More snow possible Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. In July!
"Snow accumulations revised upwards to 3 to 5 inches today, and snow accumulations possible again Sunday, Monday and Tuesday," says reader Kenneth Lund. "Why don't we EVER hear about this ????"
C3: When Global Warming Was Really Unprecedented - Take A Scroll Through Climate History
Visit this climate history temperature chart page and then scroll down that page to witness how temperatures have changed from millions of years ago to those more current.
The above linked page represents a visual presentation of a wide selection of peer reviewed studies. These charts make it abundantly clear that researchers have conclusively found that our modern temperatures are not so "unprecedented"or unusual.
Bering Sea Ice Area Was 150% Of Normal This Past Winter | Real Science
It was the iciest winter in Alaska history.
Verily Verily It Is (Not) Written By The Great Prophet Hansen | Real Science
Griggs and NRC have no basis for their claims. There is no existing data to back up rapid sea level rise in California over the next twenty years, and Hansen’s WAIS collapse theory doesn’t support it either.
This is a classic case of a religious cult run amok, which doesn’t even bother to listen to their own clergy any more.
US Sea Level Rise : Less Than Half Of The Global Average | Real Science
According to University Of Colorado data, sea level around the lower 48 has been rising at 1.4mm/year since 1992, which is less than half of their published global average.
CRU – Illinois/Wisconsin Temperatures Barely Rising | Real Science
CRU shows temperatures in Illinois barely rising, at about 0.007 degrees per year since 1850. But it is worse than it seems. Essentially all of the rise occurred before 1930.
Until about 10 years ago, NOAA , GISS and CRU all agreed that the US was not warming. NOAA and GISS decided to correct the problem by tampering with the data.
Feynman Saw The Hockey Team Coming | Real Science
Feynman would have been completely disgusted by Mike’s Nature Trick and And Hansen’s data tampering. He was an expert at uncovering fraud and misbehavior at NASA.
Special Report: Endless Summer—Living With the Greenhouse Effect | Environment | DISCOVER Magazine
Global warming has begun, and we had better start preparing for the dramatic changes to come.
by Andrew C. Revkin Until this year, despite dire warnings from climatologists, the greenhouse effect has seemed somehow academic and far off. The idea behind it is simple: gases accumulating in the atmosphere as by-products of human industry and agriculture—carbon dioxide, mostly, but also methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons—let in the sun's warming rays but don't let excess heat escape. As a result, mean global temperature has probably been rising for decades. But the rise has been so gradual that it has been masked by the much greater, and ordinary, year-to-year swings in world temperature....By the middle of the next century the resulting warming could boost global mean temperatures from three to nine degrees Fahrenheit. That doesn't sound like much, but it equals the temperature rise since the end of the last ice age, and the consequences could be devastating. Weather patterns could shift, bringing drought to once fertile areas and heavy rains to fragile deserts that cannot handle them. As runoff from melting glaciers increases and warming seawater expands, sea level could rise as much as six feet, inundating low-lying coastal areas and islands. There would be dramatic disruptions of agriculture, water resources, fisheries, coastal activity, and energy use...."We're altering the environment far faster than we can possibly predict the consequences," says Stephen Schneider, a climate modeler at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. "This is bound to lead to some surprises."... Since greenhouse gases are chiefly the result of human industry and agriculture, it is not an exaggeration to say that civilization itself is the ultimate cause of global warming....
Some parts of the world could actually benefit from climate change, while others could suffer tremendously...
While the greenhouse effect threatens to make life on Earth miserable, it is also part of the reason life is livable in the first place. ...
Another problem is that modelers must estimate the influence of vegetation, ice and snow, soil moisture, terrain, and especially clouds, which reflect lots of sunlight back into space and also hold in surface heat. "Clouds are an important factor about which little is known," says Schneider. "When I first started looking at this in 1972, we didn't know much about the feedback from clouds. We don't know any more now than we did then." ...
Even as cities become more vulnerable to moderate storms, the intensity of hurricanes may increase dramatically, says Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist at MIT. Hurricane intensity is linked to the temperature of the sea surface, Emanuel explains. According to his models, if the sea warms to predicted levels, the most intense hurricanes will be 40 to 50 percent more severe than the most intense hurricanes of the past 50 years. ...
Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, in Berkeley, California, has devised a widely praised model that predicts a dramatic disruption of the state's water supply in the event of global warming, even if total precipitation remains unchanged....Plants will suddenly be unable to propagate their seeds, and animals will have no place to go. Species in the Arctic, such as caribou, may lose vital migratory routes as ice bridges between islands melt....James Titus of the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that a five-foot rise in sea level—not even the worst-case scenario—would destroy between 50 and 90 percent of America's wet- lands....Schneider was one of more than 300 delegates from 48 countries who attended the International Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, which took place in Toronto, coincidentally, just a week after Hansen's congressional testimony. It was, says Schneider, the "Woodstock of CO2"
John Maynard Keynes - Wikiquote"Is the difference between acting now and waiting fifty years indeed “insignificant economically”? Given the importance attached to this question, I recalculated this figure using the latest published model. When put in 2012 prices, the loss is calculated as $3.5 trillion, and the spreadsheet is available on the web for those who would like to do it themselves. [1] If, indeed, the climate skeptics think this is an insignificant number, they should not object to spending much smaller sums for slowing climate change starting now."Footnote [1]: For those who would like to see the Excel spreadsheet model on which these calculations were made to check them, or try other ones, it is available [here]. Download the Excel program, go to the sheet named “50yeardelay” and follow the instructions there. You will be able to verify the number in the text and do other experiments as well.For those who would like to follow this up, I have made the RICE-2010 model available to calculate the impact of policy changes. The policy change that is tested here is the impact of delaying introducing policies to slow climate change for 50 years. The spreadsheet is available at click here. Go to the page "50yeardelay" and follow the directions there to check the answer in the article.
MisattributedGilligan's Island (1964) - Trivia - IMDb
- It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
- Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is:
- It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
Thurston Howell III went to Harvard. Howell would call an inferior a "Yale Man".
Tax cuts tomorrow | Climate Nonconformist
Yeah, what else is happening, Swanny? I know there are some tax cuts, but what else? Hmmm. Were they reopening the Nauru detention centre? No, they’re still too proud for that. Was it a carbon tax? Oh, that’s right, the carbon dioxide tax starts tomorrow! Now, I thought this was an important step towards a clean energy future. Surely this is more important than simple tax cuts. Maybe Wayne’s a glass-half-full kind of guy, preferring to focus on that #cashforyou.
