is that the scientists determine what can be said, but the governments help determine how it can best be said. Negotiations occur over wording to ensure accuracy, balance, clarity of message, and relevance to understanding and policy. But the basic scientific message was not changed and Wasdell's claims have no basis in fact.

Environmentalism is fascism

Summaries are not scientific statements. They are written during multi-day meetings where every line is agonizingly word-smithed on a giant screen in front of 195 government reps. AR2007’s Summary writing proceedings ran 48 hours non-stop. Enviro-activists may observe these proceedings but journalists are barred. Journalists glean info on these proceedings by interviewing green activists. When the Summary is released, the AR is held back to render fact-checking impossible during the media furore. When the AR is released, the matter is no longer newsworthy.

Email 1409, Sept 2009: Tim Osborn asks Phil Jones why New Zealand pre-1930 temperatures are "now very different, being much cooler (by > 0.5 degC for a 25-year low-pass mean)"

2012-01-30T10:39:00.001-06:00

Email 1409

For my update I've used CRUTEM3v, expecting them to be rather similar but with a few more years on the end.
But the pre-1930 temperatures are now very different, being much cooler (by > 0.5 degC for a 25-year low-pass mean) in CRUTEM3v than CRUTEM2v. Previously they had been, on average, near or even above the 1961-1990 mean, now they're at -0.5 degC.
Is this a result of some homogenization work on New Zealand summer temp data? Or just some random artefact of minor changes somewhere?

Email 1395, Oct 2000: Bad weather in various places around the world; this allegedly wouldn't have happened if we didn't drive cars

2012-01-30T10:26:00.001-06:00

Email 1395

The group says extreme weather worldwide in the last three months has included storms in Taiwan, Brazil and Canada, floods in Bangladesh, Japan, Vietnam and India, fires in the US, Italy and the Balkans and droughts in Burundi, Croatia, Kenya and Iran. Roger Higman, Senior Climate Change Campaigner at FoE, said: ``Dangerous climate change is already happening. The storms and floods we are now seeing will get more frequent and more severe. We desperately need cuts in the use of coal, oil and gas to prevent the worst forecasts coming true. ``That means the Government must stick to a fuel price policy that discourages the use of cars.'' World leaders will be under pressure in the Hague to agree a complex set of rules for carbon trading to try to avert the climate change disaster.

Email 1359, June 2004, Phil Jones on getting out of jury duty: "I just said I had meetings to go to (which was true once), the second I said the new students were coming in late September. The fact that I have little to do with U/Gs didn't seem to matter"

2012-01-30T09:25:00.001-06:00

Email 1359

The Jury service sounds a pain. I've been called a couple of times over the last 10 years but managed to get out of it both times. I just said I had meetings to go to (which was true once), the second I said the new students were coming in late September. The fact that I have little to do with U/Gs didn't seem to matter.

2012-01-30T09:13:00.001-06:00

Rebound effects could undermine carbon savings | Sylvia Rowley | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk

Research is patchy, but modelling suggests that up to 30% of energy saved by improving the insulation of homes or the fuel efficiency of cars may be undone because people drive more or turn up the heat once it's cheaper.

Tesco drops [insane] carbon [dioxide] -label pledge | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Tesco has dropped its plan to label all its products with their carbon footprint, blaming the amount of work involved and other supermarkets for failing to follow its lead.

SpaceShipOne man, Nobel boffins: DON'T PANIC on global warming • The Register

Gleick goes on to point out that he has recently organised a pro-warmist open letter signed by no less than 255 scientists, not just a measly 16 – and none of them ignorant rocketeers or astronauts either – but the WSJ turned this down.

More settled science: Volcanoes may have caused the Little Ice Age that Phil Jones didn't believe in

2012-01-30T09:06:00.001-06:00

Study may answer longstanding questions about Little Ice Age | UCAR

BOULDER -- A new international study may answer contentious questions about the onset and persistence of Earth’s Little Ice Age, a period of widespread cooling that lasted for hundreds of years until the late 19th century.
The study, led by the University of Colorado Boulder with co-authors at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and other organizations, suggests that an unusual, 50-year-long episode of four massive tropical volcanic eruptions triggered the Little Ice Age between 1275 and 1300 A.D. The persistence of cold summers following the eruptions is best explained by a subsequent expansion of sea ice and a related weakening of Atlantic currents, according to computer simulations conducted for the study.

...The researchers set solar radiation at a constant level in the climate models.

Flashback: 2007: Phil Jones says it's important "not to cling to outdated concepts of the past such as the MWP and LIA" [Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age]

2012-01-30T08:58:00.001-06:00

John Cook and his award « Shub Niggurath Climate

Following all the questions raised about his blog John Cook has managed to respond. Or not.
Cook says that people complain about his penguin pictures and creative logos. Please visit Head Asploder Joe Romm where he calls Richard Lindzen, William Happer, Roger Pielke Sr, John Christy and a host of others, ‘fools’. Who does he turn to for support? John Cook of course. You can see this page where Cook has rounded up pictures of sceptical scientists and has them displayed as though they were a bunch of common criminals, with their mugshots in a gallery.

Severe cold snap, heavy snow kills at least 36 people in eastern Europe, 2 others missing - The Washington Post

Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Ministry said 18 people died of hypothermia and nearly 500 people sought medical help for frostbites and hypothermia in just three days last week. Twelve of the dead were homeless people whose bodies were discovered on the streets.

Richard Branson is the leading figure most trust on climate change action > Trends > Research | Click Green

Business leaders topped the poll, with Sir Richard Branson at number one, followed by runner-up Bill Gates and Sir Alan Sugar in sixth place.
Meanwhile eco-warrior Leonardo DiCaprio, one of Hollywood’s most committed green stars, languished in 19th place, with no more influence than celebrities not known for green issues such as David Beckham, Lady Gaga and Cheryl Cole.
The results also showed that US political figures could have a bigger influence on us than our own leaders. Former vice-president Al Gore and US President Barack Obama were in 4th and 5th place, ahead of the Prime Minister (9th) and London Mayor Boris Johnson (10th).
Royal influence is alive and well, with Prince Charles taking third place in the ranking.

Cooling climate with mini ice ages | thetelegraph.com.au

Australian climate sceptic Professor Ian Plimer said yesterday: "People are finally waking up to the fact that climate change models have been assuming there's a constant sun. These predictions show that the great ball of heat called the sun guides our climate more than anything.
"It is the dominant factor, above the supposed impact of emissions."
The Met Office said any weakening of the sun would cause a reduction in temperatures of about 0.08C up to 2100, while greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would see rises of 2.5C by 2100.

2012-01-30T08:51:00.001-06:00

AGI.it - DOZENS KILLED BY COLD WEATHER IS EASTERN-CENTRAL EUROPE

(AGI) Warsaw - Dozens of people have died from the cold in central and eastern European countries last weekend. With temperatures falling to below 27 degrees Celsius, ten people died in Poland bringing the death toll for this winter to 46. Eighteen people died in the Ukraine over the past four days. Most people died of hypothermia and many were homeless or were elderly or ill.

The Reference Frame: HadCRUT3: 2011 was 12th warmest year

I also hope you have noticed that the trends from 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2010 have been negative.

