Analysis: ‘From a historical perspective Australia’s recent bushfires are not uncommon and are certainly not unprecedented’
…Analysis: Aussie’s NSW Fires Have Nothing To Do With Global Warming
…Global warming & Aussie fires? ‘1851 was one of the coldest years in the CRU record, and also the year of Australia’s worst fire. There is no connection’
…New paper finds European fire activity is at lowest levels of past 10,000 years – Published in Quaternary Science Reviews
New paper finds European fire activity is at lowest levels of past 10,000 years
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-paper-finds-european-fire-activity.html
A new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews reconstructs fire activity in Central-Eastern Europe over the past 12,000 years and finds modern fire activity is near the lowest levels of the past 10,000 years. The paper adds to many others finding a long-term decrease in fire activity, despite claims of climate alarmists.
The paper also shows that reconstructed early and late summer temperatures in Central-Eastern Europe have both declined over the past ~10,000 years.
The US is currently experiencing the lowest fire activity in three decades, and the current New South Wales fires have nothing to do with CO2.
Reconstructed fire activity shown in top graph is at the lowest levels of the past 10,000 years. Reconstructed early and late summer temperatures in Central-Eastern Europe have declined over the past ~10,000 years, shown in 2nd graph from bottom. Horizontal axis is thousands of years before the present.
12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach
A. Feurdeana, b, , , ,
J. Liakkab,
B. Vannièrec,
E. Marinovad,
S.M. Hutchinsone,
V. Mosburggera,
T. Hicklera, b, f
a Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
b Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
c CNRS, UMR 6249 Chrono-Environnement, Université de Franche-Comté, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
d Centre for Archaeological Sciences, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, Bus 2408, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
e School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
f Goethe University, Department of Physical Geography, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Highlights
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First multi-proxy record and climate modelling of fire regime in CE Europe.
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Strong influence of early summer temperature and moisture content on fire activity.
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High sensitivity of fire activity to the short-lived climate events.
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Frequent fires associated with open woodlands, whereas the decline in fire risk favoured woodland development.
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Synergic influence of natural and human factors on fire frequency from 3300 BP.
Abstract
The usefulness of sedimentary charcoal records to document centennial to millennial scale trends in aspects of fire regimes (frequency, severity) is widely acknowledged, yet the long-term variability in these regimes is poorly understood. Here, we use a high-resolution, multi-proxy analysis of a lacustrine sequence located in …
Gore Promotes Carbon Tax in latest ’24 Hours of Reality’ — Scientists Pan Gore’s climate claims
Gore still warning of ‘extreme’ weather, ‘increasing storms’ and ‘other extreme events’]
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Update: Al Gore admits flying on private jets: ‘I sometimes have to charter’
Gore: ‘I use only carbon-free electricity’
Al Gore says climate change ‘deniers’ are ‘just nuts’
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| COUNTERING THE MISINFORMATION OF AL GORE’S “24 HOURS OF REALITY: THE COST OF CARBON” |
October 22, 2013: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Reality: The Cost of Carbon runs from 2 pm EDT, Tuesday October 22, 2013 to 2 pm EDT, Wednesday, October 23, 2013.Mr. Gore bases his activism on several key points, all of which are either wrong or unknown. The red text in the boxes below summarizes positions taken by Mr. Gore. The corrections of ICSC scientists follow each box.
ICSC scientists respond: Bob Carter, PhD, Former Head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, ICSC Chief Science Advisor: “We do indeed [“face a global crisis of unprecedented proportions”], and that crisis is the misrepresentation of science by political activists like Mr. Al Gore. As a result, western nations are squandering money on ineffectual anti-carbon dioxide measures, and neglecting their duty to care for their citizens by not tackling the genuine hazards that accompany natural climate events and change.” Madhav L. Khandekar, PhD, consultant meteorologist, (former) Research Scientist, Environment Canada, Editor “Climate Research” (03-05), Editorial Board Member “Natural Hazards, IPCC Expert Reviewer 2007, Unionville, Ontario, Canada: “We DO NOT face a global crisis! This is an exaggeration! Look at India and China, two countries have total population of over 2.5 billion, yet they are doing well, grain yields have increased and people [the] world-over are living longer and healthier today than they were, say, fifty years ago!“ Tim Ball, PhD, Environmental consultant and former climatology professor, University of Winnipeg (founded the Rupertsland Research Centre). Now residing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: “90 million tons is a very crude estimate produced by the IPCC and within the error of the |
Flashback 2011: Gore’s climate reality broadcast flops: Greens Give Gore 2 Thumbs Down: Gore’s climate ‘reality’ show faces strongly negative reviews from his fellow global warming activists
…Aussie’s ABC plan to stop bushfires with windmills and buckets of your cash
ABC plan to stop bushfires with windmills and buckets of your cash
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/10/abc-plan-to-stop-bushfires-with-windmills-and-buckets-of-your-cash/
The Australian media are going all out on climate change and bushfires. The ABC 7:30 Report last night clearly laid out the options for preventing mega bush-fires. Funded by you whether you like it or not. Watch the whole bizarre post-modern witchcraft here: ABC Channel 1 Yes, the world has warmed by 0.7C since 1900. We are living in a new climate. Before, when things were, on average imperceptibly cooler, megafires did not happen. Right? Thanks to Peter Ritson for the short video version. “The Science is in”. Annabel Crabb tells us “The link is established between climate change and bushfires”. (What “link” would that be Annabel? — That when there is a bushfire there are more media stories about climate change?) As Simon at ClimateMadness jokes, obviously there is no groupthink at the ABC because they put forward all the views from every side of Greenness: So they invite John Connor, alarmist from the Climate Institute, who essentially agreed with Adam Bandt, alarmist from the Greens, who essentially agreed with Don Henry, alarmist from the Australian Conservation Foundation, who essentially agreed with Andy Pitman, alarmist from UNSW, who essentially agreed with Don Henry (again), […]Rating: 10.0/10 (9 votes cast)
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A New One! Aussie’s ABC: Global warming makes kid arsonists misjudge their fires
ABC: global warming makes kid arsonists misjudge their fires | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The ABC finds an academic prepared to go that extra mile in clown shoes to link child arsonists in NSW to global warming:
JANET STANLEY, MONASH SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE:
With a child it might just be an accident, you know, it’s fun to watch a fire. You light it and in the circumstances that we’ve got at the moment with climate change it gets away when it probably wasn’t meant to get away.
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Alarmists Just Can’t Get A Break: ‘Alarmists are having a tough year. They can’t create any warming or much in the way of hurricanes or tornadoes, Arctic ice has grown 60%, fire count has been the lowest in decades, and now their permanent drought has abandoned them too’
…Gore’s Climate Reality Project is set to do another 24 hour of alternate reality – nobody cares
Gore’s Climate Reality Project is set to do another 24 hour of alternate reality – nobody cares
This year, they are bringing in a comedian (no relation): Carbon pollution is not only disrupting our lives, it’s hitting our wallets. Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shows how, laying out the billion-dollar connection between fossil-fuel energy and dirty weather events like Superstorm Sandy caused by carbon pollution. I guess he didn’t read the recent […]
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