Lawrence Solomon: How U.S. charities fund Greens | Climate Realists
Americans should be able to influence Canada's environmental debates. They should not be able to do so under the radar.
Antarctic Ice Receded 3000 Feet Per Year From 1860 To 1906 | Real Science
A Simple Rule To Distinguish A Real Scientist | Real Science
A real scientist believes that mankind (particularly white heterosexuals) is evil and is destroying the planet. Anyone who doesn’t agree with that statement is an Exxon shill and needs to be discounted.
97% of all real scientists believe that man is destroying the planet.
1912 to 1961: the temperature increase is 0.52C, the CO2 increase, 18ppm.
1962 to 2011: the temperature increase is 0.41C, the CO2 increase, 74ppm.
Whatever the overall effect of the CO2 increase is on global temperature, it is clearly not a dominating factor causing warming. The atmosphere is behaving as if the extra CO2 does not really matter very much at all since the temperature jumps are similar, whilst the CO2 jumps are clearly not.
IPCC Scientists – Guests of the Environmental Defense Fund « NoFrakkingConsensus
The EDF isn’t a collection of newborn lambs and fluffy bunny rabbits. These are professional bloody lobbyists. You know – people who get paid to advance a particular agenda.
ISU meteorologist; climate change small factor in weather | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs
Iowa suffered its hottest July since the mid-1950s last year and has received below-average moisture since, but agricultural meteorologist Elwynn Taylor of Iowa State University told the Land Investment Expo Friday that climate change accounts for only about 5 percent of whatever weather patterns emerge at a given time.
If you require rigorous scientific evidence, the answer, at least today, is that we just don’t know.
Labour Union Quits Alliance With Green 'Job Killers'
The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) left the BlueGreen Alliance on Friday, citing a disagreement with the group’s members over the Keystone XL pipeline. “We’re repulsed by some of our supposed brothers and sisters lining up with job killers like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council to destroy the lives of working men and women.”
William Tucker: Environmentalism And The Leisure Class
Environmentalism's main appeal is that it promises to slow the progress of industrial progress. People who are already comfortable with the present state of affairs are happy to go along with this.
Greenpeace's forest policy is unsustainable – Telegraph Blogs
Here is a guest post from one of my environmental heroes, Patrick Moore. The reason he's an environmental hero is because, unlike so many campaigners in the green movement, he doesn't believe that in order to save the world its necessary to destroy Western industrial civilisation.
Little Ice Age Coldest Period In The Last 7000 Years In Greenland « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Urgent action needed to prevent England's rivers drying up | Environment | The Observer
New report by Environment Agency says river levels may fall by 80% as a result of climate change and the growing population
Climate skeptics gathering influence in Tory Senate seats
OTTAWA — Some of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s newly-appointed senators are emerging as global-warming skeptics in the wake of aggressive government positions to abandon the Kyoto Protocol, slam environmentalists and downplay potential damage caused by Canadian oil and gas exploration.
“I felt like it is kind of an insult to be a denier for a long time,” said Sen. Bert Brown, last month at a parliamentary committee studying energy policies. “It feels pretty good this morning.”
The cold wave sweeping north India showed no signs of relenting as temperatures settled below normal levels at most places on Saturday with Leh town in Jammu and Kashmir registering a record low of minus 21 degrees.
Waterloo Iowa breaks 108-yr-old snowfall record
The National Weather Service reported Waterloo received 7.1 inches of snowfall on Friday, breaking a record for Jan. 20 of 3 inches set in 1904.
I was struck by this quote from the aforementioned deputy head girl at the local college.
I don't get how anyone can object to it. In a few years' time they won't even notice it. In another few years, if we don't do something about climate change, this view won't be here anyway because we'll all be under water.
I have been looking at some long temperature records from Fennoscandia, particularly those put together during the IMPROVE project. This involved Anders Moberg in Stockholm and Hans Bergstrom in Uppsala. Summer temperatures for both these series which extend back to 1756 and about 1740 show warmer conditions than today during many summers from 1750 to 1850. Uppsala has clear problems between 1722-1740 so these data have been ignored. Warm summers at this time also occur at St. Petersburg (also in IMPROVE), so I partly take the view that the early records from Trondheim, Vardo (from 1830s) and Archangel (from 1810s) may be correct. Winters in all the series were much colder than today at these times. Continentality may have increased during these times (greater winter/summer contrasts). Exposure may still be a problem, but Anders believes this isn't an important factor. Some central European series in Germany and Austria show similar summer/winter trends but not quite to the same extent as in Fennoscandia. Central England also shows little change in summer since the 18th century. Autumns for CET in the 1730s were clearly warmer than today. All somewhat perplexing.
3. Venue: Environmental Defense, 257 Park Avenue South, 17th floor
(between 20th and 21st streets) New York, NY 10010...A block of rooms is being held until September 22 under the name of "Environmental Defense/IPCC" at a rate of $229 per night.
date: Wed Dec 3 13:31:06 2008 from: Phil Jones
subject: Re: FW: FOI_08-50 ; EIR_08-01 to: "Palmer Dave Mr \(LIB\)"Dave, Do I understand it correctly - if he doesn't pay the £10 we don't have to respond?
With the earlier FOI requests re David Holland, I wasted a part of a day deleting numerous emails and exchanges with almost all the skeptics. So I have virtually nothing. I even deleted the email that I inadvertently sent. There might be some bits of pieces of paper, but I'm not wasting my time going through these.
Cheers Phil
[Jones] We've not deleted any emails or data here at CRU. I would never manipulate the data one bit - I would categorically deny that."
Solar stocks plunged around the world after Germany, the largest market for panels, said it will make quicker cuts to subsidized rates and phase out support for the industry by 2017.About | 3000 Quads
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With over 1,000 TV meteorologists across the country, the level of denial varies widely. Some TV meteorologists spout outright falsehoods on air--like the idea that the earth is actually cooling, or that global warming is caused by sunspots (not Co2 and other greenhouse gasses.) In other cases, they cover increasingly extreme weather events like droughts, wild fires, flooding, and winter storms, without ever mentioning the scientific consensus that climate change is making these events more likely and more intense. It's the equivalent of a news anchor reporting on a string of murders without saying that there is a suspect in custody.
Airlines angry over EU emissions tax - China.org.cn
"Except for the EU members, no countries support this [carbon emissions tax on airlines]," CATA Deputy Secretary General Chai Haibo was quoted by Financial Times as saying.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Auto mechanics struggle to keep up with stream of frozen vehicles
Low temperatures are expected to be 40 below zero to 50 below zero until at least Thursday, according to Charles Aldrich, a meteorologist at the Fairbanks office of the National Weather Service.