Another Blow for the Climateers | Power Line

The problem for the warmenists is growing, as the actual temperature trend is starting to undershoot even the low end bound of most of the climate models. A few years of flat temperatures could be written off to the chaotic noise of random year-to-year variation, but after two decades (1980-1998) of a more or less steady rise of nearly 0.4 degrees C that seemed to validate the models and the projections, it looks like the warmist case is falling apart rather quickly.
Keep your eyes out to see whether this news is reported anywhere in the American media.

Climategate ruling: FOIA requests cover backup servers too • The Register

A landmark FOIA ruling last week will have far-reaching consequences for how public servants interpret their Freedom of Information obligations. Specifically, public servants cannot delete local copies of a file on their PC and then use its absence as an excuse not to disclose the file - if a backup copy exists on the organisation's systems. In other words: backup servers must be searched for FOIA requests.
...
After the first batch of Climategate emails surfaced, they contained what the Information Commissioner's office described as evidence a breach of the Act. MPs demanded an enquiry, which was held in March 2010. At this enquiry, Lord Acton, The University of East Anglia's Vice Chancellor, testified that no emails had been deleted. How could he do this?
We now know this was a semantic deception. The Palutikof email describes staff moving all their emails to memory sticks. As David Holland summarises:
"How else could Acton tell Commons Select Committee that they didn't delete anything, that we [UEA] have all the emails and they can be read. What Russell and Acton didn't tell MPs or the Information Commissioner, is that they were on memory sticks and backups."

Email 1335, Nov 2005, Michael "Robust Debate" Mann on the prospect of attending a workshop also attended by a guy who disagrees with him: "If Zorita is in, I am out!'

2012-01-30T06:38:00.001-06:00

Email 1335

cc: Phil Jones
, Keith Briffa , Heinz Wanner date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:26:33 -0500 from: "Michael E. Mann" subject: Re: Workshop: Participants/ 1. Circular to: Christoph Kull
Christoph,
Can I please have an explanation of what happened here???? You sent out a list yesterday of partipipants that we had all agreed upon. Today, you sent out emails to a DIFFERENT list, inviting an additional participant (Zorita) who we SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSED and decided (as I understood it) would not be invited because of personality conflict issues. At the very least, this needed further discussion, not unilateral overruling without notice.
I'd like an explanation of what happened here. I do not believe that this event will be constructive and amicable with Zorita's participation. If the recommendaitons of the organizers are not going to be followed, I am unsure I can participate in or endorse this event. If Zorita is in, I am out!
Mike

Email 4862, Keith Briffa to the whining Mann

We simply will not allow you to withdraw . You know perfectly well that you are too important in all this to take such action. If it requires my talking to Eduardo and getting him to withdraw , then so be it.

Email 1336, Phil Jones, Mar 2006: "I can say for certain (100% - not any probable word that IPCC would use) is that the surface temperature data are correct."

2012-01-30T06:29:00.001-06:00

Email 1336

So starting in March 2006, no need to ever go back and adjust the pre-2006 instrumental data, correct?

Email 1317, Oct. 2000, on CRU: "Five lead authors for the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are drawn from the unit...The work of Jones and co-workers with [CRU's temperature] record can justifiably be claimed to have been central to the acceptance that humans are having a significant impact on climate"

2012-01-30T05:52:00.001-06:00

Email 1317

The Climatic Research Unit undertakes pioneering research on the nature, predictability and impact of natural and anthropogenic climate change, maintaining a position as a world authority in the field. Five lead authors for the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are drawn from the unit. The global land and marine surface temperature record maintained by the Unit is used extensively in climate change studies. The work of Jones and co-workers with this record can justifiably be claimed to have been central to the acceptance that humans are having a significant impact on climate. Jones has also been involved with many of the climate change detection exercises which have attempted to attribute recent changes to human influences.

2012-01-30T05:45:00.001-06:00

The World Today - Scientists say global warming changes currents 30/01/2012

FELICITY OGILVIE: Dr McPhaden says the scientists were surprised to find a link between climate change and the changes in the currents.
MICHAEL MCPHADEN: We always knew that the western boundary currents of the world's oceans were hot spots for ocean circulation but now we are finding they are hot spots for climate change and the combination is very much a surprise to us. [Hat tip: M. Hulme]

Finland in the deep freeze all this week | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi

The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) predicts severe cold to continue
until at least next weekend. Early Monday, a new cold record for this winter
was set in Kuhmo, where the mercury plunged to -35.4 degrees Celsius.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Highest Since At Least 2006 | Real Science

EU Referendum: What happened?

A recent study at Brown University looked specifically at the Obama administration's language and calls for "clean energy" and "energy independence" now occupied the terrain. Graciela Kincaid, a co-author of the study, wrote: "The phrases 'climate change' and 'global warming' have become all but taboo on Capitol Hill. These terms are stunningly absent from the political arena".

A dangerous shift in Obama’s ‘climate change’ rhetoric - The Washington Post

My colleague Maria Mansfield and I monitor 50 major newspapers in 20countries, and we documented that explicit mentions of “climate change” and “global warming” dropped by more than a third from 2010 to 2011.

Email 1304, Dec 2002, warmist Tom Wigley on a critical climate hoax model: "SCENGEN is also owned by me. All of the conceptual and intellectual input has been mine"

2012-01-30T05:20:00.001-06:00

Email 1304

date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:40:34 -0700 from: Tom Wigley subject: Re: MAGICC/SCENGEN to: Mike Hulme
Mike,
A quick reply -- SCENGEN is also owned by me. All of the conceptual and intellectual input has been mine. You and the people who have worked for you have really been little more than technicians or software engineers.
Tom. _______________________
Mike Hulme wrote:
...Also to be clear about credits as you say - I always aim to make it very clear to people that the MAGICC model is "owned" by you and Sarah.

MAGICC/SCENGEN: Home

MAGICC consists of a suite of coupled gas-cycle, climate and ice-melt models integrated into a single software package. The software allows the user to determine changes in greenhouse-gas concentrations, global-mean surface air temperature, and sea level resulting from anthropogenic emissions
SCENGEN constructs a range of geographically explicit climate change projections for the globe using the results from MAGICC together with AOGCM climate change information from the CMIP3/AR4 archive.

Email 2530, June 2003, Phil Jones: "note that I've changed the way we smooth the series to preserve the late 20th century trend, like we did in the Eos piece"

2012-01-30T04:14:00.001-06:00

Email 2530

Also, note that I've changed the way we smooth the series to preserve the late 20th century trend, like we did in the Eos piece. I've always estimated the uncertainties a bit more conservatively as described in text--so they're a bit expanded now. None of the conclusions change, although the globe is actually a bit more anomalous in the late 20th century when you spreserve the late 20th century trend in the smoothing, so I've tweaked the wording there just a bit... [Hat tip: AJ]

2012-01-30T03:52:00.001-06:00

Climate Change [hoax] body gets $85m World Bank funding

THE Zambia Climate Change Network (ZCCN) has received about US$85 million from the World Bank to facilitate the implementation of a climate resilience pilot programme in Zambia.

How I woke up to the untruths of Barack Obama - Telegraph

A later passage in Obama’s speech, when he hailed the way his country’s energy future has been transformed by the miracle of shale gas, met with a storm of applause...
Even more telling than his audience’s response to this, however, was what happened when Obama referred briefly to the need to develop “clean energy on enough public land to power three million homes”. But no mention now of vast numbers of wind turbines – those props beside which he constantly chose to be filmed back in 2008. No harking back to his boast that “renewable energy” would create “four million jobs”. And even to this sole fleeting reminder of what, four years ago, was his flagship policy the response of Congress was a deafening silence.

