Royal twit wails again March 22, 2009
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Royal twit wails again
By the blogowner, honestclimate, March 22, 2009
Pop quizz:
Who is he?
-He employs two butlers, three chefs, two chauffeurs, one valet, five housekeepers and managers, and eight gardeners.
-His servant loads his toothbrush just the way he likes it and, on one occasion, had to hold a urine specimen jar for him.
-He’s never done an honest days work in his life.
-He is a man who left his beautiful, young wife to be with his horse.
-Also, he flies around the world in a private jet trying to convince us to lower our carbon footprints.
If you guessed Prince Charles you would be correct.
Here is the latest from the Prince of Wails Wales:
Prince Charles blue over green crusade
LONDON, (AFP) – Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, admitted in an interview published Sunday that he found it “depressing” that his frequent warnings over climate change had not been heeded.
The Prince of Wales added, though, that he was “delighted” that it seemed people had begun to realise that he had in fact been ringing the alarm over a serious issue and not “complete nonsense”.
“All I have been trying to do is remind people that we have to live and work in harmony with nature if we are to have any chance of surviving on this planet,” Charles told the Sunday Telegraph in the Galapagos Islands at the end of a 10-day tour of South America.
Asked if he was frustrated his warnings had not been taken seriously, he replied: “It is depressing. I am not doing this for myself but, as I keep saying, for everyone’s children and our grandchildren.”
Charles added, however, that “if now people are beginning to realise perhaps, after all, I wasn’t talking complete nonsense, then I am delighted.”
While in Brazil earlier this month, Charles said the current global financial crisis is “nothing” compared to the long-term impact of climate change, telling a meeting of Brazilian business leaders and officials: “We are, I fear, at a defining moment in the world’s history.”
Well Charlie boy, you have a carbon footprint the size of Africa, is it any wonder nobody takes you seriously??
Al Gore vs. 7 Climate Scientists March 21, 2009
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Al Gore vs. 7 Climate Scientists
Written by Gregory Young, American Thinker, 21 March 2009
The dissenters against Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming (AGW) have long desired an open and honest debate with Al Gore. But Mr. Gore has never consented.
Here’s the next best thing: a video presentation of edited arguments from 7 renown climate scientists that demolish the rationalizations presented in Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”
It’s good for us to remember that, as I have written before, the whole AGW climate warming theory is hinged on one argument, namely that CO2 causes global warming. All the politics of AGW including carbon-footprinting, taxation, etc, follow from that one claim. But the supposition on which global warming advocates base their dogma is indisputably wrong, as again documented here.
Very well done, I must say! No points to Gore or the IPCC. Pure and simple.
The Ocean Really is Cooling March 21, 2009
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The Ocean Really is Cooling
From the Jennifer Marohasy Blog, March 21, 2009
THERE are 3,000 free-drifting buoys in the world’s ocean; first deployed in the year 2000 they allow continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean.
There has though been some difficulty in interpreting the data from these buoys. Initial signs of cooling were dismissed as due to technical errors subsequently corrected based on a small sample of the 3,000 buoys known as profiling floats.
Craig Loehle has analysed the data from only the profiling floats for ocean heat content from 2003 to 2008. In a paper recently published in the journal Energy and Environment he has concluded that there has been ocean cooling over this period.
This graphic is from figure 1 of the technical paper and shows the decline in ocean heat content (x1022J) smoothed with a 1-2-1 filter.
Dr Loehle’s findings are consistent with satellite and surface instrumental records that do not showing a warming trend over recent years.
Read the rest here
Michael Steele: ‘We Are Not Warming’ March 20, 2009
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Michael Steele: ‘We Are Not Warming’
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By Kate Galbraith, New York Times
Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said we live on a cooling planet. The Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steele, has weighed in on climate change.
In a March 6 radio appearance that is only now percolating through the blogosphere, Mr. Steele apparently fielded a skeptic’s question about global warming. As transcribed by the liberal blog, the Huffington Post, Mr. Steele thanked the questioner and replied this way: We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long.