Romney: Hot and Cold on Global Warming - Deroy Murdock - National Review Online
Mitt Romney these days could not be more explicit about abandoning President Obama’s carbon dioxide restrictions.
GHCN Say It Can’t Be That Cold In Greenland « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By cooling the actual temperatures up to about 1980, and increasing temperatures since, they have magically warmed Nuuk by about 1C.
Sea Surface Temperatures declining over past decade « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change
The trend is especially strong in the southern hemisphere.
Amid Solar Bankruptcies And Red Ink – David Suzuki Insists Solar Power “Is Free, Man, It’s Free!”
Defending Climate [Hoax] Science's Place In The Classroom : NPR
NCSE executive director Eugenie Scott talks about how teachers and parents can fight the push to get climate change denial into the classroom.
...I'm Ira Flatow....In other words, it's hotter than ever in modern history...SCOTT: I think a website that I've found very useful and I recommend to people and will certainly link to it from the resources on NCSE's website is climatescience dot - excuse me, skepticalscience.com. It's a very useful site. It's written by scientists and knowledgeable people, engineers and the rest and they have very clear explanations with links, you know, documented scientific research supporting their views for the top 100 or so climate change denialist arguments.
So if you want to know whether sun spots are the cause of the global warming, well, they'll explain that very clearly to you and they actually have, for most of their refutations, they have more than one level. So, you know, here's the basic level and here's the more advanced level and you click on the advanced level and you get the 8X10 glossies and a lot more detail than probably most people actually need. But it's a very useful site.
And there are other sites also, De-Smog blog is another one that refutes many of the arguments.
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Identification and characterization of abrupt changes in the land uptake of carbon
We detect an abrupt increase in the land uptake of carbon in 1988 We also detect an abrupt decrease in the atmospheric CO2 growth rate in 1988 The abrupt shift does not seem driven by ENSO nor by volcanic eruptions
Snowfall Increasing In Spokane Washington | Real Science
Sometimes global warming makes it snow more, and sometimes it makes it snow less. The rules are simple – if snowfall is increasing, it is due to global warming. if snowfall is decreasing, it is due to global warming. If temperatures are increasing, it is due to global warming. If temperatures are decreasing, it is due to global warming.
The future of global carbon trading is so “certain” that Barclays Bank is not even bothering to leave one part time guy in the US office with a post box, so they can pretend they still have an interest in it. The mood has so changed, they see an advantage in letting the world know they’re not wasting a single cent more on carbon trading in the United States of America. Well that made my day
Computer Climate Models — A Masochist’s Best Friend |
Controversy aside, just measuring any one of the factors to be included in computer model simulations, at any given moment in time, is nearly impossible. Among the reasons: The planet is a lot bigger than the average person gives it credit for being.
Alberta hit by record lows as arctic air moves east - Canada - CBC News
On Wednesday, dozens of communities across the province were hit with temperatures below –30 C, and 13 of them were hit with record lows. In the town of Hendrickson Creek, Alta., it was a bone-chilling –41.4.
The frigid temperatures prompted Canada Olympic Park to cancel lessons and close the ski area.
The Pipeline, the Jobs, & the Media « NoFrakkingConsensus
Does anyone really suppose that a 1,700-mile-long pipeline can be constructed without the participation of thousands upon thousands of people? As my husband muttered when he read this story: “The jobs are about as certain as you can get. Someone’s got to build the bleeping thing.”
AOL.com Video - Too Much Ice Cools Penguins' Love Life
Description:Unseasonal ice formations in Antarctica are making life difficult for the Adelie penguin [Hat tip: MD]
Van Leer said the science of climate change results from rigorous research that has stood up to the scrutiny of the scientific community. "It's a hard-nosed business," he said. "It's not easy to get papers published because they're going to be scrutinized, and it has to be based on proof."
Bankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts « CBS San Francisco
why is a bankrupt company that owes a fortune to creditors, including American taxpayers, throwing away millions of dollars worth of assets?
EPA chief: Global warming promotes terrorism | JunkScience.com
Watergate was also an attempt by Nixon to intimidate himself.
NSIDC Caught With Their Hand In The Cookie Jar | Real Science
Below are the two images together, showing how October, 2007 was bumped up more than 1,000,000 km^2. Rewriting the past and hiding the incline – Jimmy would be proud.
Barclays Closes US Carbon Desk In Latest Cap And Trade Setback
A major European bank closed its US carbon trading business this week in a sign that 2012 is a "make-or-break" year for cap-and-trade programs designed to fight climate change.
London-based Barclays determined the US carbon market, currently comprised of a handful of states, is too small to justify the expense of a dedicated trading desk in New York, according to sources familiar with the decision. Barclays was a major player in US greenhouse-gas trading programs on the East and West coasts and remains active in Europe's carbon market, the largest in the world. Seth Martin, a Barclays spokesman, declined to comment. "That is not good news for carbon-dioxide trading, especially not in the US," says Gary Hart, a market analyst for ICAP Energy and a veteran pollution-rights trader. "There's such uncertainty around the use of carbon cap-and-trade programs."
11 March 2004 I do indeed support the campaign to boycott Esso (ExxonMobil). I do not purchase petrol from this company, and have not done so for more than 2 years now. This corporation (whatever its motives and I cant judge these), has consistently ignored, undermined or in other ways distorted, the emerging international scientific knowledge which clearly points towards a significant and growing human influence on global climate through our emissions of greenhouse gases. It is my personal view that this reality and future prospect requires serious and sustained efforts on the part of all nations, organizations and individuals to reduce the underlying causes of human-induced climate change. ExxonMobils position and explicit political lobbying thwarts rather than progresses such actions. Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mike Hulme is a professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He was educated at Madras College, St.Andrews, and at the universities of Durham and Wales (Swansea). In 1988, after four years lecturing in geography at the University of Salford, he became for 12 years a senior researcher in the Climatic Research Unit, part of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. In October 2000 he founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a distributed virtual network organisation headquartered at UEA, which he directed until July 2007.[1]
Lastly, can you pls provide some help to Keith Briffa on 6.3.2.1 (last 2000 years) - in particular, how have the Asian monsoon changed over this period? Is there enough to say? I'm attaching two papers that address this issue, and note that G. Pant (and others? - it was just a talk, not a pub - would be nice to have a pub) has shown that the two major deserts in India are also getting wetter. Thus, the Indian monsoon might be getting stronger in the Arabian Sea, the far northern areas and the driest areas. You probably know more?
