Study on floods and carbon dioxide defy UN projections — Study by the U.S. Geological Survey
Study on floods and carbon dioxide defy UN projections — Study by the U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.cfact.org/2013/07/18/study-on-floods-and-carbon-dioxide-defy-un-projections/
Those convinced of man-made global warming believe that as carbon dioxide levels rise, there should be a corresponding increase in flood levels. But according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey, floods in the U.S. have not shown the measurable increase that researchers expected to see.
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Dendro Analysis Finds No Increase In Extreme Weather
Dendro Analysis Finds No Increase In Extreme Weather
By Paul Homewood
It’s two years old, but it’s worth taking a look at this paper by Buntgen et al, “Combined dendro-documentary evidence of Central European hydroclimatic springtime extremes over the last millennium”.
Analysis of European tree rings back to AD 962 finds no evidence of changes in extreme rainfall or droughts throughout the period.
Abstract
A predicted rise in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and associated effects on the Earth’s climate system likely imply more frequent and severe weather extremes with alternations in hydroclimatic parameters expected to be most critical for ecosystem functioning, agricultural yield, and human health. Evaluating the return period and amplitude of modern climatic extremes in light of pre-industrial natural changes is, however, limited by generally too short instrumental meteorological observations. Here we introduce and analyze 11,873 annually resolved and absolutely dated ring width measurement series from living and historical fir (Abies alba Mill.) trees sampled across France, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, which continuously span the AD 962–2007 period. Even though a dominant climatic driver of European fir growth was not found, ring width extremes were evidently triggered by anomalous variations in Central European April–June precipitation. Wet conditions were associated with dynamic low-pressure cells, whereas continental-scale droughts coincided with persistent high-pressure between 35 and 55°N. Documentary evidence independently confirms many of the dendro signals over the past millennium, and further provides insight on causes and consequences of ambient weather conditions related to the reconstructed extremes. A fairly uniform distribution of hydroclimatic extremes throughout the Medieval Climate Anomaly, Little Ice Age and Recent Global Warming may question the common believe that frequency and severity of such events closely relates to climate mean stages. This joint dendro-documentary approach not only allows extreme climate conditions of the industrial era to be placed against the backdrop of natural variations, but also probably helps to constrain climate model simulations over exceptional long timescales.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379111003246
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Gore Effect In The Arctic Hits Rowers
Gore Effect In The Arctic
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/gore-effect-in-the-arctic
When they were trying to go northeast, the wind was blowing relentlessly out of the northeast. As soon as the rowers started heading south, the wind shifted to out of the south.…
Arctic row fiasco continues: Three weeks in, ice is still blocking their route and on a trip to promote global warming discussion, they’re busily removing global warming-related comments from their Facebook page
Arctic row fiasco continues: Three weeks in, ice is still blocking their route and on a trip to promote global warming discussion, they’re busily removing global warming-related comments from their Facebook page
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/arctic-row-fiasco-continues-three-weeks.html
The Northwest Passage Is Actually The Other Direction | Real ScienceThere is a theory that Franklin’s expedition went mad from lead solder sealed food cans causing their brains to quit working properly. They were so irrational that they tried dragging the captain’s oak desk back to Canada.Now the Mainstream crew is dragging a heavy boat southeast away from the northwest passage. Perhaps excess CO2 is affecting their thought process?The New Northwest Passage | Real ScienceThe rowers appear to be attempting a new, shorter Northwest Passage route which doesn’t actually involve getting anywhere near the Northwest Passage.(1) Hey all, Thanks for all of the interaction on… – Mainstream Last First[July 21, 2013] Hey all, Thanks for all of the interaction on this page. Some of it is positive and great but some of you are using this as a forum to access a larger audience for your own agenda. That’s not really what this is for. If you’d like to comment on the job the fellas are doing and the journey they’re on, awesome sauce. If you want to get into a heated discussion about global warming, please do so on your own page. I have, and will continue to, remove any disparaging or negative comments. Now, lets get back to the lads! Great job fellas!!(1) Hey all, Thanks for all of the interaction on… – Mainstream Last First[comments] Les Johnson This is not a discussion about climate change? When the motto is “Pulling Together For Climate Change”? And one posting was what would you say to a climate skeptic?Steve Jones You don’t like people pointing out that your poor schmucks are just deluded fools? Hope nobody else’s lives are put in danger rescuing them from your foolish escapade.Steve Jones Got an ETA for completion of the project please?Steve Jones ‘ I have, and will continue to, remove any disparaging or negative comments.’Steve Jones You’re going to ‘Raise Awareness of Climate Change’ by banning anybody who isn’t convinced? Great strategy guys! How many do you think you’ll persuade?Clothing Kit of an Arctic Rower – MainStream Last FirstThe environment on the North West Passage is very windy and cold with the temperature of arctic waters being just a hair …
Remember four years ago, when the world was going to warm faster over the next five years, and global warming skeptics would be silenced? Never mind
Remember four years ago, when the world was going to warm faster over the next five years, and global warming skeptics would be silenced? Never mind
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/remember-four-years-ago-when-world-was.html
Global warming ‘on pause’ but set to resume – TelegraphThe Met Office has predicted it could be another five years before surface temperatures begin to rise again, but said the current “pause” would not affect long-term global warming forecasts. July 2009: World will warm faster than predicted in next five years, study warns | Environment | The GuardianNew estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics…
Mark your calendars: CO2 will allegedly cause Boston and NYC to become uninhabitable sometime “between, say, the years 2100 and 4200”
Mark your calendars: CO2 will allegedly cause Boston and NYC to become uninhabitable sometime “between, say, the years 2100 and 4200”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/mark-your-calendars-co2-will-allegedly.html
Due to Global Warming, End Is Virtually Certain for NYC, Boston, Miami, Holland | Eric ZuesseSo, somewhere in time between, say, the years 2100 and 4200, such cities as Boston, NYC, etc., will be uninhabitable. They will be past history…
NOAA – “Extraordinary” cold and large snowfall for southern Brazil
NOAA – “Extraordinary” cold and large snowfall for southern Brazil
“Our team had never seen so incisive cold weather to our region, nor the cold waves more intense in recent years.”