Chris Mooney | [Warmist English Major imagines that he needs to "explain" science to climate realists]

2012-01-30T03:46:00.001-06:00

Oh, the humanity: Higher Temperatures in U.S. East May Cut Energy Use by 20% - Bloomberg

Milder weather in much of the central and eastern U.S. next week may mean the region will use about 20 percent less energy for heating than usual, according
to David Salmon of Weather Derivatives.

BBC News - UN panel aims for 'a future worth choosing'

Growing inequality, environmental decline and "teetering" economies mean the world must change the way it does business, a UN report concludes.
..."Economies are teetering. Inequality is growing. And global temperatures continue to rise.
"We are testing the capacity of the planet to sustain us."

OneSteel gets $64m ahead of carbon tax | Finance | BigPond News

Manufacturer OneSteel will receive $64 million to help it prepare for the introduction of federal government's carbon tax in July.
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet on Monday announced the advance payment had been finalised under the government's $300 million Steel Transformation Plan (STP).
OneSteel expects to receive the payment within 30 days and it will be recorded as income in the company's financial statements for fiscal 2012.
Labor finalised a similar $100 advance to BlueScope Steel in December.

New evidence for climate impacts on ancient societies

European summer climate during the Roman Era about 2,000 years ago was relatively warm and wet and characterized by less variability. Increased climate variations from around 250-600 A.D. coincided with the demise of the Western Roman Empire and the exceptional turmoil of the Migration Period during which the continent’s population was substantially reordered.
The new study also revealed that humid and mild summers paralleled the rapid cultural and political growth of Medieval Europe, whereas unfavorable climate may have played a role in the underlying health conditions that contributed to the devastating economic crisis that arose in connection with the Black Death plague pandemic in the 14th century. More recently, temperature minima in the early 17th and 19th centuries coincided with large-scale settlement abandonment during the Thirty Years’ War and the modern mass migrations from Europe to America.

New peer-reviewed study: "The record provides evidence for substantial warmth during Roman and Medieval times, larger in extent and longer in duration than 20th century warmth"

2012-01-30T03:29:00.001-06:00

Variability and extremes of northern Scandinavian summer temperatures over the past two millennia 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.01.006 : Global and Planetary Change | ScienceDirect.com

The new reconstruction is based on 578 maximum latewood density profiles from living and sub-fossil Pinus sylvestris samples from northern Sweden and Finland. The record provides evidence for substantial warmth during Roman and Medieval times, larger in extent and longer in duration than 20th century warmth. The first century AD was the warmest 100-year period (+ 0.60 °C on average relative to the 1951–1980 mean) of the Common Era, more than 1 °C warmer than the coldest 14th century AD (− 0.51 °C). The warmest and coldest reconstructed 30-year periods (AD 21–50 = + 1.05 °C, and AD 1451–80 = − 1.19 °C) differ by more than 2 °C, and the range between the five warmest and coldest reconstructed summers in the context of the past 2000 years is estimated to exceed 5 °C. Comparison of the new timeseries with five existing tree-ring based reconstructions from northern Scandinavia revealed synchronized climate fluctuations but substantially different absolute temperatures. Level offset among the various reconstructions in extremely cold and warm years (up to 3 °C) and cold and warm 30-year periods (up to 1.5 °C) are in the order of the total temperature variance of each individual reconstruction over the past 1500 to 2000 years. These findings demonstrate our poor understanding of the absolute temperature variance in a region where high-resolution proxy coverage is denser than in any other area of the world.

2012-01-30T03:24:00.001-06:00

15 minimum temperature records broken on Monday - FOCUS Information Agency

15 meteorological stations on the territory of Bulgaria have measured record-low temperature, the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology with the Bulgarian Academy of Science announced for FOCUS News Agency.

Obama 'End of America-Ism": Sad Variant of Global Warming Alarmism - Forbes

it’s time we start addressing the sheer arrogance of the alarmist point of view. The earth was here long before us, and will be here long after us. Simple vanity makes us assume we’re incredibly significant, but the greater truth is that as measured against the planet on which we reside, we’re the proverbial ant on the elephant’s posterior.

Valley under deep freeze, Kargil records season's lowest

Witnessing one of the harshest winter in decades, the Kashmir Valley experienced an extremely chilly night with a drastic fall in the night temperature even as the remote town of Kargil recorded the lowest temperature of the season at minus 25 degrees.

My theory of climatology and the driveway — Maine Living — Bangor Daily News

Conclusions about warming result from tens of thousands of climate scientists compiling and analyzing information in minute detail for decades, all checking and rechecking each other’s work all the time.

Flashback: Bishop Hill blog - A chat with Graham Stringer

The most devastating admission from Jones at the HoC was 'nobody ever asked', when Stringer inquired who else had seen his data during nearly 20 years of 'peer review'

2012-01-30T03:16:00.001-06:00

Is Global Warming a Real Threat or Just Hype?

[Bernard Goldberg] Like I said, I’m no scientist, so what do I know? Glad you asked. I know that just about every mainstream journalist this side of Pluto believes global warming is real, mainly caused by man, and will destroy us if we don’t act. If so many journalists believe that … then I know it’s probably not true.

Expedition duo set for 784km North Pole trek - The Irish Times - Mon, Jan 30, 2012

...on their first attempt in 2010, one of the party of three, John Dowd, developed frostbite in his fingers and they had to abandon the expedition.
The impact of global warming has made the traverse to the North Pole one of the most difficult challenges for adventurers.

The State of the Hoax: Obamaism Collapses Worldwide - The Rush Limbaugh Show

RUSH: Great editorial in the Wall Street Journal -- and I'll tell you another reason I loved Santorum last night. He actually referred to global warming as a hoax. ...Spain has had its Sputnik moment. They were the Soviets, and they lost.
"Spain's government suspended subsidies for new renewable energy plants as part of the administration's efforts to curb the budget deficit. The government today passed a decree that will halt subsidies for new wind, solar, co-generation or waste incineration plants, as it bids to rein in electric system debts that reached 24 billion euros ($31 billion)," by the end of last year. So Spain, green energy, green jobs, they lost all kinds of stuff, economy went in the tank, and now going further, suspending subsidies for renewable energy plants. Obamaism is collapsing everywhere around the world it's being tried.

Making Climate Media Creative — in the Extreme | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Journalist Eli Kintisch wants to get back to reporting and communicating on climate — the hard science, the findings, the research. But not in the way one might expect of a respected science reporter for one of the world’s most respected science journals … Science.
After communicating science in prose for a number of years — including in his well-regarded 2010 book on geoengineering, Hack the Planet — Kintisch has an expanded calling — to conceptualize and present climate science in a radically artsy way. That means sculpture, design, video, graphic art — a broad genre he calls “visual metaphor.” And he wants to play the role of fixer — or “producer, in the Hollywood sense,” as he puts it — in order to accomplish this unique marriage of fact and form....
The IPCC, for its part, has already released this well-produced [climate fraud] video to highlight some of the report’s findings and areas of concern

2012-01-30T03:04:00.001-06:00

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: UK CRU/Met Office confirms: Warming deceleration trend for last 15 years; Sun hibernation till 2100

The gravy train which NGOs like Oxfam, Greenpeace; ChristianAid, ActionAid (and their likes) had hitched on to during the last two decades are coming to an abrupt end. And as they pick themselves up from the crash, they will find that if they survived, only to end up a laughing stock. Their advocacy and programmes were singularly focussed to “adapting” to global warming at a time when the planet was actually fast hurling into a Little Ice Age. It is the same kind of tragic irony if India were to amass their entire defence forces in the southern coastlines to counter Sri Lanka and Maldives when their real security threats were China and Pakistan on their northern borders! That’s the kind of big hole the burst of the global warming scam punched into the credibility of these NGOs!

