More BS From Mikey

7 Responses to More BS From Mikey

1. Scottish Sceptic says:

   March 14, 2015 at 11:46 am

   It’s all those bumper harvests eating up the CO2 – therefore we must reduce the harvests to ensure the world remains cosy?

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2. emsnews says:

   March 14, 2015 at 12:42 pm

   Actually, the graph showing CO2 levels clearly shows how it responds greatly to temperature, not the reverse!

   For example, the cold two years due to Pinatubo blowing up and covering the planet with fine dust shows a very sharp, deep drop in CO2 levels.

   Conversely, the el Nino/strong sun spot cycle of 1998-1999 shows a sudden sharp rise in CO2. It only appears to go up and up and up due to smoothing out the periods of highs and lows that run in tandem with the weather.

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3. Tel says:

   March 14, 2015 at 1:37 pm

   Remember in 2008 there was this financial incident that happened, and a lot of people lost their jobs, and industry slowed down? Well, it was in the news at the time, I guess you had to have been there, a few people remarked on it.

   But, I don’t see it stand out in the blue bars there, I don’t see any particular feature standing out around 2008 and 2009. What could that mean?

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4. Tel says:

   March 14, 2015 at 1:45 pm

   Remember there was a worldwide oil crisis in 1973 because OPEC got a stranglehold on global oil production and squeezed up the price. That was a bit similar to some sort of Carbon tax… I mean in effect the same outcome is more expensive oil, right?

   But I don’t see a big dip in the years after 1973 showing in those blue bars. It’s like increasing the price of oil has no effect on CO2 growth, if anything CO2 growth speeded up during the years when OPEC was strongest.

   http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical_Oil_Prices_Chart.asp

   Hmmm, when I look at the oil price chart, it just doesn’t appear to have any correlation with that CO2 chart.

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5. Gail Combs says:

   March 14, 2015 at 2:38 pm

   I wonder what would happen if you graphed CO2 vs ENSO?

   https://i2.wp.com/i53.tinypic.com/2ppikc0.jpg

   From Bob Tisdale

   …The University of Colorado Sea Level Research Group has recently added a discussion of the impact of ENSO on Sea Level. Refer to their 2011_rel2: GMSL and Multivariate ENSO Index webpage. To explain the recent decline in Sea Level, they provide the following illustration, Figure 10, and discussion:

   The Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) is the unrotated, first principal component of six observables measured over the tropical Pacific (see NOAA ESRL MEI, Wolter & Timlin, 1993,1998). To compare the global mean sea level to the MEI time series, we removed the mean, linear trend, and seasonal signals from the 60-day smoothed global mean sea level estimates and normalized each time series by its standard deviation. The normalized values plotted above show a strong correlation between the global mean sea level and the MEI, with the global mean sea level often lagging changes in the MEI. Since the MEI has recently sharply increased (coming out of a strong La Niña), we expect the global mean sea level estimates to also reverse their recent downward trend and begin to increase as the La Niña effects wane.

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6. Gail Combs says:

   March 14, 2015 at 2:39 pm

   Anyone who has not read this post from Bob Tisdale should. He takes apart the Climate models and shreds them. The fail not only temperature prediction but a lot more.

   Here is another killer graph from Bob Tisdale:
   https://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/figure-3.png?w=640&h=442

   from:
   https://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/the-warming-of-the-global-oceans-are-manmade-greenhouse-gases-important-or-impotent-2/

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   • Gail Combs says:

     March 14, 2015 at 2:47 pm

     OOPS, for got to add the link to Bob’s great hit piece on the IPCC models.
     What Do Observed Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies and Climate Models Have In Common Over The Past 17 Years?

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