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Forbes says that human sacrifice affects the climate.

climate change is happening, it’s a problem and we ought to do something about it. What we ought to do about it is is impose that carbon tax: the $80 per tonne CO2 (actually, CO2-e) that the Stern Review recommended and then let the market work it out. In my native UK we already pay green taxes of about this amount: all we need to do is shift around the taxes we already pay.

iPads on a Plane and Why a Carbon Tax Would Solve Global Warming – Forbes

The Aztecs agreed.

Scientists say climate change is man made and irreversible, just like it was when it was natural and reversing itself very quickly.

The Earth is reaching a “tipping point” in climate change that will lead to increasingly rapid and irreversible destruction of the global environment unless its forces are controlled by concerted international action, an international group of scientists warns.

Unchecked population growth, the disappearance of critical plant and animal species, the over-exploitation of energy resources, and the rapidly warming climate are all combining to bring mounting pressure on the Earth’s environmental health, they say.

Scientists from five nations, led by UC Berkeley biologist Anthony Barnosky, report their analysis Thursday in the journal Nature.

They likened the potential impact of the forces to previous major changes – both gradual and abrupt – in the planet’s history that triggered mass extinctions and expansions, and produced completely new worldwide environments.

The most recent of those was the sporadic end of the last ice age that began 14,000 years ago and shifted rapidly from warm to cold and then back to warm again over a few thousand years. That period saw the extinction of half the world’s large animal life, and then the spread of an expanding human population to every continent on the planet.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/06/BA1T1OT26G.DTL#ixzz1xB7tn6Ic

Are these people terminally stupid, terminally drugged out, or just pathological liars?

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

1934 brought sixty-one days over one hundred degrees to Oklahoma City, compared to just thirty-eight days in 2011. NOAA says that the Oklahoma summer of 2011 was the hottest on record in the US, because some people there feel the need to lie about climate – to keep their funding going.

“The Midwest and the upper Midwest were the epicenters for this vast warmth,” Deke Arndt of NOAA’s Climatic Data Center said in an online video. That meant farming started earlier in the year, and so did pests and weeds, bringing higher costs earlier in the growing season, Arndt said.

“This warmth is an example of what we would expect to see more often in a warming world,”

Warmest U.S. spring on record: NOAA

Deke apparently isn’t confident of his own opinion, so he invokes the imaginary authoritative plural. Perhaps the mouse in his pocket agrees.

Guest post by Joe Bastardi.

Joe lets us know what to expect over the next nine months.

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The coming  nino  is in line with the cold pdo el ninos  we saw in the  1950s-1970s and most recently in  2009-2010. This has been  well telegraphed and a mainstay of the Weatherbell.com forecast since winter.  In fact the  pattern  is not dissimilar  to the la nina/el nino  couplet of   1975-1976  where a very warm winter was  followed by a very  cold winter. The key is that the el nino coming, because of the overall now cold decadal state of the Pacific,  will be centered in the central Pacific  while  the eastern  Pacific is not as cool.

As a side note, the forecast of the development of the nino was part of the reason Weatherbell has  the lowest Ace Index forecast  of the major players.  I believe that  that lass than  1/3 the total ace of 70-90 this year occurs south of 25 north, where we have seen the strongest of the storms  in the big ace season the past 10 years.  However the forecast, made back in March , is already showing merit with the idea that the problem this year will be in close development with over  50% of the ace within 200 miles of the US coast.  There seems to be linkage to very cold 400 mb temps in March  with  el ninos coming on, as the 10 lowest ace years  have temps  below normal from  Africa  to  the Caribbean at that level in March  and in 7 of them, an el nino developed!  Well it did this year too. By the way, the way I started looking at that was because I was debunking the IPCC trapping idea  and came up with this linkage in my studies.  So  this will be an interesting test. I presented this idea, along with a tornado linkage to temps at that level,  at the ICCC7  conference, so its not like I am saying this after the fact.

