“He’s taken an incorrect model, he’s tweaked it to match observations, but the conclusions you get from that are not correct,” Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, said of Spencer’s new study.
Dessler prefers Hansen’s model, which doesn’t match observations.
Californians live in a cloud of their own automobile smog, and worry about some power plant which they have probably never even seen or noticed. I confess, I have felt the climate change. Last winter was colder than it is now.
A new statewide survey of environment issues conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California found more residents favor climate change policy, want to cut greenhouse gas emissions and believe they are already experiencing the effects of global warming.
“This is a clear mandate that people want to move beyond dirty energy,” said David Graham-Caso, Los Angeles Sierra Club spokesman.
The survey, the 11th since 2000, sampled more than 2,500 people and found Californians are strongly supportive of policies that encourage fuel efficiency and renewable energy, according to Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of PPIC.
Research scientists at the University of Alabama (UA) in Huntsville, USA, have suggested that global warming is not occuring at the rapid rate shown by model-based forecasts.
Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the UA’s Earth System Science Center , and his colleague Dr. Danny Braswell claim data from NASA’s Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth’s atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to “believe.”The research has been published in the journal Remote Sensing.
Pfc Naser Abdo, 21, was arrested in the town of Killeen near the Fort Hood US army base and had been planning to target military personnel, police said.
The Muslim infantry soldier was granted conscientious objector status last year because of his religious beliefs.
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h/t to Gator
Nancy spent the last four years leading the charge to spend the US into oblivion, and yet she imagines that she is saving the planet. There must be some sort of anti-psychotic medication which would help.
“What we’re trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We’re trying to save life on this planet as we know it today.”
2008
“I’m trying to save the planet (from global warming) I’m trying to save the planet.”
People are asking the right questions. The blink comparator above flashes between ice loss during the past week, and how much needs to disappear during the next four weeks to match 2007. As you can see, the weather would have to make a very dramatic change for that to happen.
SUNSPOT CYCLE AGAIN PRODUCES TITANIC BERGS
Ice Peril at Sea Repeats After Eleven Years.
Chicago Daily Tribune (1923-1963) – Chicago, Ill.
Author: SELBY MAXWELLThe 15th of next April will be the eleventh anniversary of the Titanic disaster. The same conditions of ice which sent that ship to the bottom are forming again. Icebergs are a particular menace every eleven years.
The bottom line is that the relatively weak warming of the ocean since the 1950s is consistent with negative feedback (low climate sensitivity), not positive feedback. The ocean mixed layer and the atmosphere convectively coupled to it loses excess heat to outer space before it can be mixed into the deep ocean.
In other words, Trenberth’s missing heat is not in the deep ocean…it’s instead lost in outer space.
