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According to Monbiot, you are already dead.

24 December 2002

Within as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable farming either continues to feed the world’s animals or it continues to feed the world’s people. It cannot do both.

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/dec/24/christmas.famine

You can talk with him about the afterlife tomorrow.

Join George Monbiot for a Google+ Hangout on the environment
This Wednesday, eight Guardian readers will get to take part in an intimate video chat on the environment with George Monbiot

Join George Monbiot for a Google+ Hangout on the environment | Environment | guardian.co.uk

I just watched the Wigan – Newcastle match. Great passing. Great shooting. Great defense. Next season will be interesting.

The new Bolsheviks are getting quite bold.

Global warming: New research emphasizes the role of economic growth

May 1, 2012

It’s a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we’ll either have to put the brakes on economic growth or transform the way the world’s economies work.

That’s the implication of an innovative University of Michigan study examining the evolution of atmospheric CO2, the most likely cause of global climate change.

The study, conducted by José Tapia Granados and Edward Ionides of U-M and Óscar Carpintero of the University of Valladolid in Spain, was published online in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Policy. It is the first analysis to use measurable levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide to assess fluctuations in the gas, rather than estimates of CO2 emissions, which are less accurate.

Global warming: New research emphasizes the role of economic growth

Spain has 24% unemployment thanks to their green economy. Greens hope to do the same for the US. This has nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with destroying capitalism.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Mann also threw a high, hard one at McCarver’s theory, saying that the carbon emissions behind climate change may even lower home runs. “If anything, anthropogenic carbon emissions and global warming should make the atmosphere slightly heavier, because we’re taking carbon that was trapped in the solid earth and releasing to the atmosphere (in the form of CO2), and a warmer atmosphere will hold more water vapor. Both CO2 and water vapor contribute (slightly) to the mass of the atmosphere.”

Is Global Warming Causing More Home Runs in Baseball?: Scientific American

McCarver is correct that a warmer atmosphere is less dense than a cooler atmosphere. The Ideal Gas Law  (PV = nRT) tells us that a higher temperature makes the volume increase, which means the air is less dense. That is why the troposphere is much thicker at the equator than at the poles. It is also why planes sometimes can’t take off from the Phoenix airport – the air isn’t dense enough on very hot days to provide the needed lift.

As far as Mann’s claim that more water vapor means a “heavier atmosphere” – that is just plain ignorant. The molar mass of H2O is 18g, compared to 28g for N2 and 32g for O2. If an H2O molecule displaces an N2 or O2 molecule, the density of the atmosphere decreases. Increasing CO2 by 0.0001 mole fraction isn’t going to do jack to the density of the atmosphere.

Of course, these are the same geniuses who believe that the missing heat sank to the bottom of the ocean.

The tide gauge at Kiptopeke Beach, Virginia shows sea level rising almost 100mm since 1993.

Data and Station Information for KIPTOPEKE BEACH

But satellite data there shows little or no change sea level since 1993.

The tide gauge data (blue below) has diverged from the satellite data (green below) at a rate of four millimetres per year since May, 1993

This indicates that the land under the tide gauge is sinking. Same problem all over the Gulf and East Coasts of the US.

New Jersey Governor Christie thinks he can stop the land from sinking by reducing CO2. He may be our next vice-president.

The article below is Joe Bastardi’s response to Tim McCarver’s claim that global warming is causing more home runs because warm air is thinner.. The only thing I would add is that part of his theory seems easy enough to test. Are there more proportionally home runs scored during afternoon games than night games?

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Guest post by Joe Bastardi

The recent comment by Tim McCarver that climate change is leading to more home runs  and a defense of it in some circles shows two things in addition to what is an absurd comment.

1.  The bologna  about climate change has gotten so bad, it is in the psyche of people even  broadcasting sporting events and
2. the people defending this will  ignore the overwhelming facts to push their points.

