Pielke Jr on climate science: "There are a few bad eggs, with the Real Climate mafia being among them, who are exploiting climate science for personal and political gain. Makes the whole effort look bad"

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Fixing the Marcott Mess in Climate Science

Fastest warming place on Earth: Five years after its formation, Anchorage's Citizen Climate Lobby boasts a core group of about five people out of a population of 295,000

Citizens Climate Lobby: The time is now to act on climate change, Alaska | Alaska Dispatch

It is a strange aspect of northern life — not to mention frustrating and disheartening — to live in a place, Alaska, where the effects of climate change are so pronounced and where, at the same time, so many residents seem unconcerned, uninformed, unconvinced, or simply in denial...Given his own growing concern and Saunders’ vision, Thrall agreed to form an Anchorage chapter of the [Citizens Climate Lobby]. That was about five years ago. In the years since, the Anchorage group has numbered between 10 and 15 participants, with a core group of about five people.   [Via SC]

Population of Anchorage

[295,570]

New Climate Scandal Exposed

Roger Pielke Jr documents the gross misrepresentation of the findings of a recent scientific paper via press release which appears to skirt awfully close to crossing the line into research misconduct.

Scientist predicts earth is heading for another Ice Age

Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, of the St Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, painted the Doomsday scenario saying the recent inclement weather simply proved we were heading towards a frozen planet.

Dr Abdussamatov believes Earth was on an “unavoidable advance towards a deep temperature drop”. The last big freeze, known as the Little Ice Age, was between 1650 and 1850.

Cold weather to continue across Britain | UK news | guardian.co.uk

No warmer weather in sight as UK shivers after coldest March in more than 50 years

Ice-Sheet in Antarctica Increasing due to Global Warming : environment : Nature World News

According to a new study, Antarctica has now got more ice than it did a few decades ago, and this increase in ice significantly affects temperature in the Southern Oceans.

Less ice, more ice, whatever. It’s global warming | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

2007 - global warming means less ice around Antarctica:

2013: global warming means more ice around Antarctica:

Melbourne refuses to warm as it twice did | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The warmist Bureau of Meteorology rushes out a special statement mid-March to hype a heat wave as evidence of global warming:
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But damn. March ended up cool, and the records for the warmest March recorded for Melbourne stubbornly remain two set more than 70 years ago

Economist Admits 'Mismatch' Between Greenhouse Gases and 'Not-Rising Temperatures'

Buried deep in the highly technical piece, the magazine admits that evidence suggests something that global warming skeptics have long maintained: Natural variations in the earth’s climate likely play a bigger role than scientific models have said.

Derek Sorensen » The endangered species nobody talks about

Habitat encroachment by an unforgiving section of humanity who deliberately use the Scientific Method to demolish poorly thought out, but highly publicised pseudo-science has pushed Calamitus Climatea to the verge of extinction.

Weather swings and see-saws | Digging in the Clay

Oh I do hate the tendency of climate science to forget the past and view changes as irreversible and in one direction.

Precious: Michael Mann ‘sincerely doubts’ Andy Revkin has any ‘ties 2 fossil fuel interests’ | JunkScience.com

Mann knows Revkin is no “fossil fuel shill.” Check out this evidence form Climategate 2.0.

Climategate 2.0: Revkin works for the alarmists | JunkScience.com

[Revkin, 2007] this story was written mainly for the benefit of the 10s of millions of disengaged or doubtful or simply under-edcuated Americans out there for whom it is NEWS that the only discourse now is among folks who believe human-forced climate change is a huge problem.

Warmist Ken Caldeira has a dream: It involves Obama giving a "I have a dream" speech to alert us about the, like, super-serious threat of CO2-induced bad weather

Mixed Reactions to White House Science Advisers' Suggestions for Obama's Climate Agenda - ScienceInsider

From geochemist and energy expert Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California:

The president needs his "I have a dream" speech on climate and energy systems. He needs to articulate a vision of a 21st century energy system that does not use the atmosphere as a waste dump for our CO2 pollution.

