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Many Thanks: There are now 2,750+ @ClimateRealists at Twitter

Co2sceptic — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 04:36:17 -0400

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I am happy to report that over 2,750 of you are now following me at the ClimateRealists Twitter Account.

If you havn't done so already, please join them and follow my latest news items and links

Many thanks

Gabriel

Source: Twitter.com/ClimateRealists

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ClimateRealists.com Site Announcement

Co2sceptic — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:22:13 -0400

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Dear Climate Realists

It is with regret that due to recent changes in my personal life I will not have the time available to update this site until sometime in the future.

I have made provisions to keep the site running so you can read the 10,000+ articles

I hope the name "Climate Realists" remains a prominent irritation to supporters of AGW and that it is used by you wisely

I bid you all farewell and look forward to the day when the supporters of AGW admit their mistake.

There has been NO warming of the Earth due to "Man Made" co2. The warming can be atributed to 50 years of higher then average solar activity on the Sun that started in the 1950's and ended around 2006.

There WILL be more changes to our climate in the future due to our Sun becoming less active. This change is destined to make the Earth cooler, and NOT warmer. The reason AGW supporters have been misinformed about this issue is from political madness and the abuse of science

In short we have seen extended Summers due to an active Sun and now face extended Winters due to a less active Sun....Pass it on!

I Love you all .....please keep up the fight by calling yourself a "Climate Realist", the term "Climate Skeptic" is not correct, as there is nothing to be skeptical about! It's the Sun stupid;)

Gabriel

Note: Stay tuned to the ClimateRealists Twitter account for major news articles/links:)

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Fracking 'not significant' cause of large earthquakes by Matt McGrath, BBC News

Co2sceptic — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:33:58 -0400

Article Tags: BBC, Energy & Fuel

New research suggests that fracking is not a significant cause of earthquakes that can be felt on the surface.

UK scientists looked at quakes caused by human activity ranging from mining to oil drilling; only three could be attributed to hydraulic fracturing.

Most fracking events released the same amount of energy as jumping off a ladder, the Durham-based team said.

They argue that the integrity of well bores drilled for fracking is of much greater concern.

The research is published in the Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology .
Source: bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment

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Global warming caused cold - a research-and-error by Ulli Kulke, Die Welt

Co2sceptic — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:24:59 -0400

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This year the cold and snow are extreme. Researchers say it was because of global warming. An uncalled behind which seems to be a logical connection.

At night it is colder than outside. Similar to this dictum, which stands as a symbol of nonsense, sounds like what we hear from some climate scientists these days through the icy winter and especially in March and read: Ironically, a man-made global warming was responsible for the cold of the last few weeks.

The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) over to this thesis, as well as the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The claim may sound contradictory. It hides behind quite a logical relationship, first. But ultimately, it is difficult with the - bring Done between heaven and earth together - unfathomable.
Source: Google Translate Die Welt German/English

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A Graph to Debunk AGW: Solar Geomagnetic Activity is highly correlated to Global Temperature changes between 1856-2000

Co2sceptic — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:15:03 -0400

Article Tags: A Graph to Debunk AGW

A paper published in the journal of the Italian Astronomical Society finds that solar geomagnetic activity was highly correlated to global temperature changes over the period from 1856-2000. The authors “show that the index commonly used for quantifying long-term changes in solar activity, the sunspot number, accounts for only one part of solar activity and using this index leads to the underestimation of the role of solar activity in the global warming in the recent decades. A more suitable index is the geomagnetic activity which reﬂects all solar activity, and it is highly correlated to global temperature variations in the whole period for which we have data.”

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Source: hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk

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Increased activity at Korovin volcano (Aleutian Arc, Alaska) during April "R4" period

Co2sceptic — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:07:34 -0400

Article Tags: Astrophysics v Meteorology, Solar Climate Change

Yep, it's time to put on my tin foil hat again but a prominant Earthquake swarm has taken place about the same time as yesterdays Solar activity, I know it's just another coicidence...but you never know the events may well be related....

Volcano activity of April 9, 2013 – Increased activity at Korovin volcano (Aleutian Arc, Alaska) by Richard Wilson and Armand Vervaeck - earthquake-report.com

An earthquake swarm and recent strengthening of volcanic tremor at Korovin volcano (Aleutian arc) (station KOWE) suggests that eruptive activity is occurring or is iminent at the volcano....click source for more.

Source: earthquake-report.com

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Jonathan Moseley: The Warmist Crisis

Co2sceptic — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:52:25 -0400

Article Tags: Jonathon Moseley

The Warmist conspiracy has reached a critical point, with doubters in the establishment speaking out. One of Sweden's top climatologists now admit global temperatures have barely changed (translated from Swedish): "The Earth appears to have cooling properties that exceeds the previous thought ones, and that computer models are inadequate to try to foretell a chaotic object like the climate, where actual observation is the only way to go"

In March, a scientific study "Orbital forcing of tree-ring data" found that global warming is caused by that big yellow thing in the sky. Earth's orbit varies over the centuries. Changing distance to the sun affects temperature. Furthermore, Russian scientists have determined that the global temperature will cool by 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030. (Reported in German in Bild.)

The conspirators had banked on panic to help expand government control over the world's economies. But momentum in public opinion has swung against the doomsayers. As an example of the depth of opposition to the Warmists, consider some of the well-informed commenters on American Thinker who have made valuable points of their own commenting on three recent articles.
Source: americanthinker.com

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Paul Homewood: Met Office’s Private Briefing Document For The Environment Agency

Co2sceptic — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:27:36 -0400

Article Tags: Jet Stream Shift, Met Office, Paul Homewood, UK Drought Forecast 2012, UK Summer Forecast 2012

Here is part of a great blog from Paul Homewood concerning the Met Office’s Private Briefing Document For The Environment Agency....below is his section on the location of the Jet Stream, regular readers of Piers Corbyn would know the answer to this issue....

Following the wet summer in the UK last year, the Met Office provided the Environment Agency with a briefing document, giving an overview of the weather. This was discussed at the September Board Meeting of the Environment Agency, which Met Office officials attended.

