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A Rebuttal
by Christopher Monckton

...Predictions of doom have failed. Envisat data show sea level rising in the eight years 2004-2012 at a rate equivalent to 3 cm/century. Growth in Antarctic sea-ice extent almost matches the decline in the Arctic over the past 30 years. Greenland’s land-based ice grew by a net 0.5 m in thickness from 1993-2008. Antarctica has cooled for 30 years, and has gained land ice. Northern-hemisphere snow cover reached a 30-year maximum in 2010/11. Tropical-cyclone activity worldwide was at a 30-year low over the past two years.

Above all, in the generation since 1990, the observed warming rate has turned out below the least estimate projected by the IPCC in that year. The models agreed with one another, but events have proven the consensus wrong. Despite rapidly-increasing CO2 concentration, there has been no statistically-significant warming for a decade and a half. The post-1950 warming rate, as the least-squares trend on the Hadley/CRU surface temperature series (HadCRUt3, 2011), is just 1.2 K/century. Yet IPCC (2007, table SPM.3, taken with fig. 10.26) implicitly predicts as the mean of all six emissions scenarios that Man’s influence, including an increase in CO2 concentration from 368 ppmv in 2000 to 713 ppmv by 2100, will cause 2.8 K warming by 2100 – 0.6 K previously committed, 1.5 K from CO2 emitted in this century, and 0.7 K from other greenhouse gases. This predicted (though unalarming) more-than-doubling of the post-1950 warming rate depends upon at least three implausible assumptions: that other gases augment CO2’s contribution to warming by as much as 43%; that as much as half of the warming caused by our past sins of emission has not yet come through the pipeline; and, above all, that unmeasured and unmeasurable temperature feedbacks will near-triple the small direct warming from greenhouse gases: thus, two-thirds of predicted consensus warming is guesswork...

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/12/moncktons-reply-to-eos-on-climate-denial/
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...You have to laugh at that list. I'm not sure if Tom noticed there has been a bit of a rumpus over the IPCC in the last few years - something to do with some emails I think. The whole point of Climategate was that it showed that the IPCC is not to be trusted - dissenting authors excluded from the report, fabricated claims that dissenting findings were statistically insignficant, that sort of thing.

Perhaps he thinks the CRU scientists were exonerated? I can only assume that if this is indeed the case, since he still trusts the IPCC and wants others to do so too. I can only assume therefore that he is also taking the integrity of the inquiries on trust rather than having actually examined any of the facts - a pity because this is a simple matter of procedure rather than an area of science requiring months of research and study. Even a relatively cursory look at what the inquiries did would demonstrate to a moderately intelligent twelve-year old that no meaningful investigation had taken place. Even as eco-friendly a writer as Roger Harrabin describes the inquiries as "inadequate", which I think is just a diplomatic way of saying "thorough floor-to-ceiling whitewash".

Then again, there were all those other problems with the IPCC report - the claim that Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035, for example, a claim that had been touted by environmentalists long before the IPCC report, had been incorporated in the final text in the face of dissenting review comments, and had then been defended to the hilt by the chairman of the IPCC himself when it was exposed as a preposterous and cynical exaggeration.

Or what about the IPCC's decision to restate an important study of climate sensitivity by Forster and Gregory, putting it on a Bayesian basis and then imposing an inappropriate uniform prior that biased the results so as to increase climate sensitivity from 1.6°C to 2.3°C per doubling of CO2?

And Tom C wants us to trust these guys?