Oxford warmist David Robert Grimes suggests that CO2 will cause an increase in both the frequency and the intensity of disasters like tsunamis

Don’t be fooled by the spring snows, they are further proof of global warming - The Irish Times

While it may seem paradoxical that Arctic warming can freeze us so much, it is exactly what climate scientists have long predicted. And it will get worse.
...ancient ice cores yield a record of temperature and atmosphere over hundreds of millennia, and shows our current rate of warming is hundreds of times beyond anything that has gone before, coinciding with the dawn of industrialisation.
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CO2 released from fossil fuels has a distinct chemical signature, and points to our guilt as readily as fingerprints at a crime scene.
...Two years on, it bears repeating that the Fukushima accident of 2011 has killed nobody and likely never will. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, by contrast, killed more than 18,000. If nothing substantial is done, such disasters will increase in both frequency and intensity
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Dr David Robert Grimes is a physicist and cancer researcher at Oxford University. davidrobertgrimes.com @drg1985

Flashback: Settled science: Human CO2 emissions made the temperature shoot up starting in the late 19th century, or maybe the late 20th century, or something

1989: Stephen Schneider wrote, "I strongly suspect that by the year 2000 increasing numbers of people will point to the 1980s as the time the global warming signal emerged from the natural background of climatic noise"

Guardian article suggests that the threat of the U.S. temperature rising from 55.3 F to 57.3 F over a few decades is sort of like the threat of 1,830 deg. F gas and rock hurtling towards our families at 450 mph

Civilisation and the environment: ashes to ashes | The Guardian

The disasters looming ahead of us are less acute and more complicated, but with 17 years' notice we ought to be able somehow to get a grip on energy use and population growth. Should we fail to do so, a history that discovers books on climate change among our own rubble may be less forgiving about us. All the more so because the environmental ruin that we are unleashing could preclude any rebirth of prosperity for a very long time.

Pyroclastic flow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A pyroclastic flow (also known scientifically as a pyroclastic density current) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and rock (collectively known as tephra), which reaches speeds moving away from a volcano of up to 700 km/h (450 mph). The gas can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,830 °F).

Flashback:  NOAA: 2012 Hottest & 2nd-Most Extreme Year On Record | Climate Central

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012 had an average temperature of 55.3°F

The 30-Second Climate Change ad Exxon Forced Off The Air // Current TV

The following 30-second climate change ad has already aired in three major media markets across the United States, to great acclaim as the first nationally crowdfunded climate change PSA...Then Exxon sent a single email, and it was unilaterally taken off the air. Here’s the ad you weren’t allowed to see

Prolonged Winter Puts Retail Sales in Deep Freeze

Planalytics evaluated that demand for shorts fell 12 percent in the fourth week of March versus a year ago and 9 percent for sandals. Interest in lawn and garden items fell 21 percent, delaying the most lucrative season for home improvement stores.

"Springtime is ultimately Christmas for folks like Home Depot and Lowe's, Ace Hardware," Gold said. But cold weather will likely to continue for a few more weeks, he said.

CO2 myth busted: Why we need more carbon dioxide to grow food and forests

As it turns out, CO2 is desperately needed by food crops, and right now there is a severe shortage of CO2 on the planet compared to what would be optimum for plants. Greenhouse operators are actually buying carbon dioxide and injecting it into their greenhouses in order to maximize plant growth.

The science on this is irrefutable.

Global Warming Proof : January Daffodils In England | Real Science

In 1935, England had daffodils in January. In 2013, they will be struggling to have daffodils in April.

Time to crank up the carbon taxes and end this out of control global warming. President Obama says that stopping global warming is his top priority.

Why Solar Is Not The Answer. | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

In January, for instance, when demand for electricity is at its peak, sunshine hours amounted to 37 hours in the whole month. That’s right, barely more than an hour a day.