As far as I know, this document, which I obtained through FOI, has never entered the public domain. It is brutally honest in admitting how little the Met’s scientists understand about what affects our climate, and, in particular, what caused the unusual weather last year. This is in stark contrast to many of the hyped up claims, made in public statements in the recent past by, among others, the Met Office themselves.

The full document is reproduced below, but there are four particular areas I wish to focus on.
Source: notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com

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Global cooling in Europe by Henry Payne, DetroitNews.com

Co2sceptic — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:14:33 -0400

Article Tags: Henry Payne, World Temperatures

Paris, France – From Anglicanism to Catholicism, Europe’s history is full of state-based religion. In secular 21st century Europe, the unofficial state religion is the GreenChurch. Environmentalism inspires a devout, pro-Kyoto devotion here quite different than the more skeptical American outlook.

But France’s strident green political and media voices are curiously silent this year. Perhaps it’s the bone-chilling spring.

Parisians used to leafy April vistas shiver past leafless trees on Paris’s beautiful, tree-lined parks. Temperatures are in the mid-40s, well below the 60s-normal. Average temperatures across the continent are, on average, 4-8 degrees below normal with March registering colder average temperatures than January. Snow fell in England, France, and Germany this spring- an unusual occurrence. The cold snap follows the frigid London Olympics last summer and over a decade of flat temperatures worldwide. Hardly the stuff of global warming. But the GreenChurch is firm in its doctrine – and the global warming high priests must be obeyed.

If Christianity was the opiate of the masses in centuries gone by, then global warming is the opiate of the upper middle class.
Source: blogs.detroitnews.com/politics

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Opposing Views: Reply to article: Margaret Thatcher, science advice and climate change by Alice Bell, The Guardian

Co2sceptic — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:03:47 -0400

Article Tags: Opposing Views, Reply To Article

Greenwashing Thatcher's history does an injustice both to her and to science and technology policy

We've been running a series of essays on scientific advice recently (e.g. yesterday's piece by Shelia Jasanoff). It's on a break today, but here's something on a related issue.

Margaret Thatcher is often celebrated for her leadership on the issue of climate change. Read, if you haven't already, her 1989 speech to the UN for example. Or the 1988 one to the Royal Society. Or to the 2nd World Climate Conference in 1990. You might be surprised.

The image of Thatcher the global environmental leader jars with some of the patterns of right wing politics we are more familiar with today. Indeed, it suits particular ends of environmentalism to wave this particularly green-tinged blue card around. But Thatcher has long been a flexible cultural image, and in recent years was occasionally used as an icon for climate sceptics too. See, for example, these June 2010 pieces by Lord Monckton writing for the Watts up With That blog and Christopher Booker in the Telegraph.
Source: guardian.co.uk/science/political-science

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Tropical Storm "Imelda" may indicate April "R4" Period is now underway!

Co2sceptic — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:39:44 -0400

Article Tags: Astrophysics v Meteorology, Solar Climate Change

The above chart taken from TropicalStormRisk.com today may be an indication that the First April (9th - 12th) "R4" period, highlighted by Piers Corbyn at the start of this month is now underway.

The following report from SpaceWeather.com confirms a very large area of the Sun has become active...more to follow

FAST-GROWING SUNSPOT: Solar activity is low, but a fast-growing sunspot could break the spell of quiet. AR1718 has more than doubled in size during the past 48 hours as shown in this movie from the Solar Dynamics Observatory [Click source link for Video]. The magnetic field of AR1718 is rapidly changing and therefore prone to instabilities. If it criss-crosses and reconnects--bang! A solar flare could occur. Because of the sunspot's central location on the solar disk, any eruptions would be Earth-directed.

Tropical Cyclone Imelda - accuweather.com

Forecasters with the JTWC as well as the Tropical Cyclone Centre of La Reunion called for further strengthening, culminating in at least Category 2 hurricane equivalent status by Thursday...click source for more.

See below latest...M6.3 Earthquake hits Iran
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Matt Hugo: Forecast for Sun 14th April highlights the plume of warmth in Europe

Co2sceptic — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:56:20 -0400

Article Tags: World Temperatures

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Source: twitter.com/MattHugo81

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Lord Monckton: 'After studying the facts(in which she was relentless) Margaret Thatcher saw what Global Warming was really about"

Co2sceptic — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:37:29 -0400

Article Tags: Lord Monckton

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Source: twitter.com/RiseUpAus

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Blast From The Past: Christopher Booker: Was Margaret Thatcher the first climate sceptic? (June 2010)

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:48:22 -0400

Article Tags: Blast From the Past, Christopher Booker

Margaret Thatcher was the first leader to warn of global warming - but also the first to see the flaws in the climate change orthodoxy

A persistent claim made by believers in man-made global warming – they were at it again last week – is that no politician was more influential in launching the worldwide alarm over climate change than Margaret Thatcher. David Cameron, so the argument runs, is simply following in her footsteps by committing the Tory party to its present belief in the dangers of global warming, and thus showing himself in this respect, if few others, to be a loyal Thatcherite.

The truth behind this story is much more interesting than is generally realised, not least because it has a fascinating twist. Certainly, Mrs Thatcher was the first world leader to voice alarm over global warming, back in 1988, With her scientific background, she had fallen under the spell of Sir Crispin Tickell, then our man at the UN. In the 1970s, he had written a book warning that the world was cooling, but he had since become an ardent convert to the belief that it was warming, Under his influence, as she recorded in her memoirs, she made a series of speeches, in Britain and to world bodies, calling for urgent international action, and citing evidence given to the US Senate by the arch-alarmist Jim Hansen, head of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

She found equally persuasive the views of a third prominent convert to the cause, Dr John Houghton, then head of the UK Met Office. She backed him in the setting up of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988, and promised the Met Office lavish funding for its Hadley Centre, which she opened in 1990, as a world authority on "human-induced climate change".