- Bishop Hill blog - Appalling disinformation in Irish Times
Almost two-thirds of 2011's exceptionally high costs are attributable to two disasters unrelated to climate and weather: the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, and February's comparatively small but unusually destructive magnitude-6.3 quake in New Zealand.
here's Jacqueline McGlade, director of the European Environmental Agency, on how she responds to climate sceptics.
Scientific American Can See Russia From Their House | Real Science
The geniuses at Scientific American think they can see the entire world out their window. Much of the world is having record cold and/or snow this winter, including Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, India, Japan, the Pacific Northwest and Texas.
Massive Cold Blast Coming To Eastern Europe And Asia | Real Science
All that trapped heat is causing temperatures 10C below normal.
Arizona 2011 : 3.5 Degrees Cooler Than 1896 | Real Science
2011 was the 42nd warmest year on record in Arizona
Climate Change Causes Heated Battles For Science Teachers
A revision to the science education standards is currently underway, in which climate change will be "explicitly noted," said Francis Eberle, executive director of the NSTA.
Bitter cold sends chill down Minnesotans' spines | 9news.com
BLACK DUCK, Minn. - Winter cold is gripping the Midwest, and the town of Black Duck, Minnesota is feeling the worst of it.
Temperatures dipped to -20 degrees on Thursday, with a wind chill of -40.
Urging American Meteorological Society to Get Tougher on Climate Change
A new campaign, Forecast the Facts (www.forecastthefacts.org), launches Sunday to pressure TV meteorologists to inform their viewers about climate change. The launch coincides with the kick-off of the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) annual meeting in New Orleans, LA....
The issue of climate change denial among television weather reporters has gained increasing attention of late, especially with the release of a national study by George Mason University in March 2010. The study found that 63% of T.V. meteorologists think climate change is due to natural causes, and a full 27% think global warming is a scam.
What kinds of conspiracy theories does Sunstein want to suppress by law? Here’s one:
… that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud. [From page 4 of Sunstein's 2008 "Conspiracy Theories" paper.]
Colorado Senator Udall Tells CSU Audience Not To Question Government Funded Stooges | Real Science
Asked simply about his take on global warming, Udall said it surprises him that a country so ahead in technology and invention questions the word of said scientists and innovators about global warming. He promised to do continue to work to reduce carbon emissions and noted that even those in doubt should act.
Keystone XL: Voting for the Stone Age - Forbes
First postscript: Does anyone doubt that had this exact same route been for high speed rail, rather than a pipeline, it would already have been approved and President Obama likely would have been proposing to throw a pile of taxpayer money at it to boot? This despite the fact that high-speed rail almost certainly has more environmental negatives than an underground pipeline.
The route has always been a red herring — the real goal is reducing energy supply.
When Ice Cream Comes Flying Explosively Out Of A Bowl | Real Science
The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are very heavy, and they depress the ground beneath them, by about 1/3 of their thickness. A 3,000 metre thick ice sheet depresses the ground about 1,000 metres. This creates a bowl shape underneath the ice, which makes it impossible for the ice to slide en masse.
One might think that America’s top climate scientists would have obtained some elementary understanding of science and engineering, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Sahara Snow On January 17 2012 – Is It Unprecedented? | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
Thus the snow this past week is not unprecentented, but is unuusal. However, these extreme events are worth examing in detail to assess the variability and the presence (if any) of multi-decadal trends of these north Africa snowfall events.
If I'm correct in my simplifying then all you need to do to reconstruct the past is to get a good model and a reconstruction of the past history of solar forcing and explosive volcanism (and some other things like land use). I may be taking your view to its extreme. I just cannot accept that any model will ever be as good as reality,
You mention ERA-40. This maybe a good reconstruction of weather over 40 years, but it is not a good reconstruction for climate purposes (see the attachment - this is an ERA-40 Report, a paper in JGR on the subject has been accepted). ERA-40 is better than NCEP is one conclusion from the work. Neither are good compared to the observations over the full 1958-2001 period. Most people who refer to Reanalyses use the word 'observations' and I always remind them they are not just simple observations.
ERA-40 is clearly very good for the period from 1979, but for the 1958-78 period there are clear problems because there are not enough observations going in to correct the model bias. It is even worse, ERA-40 rejected almost all Antarctic surface data before the late 1970s because it was too far away from the first guess field. This is partly because of weights ECMWF give to different sorts of data. From the late 1970s the satellite data are much more voluminous and the model finally begins to accept the surface data.The report might be of interest to a number on this email list. I think it proves that models still have a long way to go before they can be considered as alternatives to real observed data.
These Data Sets provide access to most of the data from the ERA-40
atmospheric model archived at ECMWF.
This is truly awful. GRL has gone downhill rapidly in recent years. I think the decline began before Saiers. I have had some unhelpful dealings with him recently with regard to a paper Sarah and I have on glaciers -- it was well received by the referees, and so is in the publication pipeline. However, I got the impression that Saiers was trying to keep it from being published. Proving bad behavior here is very difficult. If you think that Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. Even this would be difficult.Response from Saiers, Nov 2009:
I haven’t looked for, and don’t intend to look for, my name in the CRU emails, but one of my colleagues did alert me to an email written by Wigley in which he suggested that, if I were a climate skeptic, then steps should be taken to get me “ousted.” Wigley’s suggestion stems, I believe, from the publication of a GRL paper (by McIntyre and McKitrick) that criticized certain elements of Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick paper. This paper caused a bit of a stir and because I oversaw the peer review of this paper, I assume that Wigley inferred (incorrectly) that I was a climate-change skeptic. I stepped down as GRL editor at the end of my three-year term, long after the excitement over the McIntyre and McKitrick paper had passed. My departure had nothing to do with attempts by Wigley or anyone else to have me sacked.
Revival Of Iconic California Condor Threatens State's Wind Farm Boom - Forbes
if a turbine kills a condor, the operator could be charged criminally.
Charles Manson Energy - Paul Driessen - Townhall Conservative
The mere possession of an eagle feather by a non-Indian can result in fines and imprisonment, even if the feather came from a bird butchered by a wind turbine: up to $100,000, a year in prison or both for a first offense. Poisoning or otherwise killing common bats that have nested in one’s attic can cost homeowners thousands of dollars in fines.
Wind turbine companies, officers and employees, however, are immune from prosecution, fines or imprisonment, regardless of how many rare, threatened, endangered or migratory birds and bats they kill. In fact, FWS data show that wind turbines slaughter some 400,000 birds every year. If “helter-skelter” applies to any energy source, it is wind turbines, reflecting their Charles Manson effect on birds.
