http://SaturnianCosmology.Org/ mirrored file For complete access to all the files of this collection see http://SaturnianCosmology.org/search.php ========================================================== C3 Climate Model Failure: Oceans' Warming From Earth's Magma Discounted In Climate Models Read here . The failures of the IPCC's climate models are wide and deep. While the models focus on the atmosphere warming the oceans via human CO2 emissions, at the bottom of the seas geological activity is taking place, for the most part unseen, spewing heat and gases into the water undetected. Unfortunately, climate models do not include the reality of massive crustal, seabed activity , and as a result, this lack of model inclusion contributes to the continuous model incapablity of predicting future climate scenarios with any degree of accuracy. /"Scientists from the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen on board the German research vessel Meteor have discovered a new hydrothermal vent 500 kilometres south-west of the Azores. The vent with chimneys as high as one meter and fluids with temperatures up to 300 degrees Celsius was found at one thousand metres water depth in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The discovery of the new deep-sea vent is remarkable because the area in which it was found has been intensively studied during previous research cruises.....“Our results indicate that many more of these small active sites exist along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge than previously assumed,” said Dr. Nicole Dubilier, the chief scientist of the expedition. “This could change our understanding of the contribution of hydrothermal activity to the thermal budget of the oceans."/ October 10, 2010 at 06:50 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Peer Research From China: IPCC's Alarmist Claim of Global Decline of Snowpack Levels Found To Be Wrong Read here . The IPCC and other global warming alarmists have claimed that snowpacks of mountainous areas are declining. Actual scientists decided to investigate this claim to determine if it was based on factual evidence or based on hypothetical speculation. Per peer-reviewed research conducted by Chinese scientists, they analyzed an area of Tibet and discovered that snowpack levels over the past 100 years reveal no significant trends and the levels are quite variable. The most recent levels indicate snowpack is well above previous lows of earlier decades of the 20th century. Another IPCC prediction proven wrong. (click on image to enlarge) / Tibet Snowpack "“The most notable features of the reconstruction are the higher snow accumulation around 1990. The reconstruction also shows that the Gongga Mountain experienced some lower snow-depth episodes during 1910s, 1930s, 1950–1980, and later 1990s. The higher snow-depth intervals occurred during 1910s, 1940s, and the period around 1990 with the highest values during past 100 years. We defined extreme snowpack depth years as those years with values more than one standard deviation (plus or minus) from the average. Although there are several clusters of extreme years over the past century, the century is notable for the long period of snow-depth variations in a normal way except the higher snowpack depth values around 1990.”.....So, what we get here is a classic case of an apparent decline in snowpack from the late-1980s to the near-present, and someone might be tempted to suggest the decline is related to global warming. The Chinese scientists figured a way to reconstruct snowpack going back over 100 years, and that time series shows no evidence whatsoever of any downward trend (in fact, there appears to be a slight upward trend in the data)."/ October 09, 2010 at 06:15 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Climate Model Failure: New Research Pointing To An Earthquake & El Niño Connection, Which Models Ignore Read here . Climate models are unable to predict the ENSO climate pattern (/El Niño/ and /La Niña)/ with any degree of accuracy, which makes them entirely worthless for projecting future climate conditions. Why? New peer-reviewed research is now pointing to a relationship between seismic activity (earthquakes and volcanoes, especially the under water variety) and ENSO events. It is postulated that the energy released by these crustal activities are inducing ENSO responses. If true, climate models will continue to fail their purpose until the seismic activity is incoporated into the models as a climate forcing/influence. /"O. Molchanov of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of the Physics of the Earth makes a case for the hypothesis that, at least partially, global climate changes and corresponding activity indices such as the ENSO phenomenon are induced by similar variations in seismicity.".....it was determined, first of all, that (1) the "climate indices show expected ENSO variation," and "amazingly," as Molchanov describes it, that (2) the earthquake indices demonstrate "similar quasi-ENSO variations." So the next questions were obviously: (1) which is the action? ... and (2) which is the reaction? From a number of other factors considered by the Russian researcher, he concludes that it is "more probable" that earthquake activity is "forcing the ENSO variation in the climate" than vice versa."/ October 08, 2010 at 12:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis First It Was Global Warming Alarmists Becoming Unhinged, And Now It's Climate Models Unraveling Last week we were exposed to the unhinged, malevolent Left/liberal/progressive environmental movement with the release of the 'Greenterror' video (short version). And now this week, two new peer-reviewed studies wreak havoc on existing IPCC climate models' credibility. The catastrophic global warming camp is seriously having a bad week, bad month, bad quarter and bad fiscal year, no? One of the studies purports to show that increasing solar activity cools the Earth. This would be a 180 degree turn from consensus science, and if true, would mean that all past projections of IPCC climate models can be flushed with the rest of the human waste. /"If new satellite data can be trusted, changes in solar activity warmed the Earth when they should have cooled it...studied satellite measurements of solar radiation between 2004 and 2007, when overall solar activity was in decline. The sun puts out less energy when its activity is low, but different types of radiation vary to different degrees. Until now, this had been poorly studied...Haigh's measurements showed that visible radiation increased between 2004 and 2007, when it was expected to decrease, and ultraviolet radiation dropped four times as much as predicted."/ The other study found that the Earth's tropic zones were being affected by global warming more than the polar regions, which is the exact opposite of the infamous IPCC "consensus" science and climate model output. /"Scientists...took almost 500 million temperature readings from over 3,000 locations around the world maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. They tracked temperature changes between 1961 and 2009...These measurements were then correlated with metabolic changes in cold-blooded animals such as frogs, snakes and fish, which do not use their metabolism to regulate their body temperature..."The expectation was that physiological changes would also be greatest in the north temperate-Arctic region, but when we ran the numbers that expectation was flipped on its head,"."/ In summary, the Left-Green violent activists should really take a chill pill because neither the climate scientists, nor the climate models, have a clue as to what is really happening to the world's climate.These latest studies affirm the growing recogniton that climate models do not reflect reality and are entirely worthless as climate prediction/forecast tools. There is one outcome from these studies that is certainly assured, though: send more money! In reality, the purpose of all peer-reviewed studies is to manufacture a reason why more climate research funds are needed for the given author's work. October 07, 2010 at 05:48 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis U.S. Cooling Continues At -8.3F/Century Rate: IPCC/NASA's Climate Model Warming Predictions Still Wrong US Temps September 2010 Source here . The 12-month period ending September 2010 was the 2nd coldest September-ending period since 1998. Of course, this U.S. cooling trend will eventually revert to a warming trend, but the current decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated. This has been a major surprise for all global warming alarmists. This trend has persisted since the super 1997-98 El Niño event. With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would be reporting a cooling trend if they also had the extent and quality of actual temperature measuring coverage that exists in the U.S. The AGW hypothesis calls for global warming, which is obviously not happening in the U.S. - the case for AGW is significantly weakened by this type of empirical evidence. Just as a reminder, the climate models predicted "global" warming, not partial-global warming, as seems to be the present situation. Each red line (link) on graph represents a 12-month period ending in September of related year - continental U.S. temperatures only. Note: A temperature trend, as shown in the above chart, is not a prediction. Additional current temp charts here . Historical temp charts here . October 07, 2010 at 12:34 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Why Climate Scientist Michael Mann Should Be Forced To Have His Day In Court - A Clear, Rational Explanation Read here . Michael Mann is suspected of defrauding taxpayers due to his work in climate science. Science fraud is not unusual , yet Michael Mann refuses to cooperate with various individuals and organizations seeking information about his taxpayer funded scientific work that could actually exonerate him. Michael Mann seeks to be placed above the law, namely the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FOIA is designed to establish essential expectations of transparency of the government funded bureaucracy and its minions, which categorically applies to both the University of Virginia and Michael Mann. Both UofV and Mann have refused to comply with the FOIA thus putting themselves in harm's way of the law. Scientists and universities are not immune, nor above any law, as are the crooks in Congress and the plethora of corrupt UN diplomats - thank goodness. Misconduct and/or fraud in science needs to be identified and stopped legally, especially when institutions of higher learning and the scientific governing associations fail continuously to protect the public from these science transgressions. /"Whether it is the special immunities and privileges the MainStream Media (MSM) seek to deny ordinary citizen journalists or the climate data and information climate scientists attempt to deny ordinary citizen observers of climate science, you don’t have to be a Republican, a political conservative, or a right-wing-nut, to join with our political opponents in demanding non-discriminatory application of the due process of law to scientists the same as other citizens and professions."