‘No Authority’ – Inhofe Takes On Obama’s Latest Global Warming Order
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/03/inhofe-takes-on-obamas-latest-global-warming-order-no-authority/
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe is challenging the White House’s latest order on how federal agencies take global warming into account in reviews of government actions or projects.
Inhofe argues the White House guidance has no force since the Council on Environmental Quality’s chairman has not been confirmed by the Senate. CEQ hasn’t had a Senate-confirmed chairman since 2014, which means their guidances have no force under federal law.
“Under the Vacancies Reform Act, no person may perform the duties of the vacant CEQ Chairman position until the President has nominated a candidate who is subject to Senate confirmation,” Inhofe said in a statement.
‘Selfish vegans are ruining the environment’ – ‘Vegan diet wastes available land that could otherwise feed more people’
. “When applied to an entire global population, the vegan diet wastes available land that could otherwise feed more people,”
http://nypost.com/2016/08/04/selfish-vegans-are-ruining-the-environment/
If you’ve ever suspected nothing is more annoying than prissy, sanctimonious vegans, it turns out you have company: Nature wants to punch them in the face, too.
As is often the case with virtue-signaling lifestyles, number-crunching doesn’t quite justify the supposed benefits of granola-crunching. “When applied to an entire global population, the vegan diet wastes available land that could otherwise feed more people,” concluded news site Quartz in a review of a scientific study published in the journal Elementa that compares the sustainability of various eating patterns.
Just as global-warming hysteria leads to draconian restrictions and taxes that devastate the poor in order to provide conscience relief to progressives, totalitarian eating habits aren’t as sustainable as more moderate ones. For instance, trying to grow crops on land best suited for use as grazing land for cattle means wasting resources.
Considering 10 different kinds of diet patterns, the study concluded that veganism rated only in the middle of the pack, as the fifth-most sustainable. Two kinds of omnivore scenarios did better, as did “dairy-friendly vegetarian,” which came in first, and “egg-and-dairy-friendly vegetarian,” which placed second.
As for the omnivores, the highest-rated (third overall) in terms of sustainability was the scenario in which nobody is a vegetarian, but everybody cuts back on meat modestly (13 percent). Red meat, poultry and fish would continue to be the leading protein sources, as they are now.…
West Antarctic Glaciers Have Been Retreating For Last 7500 Years
West Antarctic Glaciers Have Been Retreating For Last 7500 Years
By Paul Homewood http://www.sciencemag.org/news/1999/10/antarctic-ice-beats-retreat Climate scientists, with their new toys, would like you to believe that glacier retreat in West Antarctica is a recent phenomenon, caused by man. Back in 1999 however, scientists revealed that these glaciers have actually been retreating at a fairly steady rate for at the last 7500 years: An icy crust covering part of Antarctica has receded steadily for the last 20,000 years and may continue to do so regardless of human impacts on climate, a new study suggests. At its current rate of retreat, the ice will disappear in 7000 years, researchers report in tomorrow’s Science. However, the team cannot rule out a sudden collapse of the ice sheet in the next few centuries–an event that would raise sea levels worldwide by 5 or 6 meters. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a mass of thick glaciers spanning nearly a million square kilometers. It rests on bedrock that sits below sea level. Contact with the gradually rising ocean may make the sheet more unstable than ice at higher elevations elsewhere on Antarctica. Indeed, when glaciologists drilled through the ice sheet, they found signs that it has disintegrated completely sometime within the last 1.3 million years, in a climate not much warmer than today’s (Science, 3 July 1998, p. 17). However, researchers had few details about the timing and extent of melting during recent millennia. The new study pins down several dates and locations that trace the ice sheet’s shrinkage. The team–led by glaciologist Howard Conway of the University of Washington in Seattle and geologist Brenda Hall of the University of Maine, Orono–used radar to image old layers within the ice, which revealed its growth and decay over time. The researchers also used radiocarbon dating to analyze the ages of organic material left high and dry on beaches as the ice sheet melted away to expose land, which rises as the weight is lifted during the ice’s retreat. These and other methods revealed a pattern of steady retreat at an average rate of 120 meters per year over the last 7500 years. “We suspect this is an ongoing and long-term natural cycle triggered by rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age,” says Conway. The relentless melting would continue even without human-induced climate changes, he believes. “This is top-notch work,” says glaciologist …
Sporting News: “Buzzkill” Global Warming Message Had No Place at Rio Olympics
Sporting News: “Buzzkill” Global Warming Message Had No Place at Rio Olympics
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Sporting News has published a scathing critique of Brazil’s attempt to prop up its rather shaky green credentials by wedging a “buzzkill” climate message into their Olympic opening ceremony. Global warming message had no place at Rio Olympics’ opening ceremony The organizers of the Opening Ceremony of Rio Olympics 2016 […]
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Update July 2016: ‘The Pause still refuses to go away’ – No Rise in Temperatures Since Feb. 1998
Via: https://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/the-pause-update-july-2016/
The Pause Update: July 2016
The complete UAH v6.0 data for July were released on Friday. I present all the graphs for various regions, and as well summaries for easier comparison. The Pause still refuses to go away, despite all expectations.
These graphs show the furthest back one can go to show a zero or negative trend (less than 0.1 +/-0.1C per 100 years) in lower tropospheric temperatures. I calculate 12 month running means to remove the small possibility of seasonal autocorrelation in the monthly anomalies. Note: The satellite record commences in December 1978- now 37 years and 8 months long- 452 months. 12 month running means commence in November 1979. The y-axes in the graphs below are at December 1978, so the vertical gridlines denote Decembers. The final plotted points are July 2016.
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Globe:
The Pause is 3 months shorter.
And, for the special benefit of those who think that I am deliberately fudging data by using 12 month running means, here is the plot of monthly anomalies, which shows that The Pause is over by my rather strict criterion:
+0.33C/100 years since December 1997- not exactly alarming. The Pause will return sooner with monthly anomalies than 12 month means of course.
Northern Hemisphere:
The Northern Hemisphere Pause has ended as expected. Note the not very alarming warming of 0.28 +/- 0.1C per 100 years for half the record compared with 1.38C for the whole period.
Southern Hemisphere:
The Pause has shortened by another 4 months, but still, for well over half the record, the Southern Hemisphere has zero trend.
Tropics:
The Pause has shortened by another 2 months with the El Nino influence, but is still over half the record.
Tropical Oceans:
The Pause has shortened by another 3 months- the El Nino now having a strong effect on the 12 month means.
Northern Extra Tropics:
The Pause by this criterion has ended in this region, however note that the slope since 1998 is +0.34 +/- 0.1C per 100 years compared with +1.6C for the whole period. That’s still embarassingly slow warming.
Southern Extra Tropics:
The Pause has lengthened again by another month.
Northern Polar:
The Pause has decreased by 1 month.
Southern Polar:
The South Polar region has been cooling for the entire record- 36 years 9 months.
USA 49 States:
The Pause is 2 months shorter.
Australia:
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Astrophysicist Dr. Murry Salby Compares CO2 ‘Pseudo-Science’ To The Medical Quackery Of Blood-Letting!
Last month at the University College London, atmospheric scientist Prof. Murry Salby, formerly of Macquarie University in Australia, gave a damning presentation on man-made CO2 and its (lack of) impact on global climate.…
Record COLD Reported In Greenland
On August 1, the Danish Meteorological Institute’s measuring station registered an appalling -30.7 ° C at the ice cap’s summit.
“This is the lowest temperature for July we have from this station,” said John Cappelen.
The previous record was -27.7 ° C on 30 July 1992.
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