Heavy snow paralyses most of Turkey - Gas use breaks record
Oregon's Mt. Bachelor ski area closed - Too much snow
55 inches of new snow in two days
The Korea Meteorological Administration has issued a heavy snow alert Friday for mountainous areas in Gangwon, predicting as much as 30 centimeters of snowfalls through Sunday.
Lower Mainland shelters crowded in ‘extreme’ weather - The Globe and Mail
Not a single homeless person looking for shelter from record-low temperatures on the streets of Lower Mainland has been turned away the past few days, according to the Greater Vancouver Shelter Strategy.
New Zealand spot carbon price pushes off lows | Agricultural Commodities | Reuters
prices hover just above record lows
U.S. announces climate change strategy - UPI.com
The draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy is available for public review and comment through March 5 at www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov, the release said.
"The impacts of climate change are already here and those who manage our landscapes are already dealing with them," Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes said. "The reality is that rising sea levels, warmer temperatures, loss of sea ice and changing precipitation patterns -- trends scientists have definitively connected to climate change -- are already affecting the species we care about, the services we value, and the places we call home."
Climate Change Ripples Through Mountain Ecosystems - Yahoo! News
Like dominoes given one nudge, climate change in the form of reduced winter snowfall on mountaintops has subtle but powerful cascading effects felt throughout entire ecosystems, a new study finds.
Officials reported 100-mph wind gusts in the Wyoming Range, and said up to 46 inches of snow had already fallen in the Teton Range northwest of Jackson.
“Disbelieving is hard work” « Climate Sanity
What does all this have to do with ClimateSanity? Simple – it sounds like Vermeer’s and Rahmstorf’s model linking global sea level to global temperature (“Global sea level linked to global temperature,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, December 22, 2009 vol. 106 no. 51 21527-21532 ). It has been incontrovertibly demolished, but the believer’s just can’t let it go. They must suffer theory-induced blindness. They seem to have endless capacity to simply overlook the plethora of bizarre, improbable or impossible consequences of the Vermeer and Rahmstorf model.
Jimmy Says Alaska Is Burning Up | Real Science
The red hot temperatures are the reason it took several weeks to get fuel to Nome through all the thick ice.
Satellites showed Alaska just about normal temperatures in December, while Jimmy had it 4-11C above normal. Hansen has completely lost the plot. GISS is operating in a science and honesty free environment, with complicity by the press and government.
I begin by noting that it is wholly perverse to claim simultaneously that the data is "already available" and that the data is "confidential". Clearly these two statements cannot
simultaneously be true.
Global warming movng faster, UGA ecologist says | Athens Banner Herald Mobile
Global warming is advancing faster than even the worst predictions of a few years ago, and the pace is likely to pick up sharply, a prominent University of Georgia ecologist said Wednesday.
A few years ago, climate scientists were predicting the Arctic Ocean might be ice-free during summer by about 2040. Now, scientists believe the summer Arctic could be open ocean as soon as next year, ecologist Jim Porter told a crowd of more than 100 on the UGA campus.
World not quite as hot in 2011 - scientists | News.com.au
"It would be premature to make any conclusion that we would see any hiatus of the longer-term warming trend," said Tom Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. "Global temperatures are continuing to increase."
..."Where these events occur is largely driven by natural variability, but the fact that they are breaking records and causing tremendous damage when they do occur is undoubtedly because of the human stimulus," Trenberth said in an email.
CRU will be doing some work soon with the Hadley Centre, which will eventually lead to a new version of the CRU land and marine temperature dataset. In the last version which was described in Jones and Moberg (2003) we used your corrected/adjusted temperature series for Canada and Austria you kindly sent us. This time, with the new version (in addition to adding some more data we've received from elsewhere), we wish to assess the errors more (following from the paper in J. Climate in 1997, Jones et al.). To achieve this, we want to incorporate the additional uncertainty of the adjustments that have been applied. This is difficult, as some data we've received have probably had adjustments applied but we don't know when or by how much, then there are adjustments we've applied in the mid-1980s (which we know about), then there are your adjustments. To cut a long email short, we are hoping you will be able to send us files with your adjustments in.
I've done a lot with the Antarctic temperature data - I also have an archive of MSLP data for most sites (for some it is station level pressure). With regards homogeneity it is difficult to do much beyond the Peninsula (and be confident about anything) as the stations are too far apart. There is an issue I could ask Adrian - whether ERA-INTERIM is good enough since 1988? This could also assess the AVHRR, but this may be circular. I've read Steig et al now, and I can see all the comments on the CA and RC sites about some of the data. It seems that BAS have made some mistakes with some of the AWS sites. The only AWS site used in CRUTEM3 is the one at Byrd, as this is at one of the manned sites. The issue with the AWS's is getting reasonable data in real time. Whilst I was away the checked monthly data arrived for 2002! I will add Byrd's data in. The problem is that some sites get buried, but still seem to transmit.
Growing Enough Food to Feed the World
Today, experts are again warning that there may not be enough food to feed everyone. Studies show a rise in global temperatures, more droughts, and more floods—all due to climate change—could wreak havoc with crop yields.
WVTF Public Radio/RADIO IQ - Michael Mann Speaks at UVA
On the legal front, Mann said he was confident he’d prevail in the fraud case brought by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
“The National Science Foundation reviewed my entire scientific career and said there is no evidence whatsoever of any scientific impropriety.”
Seattle suffers under Snowmageddon - Monsters and Critics
Seattle - The city of Seattle and the rest of the American Pacific northwest region was suffering under record snow and ice falls Thursday, closing roads, airports, schools and many businesses
Andhra Pradesh records coldest winter in its history, 15 dead : South News - India Today
Andhra Pradesh is in the grip of the most severe cold wave in its recorded history which has claimed 15 lives during the last two days as the mercury in most of the 23 districts is three to nine degrees below average.
The man-made meteor that is climate change is right on target to render much of the planet uninhabitable later this century.
Global Warming Weekly Round-Up, Jan. 19th 2012 « The Daily Bayonet
The Donald doesn’t want to look at giant bird shredders, the big yellow ball in the sky might have something to do with the weather on Titan and another scientific fraud is uncorked.
La Nina cooled globe in 2011 – USATODAY.com
A strong La Niña lowered the world's temperature last year to its second-coolest reading of the 2000s, , federal scientists announced Thursday.
Jim Hansen of NASA assesses 2011 temps and bids...