/ // October 07, 2010 at 05:03 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Prestigious Chicago Museum Caught Promoting Hysteria Re: Rising Sea Levels, Contrary To The Known Science Read here . The well-known Chicago Field Museum of Natural History has an exhibit a display depicting Manhattan under 16 feet of water due to the supposed "runaway" global warming, which has never occurred. This museum, once world famous its for scientific research, education and displays, has now chosen to ignore the actual empirical evidence and science about sea levels. Their Manhattan display actually has no factual basis. Multiple peer-reviewed studies in recent years have examined the actual data and have all developed similar conclusions: that current sea levels are not appreciably increasing, in total contrast to virtual climate model projections and hysterical alarmists. /"It takes about 37.4 gigatons of ice loss to raise the global sea level 0.1 millimeter—four hundredths of an inch. In other words, ice loss from Greenland is currently contributing just over one-fourth of a millimeter of sea level rise per year, or one one-hundreth of an inch. Antarctica’s contribution is just under one-fourth of a millimeter per year. So together, these two regions—which contain 99% of all the land ice on earth—are losing ice at a rate which leads to an annual sea level rise of one half of one millimeter per year. This is equivalent to a bit less than 2 hundredths of an inch per year. If this continues for the next 90 years, the total sea level rise contributed by Greenland and Antarctica by the year 2100 will amount to less than 2 inches... Couple this with maybe 6-8 inches from the fact that the ocean rises with increasing temperature, temperatures and 2-3 inches from melting of other land-based ice, and you get a sum total of about one foot of additional rise by century’s end...This is about 1/3rd of the 1 meter estimates and 1/20th of the 6 meter estimates." [Ed. Note: And certainly not the bogus 16 feet the Field Museum is shamelessly promoting in order to attract visitors - it would seem the huckster museum beleives there are suckers to be had.]"/ A multitude of other sea level postings. h/t: Tom Nelson October 07, 2010 at 12:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Democrats & Computer Models Claim Texas Is Warming: Real Data Has Texas Cooling Last 15 Years, -2.7°F/Century Trend Read here . Here is the recent headline from/ USA Today/: *"**Expert: Texas is getting hotter due to global warming"*. What are the real Texas temperature facts, though? As the NOAA temperature graphs for Texas reveal (the below graphs represent temperatures through August 2010), over the last 100 plus years Texas temperatures exhibit a cooling trend equal to a minus 0.10 degree Fahrenheit per century. For the second graph below, the temperature trend for the last 15 years is a minus 2.7 (-2.7) degrees Fahrenheit per century. What about the warmest decade "evaaar!", ending on December 31, 2009, you may ask? Welllllll.....Texas temperatures declined during that time span declined at a minus 7.3 (-7.3) degrees per century rate. Okay, why does the /USA Today/ headline say otherwise? Unfortunately, the climate scientists the "objective" reporters quote base their Texas "temperatures" on the fictional, speculative, computer climate model predictions, not the actual Texas temperatures. The scientists use their virtual "climate porn " temperatures to assure they can maintain their funding (research grants, taxpayer subsidies, green organization endowments, etc.), or increase funding, in the name of global warming research. If the scientists actually spoke the truth about Texas temperatures, their source of funding may shrink or entirely disappear. Why doesn't the mainstream press, like /USA Today/, report the actual Texas temperatures correctly instead of bogus alarmist climate model predictions? The press, unfortunately, is not interested any longer in the truth and objective reporting. Instead, the MSM eagerly supports the big government agenda that climate alarmist scientists are advocating for, and thus slants the reporting to push the agenda. The MSM press wants Democrats/progressives/liberals elected so that more regulations and taxes can be imposed on the traditional energy sector (Big Oil & Big Coal). The MSM has decided that the only way to assure Democrat victories is literally to spread bogus temperature information from the Left/liberal climate-porn scientists in order to scare the voters. It's really as simple as that. Moral of this story? Don't trust the MSM press regarding any climate change issue, and don't trust any big government funded scientist about global warming. And for goodness sakes, don't believe any output from climate models - they're a global joke . (click on images to enlarge) Texas 100 yr cooling Other modern temperature charts. Historical temperature graphs. Texas cooling 15 years h/t: Tom Nelson Update: I see where Steve Goddard has also taken issue with the bogosity of Texas temperatures used by the USA Today article. He uses the same official NOAA temp database but uses different time periods to look at Texas temps. October 06, 2010 at 06:49 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Glacier Retreat Data Proves Antarctica Had Significant Climate Change During Medieval Warming Read here . Peer-reviewed research documents the glacier retreat that happened during the Medieval Warming period for the Antarctica peninsula area. Despite Climategate scientists and alarmists claims, this evidence confirms that Antarctica (and the Southern Hemisphere) experienced the climate change of the Medieval era. /"Hall et al. examined organic-rich sediments exposed by recent retreat of the Marr Ice Piedmont on western Anvers Island, where glaciers have been undergoing considerable retreat in response to the well-documented warming of the Antarctic Peninsula..... This work revealed, in their words, that "peat from the overrun sediments dates between 707 ± 36 and 967 ± 47 cal. yr B.P.," which led them to conclude that "ice was at or behind its present position at ca. 700-970 cal. yr B.P," which they interpret as implying that "the present state of reduced ice on the western Antarctic Peninsula is not unprecedented," which means that this period was at least as warm as, or likely even warmer than, the peak warmth of the Current Warm Period."/ October 06, 2010 at 12:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Ethanol Boondoggle Continues: Billions of Big Govt Subsidies To Ethanol, and Oil Imports Still Grow Read here . The brilliance of big government politicians is always soooo stunning. Big corn business interests tell politicians that ethanol will cut oil imports substantially. Politicians believe the corporate types and the sleazy renewable energy investors (i.e., Gore, Soros, etc.), and thus give $7 billion per year in subsidies to these corn-geeks. Now after 10 years of this idiocy, corn ethanol production has increased dramatically but oil imports has increased even more - that's right, U.S. oil imports increased, despite the claims of the ethanol rip-off lobby. And now the politicians and big government EPA bureaucrats want to subsidize the big corn investors even more by mandating the all U.S. gas have at least 15% ethanol, which will automatically decrease a vehicle's miles per gallon efficiency. Simply amazing. It's time to escort the existing ruling class in Washington out the door this November. /"In the next few weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to rule on a proposal to increase from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of ethanol that may be blended into gasoline.....Since the 1970s, Congress has justified subsidies[1] to the corn ethanol industry with the oft-repeated claim that boosting domestic production of ethanol will increase America's energy security by reducing U.S. oil imports.....Between 1999 and 2009, U.S. ethanol production increased seven-fold, to more than 700,000 barrels per day (bbl/d). During that period, however, oil imports increased by more than 800,000 bbl/d./ * /Tax subsidies provided to corn ethanol producers have been larger than those given to producers of any other form of renewable energy.[5]/ * /Corn ethanol subsidies are now costing U.S. taxpayers about $7 billion per year, the Congressional Budget Office reported in July.[6] The CBO found that producing enough corn ethanol to match the energy contained in a single gallon of conventional gasoline costs taxpayers $1.78.[7]/ * /Corn ethanol is a financially inefficient method of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, costing taxpayers $754 per metric ton of CO2 avoided, the Congressional Budget Office also reported."/ h/t: Tom Nelson October 05, 2010 at 06:00 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Hollywood "Scientist" Who Predicted A Large Scale Y2K Disaster, Now Pushes AGW Catastrophic "Science" & Violence Read here . Hollywood bimbo, Gillian Anderson, is not just your typical celebrity bimbo. She truly appears to be that rare combination of always being incredibly gullible and stupid at the same time. It's one thing to push the faux CO2-calamity science, but it's an amazing jump towards stupidity to participate in video productions advocating death for non-AGW believers. In the famous X-Files TV series, Gillian portrayed a FBI scientist whose primary objective was to debunk non-scientific speculation, and to protect the public from violence. In reality, she's just the opposite - a hysterical alarmist, violent-prone bimbo. What if the X-Files scientist 'Scully' actually read peer-reviewed studies about the climate, and then reviewed temperature data from the past and present ? If she did, 'what would Scully do'? Go hysterical FBI-bimbo on us? I don't think so. October 05, 2010 at 09:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Climate Models Fail Spectacularly At Simulating Clouds' Impact, Peer Reviewed Study Finds Read here . Clouds are critical in determining Earth's radiation balance. In order for climate models to accurately project future climate conditions, they absolutely must be able to simulate correctly the many facets of clouds interaction with radiation, both reflection and absorption. The newest peer-reviewed research finds that climate models fail miserably at cloud simulation, which may explain why climate model output ranges from bad to worthless . /"...authors Zhang et al. (2010) note that the different representations of clouds and their feedback processes in Global Climate Models (GCMs) have been identified as major sources of differences in model climate sensitivities, stating that "contemporary GCMs cannot resolve clouds and highly simplified parameterizations are used to represent the interactions between clouds and radiation.".....And what was particularly striking, in the words of Zhang et al., was "the model overestimate of the occurrence frequency of deep convection and the complete absence of cirrus anvils," plus the fact that "the modeled clouds are too reflective in all regimes.".....Since incoming and outgoing