Real Climate Science

On the Atlantic Coast, the rising sea is claiming historical nesting grounds for shorebirds and sea turtles.

One millimeter is wiping these sensitive birds out.

Loss of snowpack and changing hydrology in the Pacific Northwest is having a profound impact on native trout species.

Every snow basin in Washington and Oregon has far above average snowpack.

With temperatures in the Northeast predicted to rise in the coming years, the deep snow cover Canada lynx depend on may be significantly reduced, eliminating their competitive advantage over other predators.

Canada is freezing their collective butt off in record cold.

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/22275

One year after the 10,000 year BP environmental disaster, they can’t find the oil.

One of the biggest questions that remains a year after the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico is about the oil.

Unimaginable amounts poured into the waters of the Gulf and scientists have yet to agree on where it went and just what damage it may or will do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13132078

http://www.petoskeynews.com

Sixty percent of Protestant pastors disagree that global warming is real and manmade, and 41 percent of them “strongly” disagree, a new survey says.

The skepticism is up from an already high 48 percent of pastors in 2008 who somewhat or strongly disagreed with the strong scientific consensus on manmade global warming.

The latest result was released by LifeWay Research, a Southern Baptist-affiliated polling agency. It was based on a survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors of various denominations in October 2010.

http://blogs.courier-journal.com/

Pfeiffer was asked by Time reporter Michael Scherer, “So will WFAA’s Brad Watson get another interview one day?”

Instead of quickly taking the high road, Pfeiffer suggested that Watson may truly be out in the cold after irritating the president. And he did it by revealing yet another trick of Washington communications: playing one news outlet against its rival.

http://www.politico.com/

Obama is becoming a major threat to our system of government. Like a spoiled child, he expects the whole world to revolve around everyone else making him happy.

In equilibrium, the temperature cannot exceed what is determined by energy balance….unless Goddard is also claiming to have circumvented conservation of energy too. As I discussed in the last thread, you can see GHG’s reducing the outgoing radiation from space. This is very basic physics, and if you could show why it is wrong you would invalidate much of what we know about atmospheric physics, satellite retrieval, quantum physics, etc.

– chriscolose

Conservation of energy tells us that over time the amount of outgoing radiation must be equal to what is received from the Sun. Unless the oceans are heating (which they haven’t been the last few years) the amount of outgoing LW must be equal to the amount of incoming SW minus the amount of reflected SW.

Temperature and pressure at Colorado State University – August 15-19 2010

Note how the atmospheric pressure drops as the air heats in the afternoon. This is because warm air rises, leaving a region of low pressure underneath. Sort of like the draft behind a truck.

Problem. Boy and girl are 10 feet apart. The boy can move towards the girl half way at a time. First movement five feet. Second movement 2.5 feet, etc.

Q. Do they ever reach each other?

Scientist’s answer : No

Engineer’s answer : They get close enough.

This explains much of the inane discussion in some recent threads.

PV = nRT

The three variables are P, V and T. n doesn’t change. R is a constant.

If gases were perfectly compressible, the volume would decrease inversely proportional to the increase in pressure. There would be no reason for the temperature to increase.

But gases are not perfectly compressible. V does not decrease linearly with increases in P. In order to keep the Ideal Gas Law in balance, T has to increase.

It is all very simple, which is why climate scientists can’t understand it.

It uses a compressor. The freon is compressed which causes it to heat. The excess heat is then removed through a heat exchanger.

http://engineering.wikia.com/wiki/Shell_and_tube_heat_exchanger

After the freon has cooled, it is expanded into an area of lower pressure – causing it to get cold.

Freon causes environmentalists heads to explode, so they use other refrigerants  now.