As I write this post, another one of those dreadful ‘household assistance package’ ads has come on. No mention of the carbon tax either. That’s because it’s as toxic as the alarmists make CO2 out to be.
2011: Climate Change Blamed for Record Mississippi Floods
WASHINGTON, DC, May 20, 2011 (ENS) - Human-induced climate change is contributing to the recent heavy rain and ongoing record flooding along the Mississippi River, and we can expect more extreme weather events in the future, according to scientists and adaptation experts on a teleconference held by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
...The pattern of rains and drought is set up by the La Niña - cold tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures - which influences the jet stream and the movement of storms across the United States....
Additionally, a combination of natural factors and Arctic sea ice melt brought a relatively cold winter to much of the central United States, causing more precipitation to fall as snow, rather than rain, on the upper Midwest. Now that it is spring, that snow is melting and feeding into the Mississippi at the same time heavy rainfalls have occurred.
...In addition, human-induced climate changes continue to warm the Gulf of Mexico, the scientists observe.
Higher temperatures increase the amount of water that evaporates from the gulf's surface as well as the temperature of air that moves over the gulf, increasing the amount of water vapor it can hold.
2012: Mississippi River at Record Low | WJTV
Dry temperatures and little rain are also to blame for the lowest levels on the Mississippi River in over 20-years...
Officials tell us it's 17-feet below average for this time of the year.
Saturday interview: Lucy Lawless – Xena the Ecowarrior | From the Guardian | The Guardian
But for all her friendly ease and good humour (Lawless leads a charmed life and she knows it), about climate change she is deadly serious, and her voice rises and changes when she talks about it. "It was interesting to see so many educated people so universally dejected," she says of Rio, "they were obviously completely bummed out and I've never really seen that. Only the politicians were saying [she puts on a pompous deep voice], 'It's pretty good that we came to any kind of consensus', and everybody else was saying, 'No, that's BS [bullshit] and you guys once again have let us down. You know what, the overwhelming message that came out of this was that we're on our own, and governments are rubbish."
Given her views of political leaders, it is no surprise to find that Lawless has no time for those who mock celebrity activists as attention-seekers. "Here's the weird thing. The scientists have been screaming about this for 15 years, and of late, it's unanimous – there's only a few wackos who deny climate change – but nobody listened..."
...She puts her green awareness down to two events. The first was the ozone hole that developed in the southern hemisphere as a result of CFCs and has led to New Zealand and Australia having the highest levels of skin cancer in the world. The second was New Orleans, where she was filming a made-for-TV movie when Hurricane Katrina hit.
...About 10 years ago Lawless ditched her car, a purple Mercedes with the biggest engine you could buy. "Man, I loved that car." She sniffs. More recently she downsized her house, so that the family now has just a small apartment in Los Angeles as well as their main home in Auckland
LOTOLUX - LUCY LAWLESS BIOGRAPHY
She studied foreign languages at Auckland University a year before dropping out at the age of 18, used this money to buy a one way ticket to Europe with her boyfriend, Garth Lawless, to travel to Germany and Switzerland. The couple then moved to Australia, where she worked briefly as a gold miner. At 19 Lucy fell pregnant and returned to New Zealand where she gave birth to her daughter Daisy.
After the birth of her daughter Lucy returned to work, TV commercials, writing and acting in plays, and 2 and a half seasons in 'Funny Business' before moving to Vancouver to attend the William B. Davis Centre for Actors Study.
Richmond students have showdown with climate change
The Climate Change Showdown consists of an in-class workshop and a month-long take-home challenge for students and their families. The challenge encourages families to take a variety of actions, such as having “car-free days,” which contribute to more sustainable lifestyles and reduce GHG emissions. This initiative is supported by the City of Richmond and delivered by the non-profit BC Sustainable Energy Association.
In the 2011/2012 Climate Change Showdown, over 1,300 elementary school students across Richmond from 48 classrooms participated.
Stoffa: Global warming fears need to start cooling off - Iowa State Daily: Opinion
Remember when Al Gore and the rest of the uber-environmentalists finally got the message out to the general masses that climate change would have a doomsday-like impact on the world? Remember when millions of people jumped on the green path because there was "proof" the world was in significant jeopardy in the near future?
Well, a great deal of the educating and informing to motivate the masses is really more fear-mongering than filled with proof. Those nifty flow charts and grand apocalyptic statements from environmentalists and climate specialists claiming they had the "truth" were more props and spin-doctoring for what I consider an impressive public relations campaign.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: A couple of days ago, 25
A couple of days ago, 25 states had record lows occurring, yet the news headlines had to do with record heat, fine, but opposite ignored
1871 : Ferocious Fire Killed Thousands Of People And Burned Millions Of Acres | Real Science
1914 : Monster Forest Fires In Russia | Real Science
1871 : Ferocious Fire Destroyed One Of America’s Largest Cities | Real Science
1906 : Ferocious Fire Destroyed One Of America’s Largest Cities | Real Science
New Evidence Arises About The Emperor’s Clothing | Real Science
97% of experts agreed that the Emperor was wearing fine new clothing, until a small child cried out that the Emperor was naked.
The child’s claims achieved wide acceptance (among the clothing denier community) for several centuries. However, it is recently come to our attention that the child’s observations were not peer reviewed, and that the denier child had in fact never published in any respected journal.
It is clear that the child’s claims were incorrect, and that the consensus of experts believed that the Emperor was indeed wearing fine clothing.
It is our opinion that only well established experts should be allowed to speak, and that we need to silence clothing deniers to prevent this type of error from occurring again in the future.
Alarmists Again Prove That They Are The Stupidest People Who Ever Lived | Real Science
Only a complete imbecile would believe that a 4X difference in a local sea level rise rate could be caused by “global warming” If the rise was due to glaciers melting, it would be approximately the same everywhere. If it was due to local heating, then it is not a global effect.
But the stupidity is worse than it seems. Satellites show sea level rise in that region far below the global average.
...The reason that these geniuses see a relatively steep slope in the tide gauges, is because the land is sinking and has been since the end of the last ice age. The graph below plots tide gauge measurements in lower Manhattan since before the Civil War. The rate hasn’t changed and it has nothing to do with global warming and very little to do with sea level.
