Actual quote from US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT): ‘Storms are caused by increased levels of carbon pollutants’

Actual quote from US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT): “Storms are caused by increased levels of carbon pollutants”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/actual-quote-from-us-senator-chris.html

Conn. Residents Call For Action over Climate Change – Western Massachusetts Breaking News and First Warning Weather with WGGB.com ABC 40From superstorm Sandy to massive snow fall — the state’s two senators addressed activists to show that they have a plan.“This is not in doubt…this…these weather trends and these,” said Senator Chris Murphy. “Storms are caused by increased levels of carbon pollutants.”Chris Murphy (politician) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChristopher Scott “Chris” Murphy (born August 3, 1973) is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut and a member of the Democratic Party.Twitter / ChrisMurphyCT: W @SenBlumenthal& ppl from …W @SenBlumenthal& ppl from all walks of life who want action on climate change. Inaction isnt an option #ActOnClimate pic.twitter.com/kTN9xgNAcm…

CIA Backs $630,000 Scientific Study on Controlling Global Climate: ‘Funding a scientific study that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth’s environment and stop climate change. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the first NAS geoengineering study financially supported by an intelligence agency’

CIA Backs $630,000 Scientific Study on Controlling Global Climate

http://junkscience.com/2013/07/21/cia-backs-630000-scientific-study-on-controlling-global-climate

Mother Jones reports: The Central Intelligence Agency is funding a scientific study that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth’s environment and stop climate change. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the first NAS geoengineering study financially supported by an intelligence agency. With the spooks’ […]…

Greens put the ‘P’ in phone; New urine-powered phone reduces waste

Greens put the ‘P’ in phone; New urine-powered phone reduces waste

http://junkscience.com/2013/07/17/greens-put-the-p-in-phone-new-urine-powered-phone-reduces-waste

The Independent reports: A group of researchers from the University of the West of England have invented a method of charging mobile phones using urine. Key to the breakthrough is the creation of a new microbial fuel cell (MFC) that turns organic matter – in the case, urine – into electricity. The MFCs are full […]…

India threatens Wind farms with fines: “accurately predict the wind a day in advance or else”

India threatens Wind farms with fines: “accurately predict the wind a day in advance or else”

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/07/india-threatens-wind-farms-with-fines-accurately-predict-the-wind-a-day-in-advance-or-else/

What the Nanny-State Goddess Giveth… The intermittent power of wind towers plays havoc with electricity grids. Power black outs in India are so bad, they cut off the supply to 600 million or so people for two days last year. To make the grid more stable, an official somewhere decided it would help to have at least one day’s warning of how much electricity will flow from those towers.  (Why not two days I say?) “A directive took effect this week ordering wind farms with a capacity of 10 megawatts or more to forecast their generation in 15-minute blocks for the following day. “ To put some perspective on this, here is what 7000 wind turbines across Northern Europe (between the North sea, the Baltic Sea and the Austrian-Swiss border) produced in 2004. You can admire the stable predictable output that comes from averaging so many turbines over such a large area. Right? Percentage of peak grid power supplied by 7000 wind turbines in Northern Europe in 2004 Sources: German Eon Netz (E.ON) Wind Report 2005, Windenergy  and  WiseEnergy.org  (Wind Energy Facts and Fiction: A Half Truth is a Whole Lie p 7) [Bloomberg]  Wind Forecast […]Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)…

Dem Virginia guv candidate: Asking for Michael Mann e-mails is ‘mean-spirited hatefulness’

Dem Virginia guv candidate: Asking for Michael Mann e-mails is ‘mean-spirited hatefulness’

http://junkscience.com/2013/07/20/dem-virginia-guv-candidate-asking-for-michael-mann-e-mails-is-mean-spirited-hatefulness

WJLA-TV reports: Virginia’s normally sedate midsummer debate started out edgy, got downright nasty and saw the facts twisted at times as Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe clashed one-on-one for the first time in this year’s only competitive governor’s race… There are consequences to mean-spirited hatefulness,” McAuliffe said, citing Cuccinelli’s legal actions against a […]…

Global Warming is no longer cool: Monckton

Global Warming is no longer cool: Monckton

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2013/07/global-warming-is-no-longer-cool.html

