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Actually, cold weather is consistent with winter. This odd map of pressure systems is unlike most I've seen before. Must be consistent with something that will require government action and new taxes.
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Pictures of Russian cities covered in water have been flooding the internet recently. These inundations are "consistent with" global warming.
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Despite growing evidence that the climate changes regardless of mankind's influence, President Obama may embark on a bold new effort to control the climate through taxes. The first step will be to gather enough politicians in one place that reasoned thought is impossible. This may happen soon.
From the Guardian:
After all, 2012 was the hottest year ever. Well, maybe not.Barack Obama may intervene directly on climate change by hosting a summit at the White House early in his second term, environmental groups say.They say the White House has given encouraging signals to a proposal for Obama to use the broad-based and bipartisan summit to launch a national climate action strategy."What we talked about with the White House is using it as catalyst not just for the development of a national strategy but for mobilising people all over the country at every level," said Bob Doppelt, executive director of the Resource Innovation Group, the Oregon-based thinktank that has been pushing for the high-level meeting. He said it would not be a one-off event.
2012 Didn't Crack The Top Ten For Record Maximums: 'NOAA has inflated 2012 record maximum number by adding new stations which didn't exist during the hot years of 1930s'' -- 'That is a completely illegitimate approach. An apples to apples comparison uses only the same stations. When that is done, 2012 doesn't even crack the ten hottest years'
Feds caught altering past temperature data: NOAA claims 1998 was previous 'hottest on record' on record -- But in 1999, the same year was only the 5th warmest before 'adjustments' -- 'In an article which NASA published in 1999, Hansen showed that 1998 was only the fifth warmest year, after 1934, 1921, 1931 and 1953. In fact, 1998 was 0.6C cooler than 1934' -- 'Over the past decade, NASA and NOAA have continuously altered the temperature record to cool the past and warm the present. Their claims are straight out Orwell's 1984, and have nothing to do with science'
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For those of you who still believe there is honor among thieves, you'll be pleased with the government's latest attempt to find a crisis that requires a tax. If a corporation keeps two sets of books with the intent to mislead the public for financial gain, that would be fraud. If the government does the same thing, that would be protecting us from global warming; aka climate change.
Anthony Watts examined the weather data published by the government and found... 2 sets of books! One for claiming that the U.S. was experiencing record warmth... that's to support EPA mandates and potentially a carbon tax... and the other record... the real record that shows no such records.
If you have any interest in the lengths to which global warming believers will go to "prove" their position, you ought to read this:
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After 16 years of no global warming, some carbon tax activists are scrambling for a new story line to raise taxes on everyone. After all, if the global climate simply won't cooperate with the "scientific consensus" that CO2 is causing runaway global warming, then they will have to seek new "proof" that they were right and the data is wrong.
July in the U.S. was particularly warm. The carbon tax activists were in full swing.
Heatwaves blamed on global warming.Yes, July was warmer than usual.
So, let's get this straight. An unusual [but not unprecedented] singular weather event is evidence of global warming...It's Global Warming, Stupid.
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Here in Michigan, the trees dropped their leaves a couple weeks earlier than usual this fall. Is that a sign of global warming, global cooling, climate change... or just natural variability in weather?Washington Post endorses carbon tax 'to fight global warming', Predicts it 'could bring in serious money' -- 'would raise $125 billion a year' - 'A carbon tax would make sense regardless of revenue it would raise. But the policy could bring in serious money...Carbon taxes hit lower-income househol...
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Well, it did, but it didn't. The recorded temperatures were higher; the weather did not cause the higher temperatures.
If you have ever walked from a park on a sunny day to an asphalt-covered parking lot, you will understand the phenomenon of an "urban heat island." Now imagine what happens if you move an "official" weather station where "official" temperatures are recorded from that park to the middle of the parking lot.
Go ahead, imagine.
Now read this:
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From Gizmodo:
The planet is hot and getting hotter. But while most plans to use geoengineering to alter the weather have been rather hypothetical, now a pair of Harvard engineers have announced that they intend to spray thousands of tons of particles into the sky to block the sun's rays—within the coming year.
