Kill the squirrel to save the planet – Squirrels ‘are contributing to global warming’

Kill the squirrel to save the planet

http://joannenova.com.au/2014/12/kill-the-squirrel-to-save-the-planet/

And you thought humans were special because they can control the climate. Move over Big-Coal, make way for the squirrels and beavers. They’ve been stirring up the soil releasing CO2, or damning up streams and producing methane. Daily Mail — Richard Gray Forget humans, RODENTS are the climate villains: Squirrels and beavers are contributing to global warming far more than previously thought Arctic ground squirrels churn up and warm soil in the Tundra, allowing carbon dioxide gas trapped in the ice to escape into the atmosphere Methane released from ponds created by beavers estimated to contribute 200 times more greenhouse gas to atmosphere than they did 100 years ago Climate scientists will have to tweak their models to include role of rodents Scientists insist that rodents role in global warming does not let humans off the hook but shows animals play more of a role than previously thought Wake up climate simulators, it’s time to add rodent-forcings to the models. Along with anthropogenic forcing (and beaver-effects), that’s three vertebrate families down, and only 181 to go. Squirrels have been around in some form for 40 million years, but in the last 100 they’ve become dangerous climate […]Rating: 8.8/10 (27 votes cast)

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Lose weight to green the planet! And lose more weight!

Lose weight to green the planet! And lose more weight!

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2014/12/lose-weight-to-green-planet-and-lose.html

Friday FunSource: BMJThe University of NSW has issued a press release re a paper by Ruben Meerman and ProfessorAndrew J Brown, published in the British Medical Journal this week. (link)When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go? BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7257(Published 16 December 2014)Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g7257Weight we want to “lose”Excess carbohydrate or protein in the diet is converted to triglyceride and stored in the lipid droplets of adipocytes. Excess dietary fat needs no conversion other than lipolysis and re-esterification. People who wish to lose weight while maintaining their fat-free mass are, biochemically speaking, attempting to metabolise the triglycerides stored in their adipocytes.The chemical formula for an average triglyceride molecule can be deduced from fatty acid composition studies. In 1960, Hirsch and colleagues published data that yield an “average fatty acid” with the formula C17.4H33.1O2.1 This 50 year old result is in remarkable agreement with more recent data.2 Three “average fatty acids” esterified to the glycerol backbone (+3C, +6H) give an “average triglyceride” with the formula C54.8H104.4O6. The three most common fatty acids stored in human adipose tissues are oleate (C18H34O2), palmitate (C16H32O2), and linoleate (C18H32O2),1 2 which all esterify to form C55H104O6.The complete oxidation of a single triglyceride molecule involves many enzymes and biochemical steps, but the entire process can be summarised as:C55H104O6+78O2→55CO2+52H2O+energyRuben’s novel approach to the biochemistry of weight loss was to trace every atom in the fat being lost and, as far as I am aware, his results are completely new to the field,” says Professor Brown.“He has also exposed a completely unexpected black hole in the understanding of weight loss amongst the general public and health professionals alike.”If you follow the atoms in 10 kilograms of fat as they are ‘lost’, 8.4 of those kilograms are exhaled as carbon dioxide through the lungs. The remaining 1.6 kilograms becomes water, which may be excreted in urine, faeces, sweat, breath, tears and other bodily fluids, the authors report.“None of this is obvious to people because the carbon dioxide gas we exhale is invisible,” says Mr Meerman. (Bold added for the media who depict CO2 as dark soot) So, in the mind of this fairly unscientific blogger, if you lose 10g of ugly fat, you create the ingredients for photosynthesis: you create plant food.So Lose weight and green the planet! WOW!But wait! There’s more.Note that, …

Top German Climate Scientists See No End To ‘Warming Pause’. Now Concede Oceans A ‘Major Climate Factor’

Climate Custers’ Last Stand…Top German Climate Scientists See No End To “Warming Pause”. Now Concede Oceans A “Major Climate Factor”

http://notrickszone.com/2014/12/19/climate-custers-last-stand-top-german-scientists-see-no-end-to-warming-pause-now-concede-oceans-a-major-climate-factor/

