97% of academics were convinced during the 1990’s that Intel’s x-86 microprocessor was doomed. Companies like IBM wasted billions of dollars based on clueless academic opinions.
Almost all Windows and Macintosh PC’s now are based on derivatives of Intel’s x-86 architecture.
In the capital city, Jakarta, the main international Soekarno-Hatta Airport could be below sea level as soon as 2030, with outlying districts turned into lakes, says Singapore’s Straits Times, quoting a report from Maplecroft’s Climate Change Vulnerability Index.
According to Google Earth, the airport is 20-30 feet above sea level. Wikipedia has it at 32 feet. The BBC claim would require 1-2 feet of sea level rise per year until 2030.
Soekarno–Hatta International Airport – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
h/t to Marc Morano
As of 1999, GISS showed that US temperatures (red) closely tracked 1975 National Academy of Sciences Northern Hemisphere temperatures (blue.) They both peaked around 1940 and declined rapidly thereafter.
Hansen was concerned that the US wasn’t warming like it was supposed to.
Whither U.S. Climate?
By James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Jay Glascoe and Makiko Sato — August 1999
How can the absence of clear climate change in the United States be reconciled with continued reports of record global temperature? Part of the “answer” is that U.S. climate has been following a different course than global climate, at least so far
This was just before the hockey stick was invented, and in order to get rid of Briffa’s trees they had to create a divergence between US and global temperatures, and they had to make the post-1940’s cooling go away. They did just that, and now have almost completely eliminated the 1940’s warming spike. Current GISS northern hemisphere is in red below, normalized to the late 1960’s.
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis: Analysis Graphs and Plots
https://ia801806.us.archive.org/7/items/understandingcli00un…
Simultaneously, they worked over US temperatures and made the Dust Bowl disappear. Graphs below have the five year means normalized to the most recent common date of 1997.
Bottom line is that Northern Hemisphere and US temperatures peaked in the 1930’s and 1940’s – and the hockey stick is government scientist manufactured junk science.
Extra credit. As of 1978, NOAA also showed strong southern hemisphere cooling, which GISS has completely eliminated and turned into a warming trend.
journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0493(1978)106<0755%3AGTVSMA>2.0.CO%3B2
The graph below shows GISS southern hemisphere temperatures in blue, vs. 1990 IPCC southern hemisphere in black.
Two years ago, the US was huge.
2012 Was The Hottest Year on Record (NOAA) – Greg Laden’s Blog
But now he says the US is tiny.
Weather Whiplash, and What Does (The) Fox Say? – Greg Laden’s Blog
The cold air must have made the US shrink this year.
Blue line is current GISS southern hemisphere. Solid black line is Hansen 1990 from FAR. Note the settled science before 1900.
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis: Analysis Graphs and Plots
www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_full_report.pdf
