Watch: NYT’s climate reporter Justin Gillis appears in video promoting McKibben’s climate march: ‘Disruption’ video is part of ‘People’s Climate March’
Watch ‘Disruption’ video here.
Background on People’s Climate march:
‘Collusion’: Emails expose NYT reporter Justin Gillis ‘as an activist posing as a journalist, sneering at [MIT’s]Lindzen’ – Of another prominent skeptic, Gillis wrote, ‘I sense you’ve got him in a trap here … can’t wait to see it sprung.’ — ‘Texas A&M email production shows the academics actually forwarding their email discussions…To New York Times reporters, for example. They even often copy reporters on the very exchanges they otherwise insist represent an intellectual circle that must remain free from violation by prying, nonacademic eyes. Awkward’
Prof. Pielke Jr. Rips Gillis: ‘The NYT Puts the Hit On…an extended hit piece on Lindzen…Since when is it appropriate for a major newspaper to attack an individual scientist?’ – Pielke Jr.: ‘Where is the news here? Can you give me another example of a major newspaper doing anything similar? This is ‘advocacy journalism’ — it is not reporting, as there is absolutely no news in the piece…is it a good idea for the NY Times to engage in an over-the-top attack Sure, you expect this sort of thing from Climate Progress or Real Climate, but seriously, the NYT?’
For NYT Enviro Reporter Justin Gillis, It’s Always ‘Apocalypse Now’ – New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis declared yet another “global warming” emergency in his latest monthly “By Degrees” column, “Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate,” on the front of Tuesday’s Science Times section. The text box read: …
Global Warming ‘Pause’ Extends to 17 Years 11 Months
Special to Climate Depot
Global Temperature Update
No global warming for 17 years 11 months …
… or 19 years, according to a key statistical paper
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The Great Pause has now persisted for 17 years 11 months. Indeed, to three decimal places on a per-decade basis, there has been no global warming for 18 full years. Professor Ross McKitrick, however, has upped the ante with a new statistical paper to say there has been no global warming for 19 years.
Whichever value one adopts, it is becoming harder and harder to maintain that we face a “climate crisis” caused by our past and present sins of emission.
Taking the least-squares linear-regression trend on Remote Sensing Systems’ satellite-based monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature dataset, there has been no global warming – none at all – for at least 215 months.
This is the longest continuous period without any warming in the global instrumental temperature record since the satellites first watched in 1979. It has endured for half the satellite temperature record. Yet the Great Pause coincides with a continuing, rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration.
Figure 1. RSS monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature anomalies (dark blue) and trend (thick bright blue line), October 1996 to August 2014, showing no trend for 17 years 11 months.
The hiatus period of 17 years 11 months, or 215 months, is the farthest back one can go in the RSS satellite temperature record and still show a sub-zero trend.
Yet the length of the Great Pause in global warming, significant though it now is, is of less importance than the ever-growing discrepancy between the temperature trends predicted by models and the far less exciting real-world temperature change that has been observed.
The First Assessment Report predicted that global temperature would rise by 1.0 [0.7, 1.5] Cº to 2025, equivalent to 2.8 [1.9, 4.2] Cº per century. The executive summary asked, “How much confidence do we have in our predictions?” IPCC pointed out some uncertainties (clouds, oceans, etc.), but concluded:
“Nevertheless, … we have substantial confidence that models can predict at least the broad-scale features of climate change. … There are similarities between results from the coupled models using simple representations of the ocean and those using more sophisticated descriptions, and our understanding of such differences as do occur gives us some confidence in the results.”
That “substantial confidence” was substantial …
Pakistan – 174 people missing and 200 trapped by unexpected early heavy snowfall and blizzards
Pakistan – 174 people missing and 200 trapped by unexpected early heavy snowfall and blizzards
Massive snowfall over the last three days has blanketed the region, local officials said.
Around 200 people, including women and children, are trapped in the Charagah area of Deosai while 252 people were rescued Saturday night, Tariq Hussein a local administration official told reporters.
“Rescue teams are facing difficulties in carrying out operations due to a layer of three to four feet of snow in the affected area,” the official said. “The region faces an unseasonal amount of snowfall.”
The trapped and missing people are mostly shepherds and their families who move with their herds during the season.
The region usually receives seasonal snowfall after September 15, but this year, it unexpectedly struck two weeks before which environmentalists see as a result of climate change.
Ah yes, the obligatory nod to “climate change.”
http://www.viewstimes.com/174-lost-in-pakistans-high-snowfall-in-deosai-glacier-3819
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/07-Sep-2014/severe-weather-hits-gilgit-baltistan-174 -missing
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/09/07/national/174-go-missing-in-deosai-in-snowfall-s torm/
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for these links
Reader’s comment: The MSM do not report this news.…
New paper finds strong hurricanes were much more common than thought during low-CO2 period 1851-1898 – Published in the Journal of Climate
New paper finds strong hurricanes were much more common than thought during low-CO2 period 1851-1898
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-paper-finds-strong-hurricanes-were.html
A new paper recompiles hurricanes of the North Atlantic over the very-low CO2 48 year period from 1851-1898 and finds 209 new storms, 90 hurricanes that made landfall [1.875/yr average], an increased count of very-strong category 4 hurricanes from 11 to 25 [average 1.92 per year], and six category 4 hurricanes which made landfall at category 4 [on average every 8 years]
By comparison, the US is currently in a record-breaking hurricane drought, with the last category 4-5 hurricane at landfall in the US 22 years ago in 1992 [Andrew], and the last category 3 at landfall was 9 years ago in 2005 [Wilma].
In addition, Accumulated Cyclone Energy [ACE] is also at some of the lowest levels on record:
Scaremongering stories of increased frequency or intensity of hurricanes from CAGW are without observational basis. In addition, climate models project decreased frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the future, due to a decrease in temperature gradients between the tropics and poles.
Journal of Climate 2014 ; e-View
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00771.1
A New Compilation of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 1851-1898
Michael Chenoweth1
1 Independent Scholar, 6816 Ducketts Lane, Elkridge, MD, USA
Abstract
A comprehensive new compilation of North Atlantic tropical cyclone activity for the years 1851-1898 is presented and compared with the “HURricane DATa 2nd Generation” (HURDAT2) database for the same years. This new analysis is based on the retrieval of 9,072 newspaper marine shipping news reports, 1,260 original logbook records, 271 Maury abstract logs, 147 U.S. marine meteorological journals and 34 UK Meteorological Office logbooks. Records from throughout North America and the Caribbean region were used along with other primary and secondary references holding unique land and marine data. For the first time, North Atlantic daily weather maps for 1864-1865, 1873 and 1881-1898 were used in historical tropical cyclone research.
Results for the years 1851-1898 include the omission of 62 of the 361 HURDAT2 storms, and the further reduction due to merging of storms to a total of 288 unique HURDAT 2 tropical cyclones. The new compilation gave a total of 497 tropical cyclones in the 48-year record, or an average of 10.4 storms year-1 compared to 6.0 year-1 in HURDAT2 less the author’s omissions. Of this total, 209 storms are completely new. A total of 90 hurricanes made landfall in the United States during …
Say goodbye to summer! Snow comes a month early to SEVEN states
Rand Paul hits Hillary Clinton climate comments: ‘I don’t think we really want a commander-in-chief who’s battling climate change instead of terrorism’
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/rand-paul-hillary-clinton-climate-110631.html?hp=l14…