Al Fin: Global Cooling: A Return to the Age of a Frozen Thames?

Of course there is a lot more going on with the climate than solar cycles. But thanks to the impressive solar changes that we are witnessing, we may be closer to seeing who the big boss of the climate truly is.
But since many hundreds of billions of dollars in carbon taxes, carbon trades, carbon reparations, and carbon hysteria oriented research are at stake, do not expect the orthodoxy of climate alarmism to take all of this lying down, frozen Thames or no frozen Thames.

Obama’s 22-car salute to gesture politics | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

President Barack Obama goes to the UPS Depot in Las Vegas to promote clean energy:
President Obama proposed several federal initiatives favoring the use of natural gas for transportation, including getting more natural gas vehicles on the road using federal fleets ...
Here is the green-preaching Obama arriving at the UPS Depot in his fleet of 22 fossil-fueled cars

New Forensic Image Processing Tools

2012-01-29T19:29:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/new-forensic-image-processing-tools

I wrote some new tools today, which use saturation, value, gamma correction and sharpness filters to pull USHCN's naughtiness out. I like this version better.

2012-01-29T19:08:00.001-06:00

Winter Weather Leaves 40 Dead From Cold, 32 From flu in Mexico | Fox News Latino

The current winter season in Mexico has left 40 people dead from problems derived from cold and another 32 from flu, the Health Secretariat said.
The agency said in a communique that of the fatalities from cold, 30 were due to carbon monoxide poisoning, seven from hypothermia and three from burns, all of which could be directly attributed to the cold itself or attempts to keep warm.

2012-01-29T19:02:00.001-06:00

Medical experts hit out at climate change sceptics - irishhealth.com

Denying the links between greenhouse gas emissions and man-made climate change "is akin to denying the links between HIV/Aids and unprotected sex, smoking and lung cancer, or alcohol consumption and liver disease", according the the UK Climate and Health Council.
This organisation represents senior editors of medical journals, including The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, as well as top public health doctors....
The council says that despite this, Nigel Lawson's foundation consistently secures significant media coverage, which wrongfully distorts public and policy debate over climate change.
"Perverting the course of evidence-based policy on climate-change adaptation and mitigation damages our health resilience, our economic prosperity and our environmental stability," the council said.
"Transparency around climate-sceptic funders is essential. We support freedom of information to reveal those deliberately preventing the UK's sustainable future."

Size Increase in High Elevation Ground Squirrels over the Last Century - Eastman - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

The increase in body size in the higher elevation species, presumably a plastic effect due to a longer growing season and thus prolonged food availability, opposes the expected direction of selection for decreased body size under chronic warming.

Gov. Brown: High-speed rail system will be 'a lot cheaper' than $100 billion - ContraCostaTimes.com

LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Jerry Brown told a Los Angeles TV station today
that the state's proposed high speed rail system will cost much less than
$100 billion, and will partly be funded by new taxes on major air pollution
emitters.
The governor told ABC 7's "Eyewitness Newsmakers" program that
environmental impact fees paid by industries that emit large amounts of
greenhouse gas will help fund the big train project. California has a "cap and
trade" law that will collect fees if businesses do not reduce emissions, the
governor said.

2012-01-29T18:29:00.001-06:00

Aleutian Ice Extends 300 Miles Further Out Than Normal | Real Science

Ice extends out the Aleutian Island Chain about 300 miles further than normal this year. Those poor Polar Bears have to walk an extra 300 miles. I hope they don’t starve to death.

2012-01-29T18:24:00.001-06:00

Pakistan - Eggs, chicken prices register 50% increase in 10 months

ISLAMABAD: The extremely cold weather has multiplied demand and prices of eggs and chicken in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

A fighting fund for climate scientists battling FOI requests | Rooted

An official fighting fund for climate scientists battling freedom of information requests from well-funded climate denier think tanks has been established in the United States....
Karoly is not aware of any FOI requests against climate scientists in Australia...
“Every hour that I spend dealing with these things means it’s one hour less on either public communication or research time,” explains Karoly. “And I know that there are other climate scientists in Australia that have to deal with the same sorts of issues.”

Mandarins hit hardest by cold temperatures | temperatures, mandarins, citrus - Recorderonline.com

California Citrus Mutual (CCM) estimated Wednesday that approximately 20% of this season’s mandarin crop will be lost to frost damage.
...However, the more than 25 days of temperatures dipping at or below freezing cost growers millions of dollars. The number of freeze nights was a record.

2012-01-29T17:09:00.001-06:00

Panic Attack: Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Finds 16 Scientists to Push Pollutocrat Agenda With Long-Debunked Climate Lies | ThinkProgress

Yes, even school children know more than these guys!
They utterly misrepresent the work of serious climatologists like Kevin Trenberth.

The Global Temperature Record Is Garbage | Real Science

Early in the century, both poles were melting. GISS says this period was cold.

Muller Clueless On UHI | Real Science

Muller’s conclusion that GISS is golden was clueless for many reasons. One of the worst was his assumption about urbanization.

Time Of Observation Bias Assumes That The Observer Is A Moron | Real Science

Anyone who has had a min/max thermometer for more than about three days figures out that you have to reset the thermometer at night. Otherwise, half of your readings are going to be incorrect.
For instance, if day one had a high temperature of 72 degrees at 3PM, the observer took their reading every day at 3PM, and a cold front came through that night – day two would also record a bogus high temperature of 72 degrees.
I figured this out when I was seven years old...

Redding.com Blogs: Doug Craig's blog

And then there is Marc Morano, not my favorite guy since he is one of the major deniers who makes me pretty sure my life mission will end in failure. But Morano is right about one thing. He pegged Obama on the money when Amy Goodman caught up with him in South Africa in early December. Morano said,
His nickname is 'George W. Obama.'...
Obama and other politicians barely mention climate change or global warming anymore. Looks like the deniers won and humanity loses. Congratulations.
Morano's "job well done" is my heart well broken. I shouldn't be surprised.

2012-01-29T17:03:00.001-06:00

Green subsidies axed to ease Spain's financial crisis | Australian Climate Madness

Spain halted subsidies for renewable energy projects to help curb its budget deficit and rein in power-system borrowings backed by the state that reached 24 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end of 2011.

- Bishop Hill blog - Wheat in India

. A satellite image is bit of an odd way to measure grain yields, isn't it?

Hopelessly Stupid – Met Office And UEA CRU Refuse To Learn!

The MAIL interviewed Nicola Scarfetta, who says that eventually they are going to have to admit they are wrong. Judith Curry was more direct, saying: “…the models may have severe shortcomings…’ and that “many scientists’not surprised’”.
Readers, if you like this Mail article, then you are going to like Sebastian Lüning’s and Fritz Vahrenholt’s book: Die kalte Sonne (The Cold Sun). The lay it all out. Only morons and blind ideologues will go on continuing to believe the CO2 bullshit.

