More wisdom from Paul Ehrlich — Michael Mann ‘under attack by morons and crooks’
More wisdom from Paul Ehrlich — Michael Mann ‘under attack by morons and crooks’
Here’s a tweet from this illustrious member of the National Academy of Sciences:…
New paper finds a large deceleration of glacier melt in Glacier Bay over past 63+ years – Published in the Journal of Glaciology
New paper finds a large deceleration of glacier melt in Glacier Bay over past 63+ years
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-paper-finds-large-deceleration-of.html
A new paper published in the Journal of Glaciology finds there has been a large [78%] deceleration of glacier melt in the Glacier Bay area of Alaska and British Columbia over the past 63+ years. According to the authors, “For the full period (1995–2011) the average mass loss was 3.93 ± 0.89 Gigatons per year, compared with 17.8 Gigatons per year for the post-Little Ice Age (1770–1948) rate,” a deceleration of 78%.
Full paper here:
Mass balance in the Glacier Bay area of Alaska, USA, and British Columbia, Canada, 1995–2011, using airborne laser altimetry
Austin J. JOHNSON, Christopher F. LARSEN, Nathaniel MURPHY, Anthony A. ARENDT, S. Lee ZIRNHELD
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
ABSTRACT. The Glacier Bay region of southeast Alaska, USA, and British Columbia, Canada, has undergone major glacier retreat since the Little Ice Age (LIA). We used airborne laser altimetry elevation data acquired between 1995 and 2011 to estimate the mass loss of the Glacier Bay region over four time periods (1995–2000, 2000–05, 2005–09, 2009–11). For each glacier, we extrapolated from center-line profiles to the entire glacier to estimate glacier-wide mass balance, and then averaged these results over the entire region using three difference methods (normalized elevation, area-weighted method and simple average). We found that there was large interannual variability of the mass loss since 1995 compared with the long-term (post-LIA) average. For the full period (1995–2011) the average mass loss was 3.93 ± 0.89 Gt a–1 (0.6 ± 0.1 m w.e. a–1), compared with 17.8 Gt a–1 for the post-LIA (1770–1948) rate. Our mass loss rate is consistent with GRACE gravity signal changes for the 2003–10 period. Our results also show that there is a lower bias due to center-line profiling than was previously found by a digital elevation model difference method.…
Back to the Dark Ages!: Climate History Professor: Bad Weather In History Was Also Blamed ‘On A Conspiracy Of Witches’
Climate History Professor: Bad Weather In History Was Also Blamed “On A Conspiracy Of Witches”
On 22 June 2013 the Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung published an interview with climate historian Christian Pfister . Director of Business, Social, and Environmental History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. There’s been a lot of grumbling in Europe this spring due to the cold and wet weather, and so the Swiss daily decided to check what#s behind it all.
Suspected witches being hanged in England, published in 1655, public domain image.
According to Pfister, the weather has always been fickle throughout history, and is nothing unusual today.
Not surprisingly hysterical minds in the past also blamed bad weather on humans. The Basler Zeitung writes, “Christian Pfister advises us to calm down with regards to the cold, heat, winds, hail and storms. There’s been far worse than what we’ve seen this year” and reminds us that “We are powerless against the weather“.
Here are some excerpts of the interview:
Is the weather freaking out, or are we freaking out because we think the weather is freaking out?
Let me tell you what happens when the weather really freaks out. Imagine that it has hardly rained over the last 11 months. The leaves fall drom the trees in the middle of the summer, cattle die of thirst, forest fires rage. You can walk far into Lake Constanz like during a very dry winter, the Rhine dwindles to a creek. The water boils.
When did that happen?
In 1540. An almost one-year long drought, from Toscana to the north German border, from France to Poland. A blanket of smoke from the burning forests covered the continent, just like we saw in Russia in 2010. Then came the anti-summer in 1588: It rained and storms raged during 88 of 92 days. The grape harvest could fit in a hat. We had never seen such a summer, wrote the admirals of the Spanish Armada, it was like the British fleet that struck back then in the English Channel.
How can people be blamed for bad weather?
When the weather was continuously cold and wet, as was the case this spring, those who were hit needed to find someone to blame. In most cases it was women who were accused of witchcraft. The accusers often assumed a conspiracy of witches who had sexual misconduct with the devil was at …
Lomborg: “Electric Cars Don’t Solve The Automobile’s Environmental Problems…Are More Polluting”
Lomborg: “Electric Cars Don’t Solve The Automobile’s Environmental Problems…Are More Polluting”
Economist Professor Bjorn Lomborg agrees with an article appearing at the IEEE Spectrum titled: Unclean at Any Speed. Here’s Lomborg’s post at FaceBook:
I’ve always wondered about all the huge mining operations that would be necessary to get the materials to manufacture hundreds of millions of huge batteries. Never mind the storage systems needed for storing electricity for the home. Caterpillar is probably drooling over the potential.