Jim Hansen of NASA assesses 2011 temps and bids farewell, in case his ‘polar bear plunge’ ends badly
Calculating the Carbon [Dioxide Hoax] Value of a Swamp - NYTimes.com
Are the snows of Kilimanjaro returning? Guide says yes - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com
Walt Meier : 1980 Had Anomalously High Arctic Ice | Real Science
Isn’t it convenient that satellites started monitoring Arctic ice right at the peak?
I am not sure that a random drawing of everyone is the way to go. In particular, there are many of us who have participated in more than the AR4. In a random drawing, does that mean one's name gets entered multiple times to increase the odds? Or wouldn't it make sense to try to do an integral over the reports and select those who have contributed the most, in the same spirit as for those already selected? I make this suggestion with trepidation because I have a vested interest as someone who was a CLA in the SAR, an LA in the TAR, and an LA on the SPM and TS in both. In other words I was in Madrid, and Shanghai, as well as Paris. I know several others who have been involved in multiple reports. I would like to see this experience also considered.
Meanwhile, I suspect you've both seen the latest attack against his Yamal work by McIntyre. Gavin and I (having consulted also w/ Malcolm) are wondering what to make of this, and what sort of response---if any---is necessary and appropriate. So far, we've simply deleted all of the attempts by McIntyre and his minions to draw attention to this at RealClimate.Flashback: Michael "robust debate" Mann on the opportunity to robustly debate Steve McIntyre: "Phil, I would immediately delete anything you receive from this fraud...I would NOT RESPOND to this guy. As you know, only bad things can come of that"
[Mann] Good editorial on #CRUHack2 in The Economist: emails actually show science working as it should (robust debate, etc.)
With respect to sea level, even if we get everyone agreeing in Copenhagen to massive emissions reductions (say 80% reduction in 1990 emissions by 2050) it will not make much difference to the sea level rise.
Finally , I repeat my earlier remarks (made before EOS piece published) that we are missing an opportunity to say that a warm Medieval period per se is not a refutation of anthropogenic warming , {as its absence is no proof}, if we do not understand the role of specific forcings (natural and anthropogenic) that influenced medieval and current climates. Cheers Keith
Both papers awful and should be rejected. They clearly don't know the climate literature - and like many seem not to want to accept that the climate is changing because of our emissions of greenhouse gases. Solar variability/climate relationships (use to be called solar/weather relationships) have generally been awful articles for decades. I'm not sure why Barrie Pittock decided to write the paper I referred to in 1983 (and the earlier one in 1978), but I'm glad he did. I have referred to this paper a few times in articles I've written, but I've referred to it much more in rejecting articles of this type. There is really only one paper where a solar influence on climate on decadal and longer timescales that has been shown to be possible (i.e. it passes Pittock's criteria).
Students rebel against Gorepaganda « Don Surber
The climate is changing all right, and I am not talking about the weather.
Skepticalscience.com quote surgery on Pat Michaels « Shub Niggurath Climate
In other words, Skepticalscience.com creates an impression that ‘skeptic arguments’ are grossly wrong and simplistic, uses a manipulated quote from Michaels’ article to exemplify such a position, and then proceeds to provide a rebuttal which consists exactly of the same facts laid by him in the first place.
Two dead in northern Turkey as roof collapses after heavy snow - Trend
At least two people died and 20 others injured after parts of a roof of a bazaar in Zonguldak collapse following heavy snow, the governor said, Today's Zaman reported.
Peter Gleick: Climate change is happening - YouTube
A wide-ranging interview with hydroclimatologist (and new NCSE board member) Peter Gleick.
Global temps in a Crash as AGW proponents Crash the Economy | Watts Up With That?
By Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell Analytics
I have had a request for the data from McIntyre, but I am not sending the data. I am already tried and convicted, so there is no point in sending them anything. I will not bother replying as well. I might as well act as expected. They will run out of steam in a week or two and move onto something else.
Try using the "site:" syntax with Google.
Example, when I put this in the Google search box:
jones delete email site:http://di2.nu/foia/
I get this.
date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:39:45 -0400 from: "Raymond S. Bradley" subject: Re: Science commentary to: Keith Briffa
re Mike's last missive, I have responded to Julie directly. Forget about it...too much acrimony on all of this. One day, (perhaps) Mike will grow up... Ray
Nobel Prize Winning Mikey Says That Arctic Ice Is 30% Of 1980 | Real Science
Is there a gene which forces alarmists to lie about everything?
Beware of Mini Ice Age, says meteorologist - Video
Bastardi speaks of the triple crown of global cooling:
- Sunspot activity dropping
- Oceans cooling
- Volcanic activity continues
“This is dire,” says Bastardi. “We grow food when it’s warm. “I can’t understand how people don’t look at that and say “wait a minute, we gotta take a look at this.”
“I think it’s ice, rather than fire, that’s a big threat,” Bastardi warns. “There will be a price to pay in terms of human misery.”
@DavidRMillar I absolutely respond when tweeted at....
‘Magic School Bus Live!’ cruises into Rose » Arts » News From Terre Haute, Indiana
TERRE HAUTE —America's favorite bus zooms to the stage at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Hatfield Hall Theater on the campus of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The all new 25th anniversary educational musical adventure is aimed at children, ages 5-8, but promises to be entertaining for the entire family. “Magic School Bus Live! The Climate Challenge,” is based on the best-selling and award winning Scholastic book series for children.
Scientist says greenhouse gasses causing global warming | The News & Advance
A noted climate scientist and Nobel laureate says “there essentially isn’t any uncertainty” that greenhouse gases, or carbon dioxide emissions, are causing global warming.
“Scientists don’t debate that anymore,” said Michael Mann, who appeared at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in the Clifford community of Amherst Wednesday night as part of a speaker’s series to help people understand global warming.
...Mann shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with several authors regarding climate change. He was the lead author on a chapter titled “Observed Climate Variability and Change” in the Third Scientific Assessment in 2001 prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....
“The truth is that they (climate change skeptics) don't expect to uncover anything,” Mann wrote in The Washington Post in 2010.
Pressure Mounts On Chris Huhne To Come Clean On Green Energy Costs
Policy Exchange has accused Energy Secretary Chris Huhne of misleading the public by suggesting bills may go down as a result of the Government's drive for green energy.
John Mitchell did respond to a request from Holland. John had conveniently lost many emails, but he did reply with a few. Keith and Tim have moved all their emails from all the named people off their PCs and they are all on a memory stick. So any thoughts on how to respond? TSU for WG2 was mentioned on the first request! As you and Tom know Keith and I are nowhere near the world's best for structured archiving - working as we do on sedimentary sequencing!