Mr. Steele – the originator of the “drill baby drill” slogan that dominated last year’s Republican National Convention – appears to be aligning himself with Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who has denounced the idea of a global warming catastrophe as “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” and said that many of the Obama administration’s early moves amount to “environmental thuggery.” Sen. John Boehner, the Senate minority leader, has described cap-and-trade as a “carbon tax that increases taxes on all Americans who drive a car, who have a job, who turn on a light switch.”
Many other Republicans argue that climate change is real and needs to be addressed. Sen. John McCain, the presidential nominee last year, is one of the original architects of a Congressional cap-and-trade bill, though he forcefully opposes the Obama administration�s plan to auction off emissions allowances to polluters (Mr. McCain would prefer to give the initial allowances away for free). John Huntsman, the Republican governor of Utah, also favors a cap-and-trade system for limiting carbon emissions, as mentioned in this New York Times profile. So does California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In Washington, however, many say it is not Republicans, but the coal-state Democrats in the Senate, who will decide the fate of any cap-and-trade bill. Read more here.
$30 million supercomputer announced for Australian Bureau of Meteorology March 20, 2009
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$30 million supercomputer announced for Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Weather supercomputer announced for BOM and ANUA
$30 million, four-year project to create Australia’s biggest weather computer is underway.
The new supercomputing system, being built for the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and Australian National University (ANU), will make weather predictions more accurate.
The BOM machine will have the capacity to make about 1.5 trillion complex weather calculations a second as it crunches through weather data from around the country.
It is expected to provide vital information for future firefighting efforts, and will also help predict climate change in the region.
Maybe, just maybe this fancy new supercomputer would help the BoM actually get predictions correct for a change…
I hope the BoM’s new supercomputer will be more useful than the UK Met Office’s prediction system below:
Contradict a green at your peril March 20, 2009
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Contradict a green at your peril
Andrew Bolt, HeraldSun, March 20, 2009
Confront a green zealot and you could be hauled up for persecuting a religious minority:
Mr Nicholson, 41, was made redundant while head of sustainability at Grainger, Britain’s biggest residential property investment company, in July last year. In the first case of its kind he has been given permission to sue his former employers for unfair dismissal, arguing that his beliefs on the environment prompted clashes with other senior executives, and led to his sacking.
Mr Nicholson said that his frustrations were underlined when the Rupert Dickinson, the chief executive, “showed contempt for the need to cut carbon emissions by flying out a member of the IT staff to Ireland to deliver his BlackBerry that he had left behind in London”… He said that Grainger’s executives would turn up for meetings in “some of the most high polluting cars on the road”.
But the company is defending itself by conceding precisely what it should deny:
Grainger sought to have Mr Nicholson’s case struck out arguing that his views on climate change were based on fact and science, not on philosophical belief.
UPDATE
Warming alarmist and filmmarker Gabriel London admits more than he should:
It sounds trite, but here’s my hunch: beliefs in global warming rise and fall with, well… the mercury. And that spells trouble for those of us who believe we need to make changes now to head off global warming.
Sum up: cold temperatures are frustrating alarmists who claim we’re actually hot.
Reality Check: Shell Dumps Wind, Solar and Hydro Power March 19, 2009
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Reality Check: Shell Dumps Wind, Solar and Hydro Power
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By Tim Webb, The Guardian. Hat Tip Dr. Benny Peiser CCNET
Shell will no longer invest in renewable technologies such as wind, solar and hydro power because they are not economic, the Anglo-Dutch oil company said today. It plans to invest more in biofuels which environmental groups blame for driving up food prices and deforestation.
Executives at its annual strategy presentation said Shell, already the world’s largest buyer and blender of crop-based biofuels, would also invest an unspecified amount in developing a new generation of biofuels which do not use food-based crops and are less harmful to the environment.
The company said it would concentrate on developing other cleaner ways of using fossil fuels, such as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology. It hoped to use CCS to reduce emissions from Shell’s controversial and energy-intensive oil sands projects in northern Canada.
