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Day: August 9, 2014

New Study: Modern Solar Maximum – A ‘Rare Or Even Unique Event In The Past 3000 Years’

New Study: Modern Solar Maximum – A ‘Rare Or Even Unique Event In The Past 3000 Years’

http://www.thegwpf.org/new-study-modern-solar-maximum-a-rare-or-even-unique-event-in-the-past-3000-years/

The modern Grand maximum (which occurred during solar cycles 19-23, i.e., 1950-2009) was “a rare or even unique event, in both magnitude and duration, in the past three millennia.”
Reference
Usoskin, I.G., Hulot, G., Gallet, Y., Roth, R., Licht, A., Joos, F., Kovaltsov, G.A., Thebault, E. and Khokhlov, A. 2014. Evidence for distinct modes of solar activity. Astronomy and Astrophysics 562: L10, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201423391.
What was done
According to Usoskin et al. (2014), the Sun “shows strong variability in its magnetic activity, from Grand minima to Grand maxima, but the nature of the variability is not fully understood, mostly because of the insufficient length of the directly observed solar activity records and of uncertainties related to long-term reconstructions.” Now, however, in an attempt to overcome such uncertainties, in a Letter to the Editor published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Usoskin et al. “present the first fully adjustment-free physical reconstruction of solar activity” covering the past 3,000 years, which record allowed them “to study different modes of solar activity at an unprecedented level of detail.”
What was learned
As illustrated in the figure below, the authors report there is “remarkable agreement” among the overlapping years of their reconstruction (solid black line) and the number of sunspots recorded from direct observations since 1610 (red line). Their reconstruction of solar activity also displays several “distinct features,” including several “well-defined Grand minima of solar activity, ca. 770 BC, 350 BC, 680 AD, 1050 AD, 1310 AD, 1470 AD, and 1680 AD,” as well as “the modern Grand maximum (which occurred during solar cycles 19-23, i.e., 1950-2009),” which they describe as “a rare or even unique event, in both magnitude and duration, in the past three millennia.”
Figure 1. Reconstructed decadal average of sunspot numbers for the period 1150 BC-1950 AD (black line). The 95% confidence interval is shown by the gray shading and directly measured sunspot numbers are shown in red. The horizontal dashed lines demark the bounds of the three suggested modes (Grand Minimum, Regular, and Grand Maximum) as defined by Usoskin et al.

Further statistical analysis of their reconstruction revealed the Sun operates in three distinct modes of activity – (1) a regular mode that “corresponds to moderate activity that varies in a relatively narrow band between sunspot numbers 20 and 67,” (2) …

Danish Professor Sacked For Highlighting Dangers Of Wind Turbine Noise

Danish Professor Sacked For Highlighting Dangers Of Wind Turbine Noise

http://www.thegwpf.org/danish-professor-sacked-for-highlighting-dangers-of-wind-turbine-noise/

News is just emerging from Denmark that another academic was sacked in March, because he refused to follow the party line.
Professor Henrik Moller is one of the world’s leading authorities on infra-sound, and can boast of 38 years of service at Aalborg University. He has also been a regular thorn in the side of the wind power industry, as he has repeatedly pointed out the dangers of low frequency noise from turbines
The Google Translation from the above JP article reads:
 
Mysterious Firing
On 26 and 27 March was settled Danish Wind Industry Annual Event 2014 organized by the trade association Danish Wind Industry Association, in Herning. 
Nearly 400 participants from home and abroad participated in the session, highlighting many aspects of wind energy and wind turbines, including noise, but quite remarkable was one of the leading noise researchers, Professor Henrik Moller from Aalborg University, not to be found among the many speakers.
It was, however, his superiors Eskild Holm Nielsen, dean of Aalborg University’s Faculty of Engineering and Science, who “spoke for closer cooperation between industry and research institutions. He pointed out that it was important that the industry demonstrated a greater willingness to open up and share technology issues in the research world, “one can read in the wind industry record.