Getting Warmer « the Air Vent

So what is really wrong with being warmer? What if we do see those temp increases the government organized IPCC predicts? I don’t really understand people’s incredible ability to react to unproven scenarios of destruction, simply because the scenario was stated. Shut off the power because we are worrying about an unproven ‘end of the world’ claim makes as much sense as not eating so we can save ourselves from heart disease. The world isn’t this clean pristine operating room environment which must be left undisturbed. It is a home in which we live and should care for, but that doesn’t mean we have to try and hold its weather static. The Earth doesn’t hold it static itself anyway. It prefers being colder and that is really bad news for us and I would also guess, the polar bears.

Corruption Of The US Temperature Record

2012-01-29T11:37:00.000-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/corruption-temperature-record

It is deeply disturbing that a group of climate activists (Hansen and Karl) have made adjustments which turned a cooling trend into a warming trend.

Accelerating Global Warming Getting Ready To Shock-Freeze Europe!

2012-01-29T11:36:00.001-06:00

http://notrickszone.com/2012/01/29/accelerating-global-warming-geeting-ready-to-shock-freeze-europe/

Reader DirkH brings our attention to a weather warning for the next two weeks from wetter.t-online.de, which warns that temperatures in parts of Germany may plunge to 25°C below zero.

The AR4 attribution statement

2012-01-29T11:33:00.001-06:00

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/01/the-ar4-attribution-statement/

And of the warming factors, the well-mixed greenhouse gas (CO₂, CH₄, N₂O, CFCs) changes are thedominant term (about 75% of the increase in warming factorsfrom 1950, the rest is related to black carbon effects, ozone etc.).

Farmers in Mozambique trying to adapt farming to climate change | PRI.ORG

2012-01-29T11:27:00.001-06:00

http://www.pri.org/stories/science/environment/farmers-in-mozambique-trying-to-adapt-farming-to-climate-change-8173.html

"In the past, it happened every five years, now we have annual emergencies, which shows that the situation has changed," Monteiro said.

Children just aren't going to know what sun is

2012-01-29T09:20:00.001-06:00

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100133247/children-just-arent-going-to-know-what-sun-is/

There's a great piece by David Rose in the Mail On Sunday nicely summing up what a lot of us here knew already: that the thing we really need to fear right now is not global warming but global cooling. And that, on current evidence, it's global cooling we're going to get.

SUNY Canton professor says behaviorism could help solve global warming | NorthCountryNow

2012-01-29T06:38:00.001-06:00

http://northcountrynow.com/news/suny-canton-professor-says-behaviorism-could-help-solve-global-warming-048709

Professor Stephen F. Ledoux's article in the January-February 2012 issue of American Scientist, "Behaviorism at 100," says changing people's behavior is key to tackling the effects of human behavior on the climate.

Bitter winter in China – Temps down to minus 45C

2012-01-29T06:19:00.000-06:00

http://iceagenow.info/2012/01/bitter-winter-china-temps-30c/

In Xinjiang, 448 people and 80 vehicles were stranded in a sudden blizzard before being rescued early yesterday, Xinhua reported.

Meanwhile, temperatures in the city of Genhe, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China, reached minus 45 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.

Extreme cold in Kuwait

2012-01-29T06:17:00.001-06:00

http://iceagenow.info/2012/01/extreme-cold-kuwait/

An extremely cold period – commonly known in Kuwait as "Izairig" – will continue until the end of the month, says astronomer Adel Al-Saadoun.

January 2012 Has Had The Seven Coldest Days Since At Least 2002

2012-01-29T06:17:00.000-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/january-2012-coldest-days-2002

January 19-25, 2012 UAH global temperatures 251.858 251.838 251.817 251.787 251.778 251.800 251.831 http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/ Meanwhile, the Three Stooges are running around talking about global warming

David Rose: Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)

2012-01-29T06:15:00.000-06:00

http://sc25.com/index.php?id=376

The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.

Thing of the past update

2012-01-29T06:13:00.000-06:00

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-couldnt-resist-it.html

The Mail may be hyperventilating, but it is always such fun rubbing Viner's nose in it. And for all that, even in Finland, where they are more used to such things, cold is a dangerous beast. But now there is no more warming, and snow is getting more common, we'd better get used to that idea.

Green Toys for Rich People?

2012-01-29T06:11:00.000-06:00

http://carbon-sense.com/2012/01/29/green-toys/

The Climate Scare/Green Energy Bubble will be the defining feature of our age. Never before have so many people wasted so much money and time on climate fables, alarmist handouts and energy toys.

Already it has spread further, distracted more people and wasted more community resources than the South Sea Bubble, the Tulip Mania or Y2K. Future generations will read in wonder how sensible people like Germans, British, Spanish, Danes, Californians, Australians and Kiwis lost their ability for critical thinking.

Climatologist James Hansen on “Cowards in Our Democracies”

2012-01-29T06:07:00.001-06:00

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/28/413955/james-hansen-on-cowards/

The fossil fuel kingpins who profit from the public's fossil fuel addiction, some of them multi-billionaires, are loosely knit, but with a well-understood common objective of maintaining the public's addiction. These kingpins have the resources to be well aware of the scientific knowledge concerning the consequences of continued exploitation of fossil fuels. However, they choose not only to ignore those facts, but to support activities intended to keep the public ill- informed. These kingpins are guilty of high crimes against humanity and nature. It is little consolation that the world will eventually convict them in the court of public opinion or even, unlikely as it is, that they may be forced to stand trial in the future before an international court of justice.

IPCC deadlines

2012-01-29T03:58:00.000-06:00

http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/2012/01/ipcc-deadlines.html
Would it not be much more reasonable that IPCC authors focus on established science regardless of the stamped date of publication ? To be honest, I was quite amazed to see in the drafts of the circulating IPCC reports references to studies 'in preparation', of course in preparation by the authors of the Report themselves

Boulder council to consider climate goals, carbon tax - Boulder Daily Camera

2012-01-28T18:05:00.000-06:00

http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_19842919

The city in 2002 adopted the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Now that 2012 has arrived, the city still needs to cut the equivalent of about 521,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to meet its goal.

"It's not quite as easy as we thought," Huntley said.

Ambitious UN Sustainability Conference in Rio to Avoid Climate Talk

2012-01-28T16:48:00.001-06:00

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/10692-ambitious-un-sustainability-conference-in-rio-to-avoid-climate-talk

According to chief Andre Correa do Lago of Brazil's delegation working on the outcome document for "Rio+20" — the upcoming UN conference is set for 20 years after the first Earth Summit was held in the Brazilian city — climate change and global warming have become too sensitive of an issue for many countries.

Sir John's emails

2012-01-28T13:15:00.001-06:00

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/28/sir-johns-emails.html

appears that Sir John has deleted historic records relating to his work on the Third Assessment Report - work that was funded by the UK taxpayer.

Drip, Drip, Drip: Yet Another Green Energy Stimulus Recipient Hits the Skids (the third this week!)