Of course we need to develop this technology, but God forbid we force a technology that is nowhere near ready and end up doing real damage to the planet.
It’s bad enough having our natural landscape mutilated and blighted by industrial wind turbines.
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Report: Wildfires CAUSE global warming
Report: Wildfires CAUSE global warming
http://junkscience.com/2013/07/12/report-wildfires-cause-global-warming
The Los Angeles Times reports: Wildfires such as the Yarnell Hill blaze in Arizona may be warming Earth’s atmosphere far more than previously thought, according to a study by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Read more……
Climate Chairman Left High And Dry By University: Salby was ‘left stranded at Paris airport while on a European lecture tour presenting research that questioned the orthodox climate science view of global warming, and then sacked’
Climate Chairman Left High And Dry By University
http://www.thegwpf.org/climate-chairman-left-high-dry-university/
THE chair of Macquarie University’s Climate Department was left stranded at Paris airport while on a European lecture tour presenting research that questioned the orthodox climate science view of global warming, and then sacked.
In an email to friends obtained by The Australian, Murray Salby has outlined a five-year struggle with the university, which he said had denied him agreed computer resources to complete his controversial research.
Professor Salby has written highly critical reviews of the work of the Climate Commission, most recently rejecting the much publicised “angry summer” report in an article in The Australian.
Supporters of Professor Salby said the affair raised questions about the culture of climate science and the difficulty many had accepting alternative views.
Macquarie — which also has Climate Commission chief commissioner Tim Flannery in its climate department — said Professor Salby was not sacked because of his views, but because he refused to teach students.
“The decision to terminate Professor Murray Salby’s employment with Macquarie University had nothing to do with his views on climate change nor any other views,” a Macquarie statement said. “The university supports academic freedom of speech and freedom to pursue research interests.
“The second reason for his termination involved breaches of university policies in relation to travel and use of university resources.”
Professor Salby declined to comment on his termination. But in an email to supporters he has given a history of his relationship with the university since his recruitment from the US in 2008.
“After five years of cat-and-mouse Macquarie has continued to withhold the resources that it had committed,” he says. “During the protracted delay of resources, I eventually undertook the production of a new book.
“The endeavour compelled me to gain a better understanding of greenhouse gases and how they evolve. Insight from this research contradicts many of the reckless claims surrounding greenhouse gases. More than a few originate from staff at Macquarie, which benefits from such claims. The preliminary findings seeded a comprehensive study of greenhouse gases.
“Despite adverse circumstances, the wider study was recently completed. It indicates:
(i) Modern changes of atmospheric CO2 and methane are (contrary to popular belief) not unprecedented.
(ii) The same physical law that governs ancient changes of atmospheric CO2 and methane also governs modern changes.”
Professor Salby said the new findings were entirely consistent with preliminary findings, which evaluated …
Shock news from ‘Forecast the Facts’ – “HadCRUT is not peer reviewed”
Shock news from ‘Forecast the Facts’ – “HadCRUT is not peer reviewed”
I’m sure Phil Jones will need to be notified right away that this paper on HadCRUT4 was never actually published. Justin Templer writes on Twitter and provides screencaps: Meet @ForecastFacts campaign manager and degreed environmentalist @emilyrsouthard clueless about HadCRUT From her Twitter feed and then later, there was this gem: While some people might agree, […]…
Lloyds of London disses global warming as business risk: Ranks climate change 32nd
Lloyds of London disses global warming as business risk: Ranks climate change 32nd
In contrast, high taxation is ranked No. 1 (think carbon tax). Click for the report.…
Sea Level Rise Rates Declining Since 1993
Sea Level Rise Rates Declining Since 1993
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/sea-level-rise-rates-declining-since-1993…
Subsidies to wind and solar dwarf those to ‘big oil’ — but wait! There’s more!
Subsidies to wind and solar dwarf those to “big oil” — but wait! There’s more!
Oil depletion allowances, the first category, principally apply to small independent producers, with similar benefits available for all mineral extraction, timber industries, etc., allowing them to pass the depletion on to individual investors. Large integrated corporations haven’t been eligible for these since the mid-1970s. Expensing indirect drilling costs involves writing off expenses in the year incurred rather than capitalizing them and writing them off over several years. Closing this “loophole” would only change the timing of taking he expense, not the total amounts of the so-called “subsidy.” The third category, a tax credit for taxes paid to foreign nations, is available for all international companies. This provides an offset to foreign taxes, often paid as royalties, so that the companies aren’t taxed twice on the same income.…