Real Climate Science

Alarmists claim that over the past century, CO2 has caused temperatures to warm by about 0.7 degrees. A new study shows that wind farms cause ten times as much warming as CO2.

Nature Climate Change (2012) doi:10.1038/nclimate1505
Received 02 February 2012 Accepted 28 March 2012 Published online 29 April 2012

The wind industry in the United States has experienced a remarkably rapid expansion of capacity in recent years and this fast growth is expected to continue in the future1, 2, 3. While converting wind’s kinetic energy into electricity, wind turbines modify surface–atmosphere exchanges and the transfer of energy, momentum, mass and moisture within the atmosphere4, 5, 6. These changes, if spatially large enough, may have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate. Here we present observational evidence for such impacts based on analyses of satellite data for the period of 2003–2011 over a region in west-central Texas, where four of the world’s largest wind farms are located7. Our results show a significant warming trend of up to 0.72?°C per decade, particularly at night-time, over wind farms relative to nearby non-wind-farm regions. We attribute this warming primarily to wind farms as its spatial pattern and magnitude couples very well with the geographic distribution of wind turbines

Impacts of wind farms on land surface temperature : Nature Climate Change : Nature Publishing Group

h/t to suyts

By Joe Romm on May 13, 2009

Peter Wadhams, head of the polar ocean physics group at the University of Cambridge, “believes the ice, which has been a permanent feature for at least 100,000 years, is now so thin that almost all of it will disappear in about a decade“:

“By 2013, we will see a much smaller area in summertime than now; and certainly by about 2020, I can imagine that only one area will remain in summer.” Although this bleak forecast is reinforced by the survey team’s data, Professor Wadham’s new assessment is based on analysis of nearly 40 years of sonar data gathered on Royal Navy submarines patrolling beneath the ice – the first, HMS Dreadnought, was in 1971…. Now Professor Wadhams, who has studied the Arctic for the past 40 years, says that there is “almost a breakdown” in the ice-cover…. Much of what is left of this ice accumulates in an area north of Greenland and Ellesmere Island in Canada, and may form what he calls “a last holdout, a kind of Alamo”.

Jeff Masters recently explained that global warming leads to 80 degree weather in March, which he considers extreme.

Severe freeze threatens Vermont crop damage
Posted on April 27, 2012 by Matt Sutkoski

A very hard freeze is due tonight and Saturday night, which means there could be some serious orchard and other damage to agriculture in Vermont, especially in the Champlain Valley.

The National Weather Service in South Burlington has posted a freeze warning  for the Champlain Valley for temperatures expected to be in the low to mid 20s by morning.

Severe freeze threatens Vermont crop damage 

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

– Albert Einstein

I just noticed this from 1988. In June, Hansen said that 1988 would “break all records” without an “improbable cooling”

The Lewiston Daily Sun – Google News Archive Search

As soon as Hansen opened his mouth,”remarkable cooling” occurred – and made him eat his words in December.

Ellensburg Daily Record – Google News Archive Search

It is called “La Nina” Jim, and there is nothing unusual about it.

Messi and Ronaldo both missed game winning penalty kicks, while Torres redeemed himself.

So why is Abramovich still looking for a new manager? Di Matteo has proved himself as  pure genius.

Lakers’ World Peace suspended seven games without pay

NEW YORK — Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace was suspended seven games by the NBA on Tuesday for elbowing James Harden, meaning he could miss at least six playoff games.

World Peace was ejected from Sunday’s game against Oklahoma City for throwing an elbow that struck Harden in the back of the head, giving him a concussion.

Lakers’ World Peace suspended seven games without pay | NBA.com

The map above overlays semitransparent current NSIDC ice (green) on end of April 1974 Nimbus satellite ice (red and yellow.) There is more ice on the Pacific side this year, and there was more ice on the Atlantic side in 1974.

After clinging to his every word for years, they are now pretending that they never believed him.

Lovelock on Global Warming

James Lovelock is a ‘big idea’ type, most successful with his Gaia extrapolation (1976), although it certainly is not universally accepted by all top scientists. He is not a hard scientist. His specialty is medicine, and chemistry, where he has contributed significantly. He understands very little about geophysicalfluiddynamics.

I read his book in the ‘70s and found it entertaining but very vague. That’s the way one wants to be with prognostic hypotheses, to allow room to incorporate the certain-to-occur deviations in observations. His forte is as a “science popularizer” alltho he lacks the scientific credentials to be as successful as Carl Sagan for instance (both worked on exploration of Mars, mainly to find evidence of life.)

Most knowledgable climate scientists cringed at his prognoses for ‘severe & soon’ Global Warming in his 2nd book . He forgot to be vague. He took a far-out gamble on a model possibility, and the past decade hasn’t met his predictions. His recent confession that he was wrong in predicting severe Global Warming soon is naturally taken (in a classic “hasty generalization”) as “proof” that GW scientists are all wrong. At least one was (so far). As he has said; “I would be a little more cautious — but then that would have spoilt the book.”

Lovelock on Global Warming | Robert A. Brown – seattlepi.com

The usual attempt to rewrite history. Three years ago the same author was worshiping at the alter of Gaia.

Listening to Lovelock on NPR:

He did an imaginative theory (the Gaia hypothesis) some 30-years ago. It was basically an extension of the theory of evolution, beyond biology to geology and geophysics. It has stood the test of time. But I have some reservations about his quotes, with my comments in italics:

“I didn’t worry about Global Warming until about 2004.”

I didn’t worry so much until then either. Then effects that were predicted for 2050 were happening now. I agree with him that we waited too long for it not to have a big influence on our lives.

Lovelock on NPR | Robert A. Brown – seattlepi.com

 

Cryosphere Today has so far managed to show Arctic ice just barely below “normal” this month. But there appears to be something wrong with their graphs. The blink comparator above flashes between their 2007 version of the sea ice area graph and the 2012 version. Note how they have increased the area of all dates to the left of the 2007 minimum, but not the 2007 minimum itself.

Depending on how they are handling the dates after 2007, this could potentially be causing older dates to be shifted upwards relative to recent dates.

If it was simply a baseline shift, the 2007 minimum should have moved upwards too – but it didn’t. Something isn’t right about this.