New paper finds lunar-tidal cycles influence climate: Study published in the International Journal of Climatology finds the 18.6 year lunar-tide cycle influences rainfall and climate over adjacent land areas’
New paper finds lunar-tidal cycles influence climate
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-paper-finds-lunar-tidal-cycles.html
A paper published today in the International Journal of Climatology finds the 18.6 year lunar-tide cycle influences rainfall and climate over adjacent land areas. According to the authors, in years of strong tides, tide-induced ocean mixing decreases sea surface temperatures and lowers air pressures, which in turn affects rainfall variability over the plains east of the subtropical Andes, South America. The opposite pattern is observed in years of weak tides. The paper adds to other peer-reviewed publications finding a lunar influence on ocean and atmospheric oscillations, which in turn have large scale effects upon climate. The IPCC ignores lunar, solar, and other planetary harmonics, which alone can explain climate change of the past millennium. The 18.6-year nodal tidal cycle and the bi-decadal precipitation oscillation over the plains to the east of subtropical Andes, South America
This work shows statistical evidence for lunar nodal cycle influence on the low-frequency summer rainfall variability over the plains to the east of subtropical Andes, in South America, through long-term sea surface temperature (SST) variations induced by the nodal amplitude of diurnal tides over southwestern South Atlantic (SWSA). In years of strong (weak) diurnal tides, tide-induced diapycnal mixing makes SST cooler (warmer) together with low (high) air pressures in the surroundings of the Malvinas/Falklands Islands in the SWSA, possibly through mean tropospheric baroclinicity variations. As the low-level tropospheric circulation anomalies directly affect the interannual summer rainfall variability, such an influence can be extended to the bi-decadal variability present in the summer rainfall owing to the nodal modulation effect observed in the tropospheric circulation. The identification of the nodal periodicity in the summer rainfall variability is statistically robust.
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After Alaska cooled 2.4F last decade, Greenpeace executive director Phil Radford claims that Lisa Murkowski is “a major cause” of Alaskan glacier retreat: ‘Alaska’s glaciers retreat from climate change, and Senator Murkowski continues to be a major cause of the problem’
After Alaska cooled 2.4F last decade, Greenpeace executive director Phil Radford claims that Lisa Murkowski is “a major cause” of Alaskan glacier retreat
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/after-alaska-cooled-24f-last-decade.html
Twitter / Phil_Radford: Alaska’s glaciers retreat from …Alaska’s glaciers retreat from climate change, and Senator #Murkowski continues to be a major cause of the problem… http://nyti.ms/13XsXuB Flashback: Forget global warming, Alaska is headed for an ice age | Alaska DispatchIn the first decade since 2000, the 49th state cooled 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Are Oceans Warming While Global Surface Temperatures Are Stalling? ‘Climate scientists are now saying the missing heat is being forced to depths below 700 meters. Of course, that assumes the missing heat actually exists’
Are Oceans Warming While Global Surface Temperatures Are Stalling?
http://www.thegwpf.org/oceans-warming-global-surface-temperatures-stalling/
The ocean temperature data for the depths of 700-2000 meters is an important topic. With the surface temperatures no longer warming and with the slowdown in the rate at which the oceans are warming at depths of 0-700 meters, climate scientists are now saying the missing heat is being forced to depths below 700 meters. Of course, that assumes the missing heat actually exists.
In a number of posts, we’ve discussed and illustrated the difficulties with ocean heat content data. (There are links to those earlier posts at the end of this one.) The data presented in this post is supported by the 2012 Levitus et al paper World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0–2000 m), 1955–2010 [8.1 MB].
One topic discussed but not illustrated (until now in Figure 1) was that the annual variations in temperatures at depths between 700 and 2000 meters were in terms of hundredths if not thousandths of a deg C and that it was unrealistic to think we could measure the temperatures of the oceans at depth with that type of accuracy. It turns out that the annual variations are typically in thousandths of a deg C. The total scale of the temperature anomalies of the graph in Figure 1 is two one-hundredths of a deg C.
Figure 1
Keep in mind that Figure 1 presents the approximated changes in annual temperature for the depths of 700-2000 meters—not the anomalies. The annual changes are determined simply: by subtracting the value of the previous year from the value of the year being plotted.
The ocean temperature data for the depths of 700-2000 meters is an important topic. With the surface temperatures no longer warming and with the slowdown in the rate at which the oceans are warming at depths of 0-700 meters, climate scientists are now saying the missing heat is being forced to depths below 700 meters. Of course, that assumes the missing heat actually exists.