radiation are strongly affected by the 3D spatial pattern of clouds of various types, a model that gets the "right" current global temperature with the wrong pattern of clouds must have errors in its radiation and/or heat transfer parameterizations.....results of this study thus suggest that climate modelers' claims of physical realism in their models are not supported by detailed comparisons with the real world..." / October 05, 2010 at 12:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Italian Alps Cave Provides 17,000 Year Temperature Record: Researchers Confirm Temps Go Up & Down, Naturally S Italy Alps Read here . Map source here . For eons, Earth's climate and temperatures have changed in a cyclical pattern. In a peer-reviewed study, researchers analyzed a cave speleothem that produced a 17,000 year temperature record. The results clearly show that the climate changes naturally, and significantly, while atmospheric CO2 levels remained at levels well below current levels. They also confirmed that Roman and Medieval period temperatures equaled or exceeded modern temperatures. /"Working with stalagmite SV1 from Grotta Savi -- a cave located at the southeast margin of the European Alps in Italy.....This work revealed -- among several other things -- the occurrence of the Roman Warm Period and a Medieval Warm Period.....the five researchers say they were "characterized by temperatures that were similar to the present," while with respect to the Roman Warm Period, they say its "temperatures were similar to those of today or even slightly warmer.....we have here yet another example of the millennial-scale oscillation of climate that has characterized the earth throughout glacial and interglacial periods alike; and we note that it provides three good examples of times when temperatures were equally as warm as they are presently, or even warmer, in spite of the fact that the air's CO2 content was much lower at those earlier times than it is today."/ October 04, 2010 at 05:46 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis The Greenpeace & NRDC Utopian Version of 10:10 Video Release? h/t: JoNova October 03, 2010 at 03:32 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Disastrous, Severe Weather Events On Decline Since "Unprecedented" Warming of 1990's & 2000's Read here . Steve Goddard listed the 25 worst disasters, and they all occurred prior to the 1980's and prior to CO2 levels being above the "disastrous," end-of-the-world 350 ppm point. Using the same source as Steve, below are two bar graphs depicting the 100 worst disasters for the 20th century. As the charts reveal, there was only a single 1990's severe weather related event (a non-earthquake, non-volcano, non-epidemic ) that managed to make it in the top 100. This indicates (despite the continuous, hysterical alarmist claims) that high levels of CO2 and "unprecedented " global warming appear to be unrelated to severe weather events. So, the next time you read or hear that a bureaucrat/scientist, or a celebrity, or a reporter, or a politician claim that severe weather events are more deadly and more frequent, you'll know you are witnessing a flat-out, agenda driven liar. For more postings about severe weather data and research, go here . If you prefer, SPPI has consolidated multiple 'C3' severe weather postings in a single PDF, which can be downloaded from here . (click on images to enlarge) Worst 50 disaster 1939-1999 So far, during the 21st century, two severe weather events would have a fatality count that would exceed the smallest of the top 100 20th century disasters. Neither the 2003 European heatwave , nor the 2008 Myanmar cyclone though, would have made the top 25 list of 20th century disasters. [Note: 2010 Pakistan floods and Russian heatwave would not have made either list.] Top 50 Disasters 1900 to 1938 Special note: Approximately 20,000 lives were lost during the 2003 European heatwave. From Wikipedia, here are top reasons given why so many of France's citizens perished: /1. "Because of the usually relatively mild summers, most people did not know how to react to very high temperatures"/ /2. "most single-family homes and residential facilities built in the last 50 years were not equipped with air conditioning"/ /3. "Furthermore, while there were contingency plans for a variety of natural and man-made catastrophes, high temperatures had never been considered a major hazard"/ /4. "The heat wave occurred in August, a month in which many people, including government ministers and physicians, are on holiday (Many bodies were not claimed for many weeks because relatives were on holiday)"/ /5. "The administration of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin laid the blame on families who had left their elderly behind without caring for them"/ /6. "the 35-hour workweek, which affected the amount of time doctors could work and family practitioners vacationing in August"/ /7. "Many companies traditionally closed in August, so people had no choice about when to vacation"/ /8. "Family doctors were still in the habit of vacationing at the same time"/ /9. "Many blamed Health Minister Jean-François Mattei for failing to return from his vacation when the heat wave became serious, and his aides for blocking emergency measures in public hospitals (such as the recalling of physicians)"/ /10. "blamed the Raffarin administration for ignoring warnings from health and emergency professionals and trying to minimize the crisis."/ October 03, 2010 at 10:07 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Peet Bogs Are A Climate Negative Feedback, Not Positive, As Gore Claimed Read here . That great Nobel thinker, CO2-spewing, money-grubbing, sex-crazed poodle of a politician, Al Gore, claimed in U.S. Senate testimony that global warming caused peetlands to release more CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, which is a "positive" feedback causing additional warming. Is the Gore-science prediction correct? As usual, the answer is a definitive 'Nope.' In a new peer-reviewed study by Chinese researchers, it was found that peetlands provided a negative feedback mechanism as temperatures warmed. Now, who are going to believe? A selfish, self-centered, prima donna , Democrat political hack or real, peer-reviewed scientists? /"The authors write that peatland ecosystems "play a key role in the global carbon cycle and are influenced by global climate change," within which context the world's climate alarmists say the ongoing warming of the planet will lead to great releases of previously-sequestered carbon to the atmosphere in the form of CO2 and methane, which will greatly exacerbate global warming.....In describing their findings, the four researchers report that "obvious increasing trends in RERCA [recent rate of carbon accumulation (RERCA)] were observed in all peat cores,".....they say that the temporal increase in RERCA in the upper regions of the cores -- which likely corresponded to the warmest segment of their two-century study period -- "changed to a much greater extent in recent decades than in the earlier period of peat formation.".....this most recent study out of China indicates that the world's climate alarmists have got things one hundred and eighty degrees out of phase with reality in terms of the influence of earth's peatlands on the planet's temperature. These land types *provide a negative feedback* to global warming, whereby when they warm, they extract more -- not less -- CO2 from the atmosphere, applying a brake on rising temperatures..."/ October 01, 2010 at 05:53 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Leftists, Liberals, Progressives & Democrats Promote Violence Towards Others (including children) In New Global Warming Video Read here . The news media pooh-poohed the leftist, green fanatic who took hostages at the Discovery building in Maryland, but realistically, he was a recent indicator of the current violence and hate that liberals/progressives and Democrats have unleashed on the unsuspecting public. The Left is in an angry uproar about the fact that few, if any, really fear global warming. This anger is manifesting itself as violence against the public, and especially those who disagree with their big-government, anti-liberty solutions. The Left, worldwide, has become emotionally ill . Case in point, watch the video below (and don't forget this sick Greenpeace video ). Note how leftists and progressives of the entertainment and sports world are participating in violent videos that reveal how they would deal with those who dare to disagree - it's their own "final solution ." Amazingly, their embrace of violence even extends to murdering children. * *Update*: Well, well, well.....the leftist-green, human-hating 10:10 organization appears to have changed their "I dream of violence" YouTube vid from a public video to a private-viewing only video. It would seem the Left/progressive/Democrat violence perverts have been publicly embarrassed but still desire private showings of their video. Did we say sick yet? * *Update*: The video is back on YouTube from a different source - h/t: The Reference Frame * *Update*: The 10:10 organization offers an explanation of why video was removed Understand, these are mainstream leftists-liberals-Democrats encouraging violence against others. The Left is seriously sick and should no longer be allowed near the levers of power. This type of sickness has previously proven to lead to mass genocide tactics and totalitarian regimes. For the U.S., it's time to remove all Democrat incumbents from office via the peaceful ballot box this coming November, before the level of Democrat/Left/liberal violence and hate escalates even further. Update: From the Left, more evidence of the Left's inclination towards violence and totalitarianism. Update: Famous physicist weighs in on Left's "I dream of violence" video. September 30, 2010 at 07:10 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Will Global Warming Destroy U.S. Maple Syrup Industry? New Peer-Research Says 'No' Read here . Global warming alarmists have an amazing propensity to be wrong with their catastrophic predictions. The latest one to get a scientific smack-down is that the maple industry will die in the northeast U.S. because of a warming climate. A new peer-reviewed study finds that the only thing that will change for the maple syrup industry is the date when they actually start "tapping" for the syrup during the winter months. /"Skinner et al. note that “The major finding is that sap collectors will need to get busy earlier in the late winter and spring to adapt to the expected warming winters in the New England states. Through the twenty-first century, the optimal time to maximize sapflow days will advance to an earlier date in the year. By 2100 this change will be nearly 30 days.”.....“Provided the change in the beginning of the sapflow window can be anticipated, the number of sapflow days will change very little through 2100 in the heart of the Northeast U.S. maple syrup production region.....If you are worried that sap producers will be forced to cope with increased climate variability, relax, as Skinner et al. conclude “There is no indication that the year-to-year variability in the number of sapflow days will change substantially through the current century. Current year-to-year variation is a substantial challenge for maple producers; it shouldn’t worsen.”"