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Cut the Costly Climate Chatter
Twenty-two years ago a bunch of green activists calling themselves “The Earth Summit” met in Rio and invented a way to tour the world at tax-payers’ expense – never-ending conferences on environmental alarms.
Like any good bureaucratic committee, they soon established sub-committees on sustainability, pollution, development, energy, forestry, water, biodiversity, endangered species, poverty, health, population and Agenda 21 (this item alone had 40 chapters each with its own sub-committee). Environmental conferences became the greatest multi-national growth industry in the world financed mainly by tax-payers via participating public servants, climate academics, employees of nationalised industries and tax-sheltered green “charities” such as Greenpeace and WWF.
They really hit the Mother Lode with their creation of the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” which, in good bureaucratic tradition, duplicated the work of the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC). These then created their own brand-names called “Global Warming”, and its proxies “Climate Change” and “Extreme Weather”.
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August was hottest on record worldwide, says Nasa | Environment | theguardian.com
2014 is shaping up to be an exceptionally warm year with May and June also the hottest ever
August 2014 was marginally the warmest August worldwide since records began 130 years ago, according to new data from Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Temperatures measured by government meteorological offices using land, sea and satellite data suggest this year’s global high was very close to those of 2011, 2008, 2006 and 2003. Overall, temperatures were 0.70C above the 1951-1990 baseline temperature average.
But Nasa warned against reading too much into a single month’s records. “The key issue for climate are the long-term trends, not individual months”, said Nasa-GISS director Gavin Schmidt.
2014 is shaping up to be one an exceptionally warm year, with March 2014 the third hottest since 1880, and May and June the hottest ever.
Earlier this year it looked certain that an El Niño event would develop in the Pacific ocean following a rise in sea temperatures, which could be expected to result in extreme weather effects around the world by Christmas. However, expectations of a strong El Niño have since faded.
The US west continues to swelter under a prolonged drought while much of the north and eastern US has been noticeably cooler than average for much of 2014. Record temperatures up to 4C above normal have been recorded in west Antarctica, even as the extent of sea ice has reached record levels.
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It always boils down to politics when the denialist has nowhere left to turn.
It always boils down to mount Everest faked graphs when the alarmists has nowhere left to turn.
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Global Temperature Update: No global warming at all for 17 years 9 months
'212 months without global warming represents more than half the 423-month satellite data record, which began in January 1979'
'Recent extreme weather cannot be blamed on global warming, because there has not been any global warming'
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The long Pause may well come to an end by this winter, when an el Niño event is expected in the equatorial eastern Pacific, causing global temperature to rise quite sharply. The el Niños of 1998, 2007, and 2010 are visible in the graph. El Niños occur about every three or four years, though no one is entirely sure what triggers them. They cause a temporary spike in temperature, often followed by a sharp drop during the la Niña phase, as can be seen in 1999, 2008, and 2011-2012, where there was a “double-dip” la Niña.
The ratio of el Niños to la Niñas tends to fall during the 30-year negative or cooling phases of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the latest of which began in late 2001. So, though the Pause may pause for a few months at the turn of the year, it may well resume late in 2015.
Either way, it is ever clearer that global warming has not been happening at anything like the rate predicted by the climate models, and is not at all likely to occur even at the much-reduced rate now predicted. There could be as little as 1 Cº global warming this century, not the 3-4 Cº predicted by the IPCC.
Key facts about global temperature:
- The RSS satellite dataset shows no global warming at all for 213 months from August 1996 to April 2014. That is more than half the entire 423-month satellite record.
- The fastest centennial warming rate was in Central England from 1663-1762, at 0.9 Cº per century – before the industrial revolution began. It cannot have been our fault.
- The global warming trend since 1900 is equivalent to 0.8 Cº per century. This is well within natural variability and may not have much to do with us.
- The fastest warming trend lasting ten years or more occurred over the 40 years from 1694-1733 in Central England. It was equivalent to 4.3 Cº per century.
- Since 1950, when a human influence on global temperature first became theoretically possible, the global warming trend is equivalent to 1.2 Cº per century.
- The fastest warming rate lasting ten years or more since 1950 occurred over the 33 years from 1974 to 2006. It was equivalent to 2.0 Cº per century.
- In 1990, the IPCC’s mid-range prediction of the near-term warming trend was equivalent to 3.5 Cº per century.
