Remember that grand talk of a $100,000 million annual climate hoax fund four years ago? So far, a total of only $7.5 million has been raised

Remember that grand talk of a $100,000 million annual climate hoax fund four years ago? So far, a total of only $7.5 million has been raised

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/10/remember-that-grand-talk-of-100000.html

Green Climate Fund must delivery transparency and integrity, say NGOsThe GCF remains hugely underfunded. While developing countries have committed to mobilizing US$100 billion per year for climate finance by 2020, so far, it has only raised $7.5 million….This has caused some to worry about the ambition of the Fund, and the upcoming meeting in Paris this week will be instrumental in determining the feasibility of collecting the requisite financial pledges at the UN climate talks in Warsaw this November….[Oscar Reyes] “To say this is an inauspicious start is an understatement.”Dec 2009: Hillary Clinton Pledges $100B for Developing Countries – NYTimes.comCOPENHAGEN — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has promised the United States will help raise $100 billion annually by 2020 to assist poor countries in coping with climate change as long as America’s demands for a global warming pledge are met.

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Settled science: New paper finds atmospheric mechanism that removes pollutants, accelerates with warming

Settled science: New paper finds atmospheric mechanism that removes pollutants, accelerates with warming

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/settled-science-new-paper-finds.html

The large atmosphere simulation chamber SAPHIR provides a platform for reproducible studies of well-defined atmospheric-chemical mechanisms. 

How Detergent of the Atmosphere Is Regenerated
Oct. 6, 2013 — It sounds unlikely: a washing machine recycles used detergent in order to use it again for the next load of dirty washing. But this is just what happens during the degradation of pollutants in the atmosphere. Jülich scientists have now been able to demonstrate this for the first time for isoprene, the most important natural hydrocarbon. Hydroxyl (OH) radicals — known as the detergent of the atmosphere — decompose isoprene in the air. This leads to the creation of new OH radicals, which are then able to purify the air of other pollutants and trace gases. The scientific community had previously only been able to speculate about this mechanism. The new findings have now been published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience.
The atmosphere has an astonishing ability to cleanse itself. Chemical processes ensure that trace gases and pollutants are removed from the atmosphere — such as isoprene, which is largely produced by forests. Without these processes global warming would be even more severe and , air quality much poorer. Just a few years ago, scientists thought that the degradation of isoprene considerably reduced the concentration of OH radicals. During studies in China, troposphere researchers from Jülich’s Institute of Energy and Climate Research simultaneously determined high concentrations of both OH radicals and trace gases such as isoprene. Other research groups made similar observations in the air above North American forests and tropical rainforests. The obvious conclusion was that during isoprene degradation something happens to regenerate the OH radicals. “In the past few years, there has been an intensive discussion in the scientific community about what this mechanism could be. But without actual proof this remained pure speculation. Now we have succeeded in demonstrating this process,” says the Jülich troposphere researcher, Dr. Hendrik Fuchs.The scientists recreated the natural conditions prevailing in the atmosphere above China and the tropical rainforests in the Jülich simulation chamber, SAPHIR. This chamber enables researchers to simulate the degradation of even slight quantities of trace gases. It is equipped with exactly the same measuring instruments as are used in field experiments. “It is only this particular combination that makes it possible to study the processes precisely. …

New paper finds models unable to reproduce natural atmospheric oscillations which control climate — ‘A paper under open review for Climate of the Past reconstructs the climate over the past 6,000 years and finds climate models were not able to reproduce the changes in European climate during during the mid-Holocene Climate Optimum, which was warmer than present-day climate’

New paper finds models unable to reproduce natural atmospheric oscillations which control climate

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-paper-finds-models-unable-to.html

A paper under open review for Climate of the Past reconstructs the climate over the past 6,000 years and finds climate models were not able to reproduce the changes in European climate during during the mid-Holocene Climate Optimum, which was warmer than present-day climate. In particular, the authors find the models are unable to reproduce the atmospheric circulations of the Arctic Oscillation [AO] and the North Atlantic Oscillation [NAO] of key importance to European & global climate, and in fact, simulated changes opposite to those found in the climate proxy reconstruction. The authors find “The poor representation of [natural] changes in Mid-Holocene atmospheric circulation in models is consistent with similar model deficiencies found [during the present climate], and may be important in understanding why Europe has recently been warming faster than predicted”The authors determine the primary failing of climate model simulations is an over-reliance and exaggeration of radiative forcing of climate, instead of an emphasis on natural atmospheric and oceanic oscillations and circulatory patterns. The primary obsession of the IPCC is also a over-simplification, exaggeration, and over-reliance that climate is controlled by radiative forcing forcing alone.