First of all it is an absurd comment along the lines  that one can argue changes in uniforms  are just as much responsible. Every team has changed  its uniform from the old days, they are not exactly the way they were, they may be made of different  material, heck I have seen some games where people play in shorts.  Its one of those comments  where someone can say anything and then   say, okay, prove to me absolutely its not true. “ So Mr, Jones,  just when did you stop  spying on your neighbor”  , as if you were, but then then the person says, okay prove it.

So again, you want to defend that idea against the fact that stadiums are smaller,  players are bigger and stronger, there are more teams  leading to more variance in strength, on paper it seems absurd, because it is. And the data backs me up. In the period 1931-1960, when the pdo and amo were in similar cyclical phases are they are now ( the pdo was warm till the late 40s, then it flipped,  it was warm  1978-2007 then flipped,   the atlantic  overall is similar to the way it was in the  50s now, so in the whole comparison, we are in the latter stages of the warm cycle we were in the 50s)  the  comparison of temps  plainly shows the weather was warmer in baseball season  ( I will use  April to October,  for one, then  June-August for the other)

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Frank Lasner dug this up. DMI has old ice extent maps on their web site, like this one from August 1938.

Hide the decline – Latest News (hidethedecline)

brunnur.vedur.is/pub/trausti/Iskort/Pdf/1938/1938_08.pdf

It shows the Northeast Passage nearly open, with several hundred miles of open water north of Russia. Now compare vs. August 1996 – when the Northeast Passage was frozen up.

N_199608_extn.png (420×500)

The image below overlays the 1996 map on the 1938 map. Green represents more ice in 1996, red shows more ice in 1938. There was more ice in August 1996 than in August 1938.

So here is the problem. UIUC has this graph on their website, which shows a lot more ice in summer 1938 than in summer 1996.

seasonal.extent.1900-2010.png (1296×1057)

That isn’t the first problem found with this graph. It also shows 1974 extent higher than 1979, which we know from the 1990 IPCC report to be incorrect.

www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_full_report.pdf

Bottom line for me is that I don’t trust any of the pre-satellite ice or temperature data being published now. They appear to be political documents rather than historical.

Richard Black reports on exactly what is behind this scam.

recent climate change and biodiversity agreements both talk of sums in the order of $100bn per year by 2020, and that the Rio+20 agenda is far broader, you can guess at the sums of money that might be requested here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17898323

In February, alarmists got hysterical over $200,000 which they thought the Koch Brothers had given to Heartland.  Apparently skeptics are getting 0.0002% of the climate money, which Hansen says gives us a big advantage.

Disclaimer : I receive exactly 0.0000000000% of the total funding pot.

Why Alaska Might Be the Best Place for Electric Cars

by Timothy Hurst on May 1, 2012

Let me first preface this piece by saying Alaska may not, in fact, be the best place to own and operate an electric car. Confused? Let me explain. A new study (pdf) by the Union of Concerned Scientists explores the often asked but rarely answered questions surrounding the issue of whether some geographic regions may be better than others for electric cars in terms of their environmental impact.

Why Alaska Might Be the Best Place for Electric Cars

Other than the fact that the battery would freeze, and that essentially every destination in Alaska is beyond the range of an electric car, and that you would probably burn out the motor when you high center it in the snow – it sounds like a great idea.

Water companies reached for words like “irony” today to explain to 20 million customers why they should save water even as rivers overflowed, gardens were swamped and fields became lakes after a further inch of rain fell in some regions in the space of 12 hours, and 36 flood warnings remained in place.

With April declared officially the wettest since records began in 1912 and farmers complaining that they need flood-tolerant crops this month after drought-tolerant ones last month, Thames tried to be understanding:

“We are well aware of the irony that heavy rain set in after the hosepipe ban was announced. In fact, it hasn’t really stopped raining since we and six other companies imposed hosepipe bans on 5 April ,” said Richard Aylard, director of sustainability.

Water companies turn hose on drought naysayers