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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."/
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Peer Research From China: IPCC's Alarmist Claim of Global Decline
of Snowpack Levels Found To Be Wrong
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.
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)."/
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Climate Model Failure: New Research Pointing To An Earthquake & El
Niño Connection, Which Models Ignore
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. 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."/
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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.
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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
.
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Why Climate Scientist Michael Mann Should Be Forced To Have His
Day In Court - A Clear, Rational Explanation
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.
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."/
//
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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
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Democrats & Computer Models Claim Texas Is Warming: Real Data Has
Texas Cooling Last 15 Years, -2.7°F/Century Trend
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.
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.
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Glacier Retreat Data Proves Antarctica Had Significant Climate
Change During Medieval Warming
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.
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."/
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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
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Hollywood "Scientist" Who Predicted A Large Scale Y2K Disaster,
Now Pushes AGW Catastrophic "Science" & Violence
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.
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.
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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..." /
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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."/
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The Greenpeace & NRDC Utopian Version of 10:10 Video Release?
h/t: JoNova
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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."/
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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..."/
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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.
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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
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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)
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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./
/
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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.
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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
.]
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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
.]/
/
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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."/
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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.
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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"/
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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.
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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.
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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
.
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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
.
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Peer-Reviewed Cherry Blossom Reseach Confirms Japan's Medieval
Climate Warmer Than Current One
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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
.
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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
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5
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Part 6
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Part 7
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Part 8
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Part 9