The pair plan to launch a balloon to ascend 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico, before pumping out tens or hundreds of kilograms of sulphate aerosols into the sky. The idea is that the particles will reflect sunlight back into space, helping decrease the temperature of the Earth. [more]What does the EPA think about this? Intentionally polluting our atmosphere in the name of science? Well, if it protects us from CO2, it must be okay. [image]
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One can only wonder how long it will be before Oregon State University issues a similar apology... if ever... to Nickolas Drapela, PhD. After all, they changed their minds about a logo. Perhaps they can take on a real challenge to their thinking. [images]SEARCH BLOG: CLIMATE
From ICECAP [click for the complete post]:
1. The data are not adjusted. They are recognized as valid by NOAA and have not been “corrected” by interpolation with data from other weather station data.
2. They represent the climate “boundaries” for statewide geographies. A record either stands on it’s own or is replaced by a subsequent reading that ties or exceeds it.
3. It allows testing of the tenet that global warming necessarily results it an increased frequency of temperature extremes.Anthony Watts has identified other types of "corrected" data that are avoided in the above data.
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From Climate Depot:
Alert: 'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock reverses himself: I was 'alarmist' about climate change & so was Gore! 'The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago'
“The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now,” he said. “The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising -- carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,” he added...Asked if he was now a climate skeptic, Lovelock told msnbc.com: “It depends what you mean by a skeptic. I'm not a denier.”Nothing is ever as simple as it first seems, but if he not a believer and not a denier, he must be confused.
A Non-Linear Perspective Of Climate Change
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Via Climate Depot:
Spectacularly Poor Climate Science At NASA Dr. James Hansen of NASA, has been the world’s leading promoter of the idea that the world is headed towards “climate disaster.” There is little evidence to back this up. [Please read full article here]The key point is that in order to use science to back up your theory, the data should support your theory. However, in the case of NASA and Dr. James Hansen, the data has been adjusted to fit the theory. Below are extracts from the full article.
The animated image below shows the changes which Dr. Hansen made to the historical US temperature record after the year 1999. He cooled the 1930s, and warmed the 1980s and 1990s. The year 1998 went from being more than half a degree cooler than 1934, to warmer than 1934.
But the effort wasn't limited to the U.S. record:
He has done the same thing all over the planet. Below is one recent example in Iceland, where he dramatically cooled the first half of the century, and warmed the present. He appears to be trying to erase evidence that there was a very warm period in much of the Arctic around 1940.
If this were just a case of scientific dishonesty, we could all just yawn and go on our way with the thought that the perpetrators would go down in history as buffoons and nothing else would come of this. We would be sadly mistaken. This is the federal government we are talking about. This is tax money we are talking about. What has science to do with it?
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“There were views that anthropogenic interference, like emissions of greenhouse gases by all heat electric power stations and all industrial influence in general, has resulted in irreversible changes in the Earth’s climate. Those views were based on excessively rapid warming in the 20th century which was thought to continue indefinitely. However, the events of the last three years, when Venetian canals froze and Spanish vineyards were destroyed by frost, and the fact that now Moscow and a considerable part of Europe are having a particularly long winter, prove that temporary cooling has begun. The same is happening to the Antarctic ice. The smallest ice volume and area in the Antarctic were observed in 2007 and 2008. In 2009, 2010, 2011 and early 2012, the volume of ice grew.”
Thus, the academician says, the theory of continuous warming is not getting practical proof. In this century, the volume of the Arctic ice will grow and contract by turns. On the other hand, no one can say when the planet is to expect a new Glacier Period, similar to the one contemporary Europe saw 20,000 years ago, Nikolay Dobretsov continues.Well, of course they would think so. While we in the U.S. were enjoying a mild, low-cost heating winter, the Russians and a very large part of Europe and Asia were suffering through yet another miserably cold winter.
Earth's climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat. [source]In a desperate attempt to explain why, the Global Warming Press has pointed fingers at George W. Bush... no, that is it has pointed fingers at China.