Hadley then linked up with East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) to become custodians of the most prestigious of the world's surface temperature records (alongside another compiled by Dr Hansen). This became the central nexus of influence driving a worldwide scare over global warming; and so it remains to this day – not least thanks to the key role of Houghton (now Sir John) in shaping the first three mammoth reports which established the IPCC's unequalled authority on the subject.
Source: telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker

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Marc Morano: ‘The great warmist retreat has officially begun. The mainstream media cannot maintain the official man-made global warming narrative any longer’

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:35:54 -0400

Article Tags: Marc Morano

Climate Depot Note:

“The mainstream media cannot maintain the official man-made global warming narrative any longer. With the lack of warming and the failure to shift the climate debate to “extreme weather”, warmists are now losing once stalwart members of the media in promoting man-made climate fears. These are not good times for the promoters of global warming. Earth is failing to follow global warming predictions and the new study claiming current temperatures are the “hottest ever” may be facing a full scientific retraction. The great warmist retreat has officially begun.”

Click source to read FULL report from Marc Morano

Source: climatedepot.com

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Piers Corbyn: HIDE THE RISE! The Warmists Arctic Sea Ice trick 2013 - What the BBC did not report

Co2sceptic — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:50:55 -0400

Article Tags: Headline Story, Ice Chart, Piers Corbyn, World Temperatures

“ONE clear thing we can say about 2012-2013 Arctic Sea Ice Extent is that it shows the most extreme variation of all in the last 11 years. This and other extreme events and changes are predicted aspects of the developing Mini Ice Age now upon us - associated with our WeatherAction Solar-Lunar predicted wild jet-stream shifts and specific events; none of which can be comprehended or predicted by the delusional CO2 ‘theory’.

There is further discussion on the matter on (direct link): http://bit.ly/ZF3jIW

Click source for PDF download

Source: WA News No.7 2013 -HIDE THE RISE! The Warmists Arctic Sea Ice trick 2013 - What the BBC did not report

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Matt Hugo 7 - 12 day European forecast shows spring is on it's way at last

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:03:26 -0400

Article Tags: World Temperatures

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Source: twitter.com/MattHugo81

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Our 2012 forecasts were feeble, admits Met Office: Organisation says that predicting for 'dry' weather was 'not helpful' by Neil Sears (30th March 2013)

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:51:31 -0400

Article Tags: 2012 Forecast, Met Office, UK Drought Forecast 2012, UK Summer Forecast 2012, UK Summer Forecast 2013

Those of us caught in downpours in our shorts or left peeling soggy sausages off the barbecue could probably have told them all along.

The Met Office finally admitted yesterday that the forecasts it gave of ‘dry’ weather last year were ‘not helpful’.

But the organisation’s chief scientist still insisted two-thirds of its long-term forecasts are ‘very helpful’ – without specifying quite what that means for the other third.

In its official guidance to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Met Office said that last April was likely to be ‘drier than usual’.
Source: dailymail.co.uk

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John Ransom: The Attack of the Global Warming Islamist

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:35:15 -0400

Article Tags: John Ransom

Dear Comrade Undoc,

Please note that the Ransom Style Book will no longer recognize the phrase Hooverville Follies. Just as the Associated Press has axed the term Illegal Immigrant, we have replaced the term Hooverville Follies with a more apt phrase: Undocumented Intelligence. Thank you.

Look, I’m not the one who declares every weather event a product of climate change. What I object to is that many scientists and most members of the media write ill-informed opinion pieces that they wrap in the fish paper of scientific discourse. And then if one disagrees with them, they pretend like we’re just too stupid to understand basic science.

For example, last year I wrote about scientists who were trying to make the case that polar bear cannibalism was more prevalent than previously understood – thanks to our friend, global warming. The basis of these “scientific” assertions was 3 (three) pictures that were taken “from the decks of ecotourism and research boats anchored a few hundred yards away.”

Getting past the fact that the scientist in question was the guy who waaaaay undercounted polar bears, setting off the “Oh my God. Those cute polar bears will ALL die!” hysteria, I don’t think you can actually make a scientific case of increased polar bear cannibalism without an underpinning of science.

But that doesn’t stop Global Warming Islamists from argue on behalf of utterly stupid science.

I don’t doubt that the earth is warmer than at some time in the past; and there likely is some man-caused component to it. But the dire predictions, based on flawed models of the alarmists, which have been going on three decades now, frankly have not come to fruition. It’s time for the global warming crowd to admit that there is something about their science that they have fundamentally wrong.

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Source: finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom

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James Delingpole: An English class for trolls, professional offence-takers and climate activists

Co2sceptic — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:30:40 -0400

Article Tags: James Delingpole

Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph – the Hockey Stick – in the history of junk science?

Should George Monbiot be hanged by the neck for his decade or so's hysterical promulgation of the great climate change scam and other idiocies too numerous to mention?

Should Tim Flannery be fed to the crocodiles for the role he has played in the fleecing of the Australian taxpayer and the diversion of scarce resources into pointless projects like all the eyewateringly expensive desalination plants built as a result of his doomy prognostications about water shortages caused by catastrophic anthropogenic global warming?

It ought to go without saying that my answer to all these questions is – *regretful sigh* – no. First, as anyone remotely familiar with the zillion words I write every year on this blog and elsewhere, extreme authoritarianism and capital penalties just aren't my bag. Second, and perhaps more importantly, it would be counterproductive, ugly, excessive and deeply unsatisfying.

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Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole

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Geoffrey Lean: Global warming: time to rein back on doom and gloom?

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:23:22 -0400

Article Tags: Geoffrey Lean

Climate change scientists acknowledge that the decline in rapid temperature increases is a positive sign

All right, I accept that this Arctic April may seem an incongruous time to address global warming. But there are important, and possibly hopeful, developments in the complex, contentious world of climate science that might finally give us all a sense of spring. For some recent research suggests that climate change might not be as catastrophic as the gloomiest predictions suggest.

The research, moreover, comes at a time when many experts are beginning to despair that warming can be prevented from running out of control. Six weeks ago, for example, Prof Sir Robert Watson – the deeply respected former chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – said he believed the world had now missed its chance to keep the average rise in global temperature to less than 2C – the level at which dangerous effects are thought inevitable. But if the new research is right, it might be held below this ominous threshold after all, if determined worldwide action is taken.

