Climate Change

So another Global Warming catastrophe…….   for the Warmists:  to go with thriving polar bear populations; increasing sea-ice, and 15 successive years of stable temperatures, the Chicken Little faction has now learned that Pacific Islands are actually GROWING rather than sinking beneath the waves as predicted.

Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.

Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment.

The findings, published in the magazine New Scientist, were gathered by comparing changes to 27 Pacific islands over the last 20 to 60 years using historical aerial photos and satellite images.  Read more »

Mark Steyn documents the claims of Michael Mann, the fabricator of the climate change hockey stick graph, that he is “a reluctant and accidental public figure”. Michael Mann, the sensitive wee petal is suing Mark Steyn for defamation.

I was interested to note this recent verbal tic from Dr. Mann. From the May 8th Daily Press of Newport News, Virginia:

“I’ll often characterize myself as a reluctant and accidental public figure,” he said.

He’s right! I had no idea how often he does characterize himself as a reluctant and accidental public figure. Here he is on May 1st at the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association:

Mann called himself “a reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change.”

And here’s the press release for his April 22nd speech at Dickinson College:

Mann will discuss the topic of human-caused climate change through the prism of his own experiences as a reluctant and accidental public figure . . .

March 28th at the College of Wooster:

He described the recent scientific history of climate change research and then how he became an “accidental public figure” . . .

And the day before in The Scientist:

I’ve become an accidental public figure in the debate over human-caused climate change.

And in the March edition of The Yale Alumni Magazine:

Now 47, bald and with flecks of gray in his goatee, he has become, as he puts it, an “accidental public figure.”

Etc. Never before has anyone worked as tirelessly as Dr. Mann to promote his accidental celebrity, or given so many interviews to insist what a shrinking violet he is, or volunteered quite so often to announce he’s an “involuntary public figure” — in the same way that he volunteered to make himself a Nobel Laureate, which also turned out to be an unfortunate accident.

Quick question: Name the other two authors of Dr. Mann’s famous “hockey stick” paper.

Golly, they’re not even accidental public figures. Sometimes accidents don’t happen.

Steve Milloy is tracking Dr. Mann’s voluntary involunteering here.

The Northern Hemisphere continues to freeze as global warming continues to make its presence felt. In Japan snow is still falling and temperatures are much lower that average.

Unseasonable low temperatures have been keeping Japan’s spring cool, resulting in snowfall in the country’s northeast this week.

Temperatures in Hokkaido have been around 5 degrees lower than average this year, in a continuing cold streak that has seen chilly winds and even snowstorms arrive unusually late into the spring, Japan’s Meteorological Agency announced Friday. Sapporo received snow in May for the first time in 21 years, the agency said.  Read more »

Just when we were starting to get over our grief at the loss of all those cute polar bears, Democrats in the US House of Representatives have introduced a resolution warning that Global Warming could cause “sex work, early marriage, unplanned pregnancies, HIV and STIs“.

Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to “transactional sex” for survival.

The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other Democrats, says the results of climate change include drought and reduced agricultural output. It says these changes can be particularly harmful for women.  Read more »

The global warming troughers are set to see a sharp decrease in the funding of their troughs. As global warming fails to materialise their funding is likely to be slashed. The reality is though that we should be asking for a refund since all the billions pumped into modelling has shown to be about as useful as tits on a bull.

The past 17 years of flat global temperatures are creating a big chill for lots of global warming doom-premised industries. Those experiencing cold sweats must certainly include legions of climate scientists who have come to depend upon the many tens of billions of taxpayer bucks for studies that would have little demand without a big crisis for the public to worry about. And that amount pales in comparison with the hundreds of $ billions we spend on generous subsidies, lost tax revenues and inflated consumer costs for otherwise non-competitive “green energy” industries which depend upon those scary climate reports, or the insane economic penalties imposed  upon all segments through EPA’s climate-premised regulatory rampage.

Axe the subsidies immediately, stop the bleeding.  Read more »

There is some merit in suing warmists. Walter Starck at Quadrant Online explains:

In a prevailing climate of political correctness, an absence of formal explicit requirements for honesty, and with peer review subordinate to a common interest in maintaining funding, normal professional and scientific ethics have been significantly abandoned.

Such corruption has been repeatedly demonstrated in a series of revelations of serious misconduct in climate science. Despite unequivocal evidence of misrepresentations, lies, fabrications, suppression of conflicting evidence, conspiring to defy FOI requests and personal defamation of critics, the miscreants have all been cleared by blatantly sham investigations. Worse still, and indicative of the pervasive malaise, has been a widespread response of peers. Instead of condemning obvious misconduct they have sought to excuse, justify or dismiss it as unimportant.

