After Brexit, Europe faces uncertain climate future
http://www.dw.com/en/after-brexit-europe-faces-uncertain-climate-future/a-19402519
Britain’s new prime minister Theresa May has scrapped the UK’s climate ministry and appointed a climate skeptic as environment minister. In a post-Brexit world, Europe’s climate protection policy could be in trouble.
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Warmist Tries to Justify 11-year Hurricane Drought in New York Times Op-Ed
The New York Times ran an op-ed today by Adam Sobel, an “atmospheric scientist at Columbia.” The gist of Sobel’s article: Since 2005, the United States has been experiencing a hurricane “drought” (i.e., no category 3 or higher hurricane has made landfall in 11 years.) But don’t worry, Sobel says, there will be more hurricanes soon, and the fact that they will be coming is proof of man-made climate change.
Yes, that’s what he’s saying.
The question is whether Sobel is writing the op-ed to buck himself up, or hoping to cheerlead the rest of the alarmist crowd. After all, the computer models that have predicted global warming have also predicted more hurricanes. But real-life observations continue to divergefrom what computer models have actually predicted.
It’s somewhat baffling that the New York Timeswould publish such an essentially meaningless opinion. But the mainstream media have long since thrown in its lot with the alarmist crowd.
Regardless, there are problems with Sobel’s op-ed…
Sobel says that “significant global warming, over a degree and a half Fahrenheit, has already occurred since preindustrial days.” That’s essentially accurate. The Earth has warmed by roughly 0.8 degrees Celsius since the late 1800s. But whether one views it as “significant” depends on context. Given the accumulatingevidence of global climate changes over the past few thousand years, such a net increase over a span of roughly 130 years seems relatively mild—and typical of the climate variations seen during the latter part of the current interglacial epoch.
There’s also the greater issue of cause. Sobel naturally assumes that this increase in temperatures is driven entirely by increased emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). But many climate skeptics would argue that this mild uptick is the result of a large-scale increase in solar output over the past 130 years. And while solar irradiance has increased in that time, it is the associated variations in solar winds and the solar magnetic field that contribute significantly to changes in global climate, thanks to their influence on atmospheric ionization and cloud formation.…
Senators botch facts on climate during free speech attack
Senators botch facts on climate during free speech attack
http://www.cfact.org/2016/07/15/senators-botch-facts-on-climate-during-free-speech-attack/
This week our civil rights were placed under direct attack on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
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New Paper: Lower Arctic Sea Level Rise Estimated At Only 1.5 Millimeters Per Year!
New Paper: Lower Arctic Sea Level Rise Estimated At Only 1.5 Millimeters Per Year!
A brand new paper is out on sea level, and guess what? The findings show that sea level is going nowhere fast and that in the Arctic it is rising only half as fast as the much IPCC ballyhooed satellite altimetry measured 3.3 mm/year and accelerating rise. Authors: Peter Limkilde Svendsen, Ole B. Andersen, Allan Aasbjerg Nielsen Accepted manuscript online: 13 July 2016Full publication history DOI: 10.1002/2016JC011685View/save citation The paper’s abstract follows, with my emphasis added: Stable reconstruction of Arctic sea level for the 1950–2010 period Reconstruction of historical Arctic sea level is generally difficult due to the limited coverage and quality of both tide gauge and altimetry data in the area. Here a strategy to achieve a stable and plausible reconstruction of Arctic sea level from 1950 to today is presented. This work is based on the combination of tide gauge records and a new 20-year reprocessed satellite altimetry derived sea level pattern. Hence the study is limited to the area covered by satellite altimetry (68ºN and 82ºN). It is found that timestep cumulative reconstruction as suggested by Church and White (2000) may yield widely variable results and is difficult to stabilize due to the many gaps in both tide gauge and satellite data. A more robust sea level reconstruction approach is to use datum adjustment of the tide gauges in combination with satellite altimetry, as described by (Ray and Douglas, 2011). In this approach, a datum-fit of each tide gauges is used and the method takes into account the entirety of each tide gauge record. This makes the Arctic sea level reconstruction much less prone to drifting. From our reconstruction, we found that the Arctic mean sea level trend is around 1.5 mm +/- 0.3 mm/y for the period 1950 to 2010, between 68ºN and 82ºN. This value is in good agreement with the global mean trend of 1.8 +/- 0.3 mm/y over the same period as found by Church and White (2004).” No wonder global warming con-man Al Gore had no qualms about buying a beachfront home.
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Britain SHUTS DOWN Its Global Warming Agency
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/14/britain-shuts-down-its-global-warming-agency/
Britain’s new government abolished its Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Thursday morning, ridding the country of its global warming bureaucracy.
Officials stated that the DECC has been abolished and U.K.’s environmental policy is will be transferred to a new ministry called the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Some former DECC’s functions will be outright abolished, while others will be handed back to the new ministry.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/14/britain-shuts-down-its-global-warming-agency/#ixzz4EUX6dVEK…
Another Solyndra? Lawmakers Worry This Obama-Backed Solar Project Could Fail
Another Solyndra? Lawmakers Worry This Obama-Backed Solar Project Could Fail
‘They have been unable to meet their obligations’
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Green Group Wants To Use Pokemon Go To Lure Potential Voters
Green Group Wants To Use Pokemon Go To Lure Potential Voters
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/14/green-groups-wants-to-use-pokemon-go-to-lure-potential-voters/
‘Support clean energy’
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Claim: aerosols prevented hurricanes from getting stronger, but will intensify now
Claim: aerosols prevented hurricanes from getting stronger, but will intensify now
From THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Tropical cyclones on track to grow more intense as temperatures rise Aerosols have compensated for greenhouse gases, but won’t in future Powerful tropical cyclones like the super typhoon that lashed Taiwan with 150-mile-per-hour winds last week and then flooded parts of China are expected to become even stronger […]
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Britain closes down ‘global warming’ bureaucracy
Britain closes down global warming bureaucracy
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/07/britain_closes_down_global_warming_bureaucracy.html
A clear sign that the global warming fraud has peaked and is on the decline.
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Trump VP pick Mike Pence: ‘I think the science is very mixed on the subject of global warming’
On climate change in 2009: “I think the science is very mixed on the subject of global warming, Chris.”
“In the mainstream media, Chris, there is a denial of the growing skepticism in the scientific community about global warming.”…