/ Of course, if winter warming in the northeast U.S. area is truly a concern, it would be nice if "unprecedented" or even an itty-bitty warming was really happening. From the U.S. climate agency, we discover that winters in the New England region have been cooling over the last 15 years - at an astonishing minus 11.3 degrees (-11.3) per century rate.NE US winter Last 15 Years September 30, 2010 at 03:17 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis The "Beaching" of The CO2-AGW Hypothesis In The UK? 2010-09-30_084712 Read here . Sooooo. Now that the UK's Royal Society has managed to turn a great nation of thinkers into the land of hysterical blithering idiots , it decides that the Alice In Wonderland climate science its been promulgating is not really tied to scientific reality. Well, a belated "bully" for them and a Yank's "it's about time," dumb a****. Does the Royal Society decision mean it's joining Phil Jones in a new UK reassessment of the hysterical global warming hype that the United Nation's IPCC claims is "science"? Or, is it a case that the Royal Society is hedging its bets as global cooling becomes more of a reality? Or, is it a result of reading-the-tea-leaves from the recent survey of climate scientists? Or, did the Scientific American/Nature poll about lack of trusting scientists on climate change push them out of the hole? We'll probably never know for sure but it's most definitely a welcome and needed change. The downside to the Royal Society climbing out of the rabbit hole? We may no longer get the UK howlers their idiot MSM reporters produce, such as the beached "polar bear" image above. (click on image for source) September 30, 2010 at 09:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis NASA's Inaccurate Climate Model Technology Pushed Into Schools' Classrooms: 'Incompetence 101' or 'Propaganda 101'? Read here . Big government bureaucrats, whose entire careers are based on incompetence and wasting billions of tax dollars, have now decided that students should learn about the government's inaccurate, non-reliable, CO2-centric computer climate models. Are they really unreliable and inaccurate? Well, the facts do speak for themselves. As everyone knows from real world day-to-day experience, weather computer models are notoriously inaccurate for weather projections out past a few days. Seasonal forecasts by weather/climate models are even worse, to the point that experts are no longer relying on them. It has become established scientific fact that the inaccuracy of computer model's increases exponentially over time, making them entirely useless as thermometer predictors for any future period. The good news though about NASA's "education" initiative? Ultimately, this will allow students to start learning just how incompetent and politicized government paid scientist-bureaucrats are, plus provide a solid eye-witness experience for not trusting the bogus, virtual-world, computer models, especially the climate model variety. That's what's great about the internet. As students start researching climate science and climate models, they will find accurate and objective analysis that will totally refute the NASA bureaucrat-scientist propaganda pushed into the classroom. To help get students started on the road to a honest and truthful climate model education, we present the following: 6a010536b58035970c0134871e1531970c There is not a single government sponsored climate model, nor government paid NASA/NOAA scientist, that predicted the above significant temperature cooling scenario (forecast) over the past decade for the large landmass that the U.S. continental states represent. 6a010536b58035970c0133ee105e21970b In Senate testimony during the summer of 1988, a NASA scientist testified that his GISS climate model's predicted temperatures will accelerate to much higher levels if the world's governments did nothing about reducing CO2 emissions. In reality, as the temperature data above shows, actual temperatures in 2009 were about the same as in 1988, some twenty years later. 2010-09-30_062040 h/t: Real Science . The above temperature prediction map from NASA's climate models shows Antarctica temperatures increasing 6 to 10 degrees Celsius from 1960 to 2060, over large swaths of the ice continent. It's been 50 years since 1960 and the overall trend of Antarctica temperatures has been a stable to a tiny cooling trend, just the opposite of what climate models predicted. 6a010536b58035970c0133ee107052970b Finally, what do the climate models actually predict about global temperatures that NASA does not reveal to students or to the general public? If the U.S. reduced CO2 emissions by 80%, global temperatures would be impacted by an almost unmeasurable 3/10's of a degree. In other words, the climate reality is that the climate policy (reducing CO2 emissions) that NASA promotes (and that the climate models were specifically designed to support) will literally have no impact on the climate, per the government's own climate models. Did we say SNAFU ? For students new to the massive waste and incredible incompetence of government bureaucrats and scientists, welcome to the real world! September 30, 2010 at 05:10 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Peer-Reviewed Study: Conclusive Evidence From Spain Shows Cold Temperatures Kill More Than Hot Temps Read here . One of the most blatant lies spread by global warming alarmists is the one that warmer temperatures always cause an increase in deaths. There is no empirical evidence to support such a claim, but that hasn't stopped the leftists/liberals/progressives/Democrats from lying to the public about this issue. Will this new study stop the lying by Democrats? Not likely, but for those who prefer objective science to propaganda, this study clearly indicates warmer temperatures enhance life expectancy - there are less cardiac/respiratory/digestive related deaths when its warmer. This might explain why there is a mass migration by U.S. natives to warmer states of Arizona,Texas and Florida, away from the colder U.S. states. (click on image to enlarge) Spain Cold Weather Kills /"...authors obtained meteorological data from weather stations situated in eight of the provincial capitals that covered the period 1980-1998, while they obtained contemporary mortality data from the country's National Institute for Statistics for deaths associated with cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive system diseases.....Various analyses of the monthly-averaged data revealed a number of interesting results. First, for all three of the disease types studied, Fernandez-Raga et al. found that "the death rate is about 15% higher on a winter's day than on a summer's day," which they describe as "a result often found in previous studies,".....The data clearly demonstrate that the people of the Castile-Leon region of Spain are much more likely to die from a cardiovascular disease in the extreme cold of winter than in the extreme heat of summer. And the same holds true with respect to dying from respiratory and digestive system diseases: cold is a much greater killer of people than heat is almost everywhere in the world..."/ Additional death from AGW-hysteria postings. September 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Latest ENSO Research: Scientists Are Unsure (Clueless) About Global Warming Impact On El Niño/La Niña Read here . At one time, the hubris of global warming scientists led them to believe their climate models could explain/predict the future ENSO variations. As usual, Mother Nature made fools of the scientists, so they went back to investigate what they and their models could actually explain/predict about ENSO. End result of peer-reviewed study? /"...they state that "it is not yet possible to say whether ENSO activity will be enhanced or damped, or if the frequency of events will change."....."it is not clear at this stage which way ENSO variability will tip ... As far as we know, it could intensify, weaken, or even undergo little change depending on the balance of changes in the underlying processes."....."by a team of twelve researchers hailing from six different countries (Australia, France, India, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States), wherein they review the findings of what they describe as "a hierarchy of mathematical models [that] have been used to explain the dynamics, energetics, linear stability and nonlinearity of ENSO,""/ /"The authors write that "the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation," whereby "on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions," and that "these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world," which end up affecting "ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.""/ Additional climate model postings./ / September 29, 2010 at 03:58 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Phil Jones, The 'Closet' Skeptic: Is He Now Throwing The CO2-AGW Hypothesis Under The Bus? Back in February, Phil Jones, of Climategate infamy, did an interview with the BBC. Out of that interview came some very significant revelations that boarded on AGW heresy, including: * /"neither the rate nor magnitude of recent warming is exceptional./ * /There was no significant warming from 1998-2009. According to the IPCC we should have seen a global temperature increase of at least 0.2°C per decade./ * /The IPCC models may have overestimated the climate sensitivity for greenhouse gases, underestimated natural variability, or both./ * /This also suggests that there is a systematic upward bias in the impacts estimates based on these models just from this factor alone./ * /The logic behind attribution of current warming to well-mixed man-made greenhouse gases is faulty./ * /The science is not settled, however unsettling that might be./ * /There is a tendency in the IPCC reports to leave out inconvenient findings, especially in the part(s) most likely to be read by policy makers./" Now, several months later, Jones has published a paper with others that concludes the 1970's land surface cooling was due to cooling in the North Atlantic Ocean. Obviously, Jones and company are now recognizing that natural, large-scale factors are forcing global changes in temperatures besides the IPCC favored trace gas CO2 from human emissions. * Update: More fascinating information , including this chart immediately below, that seemingly supports the ocean oscillation and land temperature relationship of the Jone's paper. 