Prediction, as they say, is tough, especially when it’s about the future – and that’s especially true when it comes to the climate, whose complexity we only partially understand. It is, as we all know, naturally immensely variable. And the effect of human intervention is subject to long timelags: it will be decades, even centuries, before the full consequences of today’s emissions of carbon dioxide become clear.

Click source to read FULL change of heart from Geoffrey Lean

Source: telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming

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Front Page News: The great recycling con trick: How 12million tons of your carefully sorted waste is being dumped in foreign landfill sites by Steve Doughty

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:10:03 -0400

Article Tags: Front Page News

#Government vows to tighten inspections at ports to curb the problem

#Environment Agency orders councils to check on their contractors

#Waste sent to countries including China, Indonesia and India

Millions of tons of household rubbish painstakingly sorted by families for recycling is being dumped abroad.

Whitehall has admitted that waste from recycling bins is being shipped to countries including China, India and Indonesia, where much of it ends up in landfill.

In papers published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ministers concede that what happens to the 12million tons of 'green' waste shipped abroad every year is largely beyond their control.

The trade in sending rubbish abroad – mainly to Asia – has doubled over the past decade, as councils have increasingly turned to contractors to deal with mountains of waste generated by compulsory recycling schemes.

The law states that this rubbish should be recycled once it is sent abroad – but Defra now admits that in some countries it is simply dumped.

Click source to read FULL report from Steve Doughty

Source: dailymail.co.uk/news/

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Piers Corbyn has "another" QV5 Earthquake hit....this time it's a M7 after one of the biggest solar flares of the year!!!

Co2sceptic — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:43:32 -0400

Article Tags: Astrophysics v Meteorology, Earthquakes (>=7) 2013, Solar Climate Change, Solar Flare & Earthquake 2013

I had been waiting to post the above WeatherAction.com "Red Warning" chart for April starting from the first "R4" period, due to commence on the 9th, and not for the first time the period before this event held a higher "QV" warning. This "new" style of forecasting from Piers certainly throws my understanding of these ratings out.

I tend to look for the highest "R" rating and post accordingly, however on the past two occasions it was the "R3" rating that had the higher "QV" period and it has come up with a higher then average magnitude Earthquake...see below the result for the past two months for these "R3" events and you will see what I mean.
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Paul Mulshine: Climatologists are no Einsteins, says his successor

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:55:39 -0400

Article Tags: Freeman Dyson, Paul Mulshine

Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died in 1955, there was an opening for the title of "most brilliant physicist on the planet." Dyson has filled it

So when the global-warming movement came along, a lot of people wondered why he didn’t come along with it. The reason he’s a skeptic is simple, the 89-year-old Dyson said when I phoned him.

"I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic," Dyson said.

Dyson came to this country from his native England at age 23 and immediately made major breakthroughs in quantum theory. After that he worked on a nuclear-powered rocket (see video below). Then in the late 1970s, he got involved with early research on climate change at the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Source: blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine

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MUST SEE YOUTUBES: Piers Corbyn: "Warm Means Cold" C02 Climate Change Delusions Exposed & Scientists Examine Windfarms & Other Money-Wasting Ideas

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:37:33 -0400

Article Tags: Piers Corbyn

Piers Corbyn: "Warm Means Cold" C02 Climate Change Delusions Exposed

Weather Action TV 28/3/2013

"Warm means cold" C02 Climate Change Delusions Exposed

Presenter Piers Corbyn, Producer: Ivan Atanasoff, Videographer: Jason Lawrence Mark Uploaded: 4/4/2013

See below: Scientists Examine Windfarms & Other Money-Wasting Ideas
Source: weatheraction.com

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Rob Lyons: Lies, damned lies and hockey sticks

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:12:39 -0400

Article Tags: Rob Lyons

‘Global temperatures are warmer than at any time in at least 4,000 years… and over the coming decades are likely to surpass levels not seen on the planet since before the last ice age.’ That was the pithy message offered by New York Times eco-columnist Justin Gillis, reporting on a new reconstruction of past global temperatures published in Science last month. The Atlantic was blunter: ‘We’re Screwed: 11,000 Years’ Worth of Climate Data Prove It.

The Science paper is an attempt to chart changes in global temperatures for the past 11,000 years. In the absence of actual thermometer records any earlier than the late seventeenth century, paleoclimatologists use ‘proxy’ data - things like tree rings - to estimate changing temperatures. The researchers, led by Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University, found ‘Early Holocene (10,000 to 5,000 years ago) warmth is followed by ~0.7 degree Celsius cooling through the middle to late Holocene (less than 5,000 years ago), culminating in the coolest temperatures of the Holocene during the Little Ice Age, about 200 years ago’.

However, then things changed dramatically: ‘Current global temperatures of the past decade have not yet exceeded peak interglacial values but are warmer than during ~75 per cent of the Holocene temperature history.’ The accompanying graph of temperature changes, as shown in the Atlantic article, is startling. Temperatures are more or less stable until just over 1,000 years ago, when a marked cooling started. Then, after a recovery since the Little Ice Age, the line takes off like a rocket in the twentieth century. What clearer evidence could there be for manmade global warming?
Source: spiked-online.com/site/article

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David Hathaway: Latest NASA Solar Cycle 24 Forecast issued 1st April 2013

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:41:17 -0400

Article Tags: David Hathaway, NASA, Solar Cycle 24

The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 66 in the Fall of 2013. The smoothed sunspot number has already reached 67 (in February 2012) due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high and this late. We are currently over four years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906.

Predicting the behavior of a sunspot cycle is fairly reliable once the cycle is well underway (about 3 years after the minimum in sunspot number occurs [see Hathaway, Wilson, and Reichmann Solar Physics; 151, 177 (1994)]). Prior to that time the predictions are less reliable but nonetheless equally as important. Planning for satellite orbits and space missions often require knowledge of solar activity levels years in advance.

CLICK to see ALL forecasts on Solar Cycle 24 from David Hathaway and NASA made so far, they all point to a very low average Sunspot number and the peak being in the fall of this year, time will tell if this forecast is correct....more to follow

Source: solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict

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Front Page News: Outrage at new drought alert: Water firms are forcing cut back despite wettest year by Nathan Rao, Daily Express

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:27:19 -0400

Article Tags: Front Page News

A WARNING to millions of customers to watch how much water they use this summer provoked scorn last night after the worst floods for decades

With many areas still recovering from last year’s record rainfall, water firms called for “wise” usage to prevent restrictions.