The Huay Kontha villagers have a running joke, “Because we pick the corn, the world gets hotter.”
Cambridge News | We got sums wrong on climate change - but let's give ourselves 4/5
Cambridge City Council has awarded itself four marks out of five for monitoring climate change – even though a proudly announced reduction in carbon emissions turned out to be an increase.
The authority’s boasts of a 12 per cent cut in carbon emissions were exposed as wildly incorrect after staff realised they had forgotten to count the Grand Arcade car park and misread statistics at Parkside Pools.
Great news for Africa: Forget all the tree planting, global warming will turn the continent´s barren savannahs into green forests, according to a new German study, published in the journal Nature
Phil Jones Shows No Trend In Colorado Temperatures Since 1850 | Real Science
CRU data shows that Colorado temperatures have not changed at all since 1850 (0.00 degrees/year) April 1870 was the most anomalously warm month at 6.3C above normal.
Fire experts have been blaming the fires this year on rising temperatures in Colorado, because they are looking at tampered data from NOAA and GISS, like the graph below.
NOAA Data Tampering : How They Made 1913 Disappear | Real Science
August 1913 was likely the hottest month in Oklahoma history, but NCDC has made the inconvenient month disappear – through massive abuse of the temperature record.
...They did this by warming the present, and massively cooling the past. The graph below shows the difference between their reported maximum temperatures and the actual temperatures measured by the thermometers. All years before 1998 are progressively cooled, and they knocked an impressive 3.6 degrees off of 1913. They also added 0.2 degrees on to 2011.
Alarmists Raise Possibility That 1930s Temperature Records Will Be Further Mangled | Real Science
By contrast, since June 13 2012, [Oklahoma City] temperatures have averaged 94F – eight degrees cooler than the same period in 1936. Holocaust deniers attempt to rewrite the history of the 1930s, and thus have much in common with Hansen et. al.
If we want to create more farm jobs (after all the percentage of farm jobs in the economy has fallen dramatically in the last century), we could ban tractors. Think of all the jobs we’d create for farm workers!
Of course, the cost of farm products would rise dramatically, making it more difficult to buy food, especially for low-income families. But do we want to create jobs or not?!
If you’ve done the math by now, you may have figured out that I am paying my green-energy producing bike riders only 10 cents a day – the average rate for generating one kWh of electricity in America. So, let’s pay them $10 a hour. The cost per kWh would rise from 10 cents to $1,000. This might make it more difficult for manufacturers to buy the electricity, but it hardly seems fair to demand our bike riders earn less than a living wage, and wealthy investors like Warren Buffet can certainly afford to pay a bit more for electricity.
1913 – The Hottest Summer Of All | Real Science
According to Hansen, every year since 2000 has been hotter in the US than 1913, and he claims that 2011 style heatwaves were impossible below 350 PPM. Clearly he has no clue what he is talking about.
UN loses green mojo | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun
Why global body’s fight against global warming has gone cold
While Colorado burns, Washington fiddles | Bill McKibben | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
If we play politics for a generation, then weeks like the one we've just come through will be normal, and all we'll be doing as a nation is responding to [CO2-induced] emergencies.
World Climate Report » NRC Sea Level Rise Scare: Losing Sight of the Science
There is much more to find fault with in the NRC sea level rise report, but we think from the glaring examples above, that it should be plenty obvious that the report authors’ main task was to produce projections of alarming sea level rise. In that task they surely succeeded. But in doing so, they failed to in remain true to the science.
Such a tale is far too often told in these pages, but it is sadder still that it comes from the “prestigious” NRC.
Man Made Disaster In Colorado | Real Science
2002 was the year of the actual largest fire in recent Colorado history. By May 18th of that year, the fire season was in full swing and testimony at a Senate Committee warned that lots of people were building new homes in places that were doomed to burn. Ten years later they burned.
People do stupid things like build houses in the middle of a pile of kindling wood, and later blame their stupidity on global warming.
1. So why didn't any of these warmings trigger positive feedbacks so that the Earth became an uninhabitable fireball?
2. Did these changes cause all forms of life to go extinct every few thousand years? If not, why not? Weren't all sorts of "delicate" things going on back then, like if the hummingbirds came back after some flower had bloomed, they went extinct?
3. Did CO2 cause all of these abrupt warmings and associated coolings? If not, how do we know that CO2 caused any slight warming that we saw between 1976 and 1998?
The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica - Repeat Experiment (page 2)
An abrupt climate change is an event that occurs on a timescale measured in decades. An interstadial is a warm interlude during a glacial period that begins with an abrupt warming of about 10 degrees Celsius in Greenland and Europe that last several hundred years. There were more than 20 interstadials during the last glacial period, which lasted about 100,000 years. It ended about 10,000 years ago with the beginning of the current Holocene, a warm pause between glacial periods known as an interglacial.
Twitter / MichaelEMann: @lorabruncke @davidsuzuki
@lorabruncke @davidsuzuki Being called dishonest by Heartland like being called political by Antonin Scalia #OhTheIrony #Heartland #Fail
Twitter / MichaelEMann: @lorabruncke @davidsuzuki
@lorabruncke @davidsuzuki Is there *anyone* left who believes *anything* #Heartland Institute has to say?? #dishonest #hackery #fail
Michael Mann's Hissy Fit Shows Why Global Warming Alarmists Fear Debate - Forbes
Let’s examine these claims one by one.
Mann says polar bears may go extinct by the time his daughter and her children come of age. Yet polar bear populations are rising dramatically. As Canadian polar bear researcher Mitch Taylor reported after this year’s official polar bear count, “There aren’t just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears.”
...Mann says the Great Barrier Reef may disappear within the next 40 years. The Great Barrier Reef stretches over 133,000 square miles and has expanded during the warming temperatures of the twentieth century. Moreover, recent peer-reviewed research shows coral reefs are benefiting from warming temperatures. Now Mann claims the Great Barrier Reef will completely disappear in 40 or so years? Oh, please….Mann says global warming may cause the glacier atop Mt. Kilimanjaro to soon disappear. Scientists, however, report that temperatures at the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro rarely if ever rise above freezing. The much-ballyhooed decline in Kilimanjaro’s mountaintop glacier, scientists report, is being caused by a recent decline in snowfall in the region rather than declining temperatures. Now Mann claims global warming will cause the Kilimanjaro mountaintop glacier to disappear in the next 40 or so years? Oh, please….