Takinig the high road is probably very important here. If *others* want to say that their actions represent scientific fraud, intellectual dishonesty, etc. (as I think we all suspect they do), lets let *them* make these charges for us! Lets let our supporters in higher places use our scientific response to push the broader case against MM. So I look forward to peoples attempts to revise the first par. particular. I took the liberty of forwarding the previous draft to a handfull of our closet colleagues, just so they would have a sense of approximately what we'll be releasing later today--i.e., a heads up as to how MM achieved their result...
[Sarah Riviere] I wish to convert the tower into a centre for awareness of climate change. The conversion would allow public access to the tower, including to the viewing level from where a stunning view of the coastline, sea and countryside can be enjoyed. The conversion would make legible the approaching erosion of the cliffs and would document the steps towards the eventual demise of the building as it falls into the sea...
[Mike Hulme] ...Prince
Charles is definitely rich, and has interests in both climate change and architecture. Would have thought the right approach to him might bear fruit
European instrumental temperatures in summer ae going to be revised downwards (by about 0.4 deg C for periods before 1850), so the mid-lat of the NH reconstructions should reflect this new work which is either in press or submitted...I seem to floundering a bit. I keep coming back to the long European instrumental records and the wealth or proxy data we have for the continent. We can better test the proxy methods here and we can look at some teleconnections in detail with long records, and follow these through with similar analyses with the models.
On Q1, don't perpetuate the myth that there is a safe level of emissions. This assumes we understand more than we do...
For 'safe' read the points about Greenland near the end. Maybe not in our generation or the next, but the current levels of CO2 in the atmosphere will eventually cause Greenland to melt. This would be dangerous, so the safe concept should be avoided.
Karnataka's coldest day in 100 years, 7 dead in Andhra Pradesh - IBN South News - IBNLive
Madikeri in Karnataka recorded its lowest in the last 132 years on January 16 when the mercury plummeted to 4.8 degrees Celsius. Mysore, too, recorded its lowest temperature in over 100 years. The minimum in Mysore fell to an all-time record of 7.7 degrees Celsius on January 16, the lowest in the last 120 years.
Cold-weather records being broken in Sask. - Saskatchewan - CBC News
Cold weather records were broken in a number of communities overnight, including a few that were experiencing record high temperatures only two weeks ago.
Green Subsidy Farms Harvest £25 Million For Sweet F.A.
Wind farms are receiving millions of pounds to shut down when the weather is too windy, The Times has learnt. Dozens of onshore facilities shared £25 million last year, a 13,733 per cent increase on 2010, after a particularly blustery year, according to the figures released by National Grid.
Bay Area sees record lows in three locations Tuesday | www.ktvu.com
The Bay Area saw record-breaking freezing temperatures Tuesday morning in three different spots, and local meteorologists forecasted temperatures to possibly dip again before midnight that night.
Warming Alarmists Avoid A Global Warming Rumble In The Jungle - Forbes
With record cold and snow pummeling the United States and much of the globe during the past few winters, blogger Andrew Freedman is arguing that global warming causes frigid weather and snow. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., however, wrote in 2008 that global warming causes warm, anemic winters with little snow. These two really need to square off.
Record Snow Sweeps Japan -- NTDTV.com
But the island's meteorological agency said this is the most snow Iwamizawa has been hit with since records began in 1946.
Solar Subsidy Sinkhole – Germany’s Solar Debacle Is A “Massive Money Pit”
Solar Subsidy Sinkhole, Re-Evaluating Germany’s Blind Faith in the Sun.
The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Off-the-Grid Solar - NYTimes.com
The bottom line is that our solar production provides only 46 percent of what we need, and what we need is minimal.
The result is that we run the diesel generator every few days. In four months, we’ve had 89 hours of noise and smoke and burned 45 gallons of diesel. Not what I expected.
Alaska dog sled races canceled - Too much snow and cold
Officials in Fairbanks canceled the Copper Basin 300 sled dog race Sunday morning after a section of trail was deemed impassible.
Race marshal Greg Parvin said the trail between Meier’s Lake and Sourdough had unusually deep snow conditions, with high winds and bitter cold.
Heat to turn up on China | Global warming | Climate change
Global warming threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the government's latest assessment of climate change, projecting big shifts in how the nation feeds itself.
...Assuming no measures to counter global warming, grain output in the world's most populous nation could fall from 5 to 20 percent by 2050, depending on whether a "fertilisation effect" from more carbon dioxide in the air offsets losses, says the report.
Sept 2011: China sees bumper grain crop amid rising prices | Daniels Trading
Chinese grain crops are expected to see record harvests in spite of difficult conditions throughout the growing season.
Xinhua reports that current estimates from the Ministry of Agriculture put the total grain output of the Asian nation at more than 550 million metric tons, a 2.9 percent increase over the previous crop.
"This is a hard-won achievement for our country," Chen Xiaohua, vice minister of agriculture, told the news source.
The increase marks the eighth consecutive year of improving crop yields, a critical goal for a country with more than 1.3 billion people and rising standards of living.
Given the anticipated interest in rapid climate change issues following next Friday's global release of the Day after Tomorrow Hollywood blockbuster movie, Meric and I have (with advice from our local communication officials) prepared a statement to post on the RAPID web site (see below)...The UK is taking the lead in rapid climate change research. A £20 Million Rapid Climate Change programme (known as RAPID for short) is being funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The aim of RAPID is to determine the probability of rapid climate change and its likely impact. For the first time, a monitoring system is being set up to monitor changes in the North Atlantic overturning circulation (which is associated with but not quite the same as the Gulf Stream). The UK research vessel RRS Discovery has recently deployed an array of moorings across the N. Atlantic Ocean. Present understanding would suggest that rapid climate change over the next decade is a low probability event, but should it happen, its impact on Western European economy and society would be serious. Hence, we need to improve our knowledge of the processes involved and narrow the uncertainties on the prediction of potential future rapid climate change. That is exactly what the RAPID programme aims to do.