Sulfur particles in the air deflect the sun's rays and can temporarily cool things down a bit. That can happen even as coal-burning produces the carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming.It's always convenient to have someone to blame when those inconvenient facts get in the way of your theory. No matter what happens, the theory is always right and reality has an explanation. The theory itself cannot be falsified.
In its basic form, falsifiability is the belief that for any hypothesis to have credence, it must be inherently disprovable before it can become accepted as a scientific hypothesis or theory.
For example, if a scientist asks, “Does God exist?” then this can never be science because it is a theory that cannot be disproved.
The idea is that no theory is completely correct, but if not falsified, it can be accepted as truth. [source]That is why you will hear so many warming alarmists use the phrase "consistent with" global warming despite addressing opposite or conflicting real occurrences. "Consistent with" higher temperatures, lower temperatures, more snow, less snow, drought, floods, more hurricanes, less hurricanes.
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You'll have to forgive my forgetfulness about posting earlier today. We've just returned from a long trip to California where the last week was nothing but cool, rainy, foggy weather with a series of missed flight connections and finally arrived home Sunday morning at 3:00 AM. Our internal clocks are finally resetting.
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I don't often read long posts about lectures, but this one was extremely well written... logical, cohesive, and consistent. From Watts Up With That:
Monckton’s Schenectady showdown
The Federal Reserve sees no need to cut interest rates in the light of adverse recent economic data, Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.
The Fed chairman said ”to date, the incoming data have supported the view that the current stance of policy is likely to foster sustainable economic growth and a gradual ebbing in core inflation”.July 21, 2007 My guess is that if there is an interest rate change, a cut is more likely than an increase. The key variables to be watching at this point are real estate prices and the inventory of unsold homes.
"Should the elevated turbulence persist, it would increase the possibility of further tightening in financial conditions for households and businesses," he said.December 11, 2007 Somehow the Fed misses the obvious."Uncertainties about the economic outlook are unusually high right now," he said. "These uncertainties require flexible and pragmatic policymaking -- nimble is the adjective I used a few weeks ago."
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December 13, 2007 [from The Christian Science Monitor]
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"The odds of a recession are now above 50 percent," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. "We are right on the edge of a recession in part because of the Fed's reluctance to reduce interest rates more aggressively." [see my comments of September 11]January 7, 2008 The real problem now is that consumers can't rescue the economy and manufacturing, which is already weakening, will continue to weaken. We've gutted the forces that could avoid a downturn. The question is not whether there will be a recession, but can it be dampened sufficiently so that it is very short.
“The question is not whether we will have a recession, but how deep and prolonged it will be,” said David Rosenberg, the chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch. “Even if the Fed’s moves are going to work, it will not show up until the later part of 2008 or 2009.”January 17, 2008 A few days ago, Anna Schwartz, nonagenarian economist, implicated the Federal Reserve as the cause of the present lending crisis [from the Telegraph - UK]:
The high priestess of US monetarism - a revered figure at the Fed - says the central bank is itself the chief cause of the credit bubble, and now seems stunned as the consequences of its own actions engulf the financial system. "The new group at the Fed is not equal to the problem that faces it," she says, daring to utter a thought that fellow critics mostly utter sotto voce.January 22, 2008 The cut has become infected and a limb is in danger. Ben Bernanke is panicking and the Fed has its emergency triage team cutting rates... this time by 3/4%. ...
Individuals and businesses need stability in their financial cost structures so that they can plan effectively and keep their ships afloat. Wildly fluctuating rates... regardless of what the absolute levels are... create problems. Either too much spending or too much fear. It's just not that difficult to comprehend. Why has it been so difficult for the Fed?
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As of Sept. 15, the current solar minimum ranks third all-time in the amount of spotless days with 717 since 2004. There have been 206 spotless days in 2009, which is 14th all-time. But there are still more than 100 days left in the year, and Perry expects that number to climb. Perry, who studies sunspots and solar activity in his spare time, received an undergraduate degree in physics at Kansas State University and a Ph.D in physics and astronomy at The University of Kansas. He also has spent time as a meteorologist.
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