- The global warming trend since 1990, when the IPCC wrote its first report, is equivalent to 1.4 Cº per century – two-fifths of what the IPCC had then predicted.
- In 2013 the IPCC’s new mid-range prediction of the near-term warming trend was for warming at a rate equivalent to 1.7 Cº per century – just half its 1990 prediction.
- Though the IPCC has cut its near-term warming prediction, it has not cut its centennial warming prediction of 3.7 Cº warming to 2100 on business as usual.
- The IPCC’s prediction of 3.7 Cº warming by 2100 is more than twice the greatest rate of warming lasting more than ten years that has been measured since 1950.
- The IPCC’s 3.7 Cº-by-2100 prediction is more than three times the observed real-world warming trend since we might in theory have begun influencing it in 1950.
- Since 1 January 2001, the dawn of the new millennium, the warming trend on the dataset of five major datasets is zero – 0.0 Cº per century. No warming for 13 years 3 months.
- Recent extreme weather cannot be blamed on global warming, because there has not been any global warming. It is as simple as that.
Global Temperature Update: No global warming at all for 17 years 9 months | Climate Depot
hang on there's been an update
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Global Temperature Update – Still no global warming for 17 years 10 months
Global Temperature Update – Still no global warming for 17 years 10 months | Watts Up With That?
El Niño has not yet shortened the Great Pause By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Remarkably, the El Niño warming of this year has not yet shortened the Great Pause, which, like last month, stands at 17 years 10 months with no global warming at all.
Global Temperature Update – Still no global warming for 17 years 10 months | Watts Up With That?
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Originally Posted by blue
So both sides of this argument are using short term trends to prove their point.Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
We are talking cycles that are on multi-thousand year time scales.
I prefer to get my climate and weather data from meteorologists and climatologists, not paid hack websites financed by the oil industry. Your tables are false blue. A fact you could easily check for yourself by downloading the freely available temperature databases and making your own graph.
Or you could just use the graphs prepared by the scientists that actually know what they are doing...
Usually you would be right. Climate change cycles are slow unless initiated by some catastrophic event, like super volcano outbreaks, asteroid impacts or man made CO2 enrichment of the atmosphere.Quote:
Originally Posted by beazalbob69
we had this debate before about the pause in warming
here's your post 1590
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Originally Posted by Umbuku
''Still increasing but slowed over the last 17 years ''
Now you have a graph showing a constant un-slowed rise ...
have you changed your mind ?
Maybe what has happened is you lot have decided to add extra weight to ocean temperatures, but the ocean is massive, and there very little data to compare with - ie perfect for figure adjusting to suit your needs .
Here's an earlier this year - at the time alarmists had decided to admit the pause, and offer an explanation ie pacific trade winds supposedly sent the ''extra heat'' to the ocean floor.
Global warming hasn't stopped, the heat's just HIDING deep within the Pacific Ocean, claim scientists | Mail OnlineQuote:
Global warming hasn’t stopped, the heat’s just HIDING deep within the Pacific Ocean, claim scientists
IPCC report last year said temperatures have barely risen in past 15 years
This is despite more greenhouse gases being pumped into atmosphere
New study claims winds in Pacific have driven heat deep underwater
This has had a net effect of cooling surface temperatures by 0.1°C and 0.2°C
You are comparing two different data sets. Yours is showing annual temperature fluctuations while mine is showing the anomalous temperature increase. Yours is a representation of the collected temperature readings at a fixed point in time. Mine is the variance calculated against the mean temperature, or the rate at which the temperature is increasing over time compared to previous temperature periods.
Variance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More simply put you are comparing weather to climate...again.
This is still the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Me
Believe what you want Blue, it doesn't change the facts.
Not a good trend
Global Highlights
The combined average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was record high for the month, at 0.75°C (1.35°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F), topping the previous record set in 1998.
The global land surface temperature was 0.99°C (1.78°F) above the 20th century average of 13.8°C (56.9°F), the second highest on record for August, behind 1998.
For the ocean, the August global sea surface temperature was 0.65°C (1.17°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.4°F). This record high departure from average not only beats the previous August record set in 2005 by 0.08°C (0.14°F), but also beats the previous all-time record set just two months ago in June 2014 by 0.03°C (0.05°F).
The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for the June–August period was also record high for this period, at 0.71°C (1.28°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F), beating the previous record set in 1998.
