Top Swiss Avalanche Expert Werner Munter Calls IPCC Report ‘A Scientific Farce’
Top Swiss Avalanche Expert Werner Munter Calls IPCC Report “A Scientific Farce”…”Piss Take”!
He looks more like guru, even a prophet. But in Switzerland 73 year old Swiss Alps mountain guide Werner Munter is known as the “avalanche pope”. No one knows more about avalanches in the Alps and their risks than he does. Werner Munter: Image credit: www.berge-im-kopf.ch. He is credited for having revolutionized the science of avalanches. The online Swiss swissinfo.ch here featured the expert and his position on the IPCC’s latest report late last year. Swissinfo.ch writes that although Munter is not a climate expert, he has read up on the subject extensively, and quotes Munter: It’s unbelievable arrogance to believe that we would be able to sustainably influence the climate.” He also tells Swissinfo.ch that he has found no evidence showing how CO2 could warm the climate. Swissinfo writes: He views the current claims of most climate scientists as well as the experts of the UN (IPCC), who say mankind’s activities are causing climate change, as ‘piss take’.” “Piss take” definition: here. Why is Munter skeptical? He cites hundreds of scientific papers opposing the current opinion of the IPCC and that there really isn’t any consensus at all. Swissinfo.ch reports that Munter does not dispute that climate is changing, but believes man is not responsible for it. Munter to Swissinfo.ch: During the Holocene – a period on earth going back about 10,000 years – there were five phases when it was just as warm as it is today or even warmer.” Munter also tells Swissinfo.ch “CO2 is not a pollutant” and that the atmospheric concentration of CO2 stemming from man is “negligible”. He also doesn’t believe that CO2 is even a greenhouse gas, citing a paper by physicist Robert Wood. On why the earth is warming, Munter says it all goes back to the sun. And by the sun he not only means solar irradiance but also the sun’s magnetic field, thus lending support to Svensmark’s theory. Munter’s skepticism is worrying media like Swissinfo.ch and established climate scientists in Europe. For example Mike Schäfer, a risk communication professor at the University of Zurich. He tells Swissinfo.ch that Munter is not alone as a skeptic because “in the USA 20 to 30 percent of the population are climate skeptics” who do not believe man plays a real role on climate or the projected consequences. Media do …
New paper finds global warming reduces intense storms & extreme weather
New paper finds global warming reduces intense storms & extreme weather
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-paper-finds-global-warming-reduces.html
A paper published today in Science contradicts the prior belief that global warming, if it resumes, will fuel more intense storms, finding instead that an increase in water vapor and strengthened hydrological cycle will reduce the atmosphere’s ability to perform thermodynamic Work, thus decreasing the formation of intense winds, storms, and hurricanes. The authors demonstrate instead that if warming resumes “Although the hydrological cycle may increase in intensity, it does so at the expense of its ability to do work, such as powering large-scale atmospheric circulation or fueling more very intense storms.” The paper adds to many others demonstrating that a warmer climate is a more benign climate with fewer extreme weather events, opposite the claims of climate alarmists. Claims of global warming producing more extreme weather due to “more energy in the system” are refuted by the paper which finds the atmosphere will become “less energetic” and the atmospheric “Carnot engine” will become less efficient at performing Work (such as generating intense winds and storms) due to global warming and a decrease of temperature differentials. Note also the great physicist and engineer Carnot, who was the first to describe the atmosphere as a heat engine, agreed in his writings with both Maxwell and Clausius that the atmospheric temperature gradient, aka now called the “greenhouse effect,” is a consequence of atmospheric mass/gravity/pressure rather than irradiance. The global engine that could Olivier M. Pauluis It has been widely accepted since Carnot’s seminal work (1) that the atmosphere acts as a thermodynamic heat engine: Air motions redistribute the energy gained from the Sun in the warm part of the globe to colder regions where it is lost through the emission of infrared radiation to space (facilitated by greenhouse gases). Through this process, some internal energy is converted into the kinetic energy needed to maintain the atmospheric circulation against dissipation. The analogy to a heat engine has been applied to explain various atmospheric phenomena, such as the global circulation (2), hurricanes (3), and dust devils (4). On page 540 of this issue, Laliberté et al. (5) show that the hydrological cycle reduces the efficiency of the global atmospheric heat engine. Fine weather machine. Nice, sunny weather occurs when dry air from the upper troposphere sinks and is mixed with moist air near Earth’s surface. Laliberté et al. show that such mixing …
Der Spiegel: Pontifical Academy Of Sciences Pushing For Climate Treaty…Finds Fossil Fuels Akin To ‘Modern Slavery’ !
Spiegel: Pontifical Academy Of Sciences Pushing For Climate Treaty…Finds Fossil Fuels Akin To “Modern Slavery”!
Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski has an online interview with the Chairman of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo: The Church believes in science“. Anyone with doubts the Vatican would abandon a neutral position on the science of climate change can now lay them to rest. Under Pope Francis the Vatican has been sending unmistakable signals that it is joining the junk-science based global warming movement, perhaps with the hopes of resurrecting the notorious system of indulgences (or a form of it) which for centuries swindled common people of their wealth and sent it to the coffers of the Roman Catholic Church. The Church preaches that as stewards of the planet man must make responsible use of God-given resources, to use them sparingly, and that we share the fruits of our labors with the poor. Yet the Vatican never will do the same with its tens of billions in assets it has stashed away over the centuries. In the interview Chairman Sorondo tells Bojanowski that “the Church believes in science – especially Galileo“. And on the upcoming encyclical on climate change, to be released in either June or July, Sorondo refuses to tell Spiegel what is going to be in it. “We will see.” As to why there is even an encyclical on the climate to begin with, Sorondo tells Spiegel that it is to “provide an impulse” for the upcoming Paris Conference. The Lima Conference “disappointed the Pope”, Sorondo tells Spiegel. On why a climate treaty is important, Chairman Sorondo spills the beans, telling Spiegel that “climate change has adverse impacts on the poorest two thirds of the world’s population who have no access to fossil energies but who have to bear the consequences of their consumption. Bartholomeos I, the Patriarch of Constantinople, compared climate change to modern slavery at the Conference of Religious Leaders in December.” Clearly the Catholic Church is sympathetic to this extreme position. Why would Chairman Sorondo cite it if it wasn’t. Unfortunately the Vatican fails to see that over the past 50 years fossil fuels have helped the poor far more than any Church’s redistributive plundering ever has over the last 1000 years. More often than not Church obstinate dogmatism often put the brakes on progress and as a result caused far more misery. It’s …
Pope Francis Apparently Doesn’t Know UN IPCC Climate Objective Contradicts Catholic Doctrine
Pope Francis Apparently Doesn’t Know IPCC Climate Objective Contradicts Catholic Doctrine.
Pope Francis advocates the global warming agenda of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), with the help of the Obama White House. Apparently, he doesn’t know their ultimate objective of reducing and controlling population generally contradicts Catholic doctrine. The irony is that as a Jesuit, the ideological church police, he should know, but […]
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New paper finds oceans warming only a tiny 0.002°C-0.005°C/year since 2006
New paper finds oceans warming only a tiny 0.002°C-0.005°C/year since 2006
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2015/02/new-paper-finds-oceans-warming-only.html
A paper published today in Nature Climate Change claims “Unabated planetary warming…since 2006” of the world’s oceans of a tiny 0.005C/year from 0-500 meter depths and an even smaller 0.002C/year for the 500-2000 meter depths. This rate is equivalent to only 0.2°C to 0.5°C ocean warming per century, far less than the 3°C global warming by 2100 central estimate of the IPCC. Examination of the paper, however, reveals multiple questionable claims and contradictions to the claims of climate alarmists and IPCC: According to the authors, “the ocean heat gain over the 0-2000 meter layer continued at a rate of 0.4-0.6 W/m2 during 2006-2013.” However, according to the IPCC, net anthropogenic forcing is warming the planet at a rate of 1.6 W/m2 or ~3.2 times more than the central estimate of this new paper. This implies a climate sensitivity about 70% less than claimed by the IPCC. Alarmists claim “90% of the ‘missing heat’ from greenhouse gases is going into the ocean,” therefore, using the central estimate of this paper of a warming rate of 0.5 W/m2, total net anthropogenic forcing of oceans + atmosphere would be 0.5*1.1 = 0.55 W/m2, again far less (66% less) than the 1.6 W/m2 net anthropogenic forcing at present claimed by the IPCC. The above estimates falsely assume, for the purposes of argument only, that all of the ocean warming is due to increased greenhouse gases. However, IR radiation from greenhouse gases cannot significantly warm the oceans for at least 3 thermodynamic reasons as outlined here and here. Changes in solar insolation modulated by cloud cover and ocean oscillations are not even considered or discussed by this paper as potential mechanisms of the ocean warming patterns noted, but are far more likely to be the cause of any warming observed. Heat rises, and surface data indicate no global warming for 18+ years. How can zero degrees atmospheric warming cause the oceans up to 2000 meters depth to warm 0.002C/yr? It cannot, without violating thermodynamics. The uncertainties of measurement of individual ARGO floats are far greater than the claimed warming Table 1 below shows all of the warming occurred in the Southern Hemisphere 0-60S, whereas the Northern Hemisphere 0-60N actually cooled from 2006-2013. This warming pattern is incompatible with anthropogenic forcing from well-mixed greenhouse gases, which is alleged to be relatively uniform across the …
‘Snow increasingly rare’ predictions now morph into ‘we knew snows would be heavier in warmer winters’
…Flashback 2002: Animal Rights Godfather Peter Singer conflicted on whether he could kill termites infesting his home
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/christianity-harmful-animals-says-animal-rights-godfather
Protecting insects
Singer was asked several questions about whether his concept of animal rights included the protection of insects, rodents or shellfish. “I think insects are, you are right, the toughest conflicts we generally face. I wouldn’t kill a spider if I can avoid killing a spider and I don’t think I need to,” he said.
What if termites were threatening his home? “With termites that are actually eating out the foundation of my home, and this happens, this is a more serious problem and I think at that point, I would feel that I need to dwell somewhere and if I can’t drive them away in some way, I guess I would end up killing them,” he conceded.
When asked by CNSNews.com why humans should not be able to eat animals when animals eat other animals, Singer acknowledged that humans have to be held to a different standard.
“Animals generally are not making moral choices. Animals are not the same as humans. They can’t reflect on what they are doing and think about the alternatives. Humans can. So there is no reason for taking what they do as a sort of moral lesson for us to take. We’re the ones who have to have the responsibility for making those choices,” he said.…