The Unbearable Nakedness of Climate Change
August 20,2010
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For an inordinately long time, one of the biggest troubles with Climatology has been its fixation with predicting the future, far before it will ever be able to understand the actual mechanisms of Earth’s climate in detail enough.
This has several nasty consequences, including a predisposition on the part of the very scientists to describe the future as some kind of catastrophe, and to make do without professional niceties (what is the point of being gentlemanly when the world is …

Telegraph.co.uk
September 1st, 2010
By Daniel Hannan
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Those ingrate Inuit! They just don’t appreciate all the efforts that middle class Greenies are making on their behalf!
The prime minister of Greenland – a socialist, no less – has attacked Greenpeace for sabotaging an Arctic exploration rig. Kuupik Kleist is plainly not a politician given to circumlocution:
The cabinet regards Greenpeace’s action as very serious and an illegal attack on the country’s constitutional rights. It is worrying that Greenpeace, in their hunt for media exposure, violate security rules made to …

Hello Readers,
Yeah the Blog was down for two + days.
I apologize for the shocking change.
For some reason one little spot in the wordpress files went bad while I was upgrading the Forum software.But I have a back up of the data and help from the founder of this Blog.Steve LeMaster who fixed the problem.
We still do not know why it happened,but that it happens for no obvious reason still did not damage anything.It simply fails to work because of a missing configuration file.
There is a good reason why regular back …

NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin on 14. August 2010
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Anyone who reads this blog knows that meteorologist Joe Bastardi is one of my favorites. Yesterday he wrote a scathing piece at his European blog about his alma mater Penn State for the way it whitewashed the Michael Mann affair, and other things.
Joe Bastardi is a graduate of Penn State, receiving a degree in Meteorology and is a leading Accuweather meteorologist. His seasonal forecasts almost always far outperform those of “climate scientists”. It’s because Joe knows what he’s talking about, the …

The Daily Bayonet
August 12,2010
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Part One: Al Gore & Friends
Al Gore became El Gore for a day and went to Mexico.  The man who criticized ‘media censorship’ of the Gulf oil spill promptly locked the media out of his event and no-one was allowed to talk about how much he got paid, or who picked up the bill for his talk about global warming.
The Goreacle is having a hard time adjusting to the news that the Democrats have abandoned a climate bill and he is not gracious in …

The Cypress Times
Published 08/08/2010 – 1:53 p.m. CST

By Tony Elliott

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The latest news is most countries in the world are backing out of the pseudo scientists’ wishes for limits on greenhouse gases and global warming legislation. Most industrial countries realize it is too expensive an endeavor to partake in at a time when the world’s economy is teetering on collapse, since over two hundred billion dollars would be needed from wealthy countries to help poor countries conform to proposed climate change rules. Poor countries also do …

NoTricksZone
July 22,2010
By Ed Caryl
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Many writers have been unsatisfied with the terms used to classify the two sides of the climate debate. Warmist and skeptic seem unsatisfying for the first, and demeaning for the second. The warmist label is also a bit narrow, in that those on that side also preach ocean rise and acidification, severe storms, floods and droughts (on alternate days), and other disasters. Many of these predictions take on a “the sky is falling” tone. The warmists call themselves climatologists, but that term is …

NoTricksZone
July 25, 2010
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How is it that a settled science keeps finding things never expected?
For example, the HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) mission was launched in January 2009 and will make a series of five flights over three years covering more than 24,000 miles to sample the atmosphere in some of the most inaccessible regions of the world. Read HIPPO background here.

The goal of the mission is the first-ever, global, real-time sampling of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases across a wide range of altitudes in the …

Not Evil Just Wrong
By Phelim McAleer
July 19,2010
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Stephen Schneider, a Global Warming scientist, has died. According to reports he suffered a heart attack whilst flying into London.
Professor Schneider’s death is a shock and a tragedy for his family and we at Not Evil Just Wrong offer our condolences to his relatives for their personal loss. His death was sudden and must have come as a shock to his family and colleagues.  However, it has to be said that Professor Schneider died as he had …

Climate Realists
Tuesday, July 21st 2009
Joseph A Olson, PE
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The accuracy of any future prediction is limited to the completeness of the current understanding, which is based on empirical measurements. You may sense hot and cold but until the invention of the thermometer you could not quantify temperature. The same with the hydrometer for relative humidity, barometer for atmospheric pressure and anemometer for wind speed. As these instruments gained wider distribution there was an ever-increasing database to establish trend lines.
Physical Climatology, written …

Climate Truth
Posted on July 17, 2010 by kirkmyers
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Climate Truth: Has there been global warming?

Dr. Miskolczi: No one is denying that global warming has taken place, but it has nothing to do with the greenhouse effect or the burning of fossil fuels.

