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I consider myself an expert in the fields relevant to the IPCC WG III and qualified to make comments on the WG III drafts.*
Let’s see how that worked out.Twitter / RyanMaue: Tone deaf Guardian on global ...
1993 global oil use – 65.5 million barrels per day
2013 global oil use – 90 million barrels per day (est.)
Tone deaf Guardian on global warming causing African mass starvation. "$50bn Californian wine industry could shrink as much as 70% by 2050"Can Evolution Beat Climate Change?: Scientific American
Shifting environmental conditions have always played an outsize role in driving evolution.Lincoln Blue Tits contribute to climate change debate | The Lincolnite
It is essential that we continue to study how organisms adapt to climate changeKesko's monthly sales shrink 12 pct on cold weather | Reuters
(Reuters) - Finnish retailer Kesko's sales fell in March for the fifth consecutive month as a colder-than-usual winter and Europe's debt crisis discouraged consumers from buying hardware such as home improvement goods.
Do we have any idea about the variability of the temperatures and ocean heat content of the global oceans to depth? Simple answer: No.Mother Nature Takes Pre-Emptive Shot at Alarmists on Eve of IPCC V Release | Somewhat Reasonable
The view here is that the IPCC and the alarmist community are on the verge of their own version of the 2008 financial crisis. Subsequent to that event, the major credit rating agencies were the subject of multiple lawsuits and were forced to review their ethics and business policies. Perhaps the IPCC is much closer to facing such a crossroads than the consensus now believes.The Right Climate Stuff - CPAC 2013, Washington, DC, March 15, 2013 - YouTube
[94-minute video] Apollo 7 Astronaut and author Walter Cunningham and two former NASA engineers discuss why they are urging government agencies to cease their "unbridled advocacy" of Anthropogenic Global Warming & Return Integrity to the Scientific Method. The video features presentations by Cunningham; Harold Doiron, consultant to NASA and commercial rocket developers; and Thomas Wysmuller, meteorologist, New York University and the Royal Dutch Weather Bureau. Recorded on March 15, 2013.Quadrant Online - An open letter to David Attenborough
[John Happs] I provided ample documented evidence to show that:
(a) Carbon dioxide has never driven global temperature over geologic time;
(b) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process and findings cannot be trusted;
(c) The broader scientific and political communities are now seriously questioning the alarmist message of CAGW.
These blogs and postings [criticizing Mann's junk science] are part of a coordinated effort financed by the oils and coal industries, among others, linked into a right wing dominated set of publications and news channels.Twitter / justintempler
Mann describes the way they work. It is something that makes the Nazi propaganda machine look primitive. To counter this, without the massive amounts of funding the deniers have, Mann created RealClimate, a blog where rapid responses to the lies and organized attacks could be countered.
Update: Note that this article and poll are over one year old.@JamesDelingpole Want a laugh? Take a look at the poll at the bottom of this DailKos article worshipping Mann. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/09/1072828/-Michael-Mann-is-a-Modern-Hero-and-we-need-to-acknowledge-that …
The gift comes not without irony. Koch, in his leadership role at Koch Industries, Inc., oversees an industrial conglomerate with a portfolio of petroleum refining, fuel pipelines, coal supply and trading, oil and gas exploration, and petrochemicals and polymers. These industries produce the fossil fuels and petrochemical products that are the primary cause of climate change, which made Superstorm Sandy worse.Twitter / AaronRodgers12
Masters on tv makes me want to golf. When does winter end in wisconsin?? #globalwarmingDana Milbank on climate change - YouTube
Dana Milbank, MSNBC commentator and Washington Post Columnist, revisited, this time on climate change. Surprise, Milbank and Helfeld agree, the government can not and should not try to control the climate but instead deal with the consequences of climate change, if any.US, China vow to boost climate efforts amid ‘increasing dangers’ - The Hill's E2-Wire
China and the U.S. announced a new “Climate Change Working Group,” which will present a report at the next meeting of the joint Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington, D.C. in July.'Unqualified' scientists stand to gain from hysteria of global warming | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com
The news media have bought into this scam because it’s sensational. The politicians have bought into this because it allows them to get more control over people’s lives. The alarmists can get away with it because there is no way to run a controlled experiment to validate their claims. Unfortunately, the kind of solid scientific data presented by Professor Gray is not sensational and gets very little publicity. If I tell you that the sky isn’t falling, you probably won’t pay much attention to me. I do congratulate the Coloradoan, however, for printing Professor Gray’s article.
the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said the March freeze cost the UK's small businesses £174m.Thought Emissions Threaten Intellectual Climate at Vassar | Center for Industrial Progress
It said more than half of small firms admitted that cold weather damaged demand and closed businesses.