The June–August worldwide land surface temperature was 0.91°C (1.64°F) above the 20th century average, the fifth highest on record for this period. The global ocean surface temperature for the same period was 0.63°C (1.13°F) above the 20th century average, the highest on record for June–August. This beats the previous record set in 2009 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).
The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for January–August (year-to-date) was 0.68°C (1.22°F) above the 20th century average of 14.0°C (57.3°F), the third highest for this eight-month period on record.
A prize will not be awarded for being 1st
There is no debate, people from all around the world get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
Melbourne
New Dehi
Rio
Berlin
London
New York
Brussels
Finland
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Originally Posted by S Landreth
Over 2,000 rallies in 166 countries.
The New York rally, the largest single protest ever held on the topic of climate change, followed similar events in 166 countries including Britain, France, Afghanistan and Bulgaria.
"The march numbers are beating our wildest expectations," said Ricken Patel, executive director of activist group Avaaz, which organized the march. "In 2,500 marches from Paris to Bogota, we've blown past expected numbers. Climate change is not a green issue anymore, it's an everybody issue."
It's not my issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
Have a nice warm day.
AKA "I've got mine so fuck you!", so typical of the right wing US baby boomers' attitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by JetsetBkk
Go rub another one out over Sarah Palin while you still can you selfish moron.
Don't blame all us boomers; we're a lot of the one's out there marching.Quote:
Originally Posted by quimbian corholla
"Have a nice warm day" is the sound of climate deniers whistling past the graveyard. Fortunately evolution has a way of dealing with them.
I certainly don't, just the tea-bagger hypocridiot brigade.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrG
Which is probably why the same people who deny climate change are the ones fighting tooth and nail to get the theory of evolution removed from science textbooks, they are hoping if they ignore it it will conveniently go away. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MrG
What a laugh! I'm not American, I'm not religious -I'm antitheist - and I come from a scientific background which is why I don't give credence to all this global bullshit that you morons are suckling up.Quote:
Originally Posted by quimbian corholla
And, by the way, Quimby Whatsit, you can't even get your fokking signature right. Twat.
Couple of corrections.Quote:
Originally Posted by S LandrethQuote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
Over 2,000 rallies in 166 countries.
The New York rally, the largest single protest ever held on the topic of climate change, followed similar events in 166 countries including Britain, France, Afghanistan and Bulgaria.
"The march numbers are beating our wildest expectations," said Ricken Patel, executive director of activist group Avaaz, which organized the march. "In 2,500 marches from Paris to Bogota, we've blown past expected numbers. Climate change is not a green issue anymore, it's an everybody issue."
It was closer to 400,000 people in New York, alone.
It was 2808 rallies in 166 countries.
NEW YORK -- More than 400,000 people turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City on Sunday, just days before many of the world's leaders are expected to debate environmental action at the United Nations climate summit.
Early reports from event organizers are hailing the turnout as the largest climate march in history, far bigger than the Forward on Climate rally held in Washington, D.C., last year. High-profile environmentalists including Bill McKibben, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva marched alongside policymakers such as Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former Vice President Al Gore were also there, and more than 550 buses carried in people from around the country.
In other news,…….
For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industry’s first family, scions of a business empire that spawned companies called Exxon, Mobil, Amoco and Chevron. So it was no trivial matter when a group of Rockefeller heirs decided recently to begin severing financial ties to fossil fuels.
“There is a moral imperative to preserve a healthy planet,” said Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, a great-great-granddaughter of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr. and a trustee of the largest charitable foundation in which the family still plays the leading role.
On Monday, the foundation, known as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, will formally announce plans to begin divesting itself of fossil-fuel stocks, citing concerns about climate change.
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If the elder Rockefeller were alive today, she said, he would be “investing in alternative energy sources and renewables right now.”
Divest!
Just a reminder,.........there's no debate.
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Originally Posted by JetsetBkk
Voting is central to politics, Pop Idol and Miss world but irrelevant to science where logic and data prevail.
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Originally Posted by blue
Says the guy who closes his eyes to all the mountains of evidence.
:rolleyes:
True
I've got no time for graphs, charts, papers, celebrities , career alarmists or documentaries
All I know for a fact is that where I live in North England it has 100% not got any warmer this century .
The sea is still far too cold to swim in.