By all means force people to spend thousands of pounds extra when they buy a new house, just so they can have solar panels fitted. But where does Ruth suggest we get the electricity from, when we are sat in the freezing cold in the middle of winter, and the sun refuses to shine?

Antarctica Meltdown : Feels Like -139F | Real Science

Weather Forecast Vostok, Antarctica

Joe Romm Takes Climate Fraud To Infininity | Real Science

...This statistic is complete garbage. Essentially all of the claimed all-time record maximums occurred at stations which didn’t exist during the 1930s, which was by far the hottest decade in the US.

An apples-to-apples comparison of all stations which have been continuously active since 1920, shows that there were only three all-time record maximums set during 2012.

Earth-cooling schemes need global sign-off, researchers say | Environment | The Guardian

The dangers arose in projects that cooled the planet unevenly. In some cases these caused devastating droughts across Africa; in others they increased rainfall in the region but left huge areas of Brazil parched.

Global warming expands Antarctic sea ice : Nature News & Comment

While sea ice at the North Pole has shrunk substantially over the past three decades, scientists have struggled to explain why sea ice near the South Pole has grown in extent over the same period.

“The paradox is that global warming leads to more cooling and more sea ice around Antarctica,” says Richard Bintanja, a climate researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in Utrecht.

Some question why I dinged Easter @realclimate...

[Revkin] Some question why I dinged Easter @realclimate release of Marcott et al FAQ as “irksome.” Here’s my reply to one critic:
As for Easter Sunday, perception (whether your or I like it) is reality. Gavin and Mike would have done better to have waited til Monday at least to avoid the perception.
And it IS, in fact, irksome for those of us responsible for tracking events that constitute news...

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: @ClimateOfGavin @Revkin Far ...

@ClimateOfGavin @Revkin Far more irksome than poor timed release is the big diff between press release/media hype and cautious FAQ #looksbad

Twitter / ClimateOfGavin: Lessons on being irksome from ...

Lessons on being irksome from @RogerPielkeJr #priceless

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Ad homs from @ClimateOfGavin ...

Ad homs from @ClimateOfGavin in response to my pointing out irksome climate science hype ...

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: If I was playing the hand held ...

If I was playing the hand held by @ClimateOfGavin I'd be trying to change the subject too ;-) Look ... over there, a denier!

Twitter / RichardTol: @RogerPielkeJr @ClimateOfGavin ...

@RogerPielkeJr @ClimateOfGavin @revkin truly irksome is the deviation between what the paper says and what their data say

Twitter / Revkin: @ClimateOfGavin Good 4/1 point! ...

@ClimateOfGavin Good 4/1 point! But after 3 weeks of queries (not just McIntyre) for Marcott et al to reply on Easter legitimately irksome.

The Marcott Filibuster « Climate Audit

Instead of dealing with actual questions, for the most part, their “FAQ” filibusters about questions that no one was asking in connection with this study.

More snowfall now expected in Poland | Ice Age Now

See many photos and videos. Remember, tomorrow is the first day of April!

Polar bear-sea ice relationships: what biologists knew in ’72 | polarbearscience

From both of these examples, it is clear that back in 1972, Jack Lentfer realized that both warming and cooling trends should be expected in the future because both occurred in the past – and he made it a point to inform his polar bear biologist colleagues of the historical basis of that conclusion.

Arctic blast to challenge cold records across Eastern U.S.

The mercury will drop even further – into the teens – in parts of the Upper Midwest, Dakotas, and Upper New England regions, challenging cold records across the Eastern United States.

As the cold front sinks southward, lows across Texas will also drop into the 30s.