Mann says Amsterdam, Venice, and New Orleans may “join the lost city of Pompeii.” Correct me if I am wrong, but there are no imminently erupting volcanoes in the vicinity of Amsterdam, Venice, or New Orleans. And even if such volcanoes were to miraculously appear and then erupt during the next 40 or so years, I don’t think global warming will be to blame. Oh, please….
The first thing I noticed about Dr. Mann is that he is a really nice guy. He’s easy to talk to, open and quite witty. Despite the seriousness of the topic, we had quite a few laughs during the conversation – particularly at the expense of a few of our favorite science ignorant politicians (you probably know who they are!).
Dr. Mann and I also have something in common in that we are both Dads. He has a young daughter and great hopes that she will be able to enjoy something close to the same climate that all of us had while we grew up...Kids grow up so quickly and climate change is happening just as quickly
...CO2 emissions from Ford Model T’s that were driven a hundred years ago, and every car driven since then, is still in the atmosphere. Agree or Disagree?
Dr. Mann agrees.
He thinks it is highly likely that some [what percentage?] of the C02 from the original Model T’s remains in the atmosphere today. Recent studies have shown that C02 can stay in the atmosphere for hundreds or even thousands of years....He points out that there is a 30 to 40 year lag between CO2 levels and temperatures...
Temperatures, and related climate events like heat waves, droughts, storms and floods, are going to increase at an increasing rate for the foreseeable future (baring exceptional volcanic activity of significant changes CO2 emissions). Agree or disagree?
Dr. Mann agrees.
Twitter / bryanrwalsh: Maybe the most pressing en
Maybe the most pressing enviro problem in the world RT @LizEconomy: My latest post: China Tries to Breathe Free http://on.cfr.org/OHqan6
Twitter / PeterGleick: Off to Singapore for Inter
Off to Singapore for International Water Week meetings. New business-science-environment-community efforts on #water sustainability.
Are Colorado's wildfires caused by global warming? - CSMonitor.com
"You can't say it's climate change just because it's an extreme condition," said Colorado state climatologist Nolan Doesken. So far, Doesken told LiveScience, the spring of 2012 looks much like the spring of 1910, when warm temperatures hit early. That year, he said, was a bad one for fires.
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Western fires: Payback time? — The Daily Climate
Fire activity for the last 100 years has been remarkably low compared to the past three millennia, Bartlein and his colleagues concluded.
Did climate change ’cause’ the Colorado wildfires? | Grist
One can distinguish between distal causes by their proximity to effects. Say the drought made the fires 50 percent more likely than average June conditions in Colorado. (I’m just pulling these numbers out of my ass to illustrate a point.) Climate change maybe only made the fires 1 percent more likely. As a cause, it is more distal than the drought. And there are probably causes even more distal than climate change. Maybe the exact tilt of the earth’s axis this June made the fires 0.0001 percent more likely. Maybe the location of a particular proton during the Big Bang made them 0.000000000000000001 percent more likely. You get the point.
...When we ask the question like that, we start to see why climate is such a wicked problem. Human beings, by virtue of their evolution, physiology, and socialization, are designed to heed causes within a particular range between proximate and distal. If I find my kid next to an overturned glass and a puddle of milk and ask him why the milk is spilled, I don’t care about the neurons firing and the muscles contracting. That’s too proximate. I don’t care about humans evolving with poor peripheral vision. That’s too distal. I care about my kid reaching for it and knocking it over. That’s not the only level of causal explanation that is correct, but it’s the level of causal explanation that is most meaningful to me.
For a given effect — a fire, a flood, a dead forest — climate change is almost always too distal a cause to make a visceral impression on us. We’re just not built to pay heed to those 1 percent margins. It’s too abstract. The problem is, wildfires being 1 percent more likely averaged over the whole globe actually means a lot more fires, a lot more damage, loss, and human suffering. Part of managing the Anthropocene is finding ways of making distal causes visceral, giving them a bigger role in our thinking and institutions.
Climate Alarmists Target the Arabunna People – With No Evidence | Watts Up With That?
So … here’s the deal. We have no evidence that the temperatures are rising in the Lake Eyre region. There has been little change in the area temperatures since the satellite records began. Despite that, University of Adelaide professors are selling their fantasies of a terrifying future to the Arabunna, the aboriginal people who live in the area.
Meanwhile, the temperatures in the region are currently lower than they have been in the entire satellite record …
The professors seem to find nothing wrong with scaring the aboriginal people who have lived there for generations. And where do their projections of a 5°C temperature rise originate? Well, as usual, it’s models all the way down, and even the modelers say that their models are useless at the regional level … but despite that, these professors from the University of East Wankerton or wherever it is are more than happy to use these useless models to terrify the local folks.
Cooling that Atlantic Coast sea level hotspot | Watts Up With That?
Curiously, there were no time-series graphs of the “hotspot” sea level anomalies in Sallenger et al (2012). That raises the question: what didn’t they want to show?
PS: Vote in the poll on Today Tonight if it is still going. “Should Australia keep the carbon tax or scrap it?” 95% say scrap it.
Shape Shifting The Climate Crisis | Real Science
There is no trend in western precipitation. We were having floods and record snowpack in Colorado during the previous two Junes. The fires in the west this year have been small compared to the giant fires of 1871, 1881 1898, 1910, etc. The only thing that is epic is the level of bullshit from climate alarmists.
The climate science by Schellnhuber & Co. is pure voodoo-magic spreading fear among the public and reaching big time into the pockets of taxpayers.
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is senselessly wasting the money of taxpayers. ‘Climate protection’ is a scientific swindle because the weather is not something that can be protected.”
Sea level rising fast along American East Coast – or not - Wry Heat
The computer games of Sallenger et al. are countered by real data. Actual readings from tidal gauges show a record of deceleration of sea level rise (dated from the early 20th Century to present) in the following cities: Annapolis, Baltimore, Bar Harbor, Boston, Charleston, Eastport, Newport, and Portland, all in or near the alleged hotspot.
The department said it would cost $23.7 billion for Australia to buy the emissions reductions it is supposed to be achieving by 2020 on the international market.
How Suburban Lawns Can Fight Climate Change - Neighborhoods - The Atlantic Cities
That green symbol of suburban excess may actually be helping out the planet.
