Lake Powell Doomed!
the average annual flow has fluctuated much more in past centuries than it did during the last century, suggesting that the droughts also were more extreme
How could they have had severe droughts before man interfered with the climate? That sounds impossible. The climate was stable before SUVs were discovered in Detroit circa 1975.
Dr. Risbey is a very nice guy and sat at my table in Lisbon.
Australia Faces Permanent Drought
09.23.03Australia may be facing a permanent drought because of an accelerating vortex of winds whipping around the Antarctic that threatens to disrupt rainfall, scientists said. Spinning faster and tighter, the 100 mph jet stream is pulling climate bands south and dragging rain from Australia into the Southern Ocean, they say.
They attribute the phenomenon to global warming and loss of the ozone layer over Antarctica. Dr. James Risbey of the Center for Dynamical Meteorology and Oceanography at Melbourne’s Monash University said the situation is probably not being confronted as “full-on” as it should.
Australia, one of the world’s top agricultural supply nations, has just been through its worst drought in 100 years. An international band of scientists and meteorologists are focusing on the vortex as an explanation for declining rainfall.
Blue is 1960 north of 80N. Red is 2011 north of 80N. Black is the mean.
Skate (SSN-578), surfaced at the North Pole, 17 March 1959
The world should abandon the Kyoto protocol on climate change and move instead to a system where each nation would have a carbon emissions quota based on population, the UK’s former chief scientist has urged, in an explosive contribution to the long-running climate negotiations.
Sir David King is one of the most respected figures in climate change policy.He is the architect of the UK’s response to global warming, credited with reviving the flagging climate talks in 2004 when he called the problem “a greater threat than international terrorism”.
If the UK tries to have more industry than North Korea, they should be severely penalized.
“Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked to global warming.”
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I understand now. Skeptics object to the science, not the fraud.
MILLBROOK — Michael Mann has felt the heat for being part of the international scientific consensus behind man-made climate change.
For a decade, the soft-spoken 45-year-old physicist, who runs the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, has been a self-described lightning rod for those opposing science that shows fossil fuel emissions are causing the planet to gradually warm.
“There is an orchestrated denial machine for climate change. Science is on a collision course with powerful vested interests,” Mann said during a packed lecture Friday at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
People with bicycle racks on their car.
They have their green bumper stickers and their Obama bumper sticker on their Subaru, and they drive 40 miles up into the mountains to tear up the trails and feel good about being green. On the drive back they often complain about stupid, evil Republicans.
