The Met Office issued a news release today claiming that warm water sneakily sinks and hides below 700 meters depth in the ocean – where Trenberth can’t detect it.
The explanation for this is simple enough. In France, the faucet with the big “C” on it is the hot water faucet, and in England it is the cold water faucet.
The faucet with the “F” on it stands for the French word FUBAR.
Global warming accounted for around half of the extra hurricane-fueling warmth in the waters of the tropical North Atlantic in 2005, while natural cycles were only a minor factor, according to a new analysis by Kevin Trenberth and Dennis Shea of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The study will appear in the June 27 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, published by the American Geophysical Union.
“The global warming influence provides a new background level that increases the risk of future enhancements in hurricane activity,” Trenberth says. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, NCAR’s primary sponsor.
The study contradicts recent claims that natural cycles are responsible for the upturn in Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995. It also adds support to the premise that hurricane seasons will become more active as global temperatures rise. Last year produced a record 28 tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic. Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma all reached Category 5 strength.
The scientists’ religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
– Albert Einstein
Rocks are too dumb to even spell their own name properly
In April, 1888 a massive flood on Mars inundated an area the size of France, cut the polar ice cap in half, and joined the two Martian seas. Global warming was rapidly destroying the Martian ice caps. The consensus of leading astronomers around the world agreed.
Dr. James Hansen at NASA proposes 350 ppm as a safe level to stabilize the climate, halt sea level rise, stop glacial melt, and make the weather like it used to be in the good old days. Others have suggested that we have to cut CO2 back to 300 ppm.
There is no need to speculate about what would happen at 300 ppm, as we have plenty of historical records from the 19th century – when CO2 was below 300 ppm.
The glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska retreated an incredible eight feet per day during the 19th century. It is quite clear that dropping CO2 below 300 ppm will not stop glaciers from retreating.
http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2001/07/glacierbaymap.gif
Now let’s focus on a small sampling of some of the more notable weather events during the years 1886 – 1894.
1886 was the most active hurricane season in US history. Seven hurricanes made landfall, including two major hurricanes.
Highest Saffir- Central Max. Name and Category by Simpson U.S. Pressure Winds States Category 1886 Jun TX, N2; LA, 2 2 973 85 ----- 1886 Jun FL, NW2; I-GA, 1 2 973 85 ----- 1886 Jun FL, NW2; I-GA, 1 2 973 85 ----- 1886 Jul FL, NW1 1 985 70 ----- 1886 Aug TX, C4 4 925 135 "Indianola" 1886 Sep # TX, S1, C1 1 973 80 ----- 1886 Oct LA, 3; TX, N2 3 955 105 -----
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt
Terribly destructive storms also struck Europe that year.
Tony Duncan suggests that Texas can run off solar electricity. Let’s do the math.
Texas is averaging about 55 Gigawatts of electrical consumption today. Averaged out over 24 hours, a cloudless summer day might achieve 200 watts / m² solar insolation. The most efficient solar collectors are about 15%.
55,000,000,000 / (200 * 0.15) = 1,830,000,000
It would require almost two billion 1 m² solar panels to meet the average consumption today – assuming that you had a currently non-existent technology to store the electricity at night.
Now assume you got an outrageously good deal on the solar panels and only had to pay $100/m² – that would cost $200,000,000,000 for the panels and maybe that much again for the installation and power lines.
And of course it won’t work very well when it is winter, cloudy, dusty or at night.
Texas has been cutting back on building gas and coal power capacity, because of their heavy reliance on wind. During this summer’s heatwave, there has been almost no wind – and they are almost out of electricity to run their air conditioners.
October 8, 2009
Texas Wind Boom Cutting into Fossil Generator Profits
By Chris HollyCan wind turbines actually reduce the amount of fossil fuels consumed? A Wall Street Journal analysis concludes that ERCOT utilities will begin to feel the squeeze in their profits this year and to expect the amount of fossil fuels used to generate electricity to be reduced.
Witnesses’ accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night.
“It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people,” said Norb Roffers of Wind Lake in an interview with Newsradio 620 WTMJ. He left the State Fair Entrance near the corner of South 84th Street and West Schlinger Avenue in West Allis.
“It was 100% racial,” claimed Eric, an Iraq war veteran from St. Francis who says young people beat on his car.
Eric, a war veteran, said that the scene he saw Thursday outside State Fair compares to what he saw in combat.
“That rated right up there with it. When I saw the amount of kids coming down the road, all I kept thinking was, ‘There’s not enough cops to handle this.’ There’s no way. It would have taken the National Guard to control the number of kids that were coming off the road. They were knocking people off their motorcycles.”
“I have not seen anything like this in my life. It was a huge mob, and it was a fight that maybe lasted one to two minutes.”