Monitoring CO2 levels in the suburbs just outside of St. Paul, Minnesota, the researchers found that the carbon uptake of urban greenery – including trees and lawns – was significant enough to balance out the carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning at a neighborhood level, at least during the summer months.
Massive number of record lows - In Summer
While the mainstream media screamed about the number of record highs during the last WEEK, they somehow forgot to mention the massive number of records lows.
Here’s a list of record lows in the United States on just one DAY – 27 Jun 2012.
The Obama administration’s Bureau of Land Management auctioned a major tract of Wyoming coal to Peabody Energy at a bargain-basement price of $1.10 per ton yesterday.
Saving The Taxpayers $800,000 | Real Science
Temperatures in Boulder have not increased for 60 years, yet the University of Colorado has obtained $800,000 to study how global warming has affected the local rodents. Perhaps the fat furry rats are teleconnected to Yamal?
Rising sea levels: Difference Engine: Canute's courtiers | The Economist
Whether North Carolina’s officials approve or not, though, there can be no denying that sea levels around the world are rising rapidly, especially along the Atlantic coast of America. In the past century, the global climate has warmed by about 1ºC. And as the Earth has become warmer, the sea level has risen by one or two millimetres a year.
Lately, however, this rise has put on a spurt. Satellite observations over the past two decades record an increase of three to four millimetres a year. Like it or not, the only explanation for this acceleration is the amount of greenhouse gases being emitted by human activity.
In a report published on June 22nd 2012, the National Research Council of Washington, DC, said it expects the sea level along the Californian coast to rise by about 40 inches over the rest of the century—broadly in line with the global average.
POLL RESULT: Global warming is a reality and is important - Harrisburg, IL - The Daily Register
Human action is causing global warming, and it is a vitally important issue. 46% There is no such thing as global warming. 14% Global warming may be happening, but it is not caused by human action. It is part of a natural cycle. 33% Human action may be contributing to global warming, but I see no issue with it. 5%
“We have a big beef with beef,” said Doug Boucher, a Union of Concerned Scientists’ director and co-author of the report in a statement. “Because of the way it is produced, the more beef we eat, the worse global warming gets.”
California Lawmakers Pass Measure Limiting Cap-And-Trade Links | JunkScience.com
California lawmakers passed a bill that may stall plans for a link of the state’s cap-and-trade system with Quebec that would allow companies to exchange carbon permits across the borders.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Game over for wind and solar power
Even the most die-hard propagandists of wind and solar energy, like the UN International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), are now forced to admit that the the American led shale gas revolution is a gamechanger. An interview with Dolf Gielen, the director of Irena's Innovation and Technology Centre in Bonn, is quite revealing
Ben Sharples: Carbon Errors Make Australia Wiser As Gillard Sets Price Record | JunkScience.com
ROFLMAO! Carbon dioxide taxation is the mistake that the EU made. Idiot!
24 Hours of Reality - case study on Vimeo
In the end, 24 Hours of Reality racked up 638m global media impressions.
Gina Rinehart’s battle against climate change science | Independent Australia
If Rinehart’s takeover bid for Fairfax is successful, then the Australian media landscape risks becoming and even more welcoming haven of climate change anti-science.
See, to you and me, an air pollutant is something that doesn’t belong there. But the CAA is extremely broad in its definition of a pollutant. For starters, it includes just about anything that can be emitted into the atmosphere. So while calling CO2 a pollutant is absurd in the ordinary meaning of the word pollutant, the CAA doesn’t use the word’s ordinary meaning.
Court ruling to shift greenhouse gas fight back to Congress | JunkScience.com
An appeals court decision to uphold proposed federal greenhouse gas rules may shift the fight over regulating the heat-trapping emissions back to Congress, where lawmakers may step up efforts to diminish the EPA’s power or renew efforts to set a price on carbon, experts said.
On the one hand the writer below tells us that CO2 levels in the Miocene were similar to levels today and on the other hand she tells us that the margins of Antarctica were green and hence obviously warmer. Doesn't that show that the high temperatures back then were NOT due to CO2 but rather to some other (solar? vulcanism?) influence? You would never guess it from the HuffPo narrative below
Note that the NASA press release says that "Warm conditions during the middle Miocene are thought to be associated with carbon dioxide levels of around 400 to 600 parts per million (ppm)". Thought to be? and "around"? In other words, the researchers below were just guessing about that
Carbon credit scam would have cost Britain £2bn | JunkScience.com
Customs officials had to move fast to close VAT loophole that helped gang profit from climate-change scheme
After Rio – what next? | Watts Up With That?
In many African countries building a coal-fired power station will reduce CO2 emissions. How? Because there are millions of families who have no electricity, and so cook on wood or dung fires. These fires burn inefficiently and produce not just carbon dioxide, but many airborne pollutants that harm or even kill people. If thousands of these fires are replaced by a modern coal-fired power plant, the net effect would be to lead to improved air quality and less CO2 per unit of energy.
The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: Settled Science? No such thing.
[William Kininmonth] The interesting point is that although Earth has warmed and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased since 1900 the changes have not been synchronous. The warming of the period 1910-40 was not in conjunction with significant carbon dioxide increase and the post World War II increase in carbon dioxide was not accompanied by temperature increase until about 1975. Thereafter the rapid increase in carbon dioxide was accompanied by temperature rise but at only about the same rate as the 1910-40 period. For the past 15 years the temperature has not increased despite the continuing increase in carbon dioxide.
The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: Fake Pollution Problems
The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: Oceans are not acidic
Oceans are actually alkaline with a surface pH of around 8.1.
Aus: Coalition would scrap [carbon dioxide] tax within 12 months | JunkScience.com
THE coalition has vowed to axe the tax as the “first order of government” if it wins the next election due by late 2013.
Opposition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt says a Tony Abbott-led government would be able to repeal the carbon tax within six months if Labor co-operated.
Cold snap chills summer in Lapland | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi
Lapland has been blanketed in snow over the past couple of days
How Environmental Activists Distort the Debate on Canada's Oilsands | Dr. Patrick Moore - YouTube
Dr. Patrick Moore, former leader and co-founder of Greenpeace, discusses how environmental activists distort the debate on Canada's oilsands, during the Fraser Institute's annual Dr. Harold Siebens Lecture & Luncheon on Monday, May 14 in Vancouver.