Climate Truth: According to the conventional anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, as human-induced CO2 emissions increase, more surface radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, with part of it re-radiated to the earth’s surface, resulting in global warming.  Is that an accurate description of …

The Daily Bayonet
July 15,2010
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Hippie Dave gets mad at skeptics again, the IPCC gags scientists for their own good and Ontarians are rising up against a new eco-fee stealth tax.
These and 100+ more stories hippies don’t want you to read, plus an Ontario hottie, just because.
Some housekeeping notes, the round-up no longer features links to the UK’s The Times or Sunday Times since they have hidden everything behind a paywall.  Where possible, relevant stories are linked via alternative sources.  For links to global warming hoax …

Mens News Daily
Thursday, July 8, 2010
By Roger F. Gay
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As CNN explains it; “An independent report released Wednesday into the leaked “Climategate” e-mails found no evidence to question the “rigor and honesty” of scientists involved.” That seems to be the general conclusion offered by Muir Russell, chairman of the select group of political insiders who conducted the review.
The review focused on “the behaviors of the scientists in the climatic research unit in the University of East Anglia,” which was at the center of the Climategate …

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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The latest installment of Jesse Ventura’s highly successful Conspiracy Theory show exposed millions of viewers on national TV last night to the climate change fraud, blowing a giant hole in the global warming scam by exposing how its adherents comprise wealthy industrialists making billions in profits by fearmongering about the environment.
Ventura and his team attempted to track down the key architects of the scheme, a search which led them to Beijing China and the heavily guarded residence of global warming pioneer …

Pajamas Media
November 26, 2009 – by Frank J. Tipler

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As readers are now aware, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, the main climate research center in Britain, has had 128 megabytes of secret emails and other data placed online by someone calling himself “FOIA.” A number of scientists have been trying for years to get the raw data possessed by CRU placed online, filing requests under the British Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Although required by law to release this information, CRU has not done so, …

Global Warming
November 21st, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
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The hundreds of e-mails being made public after someone hacked into Phil Jones’ Climatic Research Unit (CRU) computer system offer a revealing peek inside the IPCC machine. It will take some time before we know whether any illegal activity has been uncovered (e.g. hiding or destruction of data to avoid Freedom of Information Act inquiries).
Some commentators even think this is the beginning of the end for the IPCC. I doubt it.
The scientists at the center of this row are defending …

Climate Change Fraud
Written by Dr. Antti Roine
Saturday, September 19 2009
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Energy conservation and climate change are now in fashion. Typically, common sense and fashion seldom have anything to do with each other. This is also the case with energy conservation and climate change.
‘We need energy to convert our good ideas into reality, in form of jobs, schools, medicines, houses, food, art, culture, or any kind of material or emotional wellbeing. This is a plain fact. Conserving energy and raising energy prices make no sense, because they imply a general increase in …

Jennifer Marohasy
Posted by Michael Hammer, September 21st, 2009
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I HAVE been asked several times ‘why am I so sceptical of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis’?  There are many reasons, some of which I have documented in previous articles at this weblog, but these have relied on sometimes complex calculations which I admit can be difficult to appreciate.  So I would like to outline here a few of my reasons based only on simple consistency with the AGW proponents’ own data.
1.  The AGW movement claims there has been a global temperature rise of …

The Daily Bayonet
Carny futures are down, the European Endarkenment has begun and the EPA introduced the world to the concept of extinction neutrality.  If you have no idea what any of this means, then you need the weekly round-up.  Coincidentally, here it is:
Part One: Al Gore & Friends
Al Gore is a social networking junkie.  Al has added yet another name to those he follows on Twitter, making the total a staggering… 8.  If you’d like Al to follow you, simply devise a way to fill his pockets with millions of …

In spite of the fact that a recent study said that hurricanes are not becoming more frequent when you allow for improving observational techniques, the Hockey Team leader himself, Michael Mann, has just published a paper claiming that there are more Hurricanes now than at any time in a thousand years! No, obviously not now as in “right now” (zero is greater than any integer, after all, and as of now, there aren’t any.) Sound familiar? Well this is just another example of what goes on the Climate of Extremes …

The following is reproduced in full from my blog.~Itscoldinhere
I Don’t Get It
UPDATE UPDATE! The National Hurricane Center has a better hurricane graphic. I’ve added it to the hurricane section.

