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Iqaluit project eyes link between tummy troubles-climate changeClimate change, which affects food security, may also lead to an increase in stomach illnesses among Inuit.
That’s according to the “Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change” project.
This project sent researchers in to Iqaluit to conduct 20-minute interviews with Inuit in Iqaluit about what they eat, whether or not they hunt, and whether or not they have stomach problems, such as vomiting or diarrhea, which are among symptoms of acute gastrointestinal illness.
The New Britain HeraldThe harsh winter of 2012-13 will have a lingering financial impact on Connecticut farmers.
Many Connecticut farms incurred extensive damage to greenhouses and other structures this winter.
“According to our last reports, 300 greenhouses went down on 51 farms this winter,” said Bob Heffernan, executive director of the Connecticut Greenhouse Growers Association. “We estimate between $12 and $20 million of damages to structures, most of which aren’t insured. We really don’t know yet about the damage inside to equipment and plants.”...“The blizzard made the roof of our hoop house collapse,” said Kandefer.
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“We did everything we could to prevent it,’’ said Karabin. “We opened our greenhouse curtains early in the morning to keep the snow melting on the roofs. Many of the greenhouses that went down weren’t properly heated, but there were some who did everything we did and still got damages.’’
Michael Mann implies that skeptics might have weaponized anthrax and would commit bioterrorism | JunkScience.comWatch for the butterfly net to overtake the hockey stick in global warming symbolism.
Note how Mann’s phony anthrax attack segues into claims about tobacco industry tactics to discredit and intimidate scientists.
PSU Climatologist Michael Mann answering questions often raised by climate skeptics, warning against intimidation of scientists [Mann] It's due to fossil fuel emissions and rising greenhouse gas concentrations. That conclusion has actually been established by taking models, theoretical models of the climate and subjecting them both to natural factors like volcanic eruptions and changes and the behaviour of the sun and the human factors of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and what those more recent studies show is that you can't explain that anomalous recent warming from natural factors. We can only explain it when we include the effect of humans on the climate.
...[Mann] Yeah, so both in our estimates and many other estimates of how temperatures have changed in the past, we do see about 1,000 years, a period of relative warmth. Not warmth that actually rivals the most recent decades. The most recent warming takes us outside of that range of the past warmth. But there was an interval of time about 1,000 years ago that was little warmer than the colder interval that we call the Little Ice Age which took place several centuries later. Now we can actually explain that period of moderate temperatures 1,000 years ago based on natural factors. A fairly high amount of solar activity, so the sun was a little bit brighter; there were relatively few volcanic eruptions, which are a cooling influence on the climate. So when we put those natural factors into the climate, we can actually explain that relatively warm medieval period.
Die Klimazwiebel: Excitement around Climate of the PastOne of the most negative breaches of the review process that we have seen pictured in the Climate Gate emails was the attempt by reviewers to agree on negative reviews, with the stated goal of bringing down a particular manuscript.
End Of March : Ponds Frozen | Real ScienceI noticed this afternoon that most of the ponds are frozen over here in Fort Collins. That is unheard of this late in the spring. We didn’t make it above freezing all weekend.
The Arctic however is ice-free.
Dr. James Hansen, father of global warming, is 2013 "rebel with a cause" - Denver going green | Examiner.comDr. James Hansen, a pioneer in the study of global warming, was chosen "rebel with a cause" for 2013, Conservation Colorado announced Saturday.
The environmental group will honor Hansen in a gala 5-9 p.m. June 13 at the Denver Marriott City Center, 1701 California St., Denver.
How Cold Will March Be? | Real ScienceMuch of the the Northern Hemisphere has been getting pummeled with near record cold during March. It seems likely that satellite temperatures for the month will take another huge plunge, like they did last month.
The New Normal : Five Months Of Winter | Real ScienceWinter 2012-2013 got off to a bang with a record snowfall on Halloween
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Five months later, winter is still going strong.
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Climate experts have been telling us for decades that global warming means shorter winters and less snowfall.
Weblog awards – WUWT wins for the third time | Watts Up With That?That puts WUWT in the hall of fame for the science category, and we cannot be in that contest again. WUWT also wins “Weblog of the Year”.
- Bishop Hill blog - Something strange in the atmosphereAMSU's global temperature web page, if accurate, is showing an abrupt climate change event, Channel 5 (600mb, 14,000ft) is showing a 0.8degC drop in global average temperature in just 9 days. This is remarkable, not repeated anywhere in the satellite record, let alone in March which is typically a warming month.