While there may no explicit obligation for due diligence in scientific advocacy, the status of researchers as experts clearly implies it should be expected. Expert opinion without due diligence is an oxymoron, and pretending to expertise while ignoring due diligence rises to the level of fraud.

In any other industry there would be investigations, even serious investigations by legal authorities.  Read more »

People like me and many of my readers who think global warming and the huge industry built up by scientists over the fake crisis are a fraud on mankind are called deniers, but who are the real deniers?

The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing unusually cold weather. Snow cover last December was the greatest since satellite monitoring began in 1966. The United Kingdom had the coldest March weather in 50 years, and there were more than a thousand record low temperatures in the United States. The Irish meteorological office reported that March “temperatures were the lowest on record nearly everywhere.” Spring snowfall in Europe was also high. In Moscow, the snow depth was the highest in 134 years of observation. In Kiev, authorities had to bring in military vehicles to clear snow from the streets.

Cold-weather extremes are a natural climatic variation, and this is exactly the point. If the world were experiencing a climate crisis owing to global warming, there shouldn’t be a single record low temperature anywhere in the world. The Associated Press has assured us, though, that this cold spell is not only consistent with a warming globe, it is actually caused by global warming. The proffered explanation is that cold weather in Europe is a result of melting sea ice in the Arctic. If this special pleading strikes you as unusually tendentious, it is all in the best tradition of explaining away ex post facto any weather event that appears to contradict the ruling paradigm.  Read more »

The time of the climate change shills is coming to an end, but not before literally billions has been poured into their pockets. Stephen F. Hayward looks and the whole Climate Change debacle and the decline of the deception.

 [T]he climate change story has been overtaken by facts on the ground. Most significant: The pause in global warming​​—​​now going on 15 years​​—​​has become so obvious that many of the leading climate scientists are grudgingly admitting that global warming has stopped. James Hansen, who recently stepped down as NASA’s chief climate scientist to become a full-time private sector alarmist, is among those admitting that the recent temperature record has flatlined.

After two decades of steady and substantial global temperature increase from 1980 to 1998, the pause in warming is causing a crisis for the climate crusade. It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. The recent temperature record is falling distinctly to the very low end of the range predicted by the climate models and may soon fall out of it, which means the models are wrong, or, at the very least, something is going on that supposedly “settled” science hasn’t been able to settle. Equally problematic for the theory, one place where the warmth might be hiding​​—​​the oceans​​—​​is not cooperating with the story line. Recent data show that ocean warming has noticeably slowed, too.

These inconvenient data are causing the climate science community to reconsider the issue of climate sensitivity​​—​​that is, how much warming greenhouse gases actually cause​​—​​as I predicted would happen in these pages three years ago: “Eventually the climate modeling community is going to have to reconsider the central question: Have the models the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] uses for its predictions of catastrophic warming overestimated the climate’s sensitivity to greenhouse gases?”  Read more »

The evidence is mounting that all the models the world claimed proved the science was settled have been nothing more than a fantasy.

Courtesy of John Christy, and based upon data from the KNMI Climate Explorer, below is a comparison of 44 climate models versus the UAH and RSS satellite observations for global lower tropospheric temperature variations, for the period 1979-2012 from the satellites, and for 1975 – 2025 for the models:

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The Greens oppose fracking when the reality shows they should actually be supporting it. It has been responsible for massive price reduction in power and also massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Against all expectations, US emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, since peaking in 2007, have fallen by 12 per cent as of 2012, back to 1995 levels. The primary reason, in a word, is “fracking”. Or, in 11 words: horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to recover deposits of shale gas.

No other factor comes close to providing a plausible explanation. Unlike the European Union, the US never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, in which participating countries committed to cut CO2 emissions by roughly 5 per cent, relative to 1990 levels, by 2012.

Nor is America’s continued emissions reduction a side effect of lower economic activity: While the US economy peaked in late 2007, the same time as emissions, the recession ended in June 2009 and GDP growth since then, though inadequate, has been substantially higher than in Europe. Yet US emissions have continued to fall, while EU emissions began to rise again after 2009.

One can virtually prove that shale gas has been the major influence driving the fall in US emissions. Just ten years ago, the natural-gas industry was so sure that domestic production was reaching its limit that it made large investments in terminals to import liquefied natural gas (LNG). Yet fracking has increased supply so rapidly that these facilities are now being converted to export LNG.  Read more »