For the past few months I have been doing contract work in Boulder for Jonathan Sawyer at a very aggressive radio startup called Xetawave. Unlike myself, Jonathan has no fear of getting right in the face of Boulder progressives about climate. (Note the Admiral epaulettes.) The first thing you see when you walk in the office is Mark Steyn’s book about Michael Mann. I don’t think anyone has ever accused Jonathan of being shy about sharing his opinions.
Jonathan Sawyer: Don’t believe climate models – Boulder Daily Camera
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Thanks to global warming, Jonathan wears shorts all year round. It was -12F here last night – the coldest night Boulder has seen in a very long time.
I am glad you finally found a great company to work for Tony.
I will pass this along to the Techies at ChiefIO’s. I think E.M. may have some use for the equipment.
Thank you Gail!
I have a suggestion after reading this article, which was one of the best I ever read!
http://www.dailywire.com/news/2071/most-comprehensive-assault-global-warming-ever-mike-van-biezen
[ “There is plenty of evidence found in the Dutch archives that shows that over the centuries, parts of the Netherlands disappeared beneath the water during these warm periods, only to appear again when the climate turned colder. The famous Belgian city of Brugge, once known as “Venice of the North,” was a sea port during the warm period that set Europe free from the dark ages (when temperatures were much colder)
The camps promoting global warming have been systematically erasing mention of these events in order to bolster the notion that today’s climate is unusual compared to our recent history. .. ]
TH is really good at pulling up past studies and data, even ones that are on paper and digitizing them and putting the pict on this blog.. this would be an excellent edition.. The Netherlands (english-The lowerlands) there will be evidence that sea levels were in fact much higher back then! How do we get some of that stuff? I have a buddy that is dutch and went to visit him a few years ago, wish I would have known about this issue back then, I would have spent half the time search for evidence of this as I’m sure it’s all over the place.. It would be a good edition to this blog.. just look at wiki ‘medeival warm period’ total bullshit.. “it was just europe that was warm back then”, sheesh what a bunch of bullshit .. so just a warm europe made sea levels rise by 6 feet!
Checkout Jo Nova’s
Medieval Warm Period found in 120 proxies. Plus Roman era was similar to early 20th Century.
The Medieval Warm Period hit west Antarctica
And while you are at it
Coldest decade in Europe: 1430s — so cold people melted wine to drink, climate models have no idea why
PAPER:
“Correction to: A 2000-Year Global Temperature Reconstruction Based on Non-Tree Ring Proxies,”
by Craig Loehle and J. Huston McCulloch
(This is why the Progressives have to shut down the Alt-media.)
Tx for those but that is mostly more graphs, the GWS(global warming scammers) can just make their own fake charts that show it’s warmer today than it was during the MWP, then there is this endless argument where they get to say “sure the old charts show the mwp as warmer, but ‘The Science’ has progressed and now we have determined that more recently the heat just shot up like manns hocky stick” – some bullshit like that..
but this:
[ “There is plenty of evidence found in the Dutch archives that shows that over the centuries, parts of the Netherlands disappeared beneath the water during these warm periods, only to appear again when the climate turned colder. The famous Belgian city of Brugge, once known as “Venice of the North,” was a sea port during the warm period that set Europe free from the dark ages ] he then talks about how the GWS have been deleting .. These ‘archives’ and historical facts definitively destroy the warmest argument-there is no way it is as warm today if sea levels were that much higher.. that is why they are trying to make these facts un-available but I’m sure their are old history books, etc. about how ie Brugge was once a port .. i’ll keep looking to see what i can come up with.. maybe i can contact the author of that peice to see what he’s come up with..
Oh, This is really, really great news! I am thrilled to hear this and I know it is the truth because You said it.
Thank you!
Xetawave sounds like a great company with terrific staff. Given the election result, Colarado needs more people like them.
I wish you all the best in fighting the good fight.
“The first thing you see when you walk in the office is Mark Steyn’s book about Michael Mann.”
