Shorefast ice formation and the fall feeding season for polar bear
What may seem like a silly question is actually fundamental to polar bear survival: in the fall, why do Western Hudson Bay bears correctly expect to find seals in the new ice that forms offshore? Why are seals attracted to that new ice – called ‘shorefast ice’ or ‘fast ice’ – when they would clearly be safer out in the open water where there is no ice and no bears?…
Friday Funny BONUS: Funniest Things Blamed on Climate Change?
What are the most ridiculous things the media has blamed climate change on? Heartland’s Andy Singer breaks down the thirty funniest claims the media has made yet. Website referenced: http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist……
Call to action: become an author/tech input for the next National Climate Assessment
The deadline for “self-nomination” as an author for the 5th U.S. National Climate Assessment (“NCA5”) is 8:59 PM PST, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. So time is short. Here’s the notice:https://www.globalchange.gov/content/request-public-nominations-authors-and-scientifictechnical-inputs-and-notice-planned-public This will be loaded to the gills with climate alarmists, so some cooler heads will be welcome – Anthony…
John Legend: People Need Democrat Covid-19 Policies More than Food
Should you help the needy or give money to politicians? According to music star John Legend you might be better off giving the money to politicians, though he intends to do both.…
Friday Funny: Dilbert nails the climate blame game
The comedy of Scott Adams, along with his climate skeptical viewpoint is on full display here today. Enjoy the chuckle. Licensed with permission:…
Disconnect in the relationship between GMST and ECS
Abstract. An analysis is presented of he disconnection between the CMIP5 and CMIP6 Historical and Future periods when considering the relationship of the individual model GMST changes and the climate sensitivity. I have included a simple model that can account for the period disconnection using the negative forcing of aerosol/cloud effects in the Historical period that is carried forward into the Future period. I attribute some of the uncertainty in simulations of this simple model to endogenous model decision (selection) uncertainty that leads to variations in the changes of the negative forcing in the Historical period carried forward into the Future period.…
Study: Humanity “is beyond the point-of-no-return” on Climate Change
A pair of researchers from the Norwegian Business School have produced a climate prognosis so profoundly depressing even Katharine Hayhoe has publicly complained about it.…
The Conversation: “Right now, there is no federal agency tasked with developing a systemic understanding of climate change…”
According to Clark University Professor Edward Carr, Biden will struggle to truly transform society, though restoring California’s control of automobile environmental standards and re-imposing Obama era methane rules will help.…
Modern Climate Change Science
The first modern theoretical estimates of ECS were reported in 1979 in the so-called “Charney Report” (Charney, et al., 1979). They reported, on page 2, a theoretical ECS of 1.5°C to 4.5°C per doubling of the CO2 atmospheric concentration. This estimate included an estimate of water vapor feedbacks, the effect of ice and their assumed……