Polar Bear Expert refutes warmist Factcheck.org’s claims on on polar bears
…Claimed 3.2 Millimeters Per Year Sea Level Rise Seriously Challenged By Recently Published Scientific Papers!
Claimed 3.2 Millimeters Per Year Sea Level Rise Seriously Challenged By Recently Published Scientific Papers!
Challenged: 3.2 mm/year sea level rise since 1993 By guest author Kenneth Richard Source data studies indicate recent only 0.8 – 1.6 mm/year sea level rise. According to the IPCC (2013), sea levels rose at a rate of 1.7 mm/year (6.7 inches per century) for the 1901 to 2010 period, but 3.2 mm/year (12.6 inches per century) during the 18-year period between 1993 to 2010, a rate similar to that obtained from 1920 to 1950. If sea levels truly were rising at rates of 3.2 mm/year between 1993 and 2010 as the IPCC (2013) claims with high confidence, then the thermal and ablation sources for that sea level rise should at least somewhat closely add up to 3.2 mm/year for the same period. But if the sources for the sea level rise as determined by published studies only reach between 0.8 and 1.6 mm/year when added together – a quarter to half of the 3.2 mm/year claimed – then that suggests that there is something seriously questionable about the 3.2 mm/year sea level rise estimates for 1993 to 2010 obtained by satellite altimetry. What follows is an abridged list of recent papers showing that sea level rise estimations claimed by the IPCC are likely highly exaggerated. — http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_Chapter13_FINAL.pdf „It is very likely that the global mean rate was 1.7 mm yr–1 between 1901 and 2010 for a total sea level rise of 0.19 m. Between 1993 and 2010, the rate was very likely higher at 3.2 mm yr–1; similarly high rates likely occurred between 1920 and 1950.“ — Problematically, in recent decades the source contribution estimates for recent decades from published studies add up to half (or less) of this claimed rate. According to recent estimates, the contribution to sea level rise from thermal expansion was 0.64 mm/yr (2.5 inches per century) for the period between 2005-2013 (Llovel et al., 2014, see below). The contribution from the Greenland (GIS) and Antarctic (AIS) ice sheets was 0.59 mm/yr (2.3 inches per century) for the 1992-2011 period (Shepherd et al., 2012). The contribution from global glaciers and ice caps that are not the GIS or AIS was 0.41 mm/yr (1.6 inches per century) for 2003-2010 (Jacob et al., 2012). — Llovel et al., 2014 http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v4/n11/full/nclimate2387.html Over the entire water column, independent estimates of ocean warming yield …
European businesses make billions from free carbon quotas
European businesses make billions from free carbon quotas
http://junkscience.com/2016/03/european-businesses-make-billions-from-free-carbon-quotas/
The twisted world of climate rentseeking. From EurActiv:
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Feds Say Fracking Produces More Than Half Of US Oil
Feds Say Fracking Produces More Than Half Of US Oil
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/15/feds-say-fracking-produces-more-than-half-of-us-oil/
2015 Oil production 80 percent higher than it was in 2008
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Questions Arise Concerning Whether GOP Candidates Remain Climate Skeptics
Al Gore flip-flops on end-of-world climate ‘tipping points’ ahead of elections
http://www.examiner.com/article/al-gore-flip-flops-on-end-of-world-tipping-points-ahead-of-elections
Gore said we only have two years left to save the planet and to convince people of global warming’s imminent threat.
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Since 2006, when his movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ hit the film circuit, Al Gore has been making these end-is-nigh proclamations. He said the Arctic would be ice free by 2014. He got that wrong. He had so many scientific errors in his documentary, a UK judge forbade it from being shown in British schools without “guidance notes to prevent political indoctrination.”
That may be why in Manila he showed an “updated version” of his film. He also notes the Philippines (like the rest of the world) are “still dependent on fossil fuels,” what he believes is responsible for any changes in the climate.…
Oops. Facing backlash, Clinton reverses herself on coal – Now says it still has a future
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Facing a backlash from Appalachian Democrats, Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Monday tried to reaffirm her commitment to coal communities one day after declaring on national television she was going to “to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Clinton’s comments came during a Sunday night appearance on CNN, where she was asked a question about how her policies would benefit poor white people in southern states who generally vote Republican.
“I’m the only candidate, which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity, using clean renewable energy as the key, into coal country. Because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” Clinton said. “We’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people.”…