Warmist Bernie Sanders Berns Through $1.65 Million On Private Jet Travel In February
Sanders Berns Through $1.65 Million On Private Jet Travel In February
More than Hillary
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Vatican Basilica Switches Lights Off for ‘Earth Hour’ to Protest Climate Change
Scam: Climate insurance for the poor
Scam: Climate insurance for the poor
http://junkscience.com/2016/03/scam-climate-insurance-for-the-poor/
Insurers would be subsidized by taxpayers to redistribute climate damages to the poor. The media release is below. ### Insurance for an uncertain climate INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS In December, negotiators at the Paris climate meeting adopted insurance . . .
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New, Vast Body Of Literature Shows Rates Of Glacier Retreat, Sea Level Change, Now Significantly LOWER
New, Vast Body Of Literature Shows Rates Of Glacier Retreat, Sea Level Change, Now Significantly LOWER!
By guest author Kenneth Richard According to recently published scientific papers, the current sea level highstand, as well as the rate of glacier retreat and sea level change, are now significantly lower than they have been for much of the last 10,000 years — back when CO2 concentrations were stable and considerably lower (at about 265 ppm). A flurry of new papers show today’s sea level rise is slower than in the Holocene past. Photo Tiago Floreze, CC BY-SA 3.0. The most recent IPCC report (2013) indicates that sea levels have been rising at a rate of 1.7 mm/year, or 6.7 inches per century, since 1901 (through 2010). This rate occurred synchronously with an approx. 100 ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. In contrast, scientists Hodgson et al., 2016 have determined that sea levels rose at rates of 1.2 to 4.8 meters per century (47 to 188 inches, or about 4 to 16 feet per century) between about 10,500 and 9,500 years ago near East Antarctica. This sea level rate change occurred while CO2 levels were stable to modestly declining *. In the paper: Rapid early Holocene sea-level rise in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, the authors write: Prydz Bay is one of the largest embayments on the East Antarctic coast and it is the discharge point for approximately 16% of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. […] The field data show rapid increases in rates of relative sea level rise of 12–48 mm/yr between 10,473 (or 9678) and 9411 cal yr BP [calendar years before present].” The recently published scientific literature also indicates that not only was the historical rate of sea level rise significantly higher than it has been since the 20th century began, glaciers and ice sheets continued to rapidly retreat during the late Holocene, or within the last few thousand years. During the Medieval Warm Period, for example, scientists Guglielmin et al., 2016 determined that glacier retreat rates in the Western Antarctic Peninsula were as high or higher than they have been in recent decades. In the publication here, the authors write: Here, we present evidence for glacial retreat corresponding to the MWP [Medieval Warm Period] and a subsequent LIA [Little Ice Age] advance at Rothera Point (67°34′S; 68°07′W) in Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula. … Based on new radiocarbon dates, …
Latest opportunistic moneymaker: ‘climate insurance’
Latest opportunistic moneymaker: ‘climate insurance’
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/24/latest-opportunistic-moneymaker-climate-insurance
Just how does one differentiate weather claims from climate claims? Will the answer always be the standard maxim: “That’s weather, not climate?” Insurance for an uncertain climate INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS In December, negotiators at the Paris climate meeting adopted insurance as an instrument to aid climate adaptation. Earlier in the year, the […]
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China’s Smog Clouds May Prevent Global Warming
China’s Smog Clouds May Prevent Global Warming
http://sunshinehours.net/2016/03/24/chinas-smog-clouds-may-prevent-global-warming
I’ve posted articles in the past linking the clean air legislation in the west with more sunshine and therefore more warming. Here is a paper arguing the opposite: the lack of clean air in China is cooling the globe. China is responsible for just 10 per cent of man-made global warming, despite emitting more than one quarter of the world’s greenhouse gases, a new study claims. The study found sulphate and nitrate aerosols emitted by burning fossil fuels had a cooling effect that offset much of the warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and black carbon. As a result, while China’s consumption of fossil fuels and its carbon emissions had increased significantly over the past decades, a corresponding increase in aerosol emissions meant its contribution to man-made climate change had remained largely unchanged since the pre-industrial period. The findings suggest that China’s severe smog could have a “silver lining” in cooling the globe, and the study said that a campaign to clear the air could actually increase the country’s contribution to man-made warming. The study was led by Professor Li Bengang at Peking University and published in Nature. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1929306/chinas-smog-clouds-have-silver-lining-they-may-help
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Judge May Sanction White House Office of Science Over Bogus Climate Video
Judge May Sanction White House Office of Science Over Bogus Climate Video
http://lidblog.com/judge-may-sanction-white-house-office-of-science-over-bogus-climate-video/
Editor’s Note: Last week we published an article which reported that U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) had turn over to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) the documents behind a video the OSTP produced at taxpayer expense. The video included as true claims that the polar vortex was a result of global warming which had already been rejected as false in peer reviewed journals. CEI sent OSTP the journal studies and asked for a retraction. When the OSTP rejected their retraction request, CEI filed a Freedom of Information Act suit to learn how the White House agency came up with their bogus information. Now to follow up that story… apparently the OSTP tried to hide some of the information and the Judge was not pleased. The story below is reproduced from the CEI site. Written by Hans Bader Judges don’t like it when someone makes a claim that turns out not to be true in order to get a lawsuit dismissed, such as by claiming records don’t exist when they do. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) failed to disclose the existence of some records in response to a Freedom of Information Act request until after a federal judge had already ruled in the case. When the judge found out, he issued an Order to Show Cause yesterday asking OSTP to explain why the Court should not impose sanctions on it, or permit discovery against it. CEI had sought drafts of OSTP’s letter denying CEI’s request for correction of inaccurate claims that global warming causes winter cold spells (which violated the Information Quality Act, according to CEI). When OSTP did not produce them, CEI brought a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in 2014 seeking the drafts. OSTP claimed in its first brief in January 2015 that it properly withheld such drafts as privileged, since they had not been shared with people outside the agency, which would waive any privilege. Then, in March 2015, it admitted this claim was inaccurate, conceding in its reply brief that one draft had been shared with a person outside the agency (Rutgers Professor Jennifer Francis). But it claimed that this was the only example of a draft shared with someone outside the agency, and that even this draft …
Climate Change Makes Better Wine: ‘Scientists have discovered climate change may actually be making wine taste better’
Climate Change Makes Better Wine
http://sunshinehours.net/2016/03/24/climate-change-makes-better-wine
Good news on the climate front! The doom and gloom surrounding global warming tends to offer a depressing picture of the future, but there may be a small glimmer of hope. Scientists have discovered climate change may actually be making wine taste better. They have found the conditions typically associated with high-quality wines have altered in recent years as temperatures have risen, resulting in consistently better vintages. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3507836/Is-climate-change-making-wine-taste-BETTER-Rising-temperatures-causing-early-harvests-high-quality-vintages.html I usually laugh at these stories when they show the opposite. So I’m going to highlight 2 things. CO2 is never mentioned in the story. Yet its easy to find research showing higher CO2 increases grape yields. Their “temperature reconstruction” splices 100 years of thermometer data onto 300 years of tree ring data (which they claim tells you what the temperature and precipitation is).Thats pretty bogus “science”.
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