Can we please try 500 ppm co2 please, just in case you are right as I fancy a dip next summer .
Yeah, because the truth doesn't lie in graphs and charts and papers, it lies right down there in the gut.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
Did you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. Now, I know some of you are going to say, "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's because you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.
Remember the Global Warming people explained away the stall in warming for the past 15 years by saying the extra heat was being absorbed by the ocean depths etc ?
well .....
now NASA is calling bullshit on that .
Perhaps the best idea for the warmists is just to go back to fixing the data...
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October 6, 2014
RELEASE 14-272
NASA Study Finds Earth’s Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed
The cold waters of Earth’s deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005, according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, analyzed satellite and direct ocean temperature data from 2005 to 2013 and found the ocean abyss below 1.24 miles (1,995 meters) has not warmed measurably. Study coauthor Josh Willis of JPL said these findings do not throw suspicion on climate change itself.
"The sea level is still rising," Willis noted. "We're just trying to understand the nitty-gritty details."
In the 21st century, greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere, just as they did in the 20th century, but global average surface air temperatures have stopped rising in tandem with the gases. The temperature of the top half of the world's oceans -- above the 1.24-mile mark -- is still climbing, but not fast enough to account for the stalled air temperatures.
Many processes on land, air and sea have been invoked to explain what is happening to the "missing" heat. One of the most prominent ideas is that the bottom half of the ocean is taking up the slack, but supporting evidence is slim.
NASA Study Finds Earth?s Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed | NASA
and there is seems more ice than ever ....
Climate scientists have confessed they are baffled – yet again – by another all-time record area of sea covered by ice around the Antarctic coasts.
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"What we're learning is, we have more to learn," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, announcing the latest annual sea ice maximum for the austral continent. According to the NSIDC:
Antarctic ice hits ALL TIME RECORD HIGH: We have more to learn, says boffin ? The RegisterQuote:
Sea ice surrounding the Antarctic continent reached its maximum extent on September 22 at 20.11 million square kilometers (7.76 million square miles). This is 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles) above the 1981 to 2010 average extent, which is nearly four standard deviations above average. Antarctic sea ice averaged 20.0 million square kilometers (7.72 million square miles) for the month of September. This new record extent follows consecutive record winter maximum extents in 2012 and 2013. The reasons for this recent rapid growth are not clear. Sea ice in Antarctica has remained at satellite-era record high daily levels for most of 2014.Climate scientists have been puzzled by the behaviour of the southern ice for many years now. The most commonly used models say that its steady growth should not be happening in a warming world (though the warming of the world is also in doubt, as air temperatures have been steady for the last fifteen years or more - and it turns out that deep ocean temperatures are not increasing either, leaving the "mystery" of the apparent end of global warming "unsolved").
This failure of reality to match up with climate modelling has, as some eminent climate scientists have noted, had the effect of "limiting confidence in the predictions" of severe warming and associated disasters this century.
Meanwhile at the other end of the planet the Arctic sea ice has covered lesser areas in recent times. The lowest Arctic area seen in the era of satellite measurements was in 2012, but the three consecutive record-high Antarctic maxima of 2012, 2013 and now 2014 have resulted in global sea ice levels this year and last year coming out pretty much normal. ®
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The team estimate that the extent of warming in the southern hemisphere oceans since 1970 could be more than twice what has been inferred from the limited direct measurements we have for this region. This means that together, all the world's oceans are absorbing between 24 and 58 per cent more energy than has previously been estimated by direct in-situ measurements.
Wenju Cai from the CSIRO in Melbourne, Australia says the results mean the world is warming faster than we thought. "The implication is that the energy imbalance – the net heating of the earth – would have to be bigger," he says.
"There has been a general acknowledgement in the literature, that southern-hemisphere estimates of ocean warming are likely biased low," says Durack. "Our study is the first to attempt to quantify the magnitude of what this generally acknowledged underestimate is, using as much information as is available."
The study covers the period from 1970 to 2003. Cai says that, during that time, while the northern hemisphere has been well sampled by cargo ships and projects led by wealthy countries north of the equator, very few direct measurements have been taken in the south. So it's not surprising that the in-situ measurements have been wrong. "But this is huge," says Cai.
The world is warming faster than we thought - environment - 05 October 2014 - New Scientist
All of which is working backwards from the data that shows we are warming and global temperatures are still increasing and trying to find out how and why...