But what about the others - the NAS, the Royal Society and so on? The thing that has to be remembered here is that the reports issued by these august bodies are not representative of the fellows. They are put together mostly by politically minded insiders and a handful of climatologists - the same people who have caused all the trouble at the IPCC. It took a rebellion of dissenting fellows at the Royal Society to get its prognostications on climate to even have the appearance of a scientific rather than a political document. And if you look at the society's post-rebellion climate statement it still carries visible signs that its authors are taking things on trust. Here's what they say on climate sensitivity:


Climate models indicate that the overall climate sensitivity (for a hypothetical doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere) is likely to lie in the range 2°C to 4.5°C; this range is mainly due to the difficulties in simulating the overall effect of the response of clouds to climate change mentioned earlier.​
Not a word of the observational study by Forster and Gregory, the one that found that climate sensitivity was only 1.6°C, at least until the IPCC rewrote the story. I don't see this as deception - they probably just took the IPCC report on trust and were therefore probably unaware that Forster and Gregory was based on observations rather than climate models and found a lower climate sensitivity.

So the NAS, the Royal Society and all the other academies are simply conduits for the received wisdom coming from the IPCC - whom we know cannot be trusted. There is only the IPCC that assesses the climate literature from beginning to end. That is the dilemma we face: we are being invited to a game of poker by a bunch of known cardsharps...
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“The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.”
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– Robert Jastrow​


Robert Jastrow: none other than the Founding Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Freeman Dyson: Unification of Quantum Electrodynamics Theory.

Ivar Giaever: Nobel Prize in Physics

Robert Laughlin: Nobel Prize in Physics.

Frederick Seitz: Pioneer in the field of solid-state physics and President Emeritus of the National Academy of Sciences.

Edward Teller: Manhattan Project Member, Developer of the Hydrogen Bomb and Founder of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

William Nierenberg: Manhattan Project Member and Director Emeritus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography


 
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Are the simultaneous warming trends on Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Triton, Neptune, Pluto all man made?

Seems those 'fossil fuels emissions' and Al Gore have a lot of Powerpoint slides explanations in their future!
 

The Week That Was 2012-08-04

By Ken Haapala
http://www.sepp.org/twtwfiles/2012/TWTW - 8-4-12.pdf



...Anthony Watts announced the work of his team in analyzing US surface temperature records from 1979 to 2008 under a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) new classification methodology. The new classification adds the need to evaluate each reporting station according to the extent of the heat sink(s) (asphalt, buildings, etc.) to distance from the heat sink. The data used by the Watts team is from United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) which is used by NOAA, NASA-GISS, Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, and BEST.

All these show warming trends significantly greater than the warming trends shown in satellite measurements of the atmosphere, where the greenhouse effect takes place. If late 20th century warming is caused by human CO2 emissions, as the IPCC contends, then the atmosphere should be warming more than the surface.

As stated in last week’s TWTW, reanalysis by the Watts team is “using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System devised by METEO-France’s Michel Leroy. … The new analysis demonstrates that reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited stations upward.”

Using aerial photos, personal inspections, interviews, etc. the Watts team grouped the five classes of stations into two categories: compliant and non-compliant. Well-sited stations (compliant) show less of a warming trend than poorly-sited stations in all nine geographical areas covered. It appears that NOAA’s USCHN over adjusts the data, removing important information that is statistically significant. The USCHN statistical homogenization procedure does not adjust the trends from poorly-sited stations downward, but adjusts the trends from poorly-sited stations upward and raises the trends from the well-sited station as well.

The statistical results are striking. Before adjustments by the statistical homogenization procedure, compliant stations show a warming of 0.155 deg C per decade (0.279 deg F); non-compliant stations show a warming of 0.248 deg C per decade (0.456 deg F). Yet, after the adjustments procedures are applied, NOAA shows that all stations combined have a warming trend of 0.309 deg C per decade (0.556). Clearly, there appears to be something wrong. The statistical procedure should lower the trends in the poorly sited stations, not raise the trends for all stations.

NOAA has been challenged about its adjustment procedures in the past. The usual answer is that the time of day in which the measurements were made has shifted. For example, rather than taking a day time temperature reading at 2 pm, it is taken 10 am, which would introduce a Time of Observation Bias (TOB) of a cooling and NOAA has adjusted for this bias.