On March 29, Alex Epstein’s talk, “Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet,” at Vassar College was interrupted by a student reading a prepared statement which denounced the consumption of fossil fuels as entailing, among other things, “intimidation.” The incident followed a week during which posters for the talk were ripped down, the home of the talk’s organizer was vandalized, and a threat was made by one student to disrupt the talk by physically harming himself.Union Station [pretends to switch to] Wind Power: DCist
Union Station recently started getting all of its electricity from wind power, and will do so for the next three years, its power supplier said yesterday. The historic train depot signed a contract with Herndon, Va.-based Washington Gas Energy Services that will see it purchase renewable energy credits from a network of wind farms in order to offset its annual energy consumption.Climate change deal: U.S., China sign ‘groundbreaking’ deal | World | News | National Post
WASHINGTON – The world’s two biggest polluters have signed what could be a groundbreaking agreement and “call to action” on the fight against escalating climate change.Duluth ties record low temperature for April 14
The Duluth airport recorded a low of 8 degrees above zero, tying the record first set in 1926. That’s 21 degrees below normal for April 14.
It was even colder to the north, where weather spotters in Embarrass and Brimson reported morning lows of 2 below zero.
Finally, the opposition against the inefficient, bird killing and landscape destroying monstrous wind turbines is getting serious in Britain:Blizzard now hammering parts of North Dakota
Up to 18 inches of snow for some areasLargest April snowstorm EVER for Bismarck, ND
“Once again, another snowstorm with a historic record and still snowing at the time of this report,” says reader Ralph Fato.
Well it’s tax day tomorrow so that means it must be the middle of April but instead it looks like the middle of December here in Minnesota. Its snowing today which makes it the 6th day in a row of measurable snowfall, that hasn’t happened since February… 1962, but never in April or even March.More Policy Based Evidence Making (PBEM) At The Met Office | Real Science
Translation :Tingley and Huybers Exclude Mt Logan « Climate Audit
Our theory failed, so we made up a sciency sounding story which hopefully will keep our funding coming in. Now we need lots of money to produce fake evidence that our fake theory is correct.
Perhaps the greatest single difference between being a “real climate scientist” and policies recommended here is that “real climate scientists” do not hesitate in excluding data ex post because it goes the “wrong” way, a practice that is unequivocally condemned at Climate Audit and other critical blogs which take the position that criteria have to be established ex ante: if you believe that treeline spruce ring widths or Arctic d18O ice core data is a climate proxy, then you can’t exclude (or downweight) data because it goes the “wrong” way.Desperate: Van Jones tries resurrecting MLK Jr as a warmist — RealityDrop: Fossil fuels have raised more poor people out of poverty than any enviro | JunkScience.com
This seems trivially obvious to anyone approaching this field for the first time and has been frequently commented on at critical blogs. However it is a real blind spot for real climate scientists and Tingley and Huybers are no exception.
Desperate enviros make desperate reaches.
Three of the most vocal and persistent global warming propagandists have been hushed and hopefully humbled by three realities since their coronations as progressive environmental icons a decade ago. Two of these warmists have resigned the Obama administration after one term – Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson.More Arctic Sea Ice Area Than In 1990 | Real Science
April 12 1990 : 13.05 million km²Predictions of climate change impacts on fisheries can be a mirage | Climate Etc.