IF the 1930s were hotter worldwide then … the hockey stick, and AGW thesis, is a complete joke. Using the pointed gleaned from you Tony, I just commented in WUWT (with two graphics, I think I could show one graphic here at the end of the comment):
Evidence that the 1930s were hotter worldwide than today:
First, realize this:
In 1999 NASA’s James Hansen agreed:
“It is clear that [in the USA] 1998 did not match the record warmth of 1934.”
In 1978 the N.A.S. showed the Northern Hemisphere to be hotter:
https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screenshot-2016-01-31-at-05.15.34-AM.png
The Northern Hemisphere makes up 64% of the earth’s land.
Plus, the Southern Hemisphere was particularly sparse at the time as far as thermometer placement.
And the USA in particular had the most extensive reliable set of ground thermometers compared to the rest of the world. So, the temperatures in the rest of the world were probably, in the 1930s, more like the USA and the Northern Hemisphere.
A final point, two days ago Judith Curry reported that the USA had much more hot days then today:
https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/figure1.png
Spangled drongo @Jo Nova shows news reports in Australia had birds dropping dead during the heatwaves in Australia.
Extreme heat in 1896: Panic stricken people fled the outback on special trains as hundreds die.
Jo then goes on to list some of the temperature records listed for cities at that time.
Just 14 years earlier, Edison had built the first coal-fired electric generating station.
Excellent detective work as I see you’ve found the culprit for that 1896 heatwave!!
Wait, I thought they said coal cools the planet because of particulates (esp an ‘unscrubbed’ 1882 plant!). That is the kind of upside down anything goes reasoning that you see from the climate leftists:
Btw, Gail, thanks a million again for sketching out for me how to upload images!
No problem Eric,
I am ‘computer challenged’ and had to get Hubby to show me how to do it so I understand the frustration.
Also Australia like the USA had good temperature records in the 1890s but those records are rarely shown to the public and when they are they have been massively ‘Adjusted’
Vanishing hot days of December 1931 — and BOM monthly averages hotter than every single day that month
Notice the Adelaide records also show the 1940s peak in max temperature.
I’m glad this guy is not afraid to call AGW a fraud. I’m not either.
People need to speak out, enough is enough.
I use sarcasm. Works great when North Carolinians are shivering in their shoes.
I don’t. I tell people that their common sense tells them they don’t believe it either.
So happy for you that you’ve found a home that your happy with. It’s a big part of what makes life worth living. And it is great that your boss is a skeptic that I’m sure values what your doing when off the job and so makes it easy for you to travel to your various meetings and presentations. Sounds like the ideal situation for you.
I know this is OT.
But Its INCREDIBLY GOOD NEWS
http://joannenova.com.au/2016/12/irish-families-win-court-case-against-wind-farm-noise/
Excuse the French but…
What is this “extra” Tropical Low hanging over Hawaii, in the very early Winter time ???
December ?
Odd !
These Storms can (Could) El Nino Southern California !!
They’re right there !!!;
Oh and, it’s a very brisk Santa Ana, Abe-Normal, Cold Santa Ana, their “usually”, warm ?
Finally a Christmas with Christmas weather, nice cool weather !!!
FightOn
check out the unseasonal procession of lows marching through the arctic currently and in the last 2 months…
Still anomalously high temps up there in the arctic darkness, still record low sea ice extent…
Check out the fact that in a few days it will be up with every one of the last several years.
That will really destroy you, won’t it little cretin.
Will leave you even more mindlessly blathering than you are now.
High temps at-15C Yeh alright ! Prat
Tony, BP is supposedly relocating their houston onshore staff to Denver. There may be some opportunities there.
Wendy
So – no change in the climate in Boulder?
I hear that spring snowmelt has been getting earlier (1 to 4 weeks) ??
“So – no change in the climate in Boulder?”
Nope.. not much anywhere else either.
Thankfully we live in a time of unprecedentedly stable climate.
Extreme weather events down in number and energy.
A good recovery from the spiteful cold of the LIA.
