National Public Radio guts its climate reporting team

We’re winning – National Public Radio guts its climate reporting team

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From InsideClimate News: (hat tip to Michael E. Mann) By Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News NPR has cut back on the number of staffers focused solely on the environment and climate change. Earlier this year, the news outlet had three full-time reporters and one editor dedicated to covering the issue within NPR’s science desk. One remains—and […]

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New paper finds excuse #55 for the ‘pause’ in global warming: Reduced warming in N. Atlantic subpolar gyre – Published in Journal of Climate

New paper finds excuse #55 for the ‘pause’ in global warming: Reduced warming in N. Atlantic subpolar gyre

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A paper published today in the Journal of Climate finds, “the sea level rise in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre developed at a reduced rate in the 2000s compared to rates in the 1990s” and “the heat content balance ([is assumed] equivalent [to] variations in the sea level)” and that this “low-frequency variability in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre relates to the propagation of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) variations from the deep-water formation region to mid-latitudes in the North Atlantic, which might have the implications for recent global surface warming hiatus.” Thus, a decline in the rate of heat content and thermosteric sea level rise of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre affected the propagation [speed] of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and might be a cause for the “recent global surface warming hiatus.” A prior paper has also related the “hiatus” to natural variability of heat content changes in the AMOC, but not specifically related to the North Atlantic subpolar gyre as in this new paper. The North Atlantic subpolar gyre has been linked to the natural North Atlantic Oscillation [NAO], which in-turn has been linked to solar activity. The paper adds to many others attempting to explain the 18-26 year “pause” or “hiatus” in global warming. Journal of Climate 2014 ; e-View doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00670.1 Climate signals in the mid to high latitude North Atlantic from altimeter observations Feili Li1,2 Young-Heon Jo1,3 Xiao-Hai Yan1,4W. Timothy Liu5 1 College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 2 now at Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 3 now at Department of Oceanography, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea 4 University of Delaware/Xiamen University Joint Institute of Coastal Research and Management, Newark, DE 5 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 300-323, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Abstract The variability of the sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) in the mid- to high-latitude North Atlantic for the period of 1993 – 2010 was investigated using the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition to identify the dominant timescales. Sea level variations in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre (SPG) are dominated by the annual cycle and the long-term increasing trend. In comparison, the SSHA along the Gulf Stream (GS) is dominated by variability at intra-seasonal and annual timescales. …

Ocean data shows IPCC exaggerates anthropogenic global warming by factor of ~4.6 times – Published in Nature Geoscience

Ocean data shows IPCC exaggerates anthropogenic global warming by factor of ~4.6 times

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A paper published in Nature Geoscience attempts to explain away Trenberth’s “missing heat” as being “within uncertainty” of the dicey ocean heat content data. According to the authors, “We combine satellite data with ocean measurements to depths of 1,800 m, and show that between January 2001 and December 2010, Earth has been steadily accumulating energy at a rate of 0.50 ± 0.43 Wm−2 (uncertainties at the 90% confidence level). We conclude that energy storage is continuing to increase in the sub-surface ocean.” However, the small “steadily accumulating energy” of only 0.50 W/m2 is far less than even the most conservative estimates from the IPCC AR5 of total anthropogenic radiative forcing. According to the IPCC’s “high confidence” estimates, total anthropogenic radiative forcing in 2011 relative to 1750 was 2.29 W/m2 [range 1.13-3.33]. Thus, Earth is accumulating heat at 4.6 times [2.29/.5] less than the IPCC central estimate, and 2.3 times less than the IPCC lower bound estimate. Thus, the alleged energy accumulation of “0.50 ± 0.43 Wm−2 (uncertainties at the 90% confidence level)” is not even within the IPCC bounded estimates for energy accumulation, therefore, most of the “missing heat” remains AWOL, or most likely, never existed. Further, the fact that Earth has accumulated energy does not imply it has to be from anthropogenic sources. Solar amplification mechanisms, including driving of ocean oscillations, cannot be conveniently ruled out as the source or a contributing source. In addition, the figures below from the paper show the warming rates of the oceans have generally declined since 1993 and since 2001, opposite of the warmist’s claims that more of the “missing heat” has recently decided to hide in the oceans. From IPCC latest AR5 report, chart of radiative forcings relative to 1750. Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty Norman G. Loeb, John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, Richard P. Allan, David R. Doelling, Takmeng Wong, Brian J. Soden & Graeme L. Stephens Affiliations Contributions Corresponding author Nature Geoscience 5, 110–113 (2012) doi:10.1038/ngeo1375 Received  11 August 2011 Accepted  16 December 2011 Published online  22 January 2012 Article tools Full text PDF Citation Reprints Rights & permissions Article metrics Global climate change results from a small yet persistent imbalance between the amount of sunlight absorbed by Earth and the thermal radiation emitted back to space1. An apparent …

What About Those New EU CO2 Reduction Goals? Per The Numbers, Global Temps Not Impacted

What About Those New EU CO2 Reduction Goals? Per The Numbers, Global Temps Not Impacted

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The EU elites and bureaucrats continue to beclown themselves…they are now going to pursue CO2 emission reductions that will accomplish zilch for the climate…. (click on image to enlarge) The EU members have just agreed to reducing, by 2030AD, their…

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