Study adds to picture of rapidly greening Arctic...

we show that vegetation distribution shifts will result in an overall positive feedback to climate that is likely to cause greater warming than has previously been predicted

Zhang et al: Consistent Long-term variation in the hemispheric asymmetry of solar rotation | Tallbloke's Talkshop

My thanks to Astrophysicist Ian Wilson for flagging up this new paper from Zhang, Mursula and Usoskin. This sheds some light on the periodic changes in the rate of rotation of the latitudinal bands on the solar surface, and the correlated changes in the number, size and hemispheric location of sunspots. It turns out there is an anticorrelation between the two solar hemispheres. In other words, when rotation rates are high in the north, along with sunspot roduction, they are lower in the south, and vise versa. There are nuances that modify this relationship, and this leaves scope for further study. The periodicity is given as 80-90 years, and this frequency is potentially linked to planetary periods such as the Double inner solar system cycle, the half Jose cycle and Uranus’ orbital period, which falls in the middle of the range.   [Thank goodness Gavin Schmidt's Fortran climate models allegedly correctly handle all sunspot factors along with millions of other variables and all their interactions, all without knowing the initial state of each variable!]

Flashback: Remember when we almost spent $45 trillion based on some secret Fortran code written by left-wing idiots with no common sense?

The equations are written in Fortran, a computer language that is, as Dr. Schmidt puts it, "very old and not very trendy." The computer code is 126,327 lines, to be exact

Flashback: Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered

The climate is “a complex, non-linear, chaotic object” that defies long-run prediction of its future states (IPCC, 2001), unless the initial state of its millions of variables is known to a precision that is in practice unattainable, as Lorenz (1963; and see Giorgi, 2005) concluded in the celebrated paper that founded chaos theory

Children won't know what fleas look like: "Freezing weather wipes out German flea circus "

News from The Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) -- An entire troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures currently gripping Germany.
Flea circus director Robert Birk says he was shocked to find all of his 300 fleas dead inside their transport box Wednesday morning.  [Via Marc Morano]

Bjorn Lomborg: The Joy Of Global Warming

As I fly into a snow-bound Britain, I realise that you might be asking where global warming has gone as you shiver in the coldest March for 50 years and wonder what you will do if gas has to be rationed. I have been involved in the climate debate for more than a decade, but I am still amazed at how wrong we get it. Let us try to restart our thinking on global warming.

Coldest Easter In 100 Years | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The icy Easter weekend has been declared the coldest in 100 years and forecasters have warned the cold snap will continue for the rest of the week.

Europe's carbon market hinges on rescue package

Europe’s emissions market is likely to be left all but broken should the region’s parliament fail to agree next month on combating the surplus of carbon permits, after the biggest quarterly slide in prices since 2011.

Pollution turns Bangalore into oven

If the summer is getting unbearable this year, blame high density of dust particles and pollutants in the air.

Cold German Winter Refuses to Warm Up for Easter - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Complaining about the weather has reached epidemic proportions in northern Germany this "spring." And with good reason. With Easter just around the corner, meteorologists are telling us this could end up being the coldest March in Berlin and its surroundings since records began in the 1880s.

The poor Easter Bunny deserves our sympathy. Whereas in recent years he has grown used to dodging daffodils, lilies and tulips as he carries his cargo of eggs and chocolate to homes across northern Europe, this year the rabbit will find himself confronted with ice slicks, snow drifts and bundled up humans in foul moods.

Twitter / ClimateReality: Please RT this graphic exposing ...

Please RT this graphic [entitled "Save the Easter Bunny!] exposing the threat posed to bunnies by #climate change (via @ClimateHotNews) http://ow.ly/i/1Napt

Grist article suggests that mass-manufactured creamy chocolate Easter eggs are "full of death and destruction"

Screw Cadbury, make your own creamy chocolate Easter eggs | Grist

Delicious mass-manufactured chocolate Easter eggs are, predictably, terrible for the environment,
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So, instead of going out and buying these delicious morsels of doom, may we suggest that you make them from scratch? That way they will be more delicious and less full of death and destruction.

Hockey stick authors: Did we mention that the last century of our hockey stick isn't statistically robust?

Fresh Thoughts from Authors of a Paper on 11,300 Years of Global Climate Changes - NYTimes.com

the 20th century portion of our paleotemperature stack is not statistically robust, cannot be considered representative of global temperature changes, and therefore is not the basis of any of our conclusions.