2010-09-30_221450 And apparently, Jones and company are not claiming that human CO2 is the cause of the ocean oscillations that are associated with sea temperature changes in the first place. Gee, I wonder why.....could it be that CO2 levels have zero influence on ocean cycles/oscillations as the below charts suggest? Or, phrased another way, could the actual CO2 level at a given time be the cause of the given peak/valley of an ocean oscillation at that same point in time? The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (like other ocean oscillations) is a climate pattern with a mode of variability , which seems to naturally occur regardless of atmospheric CO2 levels. /"A climate pattern may come in the form of a regular cycle, like the diurnal cycle or the seasonal cycle; a quasi periodic event, like El Niño; or a highly irregular event, such as a volcanic winter.....A mode of variability is a climate pattern with identifiable characteristics, specific regional effects, and often oscillatory behavior.....the mode of variability with the greatest effect on climates worldwide is the seasonal cycle, followed by El Niño-Southern Oscillation, followed by thermohaline circulation."/ /Other well-known modes of variability include: The Antarctic oscillation; The Arctic oscillation; The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation; The Indian Ocean Dipole; The Madden–Julian oscillation; The North Atlantic oscillation; The Pacific decadal oscillation; The Pacific-North American teleconnection pattern; The Quasi-biennial oscillation. / Of course, Jones is well aware that climate patterns, like ENSO, have existed for thousands of years , well before any traces of industrial CO2 entered the atmosphere. Again, these climate patterns with large variability are happening regardless of CO2 levels. (click on images to enlarge) AMO and CO2 SOI and CO2 PDO and CO2 The above charts have the historical atmospheric CO2 levels (red curve) simply super-imposed on the various oscillations. For more information on natural ocean oscillations, go here , here and here . [Note: Other prominent deniers of natural factors being principal agents in climate change are also starting to see the light .] September 28, 2010 at 12:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Disaster Losses From CO2 "Global Warming": Multiple Studies Determine There Is No Connection Read here . Despite the world's lemming elites pushing the hysteria about global warming caused disaster losses, a peer-reviewed researcher examines the evidence and, without hesitation, concludes the elites are wrong. Surprised? /"The analysis of twenty-two disaster loss studies shows that economic losses from various weather related natural hazards, such as storms, tropical cyclones, floods, and small-scale weather events such as wildfires and hailstorms, have increased around the globe. The studies show no trends in losses, corrected for changes (increases) in population and capital at risk, that could be attributed to anthropogenic climate change. Therefore it can be concluded that anthropogenic climate change so far has not had a significant impact on losses from natural disasters."/ [Note: Giant German insurance company Munich Re, which has a primary business line of selling disaster insurance, just came out with a marketing press release that scientists are labeling false in its claims about climate change caused disaster. Maybe the MR PR/marketing people need to educate themselves on the facts .]/ / September 27, 2010 at 01:01 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis The World's Elites Finally Put 1 Plus 1 Together: Potential For Dangerous Global Cooling Growing Read here . We've discussed global cooling in many prior posts . If natural cycles push the world to a cooling tipping point, humanity is not prepared for the devastation because of the vast sums of money and time wasted by the elites on the CO2 global warming boogieman. Have the elites finally awoken to their incredible bungling? Time to identify and list those elites responsible for gross incompetence? /"Let me explain briefly why this is a bombshell waiting to explode.// / /Almost every government in the Western world from the USA to Britain to all the other EU states to Australia and New Zealand is currently committed to a policy of “decarbonisation.” This in turn is justified to (increasingly sceptical) electorates on the grounds that man-made CO2 is a prime driver of dangerous global warming and must therefore be reduced drastically, at no matter what social, economic and environmental cost. In the Eighties and Nineties, the global elite had a nice run of hot weather to support their (scientifically dubious) claims. But now they don’t. Winters are getting colder. Fuel bills are rising (in the name of combating climate change, natch). The wheels are starting to come off the AGW bandwagon. Ordinary people, resisting two decades of concerted brainwashing, are starting to notice. / /All this, of course, spells big trouble for the global power elite."/ September 27, 2010 at 08:31 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis New Northern Hemisphere Research: 30 Datasets Prove Roman/Medieval Warmings Hotter Than Current Temps Read here and here . A new study reconstructs 2,000 years of temperature variation from 30 datasets. The authors eliminated the discredited data and techniques utilized by Michael Mann (of Climategate fame) for multiple studies, and also used by his close paleo research comrades. For example, this study totally avoids the bristlecone pine and foxtail pine data that so miraculously produced the fake hockey-stick blades of temperatures in the 20th century. This new study's findings demonstrate that climate change has been very active over 2,000 years, with pronounced changes in temperature being one of the results. This past climate change and temperature variation happened in a atmosphere of low CO2 levels. These results also reveal Roman and Medieval temperatures that exceed modern temperatures derived from the same 30 datasets. (click on image to enlarge) 2000 yr NH Temperatures This chart shows the modern global warming, as do so many paleo studies, but confirms that both warming and cooling are natural cyclical events. Additional historical temperature charts. Climate history postings. Modern temperature charts. September 26, 2010 at 11:01 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Climate Science "Disruption": Climate Scientist Survey Reveals A Significant Non-Consensus Read here . A recent survey reveals that the fundamental underpinnings of the catastrophic AGW global warming science based on climate models are not robustly held by even those scientists who think that the IPCC reports add value to advancement of climate science. /"As Judith Curry has been noting over at her weblog, there is considerable uncertainty regarding the building blocks of climate science. The scientists know this. The politicians, propagandists and the converted acolytes haven’t gotten the message. If this survey does not educate them, nothing will."/ Survey results of 379 climate scientists - an overabundance of non-consensus: * /"#1 - Only 12% agree or strongly agree that data availability for climate change analysis is adequate./ * /#2 - Only 25% agree or strongly agree that “Data collection efforts are currently adequate,”/ * #3 - /Only 17.75% agree or strongly agree with the statement, “The state of theoretical understanding of climate change phenomena is adequate.”/ * #4 - /Only 22% think atmospheric models deal with hydrodynamics in a manner that is adequate or very adequate./ * /#5 - Only thirty percent (30%) feel that way about atmospheric models’ treatment of radiation/ * /#6 - Only 9% feel that atmospheric models are adequate in their treatment of water vapor–and not one respondent felt that they were ‘very adequate.’/ * /#7 - Only 1% felt that atmospheric models dealt well with clouds/ * /#8 - Only 20% felt ocean models dealt well with hydrodynamics/ * /#9 - Only 11% felt that way about modeled treatment of heat transport in the ocean/ * /#10 - Only 6.5% felt that way about oceanic convection/ * /#11 - Only 12% felt that there exists an adequate ability to couple atmospheric and ocean models/ * /#12 - Only 7% agree or strongly agree that “The current state of scientific knowledge is developed well enough to allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of turbulence,”/ * /#13 - Only 26% felt that way about surface albedo/ * /#14 - Only 8% felt that way about land surface processes/ * /#15 - Only 11% [felt that way] about sea ice/ * /#16 - Only 32% agreed or strongly agreed that the current state of scientific knowledge is developed well enough to allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of greenhouse gases emitted from anthropogenic sources"/ September 26, 2010 at 05:36 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis West Arctic Peer-Research Confirms Greenland Ice Core Data: Medieval & Roman Periods Warmer Than Modern Climate Read here . McKay et al. research PDF download . Peer-reviewed study analyzing 9,000 years of sediment core data (two different types of sediment cores) from the west Arctic Ocean area confirms what was learned from the Greenland ice cores: the Medieval and Roman periods experienced higher temperatures than the world's present climate. See top chart, Fig. A. (click on image to enlarge) West Arctic SSTs and Ice [Note: Blue bars on y-axis of both figures indicate range of modern measurements. The open and closed markers for both figures represent the results from the two sediment cores. The red-shaded areas represent warming periods as found within the sediment cores. The authors contend the red-shaded areas are associated with an evident 2,500 year period of oscillation that naturally occurs.] Ice-core charts and other historical temperature charts here . Additional climate history postings. In addition, this study was able to determine the approximate sea ice coverage (see bottom chart, Fig. B) over the last 9,000 years. As one would expect, and the bottom chart data reveals, the actual sea ice coverage would be less over the term of a calendar year when the sea-surface temperatures were higher. Obviously, the "death spiral" of Arctic sea ice that big-government paid scientists like to frighten MSM reporters with (about the current Arctic conditions) has happened multiple times before. These "death spirals" are solely due to natural climate variation - literally, humans don't cause these sea-ice death spirals and humans can do nothing to stop them from happening. The final conclusion of authors: Modern surface temperatures of west Arctic are well below historical/ancient temperatures. Modern sea-ice coverage is well above the 9,000 year average of the past. Neither modern measurement is "unprecedented" as claimed by global warming alarmists. The readers can also conclude the following from both this new evidence and the previous Greenland ice core data: Polar bears and walruses are not at risk since both species survived much warmer temperatures and significantly less ice in the past. September 25, 2010 at 04:41 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Why Developing (Buying) All-Electric & Plug-In Hybrid Cars Is Really A Stooopid Idea: China Read here . Soooo, China and Japan get in a dispute about a Chinese fishing boat and the next thing the world knows, China has put an embargo on rare earth metals . These chemical elements are essential for the manufacture and maintenance of green vehicles, which especially rely on the state-of-the-art batteries and electronics that rare-metals make possible. For the unaware, China produces about 95% of the world's supply of these