One company said that people should show caution as Britain is “never more than 18 months away” from a drought.

The warnings sparked outrage with campaigners branding the comments “weird” and “insensitive” just months after England’s wettest summer on record last year.

And they came days after millions of households, already struggling with soaring energy bills, were hit with hikes in water tariffs.

Consumer groups last night reacted furiously to the calls from water companies Thames, South East and Anglian. Environment consultant Fred Pearce said: “This does seem very odd, it has been incredibly wet over the past year and there is more rain on the way next week. I don’t understand what the problem is. Many people are still drying out from the floods of last summer – this is going to sound very strange to them.

“It is a bit insensitive, and extremely disingenuous when prices have just gone up, and it is a bit weird they should start asking us to be wise with water when huge amounts are lost through leaks.”

Marc Gander, founder of Consumer Action Group, said the comments could be a prelude to another round of price hikes.

Click source to read FULL report from Nathan Rao

Source: express.co.uk/news/uk

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P. Gosselin: Climate Science Humiliated…Earlier Model Prognoses Of Warmer Winters Now Today’s Laughingstocks

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:16:05 -0400

Article Tags: P Gosselin

“The Earth has a fever,” we were told. “The science is settled and the debate is over. Scientists are unanimous - 97% of them agree: climate change is real, and is happening now, and we’ve got to act quickly.”

Over more than two decades we were told again and again that everywhere was warming faster than everywhere else – especially winters were warming up quickly. Snow was becoming a thing of the past and children soon weren’t going to know what it is. “The warm winters that we are seeing are just a harbinger of what’s to come,” the media declared just a couple of years ago. The scientists were cock-sure.

Today we are finding that precisely the exact opposite is happening. Winters in Europe have turned colder and more severe. Central Europe has seen its 5th consecutive colder than normal winter in a row – a record since measurements began in the 19th century.

Climate scientists first reacted by claiming, “One winter does not make a trend“. Then they said that the cold winters were a local phenomenon. Finally they were forced to recently claim, “Cold winters now fit the picture of global warming!”

List of failed predictions

What follows are dozens of predictions for warmer winters made not long ago during the 2000s, many by leading scientists. What started as a simple Google search, turned into a list of false winter predictions for Central Europe, particularly Germany. By sheer coincidence reader Jimbo sent over his own list of false wintertime predictions made by “experts” in the US and Great Britain. I’ve combined the two lists and present one long list to you. Of course we still have to wait (90 years in some cases) to see how some of the predictions inevitably turn out, but current trends do not bode well for them.
Source: Notrickszone.com

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Matt Ridley’s diary: My undiscovered island, and the Met Office’s computer problem

Co2sceptic — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:05:01 -0400

Article Tags: Matt Ridley, Met Office

We’ve discovered that we own an island. But dreams of independence and tax-havenry evaporate when we try to picnic there on Easter Sunday: we watch it submerge slowly beneath the incoming tide. It’s a barnacle-encrusted rock, about the size of a tennis court, just off the beach at Cambois, north of Blyth, which for some reason ended up belonging to my ancestor rather than the Crown. Now there’s a plan for a subsidy-fired biomass power station nearby that will burn wood (and money) while pretending to save the planet. The outlet pipes will go under our rock and we are due modest compensation. As usual, it’s us landowners who benefit from renewable energy while working people bear the cost: up the coast are the chimneys of the country’s largest aluminium smelter — killed, along with hundreds of jobs, by the government’s unilateral carbon-floor price in force from this week.

There were dead puffins on the beach, as there have been all along the east coast. This cold spring has hit them hard. Some puffin colonies have been doing badly in recent years, after booming in the 1990s, but contrary to the predictions of global warming, it’s not the more southerly colonies that have suffered most. The same is true of guillemots, kittiwakes and sandwich terns: northern colonies are declining.

It’s not just here that the cold has been relentless. Germany’s average temperature for March was below zero. Norwegian farmers cannot plant vegetables because the ground’s frozen three feet down. In America snow fell as far south as Oklahoma last week. It’s horrible for farmers. But in past centuries, bad weather like that of the past 12 months would kill. In the 1690s, two million French people starved because of bad harvests. I’ve never understood why people argue that globalisation makes for a more fragile system: the opposite is the case. Harvest failures can be regional, but never global, so world trade ensures that we have the insurance policy of access to somebody else’s bumper harvest.
Source: Spectator.co.uk

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UK farmer uses a quad bike to etch out giant letters in the snow "Where Is Spring"

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:37:11 -0400

Article Tags: none

A disgruntled farmer was so frustrated at the recent cold snap that he wrote 'Where is Spring?' in 40ft-high letters on his snow-covered fields.

Beef farmer Nicholas Stokes, 57, used his quad bike to etch out the giant letters on his land in Ellesmere, Shropshire, as temperatures plunged to -4C over the Easter weekend.

Mr Stokes, who has lived on the farm all his life, said: 'This is the worst spell of freezing weather I have ever known and it's coming off the back of months of persistent rain.

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Source: dailymail.co.uk

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Jonathon Moseley: The Coming Global Warming Voter Backlash

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:20:37 -0400

Article Tags: Jonathon Moseley

News is breaking out all over: global warming stopped 20 years ago.

A political earthquake has resulted from a feature story in the Economist magazine because the Economist used to be a consistent cheerleader for global warming activism. Doubts about global warming used to be censored by its London editors, one reporter confided to Stephen Hayward.

So what will voters do to Democrat candidates in 2014 and 2016 when the former realize that the Democratic Party was lying to them? Is it time to run away from the issue for Democrats, journalists, and Hollywood personalities?

While our economy is struggling and our nation in debt, Democrats squandered tens of billions on a climate change hoax. How many voters are unemployed due to climate change polices? Unnecessary regulations are strangling people's jobs and their lives. And then one must wonder: what else were Democrats unbelievably wrong about?