If 20th century isn't statistically robust, how do we know that the 12th century is statistically robust?

Outvoted warmist politician Bob Inglis: In order to prevent CO2-induced bad weather, you know what we need? A carbon tax at coal mines that is removed if that coal is sent on fossil-fueled ships to be burned in other countries

Old plays won't save coal but a carbon tax could | Op-Ed | Kentucky.com

When something becomes inevitable — like the pricing of carbon — there's little to be gained from simply slowing government regulation.
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For coal, the right kind of CO² tax would be far better than pending CO² regulation.
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The very different play for coal might look like this: Tax carbon upstream at the mine and at the pipeline...Make the new carbon tax border-adjustable so that it's removed on exports and imposed on imports.

The border-adjustable feature is critical in two ways. First, coal from the U.S. wouldn't be priced out of foreign markets because the U.S. carbon tax would be removed on export.
...Years ago, who knew smoking caused cancer? Tobacco companies fought the inevitable conclusion of the research, but they ultimately lost. Now, some of the same people — literally some of the same people — are fighting the inevitable conclusion of chemistry and physics and the effects of greenhouse gasses. They will lose. Coal could lose with them.

Flashback: Former Congressman Bob Inglis, who lost his primary race 71-29, on the alleged effects of trace amounts of CO2: We're paying in the forms of increased medical bills, lost workplace productivity and thousands of people who die earlier than they otherwise would

Britons [allegedly] want government to tackle climate change and grow economy

Only 19% felt that the government should prioritise investing money into preventing climate change.

Late frost damages some Mississippi blueberry crops

Farmers say once a frost kills off blueberry blooms, there’s really not time to recover for the current season.

“If I could get ahold of that little Punxsutawney Phil, I’d like to choke him,” Dunn said of the famous Pennsylvania groundhog.

Cherry Blossoms in the nation’s capital: How has the weather affected their blooming dates?

as Jason Samenow pointed out last year, there were three other much earlier years (1921, 1927 and 1945) when peak blooms matched last year’s very early date of March 20. Of those, March 1921 was quite mild (55.5 degrees, or 8.7 degrees above the current normal) and March 1945 was even milder (56.2 degrees, or 9.4 degrees above normal.) But surprisingly, March 1927, which averaged 47.6 degrees, or less than one degree above normal, also saw a March 20th peak blooming date. Go figure!

Environmental groups pressure U.N. body for carbon aviation deal | Reuters

(Reuters) - Environmental groups have urged the United States to back a global deal to curb carbon emissions produced by planes, noting that global aviation emits more of the greenhouse gas than all but six of the world's nations.

Matthew Sinclair: The three elements of good climate policy

Staking enormous resources on installing phenomenal amounts of offshore wind capacity in the hope that will drive down costs to an economic level is madness.

Carbon levy will be a 'stealth poll tax' on energy - Telegraph

The government's new carbon levy is effectively a “stealth poll tax” that will only work to put up household electricity bills and hand a windfall to old nuclear plants, the head of energy giant E.ON has warned.

Twitter / etzpcm: The anagram of the week award ...

The anagram of the week award goes to jorgekafkazar for Stephan Lewandowsky = what Lysenko spawned

FEMA's climate change denial: Editorial | NJ.com

The flood maps drawn up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency do not consider the rising sea levels or increasing frequency of big storms that scientists predict.

Warmist Kieran Hickey suggests that east Ireland's coldest March in 50 years is evidence of global warming

Cold comfort from the weather gurus: it's the new normal - Independent.ie

[Warmist Kieran Hickey]  "We are getting lots of extremes and there has been no let-up since 2009, which means the climate is swinging. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) predicted climate change would lead to a lot of extreme weather and less predictability of what were once normal weather expectations. That is what's happening.

"You're always going to get cold spells as part of a climate's natural cycle but we've had three cold spells since 2009 and three or four major flooding events. That's a sign climate change has come into effect."