By Alexandre Aguiar 19 July 2013
NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmosphere) describes the cold wave that will reach the Southern Cone of America and Rio Grande do Sul as “extraordinary.”
MetSul Meteorology analysis says that the wave will bring polar temperature to atypical locations as far north as northern Bolivia and southern Peru as well as the Midwest of Brazil, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais.
According to NOAA, the flow of moisture from the sea will bring snow to coastal areas of Patagonia to southern Brazil, including the province of Buenos Aires and also in Uruguay.
The report adds that heavy snow will hit much of Patagonia, reaching Viedma and Bahia Blanca with accumulated 10-15 centimeters. Should snowing, says NOAA, mostly in the province of Buenos Aires. In the area of ​​the River Plate and the southeastern Uruguay can be expected bumps of snow and snow mixed with rain (water nieve).
NOAA says the snow will extend to the upper parts of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Parana with accumulations up to 10 cm at the highest points. For 10 years MetSul accompanying bulletins NOAA to South America, coordinated by meteorologist Michael Davidson, and our team had never seen so incisive cold weather to our region, nor the cold waves more intense in recent years and that in some places will not be overcome by the current.
Thanks to meteorologist Joe D’Aleo for this info
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Scientific ‘consensus’ overturned again: Life on Earth 4 times older than previously believed
Scientific ‘consensus’ overturned again: Life on Earth 4 times older than previously believed
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/07/scientific-consensus-overturned-again.html
A new study finds life on Earth is 4 times older than previously believed by the scientific ‘consensus’.
Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time
Researchers say a newly named South African fossil points to rising oxygen and life 2.2 billion years ago
IMAGE: Interpretive view of Diskagma buttonii with exterior view, left, and cross section. The fossils are the size of match heads and were found connected into bunches by threads in the…
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EUGENE, Ore. — (July 22, 2013) — Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, and that landscapes of the early Earth were as barren as Mars.
A new study, led by geologist Gregory J. Retallack of the University of Oregon, now has presented evidence for life on land that is four times as old — at 2.2 billion years ago and almost half way back to the inception of the planet.
That evidence, which is detailed in the September issue of the journal Precambrian Research, involves fossils the size of match heads and connected into bunches by threads in the surface of an ancient soil from South Africa. They have been named Diskagma buttonii, meaning “disc-shaped fragments of Andy Button,” but it is unsure what the fossils were, the authors say.
“They certainly were not plants or animals, but something rather more simple,” said Retallack, professor of geological sciences and co-director of paleontological collections at the UO’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History. The fossils, he added, most resemble modern soil organisms called Geosiphon, a fungus with a central cavity filled with symbiotic cyanobacteria.
“There is independent evidence for cyanobacteria, but not fungi, of the same geological age, and these new fossils set a new and earlier benchmark for the greening of the land,” he said. “This gains added significance because fossil soils hosting the fossils have long been taken as evidence for a marked rise in the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere at about 2.4 billion to 2.2 billion years ago, widely called the Great Oxidation Event.”
By modern standards, in which Earth’s air is now 21 percent oxygen, this early rise was modest, to about 5 percent oxygen, but it represented a rise from vanishingly low oxygen levels earlier …
“Not common” snow continues in Argentina
“Not common” snow continues in Argentina
http://iceagenow.info/2013/07/%e2%80%9cnot-common%e2%80%9d-snow-continues-argentina/
“Though snow in Argentina is not too uncommon, snow over coastal portions of Argentina and Uruguay is quite rare.”
Snow fell Saturday and Sunday across parts of both Australia and Argentina, and more is likely early in the week.
Snow in the Southern Hemisphere is not too uncommon, however, snow in some of the major cities or even close to these is not common.
Snow accumulated around Adelaide, Australia, Saturday morning and Sunday morning. The Adelaide Hills, which includes Mount Lofty, saw nearly an inch of snow, or 18 millimeters, something that occurs once every few years.
The hills to the east of Adelaide may see more snow in the next few days.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the hemisphere, snow fell over parts of Argentina, with heavy snow in some of the ski areas over southern Argentina.
The snow accumulated over 30 centimeters (12 inches) in some of the more inland spots of Argentina over the weekend.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/snow-continues-in-odd-location/15564650
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link…