The message is sobering, as even the same Eskild Holm Nielsen previous day had sacked the country’s leading noise researcher, Professor Henrik Moller, who has repeatedly challenged and criticized both the EPA as the wind industry to misinform the public about the low frequency noise, which is particularly large turbines emit and by long-term exposure is suspected to be both allowing deteriorating quality of life,  and directly harmful. 
It belongs to the absolute rarities at home that a recognized professors fired. In Henrik Møller cases the rationale failing economy, but what the real reason might be, outsiders because of lack of access to documents in the Tribunal not to know.
The wind turbine industry has a very close collaboration with the Institute for Wind Energy Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and DTU provided also a solid part of the speakers and panelists at the Danish Wind Industry Annual Event 2014.
DTU’s Department of Wind Energy stands for construction and operation of the National Testing Centre For Wind Turbines at Østerild and we reveal hardly any …

Tony Thomas: Big Green Hypocrites – Follow the money

Tony Thomas: Big Green Hypocrites

http://www.thegwpf.org/tony-thomas-big-green-hypocrites/

When you next notice a green group waging war on some or other Big Carbon outfit don’t for a moment believe that the motive is altruism. Follow the money and you’re likely to find that donations from one vile corporate polluter are underwriting those eco activist assaults on a competitor
Groups like Greenpeace ooze virtue.  They save whales, pet the pandas and strive to lift the world’s poor out of poverty. Oh, better strike that last bit.

India’s federal Intelligence Bureau has reported that Greenpeace-led anti-development activists are currently harming that nation’s economy to the tune of 2-3% of GDP, or $US125 billion, per annum. There are about 370m Indians living in poverty, and they are hardly being helped by Greenpeace campaigns against cheap coal-fired power, nuclear power, giant new industrial complexes, genetically modified foods, palm oil imports, and Indian (but not American) IT firms, as described by the Intelligence Bureau.
The government responded last month by effectively stopping foreign money coming in to fund Greenpeace. The   Intelligence Bureau report was  headed, “Concerted efforts by select foreign funded NGOs to ‘take down’ Indian development projects”. In the first paragraphs, the Bureau highlights Greenpeace International as a leading instigator. “The negative impact on GDP growth is assessed to be 2-3% p.a.,” the Bureau says in bolded type. The text suggests that Greenpeace and its allies are knocking India’s GDP growth down from 8-9% to the actual 6-7% p.a.
The Bureau accuses Western NGOs of pretending to be care about poverty, human rights etc., while noting that Greenpeace  openly devotes its whole agenda to campaigns that wreak economic harm. “Anti-coal activism is spearheaded by US-based ‘green’ organisations and Greenpeace, which have formed a ‘Coal Network’  to take-down India’s 455 proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants (520GW),” the Bureau alleges. For comparison with that 520GW, know that total Australian capacity is about 60GW.
As well as attacking industry, Greenpeace in 2014 moved to attack India’s thriving information technology sector by campaigning against IT firms e-waste disposals. According to the Bureau, Greenpeace first campaigned against IT firms e-waste in 2007, but that effort failed in terms of both PR and eroding the companies’ earnings. “Greenpeace has now renewed its campaign … in order to internationally highlight that Indian IT firms are yet to be on par with global standards with regard to e-waste management and disposal…”
Interestingly, as the report …

Bill Gates & Julian Simon’s Continued March Into The Mainstream: ‘Julian Simon, step by step, is becoming the intellectual king of the sustainable development hill’

Bill Gates & Julian Simon’s Continued March Into The Mainstream

http://www.thegwpf.org/bill-gates-julian-simons-continued-march-into-the-mainstream/

“Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren, take note. Look who is in the mainstream now! Julian Simon, step by step, is becoming the intellectual king of the sustainable development hill. First came Bjorn Lomborg. Then Paul Sabin. And now Bill Gates.”

Julian Simon, with his revolutionary theory of “the ultimate resource,” was far outside of the mainstream of sustainable development thought in his lifetime. But Simon’s marketing prowess and business acumen went to work, culminating in the most famous bet in the history of economics against Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, et al. on the future scarcity of mineral resources in a more populated world.
Such is the subject of a recent book by Yale history professor Paul Sabin, titled The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future, which was reviewed by Bill Gates (see below).
Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren, take note. Look who is in the mainstream now! Julian Simon, step by step, is becoming the intellectual king of the sustainable development hill. First came Bjorn Lomborg. Then Paul Sabin. And now Bill Gates.
Here is Bill Gates’s book review of The Bet from late last year.

The year 1981 was a big one in my business life. It was the year Paul Allen and I incorporated Microsoft in our home state of Washington.
As it turns out, 1981 also had big implications for my current work in health, development, and the environment. Right when Paul and I were pulling all-nighters to get ready for the release of the MS-DOS operating system for the brand new IBM-PC, two rival professors with radically divergent perspectives were sealing a bet that the Chronicle of Higher Education called “the scholarly wager of the decade.”
This bet is the subject of Yale history professor Paul Sabin’s new book. The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future provides surprising insights for anyone involved in addressing the world’s “wicked problems.” Most of all, it gave me new perspective on why so many big challenges get bogged down in political battles rather than being focused on problem-solving.
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