The company said that many alternative technologies did not offer attractive investment opportunities. Linda Cook, Shell’s executive director of gas and power, said: “If there aren’t investment opportunities which compete with other projects we won’t put money into it. We are businessmen and women. If there were renewables [which made money] we would put money into it.”
Shell said biofuels fitted its core business of providing fuels, logistics, trading and branding. Cook added: “It’s now looking like bio�fuels is one which is closest to what we do in Shell. Wind and solar are interesting [but] we may continue to struggle with other investment opportunities in the portfolio even with big subsidies in many markets. We do not expect material investment [in wind and solar] going forward.”
Until recently, Shell’s investment in wind power featured prominently in its corporate advertisements. FoE said the company’s move heralded a slightly more honest approach. “Shell is at least being a bit more honest about the fact they are a fossil fuel company. It has seen the limitations of the greenwash it was putting out a few years ago.” Read more here.
Polar bears shrinking, eating each other due to global warming March 19, 2009
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Polar bears shrinking, eating each other due to global warming
By the blogowner, honestclimate, March 19, 2009
Is there anything global warming can’t do?
POTENTIALLY fatal to the polar bear, global warming has already left its mark on the species with smaller, less robust bears that are increasingly showing cannibalistic tendencies.
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The primary observation is that as the sea ice shrinks away, so are the polar bears – they’re not growing as big as they used to.
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Climate change also appears to have altered the bears’ behavioural patterns.
Several recent incidents of cannibalism in Alaska have observers worried.
Read the full article here
History Made as Jones et al 2008 Paper Admits Huge Urban Warming in IPCC Flagship CRUT3 Gridded Data March 19, 2009
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History Made as Jones et al 2008 Paper Admits Huge Urban Warming in IPCC Flagship CRUT3 Gridded Data
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By Warwick Hughes
So sceptics have been correct for decades.
Yes you have to pinch yourself, the old canard so long clung to by the IPCC, that the urban influence in large area gridded data is “an order of magnitude less than the warming seen on a century timescale” is now severely compromised.
The IPCC drew that conclusion from the Jones et al 1990 Letter to Nature which examined temperature data from regions in Eastern Australia, Western USSR and Eastern China, to conclude that “In none of the three regions studied is there any indication of significant urban influence.” That has led to the IPCC claim that for decades, urban warming is less than 0.05 per century.
Now Jones et al 2008 are saying in their Abstract, “Urban-related warming over China is shown to be about 0.1 degree per decade”, hey that equates to a degree per century. Huge. See Warwick’s post here.
As Alan Siddons notes “…a lot of post-correcting is called for now. Ths is what I get when I coordinate Hadley and GISS global temperatures with the MSU satellite record.”
See larger image here See alternmative version courtesy of Junk Science here.
Icecap Note: The GISS US data which is UHI corrected using night lights shows a 0.75F difference (cooler) from the NOAA NCDC USHCN version 2 where UHI was removed.
See larger image here.
This is equivalent to the 1F rate per century mentioned above. So, as we have been stating over and over again and I presented in NYC at the Heartland ICCC, MUCH OF THE LONG TERM TREND attributed to CO2 may be UHI induced errors in the global (and USHCN) data bases.
Where are Gore’s hurricanes? March 18, 2009
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Where are Gore’s hurricanes?
Andrew Bolt – Friday, March 13, 09
Remember how Al Gore exploited Hurricane Katrina to flog his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which warned of more to come?
Remember how Bill Clinton even suggested those predictions were already coming true?
It is now generally recognised that while Al Gore and I were ridiculed, we were right about global warming. . . It’s going to lead to more hurricanes.
Ryan Maue says you can relax. One more scare seems a fizzer:
UPDATE
Meanwhile on the ABC’s PM, a wide-eyed reporter asks a warming alarmist to tell him even more about worsening hurricanes and a warming that actually halted a decade ago. Not a single reference is made to observational data. Not a single sceptical question is put.