Fix climate change with smarter women | Aspen Daily News Online
If somehow you could get people to only have 2.1 children per family then the world could stand a chance at not being completely overrun by humans, Dimick said.
...
“It’s not just numbers,” Dimick said. “It’s how many toys you have.”
Carbon Tax will Increase Farm Costs by A$3.2 billion
AUSTRALIA - With two days remaining until the carbon tax comes into effect, the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) is continuing its call for the Government to do more to stop the costs of the tax being passed on to the nation’s farmers.
Mark Ruffalo, known for his portrayal of Dr. Banner and the Incredible Hulk, will speak with Mark Jacobson of the Stanford Atmosphere/Energy Program and Marco Krapels of Rabobank about powering the world with wind, water and sunlight.
Government must give up 'dash for gas', say environmental advisers | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The government must give up its "dash for gas" in order to save money for hard-pressed households and avoid dangerous levels of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the committee charged with advising ministers on climate change.
Going for gas rather than lower carbon alternatives such as renewable energy could result in costs of £25bn by the 2020s, a charge that would be paid by energy bill payers, according to the Commiittee on Climate Change.
Solar Pie-in-the-Sky « NoFrakkingConsensus
How plans to run an entire Australian town on solar energy failed miserably.
What Global Warming Really Looks Like | Climate... | Stuff.co.nz
"What we're seeing is a window into what global warming really looks like," Princeton University's Michael Oppenheimer said.
"It looks like heat, it looks like fires, it looks like this kind of environmental disaster... this provides vivid images of what we can expect to see more of in the future."
Laura DiMugno: Prehistoric Climate Change Transformed Antarctica Into Green Wonderland
Levels of carbon dioxide during the Miocene era were around 400 to 600 parts per million (ppm) -- not much higher than the modern-day level of 393 ppm. According to the authors of the study, if CO2 levels increase at the same rate they are today, they will reach the amounts seen during the Miocene period by the end of this century.
Could Antarctica really become a green paradise before the end of our lifetimes? It's possible, according to Sarah J. Feakins, assistant professor of earth sciences at the USC Dornsife College and lead author of the study.
Dan Kammen's race against climate change | AAAS MemberCentral
To avoid the most drastic effects of climate change, scientists generally agree that the world has only a few decades to stabilize atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations at 450 parts-per-million.
World Bank Announces Winners in “Apps for Climate” Competition
Twitter / RyanMaue: Want to escape the heat an
Want to escape the heat and humidity? How about Florida in July! Record lows for weekend, 60s at night in Orlando? pic.twitter.com/p1Zr32im
Ponder this nonsensical word salad on climate from the head of Exxon, who may be one of the most powerful men alive: http://is.gd/iVCjcM
Power your laptop with your butt | Grist
How long can your butt heat and your fidgeting keep your computer running? Tornberg doesn’t say.
Abound Solar to Suspend Operations, Will Seek Bankruptcy - Businessweek
Abound Solar Inc., a U.S. solar manufacturer that was awarded a $400 million U.S. loan guarantee, will suspend operations and file for bankruptcy
because its panels were too expensive to compete.Abound borrowed about $70 million against the guarantee, the Loveland, Colorado-based company said today in a statement.
'Limit climate change or wait for the doomsday' - The Times of India
A devastating cyclone will strike the state in April 2050, inundating coastal regions of East Midnapore and the Sunderbans. This will trigger flash migration to urban centres and send Kolkata reeling. Parks will turn into slums and every inch of free space will be occupied.
In the cruel summer that will follow, the mercury will breach the 42 degree celcius mark. Radiation from sun rays reflecting off the steel and glass buildings and exhaust from AC cars and homes will push the temperature higher by another 2 degree. With lakhs of people exposed to the heat, thousands will fall ill and hundreds will drop dead due to heat stroke. Egg production will also nosedive due to heat stress on livestock.
...In June, cloud bursts will inundate large sections of the city. In the following weeks, incidents of cholera, diarrhoea and enteric fever will spiral. Malaria cases will shoot up not just in Kolkata but in upper reaches of Darjeeling as well...These predictions of Kolkata in Circa 2050 may be dismissed by a section of scientists, but they are outnumbered by a huge margin by those in the fraternity who believe in such an eventuality if remedial measures are not taken today....Joyashree Roy, coordinator of Global Change Programme at JU and a member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, felt rise in migration will hurt Kolkata most if the city fails to prepare itself for the situation.
Current Global Weather Patterns Normal Despite Government and Media Distortions
[Tim Ball] There’s a similar pattern of selective reporting about weather events. People are inundated with reports giving the impression that what is happening is worse then ever before, unusual and therefore due to human activities. When weather and climate became a political issue through the IPCC claims of impending doom it became a focus for media. They all exaggerated everything to make it newsworthy, or presented only one side of what was going on because of political bias. So far in 2012 stories about warm weather and storms dominate the news, but that is only half the story.
The dome of cold air over polar regions is expanding as the world has cooled since 1998. Rossby Waves in the Circumpolar Vortex that circles from west to east in the middle latitudes switched from Zonal to Meridional flow creating different weather patterns in the middle and high latitudes.
What Rio+20 Was and Wasn't in 17 Photos : Page 8 : TreeHugger
You do have to love the lady rocking the 'End of capitalism' dance though.
What Rio+20 Was and Wasn't in 17 Photos : Page 17 : TreeHugger
For me, it was the end of an era. For decades, UN conferences were a place for diplomats and a few very specialized journalists, but with civil society getting more involved since Copenhagen and with our environmental problems getting more pressing, this kind of sustainable-development-ado about nothing is in itself a contradiction.
New record low temperatures set in Orlando and Daytona Beach overnight - Orlando Sentinel
According to the National Weather Service in Melbourne the temperature dipped to 64 degrees at Orlando International Airport, shattering the previous record of 66 set in 1920.
Twitter / MichaelEMann: window of the COOP in Harv
window of the COOP in Harvard Square... #HSCW pic.twitter.com/Qcmhanen
Twitter / drgrist: @Revkin says: "Overstateme
@Revkin says: "Overstatement for the sake of getting attention always kicks back." That's obviously, empirically false. http://is.gd/NDYIJP
Worst Fire In Colorado History? | Real Science
This picture was taken yesterday at ground zero of the High Park Fire west of Fort Collins, which the governor recently described as being the worst fire in Colorado history. No more smoke, no more flames – most of the burn area will be green in six weeks.
