Real Climate Science

The only reason the government has failed to act against climate change — which will spur disease, cost millions in emergency funds to address natural disasters, at times grind the economy to a halt with extreme weather events, and eradicate valuable coastal property — is because corporations have too much power over our lawmakers. An overwhelming percentage of real people, not corporate “people,” want the EPA to regulate GHG emissions.

It’s no accident that the same Koch brothers who are the major funders of climate denial were a driving force behind the Citizens United lawsuit that removed virtually all restrictions on corporations as political actors. The Nation reported yesterday that Koch Industries provided its employees with a voters’ guide last November, encouraging votes for climate denying candidates.

http://www.sfgate.com/

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/goddards-folly/

ROFLMAO

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

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“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

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DOH – Everyone knows that earthquakes are caused by CO2.

An expedition is getting under way in the South Pacific to investigate one of the most seismically-active fault lines in the world.

Researchers are planning to study the Tonga Trench – a deep feature where the Pacific tectonic plate is being forced under the Indo-Australian plate.

The island nation of Tonga is regularly hit by tremors – most recently a 6.4 magnitude quake offshore last month.

The research expedition will last about one month.

The focus of the study will be an unusual zone on the seabed where undersea volcanoes are being dragged into the fault.

Scientists want a better understanding of how the submarine mountains affect the likelihood of earthquakes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/science-environment-13161058

Cedric Tells Us That NASA Forecasts Are Golden

http://science.nasa.gov/

Hathaway introduces us to slowfast ….

http://science.nasa.gov/

http://science.nasa.gov/

Earth Day 1970

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/

h/t to Paul H

This drought has had a more severe impact than any other drought since at least 1950…. This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observed.

2011, and warmist scientist David Karoly blames the severity of Queensland’s floods on global warming:

Professor Karoly stressed individual events could not be attributed to climate change. But the wild extremes being experienced by the continent were in keeping with scientists’ forecasts of more flooding associated with increased heavy rain and more droughts as a result of high temperatures and more evaporation.

We keep hearing scare stories about cow farts and peat bogs emitting methane that will destroy the planet.

Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together. Methane is 23 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2. While atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen by about 31% since pre-industrial times, methane concentrations have more than doubled.

http://www.drmcdougall.com/

I tried an experiment on RRTM – the radiative transfer model used in NCAR’s climate and weather models. A 10X increase in methane in the tropics increases downwelling LW radiation by less than one fourth of one percent. A 100X increase in cow farts increases downwelling LW radiation by less than one percent. A 1000X increase in methane increases downwelling LW radiation by a little over one percent.

Now consider water vapor – normal changes in humidity from day to day can easily alter the amount of downwelling longwave radiation by 10%.

Runaway methane is yet another climate superstition being preached by the world’s #1 rated scientist. There just isn’t a lot of methane in the atmosphere. It is a reactive gas with a short residency time.

The best thing that ever happened to downtown Manchester was when the IRA blew it up.