I will check out possibilities here. My thinking is that the only way to truly squash M&M is to have an independent third party come along and say ... I used exactly the same data and method as MBH and got exactly the same results, and, furthermore, I endorse the method. I will read your paper with interest -- this will be a good putdown, but M&M may still say that you are a mutual admiration society. Tom....I must admit that, having read the papers, I don't think there is enough information for *me* to reproduce what you have done. I could certainly do something similar, and I might discover the nuances as I proceded. But it would still be tough. I still don't think that hard-earned data needs to be made freely available. [Tom Wigley]
Adrian, Stephan, Dick This isn't an important email, so you can ignore till the AOPC meeting. I'm trying to help Ian Strangeways (who Adrian may know) to write a book about temperature measuring - how we calculate global T, errors etc. He's also talking to Chris Folland about SST. I'm trying to stop him going off on pointless tangents. I've sent him chapter and verse on GCOS and most of my papers. First, he wanted to put loads of AWSs around the world to measure T properly - common sensors etc. I muttered something about living in the real world... Now, he's on about the lack of detail in the locations of GSN sites and also those in Volume A. I've also told him this is pointless and what matters is getting the data from these sites. I don't care if they are a little bit inaccurate in their locations and I doubt ECMWF and the other operational centres care either. It seems as though he's found some people who do, expecting to be able to go to google earth and give it detailed locations and find a Stevenson Screen! Have a look through some of the links - the Gladstonefamily website (!!) and that for El Nahud in Sudan. I just wanted to make sure people in the WMO building and CBS are aware that at some point someone will say, we can't the weather stations WMO say are there. Maybe if we did know where they are to a greater accuracy, we could check by Google Earth whether instruments were there !! Maybe they have some resources they can give to GCOS..... Cheers Phil
Obama Rejecting Pipeline, Pokes Back At GOP - Amy Harder - NationalJournal.com
In a decision that quickly re-ignited a fierce energy debate, the Obama administration on Wednesday rejected the controversial Keystone XL pipeline because the 60-day deadline imposed by Republicans did not allow adequate time to review an alternate route through an ecologically sensitive area in Nebraska.
> AND keep in mind that increased CO2 is good for us--more agriculture, etc.
Well, read the recent paper on how increased CO2 is changing the Amazon (and this is from the Smithsonian--that bastion of Baliunas and Soon, a low
blow)--not clear increased CO2 is good for us. And in US, more crop production means more tax money used to provide subsidies--it costs us
money.
The Reference Frame: Obama expected to reject Keystone XL today
As far as I can say, there were many signs that Obama's administration was leaving the ideology of environmentalism and its most radical incarnation, the global warming alarmism. It is not clear to me what has led to this shocking decision. But if Barack Obama plans to secure some Gore voters or Hansen supporters, he may easily find out that there are not too many of them left in America. Obama's White House internship could easily become unsustainable after November 2012.
Did Al Gore Violate Apple's Business Conduct Policy? - Al Gore - Fox Nation
Several companies, including Apple, ended their relationship with the Chamber over the trade group's aggressive opposition to the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill and EPA regulation of carbon emissions.
Gore's significant personal investments in renewable energy and related technologies would have benefited from these greenhouse gas regulations.
- Bishop Hill blog - A new climate science player
The models through this process have become remarkably accurate and give the climate research community confidence that the future projections are robust.
Re the glacier model : You can make the 20th century melt bigger/smaller by moving the ELA (1961-1990) up and down, Ives should know this. He should use a value that gives in his view a sensible 1961-1990 global mass balance (this is the rate of change of volume over that period). I am not sure what value he is using.
During a good half of the Holocene the glaciers were SMALLER than now...What is unusual about the modern retreat is the RATE, though we do not know much about the rate of the former retreat (again because of the lack of continuous records).
Holocene: Definition from Answers.com
The Holocene Epoch is synonymous with the Recent or Postglacial interval of Earth's geologic history and extends from 10,000 years ago to the present day.
Dear All Bloody hell!! this must be the 6th or 7th request for a speaker that CRU or I have had in the last few of days!! I think we should collate them and then divvy them out to those who haven't done any external talks Can we get a note on the Web site, saying somehing like " we are more than happy to do talks and public engagement is a central core of our policy and role, however, because we are the World's Leading Climate Change Institute we get absolutely inundated with requests and find it extremely difficult to do everything"
An Inconvenient Truth: Information from Answers.com
Release date(s) May 24, 2006
Please find attached a compilation of the comments received from governments and NGOs on the final draft SPM. We may get some further late comments but these are a substantial set (nearly 1000) and probably raise all the major issues.
I though the attached might be interesting. It shows little more urban related trend in NY over the 20th century. Also on warmest days it is warmer outside the city. This is probably unique to NY. The reason LWC [London Weather Centre?] isn't as warm as LHR [London Heathrow Airport] on the very warmest days is because the measurements are 50m up on a building! Cheers Phil
Flashback: Painting Bill Clinton’s “white roofs” into reality | The Great Debate
For example, the Urban Heat Island effect causes New York City to be about 5 degrees warmer than surrounding suburbs and accounts for 5 to 10 percent of summer electricity use.
Many people among the general public are not used to reading any kind of text and graphs and don't understand them, and others would understand them if they had time, but they want to be entertained and will be moving swiftly to the other things they have to do that day. This combination of lack of familiarity and lack of time and inclination is a potent brew; regardless of the age we are aiming at, we need to pitch it to the average (not the most intelligent) 12 year old, and one with a short attention span at that!
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I am concerned that the exhibition is going to make the climate research carried out at CRU look a bit mickey mouse. [UEA's Sarah Keeley]
Subject: Re: Past Millennia Climate Variability - Review Paper - reminder
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Taking on putting this paper together has been a real nightmare. I still can't seem to get any response from Keith, Tim and Caspar - and I know two of them are in rooms less than 5m from me!
Just for background in case of any questions, here's the GISS press release below. GISS has 2007 higher in rank than we do, just like 2005 - which they have top, instead of 1998. A quick look at their 2007 spatial map indicates why - their extrapolation of the warm Arctic coastal data across the Arctic Ocean. Despite the differences in base periods, the maps (our Fig 3a and their 1b) are quite similar over most of the world. Their extrapolation also makes Antarctica much warmer than it probably was.
I wrote the paper for two reasons: 1. To show that for London, the temperature in the centre is not getting any higher than in rural areas. Used much more data than anyone else. I did have to get some data digitized. I could use the St. James's Park record in the global T calculations. It wouldn't make any difference anyway, but the combination is with anomalies. Even people I used to think were good, think all city records are affected and shouldn't be used. 2. There is a widespread belief that in the future, the temperatures in London will rise even higher than the increase elsewhere in SE England. I don't know where this comes from, but almost everyone who says they have thought about it thinks so. The HC have run RCMs for Europe with cities in with an urban tiling scheme to try to simulate a city. They also add excess heat (25 and 50 w/m-2) in over the city. When the comparisons are done properly, there is no significant difference between squares in the centre and on the periphery. The HC always show the effect on conducive days! City centres will pass certain thresholds more regularly than rural areas, but that is all. Many people still think that if someone shows an 8 deg C difference on a single day or even at a single hour between a city centre site and a rural one, this is the size of the UHI! I know it's stupid, but I keep hearing this. I just wanted something for idiots like this to read.