elements. As this most recent example illustrates, for the U.S. government to push electric cars onto the auto produces and consumers, knowing China could easily strangle the global market with a stroke of a pen, is the height of big-government stupidity. Of course though, when it comes to stupid and moronic ideas for businesses and consumers, the liberal-left Democrats are in a class of their own. Previous C3 postings on electric autos: here , here , here , here , and here . Update: Here's a great piece on why rare earth elements are not really a rare resource but are indeed "rare" in the global marketplace. In a way, the U.S. is responsible for manufacturing a shortage in rare earth elements, which will likely continue. September 24, 2010 at 08:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis New Swiss Evidence Proves Modern Warming Cooler Than Medieval Warming Period, Study Finds Swiss Lake MWP Read here . Map source here . Brand new peer-reviewed study that analyzes subfossils from a Swiss lake confirms what hundreds of previous peer-research have found: that the Medieval Warming had temperatures significantly warmer than modern ones. /"Thousand years of climate change reconstructed from chironomid subfossils.....Based on their analysis of fossil chironomids (non-biting midges) -- which were identified and quantified in four sediment cores extracted from the bed of Lake Silvaplana -- the authors constructed a detailed history of that region's mean July air temperature.....Larocque-Tobler et al. report that "at the beginning of the record, corresponding to the last part of the 'Medieval Climate Anomaly' (here the period between ca. AD 1032 and 1262), the chironomid-inferred mean July air temperatures were 1°C warmer than the climate reference period (1961-1990)," which would also make them warmer than most subsequent temperatures as well. And in looking at their graphs of 20- and 50-year running means, it can be seen that the peak mean warmth of the Medieval Warm Period exceeded that of the Current Warm Period by approximately 0.5°C in the case of 20-year averages and 1.2°C in the case of 50-year averages."/ Additional climate history postings. Historical temperature charts here . September 24, 2010 at 01:31 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis The Non-Existent, "Severe" Global Warming In Chicago: Is "Climate Disruption" A Misnomer? Read here . Steve Goddard has a new blog, where he covers a wide variety of subjects, with most posts being climate oriented. Recently he posted about the cold 2009 summer in Chicago, which generated this comment from one of his readers: "/OOOOO a cold summer. How about looking at overall trends. You might see that it is warming. Don’t do big oils bidding. Educate yourself."/ It's always amusing to see the incredibly lame, parrot-like response about "Big Oil." But it truly becomes a roll-your-eyes moment when the commenter then idiotically challenges the blogger to "educate yourself" or something similar to that, clearly indicating the commenter is without factual portfolio - an empty suit so-to-speak. If you read the first link above, you'll see how Steve responds to this idiot's challenge. In the meantime, what are the facts about Chicago warming? Is Chicago experiencing the extreme hot, record-setting days that global warming alarmists have said is happening across the globe, due to the massive human CO2 emissions of unconstrained consumerism. Well...,er......,no.....,not really. When objectively examining the extreme hot days (100 degrees Fahrenheit or more) during the months of June, July and August, most of the record-setting temperatures occurred before the last two decades ending in 2009 - and there were no record-setting 100 degree days during the 2010 summer. (click on image to enlarge) Chicago Heat Record Days The gray columns represent the record setting 100 degree days for the period from 1990 to 2010 - a total of 5 days. For the period from 1930 to 1949, there were 13 record-setting 100 degree days. Plus, July 24, 1934 still holds the record as the hottest Chicago day evaaar! If one includes the 1980's and the 1950's into the mix, the most recent 3 decades only generated 13 record-setting days versus 16 days for the 3 decades ending 1959. So......after all the wild and hysterical claims about extreme, dangerous, unprecedented and accelerating warming, it turns out that one of the world's largest metropolitan areas wasn't really affected by the massive global human CO2 emission increase. Hmmm...maybe all that severe, dangerously extreme "climate disruption" stuff is just someone blowing reefer smoke, like constantly. Additional modern temp charts here . Historical temp charts here . September 23, 2010 at 02:49 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Peer-Reviewed Cherry Blossom Reseach Confirms Japan's Medieval Climate Warmer Than Current One A2010-09-21_215937 Read here . Map source here . Japanese scientists working with historical data and documents determine that the extended Medieval Warming had temperatures exceeding current temps by at least one-half degree. Their research also confirms that the Medieval Warming was global in nature, not just a northern Europe climate condition as speculated by IPCC Climategate scientists. /"The authors investigated documents and diaries from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries to supplement phenological data series pertaining to the flowering of Japanese cherry trees in Kyoto, Japan, "to improve and fill gaps in temperature estimates based on previously reported phenological data," after which they "reconstructed a nearly continuous series of March mean temperatures based on 224 years of cherry flowering data, including 51 years of previously unused data, to clarify springtime climate changes.".....The resulting temperature reconstruction "showed two warm temperature peaks of 7.6°C and 7.1°C, in the middle of the tenth century and at the beginning of the fourteenth century, respectively," and they say that "the reconstructed tenth century temperatures are somewhat higher than present temperatures".../ Additional climate history postings. Historical temperature charts here . September 22, 2010 at 10:01 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. XII: Early Winter Breaking Out In Northern Hemisphere ("Climate Disruption" Gone Wild) After much of the Southern Hemisphere was hammered by extremely cold weather during their winter, the northern part of the globe appears to be headed for the same misery. Climate disruption targets Canada and northern U.S. with early winter Climate disruption strikes UK with unusual early cold weather Climate disruption hits British Columbia with record cold Climate disruption disrupts Arctic summer with record cold Climate disruption brings early snows for Russia Climate disruption cools and ruins the entire southern California summer Climate disruption causes record New Zealand spring blizzard, lambs die by thousands Climate disruption forces polar bears to seek colder climes in UK (according to MSM) Peru is praying for climate disruption of the global warming variety - nice and toasty, they hope h/t: Tom Nelson & Climate Depot for many of the stories Note: Previous global cooling postings in this series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part 8 , Part 9 , Part 10 and Part 11 . September 22, 2010 at 06:40 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Severe Weather Events In U.S.: The 'Worst-Of-The-Worst' Happened Prior To Large Human CO2 Emissions Read here . Death. Destruction. Devastation. North America and the United States have experienced all sorts of severe weather events that have caused significant mayhem. As the figure below indicates, many of the 'worst-of-the-worst' weather incidents took place decades before the infamous "global warming" climate change of the last two decades. It now appears that low atmospheric CO2 levels cause extreme climate change, based on the actual "causation" evidence. Many experts are now wondering if the UN-IPCC's and MIT-favored precautionary principle should be invoked globally in order to avoid future low CO2 levels. It would require pumping vast amounts of CO2 into atmosphere to mitigate low-CO2 climate change weather events. ;-) Low CO2 Weather Events - US Additional severe weather postings and charts . September 22, 2010 at 08:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis "Global Warming" Flooding In Eastern U.S. Has Not Happened, Study Finds - Climate Change Predictions Wrong Read here . The latest peer-reviewed research discovers that the predicted increase in flooding for the eastern part of the U.S., due to "global warming," has not occurred. As the empirical scientific research grows, the results keep confirming that the climate is not responding consistent with AGW climate model predictions. /"In the words of the authors, they "examined the distribution of flood peaks for the eastern United States using annual maximum flood peak records from 572 U.S. Geological Survey stream gaging stations with at least 75 years of observations.".....Of even greater interest to the climate change debate, however, were their more basic findings that (1) "only a small fraction of stations exhibited significant linear trends," that (2) "for those stations with trends, there was a split between increasing and decreasing trends," and that (3) "no spatial structure was found for stations exhibiting trends." Thus, they were literally forced to conclude, most importantly of all, that (4) "there is little indication that human-induced climate change has resulted in increasing flood magnitudes for the eastern United States.""/ Other severe weather postings. Other climate model failure postings. September 21, 2010 at 11:01 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Climate "Science"? Both NOAA & Environment Canada Admit To Major Problems With Their Surface Temp Data Read here and here . As critics of "global warming" science have pointed out for years, there are serious issues with the surface temperature datasets that result in corrupted global average temperatures that are currently used by policymakers. Unfortunately, it took the Climategate scandal(s) to reveal publicly the corruption and incompetence of global warming science. Now, finally, government scientist-bureaucrats are starting to admit (or are being forced to admit) that the entire global datasets are seriously frakked-up. * /"At the meeting in Exeter, UK September 7-9, 2010 , Surface temperature datasets for the 21st Century, there were several candid admissions with respect to the robustness of the global and USA surface temperature record that are being used for multidecadal surface temperature trend assessments (such as for the 2007 IPCC report).....There are very important admissions in these presentations. First, outside of the USA, there is inadequate (or no) publicly available information on station histories, yet these data are still used to create a “homogenized” global average surface temperature trend which reaches up to the “highest level of government”. Even in the USA, there are undocumented issues."