If lots of people hadn’t of built houses in stupid places, it would have been just another fire out of hundreds of thousands which burn in the US every year.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans Press Release :: Beyond Solyndra? Another Bankruptcy
Abound Solar Joins Solyndra, Beacon Power, and Ener1 in Bankruptcy
Sweden Records One Of Its Coldest and Wettest June Months Since Records Began In 1786
The high temperature for June in Stockholm was only 21.6°C. This is only the second time the temperature has failed to reach 25°C in June in 92 years.
More snow for Mt Baker WA thru July 1st
Car Rentals for the 'Eco-Curious' - NYTimes.com
Electric car sales have so far ranged from disappointing to dismal.
Climate Change: A Parent's Worst Nightmare? | The Nature Conservancy
As if parenting weren’t difficult enough, our warming planet presents additional challenges for keeping kids safe and healthy – and parents sane. Why? Quite simply, it makes it harder to reliably get kids outside. As my fellow parents know well, keeping kids cooped up in the house is a recipe for disaster.
...While average temperature increases may seem small (the Earth has warmed 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit since the early 20th Century), the big fluctuations are difficult to manage around. Our lives – from school schedules to sports to crop cycles – are built around expected “normals,” and large shifts from those normals are incredibly disruptive, especially for kids who thrive on routines.
The UHI’s of Texas are upon you | Watts Up With That?
it is not surprising to see that the state of Texas has very little trend while Texas cities have a significantly greater trend.
Cizik, who now leads the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, points to changing demographics as a reason evangelical views on climate are changing. “Climate change is a top-tier issue for younger evangelicals,” he said
The projected one-meter (about 39 inches) increase over the next century south of Cape Mendocino, in far-northern California, is “slightly higher” than projected global sea level increases.
- Bishop Hill blog - UK Conference of Science Journalists
[Doug Keenan] During the question period, someone stated that science journalists should be cheerleading science, and that fraud is very rare, and anyway science is self-correcting. More generally, many people there genuinely believed that almost all scientists are virtually always honest. Those people work with science all day, and yet they seem to have no clue about how science really operates. Overall, I found the session stunningly disheartening: there is an enormous way to go, to get many journalists to appreciate what reality is.
I pointed out that all the examples of fraud given by the speakers were in medical science. I noted that in the UK, during the past half century, there does not seem to have been a single case where a non-medical researcher has been officially found to have committed fraud. That is clearly unreasonable. Consider much smaller groups of respected people: members of parliament, Catholic priests, police detectives—in each instance, we know that during half a century, at least a few of them will have committed serious crimes.
I also described how I once reported a fraud at the University of Reading. The university refused to investigate: I was told that the university had no procedures for investigating such allegations, because their professors always act with integrity.
The conclusion is that there is no accountability. I said that there were some fields of science where half the research publications were bogus.
Ronald Bailey: Rio +20 Earth Summit: The End of International Environmentalism - Reason.com
Watching green ideology crash and burn ...Looking back the failure of environmentalism as an ideology looks inevitable since has misconstrued the causes of many of the problems to which it claims to have a solution. At the close of the Rio +20 Earth Summit last Friday, environmentalism reached its highwater mark and is now ebbing as a political force internationally. It will be interesting to see in which direction those cherishing a permanent animus against democratic capitalism will go.
Bailey, 2006: An Inconvenient Truth - Reason.com
Gore has won the global warming debate—the world is warming as a consequence of human activity, chiefly the loading up of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.... On balance Gore gets it more right than wrong on the science
2008: AFF Doublethink Online » I Want to Believe?
Bailey has a reason to be apprehensive. He was once one of the leading skeptics of climate change. Yet in recent years he has shifted. He now believes that global warming is real, man-made, and potentially a serious problem. This stance has led him to embrace taxes as a solution.
...“Ron changing his mind on global warming cemented my own transition to an AGW (i.e., man-made climate change) believer,” says Atlantic blogger Megan McArdle.
They say they’ll welcome calls to Fyfe’s cell phone (707-797-SLOW) offering suggestions for interviewees or specific sites to travel to.
Record low greets Daytona Beach residents today - Breaking News
Early risers were greeted with cool temperatures -- a record low of 64 in Daytona Beach - as well as clear roads and clear skies in Volusia and Flagler counties this morning.
Greens ridicule 'carbon neutral' cabinet | The Australian
Opposition environment spokesman Steven Marshall said Mr Weatherill was significantly less interested in climate change than Mr Rann.
"Since taking office Premier Weatherill has scrapped the environmental energy department Renewables SA, terminated the contract of the commissioner for renewable energy, scaled down the sustainable industries site at Tonsley Park and cut the $20 million renewable energy grants program," he said.
NASA cancels climate study project in Thailand | ksl.com
BANGKOK (AP) - The United States says it will not be able to carry out a major climate study this year because Thailand has delayed a decision on whether to grant the U.S. space agency permission to use a key naval air base.
NASA's request to use Thailand's U-Tapao air base as the project's operations center has faced opposition from critics who say it could be a cover for military purposes. The base is located in Chonburi province, 190 kilometers (118 miles) southeast of Bangkok.
Carbon tax wipes out handouts to seniors | adelaidenow
THE carbon tax will more than wipe out any compensation provided to seniors, the nation's peak lobby group for over 50s warns.
Canada's Birds under Siege by Climate Change: Scientific American
Global warming is wreaking havoc on bird populations in Canada
...Canada's bird populations have a new predator: climate change...However, some bird populations are soaring. The snow goose population, for instance, has increased by more than 300 percent
Can This Photograph of Mt. Everest Persuade People That Climate Change Is Happening? - The Atlantic
He acknowledges that two data points captured many years apart do not tell us anything conclusive. [Tell me again why I'm supposed to believe that CO2 is the explanation for any differences between these two photos?]
First and foremost – obviously you did not provide evidence to back up your assumption that the “existence” of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is real. That doesn’t mean it does not exist, but I’ll get back to this. It is the key and only real point.
Solving The Climate Crisis | Real Science
If everyone in America was forced to purchase a Chevy Volt, we could end hurricanes, tornadoes, hot weather, cold weather, floods and drought.
Boulton’s Nature Editorial « Climate Audit
In passing, Boulton endorses a longstanding issue at Climate Audit – that scientists should archive all the data, not just the data “used” in the final calculations.