Can Democrats hide by claiming that climate change hysteria was an innocent mistake? It was never a credible story. Democrats, journalists, and liberal commentators went way out on a limb. Like the collapse of ENRON or Bernie Maddoff's Ponzi schemes, political fortunes have been built on the shifting sand of bad science. Japan's Society of Energy and Resources in February 2009 declared the myth of man-made global warming to be like "ancient astrology."
Source: americanthinker.com

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UK Weather Forecast for April 2013 by Nathan Rao, Daily Express

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:12:01 -0400

Article Tags: Met Office, World Temperatures

I normally post some of the Nathan Rao Weather News articles from the Daily Express, lets see how he gets on with his April 2013 Weather forecast with the aid of the Met Office, maybe Piers has met his match:)

THIS time last month we were talking about March being colder than average.

Four weeks later, after a battering from Siberian winds and snow, we are still shivering in bitter winds with frost still on the ground most mornings.

Last month turned out to be the second coldest March on record, with temperatures well-below average for the time of year and parts of the country left under snow.

Easter was bitterly cold for much of Britain, with bookies forced to pay out after flakes of snow fell over London over the weekend.

With a low of -12.5C recorded in Braemar, Scotland, over the weekend, it is safe now to say it has been the coldest Easter on record.
Source: express.co.uk/comment/columnists/nathan-rao

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Opposing Views: "Experts" debate sea level rise with a member of NASA!

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:19:14 -0400

Article Tags: Opposing Views

A very cringeworthy YouTube from a group of AGW supporters....its over an hour long and something to look at when you feel like cutting your toe nails! Listen to the confusion about how much sea level will rise by 2050. It is of interest in as much the group draw spurious conclusions and feed off each other to keep their AGW belief system going. The frightening thing for me is that these type of debates are common....mind you don't cut your toe nails too short!

A NASA Hangout on Rising Seas and Global Warming by Andrew C. Revkin

Earlier today, I participated in a NASA Google+ Hangout on Air on these questions and more:

How much and how fast will sea level rise in the coming decades? What makes sea level rise hard to predict? Who will be affected?You can watch it above.

Source: dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com

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Ex-professor tells senators climate data manipulated

Co2sceptic — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:42:17 -0400

Article Tags: Don Easterbrook

Mar 27 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Brad Shannon The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.)

A retired Western Washington University professor testified to a Republican-controlled state Senate committee Tuesday that climate change stopped in 1998 and that human-caused greenhouse gases are not responsible for fluctuations in the Earth's temperatures or melting polar ice caps.

The startling testimony from emeritus professor Don Easterbrook is at odds with an apparent consensus among climate scientists and climate-science literature about human causes behind the the rise in global temperatures over the past century. His testimony came one day after the Legislature sent Gov. Jay Inslee a bill that sets up a legislative work group to study Washington's best strategy for addressing climate change.

Substitute Senate Bill 5802 creates a four-caucus study panel that will hire a consultant to study state options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and how best to accomplish that at least cost. Republican Sen. Doug Ericksen of Ferndale, who invited Easterbrook to testify at his committee, could become Senate Republicans' representative on that panel.
Source: energycentral.com/functional/news

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Scientists on climate change: Er, never mind! (Researchers admit data showing warming trend can't be verified Read)

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:11:29 -0400

Article Tags: World Temperatures

A research paper in a prestigious journal that claimed to show a dramatic increase in global temperatures in the 20th century caused huge headlines around the world.

There’s just one problem. It’s not true.

“Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years,” blared the New York Times on March 7. The Times was reporting on what it called “the most meticulous reconstruction yet of global temperatures,” contained in a study published March 8 in the journal Science by Shaun Marcott, Jeremy Shakun, Peter Clark and Alan Mix.

However, once other scientists began looking into the data in the study, called “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years,” the reconstruction began to look far less than meticulous.

The authors of the study quietly admitted last weekend that their claim of surging temperatures can’t be supported by their data.
Source: wnd.com/

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Harry Binswanger: Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:28:55 -0400

Article Tags: Harry Binswanger

Like most of you, I yearn for shorter winters, more shirt-sleeve weather, less lashing from frigid winds. As a confirmed New Yorker, I’m not willing to do what millions have done: move to the sunbelt. I want warmer weather here in the Big City.

But I’ve grown old waiting for the promised global warming. I was 35 when predictions of a looming ice age were supplanted by warmmongering. Now I’m 68, and there’s still no sign of warmer weather. It’s enough to make one doubt the “settled science” of the government-funded doom-sayers.

Remember 1979? That was the year of “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge, of “The Dukes of Hazard” on TV, and of “ Kramer vs. Kramer” on the silver screen. It was the year the Shah was forced out of Iran. It was before the web, before the personal computer, before the cell phone, before voicemail and answering machines. But not before the global warming campaign.

In January of 1979, a New York Times article was headlined: “Experts Tell How Antarctic Ice Could Cause Widespread Floods.” The abstract in the Times archives says: “If the West Antarctic ice sheet slips into the sea, as some glaciologists believe is possible, boats could be launched from the bottom steps of the Capitol in Washington and a third of Florida would be under water, a climate specialist said today.”
Source: forbes.com/sites/harrybinswanger

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This chart shows a temperature of 23C 73F in England by Mid April by Derek Brockway

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:11:38 -0400

Article Tags: World Temperatures

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Source: twitter.com/DerekTheWeather

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Opposing Views: UK rewards polluters and locks up people who want to save the planet by Andrew Simms, The Guardian

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:05:16 -0400

Article Tags: Climate Protest, Opposing Views

The climate campaigners should be given a medal for their outstanding bravery and public service, not prison sentences

What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba?

It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by depriving people of their freedom. Yet that is just what we're doing in Britain right now. The contributions of the people above were remarkable, but how much greater is the challenge of preserving a readily habitable climate, and how thankful should we be to those prepared to throw their life's energy and creativity at the task?

The answer according to the British establishment currently is not at all. Their response is the kind of gratitude a Caesar might hand-out to an innocent messenger on receiving unwelcome news. He throws them first into court, and then possibly into prison. In early March many celebrated when the state-backed French energy company EDF dropped a £5m civil lawsuit against climate campaigns who occupied one of the company's gas-fired power stations for several days in 2012.