Arctic sea ice open for trade for at least a few weeks a year.
Atmospheric CO2 increasing, biosphere expanding allowing the feeding of the increasing world population.
Let’s hope we don’t stuff it up by doing something monumentally stupid like going back to wind power, or reliance on an energy supply that only works 8 hours a day at maximum.
Surely humans aren’t that stupid !!!
“Thankfully we live in a time of unprecedentedly stable climate.”
That is why the Chicken Littles are so funny. Now temperature swings of 10C to 16C like a D-O event can produce IN A DECADE, now THAT is Climate Change For YA!
D-O events from Greenland Ice Core. (Evidence has bee found else where too.)
I’ve been in the Boulder area since early 80’s. The weather is highly variable but in that variability, the growing season is getting shorter, at least last year was. I’ve never been colder here than last weekend.
The last four summers here in mid North Carolina were mild enough that my high temperature sensitive white clover did not go crispy critter in summer.
I have lived here for over twenty years and always before the clover disappeared by July.
Poor Tomato crops all over Colorado. Nights were colder, no warm up in the spring, early light frost.
Tsk, tsk, Annie. How can you say these things? Why don’t you let griff explain to you how the growing season got longer in Colorado? Everyone knows that global warming makes winters warm first and it only gets balmier from there. Let’s plant some citrus trees to cash in on climate change!
Is it happening a lot, griff?
Resist the voices, griff! Resist!
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/boulder/bouldersnow.html
I can testify that getting anything accurate about energy published in the Boulder Chimera (as we called the Boulder Camera at Access to Energy) is a feat. That monopoly is almost hermetically sealed against reproducible results, and has been since 1981 at least.
even climate models don’t believe climate models
you have a less than random chance of a climate model actually predicting the climate
Forget Rock and Roll, here is the new Snowdance from Saudi Arabia: posted December 20, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkpXMg7uJWk
Thermalization and the complete dominance of water vapor in reverse-thermalization explain why CO2 has no significant effect on climate. Terrestrial EMR absorbed by CO2 is effectively rerouted to space via water vapor.
Because the duration between absorption and emission of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) for CO2 molecules is approximately 6 micro seconds (µs) but thermalization (the process of absorbing EMR and conducting the absorbed energy to other molecules) for any atmospheric molecule at sea level takes approximately 0.0002 µs, essentially all terrestrial radiation absorbed by CO2 is thermalized. Similarly, all EMR absorbed by water vapor (WV) is thermalized. The thermalized energy is expressed in the froth of molecular velocity and spin with molecular speeds characterized by the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. It is observed as temperature and pressure of the gas.
Molecular species are identified as greenhouse gases (ghg) by the property that they absorb/emit EMR at wavelengths of significant terrestrial radiation (approximately 6-100 microns (µm). CO2 absorbs/emits at only one wavelength in that range (15 µm broadened at sea level to about 14-16 µm by pressure, etc.). Water vapor molecules, however, have, according to a count reported in a 1938 paper (Astrophysical Journal, June 1938, v 87, no 8, p 499) “about 170 lines in the range 75-550 cm-1” [133-18.2 µm].
Global average WV at sea level is approximately 1.5% = 15,000 ppmv while CO2 is only 505 ppmv so there are approximately 15000/505 = 29.7 times as many WV molecules as CO2 molecules. Thus in the typical case, there are 29.7 X 170 ≈ 5100 absorption/emission ‘opportunities’ for WV plus one opportunity for CO2 for a total of 5101. If you double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, the number of opportunities increases to 5102. The resultant increase in warming effect (if any) is (5102-5101)/5101 = 0.000196. This increase of about 0.02% is insignificant.
Climate sensitivity is not significantly different from zero.
Identification of the three factors, in an equation which matches average global temperature (98% 1895-2015), is at http://globalclimatedrivers2.blogspot.com
Southern California Reporting !
This is odd ?
“We” are currently getting a [ Sub-Tropical ] Tropical Storm with sustained Winds of 25 to 35mph with gusts to 50 in moderate to heavy rainfall !
