How the GW myth is perpetuated
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If there's no greenhouse effect, there's no ghg's. You've kind of backed yourself into a corner here. Time for a dance perhaps?
Sure there is a greenhouse effect. There are also other forces with corellations to climate variations at play which is why 66% of Official peer reviewed climate change papers wisely take no stance on AGW. Even IPCC admits the causation of is still an unknown and they recognize several other possible causes or a combination of several dynamic forces at work.
And teh dance begins. Sure there's a greenhouse effect. Until the next page. Then maybe not.
Climate Mafia Chronicles
Okay, this Obama guy is really starting to annoy me. John has already noted Obama’s risible comments about “climate deniers” in the commencement address he gave at UC Irvine the other day, and as I argued last week in the Weekly Standard, Obama and the rest of the climatistas are swatting after the thinnest of straw men, as there is virtually no one who is saying climate change doesn’t happen. The climatistas resolutely refuse to engage in any deliberations about the question of how much, and refuse to consider alternatives to their lust to gain control of the energy sector.
Instead the climatistas continue to behave like a cross between a religious cult and the mafia. The latest outrage concerns Caleb Rossiter, a left-leaning professor of media studies at American University and a fellow with the very-left Institute for Policy Studies who wrote a terrific op-ed for the Wall Street Journal entitled “Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change.”* Rossiter makes a simple point that escapes the climate policy “reality deniers” (sauce for the goose I say) that requiring expensive energy in an energy-staved world is to condemn millions of people to continue their lives of misery. The agenda of the climatistas is just a new form of neocolonialism, Rossiter thinks:
enjoy more here:
Climate Mafia Chronicles | Power Line
Okay, this Obama guy is really starting to annoy me. John has already noted Obama’s risible comments about “climate deniers” in the commencement address he gave at UC Irvine the other day, and as I argued last week in the Weekly Standard, Obama and the rest of the climatistas are swatting after the thinnest of straw men, as there is virtually no one who is saying climate change doesn’t happen. The climatistas resolutely refuse to engage in any deliberations about the question of how much, and refuse to consider alternatives to their lust to gain control of the energy sector.
Instead the climatistas continue to behave like a cross between a religious cult and the mafia. The latest outrage concerns Caleb Rossiter, a left-leaning professor of media studies at American University and a fellow with the very-left Institute for Policy Studies who wrote a terrific op-ed for the Wall Street Journal entitled “Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change.”* Rossiter makes a simple point that escapes the climate policy “reality deniers” (sauce for the goose I say) that requiring expensive energy in an energy-staved world is to condemn millions of people to continue their lives of misery. The agenda of the climatistas is just a new form of neocolonialism, Rossiter thinks:
enjoy more here:
Climate Mafia Chronicles | Power Line
Yep, people take a lot of stuff for granted that 50 years ago we didn't give a thought to. -
It's all about the harsh colors man...
Near the first of this month, the NOAA National Weather Service discontinued the sea surface temperature dataset used by Unisys to create their daily sea surface temperature and sea surface temperature anomaly maps. As a result, Unisys has been unable to update those maps. Many persons enjoyed studying the animations (see current sample to the right) because of the color coding of temperature anomalies, in which blues and greens extended into the realm of positive anomalies.
So where can you turn now for your daily fix of peaceful and calming shades of blue?
THE SITE RECOMMENDED BY UNISYS
The color scalings for the temperature anomalies from the website suggested by Unisys are too harsh. It’s from the NOAA National Weather Service Environmental Modeling Center webpage Real-time, global, sea surface temperature (RTG_SST_HR) analysis. See Map 1. A description of that analysis is here.
Map 1
The maps from the Environmental Modeling Center have three strikes against them:
THE BEST I’VE FOUND…SO FAR
There are a number of other suppliers of daily sea surface temperature and anomaly maps, but the one I’ve recently bookmarked as a temporary replacement for those from Unisys come from Environment Canada (EC). See their Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies and Snow Cover – Daily webpage. A recent example is shown in Map 2. Greys are also used on the maps for snow cover and sea ice.
Cool.
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The Unisys Daily Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Maps May Be Gone | Watts Up With That?
Near the first of this month, the NOAA National Weather Service discontinued the sea surface temperature dataset used by Unisys to create their daily sea surface temperature and sea surface temperature anomaly maps. As a result, Unisys has been unable to update those maps. Many persons enjoyed studying the animations (see current sample to the right) because of the color coding of temperature anomalies, in which blues and greens extended into the realm of positive anomalies.
So where can you turn now for your daily fix of peaceful and calming shades of blue?
THE SITE RECOMMENDED BY UNISYS
The color scalings for the temperature anomalies from the website suggested by Unisys are too harsh. It’s from the NOAA National Weather Service Environmental Modeling Center webpage Real-time, global, sea surface temperature (RTG_SST_HR) analysis. See Map 1. A description of that analysis is here.
Map 1
The maps from the Environmental Modeling Center have three strikes against them:
- Strike 1: I haven’t found animations of those maps. They may exist, but with the other two strikes, I didn’t see any reason to spend too much time looking.
- Strike 2: While they use white as their neutral color, they only use it for the range of +/- 0.25 deg C. That’s way too narrow, giving too much visual “noise”.
- Strike 3: They use 1961 to 1990 as the base years for anomalies. That’s two decades behind the period (1981 to 2010) recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The NOAA Climate Prediction Center updated the climatologies they use for many indices three years ago to 1981 to 2010. The NOAA Environmental Modeling Center should update theirs.
THE BEST I’VE FOUND…SO FAR
There are a number of other suppliers of daily sea surface temperature and anomaly maps, but the one I’ve recently bookmarked as a temporary replacement for those from Unisys come from Environment Canada (EC). See their Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies and Snow Cover – Daily webpage. A recent example is shown in Map 2. Greys are also used on the maps for snow cover and sea ice.
Cool.
more
The Unisys Daily Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Maps May Be Gone | Watts Up With That?
Receding Swiss Glaciers Reveal 4000 Year Old Forests – Warmists Try To Suppress Findings
As many sources, including HH Lamb, have pointed out, back in the Bronze Age around 2000BC, the climate in the Alps was much warmer than now.
It is therefore no surprise to find direct evidence of this from geologist Dr. Christian Schlüchter, Professor emeritus at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
Larry Bell at Newsmax has the story:
Receding Swiss Glaciers Reveal 4000 Year Old Forests – Warmists Try To Suppress Findings | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
As many sources, including HH Lamb, have pointed out, back in the Bronze Age around 2000BC, the climate in the Alps was much warmer than now.
It is therefore no surprise to find direct evidence of this from geologist Dr. Christian Schlüchter, Professor emeritus at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
Larry Bell at Newsmax has the story:
Receding Swiss Glaciers Reveal 4000 Year Old Forests – Warmists Try To Suppress Findings | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Born yesterday Christian alarmists would explain this like the do dino bones. Satan put the stumps there to confuse us and God didn't take them away to test us.
Steve Goddard @SteveSGoddard
Math is hard.
@bradplumer thinks that no warming for 18 years, extrapolates to 2 degrees in the next 36 years. pic.twitter.com/f23u1ClWpA
The hysteria gets more hysterical.
BBC News - Al Gore: climate change is the 'biggest crisis our civilisation faces'
BBC News - Al Gore: climate change is the 'biggest crisis our civilisation faces'
From NYT no less. I call this a random act of journalism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/u...target-of-suspicion.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/u...target-of-suspicion.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
Steve Goddard @SteveSGoddard
Polar bears are drowning in Alaska, as they wade through several feet of shallow water to get to the ice pack.
heh