‘When you lose weight, where does the fat go? Most of the mass is breathed out as carbon dioxide, study shows’
‘GREEN’ CHRISTMAS CAROLS REPLACE CHRIST WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
…Now The Warming Theorists Are Blaming Global Warming on Too Many Beavers – ‘More beavers build more river dams, leading to more methane, and more global warming’
Now The Warming Theorists Are Blaming Global Warming on Too Many Beavers
Isn’t This Beaver A Dead Ringer For The Gopher In “Caddyshack ?”Because the the fur trade is much lower than it used to be, there are more beavers build more river dams, leading to more methane, and more global warming at least according to Colin J. Whitfield of the University of Saskatchewan in CanadaIt all stared with humanitarian efforts to end the trapping trade which led to a larger beaver population.Along with the strong increase in their population over the past 100 years, these furry aquatic rodents have built many more ponds, establishing vital aquatic habitat. In doing so, however, they have created conditions for climate changing methane gas to be generated in this shallow standing water, and the gas is subsequently released into the atmosphere. In fact, 200 times more of this greenhouse gas is released from beaver ponds today than was the case around the year 1900, estimates Colin J. Whitfield of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He led a study in Springer’s journal AMBIO about the effect that the growth in beaver numbers in Eurasia and the Americas could be having on methane emissions.Isn’t it any surprise that the progressive led climate theorists are saying that beavers doing their jobs is responsible for global warming? The North American beaver has also been introduced to Eurasia and South America (specifically the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego); establishment of these populations has, in effect, created an anthropogenic greenhouse gas source in these landscapes.Beavers are skilled at building dams in rivers to create standing open-water ponds and neighboring wetlands. Such ponds are generally shallow, with dams seldom being more than 1.5 metres high. Carbon builds up in the oxygen-poor pond bottoms and methane is generated. This climate warming gas cannot adequately dissolve in the shallow water and is released into the atmosphere.According to Whitfield, it has long been known that release of methane from beaver ponds to the atmosphere is more intense than for other types of wetlands. To quantify methane release, his team estimated the size of the current global beaver population. They also determined the area covered by beaver ponds.Whitfield’s team found that global beaver numbers have grown dramatically, to a population of over 10 million. The Eurasian population could grow by an additional four million. In the process of population recovery, beavers have …
No, Seth (Borenstein), Weather Disasters Aren’t Getting Worse.
No, Seth, Weather Disasters Aren’t Getting Worse.
By Paul Homewood http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hotter-weirder-how-climate-change-has-changed-earth/ Among the various fact free claims made in this Borenstein article, which I debunked a couple of weeks ago, was this concerning weather disasters. Since 1992, there have been more than 6,600 major climate, weather and water disasters worldwide, causing more than $1.6 trillion in damage and killing more than 600,000 people, according to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters in Belgium, which tracks the world’s catastrophes. While climate-related, not all can be blamed on man-made warming or climate change. Still, extreme weather has noticeably increased over the years, says Debby Sapir, who runs the center and its database. From 1983 to 1992 the world averaged 147 climate, water and weather disasters each year. Over the past 10 years, that number has jumped to an average 306 a year. Sapir and others say it would be wrong to pin all, or even most, of these increases on climate change alone. Population and poverty are major factors, too. But they note a trend of growing extremes and more disasters, and that fits with what scientists have long said about global warming. It’s this increase that’s “far scarier” than the simple rise in temperatures, University of Illinois climate scientist Donald Wuebbles says. So let’s take a closer look at the detail. 1) From 1983 to 1992 the world averaged 147 climate, water and weather disasters each year. Over the past 10 years, that number has jumped to an average 306 a year. According to the Centre’s website: Since 1988 the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government. So they have only been keeping full data records since 1988, making the 1983-92 comparison fraudulently misleading. While they have retroactively compiled records going back to 1900, these are only “mass disasters”, as they themselves describe them. While they are now keeping records of even minor events, the retroactive database prior to 1988 will only include major events. A glance at their list of disasters for the most recent week updated, Nov 17th, shows just how minor many events are. I hardly think that an animal accident or bus falling into a river, which occurred in 1901, would be included in their database now. (Horse drawn …
Surprising findings in Greenland’s melt dynamics – glaciers retreated rapidly between 1900 and 1930
From #AGU14 Surprising findings in Greenland’s melt dynamics – glaciers retreated rapidly between 1900 and 1930
I’m at AGU 2014, thanks to the generous assistance of readers. This is one of the presentations yesterday that caught my eye. One other thing I did notice was that in the poster sessions (which have doubled in size this year) have a lot to say about carbon soot in the Arctic and Southern Greenland […]
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Temperature pause: No Records Highs Possible In The Satellite Temperature Datasets in 2014
No Records Highs Possible In The Satellite Temperature Datasets in 2014 (Now Includes November Data Except For HADCRUT4)
Guest Post by Werner Brozek Edited by Just The Facts: In the above graphic, the green line is RSS from 1990 with a mean of 12 which means that you continually see the average of 12 values. It has been offset so that the average red height equals the average green height. The red line […]
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‘If The Present Refuses To Get Warmer, Then The Past Must Become Cooler’
If The Present Refuses To Get Warmer, Then The Past Must Become Cooler
2014 : Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis 2012 : Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis Another animation from the resident “illegitimate” skeptic.
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Review: HBO’s Saving My Tomorrow Is Too Boring & Gloomy To Instill Global Warming Alarmism in Kids
HBO’s Saving My Tomorrow Is Too Boring & Gloomy To Instill Global Warming Alarmism in Kids
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Monday night marked the debut of Saving My Tomorrow, a new HBO documentary described thusly in promotional materials*: From the children who will inherit the planet comes a collection of songs, activism and heartfelt tips for protecting the earth … A lyrical mix of science, animation and music, celebrates the wonders of the natural world and is a call from kids to kids to help take care of the planet. The last sentence of this synopsis suggests the documentary is a “celebration,” but I can report that it’s anything but. I watched a recording of episode one this morning, and it’s less a party and more a dirge. Target demographic? To wit, there were four songs in the first half hour installment, and below I’ve excerpted lyrics from each: Song 1: ♫ “Hey, farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now” ♫ Song 2: ♪“Bio-di-ver-sity…don’t let it fade away”♫ Song 3: ♫“Please don’t send your exploding trains through our city. We don’t think that people dying is pretty”♪ Song 4:♪“The state of the nations is poisoned from pollution, greed and war”♫ Uplifting stuff! The third *celebratory* song (titled, “Exploding Trains”) was particularly upbeat. When it wasn’t scaremongering, the documentary seemed a bit complex for an audience of children. For example, here’s Liam Neeson warning about ocean acidification: To build their shells, sea butterflies need calcium carbonate. But the burning of fossil fuels is making the ocean more acidic, and reducing the amount of calcium in the water That’s pretty heady stuff for a 6 year old. Another segment, “Wildflowers,” was a reading by Jeffrey Wright on Henry David Thoreau. Again, Transformers this documentary is not. In fact, I’m thankful that Saving My Tomorrow is boring; otherwise, it would be dangerous, insofar as it’s an attempt to brain wash kids into an alarmist state of mind. *Below, I’ve reposted the email pitch from the public relations firm (“Big Mouth PR”) hired to promote the film. HBO Big Mouth Media Presser
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AGU14 ‘Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected’
Good news from #AGU14 ‘Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected’
From the “no death spiral” department comes this press release made at AGU from ESA. Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected, according to the latest data from the CryoSat-2 satellite, a team from University College London will tell the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Arctic sea ice volumes […]
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