Feds Paid $4.9 Million to Create Hypothetical Utopian Climate Change Future
The University of Wisconsin-Madison project is similar to the $5.6 million the NSF awarded to Columbia University to record “voicemails from the future” that paint a picture of an earth destroyed due to climate change.…
Another Prominent Scientist Dissents: Environmental physicist Dr. Jean-Louis Pinault: ‘This is a very uneven debate, skeptics cannot enforce their arguments in scientific journals that are subject to censorship’ – Declares AGW has produced an ‘economic and political media frenzy unprecedented in the history of science’
http://climateguy.blogspot.ca/2014/05/dr-jean-louis-pinault-explains-his-idea.html
The theory of anthropogenic climate warming, i.e. resulting from the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide in particular, has produced the economic and political media frenzy we know, unprecedented in the history of science. On the other hand, there are those who oppose who are skeptical about this hypothesis. Arguing natural climate variability observed in the past, including the recent past regarding the Little Ice Age, they refute alarmist predictions that are becoming harder to sustain as the temperature of the planet has no longer increased over the last fifteen years, while the concentration of carbon dioxide is soaring.
This confrontation between the proponents of global warming due to human activity, supported by the IPCC, and skeptics reflects a misunderstanding of the mechanisms involved in climate variability. Computers of the former allow a “bad model to be accurately wrong”, I quote William Gray, whereas the latter challenge the working methods and the scientific integrity of the IPCC members who cling tenaciously to the theory of greenhouse gases liable for global warming, which is the raison d’être of the IPCC.
But this very uneven debate, skeptics cannot enforce their arguments in scientific journals that are subject to censorship since the Copenhagen Climate Conference, should now be enriched with a phenomenon totally unknown to climatologists and oceanographers, which is the planetary wave resonance in the oceans. This discovery, which I did by chance at a time when I knew almost nothing about the oceans and climate, not only allows explaining and reproducing the warming of our planet, more precisely the middle and long-term climate variability, but also the El Niño phenomenon, the succession of wet or dry years observed in Western Europe since the 70°S, the surface currents in oceans…
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This discovery gives reason to the skeptics when they observe a correlation between long-term variations in solar activity and climate. Up to now these arguments were refuted by the official theory since climate models were not able to interpret how a variation in solar activity well below the percent can impact the climate without involving the phenomenon of oceanic resonance. Then the influence of greenhouse gas emissions played the role of troubleshooter to remedy model failures.
Clearly the controversy over global warming emphasized our ignorance concerning fundamental oceanic and climatic phenomena. Gyral wave resonance should reconcile the community of oceanographers and climatologists, skeptical or not. But subjected …
New paper finds Antarctic temperatures were warmer in 1800’s and 1940’s – Published in the Annals of Glaciology
A new paper published in the Annals of Glaciology shows Antarctic air temperatures were warmer during the early 1800’s and 1940’s in comparison to the end of the 20th century. The authors find evidence of a quasi-periodic climate cycle lasting 30-50 years, with at least 5 climate shifts over the past 350 years, the last beginning during the 1970’s.
According to the authors, “The correlation of the newly obtained record with the circulation indices of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) shows that the central Antarctic climate is mainly governed by the type of [natural] circulation in the Southern Hemisphere: under conditions of zonal circulation, negative anomalies of temperature and precipitation rate are observed, whereas the sign of the anomalies is positive during meridional circulation.”
New paper finds Ross Sea ice in Antarctica has increased 5% since 1993 – Published in Geophysical Research Letters
A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters reconstructs sea-ice area in the Ross Sea, Antarctica from a 130 year coastal ice-core record. The authors find the “data show prevailing stable SIA from the 1880s until the 1950s, a 2–5% reduction from the mid-1950s to the early-1990s, and a 5% increase after 1993.”
‘Climate Forecasts’ Full of ‘Pseudo-Science,’ Respected Scientist Claims
…‘Everyone Panic!’ WashPost Humorist Mocks ‘Ice Melt of Doom’ Forecast
…Prince Charles: ‘Fundamental transformation’ of capitalism needed to tackle ‘climate change’
…What’s in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change in the Eyes of the American Public
The term “global warming” resonates far more powerfully, triggering images of ice melt, extreme weather and catastrophe. Mention “climate change”, however, and many Americans begin to disengage, the researchers found.
The researchers found naming the issue as “global warming” rather than climate change made it easier to connect. Americans in general were 13% more likely to say that global warming was a bad thing.
The differences were even more pronounced among Latinos, African-Americans, women, and young people.
Latinos were 30% more likely to view global warming as a personal threat, compared to climate change. African-Americans were 20% more likely to rate global warming as a very big risk, compared to climate change.
George W Bush swapped the term climate change for global warming in 2002, on the advice of the Republican political consultant, Frank Luntz.
In a secret memo before the mid-term elections, Luntz warned Republicans – and Bush in particular – were singularly weak on the environment. He advised a strategy of disputing climate science, and of avoiding the term “global warming’ because of its highly negative connotations.
“It’s time for us to start talking about ‘climate change’ instead of global warming … ‘climate change’ is less frightening than ‘global warming’,” said the memo obtained by the Environmental Working Group.
The confusion stuck.…
UN IPCC Lead Author Dr. Richard Tol, who stepped down from IPCC, to testify to U.S. Congress on Thurs.! To Testify on UN IPCC Process
…Greatest ice cover on Great Lakes since satellite records began
Greatest ice cover on Great Lakes since satellite records began
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/greatest-ice-cover-great-lakes-satellite-records-began/
As of today, 27 May 2014, Lake Superior ice cover stands at 4.3% – the greatest level of ice seen on this date, not only on Lake Superior, but on all of the Great Lakes since modern satellite records in 1980-81.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/sicecon-00.gif
Swimming anyone?
Great visuals on Twitter of the ice this holiday weekend:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bog_O-jCQAEUqAp.jpg
http://i.imwx.com/web/news/lake-superior-ice-munising.jpg
http://s.imwx.com/dru/2014/05/cdab20ee-2954-445c-8543-ba08642c2f30_650x366.jpg
Thanks to H.B. Schmidt for these links
“There is still a possibility that ice will remain going into June,” says H. B. “Anyone want to wager a bet as to when it will begin reforming this fall? I suspect that Vegas bookies are willing to do so!”…