April 12 2013 : 13.16 million km²
Apparent relationships among variables can switch spontaneously in nonlinear systems as a result of mirage correlations or a threshold change in regime, and correlation can lead to incorrect and contradictory hypotheses.German Journalist Writes New NOAA Study Embarasses The Obama Administration / Kevin Trenberth
At his Die Welt blog, journalist Ulli Kulke has a commentary on the recent scientific study issued by the NOAA and its latest findings concerning the US drought last year, which now states that it was due to just plain bad, natural weather and was not man-made.Nature Mag Admits: Recent climate, glacier changes in Antarctica within normal bounds; Changes cannot be attributed with confidence to manmade global warming | JunkScience.com
Kulke calls the findings embarrassing for President Obama, who now likes to “blame such single meteorological events on man-made climate change”.
Their new research suggests the ’90s were not greatly different from some other decades – such as the 1830s and 1940s – that also showed marked temperature spikes.
Northern Minnesota residents are bracing for a storm Sunday that’s expected to dump 4 to 7 more inches of snow on Duluth and Brainerd and 10 inches on Bemidji, a drubbing that would make this the area’s second snowiest April — with the month just half over.
It follows a record-setting 13 inches of snow Thursday and Friday that contributed to more than 40 accidents and spinouts, killing two people in Duluth.
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But this year, winter is wearing out its welcome, dumping nearly 100 inches of snow on Duluth and leaving lakes such as Itasca and Lake of the Woods covered with 3 feet of ice.
They will have been taught about it. Many of them will believe it continues to happen. But, no child under the age of 16 has ever experienced it.Twitter / billmckibben: German example shows solar ...
German example shows solar will do to utilities what internet did to big media.http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/alternative_energy/2013/03/solar_power_in_germany_how_a_cloudy_country_became_the_world_leader_in_solar.html …
Kaminski said he has talked to a number of beekeepers whose bees starved because of a winter that gave the region at least some snow every month for six straight months.Twitter / TheDailyClimate
[retweeted by Michael Mann] Publishing TDC for free each day costs $75 per reader per year Help us by donating: http://bit.ly/YnjcXr Thanks! RT This!Making Science Public » Families of climate scepticism I: faulty science?
Climategate continues to cast a shadow over the climate debate. The short version of this lengthy saga is that sceptics feel the email leak/hack demonstrated how a prominent group of scientists sought to distort the peer review process, shut out dissenting voices from IPCC reports and go to great lengths to resist Freedom of Information requests to publish datasets. At the launch event of our Making Science Public programme, Mike Hulme argued that practices of climate scientists may not have been particularly unusual within scientific communities, and that perhaps it was these scientific ethics which needed opening up to scrutiny. Physicist Phil Moriarty disagreed, citing his ‘shock’ that such practices had taken place. Commenters on sceptic blog Bishop Hill supported Moriarty’s stance, hailing him as a ‘real scientist’.2 missing in 2 avalanches in Cascade Mountains, east of Seattle | CTV British Columbia News
The avalanches occurred as heavy snow was falling in the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle.Unwelcome snow returns to southern Alberta | CTV Calgary News
According to the calendar, spring arrived in Calgary on the 20th of March, but Mother Nature appears to have missed the memo.
Journalist Gwynne Dyer explains the potential consequences if climate change is not stopped, and why people are scared to live in a carbon neutral society.
When the gun goes off to start the Boston Marathon on Monday, the temperature is forecast to be in the 50s -- in other words, perfect record-setting weather. But some scientists warn that global warming may one day bring an end to faster times at the world’s oldest annual marathon.Belgian Scientists: Double Standards In Climate Change | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)
"By the year 2100, the average temperature at Boston will have changed enough to affect race times," said Richard Primack, professor of earth and environment at Boston University, who co-authored a study on the topic.
There's one caveat: the data used in the study presumes a starting time of noon, the time at which the marathon began until 2006. The new starting time of 10 a.m. could slightly alter outcomes, although probably not significantly, Primack said.
The authors of this paper recently presented their views on climate science at the Royal Academy of Belgium. No French or Belgian newspaper was willing to publish their assessment. Questioning the impact of mankind on climate change is evidently still a taboo in the French-speaking world.Twitter / CharlieDaniels: I'm not afraid of global warming ...
I'm not afraid of global warming but global government really shakes me up.The World Is Not Headed For Disaster - Business Insider
we have the capability to grow much more food. This year we may see record wheat, rice, soy, and corn crops.