/ * /"From the “we told you so time and again department”, Canadian weather data is a mess. It took an FOIA to get the “fess up” out in the open.....“The common assumption among users is that the data has been observed accurately, checked for mistakes and stored properly,” said the report, printed in June 2008. “It is profoundly disturbing to discover the true state of our climate data network and the data we offer to ourselves and the real world.”...The stinging assessment, obtained through an access-to-information request, suggests that Canada’s climate network infrastructure is getting progressively worse and no longer meets international guidelines."/ // Due to the general incompetence of government paid climate scientists (eg., NOAA, GISS, CRU, and the Met Office) from major countries and the IPCC, the massive amounts spent on this research still has not resulted in producing a trusted and reliable climate metric reporting system, which would provide the requisite, actual, accurate temperature measurements. [Note: Globally, climate scientists have managed to spend north of $80 billion-plus (the U.S. portion is at least $70 billion ) of taxpayer monies in an attempt to prove human CO2 causes global warming. This quest for the AGW Holy Grail has not only needlessly diminished the treasuries of various countries, it has also, by definition, reduced funding for a variety of other important, competing science disciplines that are government funded.] Update: NOAA is now asking for more money to fix the weather/climate reporting system - an admission that a serious problem exists. September 21, 2010 at 06:11 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Another Failed IPCC Prediction: Three Peer-Reviewed Studies Find Amazon Not At Risk From Higher CO2 Levels Read here . Over the recent past, IPCC climate alarmist scientists were predicting that the Amazon would suffer incredible shrinkage and losses from the increasing levels of CO2. As is often the case, the Amazonia speculative predictions appear to be without any merit - it would seem, the IPCC climate scientists' predictions just can't stand up to litmus test of empirical (non-computer model) scientific research. /"Three recent papers appearing in leading scientific journals spell trouble for the alarmists’ claims about global warming and the precious and delicate Amazon rainforest.....Saleska et al. used satellite-based measurements and much to their surprise, they found that forest canopy “greenness” over the drought-stricken areas increased at a highly significant rate. They conclude that “These observations suggest that intact Amazon forests may be more resilient than many ecosystem models assume, at least in response to short-term climatic anomalies.”.....Getting right to the bottom line, they [Laurance et al.] report that “Forest biomass also increased over time, with the basal area of trees in our plots, which correlate strongly with tree biomass, rising by 4% on average.”.....“The increasing forest dynamics, growth, and basal area observed are broadly consistent with the CO2 fertilization hypothesis.”.....Lapola et al. conclude “Biome projections for the end of the century in tropical South America are quite variable, depending not only on the climate scenario, but also on the effect of CO2 fertilization on photosynthesis."..... If the CO2 fertilization does in fact occur (and 1,000s of experiments suggest it is occurring and will occur in the future), “most of Amazonia would remain the same.” / September 20, 2010 at 05:48 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Tom Friedman & The NY Times: The China Lies Continue As World's Worst Polluter Just Keeps On Polluting Read here and here . Tom Friedman continues his unabashed love affair with China, the world's worst polluter, and a very repressive, anti-democratic regime to boot. This love affair for China again causes Friedman to spread falsehoods about Chinese energy/environmental policies. Images and video below reflect the actual pollution hellhole that China's environment is. /"Thomas Friedman, columnist for the New York Times, again trots out the "if only we were doing as good as China" story.....It is a great story. Except for the fact that it is not true..."/ No other industrial or developing country should emulate the energy and environmental policies that cause the Middle Kingdom to destroy its own ecology and landscapes./ /(click on image for source and more information)/ / 09cnd-pollutespan-articleLarge _47513396_008993778-1 China-water-dead-fish China_1387486c 20091020luguang06_cr From the BBC, Tom Friedman's and NYT's admired China: September 20, 2010 at 06:42 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Climate Disruption: Cyclone Fatalities Were Larger Prior To Global Warming of Last Two Decades Over the past week, the Obama administration has introduced the new terminology of "climate disruption " in order to advance the necessary fear-mongering that elites of big government and big business plan to literally prosper from . Much like the war armament merchants of decades past, who hyped the potential of war in order to sell more arms, the merchants of "evil" global warming do the same. Luckily, modern fear-mongering has become less effective, as evidenced by the recent desperate changes from "global warming" to "climate change" to today's idiotic phrase of "climate disruption." (Note: vote for next scary Obama/Democrat phrase to be used when "climate disruption" is thrown under the bus.) Obviously, this newest terminology now allows the merchants to claim any weather event as human caused (ie, caused by human CO2 emissions), which liberal Democrats hope to enrich and empower themselves by using. The good news for the world's populace though, is that severe, extreme weather events have caused less fatalities over the past two decades, which includes events defined as tropical cyclones . If modern global warming is causing more disastrous and fatal climate cyclonic disruptions as claimed and predicted, the empirical evidence suggests otherwise. Ten Worst Cyclones Additional severe weather postings and charts . September 19, 2010 at 06:39 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Are Pyschologists Fundamentally Crazy? A UK Psych Group Promotes Global Warming Propaganda Agenda Read here . Seriously, one has to wonder about the sanity of psychologists and their stunning inability to distinguish between the hysterical alarmist claims of truly crazy people and green groups that proselytize global warming, versus the actual, real scientific evidence regarding global warming - helloooo....global warming is not unprecedented , nor accelerating , nor global . Instead of challenging the fanatical greens, the anti-democracy, the anti-growth, the anti-poverty, and the alarmist anti-science forces that promote the global warming hysterics, both UK and American psychologists want to develop propaganda and manipulative psychological tactics to literally green-brainwash the vast majority of the skeptical public. In essence, trained psychologists want to promote/embellish irrational fear rather than inhibiting/tempering it. That technique has been used before on the public with ugly consequences. /“People aren’t stupid: they know that if there are wholesale changes in the global climate underway, these will not be reversed merely through checking their tyre pressures or switching their TV off standby. An emphasis upon simple and painless steps suppresses debate about those necessary responses that are less palatable – that will cost people money, or that will infringe on cherished freedoms (such as to fly). Recognising this will be a key step in accepting the reality of loss of aspects of our current lifestyles, and in beginning to work through the powerful emotions that this will engender.....Through the enhanced awareness of what other people are doing, a strong sense of collective purpose can be engendered. One factor that is likely to influence whether adaptive or maladaptive coping strategies are selected in response to fear about climate change is whether people feel supported by a social network – that is, whether a sense of ‘sustainable citizenship’ is fostered.....A nationwide climate change engagement project using a group-based behaviour change model with members of Trade Union networks is currently underway..."/ September 18, 2010 at 09:13 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Global Warming Will Increase Marine Life In Australian Waters, Latest Peer-Research Finds Read here . Whether it's vegetation or animal species, global warming produces environments and local climates that allow species to thrive and prosper. Scientists have now concluded the same will happen for marine life around Australia, including sharks, turtles and the overall fisheries biomass. Excellent! There is a fly-in-the-ointment, though. A huge caveat actually. The scientists used a variety of computer models to come to this conclusion. First, they used output from an IPCC climate model (the 'A2' warming scenario); then a ocean climate model was used based on the A2 output; that model's output was then fed into a "suite" of models; and finally, that output was fed into a dozen marine food web models. Yikes! Objectively, the likelihood of a correct prediction from a serial chain of model outputs is probably as low as someone picking the correct six numbers (from zero to 99) for the mega-million lotto - that's a really low probability of success. Unfortunately, after spending billion on computer models, they're still nothing more than extreme crystal ball gazing with serious problems . /"In the concluding sentence of their paper, Brown et al. state that the primary production increases suggested by their work to result from future IPCC-envisioned greenhouse gas emissions and their calculated impacts on climate "will provide opportunities to recover overfished fisheries, increase profitability of fisheries and conserve threatened biodiversity," which is an incredibly nice set of consequences to result from something the world's climate alarmists claim to be an unmitigated climate catastrophe."/ September 17, 2010 at 05:42 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis The Electric Car Fiasco: Sucking Money Out of Average Person's Wallet To Subsidize The Rich & Famous Read here and here . If our recent posting on electric cars wasn't damning enough about these not-ready-for-prime-time toys, here's the clincher: we, the people, will be subsidizing the purchase of these vehicles for the rich and famous. Did we say stooopid yet? See, we need to help reduce the self-guilt trip the wealthy have about living the good life; and, we need to raise their self-esteem if they're to survive all the future CO2-spewing their lifestyles absolutely demand. Hey, it's really, really important that they feel good about themselves! That's why Obama and the Democrats need all the taxpayers to help and sacrifice for the "poor" wealthy folks during these bad economic times. "/Bill Nye, The Science Guy, and Alyssa Milano have joined Lance Armstrong as celebs who have reserved the Leaf. Nissan spokesperson Katherine Zachary confirmed that the Tour de France extraordinaire is still in line to receive one of the first Leafs to reach U.S. shores.....The average buyer of a 2011 Nissan Leaf is a 45-year-old baby boomer.....The typical buyer has an income of about $125,000 a year.....Buyers list energy independence and environmental consciousness as primary motivators for choosing the Leaf."