Real Climate Science

Is it your train that is moving, or the one next to you? Tide gauges show the Louisiana coast to have the fastest “sea level rise” on the planet. But it doesn’t have much or anything to do with changes in sea level. The land is sinking.

The crust floats on a highly viscous mantle. When floods spread an inch of silt across the flood plain, the land later sinks nearly 2/3 of an inch to compensate (continental crust is less dense than the mantle, which is why it floats.)

By putting levees up along the river, they have stopped the flooding and deposition of silt. The land is sinking because of the weight of sediment from past floods, as well as pumping of oil and groundwater – which causes subsidence. But no new land is forming because of the levees.

Osama was out of the picture until last week (other than as a global warming spokesman) – when the White House decided to create a martyr for terrorists to rally around.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/12/osama-bin-laden-new-9-11-middle-east

A high school friend sent me this today.

This year, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years. This is called money bags. So, forward this to your friends and money will arrive within 4 days. Based on Chinese Feng Shui. The one who does not forward…..will be without money.

That sounded ridiculous, so I checked it out. The last time that happened was 2006, and the next time after 2011 will be 2016, followed by 2022 and 2033. It happens every time July 1 falls on a Friday.

Too bad Manhattan will drown before the next one.

They call them that, because they were formed as part of the Mississippi River delta. When rivers flood, the water overflows its channel, spreads and slows down. When the water slows down, it drops silt – forming new land. That is how the delta states formed – by successive floods coming down the Mississippi River.

So next time a mental midget tells you that Mississippi is flooding due to CO2, tell them that the reason the state of Mississippi exists –  is because of floods.

The Mississippi River is experiencing its second “500-year flood” since 1993. That’s no freak occurrence — scientists say it’s a result of human-made carbon pollution changing our climate.

The Mississippi River, the largest U.S. river system, is forecast to crest today in Memphis, Tennessee, just below its 74-year-old record, as a bulge of water moves south toward the riverside refineries in Louisiana.

http://www.grist.org/

The water was higher 74 years ago. 74 years is less than 500 years. 74 years ago CO2 was much lower than today. Do you have to prove you are scientifically incompetent to get a job at Grist?

In 2005, the United Nation predicted 50 million refugees from the effects of global warming. Where are they?
Is the Earth warming? Data does suggest the Earth is warming as we come out of the “Little Ice Age.”
But looking at the geological record, more than 90 percent of the last 10,000 years were warmer than they are now. Both the Roman and Minoan civilizations thrived in warmer climes than seen today.
Energy conservation is a good thing. Using wind and solar and other green sources, as appropriate, are to be lauded. We should, indeed, consider ourselves stewards of this planet for both humanity and its other inhabitants.
And it is indeed possible that mankind’s activities are affecting the climate, but with the Earth having feedback loops upon feedback loops, and cycles and factors we still don’t even know about, it’s hubris to the highest degree to think we are the sole determinate of any changes.
When a theory makes predictions and those predictions do not come true, the scientific process mandates that the theory is weak or even disproven.
And when the staunchest promulgators of said theory are found to falsify evidence, drop inconvenient data sets, conspire to suppress dissent and evidence attacking their theory, thinking minds should recoil from their claims.
Where else have we seen the faithful stick with the holy writ? Oh, yes, creationism.
Today’s warmists are exactly like creationists, retreating to the faith in the face of contradictory evidence and outright fraud.
David Hunt
Nashua

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/

Earth to Robert. I don’t receive any compensation of any form for doing this, other than the satisfaction of watching lunatics like you rant.

Robert A. Brown

Science Overkill
I’ve summarized how the politics of Global Warming has evolved. Now I’m wondering whether the basic attack on science has become a bigger problem. The forces behind the discrediting of climate science, who were motivated by fear of losing their obscenely large incomes, might now be a little worried over their success, which spilled over to science in general. The first eight years of this century in the USA were a steady march back to the dark ages of science, particularly in earth sciences and satellites, where major projects were discontinued or accidentally destroyed.

Conservative forces used the opportunity to employ the techniques and money to attack the sciences where they are fundamentally antithetical to faith-based explanations. The merchants of doubt attacked biology from the dangers of smoking to stem-cell research to evolution; physics from big-bang to anti-miracle skepticism to alternate energies; and economics from laissez-faire “freedom” to population control to establishment of the western world’s largest class division based on the super-rich oligarchy and the rest of us.

The huge input of political money demonstrated that democracy doesn’t work (the most money wins, and has even won the supreme court); that lack of scientific ‘certainty’ justifies ignoring the science (Copenhagen climate change solutions were no-starters); that stolen e-mails can be distorted to insinuate myopic hysteria (as at least three scientific organizational investigations have concluded); and new scientific solutions for energy and conservation are unproven, and therefore not worth the investment.

It is clear that the big oil money perturbation has not done the same destruction to Europe and Asia, and they may take up the mantle.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/

http://www.dickgilbert.com/aspencam5.htm

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Analysts have been poring over the documents in the nine days since bin Laden was killed and still no imminent plots have been discovered, though officials said there is still much work to do.

Previously, officials said the evidence recovered from bin Laden’s compound amounted to a veritable “playbook” of al Qaeda operations, from potential terror attack targets to information on international safe houses and other top commanders.

http://abcnews.go.com/

Mon, 02 May 2011
The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.”

http://connect.in.com/

They knew it was “the mother lode of intelligence” without having any clue what it was.