[3-minute video] We speak with climatologist Gavin Schmidt about the ongoing problem of climate change and what to expect in the future.Battling climate-change: How snakes and ladders could save the planet - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent
Snakes and ladders, bingo and top trumps might be old-fashioned games most associated with childhoods past, but if climate-change experts are to be believed, they could just help us to save the planet.Ice melt is worst in 1,000 years | The Sunday Times
THE melting of ice on the Antarctic Peninsula during the summer months is now at its highest level for 1,000 years, according to research. Scientists have for the first time been able to demonstrate that increasing temperatures since the 1960s have caused 10 times more ice to melt than in medieval times.Cold Feet: Obama Administration Delays CO2 Limits For New Power Plants | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)
The EU has launched a consultation into the 2015 International Climate Change agreementWaPo: Obama right to de-emphasize global warming; ‘So much focus on it has long crowded out other issues’ | JunkScience.com
I love how progressives make heroes out of complete morons.Twitter / [Scott "Super" Mandia]
We give@exxonmobil & co. BILLIONS/year in tax $ to wreck climate 4ever - RT and sign if#ExxonHatesYourChildren http://bit.ly/ExxonHates
The issue of climate change and pollution has gained notably traction in Chinese political circles during recent years since the capitol city of Beijing is widely regarded as having increasing difficulty with smog and other air quality issues.Michael Mann now a DDT expert; Defends indefensible Rachel Carson — Rachel lied, millions died (and are still dying) | JunkScience.com
Read “100 Things You Should Know About DDT”.Met Office Expert Needed : Must Demonstrate That You Are Completely Incompetent | Real Science
[2009] Scottish ski industry could disappear due to global warming, warns Met Office – TelegraphLiving The Green Dream In North Korea | Real Science
Fast forward to 2013
Scottish ski resorts eye summer season
North Korea lives up to all of the goals which progressives seek for the US.
the Garden State’s wines seem to continue to get betterMargaret Thatcher: Global warming provides excuse for 'worldwide, supra-national socialism' - Marita Noon
Europe’s energy policy ends up helping the economies of both Canada and the US—both of which didn’t jump into “renewables,” as the EU did. The US never signed on to the Kyoto Protocol and Canada abandoned it in 2011.Revkin performance at warmist movie screening?
Europe doesn’t have enough wood to meet demand, so a substantial chunk of it will come from imports—which has created a booming new business in Canada and the southeastern US. Gordon Murray, executive director of the Wood Pellet Association of Canada, calls it “an industry invented from nothing.” Who would have thought that not only is the US now a net exporter of gasoline, but now we are fueling Europe with “biomass?” [How much CO2-induced bad weather can we actually prevent by using fossil-fueled equipment to cut trees down in the southeastern US, then using a combination of fossil-fueled land vehicles and fossil-fueled ships to transport the wood to Europe to be burned?]
@ChasingIce screening for @BeaconSloopClub had insights from Radley Horton, Marco @CryoCity Tedesco, director @JeffOrlowski and even a Lord Franklin Redux performance by me and David @TerraNova Rothenberg.Auditor general fires four employees after carbon-neutral report cites climate-change skeptic
In a blog post entitled "Climate Confusion", van Kooten has welcomed five to eight degrees of warming—even though this increase, on an average basis around the world, could lead to the end of civilization in the view of many climate scientists.
[Denver] Snow is expected Monday through Wednesday, when the temperature could plummet to as low as 9 degrees at Coors Field.Climate change top on PCC’s agenda
Last month, the Pacific Conference of Churches called upon Australia, New Zealand and other larger countries around the region to prepare to accept people fleeing the deleterious effects of climate change especially in small islands nations.Scientists expect Arctic shrubs to spread fast with climate change | Alaska Dispatch
The displaced vegetation will have no room to move farther north, so Alaska’s northern habitat as it exists now could disappear, along with birds and other animals that depend on them. Also, the new habitat will accumulate more water vapor, which acts a greenhouse gas, according to the study. [Wait, so now new tree growth is *bad*?]
World is unprepared for changes that will see parts of Africa turned into disaster areas, say food expertsThe US Used To Be Much Hotter | Real Science
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Lead author Jerry Hatfield, director of the US government's national laboratory for agriculture and the environment, said that climate change was already causing weather extremes to worsen. Very hot nights, fewer cool days and more heatwaves, storms and floods have already devastated crops and will have "increasingly negative" impacts, he said.