2012-01-28T13:10:00.000-06:00

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalwarmingorg/~3/z9blky-e-kM/

Earlier this week, Stimulus beneficiary Evergreen Energy bit the dust. Then, Ener1, a manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles and recipient of Stimulus largesse, filed for bankruptcy. And today, the Las Vegas Sun reports that Amonix, Inc., a manufacturer of solar panels that received $5.9 million from the Porkulus, will cut two-thirds of its workforce, about 200 employees, only seven months after opening a factory in Nevada.

Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government - Truthdig

2012-01-28T13:06:00.001-06:00

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page4/why_climate_change_will_make_you_love_big_government_20120128/

To adapt to climate change will mean coming together on a large scale and mobilizing society's full range of resources. In other words, Big Storms require Big Government. Who else will save stranded climate refugees, or protect and rebuild infrastructure, or coordinate rescue efforts and plan out the flow and allocation of resources?

It will be government that does these tasks or they will not be done at all.

How to Slow Climate Change? Stop Talking About It | OnEarth Magazine

2012-01-28T09:39:00.001-06:00

http://www.onearth.org/article/how-to-slow-climate-change-stop-talking-about-it

we need to buy as much time as we can to bear down on the ultimate problem of rallying the public, and the world, once and for all against CO₂. Attacking black carbon does that

Preventing bad weather, government-style; Home insulation safety inspectors cost us $3.4 million | Herald Sun

2012-01-28T07:41:00.001-06:00

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/home-insulation-safety-inspectors-cost-us-34-million/story-fn7x8me2-1226256240452

FLYING squads of safety inspectors charged with cleaning up the Federal Government's home insulation scheme have jetted around the country, lodging bills of up to $3000 to inspect a single home.

That's almost twice the original value of insulation installed under the scheme, which offered householders free insulation up to the value of $1600 as an economic stimulus measure.

The frequent-flying inspectors have travelled thousands of kilometres to check dodgy installations, even jetting from the Gold Coast to Melbourne, Perth to Adelaide and Brisbane to Perth.

Ivory-tower activists

2012-01-28T06:17:00.000-06:00

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/28/ivory-tower-activists.html

There is little doubt that many residents of the ivory tower are little more than publicly funded political activists - a form of corruption if ever there was one.

Mann lecture at Penn State

2012-01-28T06:16:00.000-06:00

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/28/mann-lecture-at-penn-state.html

A video of Mann's recent lecture at Penn State is available here.

I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, so feel free to point out any points of interest in the comments. The few seconds I have looked at suggest that there wasn't a big turnout for the great man.

Alfred Wegener Institute Implies Cold Winters Caused By Global Warming

2012-01-28T05:41:00.001-06:00

http://notrickszone.com/2012/01/27/german-paper-claims-cold-winters-a-sign-of-global-warming/

Mailing Ourselves a Package

2012-01-28T05:40:00.001-06:00

http://planet3.org/2012/01/27/mailing-ourselves-a-package/

I'm afraid the ocean will be dead long before we have to worry about the other implications of global warming," Barton says quietly.

Other responses to the outrageous WSJ Op-Ed

2012-01-28T05:39:00.001-06:00

http://planet3.org/2012/01/27/other-responses-to-the-outrageous-wsj-op-ed/

In addition to ours:
http://planet3.org/2012/01/27/the-wall-street-journal-again/

there are at least:

Greg Laden:http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/01/two_incontrovertible_things_an.php

Peter Gleick:http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/01/27/remarkable-editorial-bias-on-climate-science-at-the-wall-street-journal

Peter Frumhoff for the Union of Concerned Scientists:http://blog.ucsusa.org/dismal-science-at-the-wall-street-journal

Others? Keith? Hello? Keith? Andy?

Parent of Obama-backed battery maker goes bankrupt

2012-01-28T05:37:00.000-06:00

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/9858-parent-of-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt

[h/t to Gator] The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.

Coldest Month In Fairbanks, Alaska For Over 40 Years

2012-01-28T05:36:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/fairbanks-alaska-averaging-31c-month

That's the coldest since 1971, when the January averaged minus 31.7

‘Transparency’ & the GWPF – Part 2

2012-01-28T05:34:00.001-06:00

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/climate-resistance/wCKX/~3/dsuBVHckYJo/transparency-the-gwpf-part-2.html

Okay. Let us agree, you shouldn't 'deny the links' between causes and their known effects. But what if people claim that if you have unprotected sex you will get HIV? What if people claim that, as soon as you have just one puff on a cigarette you will get lung cancer? And what if people started claiming that, the moment you took a sip of beer, wine or cider, your liver simply melted? What then?

Response From George Taylor On The Oregon Debate On Climate Science

2012-01-27T19:52:00.001-06:00

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/response-from-george-taylor-on-the-oregon-debate-on-climate-science/

[Pielke Sr] I have concluded that the global average of surface temperature, etc, is almost a worthless metric, as what really matters is the extent (and if) large scale regional circulation patterns are changed. If we [convince] the IPCC (and AMS and AGU leadership) that they are looking at the wrong metrics, we might be able to make some progress. :-)

EDITORIAL: Global warming's 'dirty laundry' - Washington Times

2012-01-27T19:48:00.001-06:00

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/27/global-warmings-dirty-laundry/

The American Tradition Institute (ATI) is going after 12,000 emails sent or received by Michael E. Mann while he was on the staff of the publicly-funded university

Santorum: Romney, Gingrich ‘bought into global warming hoax’ | JunkScience.com

2012-01-27T15:54:00.001-06:00

http://junkscience.com/2012/01/26/santorum-romney-gingrich-bought-into-global-warming-hoax/

In tonight's Florida GOP presidential debate, in his closing statement, Rick Santorum gestured over to Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney and said very matter of factly:

Cap-and-trade… both of them bought into the global warming hoax… cap-and-trade, top-down control of our energy and manufacturing policy…

NJ.com : What global warming? Barack Obama attends tree-hugger event in a 22-vehicle motorcade

2012-01-27T15:52:00.001-06:00

http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/pm_104375/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=jr9uqJYk

I'd suggest he use his time sitting in that motorcade to read up and realize that Americans are wising up to this scam. Scaring people about hyped-up threats of doom worked for a while, but Obama better get a new gimmick if he wants to win in November.

Parts of eastern, central Europe buried by snow

2012-01-27T14:02:00.001-06:00

http://iceagenow.info/2012/01/parts-eastern-central-europe-buried-snow/

As much as 10 feet of snow in some areas.

Google Abandons Global Warming

2012-01-27T13:23:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/google-abandons-global-warming

Until today, Google News had a sidebar for global warming. It is gone this morning.

Chris Matthews: People Who Believe God As The Creator Are "Troglodytes" | RealClearPolitics

2012-01-27T09:18:00.001-06:00

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/26/chris_matthews_people_who_believe_god_as_the_creator_are_troglodytes.html

Chris Matthews: In other words, there is no manmade influence on climate change? Is that your belief, Ron Christie? I didn't know that. Are you out there with the full-mooners on this one?

Ron Christie, Republican strategist: Let me enlighten you on this one, Chris. I think global climate change is the biggest fraud that's been perpetrated in this country. The scientific evidence isn't there. This is something that Al Gore and his cronies have made millions of dollars of perpetuating a myth. That's what I think.

