Archive for August, 2013
- Review paper finds the so-called unprecedented warmth of the late 20th century (in China) is simply a myth
- New paper finds global carbon cycle datasets may be biased – Published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
- Enviro-lawsuit forces five Indiana coal plants to shut down: ‘A lawsuit brought by environmental groups has forced the shutdown of five Indiana coal-fired power plants by 2018, totalling 668 megawatts of power’
- Observed Rate of Global Warming Half of What the Models Predict
- Analysis: ‘U.S. Climate Getting Much Less Extreme Than It Was 80 Years Ago’ (Declining record maximums and minimums set)
'In 1936, there were 14,793 record maximums and minimums set at all 862 long-term US HCN stations. So far this year there have been only 2,903, and the trend is for a much less extreme climate in the US.'
- No Atlantic Hurricane by August in First Time in 11 Years — A ’Head-Scratcher’
- New paper finds algae have to manufacture their own CO2 due to a paucity in the atmosphere: ‘A paper published in Nature finds that marine algae, which evolved and thrived with atmospheric CO2 levels 15 times higher than the present, required a novel adaptation to adjust to the relatively low CO2 levels during the Cenozoic era, when CO2 levels were still more than twice current levels’
- New paper finds the majority of East Antarctic glaciers have advanced in size since 1990
- Article in Nature suggests ‘high-carbon addictions’ such as using your iPhone can be ‘treated’ the same way as drug addiction
- Lomborg On Cook 97% Survey: ‘It Turns Out They Have Done Pretty Much Everything Wrong’
Lomborg: 'Ugh. Do you remember the “97% consensus”, which even Obama tweeted? Turns out the authors don’t want to reveal their data. It has always been a dodgy paper (iopscience.iop.org/article). Virtually everyone I know in the debate would automatically be included in the 97% (including me, but also many, much more skeptical)'
Read Tol’s letter to the Peter Høj, University of Queensland: ‘the main finding of the paper is incorrect, invalid and unrepresentative.’ (www.uq.edu.au/
about/vice-chancellor) It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad. richardtol.blogspot.co.uk/ 2013/08/ open-letter-to-vice-chancel lor-of.html
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The Media Is Lying About Greenland and Climate Change – It has in fact rained on Greenland before
Last week, media outlets across the globe claimed that there has been rain for the first time at the Greenland summit. “Rain fell at the normally snowy summit of Greenland for the first time on record,” read CNN’s headlines. Others went a step further and declared it a sign of climate doomsday. “Rain On Greenland Ice Sheet, Possibly A First, Signals Climate Change Risk,” read another headline. Unfortunately, for the mainstream media, climate history nearly always comes back to haunt their claims of unprecedented events. Records reveal that this is not the first rainfall in Greenland, and certainly not the first on the Greenland summit peak, which stands at around 10,000 feet.
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Say what? Failing to act on climate change could ‘finally expose China as a global outlaw’!? — Not concentration camps, ethnic cleansing, slave labor, collectivism & authoritarian control?!
NY Post: Ponder this rhetorical question, posed by a columnist at The Hill: “Could climate change finally expose China as a global outlaw?” So it wasn’t the concentration camps that did it. Or the ethnic cleansing. Or the slave labor. Or the decades of collectivist-induced economic misery and authoritarian control. Or the state censorship. It was Beijing’s violations of the Paris Accord.
Indeed, certain pundits have been openly envious of the ability of Chinese Communists to compel their citizens to adopt carbon-mitigation policies. The commissars must be such a disappointment to them.
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Arctic September Minimum Sea Ice Extent Trend RISING Over Past 10 Years – Norwegian Data
OSI Arctic sea ice minimum since 2012 ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p1/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt
September minimum trend has contradicted Al Gore’s predictions of an ice free Arctic. Whether sea ice has turned the corner and will start a recovery still remains to be seen. One thing is certain: The predictions of an ice-free Arctic soon made a decade ago were flat out wrong.
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New York Times urges a stop to a changing climate! Claims ‘it is impossible to guarantee safety of people so long as the climate continues to change’