The case was seen as an attempt to intimidate and therefore frighten-off other campaigners, and the victory therefore an important signal. Less noticed, however, was that many of the campaigners still face criminal charges in relation to the occupation. Faced by a magistrates court, with no jury to appeal to on the wider issues, several pled guilty to charges of aggravated trespass. Due for sentencing on 6 June, they could be the first people in the UK sent to prison for acting to prevent global warming.

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Source: guardian.co.uk/environment

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BBC Environment Correspondent Matt McGrath states Dr James E Hansen was a leading voice...in er....the science of "Global Warming"!

Co2sceptic — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:50:23 -0400

Article Tags: BBC, Climate Protest, Opposing Views

I'm not so sure this summary from the BBC of Dr James E Hansen retirement announcement has done them any favours. The area that may backfire is that their Environment Correspondent Matt McGrath mentions the term "Global Warming" instead of "Climate Change" and at the end of the article they (BBC) have acknowledged world temperatures have remained at a "standstill", thus agreeing there is no "Global Warming" currently going on.

The only door left open on the issue of "man made" co2 is extreme weather events. I have mentioned before, the use of the term "climate change" covers all eventualities for Alarmists. So I'm glad to say this tribute to Dr James E Hansen seems a little self defeating... or is this a "get out" for them in the future! ......more to follow.

One of the leading voices on the science of global warming is to retire from Nasa this week to be more active in the fight against fossil fuels.
Source: bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment

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John O'Sullivan: Not Again, Virginia! Greenhouse Gas Theory a Self-Licking Ice Cream

Co2sceptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:34:18 -0400

Article Tags: Anthony Watts, Headline Story, John O'Sullivan, Roy Spencer

With an excellent discussion underway, unfortunately - but not surprisingly - Anthony Watts abruptly closed comments on his latest article attacking Principia Scientific International (PSI). From his readers’ feedback it is clear Mr. Watts went off half cocked with his mischaracterization that PSI had “misinterpreted” a revealing NASA press release about CO2, solar flares, and the thermosphere.

Mr Watts is probably aware that he has no valid response to many of the points made by PSI members in various papers and articles. PSI doesn't shut down debate so, for those interested in debating the issue, all are very welcome to come do so on our own forum thread here.

Beyond doubt, as Douglas Cotton pointed out in his prompt rebuttal article to the WUWT piece, Mr. Watts has missed the elephant in the room. Cotton writes, “So, clearly the atmosphere acts as an umbrella during sunlit hours, and yet Anthony Watts and many climatologists like to play down this cooling effect, if they even mention it.”

Working overtime to hide that elephant with its umbrella is climatologist, Dr.Roy Spencer. Not only did a world-leading expert in thermodynamics, Dr. Pierre R Latour, point out Spencer’s errors with his ‘No, Virginia’ rebuttal to Spencer’s ‘Yes, Virginia’ blog post we’ve seen many other highly-respected scientists disagreeing with Dr. Spencer.

UC Berkeley Discredits Spencer's Infinite Heat Sink

A look at a thermodynamics physics text from UC Berkley proves, using standard physics, that cold does not heat up warm even in the presence of “backradiation.” Problem #1023 shows that a radiation shield does not cause a source to become hotter if its radiation is trapped, and Problem #1026 shows that a sphere surrounded by a shell simply warms up the shell until the shell emits the same energy as the sphere, without requiring the sphere to become hotter and with the presence of backradiation. What Spencer, Watts, Willis, et al mistakenly believe, is that in order for something warm to heat up something cool, the warmer thing has to heat up itself! As absurd a proposition as an ice cream licking itself.
Source: Principia-Scientific.org

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UK March is joint second coldest on record by Met Office

Co2sceptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:10:35 -0400

Article Tags: Met Office, World Temperatures

Provisional full-month Met Office figures for March confirm it has been an exceptionally cold month, with a UK mean temperature of 2.2 °C.

This is 3.3 °C below the 1981-2010 long-term average for the month, and ranks this March as joint second coldest (with 1947) in our records dating back to 1910. Only March 1962 was colder, with a record-breaking month mean temperature of 1.9 °C.

In an unusual turn of events, this March was also colder than the preceding winter months of December (3.8 °C), January (3.3 °C) and February (2.8 °C). This last happened in 1975.

Looking at individual countries, the mean temperature for England for March was 2.6 °C – making it the second coldest on record, with only 1962 being colder (2.3 °C). In Wales, the mean temperature was 2.4 °C which also ranks it as the second coldest recorded – with only 1962 registering a lower temperature (2.1 °C). Scotland saw a mean temperature of 1.3 °C, which is joint fifth alongside 1916 and 1958. The coldest March on record for Scotland was set in 1947 (0.2 °C). For Northern Ireland, this March saw a mean temperature of 2.8 °C, which is joint second alongside 1919, 1937, and 1962. The record was set in 1947 (2.5 °C).

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Source: Metofficenews.wordpress.com

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Global Warming’s ‘fatal conceit’ (It’s hard for believers to admit they’re wrong), by Richard Rahn, The Washington Times

Co2sceptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:34:48 -0400

Article Tags: A Graph to Debunk AGW, World Temperatures

Image link - washingtontimes.com
Much of Northern Europe, including Britain, is suffering under the coldest winter and spring of the last 30 to 100 years. The Northeastern part of the United States has had a record cold March. The record cold in Europe has killed thousands and cost billions. It was not supposed to be this way.

Back in 1998, scientist Michael Mann published a paper with the famous “hockey stick” showing a sharp rise in global temperatures. Mr. Mann and others argued that if global action was not taken immediately, then the temperature rise would be rapid and uncontrollable. Much of Mr. Mann’s work was the basis for Al Gore’s famous film “An Inconvenient Truth.” What has turned out to be an inconvenient truth is that Mr. Mann and his allies were sloppy in their research and engaged in a campaign to disparage their critics.