Email 1145, May 2005, Jonathan Overpeck to Briffa/Jansen: "We're hoping you guys can generate something compelling enough for the TS and SPM - something that will replace the hockey-stick with something even more compelling"

2012-01-27T06:57:00.000-06:00

Email 1145

We're hoping you guys can generate something compelling enough for the TS [Technical Summary] and SPM [Summary for Policy Makers] - something that will replace the hockey-stick with something even more compelling.

Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming - WSJ.com

2012-01-27T06:05:00.001-06:00

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwNjEyNDYyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email

Speaking for many scientists and engineers who have looked carefully and independently at the science of climate, we have a message to any candidate for public office: There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically.

Study of wolves will help scientists predict climate effects on endangered animals

2012-01-27T05:31:00.000-06:00

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_2-12-2011-10-7-57

We know that climate change is having an impact on the lives of animal species around the world. This is clear through the changes we've seen in their population sizes, as well as their body sizes

Travel less (unless you’re a politician, UN big-wig or bureaucrat)

2012-01-27T05:22:00.000-06:00

http://climatenonconformist.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/travel-less-unless-youre-a-politician-un-big-wig-or-bureaucrat/

The article then touts the benefits of internet broadband and video conferencing and lauds the fact that they don't have any greenhouse drawbacks. Yet, we have politicians, dignitaries, youth activists, actors, celebrities, scientists and bureaucrats jetting off to some luxury location every year to make a deal on reducing these same greenhouse gases. If only they would subscribe to the same anti-transport policy that their friends in the environmental movement want to subject the rest of us to.

First Estimate of Solar Cycle 25 Amplitude – end of Modern Warm Period?

2012-01-27T05:21:00.001-06:00

http://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/first-estimate-of-solar-cycle-25-amplitude-end-of-modern-warm-period

First Estimate of Solar Cycle 25 Amplitude – may be the smallest in over 300 years In a guest post by David Archibald at Watts Up With That he suggest based on the current data that we are about to see the end of the Modern Warm Period.

New Resources of Note

2012-01-27T05:20:00.001-06:00

http://planet3.org/2012/01/26/new-resources-of-note/

the new energy in defending and advancing science in general and climate science in particular is a welcome development.

How to be a Really Good Climate Change Alarmist

2012-01-27T05:19:00.001-06:00

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-be-really-good-climate-change.html

10: Don't worry about Cognitive dissonance.

Sixteen prominent scientists publish a letter in WSJ saying there’s “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”

2012-01-27T05:17:00.001-06:00

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/27/sixteen-prominent-scientists-publish-a-letter-in-wsj-saying-theres-no-need-to-panic-about-global-warming/

This is quite something. Sixteen scientists, including such names as Richard Lindzen, William Kininmonth, Wil Happer, and Nir Shaviv, plus engineer Burt Rutan, and Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Harrison Schmidt, among others, write what amounts to a heretical treatise to theWall Street Journal, expressing their view that the global warming is oversold, has stalled in the last decade, and that the search for meaningful warming has led to co-opting weather patterns in the blame game

Ocean Heat Content: Climate Models Continue To Fail Miserably At Predicting OHC

2012-01-27T05:16:00.001-06:00

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/01/ocean-heat-content-climate-models-continue-to-fail-miserably-at-predicting-ohc.html

The NASA climate model developed by James Hansen has been atrocious at predicting global warming over the last 15 years and the evidence mounts it is even worse at predicting ocean heat content

Shock News From HadCRUT – 2011 More Than 0.3 Degrees Warmer Than 1878

2012-01-27T05:15:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/shock-news-hadcrut-2011-0-3-degrees-warmer

I think the whole surface temperature record is complete crap, but 0.35 degrees is all Phil could come up with?

School Board Member Skeptical of Textbook - Hellertown-Lower Saucon, PA Patch

2012-01-27T05:14:00.001-06:00

http://hellertown.patch.com/articles/saucon-valley-school-board-member-concerned-about-textbook

"The book talks about global warming," Eichfeld said. "It is presented as fact. (Global warming) is a theory and not a fact."

Eichfeld said he does not believe global warming is a proven fact, and said the subject may become "obsolete in a few years."

Gavin Schmidt: Climate Homeopathy

2012-01-26T19:20:00.001-06:00

http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/gavin-schmidt-climate-homeopathy/

I was tickled last week when I was browsing on the realclimate website and came across an exchange between our old friend Vukcevic and Gavin Schmidt, who pooh-poohed Vuk's proposal for an effect on arctic circulation relating to changes in Earth's magnetic field, another vastly powerful force. Gavin didn't think the energy equivalent involved would be sufficient.
"Or do you have some magic mechanism?" he jibed "climate homeopathy perhaps?"

Another IPCC Demand for Secrecy

2012-01-26T19:17:00.001-06:00

http://climateaudit.org/2012/01/26/another-ipcc-demand-for-secrecy/

Unfortunately, IPCC seems far more concerned about secrecy than in requiring its contributors to archive data. I received another request to remove discussion of IPCC draft reports. On this issue, David Appell and I are in full agreement – see David Appell's collection of ZOD chaptershere.

Climate change: No. of people willing to 'go green' and change the way they live falls 10% | Mail Online

2012-01-26T18:46:00.000-06:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092375/Climate-change-No-people-willing-green-change-way-live-falls-10.html

Dr Benny Peiser, of the sceptical Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: 'Climate change is dropping off the political agenda. The person in the pub no longer cares. It is bottom of their list of priorities.'

Professor Knut Löschke: IPCC Representatives Do Not Shy Away From Fraud And Falsification

2012-01-26T15:59:00.001-06:00

http://notrickszone.com/2012/01/26/prof-knut-loschke-ipcc-representatives-do-not-shy-away-from-fraud-and-falsification/

Löschke thinks the whole climate issue is a dangerous political sham and called on the public: "Wehret den Anfängen!" This is a call to defend against a dangerous movement.

At the end of his speech Professor Löschke compared the "international climate regime" to the socialist regimes in Germany. According to Bärligea, up to 8 people walked out.

Dept. of Agriculture Gives $235 Million Loan to Ethanol Company

2012-01-26T15:55:00.001-06:00

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/289372/dept-agriculture-gives-235-million-loan-ethanol-company-greg-pollowitz

So, just how many federal agencies are going to play venture capitalist?

One-Third Of The US Shows Warming Daytime Temperatures Since 1895

2012-01-26T15:54:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/shows-warming-daytime-temperatures-1895

Before adjustments, 34% of the country shows warming since 1895.

Global Warming Weekly Round-Up, Jan. 26th 2012 « The Daily Bayonet

2012-01-26T15:32:00.001-06:00

http://dailybayonet.com/2012/01/global-warming-weekly-round-up-jan-26th-2012/

Presentation by global warming skeptics draws big crowd in Portland

2012-01-26T10:32:00.001-06:00

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/9848-presentation-by-global-warming-skeptics-draws-big-crowd-in-portland

More than 400 people jammed into a Portland hotel ballroom Wednesday night to hear a panel of global warming skeptics assert that manmade increases in greenhouse gases are not driving climate change.

Ice in Bering Sea threatens crab fishery: Commerical Fishing | Alaska news at adn.com

2012-01-26T09:21:00.001-06:00

http://www.adn.com/2012/01/25/2283664/ice-in-central-bering-sea-is-threatening.html

EARLY: Southward extension is farthest over the past 20 years.

