Monthly Archives for September 2014
China Demand $100 Billion While They Continue To Increase Emissions
By Paul Homewood
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/24/climate-change-china-rebuts-obama/
Fox report:
While President Obama challenged China at the United Nations to follow the U.S. lead in pushing for drastic reductions in national carbon emissions to save the planet from “climate change,” it appears that China has dramatically different ideas. As in: no.
According to a document deposited at the Geneva-based U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in advance of a planned meeting next month, China — now the world’s largest source of greenhouse gases — insists that the U.S. and other developed countries endure most of the economic pain of carbon emission cutbacks, and need to make significantly more sacrifices in the months ahead.
Carbon emission cutbacks by China and other developing countries, the document says, will be “dependent on the adequate finance and technology support provided by developed country parties” to any new climate accord.
In other words, only if Western nations pay…
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Jennifer Francis Ignores The Evidence Of The Past
By Paul Homewood
Jennifer Francis continues to push her “global warming will lead to colder winters” nonsense, even though NOAA’s own (admittedly adjusted and homogenised) data tells the exact opposite.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/cei/graph/2/01-12
New Scientist carry this latest report:
The rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change may be to blame for more frequent prolonged spells of extreme weather in Europe, Asia and North America, such as heat waves, freezing temperatures or storms.
These are relatively short-term periods of bizarre weather, like the cold snap that paralysed North America earlier this year, rather than longer-term rises in temperature.
They are related to “stuck” weather patterns, Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told a conference on Arctic sea ice reduction in London on 23 September. “Is it global warming? I think it’s safe to answer yes,” she told the meeting.
Francis said…
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THE ONGOING ARCHIVES —DMI MAPS—
Thanks Caleb. I’ll be putting these into gifs.
This post will simply be a presentation of the Danish Meteorological Institutes arctic maps, with the most recent at the the top. I find that simply by scanning the maps one is able to create a sort of mental animation of what is occurring at the Pole, in terms of temperatures and weather.
During the winter one is wise to keep an eye cocked to the north, and to be aware when the arctic is discharging in your direction. As a very general rule, when the Pole is importing air to your north you are more liable to get a thaw, and when it is exporting air to your north you are more liable to get a freeze..
There are of course subtleties that make that rule look foolish. Part of the fun is noting what can divert the cold air, or retard it. However one thing I have noted…
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The Royal Society & the Scottish Referendum
Why did a scientific organization issue a statement about the Scottish independence vote?
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The Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy, is supposed to be about science. When one of its officials gets quoted, we naively imagine that Science – with a capital “S” – has spoken.
But the past few presidents of the Royal Society have demonstrated little ability to erect a firewall between their own personal views and precise, scrupulous science.
I can image no better illustration of this than the fact that Paul Nurse, its current president, thought it appropriate, prudent, and wise to issue a public statement in the wake of last week’s referendum on Scottish independence.
What was this man thinking? Why would he go near that nakedly political topic with a ten-foot pole?
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BACKGROUND
Again and again in the climate debate, we’re told that prestigious organizations such as the…
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Mike’s NYT trick
There still seems to be a lot of confusion among Mann’s few remaining supporters as to why Phil Jones credited the “trick of adding in the real temps” to Mann’s Nature article (MBH98). Today I will review that topic.
Let’s first see what the Great Master himself says about the issue in his book of Fairy Tales:
In reality, neither “trick” nor “hide the decline” was referring to recent warming, but rather the far more mundane issue of how to compare proxy and instrumental temperature records. Jones was using the word trick in the same sense — to mean a clever approach — that I did in describing how in high school I figured out how to teach a computer to play tic-tac-toe or in college how to solve a model for high temperature superconductivity. He was referring, specifically, to an entirely legitimate plotting device for comparing two datasets
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Gales across the British Isles 1871-2014
The Met Office – The Lies of Ommission
If they put forward a reasoning, it can be debated. The silence is rather telling.
This comment is awaiting moderation. They may not release because it’s a reblog comment (understandable ~ish) …or because it’s associated with WeatherAction and Piers Corbyn is one of their fiercest critics, according to the Independent anyway.
This is what I thought was a reasonable comment
Even the BBC mentioned the Antarctic on the 22nd September [emphasis added];
Computer models are doing a better job at forecasting the losses [in the Arctic] but they still underestimate the changes that are occurring.
In the Antarctic, the research problem is a very different one.
This austral winter will be the third year in a row that sea-ice extent has reached a satellite-era maximum, and it is the first time that this record has jumped above 20 million sq km.
Traditionally, the greatest cover is not reached until early October, so there should be time for the south to accumulate even more marine cover.
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Quote of the Week – models, climate sensitivity, the pause, and psychology
There’s a saying that “even a blind squirrel will find a nut occasionally”, and while I don’t think of Steven Mosher as anywhere close to a blind squirrel, he does have the habit of posting comments on climate blogs that appear sometimes as staccato and drive by style incomplete. I attribute that to trying to use a smartphone when a desktop and keyboard is really needed. This time, he’s produced a comment that is in my opinion, a home-run, because it cleanly and linearly sums up the issue of models, climate sensitivity, and “the pause”, along with a dash of psychology thrown in about the value of model based approaches to climate sensitivity compared to observational based approaches.
He writes on Judith Curry’s blog:
it [the new Lewis and Curry paper] wont change much.. But the longer the pause…
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Old-wives summer
Really interesting to see (and the old wives explanation). Thanks Bruce.
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