Dispelling myths about global warming | Watts Up With That?CO2 did not drive the rapid warming of the 20th century.
The New Nostradamus of the North: WWF and Coca Cola restore unique English rivers - but want to fill their surroundings with ugly wind turbinesThere is, of course, nothing wrong in protecting these unique chalk streams, but what about the unique landscapes where these rivers originate and flow? Aren't they also worth being preserved?
Apparently not, if one is to believe the WWF, which (together with Coke?) wishes to see unique areas of natural beauty filled with ghastly bird killing, ineffective and expensive wind turbines.
- Bishop Hill blog - SJB's last hurrahOlive Heffernan (formerly?) of Nature Climate Change is shocked (shocked!) that the BBC might mention the views of a climatologist about climate. She presumably feels that a population biologist turned adminstrator has views that are simply unassailable:
John Beddington on BBC Breakfast talking on #climate change. Presenter wheeling out arguments by Richard Lindzen. Oy vey. Hard to believe.
Bipartisan Senate Majority Votes To Oppose a Carbon TaxThe 45 Republican Senators were joined by eight Democrats in voting for Blunt’s amendment. The Democrats were: Max Baucus of Montana, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
Climate Change Dispatch - Eco-imperialism joins vulture environmentalismIn the environmental arena, these would-be czars and czarinas want to regulate what kinds of energy we can produce and use, cars we can drive, and jobs and living standards we can have. They are the vanguard of a dangerous alliance of eco-imperialism and vulture environmentalism.
Driven by utopian, Deep Ecology and global governance ideologies, elected and unelected ruling elites pass laws, promulgate regulations and issue edicts, based on faulty to fraudulent science and unsupported proclamations about dangerous manmade global warming, resource depletion and sustainable development. They seek to radically and fundamentally transform the energy, economic and social fabric of our nation and world – in the name of “social justice” and “saving the planet.”
Within mainstream environmentalist groups, diversity is lacking - The Washington Post“We essentially have a racially segregated environmental movement,” said Van Jones, co-founder of the nonprofit Rebuild the Dream and a former adviser on green jobs to the Obama administration. “We’re too polite to say that. Instead, we say we have an environmental justice movement and a mainstream movement.”
- Bishop Hill blog - An olive branchWell this looks like good news - Paul Nurse has offered to arrange a meeting between GWPF and some (so far unidentified) climate scientists, and Nigel Lawson has accepted.
Ezra Levant: Global Warming a crazy cult [video] Ezra Levant and Marc Morano of Climate Depot talk about the nutty leftwing religion.
Little Ice Age Triggered Social And Political Crisis | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)The first months of 1621 were so cold that people walked across the frozen Bosphorus from Constantinople to Asia. In the early 1640s, violent winds and rain destroyed harvests across northern Europe, and in Germany soldiers reported seeing people frozen to death on the roads. England lost its king and the Peace of Westphalia brought the Thirty Years’ War to an end, but still the winds blew cold. Winters between 1654 and 1667 were, on average, more than 1C cooler than they are today. Indeed, throughout the second half of the century, the world was literally a colder place, as well as an emptier one. In China, Poland, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, the population fell by about a third, while in some parts of Germany the population fell by half. In 1651, Thomas Hobbes warned that without a strong state, life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”. For many people, it was like that already.
Investors warned to put climate change on the books - Business - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)The Investor Group on Climate Change says Australian investors are heavily exposed to climate change risks.
Vermont House of Representatives passes “Climate Change” bill : VTDiggerthe burning of fossil fuels for heat is the second-biggest contributor to climate change in Vermont
Climate change initiatives yet to take off in Gujarat - The Times of IndiaA senior official of the climate change department said, "The department has failed to start any of its new projects like climate change trust fund, climate change impact assessment and project trust fund along with state climate change institute despite huge funds being allocated to it..."
Phoenix is doomed — to be a target for doomsayers | GristPhoenix last year had 14 days greater than 110⁰F. How many people were killed by this unimaginable heat? The City recorded 21 heat-caused deaths (and an additional 22 heat-related deaths) during the weeks above 110. Tragic, yes. Thousands, no. Phoenix is built to deal with very high temperatures. Yes, temperatures may go even higher in the future, but we acknowledge and even expect that.
