BBC Flashback 2009: ‘If the Met Office is right, and temperatures rise to record levels in the next 5 five years, then the sceptics will have no-where to hide’
…Bummer: Warmist John Vidal suggests that CO2 may ‘render much of the Earth uninhabitable’ and also cause ‘mass grumpiness’
…Warmist Nicholas Stern wins $10k climate hoax communication award – ‘2013 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication’
…Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball on UN IPCC report: ‘Being wrong or being caught doesn’t matter because the objective of the scary headline is achieved by the complete disconnect between their Science Reports and the Summary for Policymakers’
…The True Global Warming Crisis: ‘The Fibs Underlying The Theory’: ‘No one, and particularly not IPCC, can be trusted to tell us what turn the climate will take next, or in which direction. Don’t buy a used car from anyone who tells you that they are certain, and for sure, don’t trust them when their past performance proves otherwise’
…Mean Arctic Sea Ice Extent By Month For Last 10 Years (March April and May are climbing)
Mean Arctic Sea Ice Extent By Month For Last 10 Years (March April and May are climbing)
It is interesting to look at the mean Arctic Sea Extent for each month (for the last 10 years) all on one page.
The decadal trend is at the bottom of each graph. The dashed blue line is the linear trend. The green line is the loess trend.
January is dropping slightly, February is flat, March April and May are all climbing.
June is sropping but it has a major uptick from 2010.
July to September are dropping (but with an uptick at the end)
There is no data for Oct/Nov/Dec 2013 because of the shutdown. But all 3 will have an uptick for 2013.
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Graph of the Day: Africa Power Needs: ‘The demand for electricity is going to be significantly greater than the modest targets currently envisioned by the international community’
Graph of the Day: Africa Power Needs
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2013/10/graph-of-day-africa-power-needs.html
The figure above comes from a post at the Center for Global Development by Todd Moss and Madeleine Gleave. They ask, how much power does Africa really need? Their answer (based on estimates and methods you can read in their post) is … a lot.
Here is their bottom line:
As these countries grow more populated and richer (they are all posting impressive real GDP growth rates), the demand for electricity is going to be significantly greater than the modest targets currently envisioned by the international community.
Nigeria’s ambitious electricity expansion plans to reach 10,000 MW are only the tip of the iceberg. To reach Tunisia-level consumption, it will need at least five times that level of generation.
Even if Power Africa is a success, there’s a whole lot more pent-up demand out there!
Do read the whole thing.
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UK’s David Cameron Rehashes Worn Out Climate Insurance Argument — Rebuttal: ‘We are paying into an insurance policy, that won’t pay anything back to us under any circumstance’
David Cameron Rehashes Worn Out Insurance Argument
By Paul Homewood
In an interview in the Sunday Telegraph last week, (sorry, no link), David Cameron repeated the “It’s worth taking out insurance” line, regarding climate change. He says:
“If someone came to you and said there is a 95% chance that your house might burn down, even if you are in the 5% that does not agree with it, you still take out the insurance, just in case”
There are two fatal flaws in this argument.
1) The cost of the premium.
Would you pay £200,000 insurance premium every year for a house worth £100,000? Of course not.
Yet this is the logic of Cameron’s argument. The cost of acting “to stop climate change”, as far as the UK is concerned, is many times greater than any potential costs, which might otherwise arise. (Assuming there are any such costs at all, or indeed that there are no benefits).
2) What you can claim back
Would you pay, say, £500 to insure your £100,000 house, if the insurance company policy stated that they would only pay you back £10 if it burnt down? Of course not.
We know that, however much much the UK reduces its CO2 emissions, there will be no tangible effect either on global or UK temperatures.
In other words, we are paying into an insurance policy, that won’t pay anything back to us under any circumstance.
Cameron’s argument quite simply has no logic to it.
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Arctic Ice Extent Overtaking 2005 & 2006: ‘Arctic ice extent, according to DMI, has been growing so fast that it is now greater at this time of year than both 2005 and 2006’
Arctic Ice Extent Overtaking 2005 & 2006
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/arctic-ice-extent-overtaking-2005-2006/
By Paul Homewood
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/old_icecover.uk.php
Just a month after recording the highest minimum since 2006, Arctic extent, according to DMI, has been growing so fast that it is now greater at this time of year than both 2005 and 2006.
Perhaps just as significant is the fact that DMI only count ice concentration of 30% and over, unlike NSIDC and others that use 15%. This would suggest that the thicker, more concentrated ice is becoming more predominant.
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UN IPCC Reviewer Dr. Vincent Gray: CONTROLLING THE SCIENTISTS – ‘Attempts of the IPCC to impose rigid discipline on a large group of scientists to persuade them to claim that human emissions of so-called greenhouse gases harm the climate, without being able to supply convincing evidence, has been a failure’
CONTROLLING THE SCIENTISTS
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2013/10/controlling-scientists.html
NZCLIMATE TRUTH NEWSLETTER NO 318by IPCC Expert Reviewer Dr Vincent Gray
14TH OCTOBER 2013The Environmental Movement is an anti-science pseudo religion which believes that humans are destroying “The Planet.” In order to promote this view they have set up organisations for their activists, such as Greenpeace, where every member and official had to propagate the official doctrine, imposed from above.
In the 1980s a group of rogue scientists, who supported this dogma, suggested that the public and governments would accept it more readily if it was a “settled” opinion of a sufficiently large group of scientists. They invented a new pseudo-scientific model of the climate which ignored the scientific understanding of the climate built up by generations of meteorologists, which was supposedly related to Fourier’s explanation of how a greenhouse worked. It claimed that climate is controlled by human–related emissions of carbon dioxide and other minor “greenhouse gases.
They persuaded the World Meteorological Association and their own United Nations Environment Programme to set up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to gather together scientific material to support this project in preparation for the Rio :Earth Summit in 1991 which launched the deception.
At the time, employment of scientists had fallen. Generous salaries, promotion and foreign travel was offered to those who would support this programme, combined with a campaign of elimination of critics by influence on Journal Editors, the Universities, Official Scientific Bodies and the international media.
The IPCC has now issued five major Reports. These have been amazingly successful in persuading governments all over the world that they can prevent what is alleged to control “global warming” by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other minor greenhouse gases.
The IPCC ran into a problem that does not affect an organisation such as Greenpeace. Scientists are usually trained to think for themselves, and some of those who have been recruited to support the “climate change” programme find if difficult not to insert their reservations into the opinions that are proscribed for them.
The main mechanism for ensuring uniformity of thought is applied by the presence in all of the IPCC Reports of a “Summary for Policymakers” at the beginning. This is really a Summary BY Policymakers, because it is dictated, line by line by the government representatives who control the IPCC to a group of reliable “Drafting Authors” It is published before the main Report, to …