There are 829 US HCN stations which have been continuously active since at least 1920. The vast majority of them set their all-time record maximum prior to 1950. The past decade has had very little record heatMargaret Thatcher: On two of the great issues, the lady was indeed for turning - Telegraph
Pouring scorn on what she called “the doomsters”, she questioned all the main scientific assumptions that had been used to drive the scare, from the conviction that the main force shaping the world climate is CO2, rather than natural factors such as solar activity, to exaggerated claims about rising sea levels. She mocked Al Gore and the futility of what she recognised as “costly and economically damaging” schemes to reduce CO2 emissions. She cited the 2.5 degree rise in temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period as having had almost entirely beneficial effects. She pointed out that the dangers of a world getting colder are far worse than those of a CO2-enriched world growing warmer. She recognised how distortions of the science had been used to mask an anti-capitalist, Left-wing political agenda that posed a very serious threat to human progress and prosperity.
Thus, long before it became fashionable, Lady Thatcher was converted to the view of those who, on both scientific and political grounds, have become ever more sceptical of the entire climate change ideology.
JunkScience helped get this reform started. The bill requires disclosure of agency grants to Science Advisory Board members and other reforms.Spring set to arrive with a burst of birds, bees and blossoms | Environment | The Observer
After weeks of bitter cold, experts fear that tens of thousands of migrant species may have already perished on Britain's shoresClimate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies | Environment | The Observer
Both of Africa's staple crops, maize and sorghum, are expected to be badly hit by increasing severity of weather.State's farm incomes surged in 2012 | StarTribune.com
Minnesota’s crop farmers posted their best year in decades in 2012, dodging a nationwide drought with a near-perfect combination: a big harvest and high grain prices.
Median incomes surged 50 percent from the previous year, according to an annual report released Thursday by the state’s two big university systems.
Breaking the climate data into 10-year increments (except for the most recent segment, which includes eight years), she found that Georgia is indeed getting hotter and drier, especially over the past eight years.Flashback: If CO2 is really such an all-powerful warming factor, and if the science is so settled, why does warmist Gavin Schmidt have so much trouble explaining why the southeastern US hasn't warmed since the 1930s?: "Whether this is due to some oddity in the weather patterns, air pollution effects, irrigation or something else is unclear."
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Climate assessments and the peer-reviewed literature have noted that since 1980 Georgia and the Southeast are warming...The American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Statement on Climate Change (http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.html) summarized the scientific literature and noted growing frequency of floods, heat waves and droughts, said UGA atmospheric scientist Marshall Shepherd, who worked with her on the research.
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“We are seeing increases in extreme events and they affect our economy, security and property,” said Shepherd, who is president of the AMS and is KC’s doctoral adviser.
The past 10,000 years were warmer than present;
Multiple periods of intense warming (20 times more intense than recent warming) occurred 10,000-to-15,000 years ago. All of these happened long before rise in carbon dioxide, so could not possibly have been caused by carbon dioxide.
The Bellingham Herald opinion column is a diatribe against me personally (just read the slurs and innuendos) containing misrepresentations, no real data to support their contentions, and displays an abysmal ignorance of published literature. The reason becomes apparent when you realize that not a single one of the 13 Western Washington University authors has ever published a single paper on global climate change and none have any expertise whatsoever in climate issues.
Their claim that my publications "have not passed through rigorous peer review" is false. Virtually all of my 180 publications were peer-reviewed. The real joke here is they "fully support the 2007 IPCC report," but Donna Laframboise in 2011 documented that 30 percent of the references used were not peer-reviewed, so using their own standard, they would be forced to reject the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report!
The authors claim that "CO2 is a powerful greenhouse gas" that has "significant and measureable impact on surface temperature." Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, but it has little impact on temperature because it makes up only 0.038 percent of the atmosphere, has changed only 0.008 percent since carbon dioxide rose after 1945 (if you double nothing, you still have nothing), and accounts for only 3.6 percent of greenhouse warming. Carbon dioxide is incapable of changing global temperature by more than a fraction of a degree.
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