Germany’s so-called Climate Consortium here has published a telling statement on this year’s “record warm year” in Germany and the reasons behind it. The Climate Consortium represents the collective position of all Germany’s scientific climate institutes. Although the statement claims the record year “fits very well in the picture of a long-term global temperature increase” it now concedes major natural fluctuations in the climate system. Less than 3 years ago, on February 6, 2012, the same site posted the following in a hasty response to skeptic book Die kalte Sonne: Pure natural fluctuations ­- such as changes in solar activity – on the other hand cannot be mainly responsible for the global warming of the past decades.” What a difference a couple of years can make. Now they are blaming precisely these “natural fluctuations” for the “warming pause”. Yesterday’s statement was authored by Germany’s top appointed climate experts (some are well-known IPCC scientists): Jochen Marotzke, Paul Becker, Gernot Klepper, Mojib Latif and Monika Rhein. Does anyone think they will do the honorable thing and admit that Die kalte Sonne authors Prof. Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning claims had merit after all? Professional and honorable scientists would certainly do so. On the surface the latest German Climate Consortium statement does its best to give the façade of a warming planet, but in the text the truth comes gushing out. They write that at 10.3°C, Germany this year is set to break the previous 2000 and 2007 record (9.9°C) for the highest mean annual temperature since recording began in 1881. But the statement then cautions: However, only the global mean temperature is a reliable indicator of global warming. If one takes the preliminary data for the months of January to November 2014 as a reference, then, since systematic data recording began, fourteen of the last fifteen warmest years occurred in the 21st century. Moreover it is too early to talk about an end to the now 15-year long ‘warming pause’ and to assume an accelerating warming over the coming years. The global earth’s surface temperature is subject to year-to-year and decadal fluctuations. Only with the following years will it be possible to judge to what extent global warming of the earth’s surface will resume.” This is an interesting statement. The scientists now …

Japan snowfall levels far greater than in previous years

Japan snowfall levels far greater than in previous years

http://iceagenow.info/2014/12/japan-snowfall-levels-greater-previous-years/

More than two meters (6½ feet) of snow locally. 19 Dec 2014 – Japan’s NHK news network reported that, as of the 18th, Niigata Prefecture Tsunan had snow height of 207 cm (6 ft – 8 inches), Nagano Nozawaonsen had 183 cm (6 ft) of snow, Gunma Minakami had 171 cm (5′-7″) of snow, etc. These snowfall levels are far greater than in previous years. And according to Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun, due to recent heavy snow and blizzards, at least 11 people died in traffic accidents or dropped accidentally. http://gb.cri.cn/42071/2014/12/19/6991s4810548.htm http://gb.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2014/12/19/ca375beec4d34c54a5b684b47e4ed94c.jpg http://gb.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2014/12/19/98c414fb17624f0882a02bf7f53c1cb8.jpg http://gb.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2014/12/19/e72a07e3685d4e6c8ecefdf8e6837023.jpg http://gb.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2014/12/19/0680c50120cf417fb6e78bdae5688dfe.jpg Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for these links

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India Snowfall Crisis Continues

India Snowfall Crisis Continues

http://iceagenow.info/2014/12/india-snowfall-crisis-continues/

Snowfall crisis. For the sixth day, Manali-Kullu powerless and paralysed. 19 Dec 2014 – Internationally famed Kullu-Manali, a popular tourist destination, has suffered heavily with continued disruption of power supply and telecom services. Roads are blocked by snow and fallen trees/electricity poles and hoteliers face huge cancellations ahead of the Christmas and New Year eve rush. For the sixth day, the twin tourists towns of Kullu and Manali remain without power. Thousands of tourists have cancelled their stays and returned home. Power disruption has hit the towns badly. Road clearing has so far been done only on Kullu-Manali road, but even then, lots of vehicles remain stranded. “The situation in Manali is very bad,” said Sunil Bamba, a Manali hotelier. “I have faced huge cancellations during past three days…. It’s a tough time for the hotel industry…. The heavy snowfall has caught everyone by surprise.” http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/snowfall-crisis-six-days-on-manali-kullu-powerless-paralysed-as-tourism-gets-biggest-blow/ Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link See also: 6,000 tourists stranded at snow-hit Manali, Shimla/Kullu

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Greenpeace Nazca Lines Selfiegate

Greenpeace Nazca Lines Selfiegate

http://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/the-greenpeace-nazca-lines-selfiegate-and-greg-laden

Greg Laden, of the Soldiers of the Climate Consensus Brigade, is calling for the ‘end of Greenpeace’. This is his reaction to Greenpeace stomping around the Nazca lines taking pictures, leaving boot-prints and chicken scratches on the ground for posterity to endure. The key to the mystery of Greg Laden’s reaction is that Greg Laden trained as an anthropologist. In his […]

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