...This is, of course, the issue that was at the heart of the ongoing Yamal controversy. Gavin Schmidt and Real Climate sneered at the idea that CRU should have any obligation to do anything other than what Boulton describes as “partial reporting”. Perhaps Boulton’s new report will help change perceptions on this point. It’s too bad that Boulton’s epiphany came after his participation in the Muir Russell whitewash.
If a substance really "billows" into the atmosphere and then settles back down "thickly", should the soil contain more than 1/4 part per million of that substance?
If you argue that global regulations are necessary to stop the decline of your local loon population, is your argument less persuasive if people realize that your local loon population isn't declining?
Mercury Sickens Adirondacks Loons - NYTimes.com
Human hands do not have to physically touch a place, though, to disturb it. Mercury that billows into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants has settled back down thickly in the Adirondacks, causing trouble for common loon, which nest in large numbers in the park, and other wildlife.
...“Seventy-five percent of the loons that we sampled were at either moderate or high risk from mercury in their blood,” said Zoe Smith, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Adirondack Program. The Wildlife Conservation Society was one of the contributors to the project.
...Dr. Evers has been testing loons for mercury poisoning for two decades. He estimates that he has sampled over 4,000 loons across North America over the years. Loons are especially good indicators of mercury pollution in an ecosystem because they are long-lived – up to 30 years – and territorial, he said...
Mercury can be found naturally in ecosystems, but pollution causes there to be three to five times more than occurs naturally...He said he hoped the known risks to the beloved loons of Adirondack Park would lead to global regulations on releasing mercury into the environment.
Wisconsin Loon Population Survey | LoonWatch | Northland College
The results indicate that the outlook for Wisconsin's loon population looks good. The adult loon population for 2005 was estimated at 3,373
(±495) and chick population was estimated at 805 (±218). This represents a marginal adult population increase over 3,131 adults estimated in 2000 and
significant chick population increase over 462 in 2000. Thus 2005 had the largest loon population estimate since the survey started in 1985.
Soil collected in the Adirondack Mts, NY, had the highest mean soil Hg concentration ( = 0.25 ppm)
Census results reveal a relatively stable population estimated at approximately 2000 loons in the Adirondacks
Common Loons - National Geographic
to this day the Inuit legally hunt over 4,500 a year for subsistence. Loon populations are currently stable
CANADIAN LAKES LOON SURVEY - How many Loons are there in Canada?
Breeding Bird Survey results show an increase in Common Loons from 1966 to 1994, and no significant trends are evident in numbers of wintering loons in North
America from Christmas Bird Count data collected between 1959 and 1988. No obvious trends in numbers of breeding pairs of loons were detected in Quebec between 1954 and 1979 nor determined from aerial surveys conducted in Ontario and southern Quebec between 1990 and 1995. So, it seems likely that if Common Loons have declined since pre-settlement times, most of that decline occurred before modern survey programs were implemented.
In Canada, polar bear population stable | Alaska Dispatch
A recent survey of bears in the Western Hudson Bay region found the population hasn't changed since 2004, despite dire predictions.
Biologist Mitch Taylor, speaking at a fur industry event in Iqaluit Friday, said the scientific information used to count the populations could be flawed.
"I have more confidence in the traditional ecological knowledge that local people have provided that populations in their areas are stable or increasing," he said.
...Many Inuit people say they see more polar bears every year, despite the doom and gloom advanced by some groups and scientists.
"As an Inuk, as a person living in the North, it's hard to swallow and hard to believe knowing the fact that there's a number of polar bears," said James Eetoolook, the vice-president of Nunavut Tunngavik.
Nunavut has 12 distinct polar bear populations. Recent estimates show most populations are healthy.
In total, Taylor estimates there are 15,000 polar bears in Canada.
Terence Corcoran: The truth rolls in on green charities | JunkScience.com
You can sleep your way to a green economy
There is reason to be sceptical about the Norwegian researchers´concept of "climate-related disasters", but that does not invalidate their conclusion that natural disasters do not increase the risk of armed conflicts.
HH Lamb–“Climate: Present, Past & Future–Vol 2”–In Review–Part II « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Concerning the post 1940 cooling, Lamb comments.
Kukla & Kukla (1974) report that the area of snow and ice, integrated over the year across the Northern Hemisphere, was 12% more in 1973 than in 1967, when the first satellite surveys were made...
Intriguingly Lamb refers to a study by [Stephen] Schneider & Mass in 1975 and comments
As regards causation of the climatic change from 1600 – 1970, Schneider & Mass, while admitting evidence for effects of great dust producing volcanic eruptions and man’s output of CO2, were able to simulate most of the supposed course of global mean surface air temperature over the past 370 years, by use of a formula expressing variations of the solar energy available in terms of sunset numbers, using Kondratiev & Nikolsky’s relationship which gives maximum solar energy at sunspot number 80...
Lamb then goes on.
There is a considerable measure of agreement between the 24 forecasts listed. Expectation of a trend towards colder climates with weakened general atmospheric circulation from 1950 or 1960 onwards seems to have been well verified by the actual weather to date.
Most forecasts expect this regime to continue into the 21st C , possibly into the second half of that century, in some cases with a further sharp cooling about 1980, and somewhat easier conditions for a time in the first half of that century.
The Japanese global survey and forecast usefully stresses the increased variability and incidence of extremes of temperature and rainfall in recent years.
“The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology into thinking we have conquered nature. This well-written book points out in clear language that the climatic threat could be as awesome as any we might face, and that massive world-wide actions to hedge against that threat deserve immediate consideration.”
- Stephen Schneider, Back cover endorsement, Lowell Ponte, The Cooling: Has The Next Ice Age Already Begun? Can We Survive It (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976).
'Gasland' Filmmaker Takes on Cuomo and 'Dot.FlatEarth' - NYTimes.com
[Warmist Andy Revkin] Overstatement for the sake of getting attention always kicks back — as has happened on climate many times. Ask the editors of the journal Science about the importance of “sweating the details.”
[Josh Fox] I suggest renaming your blog dot.flatearth...We should not be building new power plants that burn fossil fuels, period...Mr. Revkin, you are in danger of going down a dangerous road, that of the worst kind of apologists for fossil fuels–masquerading as environmentalists while throwing the public health concerns of the New Yorkers who are least politically and economically positioned to defend themselves to the wayside.
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