I’vvvvve never seen this (It) before !!
I watched this Storm from days ago, when it was centered over Kauai, for about 24hrs, it then moved further South over the Big Island (I told all who would listen this, “What is a Extra-Tropical Storm doing over Hawaii” ?
It’s almost Winter (Today is the first day of Winter) ??
Then I took “one” day off of not following it and BAM, now it’s off of Cabo San Lucas about 300 or 400 miles (West) and moving up the Coast towards Southern California ??? !
I’ve been watching (Observing) Southern California Weather (And basically every where else) since El Nino 1977/1978, this has “never” happened !!!
FREAK STORM !
I have waited forever for a Storm like this, no its not a Hurricane (We don’t get Hurricanes) and it’s not a true Tropical Storm (We are approximately 34° degrees North latitude, far outside of 22.5°), but man this is GREAT !
WHAT A STORM !!!
The winds hitting the sides of my house (Windows) with horizontal rains pounding feel like some-where-else !
Florida/Texas (But much cooler) just hit Good-ole-Southern-California…
This is INCREDIBLE !
And…
It took a loooong time (Storms like this) to get here !
GREAT start to Winter
RainOn
Oh and…
Just because someone says it, that “doesn’t” mean it’s “reality” !
Eyes don’t lie…
11:30pm !
We actually had part of this storm hit Yuma, AZ, with steady rain for a number of hours yesterday afternoon into the evening. Check what its doing in the states above us — tons of snow. Might even be dumping snow on Tony soon, if not already.
GEE, just think we maybe witnessing how glaciers are built ===> ice ages. What a great lesson in geology!
Unfortunately though that was written tongue-in-cheek glaciers are starting to rebuild. Contrary to what most people think, it is not super cold weather that builds glaciers but tons of snow from the type of meridonal jets that we are seeing now plus mild summers when the snow does not melt.
In Norway a study shows: Minimum glacier input is indicated between 6700-5700 cal yr BP, probably reflecting a situation when most glaciers in the catchment had melted away, whereas the highest glacier activity is observed around 600 and 200 cal yr BP.
And more recently in Scotland: ‘Almost 300 “snow patches” remained in the Highland mountains in 2014’
These are the first stages of glaciation and with the exception of this last El Nino are increasing.
August 27, 2015 — Massive Increase in Scottish Snow Patches
The Storm intensity is in increasing !
Wind is up, still raining
Lack of melt over an extended period is the most prominent early sign that a period of glaciation is beginning. It is not so much how cold the winters are but how cool the summers are. If this were not so then hyper vulcanism would not be recognized as a contributing factor to causing ice ages.
Agreed, RAH
My Geo prof many moons ago said it was LOTS of snow and lack of melt in the summer. That is mild but snowy winters and mild summers and not super cold winters are the key to glaciation.
Really cold weather generally means not much snow because of the lack of evaporation. The Wisconsin Ice Age was characterized in the ice cores by DUST.
The switch from the Wisconsin Ice Age to the Holocene happened in JUST ONE YEAR! I find that truly incredible.
“JUST ONE YEAR! I find that truly incredible.”
Dare we use the ‘s’ word; scary.
Like George Carlin said ‘the planet’ ignores any hubris that mankind imagines for itself without batting so much as an eyelash.
congratulations tony, you will thrive in any work place with an open minded attitude. i am sure your new employers will be delighted with their new colleague.
i have a feeling were are past the peak of the agw scam, slowly the chickens will come home to roost .
by the looks of this the dial back has already begun.
sorry, forgot the link regarding the dial back http://notrickszone.com/2016/12/22/the-hockey-stick-collapses-50-new-2016-scientific-papers-affirm-todays-warming-isnt-global-unprecedented-or-remarkable/#sthash.Rgljjk1s.dpbs
I was just reading the manual for the xeta9 and clicked on a link to youtube about the spectrum analyzer, and I said to myself I recognize that voice.