UK's coldest spring since 1963 claims 5,000 lives: Pensioners worst affected - and experts say final toll could be 'horrendous' | Mail Online2,000 extra deaths registered in just the first two weeks of March
Analysis: Obama's Climate Agenda May Face Setbacks in Federal CourtPresident Barack Obama's plan to use federal agencies, and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular, to drive his second-term climate change agenda might be in peril if he cannot fill vacant seats on the federal court that has jurisdiction over major national regulations, legal experts say.
What's strange about this weather? Nothing at all » Spectator BlogsI suppose weather hyperbole enables journos to write long articles entitled: why are we experiencing such extreme weather phenomena? We’re not, though. You’re just writing about it more.
Colorado spring snowstorm causes travel headaches - The Denver PostRoads are expected to remain treacherous as overnight lows in the single digits will increase the risk of slick roads and black ice.
In metro Denver, between 8 and 10 inches of snow fell between the storm's sudden arrival Friday afternoon and late Saturday afternoon, said National Weather Service meteorologist Bernie Meier in Boulder.
Fierce snow storms cause disruption - Independent.ieAround 1,000 homes are without water and many more lacked power after fierce snow storms disrupted services in Northern Ireland.
Some spring: Snowstorm slams Plains, MidwestTen to 15 inches of snow had fallen by Saturday afternoon north of Interstate 70 in northwest Kansas and northeast Colorado, with another 1 to 2 inches expected in the area, said Ryan Husted, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Goodland, Kan., where 15 inches of snow had fallen.
Quark Soup by David Appell: Missing Energy Claimed to be FoundA paper just out in GRL by Balmaseda, Trenberth and Källén claims to have affirmed the location of the "missing energy" in the climate system -- it's (as suspected) in the deep ocean (the 300-2000 m layer, and especially below 700 m).
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Finally, here is their summary of trends for the different layers over different times, which makes it clear why the surface temperature jumped up so much in the 1990s -- the ocean was actually losing energy (heat), mostly because of the big 1997-1998 El Nino -- and why it's been on "haitus" during the last decade -- the ocean took up a huge amount of heat, at a rate far higher even than in the 1980s, with most of it going below 700 meters.
Now they can’t be bothered saving Earth for even an hour | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogI attended a party in a tower at Docklands last night, and was there from about 7.45pm until midnight. I spent most of the evening admiring the view of city lights from the balcony. There was no visible sign of Earth Hour at all. I did not see any diminution in illumination at all.
Twitter / rogtallbloke: "up to 15C in the Arctic an ... Twitter / PaulREhrlich: Last night in Oz after fine ...Last night in Oz after fine interactions in first Murdoch summer (tornadoes in Victoria).#Climate disruption. Now off line until ~Apr 10
Twitter / ToryAardvark: Britain to cut wind subsidies ...Britain to cut wind subsidies again, time to repeal the Climate Change Act 2008
Carbon taxes spurned in Senate budget vote - The Hill's E2-Wirethey nonetheless illustrated that Republicans and centrist Democrats appear to form a clear majority against fees on emissions from oil and coal producers, power plants and other sources.
Whitehouse, one of the most active Senate advocates for aggressive steps to address climate change, and Blunt squared off before the votes.
The Rhode Island Democrat suggested the new Pope would be on his side.
“We have a new Pope, Pope Francis, who said last week that our relation with God’s creation is not very good right now,” Whitehouse said.
“God’s creation runs by laws — the laws of nature, the laws of physics, the laws of chemistry, and God gave us the power of reason to understand those laws,” added Whitehouse, who speaks often on the floor about the dangers of climate change.
It’s The Energy In The System | Real ScienceClimate imbeciles say that more energy in the system causes more severe storms.
That is weather is so bad in Hawaii, and so good in Winnipeg.
Coldest March 24 In Fort Collins Since 1952? | Real ScienceFort Collins has only had one March 24 below 0F, which occurred in 1952. Depending on what happens over the next couple of hours at the official thermometer, today will be the coldest March 24 since either 1974, 1964, 1962 or 1952.
Hansen Continues To Tamper With The Global Temperature Record | Real ScienceThe graph below shows changes made to Hansen’s GLB.Ts+dSST.txt over the past year. He makes these changes in place, overwriting the existing file so that there is no record on the NASA web site of his tampering. Fortunately we have people saving off old copies.
As usual, he has cooled the past and warmed the present. Hansen has created a 0.15C additional warming between 1910 and 2012, which didn’t exist a year ago.
Earth Hour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe criticisms of Earth Hour include: [see the long, detailed list]
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