Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry on warmist documentary ‘Chasing Ice’: ‘The argument put forward by Balog in Chasing Ice is misleading, leading the audience to infer dangerous anthropogenic climate change from this iceberg calving event’
…Paper: Al Gore, the ‘patron saint of climate fraud’, throws another climate lie on the barbie — Wildfires
…Virginia Hurricanes Have Disappeared: ‘During the 19th century hurricanes in Virginia were quite common, but thanks to evil man-made CO2, Virginia hurricanes almost never happen any more – with only one hurricane in the last 60 years’
…Five Of The Six Snowiest Winters Have Occurred Since David Viner Declared The End Of Snow
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab
…According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent
Atlantic hurricane season quietest in 45 years — ‘It has been one of the weakest seasons since modern record-keeping began about half a century ago’
…New Ad: Dem Terry McAuliffe to Make Virginia Weather Better? Retired Army Brigadier General Steve Anderson: ‘VA needs a governor developing policies that make extreme storms less likely’ – Alleges GOP candidate ‘Cuccinelli’s disbelief [in global warming] and refusal to combat it through new energy technology, means Virginia will likely see an increase in super-storms…putting [VA Guard’s] lives in danger’
Reality Check: New Study: ’2013 ranks as one of the least extreme U.S. weather years ever’– Many bad weather events at ‘historically low levels’
Release: Retired Brigadier General and Conservative Republican Criticizes Cuccinelli’s Ability to Lead Virginia National Guard in New Radio Ad from VoteVets Action Fund
By VoteVets.org | Press Release
PUBLISHED: October 24, 2013
Norfolk, VA – A retired Brigadier General and conservative Republican calls into question Ken Cuccinelli’s ability to lead the Virginia National Guard, in a new two-week radio ad buy, running on Norfolk and Virginia Beach radio stations. The ad, sponsored by a veterans group, VoteVets.org Action Fund, which has over 360,000 supporters, is running at a cost of over $58,000.
The ad can be heard here: http://bit.ly/18OZWbg
A full script is below.
The ad features Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Steve Anderson, a conservative Republican who lives in Virginia, and one of the Army’s top brass in Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In the ad, Anderson makes clear that the Commander in Chief of the Virginia National Guard must look out for those in uniform who serve under him. But, Cuccinelli’s denial of climate change science, and refusal to combat it through new energy technology, means Virginia will likely see an increase in super-storms, which the Virginia Guard must respond to, putting them and their lives in danger.
“Virginia needs a governor developing policies that make extreme storms less likely, keeping Virginians and our Guardsmen out of harm’s way… Cuccinelli avoids the clear facts – putting Virginia families at risk. Denying climate change isn’t fighting for Virginia. And it’s not fighting for you,” Anderson says in the ad.
Cuccinelli not only has denied the science behind climate change, he has actively sought to silence scientists who are sounding alarms about its effects. His actions include filing a law suit against the Environmental Protection Agency for its finding that climate change puts the health and welfare of people at risk, and waging a two-year legal battle against climate change scientist Michael Mann, while Mann was at the University of Virginia.
For years, scientists had warned that one effect of climate change could be the increase in size and/or intensity of hurricanes. Continuing studies support that conclusion.
Founded in 2006, and backed by over 360,000 supporters, the mission of VoteVets.org is to use public issue campaigns and direct outreach to …
Analysis: ‘People will die this winter because of the environmentalist obsession with the end of the world’ — ‘Climate change alarmism caused our high energy prices’
…Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute Confirms Antarctic Sea Ice May Have Reached Record VOLUME! ‘Never so much sea ice at Antarctica in the last 30 years’
…Warmist David Robert Grimes Unhinged: ‘It’s time to get angry with so-called ‘skeptics’ – before it’s too late’ – If ‘denialists’ go ‘unchallenged they risk taking us all down with them’
…New paper finds the natural Pacific Decadal Oscillation controls North American temperatures via changes in cloud cover: Published in Atmospheric Research
New paper finds the natural Pacific Decadal Oscillation controls North American temperatures via changes in cloud cover
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-paper-finds-natural-pacific-decadal.html
A paper published today in Atmospheric Research describes a mechanism by which changes in the natural Pacific Decadal Oscillation [PDO] affect air temperatures and water vapor, which subsequently affects cloudiness over North America [planetary albedo], and therefore land surface temperatures. As noted by Dr. Roy Spencer in his book,
“The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earth’s sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming — or global cooling.”
According to the authors, “The TCM [thermodynamic model] generates a kind of atmospheric bridge by which the SST [sea surface temperature] produces a T7A [change in air temperature], the consequent condensation of water vapour anomaly and the corresponding εA [cloudiness] over the continent, affecting the planetary albedo and therefore the LST [land surface temperature].”
Fig. 1. PDO index for the summers (average of June, July and August) based on the CAF for SST over the North Pacific region during a period of 105 years, from 1900 to 2004 (ftp://ftp.atmos.washington.edu/mantua/pnw_impacts/INDICES/PDO). The global warming signal has been removed from the data. The upward bars indicate years with positive index, and the downward bars indicate years with negative index.
Simulation of the PDO effect on the North America summer climate with emphasis on Mexico
Víctor M. Mendozaa, ,
Berta Odaa,
René Garduñoa,
Elba E. Villanuevaa,
Julián Adema, b
a Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria 04510, México DF, México
b Member of El Colegio Nacional, México
Highlights
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A thermodynamic model simulates the effect of the PDO phases on summer variables of Mexico.
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Combined effect of cloudiness and evaporation according to the soil moisture during the y phases.
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Cloudiness anomalies form an atmospheric bridge.
Abstract
Five composite anomaly fields (CAF) are built for the summer of each Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) phase: skin temperature; air temperature (T7), zonal (u7) and meridional (v7) wind at the 700 mb level; and precipitation (R).
An energy balance model, named Thermodynamic Climate Model (TCM), is integrated on the NH to compute the summer anomalies (sub-index A) of the land surface temperature (LST),T7, u7, v7, R and cloudiness …