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On The Safe Side Of 350

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Tony Heller

350.org

This is a favourite topic of mine, because it is an idea which is easy to test. Prior to 1988, atmospheric CO2 was below 350 ppm. What was the climate like then? Was it “safe?”
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Early October Snow In Turkey

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Tony Heller

Winter is getting off to a fast start in most of Europe and around the Black Sea.

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp4.html

Snow is forecast for Turkey, Romania and Northern Europe during the next three days.

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My Forecast : Romm Will Not Be Talking Much About October Satellite Temperatures

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Tony Heller

Joe Romm reported this week :

ENDLESS SUMMER: September was the hottest on record globally in the RSS satellite dataset. In this country, the record-smashing temperatures in Southern California got most of the attention

The LA Times had a different opinion . On September 21, they said it was “the coldest summer in decades.”

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Holdren – Snipping You Since 1969

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Tony Heller

“. . . it cannot be emphasized enough that if the population control measures are not initiated immediately and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come.’Therefore, confronted as we are with limited resources of time and money, we must consider carefully what fraction of our effort should be applied to the cure of the disease itself instead of to the temporary relief of the symptoms. We should ask, for example, how many vasectomies could be performed by a program funded with the 1.8 billion dollars required to build a single nuclear agro-industrial complex, and what the relative impact on the problem would be in both the short and long terms.”

Population and Panaceas A Technological Perspective Paul R. Ehrlich, John P. Holdren – BioScience, Vol. 19, No. 12 (Dec., 1969), pp. 1065-1071

h/t to Michael Potts via Marc Morano

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The Effect Of Soot On Arctic Summer Ice Extent

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Tony Heller

Scientists tell us that Arctic summer ice loss is primarily due to soot – not CO2.

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Arctic Ice In 1946 (Real Science Post #500!)

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Tony Heller

Reader Gary Boden forwarded me a nice collection of online Arctic ice maps made by the US Navy in the 1940s. The map below is from September, 1946.

David Rumsey Collection : September 1946

As you can see, there was a lot more summer ice in 1946, particularly thick “permanent” ice.

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Hal Lewis Says It In Plain English

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Tony Heller

I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.

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“350 is the most important number in the world”

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Tony Heller

I remember as a child reading about the dark ages, and being glad I was born in an age of reason. Sad to see mankind reverting to mindless superstition.

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