PRESS RELEASEby Lord Christopher MoncktonThe long pause in global warming continues“Global Warming is no longer Cool”The Lord Monckton Foundation’s monthly Global Warming Projection Index number for July 2013 is 0.22 Cº.Image: Hyscience. INDEXThat is how much the IPCC’s central projection of global warming over the 8 years 6 months January 2005 to June 2013 has overshot the observed temperature trend. The long, unpredicted pause in global warming continues.Ø If the 102-month IPCC overshoot were to continue for 100 years, the IPCC’s prediction would exceed the measured trend by 2.57 Cº. The IPCC’s central projection of global warming to 2050 is 2.33 Cº (Fifth Assessment Report).Ø Though the IPCC projection shows the world should have warmed by 0.20 Cº since 2005, the mean of the RSS and UAH satellite global temperature datasets shows cooling of 0.02 Cº, equivalent to 0.24 Cº/century. The predicted and actual trends are visibly diverging. Solar physicists and mathematicians expect significant cooling over at least the next five years.Ø The trend in CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa shows a rise of 17 μatm since January 2005, equivalent to 202 μatm/century. On its own, this CO2 increase should have caused a radiative forcing of 0.24 Watts per square meter, or 0.34 W m–2 after including the influence of all other greenhouse gases. Even without temperature feedbacks, according to the IPCC’s methods this forcing should have caused 0.1 Cº warming. Adding in the IPCC’s temperature estimates of temperature feedbacks and of previously-committed global warming should have caused up to 0.3 Cº warming since January 2005. None has occurred.Ø The least-squares trend on the RSS satellite dataset shows no global warming at all for 16 years 7 months (199 months). The NOAA, in its 2008 State of the Climate report, said 15 years or more without warming would indicate a discrepancy between the models and the real world.Ø There has been no global warming above the published measurement and coverage uncertainties for 17 years 5 months (HadCRUt4 dataset). Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC’s climate-science chairman, admitted in February 2013 that there had been a 17-year “pause” in global warming. Dr. Ben Santer has said that 17 years or more without warming would raise concerns about the reliability of the models.Ø See how the Global Warming Prediction Index is compiled HERELord Monckton said: “The profiteers of doom were wrong. There is a growing …

Waiting For The Warming

Waiting For The Warming

http://www.thegwpf.org/waiting-inquisition-warming/

Looking back at what was reported in the late 90s and the early years of this century everyone was expecting the rise in global temperature seen in the 90s to continue at an IPCC sanctioned rate of 0.3 deg C per decade. Only years later in the face of no temperature rise was it mentioned that what might have been meant was an average rate of 0.3 deg C per decade, sometimes it could be less, sometimes more. Hold onto your hats it was implied, today’s slower rate would soon be replaced by a much larger one, as part of regression to the mean.
In other words we had been extraordinary lucky that the global surface temperature has not risen in about 17 years. A few years ago the Met Office said that a ten-year hiatus occurred about every eight decades in climate simulations, and a fifteen-year one never. Since then others have suggested a 15-year one could be every ten decades or so. It would be a fair observation that as the global temperature standstill continues, the estimates of its importance seems to diminish in some quarters. If you try hard enough some model can always be found to suggest it’s just a fluctuation.
But think how lucky we have been. Since global surface temperatures started rising in about 1980 we have had a 15-year period of ‘average’ warming followed by an unusual 15-year period of no warming. The second 15-year period has, say, a chance of occurring of about, being generous, one in fifteen. So any sample of 30-year climate simulations shows us that reality has been a low probability outcome. What if the standstill continues for 20 years? Two, one in eight probability decades back-to-back!
The science journal Nature said only last week that the global temperature standstill “is one of the biggest mysteries in climate science.”
So many climate modelers have been waiting, with apparently increasing frustration, for the upward trend to recur. It’s in their models you see. The very ones they find very hard to tweek to reproduce a 15-year hiatus. The exercise is an important one, for it demonstrates, or undermines, faith in climate models. Can they reproduce the standstill, and predict its end?
Well no, not yet. Since 2007, the Met Office Hadley Centre has produced a decadal forecast every year, out for the next 5 to …

Green energy: often a very bad “investment”

Green energy: often a very bad “investment”

http://www.cfact.org/2013/07/17/green-energy-often-a-very-bad-investment/

Once again, the $2.6 billion Cape Wind construction is illustrative of how the overlaps can give the developer more in taxpayer-funded benefits than the project’s actual cost. Federal incentives, including a $780 million energy investment credit, a DOE loan guarantee, and accelerated depreciation could be more than $1.3 billion—or more than 50% of the project’s cost. But, this just represents the federal package. Add in state incentives and the combined total could be $4.3 billion—exceeding the projected cost by 167%. Cape Wind claims to create only 50 permanent jobs—which would equal a staggering $86 million per job.…