Real Climate Science

Princeton mathematician John Nash suffered from schizophrenia, and constantly imagined that he saw non-existent patterns. He also did some very good mathematical and cryptographic work.

I have been exchanging E-mails with a famous climate alarmist who also imagines that he sees non-existent patterns in weather and climate.

drought and flood both seem more prevalent–which is what you’d expect,  i guess, as the atmosphere grows wetter

Unlike John Nash, this person appears to be lacking any critical thinking skills.

drought … is what you would expect …. as the atmosphere grows wetter

The team is confused. Half of the team is calling for a huge increase in world poverty – to stop global warming, while the other half says that we must stop global warming from hurting the poor.

Meanwhile, The Guardian (who calls for airline executives to be “dragged out of their office and drowned” to stop global warming) is offended by Heartland’s suggestion that climate alarmists support mass murder.

The team needs to get their story straight. Are they for or against mass murder? Are they for or against mass poverty?

Perhaps it depends on the particular narcotic which they have most recently placed in their bloodstream.

There will be changes. Maine will just be different, he said.

“What we shouldn’t do is give up,” he added.

Reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can mean a lower growth of climate change.

For Barton, it’s now a moral issue. Maine will change, parts of the United States will change but not as much as other, poorer countries.

Global climate change topic of 350.org events – chicagotribune.com

Maine temperatures have been changing at a rate of 0.00 degrees per century. Poor countries are expected to to warm at least twice that fast, because CO2 hates the poor.

MAINE Climate Summary

How Global Warming and Capitalism Are Deeply Intertwined
It is no accident that environmental crisis is gathering as social injustice is deepening and growing inequality is impairing democratic institutions.
June 14, 2010

In 1970 James Gustave Speth co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has become one of America’s most well-endowed and high-profile environmental organizations. He worked in the White House under President Carter, chairing the Council on Environmental Quality; when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were elected in 1992, Speth was a senior adviser to their transition team. He spent the 1990s as the administrator of the United Nations Development Program,

The escalating processes of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment and toxification–which continue despite decades of warnings and earnest effort–are a severe indictment of capitalism

How Global Warming and Capitalism Are Deeply Intertwined | Environment | AlterNet

Fifty years ago, the environment was a mess and half of Red China was starving due to the stupidity of their communist leaders. Greens yearn to bring us back to the days of mass starvation and environmental filth.

Pentti Linkola: Ideas

Pentti Linkola writes about the apocalyptic climactic changes that will soon effect us here in humanityland, but he doesn’t take the easy way out that most authors do. Instead, he chooses to be brutally honest and suggests that we’ve already missed our chance to curb our damage of the world, so what we must do is to begin the elimination of human and technological excesses now.

“Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.”

Linkola is one of the few voices who advocates:

1) No immigration
2) Downsize population
3) Kill defectives
4) Stop rampant technology

Pentti Linkola Fansite

Obama’s opening salvo: Hope, change and fear

Barack Obama once wanted to “Win the Future.” Now he’s just hoping to get there.

the force of the president’s new argument is not so much that Americans could achieve greatness but that they must lock arms to keep Mitt Romney from dragging the country back to a dark past.

Obama’s opening salvo: Hope, change and fear – Political Hotsheet – CBS News

By “dark past” Obama means a time when Americans actually had jobs.

Barrow Sea Ice Webcam

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty
Wi bickering brattle!

City should have had four, but my prediction was close enough for government work.

Hansen has this graph of global temperatures on the Columbia web site.

Global Temperature

In 1988, he generated these three forecasts for future temperature rise

Scenario A assumes continued exponential trace gas growth, scenario B assumes a reduced linear growth of trace gases, and scenario C assumes a rapid curtailment of trace gas emissions such that the net climate forcing ceases to increase after the year 2000.

Scenario A below assumed that annual CO2 emissions continued to increase, which is what has happened. Scenario B assumed that annual CO2 emissions decreased after 1988, which has not happened. Scenario C below assumes that humans essentially quit producing CO2 twelve years ago in the year 2000.

pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf

The image below overlays Hansen’s claimed results on his forecasts. Actual temperature rise is less than Hansen’s zero emissions scenario C, and has gone completely flat over the last five years.

An honest scientist would admit that his theory was wrong, and move on. Hansen has instead ramped up the rhetoric, called for 25 metres of sea level rise, and said that people who disagree with him should be prosecuted.

In order to hide the unexpectedly slow increase in temperature, he has also stretched out the Y-axis of his graph. If he drew the temperature graph at the same scale as his 1988 forecasts, no one would even be paying attention any more. The graph below doesn’t look much like a hockey stick.

In 2005, Real Climate told us that the period from the 1950s to the 1970s had artificially cool temperatures – due to man made aerosols.

14 January 2005

The cooling trend from the 40?s to the 70?s now looks more like a slight interruption of an upward trend (e.g. here). It turns out that the northern hemisphere cooling was larger than the southern (consistent with the nowadays accepted interpreation that the cooling was largely caused by sulphate aerosols); at first, only NH records were available.

RealClimate: The global cooling myth

At the same time, they use 1951-1980 as their baseline for normal temperature.

Feb. 8, 2005

Earth Gets a Warm Feeling All Over

James Hansen of NASA GISS analyzed the data and said that the 2004 average temperature at Earth’s surface around the world was 0.48 degrees Celsius or 0.86 Fahrenheit above the average temperature from 1951 to 1980.

The years of 1951 to 1980 are used as a “baseline” or average for surface temperatures of Earth’s land and ocean surfaces.

NASA GISS: Research News: Earth Gets a Warm Feeling All Over

Three weeks apart in 2005, Gavin@GISS told us that 1951-1980 was artificially cool, and Hansen@GISS told us that the same period was normal. Besides all the corruption of the temperature data set, they are similarly pulling a fast one with the baseline.