55:1 Ratio Of Record Lows To Record Highs | Real Science

The ratio of record highs to record lows is 1:55

In 2009, NCAR proudly boasted that the ratio of record highs to record lows was 2:1, yet they are strangely silent now.

NY lobby board asked to investigate Yoko Ono, other Artists Against Fracking; Another radical group managed by Fenton Communications | JunkScience.com

“”When you are advocating for the passage or defeat of legislation or proposed legislation and spend more than $5,000, you are required to register.”

Extreme weather will go on and on, scientists say - Commentary - monitor.co.ug

January of 1963 was the coldest month of the 1900s in Britain, with an average temperature of minus 2.1C. I can testify to that because it was part of my first leave from my job in Kenya. Throughout my holiday, I never saw ground without snow, not a single professional football match was played and my mother piled so many blankets on the bed of her shivering boy from Africa, I could hardly turn over.

That couldn’t have been climate change, could it? Fifty years ago, nobody was sending loads of CO2 into the atmosphere to wreak havoc on our weather. But I’m not a sceptic. Listen to the experts and the case for climate change is overwhelming.

Storks bewildered by Poland's wintry spring - Video

fter flying in from Africa, instead of spring showers and April flowers, the storks are finding sub-zero temperatures and snow. Without the help of local people, they may not make it.

Government's climate watchdog launches astonishing attack on the Mail on Sunday... for revealing global warming science is wrong | Mail Online

The official watchdog that advises the Government on greenhouse gas emissions targets has launched an astonishing attack on The Mail on Sunday – for accurately reporting that alarming predictions of global warming are wrong.

A glorious winter, but the Alps face a warmer world – bringing huge change

François-Régis Bouquin, a director in the mayor's office in Chamonix, said: "People who were born in Chamonix tell us we haven't had a winter with so much snow for 15 years..."
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[Edoardo Cremonese, a climate change scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley] said: "The impact of global warming on the Alps will be certainly felt by 2050, maybe 2040 according to climate models, so we are talking about maybe 20-30 years.

Global Warming Always Targets The Poor | Real Science

Russia: Homeless Battling Brutal Cold Spring

Experts tell us that an early spring and declining spring snow cover prove global warming.

Bummer: After 2007, when British hedgehogs were facing cold-induced death blamed on global warming, they're now facing cold-induced death blamed on climate change

Freezing weather brings fresh perils for British wildlife

Britain's continued freezing weather is threatening ever greater numbers of wild animals, birds and insects across the country, experts have warned. The current cold spell – one of the longest on record – is particularly affecting creatures that are already struggling to survive the loss of their habitats and changes in climate.

Examples include the hedgehog, which has already suffered a devastating loss of numbers over the past three decades and is now badly affected by the cold weather.

2007:  Baby hedgehogs fall victim to global warming - Manchester Evening News

BABY hedgehogs are facing death this winter after becoming the latest victims of global warming. The mild weather meant many were born too late last year to mothers confused by the conditions...baby hedgehogs have not had enough time to put on the weight required to hibernate. And with the weather expected to turn colder over the next couple of months, preservation groups fear the hedgehogs could be under threat.

Madness of crowds: Western Washington University geologists write that skeptic Don Easterbrook's claims "require the existence of a broad, decades-long conspiracy amongst literally thousands of scientists to falsify climate data and to prevent publication of opposing research"

WWU faculty find overwhelming scientific evidence to support global warming | Whatcom Opinion Columns | The Bellingham Herald

Easterbrook's claims in this forum and elsewhere require the existence of a broad, decades-long conspiracy amongst literally thousands of scientists to falsify climate data and to prevent publication of opposing research. This opinion demonstrates a profound rejection of the scientific process and the fundamental value of rigorous peer review, and is also simply wrong.

Popular Technology.net: 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarm

Preface: The following papers support skeptic arguments against Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC), Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) or ACC/AGW Alarm [Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW)].