Scientists Discover That Frequency of Super Hurricanes Has Declined Significantly Over Last 600 Years

2012-01-26T00:30:00.001-06:00

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/01/scientists-discover-that-frequency-of-super-hurricanes-has-declined-significantly-over-last-600-year.html

Super hurricane frequency was greater thousands of years ago when CO2 levels were low - new evidence shows modern global warming has not caused an increase

Email 1104, March 2005: Heinz Wanner says he was highly critical of the hockey stick as an official IPCC reviewer in 2001, but "My review was classified "unsignificant" even I inquired several times"

2012-01-25T22:32:00.000-06:00

Email 1104

I had to give several interviews (TV, radio, newspapers) but tried just to explain science. Now an old story is warmed up. I was a reviewer of the IPCC-TAR report 2001. In my review which I can not find again in its precise wording I critcized the fact that the whole Mann hockeytick is being printed in its full length in the IPCC-TAR report. In 1999 I made the following comments:
The spatial, temporal (tree-ring data in the midlatitudes mainly contain "summer information") and spectral coverage and behaviour of the data is questionable, mainly before 1500-1600 AD. 2. It is in my opinion not appropriate already to make statements for the southern hemisphere and for the period prior to 1500 AD.
My review was classified "unsignificant" even I inquired several times. Now the internationally well known newspaper SPIEGEL got the information about these early statements because I expressed my opinion in several talks, mainly in Germany, in 2002 and 2003. I just refused to give an exclusive interview to SPIEGEL because I will not cause damage for climate science. I just told a woman from SPIEGEL that I do carefully follow the activities and the forthcoming of the next IPCC report and I will then take position concerning the paleoclimate chapter there. I thought it is meaningful to infomr you about this fact./blockquote>

A really inconvenient truth is Earth not melting after all | Matt Patterson | Op Eds | Washington Examiner

2012-01-25T19:20:00.001-06:00

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2012/01/really-inconvenient-truth-earth-not-melting-after-all/2134091

Only a generation as narcissistic as the baby boomers would assume that the temperature they were accustomed to as they came of age in the mid-20th century is the "correct" or "average" global temperature, which must be maintained in perpetuity no matter the costs.

Again, from NASA: "Global temperature in 2011 was lower than in 1998." Now there's an inconvenient truth for you.

Glaciers are growing on Kilimanjaro, guide insists

2012-01-25T18:47:00.001-06:00

http://iceagenow.info/2012/01/glaciers-growing-kilimanjaro-guide-insists/

"From 2010 to now, we have been seeing new glaciers," says guide.

Athumani Juma, a guide who's been hiking Mount Kilimanjaro for the past seven years, laughed when asked about the likelihood that Kilimanjaro's snowcap would soon disappear.

The glaciers are no longer are shrinking, but growing, Juma replied.

Killing FOI

2012-01-25T18:45:00.001-06:00

http://omniclimate.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/killing-foi

Andy – I'm very surprised by the phrasing of your FOI question. So what if there is "fishing" involved? The important bit about FOI is that it applies no matter what the intentions of the requester are.

Bradley: Global Warming Repackages Old Fears

2012-01-25T18:20:00.001-06:00

http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/25/bradley-global-warming-repackages-old-fears/

The worry of the 1970s was anthropogenic global cooling, a phenomenon linked to increasing sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions from coal and oil combustion. Mankind's energy emissions were culpable in either direction.

2012-01-25T13:52:00.001-06:00

How GISS Has Totally Corrupted Reykjavik’s Temperatures « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Now that GHCN have created a false warming trend in Iceland and Greenland , and GISS have amended every single temperature record on their database for Reykjavik going back to 1901 (except for 2010 and 2011), we should have a look at the overall effect.

Energy Expert: Germany’s Renewable Energy Transition “Will Fail Spectacularly – Heavily Damaging The Economy”

As the report shows, Germany’s transition to green energy is turning into a real horror story.

Greens to sceptics: show us the money! | Ben Pile | spiked

The campaign to get a tiny charity to reveal its backers is driven by a desire to stamp out any eco-criticism.

Dr. G Dedrick Robinson's New Book Looks at Global Warming and Climate Change from a Geological Perspective

Professor Robert M. Carter, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, says “Writing in an easily accessible style for all readers, and using Socratic dialogue, Robinson leads us systematically through the simple science information that is needed to answer the question, 'Are human carbon dioxide emissions causing dangerous global warming?' And the more surprised you are that the answer to this question is 'no,' then the more you need to read this excellent book.”

Better Understanding and Improving Climate Communications

2012-01-25T10:46:00.001-06:00

http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2012/01/better-understanding-improving-climate-communications/

give people "a reason to become heroes in a climate protection culture."

Email 1162, June 2007: Eugene Wahl says the Ammann-Wahl paper can be freely shared among warmists before it comes out in hardcopy, but it should be kept away from McIntyre

2012-01-25T09:34:00.001-06:00

Email 1162

Here is the Ammann-Wahl paper as promised. We received letter of final acceptance and movement to "in press" status yesterday from Stephen Schneider. We would ask that distribution be kept limited until it actually comes out in hard copy (scheduled for the November 2007 issue of Climatic Change) so that its chances of getting to McIntyre (et al.) are reduced, and thus the the probability is decreased that he/they will have chance to attack it before it is fully available to the public--as they almost certainly would if the opportunity arises. Weird to need to consider such things, but that is the state of our science re: this particular paper.
However, you should certainly feel free to share it within your research groups.
Peace, Gene Dr. Eugene R. Wahl

Email 1150, Dec 2004, Chris Landsea to Pachauri: "Dr. Trenberth in representing the IPCC has successfully promulgated into the media his own opinion that the 2004 hurricane season was caused by global warming, which is in direct opposition to research written in the field and is counter to conclusions in the TAR"

2012-01-25T09:16:00.001-06:00

Email 1150

Dr. Pachauri, you mentioned earlier that "individual scientists can do what they wish in their own rights", which is certainly true. Differing conclusions and robust debates are crucial to progress in climate science. However, what we have here is not in this case an honest scientific discussion. Instead, Dr. Trenberth in representing the IPCC has successfully promulgated into the media his own opinion that the 2004 hurricane season was caused by global warming, which is in direct opposition to research written in the field and is counter to conclusions in the TAR. Yet, I have been asked to provide the writeup about observed hurricane activity variations for the FAR with, ironically, Dr. Trenberth as Lead Author. Because of Dr. Trenberth's pronouncements, the IPCC process on our assessment of these crucial extreme events in our climate system is compromised and its objectivity lost. While no one can "tell" scientists what to say or not say (nor am I suggesting that), the IPCC did select Dr. Trenberth as a Lead Author and entrusted to him to carry out this duty in a non-biased, objective point of view. To this, he has failed. I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as not being scientifically sound. As long as this structure remains, I will no longer participate in the IPCC FAR. Sincerely, Chris Landsea

2012-01-25T08:54:00.001-06:00

Al's Journal : Living on thin ice

Even though Antarctica is thousands of miles distant from the rest of the world, the melting ice on this continent should be of paramount concern to all of us. As our planet’s ice melts, sea levels are rising steadily. This increases the risk of storm surges, coastal floods, diminished supplies of drinking water for billions of people, and hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

ForestEthics “an enemy of the people of Canada” « The Daily Bayonet

Canada bashing was easy for greens in the past, but now we’ve got a government unafraid to take the fight to them.