DATA AND METHOD
The NODC provides vertically averaged temperature anomalies for 0-700 meters here, and for the depths of 0-2000 meters here. To use that data to determine the variations in temperatures at depths between 700 and 2000 meters we need to know the volume of water in the depth ranges of 0-700 meters and 0-2000 meters. In reality, we don’t necessarily need the volumes. …
Global Sea Surface Temperatures At A Standstill
Global Sea Surface Temperatures At A Standstill
http://www.thegwpf.org/global-sea-surface-temperatures-standstill/
There’s nothing too exciting for this update. Global sea surface temperatures are at about +0.27 deg C for the week centered on July 17th, compared to the base years of 1971-2000.
Weekly Global
The sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region in the equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170W-120W) are a commonly used metric for the frequency, strength and duration of El Niño and La Niña events. For the week centered on Wednesday July 17, 2013, they were at about -0.29 deg C. That is, there aren’t El Niño or La Niña conditions, which have thresholds of +0.5 deg C and -0.5 deg C, respectively.
Weekly NINO3.4
But sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific are still quite cool. The NINO1+2 region is bordered by the coordinates of 10S-0, 90W-80W, and its sea surface temperature anomalies are approximately -1.7 deg C.
Weekly NINO1+2
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Climatologist dr. Judith Curry on the alleged 97% ‘consensus’: ‘The definition of climate change consensus is now so fuzzy that leading climate change skeptics are categorizing themselves within the 97%. IPCC and other leading climate scientists can’t agree on the cause of the lack of surface temperature increase for the past 15+ year’
The 97% ‘consensus’ | Climate Etc. http://judithcurry.com/2013/07/26/the-97-consensus/…
3rd Daily Record in 4 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
3rd Daily Record in 4 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
July 26 (Day 206) saw the 3rd Daily Record in 4 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent. Click for bigger.
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Uh oh: New Eurobarometer poll shows climate change is the most pressing concern for 0% of the people in Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Estonia and Greece: ‘Only 4% of Europeans rate climate change as their most pressing concernThe new Eurobarometer poll’
Uh oh: New Eurobarometer poll shows climate change is the most pressing concern for 0% of the people in Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Estonia and Greece
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/uh-oh-new-eurobarometer-poll-shows.html
The New Nostradamus of the North: New EU poll: Only 4% of Europeans rate climate change as their most pressing concernThe new Eurobarometer poll must be depressive reading for EU’s überwarmist, climate change commissioner Connie Hedegaard and her fellow alarmists in the European Commission. The number of people who rank climate change as their most pressing concern is barely recognizable. …in seven countries – Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Estonia and Greece the number is zero (0%)!
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Social anthropology major Gina McCarthy will begin fossil-fueled travel around the country to sell the climate hoax; Barbara Boxer is organizing a fossil-fueled “climate trip” around California to visit communities “experiencing wildfires due to climate”
Social anthropology major Gina McCarthy will begin fossil-fueled travel around the country to sell the climate hoax; Barbara Boxer is organizing a fossil-fueled “climate trip” around California to visit communities “experiencing wildfires due to climate”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/social-anthropology-major-gina-mccarthy.html
Dems’ recess game plan: Push climate message – POLITICO.com Print View“The Democrats should seize the opportunity to contrast themselves with the nihilistic House Republicans by advocating solutions to these challenges — including climate change,” said Daniel Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy for the Center for American Progress Action Fund.Organizing for Action, the successor to Obama’s campaign arm, is planning a “national action” day Aug. 13, which will focus on climate change.Ivan Frishberg, climate change campaign manager at OFA, said the group is organizing events in the states and districts of the 135 lawmakers it has labeled “climate deniers” as part of the action day. The events are aimed at “holding them accountable” for questioning climate science, he said.“With these folks, it’s hard to get to a conversation about solutions when they deny the science,” Frishberg said….The Obama administration has launched its own campaign to sell the climate plan, with the president dispatching key members of his administration — including newly confirmed EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz — to take part in “an aggressive outreach effort,” a White House official said in an email….Starting next week, McCarthy will begin traveling around the country to discuss the importance of acting on climate change….Barbara Boxer told POLITICO she is organizing a “climate trip” around California during the recess.“I’m going to some of the communities that are experiencing wildfires due to climate,” Boxer said.…
Warmist Damage Control: ‘Slowdown in global warming was expected’ — Blame sun, ‘unknowns’
Warmist Damage Control: ‘Slowdown in global warming was expected’ — Blame sun, ‘unknowns’
They knew it all along — they just didn’t tell anybody? Climate News Network reports: The present slowdown in global warming was expected, UK scientists say, though not for a few years. But they say it is within the range of uncertainty they had foreseen. So where was the warming slowdown foreseen in climate models?…
Upcoming IPCC report in real trouble: Coming to grips with overestimated climate sensitivity could prove embarrassing
Upcoming IPCC report in real trouble: Coming to grips with overestimated climate sensitivity could prove embarrassing
Chip Knappenberger and Pat Michaels write: The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the midst of finishing its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) on the topic. Based on a series of content leaks, it seems as if the AR5 has so much internal inconsistency that releasing it in its current form will […]…