/ /"[Gov.] Bredesen (TN) said the state's $2,500 rebate, coupled with an available $7,500 federal tax credit, would "about even out the premium (charged) for an electric car" versus a car with a traditional gasoline engine.....Taxpayers will subsidize this car to about one-third of its sale price. Every time you see a Leaf drive by, you'll know someone else is driving it thanks to you. Once again, a technology and product that has no natural market is being favored by the political class at the expense of the rest of us."/ h/t: Instapundit / / September 16, 2010 at 03:30 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Modern Data and Historical Research Reveals Global Warming Decreases Famine and Deaths From Droughts Read here . Historical evidence from peer-reviewed studies indicates that the worst famines were experienced during droughts of climate cooling phases . When the world experienced global warming phases, drought induced famines, and the subsequent deaths, declined. The actual empirical evidence undeniably shows that the world has not suffered a major death-drought over the past two decades, when modern global warming was at its peak. (click on image to enlarge) Ten Worst Droughts Note: 20th century famines primarily due to political reasons initiated by totalitarian, leftist regimes (Soviet Union, North Korea, and China) are not included in the above chart. Additional severe weather postings and charts . September 16, 2010 at 10:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis New Study: 5,000+ Years of Data Reveals Hurricanes Not Influenced By Climate Change; IPCC Climate Models Wrong Read here . Global warming alarmists, Big-Government money (BGM) scientists, leftist/liberal/Democrats, MSM reporters, and the IPCC climate models all predicted (claimed) that global warming (climate change) caused more intense and more frequent hurricanes. Based on the scientific evidence from peer-reviewed research, it appears these predictions were pure fabrications solely designed to alarm the public, in an attempt to advance the UN's and elites' political agenda. Analyzing sediment cores that revealed evidence of hurricane strikes in the Caribbean region, scientists clearly determine that hurricanes were not influenced by continuous climate change over 5,000 years. /"...they were able to construct a detailed history of intense hurricane strikes from 5300 to 900 years before present (BP)......Based on their analyses, Wallace and Anderson report "there has been no notable variation in intense storm impacts across the northwestern Gulf of Mexico coast during this time interval," i.e., 5300-900 yr BP, "implying no direct link between changing climate conditions and annual hurricane impact probability." In addition, they say "there have been no significant differences in the landfall probabilities of storms between the eastern and western Gulf of Mexico during the late Holocene, suggesting that storm steering mechanisms have not varied during this time.".....the two Rice University (Houston, Texas) researchers say that current rates of intense hurricane impacts "do not seem unprecedented when compared to intense strikes over the past 5000 years,""/ Additional climate history postings. Additional severe weather postings. September 16, 2010 at 05:06 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. XI: Climate Is In Cold Mode, And It's Creating Cooling Trends Across Globe The evidence keeps mounting that mother nature is mocking the "2010 is hottest" claim being made by climate alarmist scientists and their hysterical, MSM parrots (ooops, "reporters"). The coming 6 months could indeed be very cool based on what's happening across the globe. (Previous global cooling postings in this series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part 8 , Part 9 and Part 10 .) Expert meteorologist explains global cooling indicators & conditions Satellite temperature readings starting to plummet U.S. long-term cooling continues - minus 8.6°F per century rate La Niña intensifies - Pacific cooling is happening faster than predicted Arctic melt season was shortest evaaar!? Calgary, Canada experiences a very cold summer Mississippi - sets new low temperature record - old record set in 1924 UK endures cold August, lowest temps in 17 years Victoria, Australia snowfalls set record New South Wales (NSW), Australia has coldest winter in 12 years Swiss Alps , Argentina & New Zealand have huge snowfalls September 15, 2010 at 10:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Chinese Peer-Reveiwed Study Provides Overwhelming Evidence That IPCC Is Wrong: Medieval Warming Was Hotter 2010-09-15_071347 Read here . Map source here . More research from China confirms Medieval temperatures were significantly warmer than current ones. The study also provides direct evidence that the Medieval Warming was a global phenomenon, not just a European regional climate condition, as the IPCC speculates. /"...the authors extracted cores of peat from a location close to Hani Village, Liuhe County, Jilin Province, China; and they used them to develop, as they describe it, "a peat cellulose δ18O temperature proxy record proximately existing for 14,000 years.""....."Their efforts revealed, first of all, that the MWP had indeed held sway on the Chinese mainland over the period AD 700-1400, peaking at about AD 900......they say MWP temperatures were as much as "0.9-1.0°C higher than modern temperatures "....."with respect to the last 14,000 years, Hong et al. write that "sudden cooling events, such as the Older Dryas, Inter-Allerod, Younger Dryas, and nine ice-rafted debris events of the North Atlantic are almost entirely reiterated in the temperature signals of Hani peat cellulose δ18O."....."indicating that the recurring warming and cooling did indeed occur "outside the European region" and that it truly was "a common phenomenon.""/ Additional climate history postings. September 15, 2010 at 05:19 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis The Findings of Three New Peer-Reviewed Studies: Coral Reef Damage From CO2-Warming Was Overblown Hype Read here . Big-Government funded scientists and Big-Soros funded leftist-AGW-activists all predicted that CO2-induced "global warming" would cause permanent damage to the world's coral reefs. Now three new studies have found that the predictions of coral reefs' demise from AGW is categorically false. The moral of the story? As is usually the case, government funded climate scientists and left funded activists are primarily on the agenda payroll to mislead and deceive. Their claims and predictions of AGW calamities should be heavily discounted as there is high likelihood that further science will expose them as agenda-driven, political-based garbage. Fortunately, there are still objective scientists publishing science that doesn't kow-tow to the leftist, collective, agenda or the fabricated IPCC "consensus." * /"“Despite the multiple influences on the reef sites over the study period, the size classes of the corals studied showed resilience to change.” We suspected this all along – the coral reefs have been around for 100’s of millions of years! He states “What is apparent from this study is that despite the chronic and acute disturbances between 2002 and 2008, demographic studies indicate good levels of coral resilience on the fringing reefs around Discovery Bay in Jamaica.” Crabbe warns that “Unfortunately, previously successful efforts to engage the local fisherman in controlling catches around Discovery Bay have not been maintained, and it may be that the development of a Discovery Bay Marine Park is the only solution.” We get the message – don’t blame global warming, blame the local fishermen!"/ * /“The proportional increase in coral cover after 2.5 years was fairly high at reserve sites (mean of 19% per site) and significantly greater than that in non-reserve sites which, on average, exhibited no net recovery.” They conclude “Reducing herbivore exploitation as part of an ecosystem-based management strategy for coral reefs appears to be justified.” An important implication of the research is that the long-term impact of and recovery from coral bleaching events may be largely controlled by herbivore fish – rather than just global warming."/ * /"...they noted that “Coral assemblages in Moorea, French Polynesia, have been impacted by multiple disturbances (one cyclone and four bleaching events between 1991 and 2006).” Their conclusions include the statement “In addition, our results reveal that corals can recover rapidly following a dramatic decline. Such decadal-scale recovery of coral cover has been documented at some locations, but our results are novel in demonstrating rapid recovery against a backdrop of ongoing, high frequency, and large-scale disturbances.”"/ September 14, 2010 at 06:07 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis UN & Leftist Politicians Claim Global Warming Has Increased Severe Weather Disasters: That's Not True For Tornados Read here . As we have documented in prior postings (here , here and here ) severe weather incidents causing large losses of life have not increased over the past two decades as predicted by numerous UN officials and Big Government funded scientists. This is also true for extreme tornado events. Despite huge injections of CO2 emissions and an increase in global surface temperatures, the global warming alarmist predictions of massive loss of life due to severe weather have not materialized. In fact, the ten worst tornado disasters took place prior to the 1990's. Not even the tornado-cursed, impoverished country of Bangladesh has experienced an off-the-chart tornado disaster over the last 2 decades. (click on image to enlarge) Worst Tornados Additional severe weather postings and charts . September 14, 2010 at 04:56 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThis Did Global Warming Cause The Worst Forest Fires? No, The Worst Took Place Before 1990 Read here . Many UN climate officials are attempting to connect the large Russian forest fires this year with global warming and drought conditions. As the expert scientists have told us though, the fires were not due to global warming - this is now a known fact. And, by the way, 9 of 10 of the world's most extreme fatal forest fires occurred before the supposed "unprecedented" global warming of the last two decades. Yet we have UN bureaucrats still claiming otherwise. Why? Are they just incredibly ignorant or pathological liars? The false and misleading statements being made by UN functionaries provides even more evidence of why the UN should not be involved in any future climate change discussions. (click on image to enlarge) Ten Worst Forest Fires Note: This chart depicts forest fires only, not brushfires that are so ferocious and very common on the Australian continent. Additional severe weather postings and charts . 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