What exactly makes people so scared of “global warming” or “climate change”? I can’t understand this issue, honestly. I see zero evidence for the supposed catastrophe heading our way, and yet people persist in being alarmed…Are people scared of sea level  rise? How irrational can you possibly be to be scared of sea level rise on the order of a less than …

The Globe and Mail
Rex Murphy
Last updated on Saturday, Jul. 25, 2009 04:16AM EDT
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Toronto is having a Newfoundland summer.
Now I don’t mean, even though it would be a wonderful idea, that there are bake-apple festivals at Bloor and Yonge. Or that the Bay Street stockbrokers are out jigging codfish on “food fish” weekends. Though that, too, would be an encouraging, even edifying, spectacle.
No, what I mean is that, for most of July, temperatures in the Ontario capital and beyond are in that sweet temperate zone of the low 20s, and there …

Via Greenie Watch,
John Droz, jr.
Physicist and Environmental Advocate
7/22/09
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Everyone readily admits that things aren’t always what they seem. But are we
really applying this knowledge in our daily dealings — are we consciously
ferreting out the illusionary from the reality? I think not.
For instance, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we aren’t really
being run by pandering politicians, self-serving lobbyists, fanatical
environmentalists, and greedy Wall Street manipulators! They are the illusion.
There is another even more powerful (but much less visible) agent, behind all of
these puppets.
The person behind the screen is the computer programmer. And, just …

Normally your humble correspondent takes great pleasure in informing you of the latest “science” that the AGW advocates are putting out to support climate alarm. But rather do that ad nauseum, I would prefer to occasionally talk about important scientific findings undermining alarm (although often enough the advocates own work contradicts alarm). Today I have been informed by Anthony Watt’s mega-blog Watt’s Up With That? Which has been sent to Geophysical Research Letters (I believe this means it has been accepted with revisions but I’m not sure UPDATE: It’s In …

Your humble correspondent is once again ready to deliver a field report of the science of climate alarm.
Today we have an interesting bit. Over at Enviro-hack site RealClimate, they have been discussing the following paper:
Swanson, K.L., and A.A. Tsonis, 2009. Has the climate shifted? Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L06711, doi:10.1029/2008GL037022.
The gist of the paper is that the authors have found that there is “synchronized chaos” in climate, which can lead to sudden “shifts” in the climate. They identify several shifts in climate as illustrated by this figure:

Figure 1: Global temperature …

by Steve LeMaster
It appears that energy mogul, T. Boone Pickens can’t find a home for his 400 feet tall wind turbines.
“When I start receiving those turbines, I’ve got to … like I said, my garage won’t hold them,…They’ve got to go someplace.”
Mesa Power, owned by Pickens, ordered 687 wind turbines from none other than GE for a meager price of just $2,000,000,000 and he leased 200,000 acres of land to put them on. He is also looking for participants in smaller wind farm projects in the Midwest and Canada.
The problem? …

Jennifer Marohasy
June 12th, 2009
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“THE scientific method is a valuable way to advance objective knowledge. By testing a hypothesis against observation, it can either be falsified or supported. Not proved, of course, but nevertheless over time sufficient evidence can accumulate for a hypothesis to be generally accepted as the best available explanation. It is then known as a theory. Hence, although the vast majority of scientists and citizens (at least in Europe) accept Darwin’s description of evolution, this is still regarded as a theory rather than fact. This is important, because …

The Daily Bayonet
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Gangsters are muscling in on Big Al’s territory and skeptics might be executed.  It’s just another week in the rough world of radical environmentalism, conveniently rounded up for your delectation and delight.
Beverages are recommended but the Daily Bayonet assumes no liability for sticky keyboards.
Part One: Al Gore & Friends
The world sank to its knees and gave thanks this week as the great profiteer prophet posted on his sacred blog.  Proclaiming the wisdom of what he likes to call the ‘Green Economy’, Al Gore shared this wisdom with the …

Front Porch Republic
By Bill Kauffman 17 April 2009
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BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY–Once upon a time in America, schoolchildren celebrated a lovely little holiday called Arbor Day. The young scholars would sing songs about Johnny Appleseed, recite Joyce Kilmer into the ground, learn the difference between an oak and a maple, and bundle up against the spring chill to go outside and plant an actual tree. The planting, like Arbor Day itself, was both symbolic and practical, and a nice lesson in the ways in which conservation and renewal begin at home. Fittingly, …

Once again your humble field correspondent is here to bring you news about the latest AGW science. Today I have good news and bad news. The good news is that there now seems to be reasonable agreement that the paradigm of stationarity in the hydrological sciences has been put to rest. The bad news is that the blame is once again being placed on AGW.
So what is stationarity? “The idea that natural systems fluctuate within an unchanging envelope of variability.”-In short that nature is in a state of balance in …

Global Warming
June 6th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
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The use of complex computerized numerical models for predicting global warming is obviously critical to the IPCC’s claims that manmade global warming will be — if it is not already — a serious problem for humanity. Computer modeling used as evidence in a court of law is not new, and it involves special challenges. While I am not a lawyer, nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, I have the following thoughts regarding the admissibility of climate …

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
by Steve LeMaster
Do you recall the absurd claim that Alarmist – in – Chief, Al Gore made in regards to the Maldives? I searched the WWW for latest elevation details and even though they are at 0 meters elevation in the Indian Ocean and 2.4 meters at its maximum (as of December 2008), contrary to the Alarmist – in – Chief’s claim, the Maldives are not being inundated by sea rise.
 
Far be it from me to make an educated observation, but a wave 20 feet high is probably enough to …