The reason for this is that the el ninos of the cold PDO  are basically  a response to the  longer lived  colder signals of the la ninas.    Joe D Aleo ‘s  research shows that cold pdo el ninos  last on average  9 months,  while the la ninas  average 21. It was why I was adamant  last year that the la nina WAS NOT DONE and that the el nino would come on this year. In fact , in statements  made at the end of the winter 10-11, I said I was uncertain about the temps of the winter 11-12, but felt that the winter of 12-13  would be very cold for the US.

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A NASA-sponsored expedition has made a startling discovery of diverse biological plant life at the depths of the Arctic Ocean, which is raising potential concerns for marine life.

The findings, which are being compared to “finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert,” include waters richer in microscopic marine plants than any other ocean region on Earth. They were collected over a period of two years from 2010-2011 by a NASA-led oceanographic expedition.

Impacts of Climate on EcoSystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment, or ICESCAPE, explored the Arctic Ocean in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas along Alaska’s western and northern coasts on board a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker ship. The expedition used optical technologies to look for impacts of environmental change in the Arctic region.

NASA’s New Discovery of ‘Rainforest’ in Arctic Ocean Raises Concern

That  makes sense. When Columbus arrived in America for the first time, he was shocked by how much it had changed since the last time he was there.

Good thing the current crop of NASA morons weren’t in charge of the moon missions.

Gillard faces revolt on economy

The Lowy poll said that Australians were softening their views on measures to fight global warming, with support for urgent and strong policies falling from two-thirds to 36 per cent in the past six years.

Gillard faces revolt on economy – Economy – NZ Herald News

When Breitbart reported that Obama’s biography agent listed his birthplace as Kenya for 16 years, the immediate response from the left was that it was a conspiracy. Even though she admits that she did it. Was she conspiring against herself?

What kind of morons would say something like that? Any fact which the left doesn’t like, they simply declare conspiracy – and then stick their head back up their ass.

Looks like Bob at Weather Underground is predicting an ice-free Arctic in three years, because he has faith in PIOMAS. Good luck with that Bob.

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By: Dr. Ricky Rood (Weather Underground)

Published: June 2, 2012

So I want to end this blog with a party trick. We have had 327 months in a row above the average temperature of the 20th century. If we played the game that there was a 50% chance of each month being above (heads) or below (tails) average, we have now rolled heads 327 times in a row. How likely is that? I think that is one half raised to 327th power, which is about 1 chance in a number that is 1 with 98 zeros after it. That makes buying a mega lotto ticket look like a solid investment. We live in a extraordinary spring in an extraordinary times. After a rocky start, my potatoes look pretty good.

Heads and Tails: Still thinking about Spring 2012

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The first problem with his stupid analogy is that older temperatures are adjusted  downwards and recent temperatures are adjusted upwards. This guarantees that all recent temperatures are too high, because the people in charge cheated.

The second problem is that even if temperatures had of been completely flat for the last 327 months, they would still be “above average.” Ricky’s trick tells us absolutely nothing about the trend.

Is Rood being intentionally deceptive, or is he just not very bright?

Scientific experts have have already extincted humanity several times during my lifetime. and they are doing it again.

June 6, 2012
Earth Is Headed for Disaster, Interdisciplinary Team of Scientists Concludes
By Paul Basken
An interdisciplinary group of 22 scientists, combining paleontological evidence with ecological modeling, has concluded that the earth appears headed toward catastrophic and irreversible environmental changes.

Their report, in the June 7 issue of the journal Nature, describes an exponentially increasing rate of species extinctions, extreme climate fluctuations, and other threats that together risk a level of upheaval not seen since the large-scale extinctions 65 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs.

Mr. Ehrlich said he foresees a series of dire threats to humanity, many virtually untouched by political leaders, including climate change, water shortages, and the widespread use of man-made toxins. Even a single repercussion of one of those, such as water scarcity leading to nuclear war between India and Pakistan, could devastate populations worldwide, he said.

“Generally the scientific community has spoken many times,” Mr. Ehrlich said, “but nobody’s paying any attention.”

Earth Is Headed for Disaster, Interdisciplinary Team of Scientists Concludes 

The reason that no one is paying attention is that these same liars have been crying wolf over and over and over again, and their perverse motivations have nothing to do with saving the planet.

Paul Ehrlich – 1972

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