The United Kingdom's Met Office has been a major source of global temperature data in recent decades, and has been heavily relied upon by global-warming proponents. On March 12, a report written by David Whitehouse and published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation concluded that “there has been no statistically significant increase in annual global temperatures since 1997.” In the accompanying chart, using the same official data from the Met Office that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses, it can be easily seen that global temperatures have not been rising as predicted by the best-known climate models.
Source: WashingtonTimes.com

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Jet Stream Blamed For UK Cold Snap, SkyNews.com

Co2sceptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:57:26 -0400

Article Tags: Jet Stream Shift

Above image taken from NetWeather.TV...no mystery going on here, unless your not familiar with the location of the UK, the big RED area to the South of the UK is the Jet Stream!.....

SkyNews.com...The position of the jet stream is being blamed for the UK's unseasonable cold snap which is due to last another week at least.

As Britain leaves behind what looks to have been the coldest March for more than 50 years, forecasters are warning it will stay cold for another week at least.

Meteorologists are blaming the bad weather on the position of the jet stream, a narrow band of very strong winds which tends to move from west to east across the Atlantic, bringing our weather systems with it.

Sky News weather presenter Isobel Lang said: "The jet stream is currently displaced well to the south of its usual position across the north Atlantic and Europe, located across the Azores, Spain and the Mediterranean.

"So the UK will remain stuck in the cold air to the north and it's set to stay cold for at least another week.

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Source: news.sky.com

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Polls suggest public’s interest in climate change is waning by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post

Co2sceptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:25:04 -0400

Article Tags: Public Polls

The global warming conundrum has been on full display over the past 24 hours. Even as one of the nation’s most prominent climate scientists has decided to retire in order to become a full-time activist, a new Pew Research poll suggests public interest and intensity with the issue is waning.

James E. Hansen, who directs the Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York City, has been warning policymakers about the threat of climate change since 1988. And while he remains one of the nation’s most outspoken activists on global warming, he decided he needed to pursue the cause full time rather than juggle his outside activities with a full-time job.

Hansen’s retirement comes as two new polls out Tuesday suggest he — as well as President Obama, who has identified climate change as one of his top second-term priorities – face a major challenge in convincing the public of the urgency of the issue.

A new Pew poll shows the percentage who say that global warming is a “very serious” problem has slipped six points since October.

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Source: washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix

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Heavy snow blankets Poland and Russia in 'white Easter', BBC News

Co2sceptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:21:06 -0400

Article Tags: World Temperatures

Emergency services in Poland are trying to clear icy roads and restore power to thousands of homes after heavy snow over Easter.

Polish national radio says more than 100,000 homes had no electricity on Monday, after trees collapsed on some power lines. Poland's central and eastern provinces were worst hit.

There were hundreds of domestic fires at the weekend, many caused by faulty heaters. Five people died in blazes.
Source: bbc.co.uk

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Iceland earthquake swarm (Grimsey area) – 314 earthquakes in less than 48 hours

Co2sceptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:16:40 -0400

Article Tags: Solar Climate Change

Call me crazy for thinking this story from Iceland may be connected to the recent TWO Filament Eruptions....but I do..

This earthquake is part of a strong swarm at a well know location in the Ocean. The location of the swarm is a relatively shallow ridge area (the zigzagging ridge creates the transform-like earthquakes) . A ridge is a location where 2 tectonic plates are pulling away from each other. Fresh magma will have an easier job to reach the seabed and hot volcanic vents are often found on these locations. A new island in such an area is almost a certainty in the geological future. A pity that there are no permanent ROV’s in this location, we might see some submarine fireworks!

At the time of writing this article, we have counted 314 earthquakes in less than 48 hours!

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Source: earthquake-report.com

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The Strange Case of the TWO Filament Eruptions

Co2sceptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:05:59 -0400

Article Tags: Solar News

In the past we have had some strange activity on the Surface of the Sun that has gone under the "coincidence" heading.....here is another story from SpaceWeather....BTW my favourite "coincidence" story was from 2011, do you remember this.......Space.com - Comet Dive-Bombs Sun During Big Solar Eruption - A comet plunged into the sun this week just as a huge eruption exploded from the star's surface, but the two events are likely not related, NASA scientists say.....

SpaceWeather.com...Click source link for Video... Not every eruption requires a sunspot. On April 1st, a magnetic filament snaking some 800,000 km around the sun's north pole rose up and erupted, hurling part of itself into space. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the event [click source for Video]

Watch the movie again and pay attention to the southern hemisphere. Another filament erupted there in apparent sympathy with events in the north. Coincidence? Probably not. Invisible threads of magnetism connect widely separated parts of the sun, so an explosion in one place can trigger another explosion very far away. SDO has observed many such chain reactions--the iconic example being the global eruption of August 2010.

Source: spaceweather.com

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Marc Morano: Lord Christopher Monckton weighs in on warmists smear of Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook

Co2sceptic — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:29:34 -0400

Article Tags: Don Easterbrook, Headline Story, Lord Monckton, Marc Morano

Monckton: 'The racketeers of the WWU faculty either know they are wrong or are ignorant and pretending to know they are right. Either way, they are guilty of deliberate misrepresentation of the objective scientific truth...[WWU's warmists professors] ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves but are too politicized on the far Left to have the grace to blush. And the Bellingham Herald should have known better than to publish their poisonously pietistic libel of Dr. Easterbrook, who deserves a handsome apology both from these grasping leeches and from the Herald. Shame on the lot of you'

Lord Monckton: (March 31, 2013)

Dr. Easterbrook, to whose excellent book of scientific papers on global warming I had the honour to contribute a couple of years ago, has been libeled. It is the rent-seeking global-warming profiteers of the WWU faculty, not Dr. Easterbrook, who are guilty of misrepresentation.
Source: climatedepot.com/

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MUST LISTEN: Alan Jones talks to Alby Schultz and Linda Pahl about Renewable Energy and Windfarms

Co2sceptic — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:13:23 -0400

Article Tags: Audio, Green Tax, Windfarms

Click source for MUST LISTEN Interview between Alan Jones and Alby Schultz and Linda Pahl about Renewable Energy and Windfarms

Source: CLICK THIS LINK for MUST LISTEN Interview between Alan Jones and Alby Schultz and Linda Pahl about Renewable Energy and Windfarms

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