Have you read Tom Blees's book yet. I must say, it is very impressive -- so much so that I have changed my mind on the technology issue. It does seem that IFRs could "save the planet". Not only this, but they could eliminate the nuclear waste problem (no need for Yucca Mountain). If we can get onto this quickly enough, IFRs could also eliminate the need for all but the most minor carbon tax (or its cap and trade equivalent). There is some very disturbing stuff in the Blees book, not least the possibility that, through the lies and misdirections of Clinton, Gore and Kerry, we may have lost the opportunity to solve the problem cheaply. History nay well judge these guys as much worse than Bush Jr.Integral Fast Reactor: Information from Answers.com
The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR, originally Advanced Liquid-Metal Reactor) is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron moderator (a "fast" reactor). IFR is distinguished by a nuclear fuel cycle that uses reprocessing via electrorefining at the reactor site. The U.S. Department of Energy built a prototype (the Experimental Breeder Reactor II), but the IFR project was canceled by the US Congress in 1994, three years before completion.
Keith/Tim will pass these onto the FOI person at UEA. It might surprise you all to know that we have a full time person here at UEA for this! The FOI was designed to make government more accountable, but it affects many more institutions and organizations than intended.
he president’s remarks are to take place at Magic Kingdom in front of Cinderella Castle. Obama’s comments are said to promote “We Can’t Wait” (for Congress), a series of strategies focused on the economy and jobs.
Although details of Obama’s talk have not been revealed, the Disney setting is suggestive. Magic Kingdom clearly evokes Florida (and national) tourism, not to mentions established a visual association with optimism and “dreams come true.” Walt Disney World Resort is a destination for more than 45 million visitors annually.
The Orlando Sentinel suggests the talk may address making travel to the U.S. easier for international visitors s through visa reform. Certainly such a change would be of interest o Disney, as its parks attract large tour groups, including those from Brazil and China, each year.
By the way, if the IPCC wants input on UK FOIA/EIR legislation at their meeting in October, I'm sure that I could fit a trip to Bali in! ;-)
Pushed to brink, swans rebound with help from global warming — The Daily Climate
Hunted to near extinction in the 19th century, the trumpeter swan is taking advantage of warmer, longer summers to expand its range and numbers - one of the few good news stories of global warming, at least for now
CO2 Earth's 'magic control knob'? (OneNewsNow.com)
But Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com calls it more wacky science.
"They're assuming CO2 is a magic control knob for the planet, despite the fact that there [are] hundreds of factors that influence global temperature -- everything from tilt of the earth's axis to ocean cycles, to the sun, the solar system," he notes. "You can just go on and on with lists."
Unplug the Volt | The SPPI Blog
Liberals burn tax money on flammable cars
2 perspectives on communicating climate science | Climate Etc.
The image of Machiavellian emailers is not a desirable one
DEFRA fund the Met Office to the tune of about £18M per year. I am on the Hadley Centre's Scientific Review Group and have reviewed the DEFRA proposal. Throughout the documents I get for the annual Review Group meetings and in the proposal, there is a constant thread of how the work they are doing is essential for IPCC. How this works though is that their scientists (just like us) write papers for the peer-review literature, and these get referred to in the IPCC Reports. DEFRA expects that their scientists will be involved in the IPCC Chapter writing. DEFRA has also funded the Met Office to run the Technical Support Unit of Working Group 2 of IPCC.
So, although IPCC work may not be a specific function of the Met Office, it is very much expected by DEFRA that they are heavily involved in IPCC. The Met Office and its Hadley Centre are happy to accept the kudos IPCC gets - especially the Nobel Peace Prize award in 2007 for IPCC itself. At least two people from the Met Office were at the award ceremony in Oslo - and only 25 in total were allowed to go.
If the Met Office can or are using this argument, then UEA could as well. Whether we should is another matter. Individual scientists at UEA are free to get involved in IPCC writing teams, and from the VC downwards (through the Dean of Science and the Head of School in ENV) would expect us to get involved. It is not written in any job description, but it is one of the unwritten expected things academics ought to do. Keith and I use the involvement when we write letters each to the ENV promotion committee to get a pay increment, as I expect all the others in ENV who have been involved in IPCC do. UEA also takes the kudos from the report coming out and many in ENV have nice certificates recording the Nobel Peace prize award last year. Involvement in IPCC and the Nobel Peace Prize features strongly in the ENV Annual Report. Like the Met Office we also use the IPCC involvement when writing proposals.
We're not paid to do IPCC, just like the Met Office scientists. We're paid expenses (by DEFRA) to go to the meetings and write the reports. Keith and I did much of this at weekends and evenings, but much also during work time and we used UEA resources to print out drafts. The work took time and we are paid by UEA, so UEA did subsidize us to do it.
Da: p.jones@uea.ac.uk Data: 21.12.2007 13.25 A: Oggetto: Re: AW: Re: PS AW: Fwd: Re: more questions
Jacopo, I'm not going to comment on your text, because your report is awful. I thought you wanted a balanced report. What you've written isn't. You've not understood any of what was said on the Real Climate Audit web site.
You have several words wrong and what you say doesn't make sense at times. But you don't seem to want to discuss proper climate science.
Phil
Therefore people trying right now to discern/portray climate change of the extreme variety, (“disasters [that] produce widespread damage and cause severe alterations in the normal functioning of communities or societies“, according to the IPCC – in other words the only changes of actual practical interest), are placing themselves outside mainstream science, perhaps out of naivety, perhaps due to personal gain.
Warmest Temperatures In Greenland At 310 PPM CO2 | Real Science
Temperatures in Greenland rose from 290 to 310 PPM atmospheric CO2, and have fallen from 310 to 390 PPM. There is no correlation between CO2 and Greenland temperatures.
Hockey Team Huddle Needed! | Real Science
The latest claim is that global warming causes cold winters. That would be a huge negative feedback, which would seriously undermine the whole CAGW story.
1849 News : Alps Glaciers Covered Corn Fields | Real Science
Mikey says that the MWP and LIA never happened.
- Bishop Hill blog - Richard B at Nature
Richard Betts, writing at Nature's blog, says upholders of the climate consensus should talk to dissenters.
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