Note: the primary influence of the solar variation appears to be via influence of natural atmospheric and oceanic oscillations and circulatory patterns, rather than direct radiative forcing.

Excerpts:

Many of the recent and historical periods of climatic warming in Europe have been explained by changes in atmospheric circulation. For instance, much of the warming that occurred in the late 20th Century in Europe has been attributed to the increased number of winters with a high index AO/NAO (Hurrell, 1995; Visbeck et al., 2001). High index AO/NAO conditions are also thought to have occurred during the Medieval 15 Climate Anomaly, providing a dynamic explanation for the winter warmth experienced  over Europe at this time (Trouet et al., 2009). Similarly in summer, the increased occurrence of heat waves in recent years has been shown to be the result of anomalous atmospheric circulation associated with blocking anticyclones (Kysely and Huth, 2006). This pattern has also been shown to underlie summer warming on longer timescales 20 in the late Holocene (Della-Marta et al., 2007; Trouet et al., 2012; Yiou et al., 2012). 

Changes in atmospheric circulation have a significant influence on European climate (Sepp and Jaagus, 2002; van Ulden and van Oldenborgh, 2006; Hoy …

New paper claims over 100% of all man-made CO2 has to be removed from atmosphere to have a ‘safe’ climate — Published today in Geophysical Research Letters

New paper claims over 100% of all man-made CO2 has to be removed from atmosphere to have a “safe” climate

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-paper-claims-over-100-of-all-man.html

A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds on the basis of highly-flawed carbon cycle and climate models that even if all human emissions of CO2 were to cease, and a non-existent scheme devised to suck 115%-180% of all man-made CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere, it would require 1000 years for CO2 to return to a “safe” level. The paper appears to be the IPCC AR5 geo-engineering claim on steroids.

IPCC AR5: “CO2-induced warming is projected to remain approximately constant for many centuries following a complete cessation of emission. A large fraction of climate change is thus irreversible on a human timescale, except if net anthropogenic CO2 emissions were strongly negative over a sustained period.”
In other words, even if all the world ran on carbon-free energy and deforestation ceased, the only way of lowering temperatures would be to devise a scheme for sucking hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, 115%-180% of that which was ever produced by man, over the next 1000 years.In essence, it is claimed that we’re doomed no matter what. 

Fortunately, any small effect of CO2 on the climate is overwhelmed by natural variability, thus nature will do what it wants regardless of man’s attempts to control the weather with the harmless, essential, trace gas CO2. And even if you think CO2 has a significant climate effect, the lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere is only about 14 years, not the hundreds claimed by the highly flawed IPCC Bern model.
Reversing climate warming by artificial atmospheric carbon-dioxide removal: can a Holocene-like climate be restored?Andrew. H. MacDougall*DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057467Abstract: Most climate modelling studies of future climate have focused on the affects of carbon emissions in the present century or the long-term fate of anthropogenically emitted carbon. However, after carbon emissions cease there may be a desire to return to a “safe” CO2 concentration within this millennium. Realistically this implies artificially removing CO 2 from the atmosphere. In this study experiments are conducted using the University of Victoria Earth system climate model forced with novel future scenarios to explore the reversibility of climate warming as a response to a gradual return to pre-industrial radiative forcing. Due to hysteresis in the permafrost carbon pool the quantity of carbon that must be …

Nuttercelli Says That Disastrously Failed Climate Models Were Spot On Accurate — Apparently the IPCC actually predicted no warming for the past 17 years and record snowfall, but just worded it incorrectly in a way which made it sound like they were saying the exact opposite.

Nuttercelli Says That Disastrously Failed Climate Models Were Spot On Accurate

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/nuttercelli-says-that-disastrously-failed-climate-models-were-spot-on-accurate/

Apparently the IPCC actually predicted no warming for the past 17 years and record snowfall, but just worded it incorrectly in a way which made it sound like they were saying the exact opposite. IPCC model global warming projections have done much better than you think | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | theguardian.com

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