MetSul
By Alexandre Aguiar
July 2010
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A brutal and historical cold snap has so far caused 80 deaths in South America, according to international news agencies. Temperatures have been much below normal for over a week in vast areas of the continent. In Chile, the Aysen region was affected early last week by the worst snowstorm in 30 year. The snow accumulation reached 5 feet in Balmaceda and the Army was called to rescue people trapped by the snow.
In Argentina, the snow in the region of Mendoza, famous for its winery, was described …

johnosullivan
July 17,2010
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Shocking new statistical error uncovered in NASA’s Earth Energy Budget equations: global warming numbers are incorrect not by factor of two, but three times over.
Long-time greenhouse gas theory denier, Alan Siddons, has done it again in exposing NASA’s climate change fraud. In an earlier article I reported how the former radio-chemist had uncovered a bogus ‘X-Factor’ in the Earth Energy Budget equations, or ‘Kiehl-Trenberth diagram’ (K-T). The K-T equations are the foundation of environmentalist claims that emissions from burning fossil fuels are …

Energy Tribune
Posted on Jul. 15, 2010
By Harry Wertheimer, ET guest columnist and Robert Bryce, ET managing editor
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An increase in the amount of ethanol in your gasoline won’t hurt your lawnmower…if it’s a push-reel. Otherwise be prepared for big repair bills.
While that sounds alarmist, the threat is real. This fall, the Obama administration will, through the EPA, likely approve a change in federal regulations that will allow gasoline retailers to increase the “blend rate.”
The blend rate refers to the federal rule that limits …

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 …

NASA Science
July 15,2010
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NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called “the thermosphere” recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
“This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years,” says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). “It’s a Space Age record.”
The collapse happened during …

P Gosselin-  NoTricksZone
July 16, 2010
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The NOAA is taking the liberty of declaring 2010 the hottest ever, even though it’s only July! So what’s all the hurry? Well, you have to get them scary global-hotting headlines out while you can, and any way you can. When you’re desperate - you’re desperate.
They’ve seen their own forecasts for the rest of the year, and so they know it’s their last chance. Just check the leading climatic indicators on my homepage and you’ll see why.
Now on Arctic sea ice, allow me to …

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 …

World Climate Report
July 15, 2010
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We see many articles like the following two that show more evidence of a solar control on climate even at the regional scale.

In the first article published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, four scientists from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University, China’s Lanzhou University, and the University of Minnesota turned their attention to Hurleg Lake located in the Qaidam Basin (QB) on the northeastern portion of the Tibetan Plateau (see Figure 1); the research was funded by the National Science Foundations of …

Watts Up With That?
Posted on July 17, 2010 by Anthony Watts
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From Alan at Appinsys, who emails that he was inspired by this story on WUWT: A spot check on NOAA’s “hottest so far” presser
“NOAA: June, April to June, and Year-to-Date Global Temperatures are Warmest on Record”
The following figure from NOAA shows the temperature anomaly of January – June 2010 compared to the 1971-2000 base period for 5×5 degree grids [http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100715_globalstats.html]

The problem with the above map: data …

The Register
By Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author
Posted in Environment, 16th July 2010 12:53 GMT
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From the Chinese Dept of the Bleeding Obvious
A study correlating economic and political changes in China’s Middle Kingdom has found that warmer climate benefited society. By contrast, a fall of temperature of 2C was correlated with conflict and famine.
“The collapses of the agricultural dynasties of the Han (25-220), Tang (618-907), Northern Song (960-1125), Southern Song (1127-1279) and Ming (1368-1644) are closely associated with low temperature or the rapid decline …

Energy Tribune
By William Tucker
Posted on Oct. 21, 2009
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When I was in college, I took a course in the great political philosophers. We studied them in order – Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx.
In my mind, I had placed them with the historical eras they had influenced – Hobbes and the 18th century monarchs, Locke and the American Revolution, Rousseau and 19th century Romanticism, Kant and the 19th century nation-states, Marx and 20th century Communism.
Then one day I saw …

Watts Up With That?
July 16,2010
By Steve Goddard
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People see what they want or expect to see. A great example is in today’s NASA Earth Observatory image of the day article.
A heat wave scorched the eastern United States in early July 2010, straining power grids, slowing transit, forcing nursing homes to evacuate, and prompting East Coast residents to shelter in “cooling centers,” according to news reports. Temperatures topped 105 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) in Baltimore for two consecutive …

johnosullivan
July 11,2010
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A climate researcher who disputes greenhouse gas theory has come up with a novel way to sieve out global warming spin: use a metal colander.
Alan Siddons, who along with Dr. Martin Hertzberg and Hans Schreuder co-authored the groundbreaking paper, ‘A Greenhouse Effect on the Moon?’ has devised a simple and ingenious analogy involving a metal strainer and a light bulb to allay fears about global warming created by theorists of greenhouse gases (GHG).
Understanding this explanation makes it far easier to go on …

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 …

KE Research
2010
By Klaus Ermecke
Is the “Global Climate” really in Danger?
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Introduction
If one believes politicians and the media, the world is in danger:
the earth is heating up – catastrophe will result – and civilization
is the cause! Even school children are freightened1) and taught
that mankind can and must save the climate2).
But this message is linked to a hidden agenda. Its purpose is to
prepare the citizens for sacrifice: Rescue is possible – maybe -
though unfortunately it is awfully expensive!3)
In fulfilment of the “Kyoto Protocol”, energy providers and industry
in the participating countries are requested to …

thunderbolts.info
Jul 07, 2010
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New research confirms that Earth’s upper atmosphere is cooling off.
On December 7, 2001, NASA launched the Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite to study the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere. As part of the Solar Terrestrial Probes Missions, TIMED preceded STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory), launched October 25, 2006, and the HINODE (Solar-B) mission, launched September 23, 2006.

Future additions to the fleet of space vehicles analyzing the …

CH3 Headlines
July 10, 2010
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Read here. Map source here. Scientists studied the extended warm period (interglacial) prior to the last major ice age. That prior warm period happened some 125 thousand years ago. Using a sediment core from a German lake, the scientists analyzed the quantity of pollen grains found in the core. Approximately every 1,500 years during the ancient interglacial, the climate changed from a warming phase to a cooling phase. The current interglacial, since the end of the last ice age …

Financial Post
Lawrence Solomon
July 8, 2010
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Yesterday’s scorcher scorched wind power’s reputation and its long-term bottom line, too.  This simple chart demonstrates why no company can make a profit supplying wind power to the electricity system without government subsidies, and why no society can count on wind power when the power is most needed.
The wind blew at its best in Ontario yesterday between midnight and 1 am (the first column in the chart), producing 214 megawatt-hours (1000 kilowatts to …

Master Resource
by Robert Peltier
July 8, 2010
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In addition to building nuclear power plants, a robust nuclear energy infrastructure requires a means to store and recycle spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and other high level nuclear waste (HLW) products.
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and Amendments of 1987 established a national policy and schedule for developing geologic repositories for the disposal of SNF and HLW. Those deadlines have come and gone; the cancellation of Yucca Mountain was only the latest failed attempt to make this policy a …

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 …