Anthony states his team is undertaking the task of investigating the TOB issue. This may prove to be arduous, but necessary. If the investigation of the Watts holds up, then it will go a long way in explaining the divergence between surface measurements and atmospheric measurements...


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10 years.

Six (6) with above-average annual precipitation and four (4) with below average annual precipitation.

Climatology had and has absolutely no (as in zero, none, nil, nada) ability to accurately forecast this. Why would anyone believe climatology's ability to accurately predict anything else?



 
“What most people don’t realize, partly because the media never explains it, is that there is no dispute over whether CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and all else being equal would result in a warming of the climate. The fundamental dispute is about water in the atmosphere, either in the form of water vapour (a gas) or clouds (water in liquid form). It is generally accepted that a warmer climate will result in more water evaporating from the land and sea and therefore resulting in a higher level of water in the atmosphere, partly because the warmer the air is the more water it can hold. All of the models used by the IPCC assume that this increase in water vapour will result in a positive feedback in the order of 3-4 times the increase in temperature that would be caused by the increase in CO2 alone.

Many scientists do not agree with this, or do not agree that we know enough about the impact of increased water to predict the outcome. Some scientists believe increased water will have a negative feedback instead, due to increased cloud cover. It all depends on how much, and at what altitudes, latitudes and times of day that water is in the form of a gas (vapour) or a liquid (clouds). So if a certain increase in CO2 would theoretically cause a 1.0C increase in temperature, then if water caused a 3-4 times positive feedback the temperature would actually increase by 3-4C. This is why the warming predicted by the models is so large. Whereas if there was a negative feedback of 0.5 times then the temperature would only rise 0.5C.

The global average temperature has now been flat for the past 15 years, as all the while CO2 emissions have continued to increase. There are only 2 possible explanations for this, either there is some equally powerful natural factor that is suppressing the warming that should be caused by CO2, or CO2 is only a minor contributor to warming in the first place.”
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-Patrick Moore
Founder
Greenpeace​


http://joannenova.com.au/2012/08/moore/#more-23281


 
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Merkel’s Green Shift Forces Germany to Burn More Coal
By Stefan Nicola and Tino Andresen
August 20, 2012

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government says RWE AG’s new power plant that can supply 3.4 million homes aids her plan to exit nuclear energy and switch to cleaner forms of generation. It’s fired with coal.

The startup of the 2,200-megawatt station near Cologne last week shows how Europe’s largest economy is relying more on the most-polluting fuel. Coal consumption has risen 4.9 percent since Merkel announced a plan to start shutting the country’s atomic reactors after last year’s Fukushima disaster in Japan.

Germany’s largest utilities RWE and EON AG are shunning cleaner-burning natural gas because it’s more costly, while the collapsing cost of carbon permits means there’s little penalty for burning coal. Wind and solar projects, central to Germany’s plans to reduce nuclear energy and cut the release of heat- trapping gases, can’t produce electricity around the clock.

“Angela Merkel’s policy has created an incentive structure which has the effect of partially replacing nuclear with coal, the dirtiest fuel that’s responsible for much of the growth in the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions since 1990,” Dieter Helm, an energy policy professor at the University of Oxford, said by phone Aug. 17. Building new coal stations means “locking them in for the next 30 years” as a type of generation, Helm said.

Germany’s increasing coal consumption is part of a global return to the fossil fuel that’s cheaper than most alternatives. The amount of coal burned worldwide rose 5.4 percent to account for 30 percent of total energy use last year, the highest proportion since 1969, according to BP Plc data.

Clean-Dark Spread
The German clean-dark spread, a measure of profit that utilities can earn from selling coal-generated power after accounting for the cost of carbon-emission permits, was about 9.70 euros ($11.99) a megawatt-hour today for the year ahead, according to broker data compiled by Bloomberg. At the same time, utilities are set to lose about 10 euros a megawatt-hour from burning gas according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

“Lignite is the lowest-priced type of power generation and thus increasingly stormed the market,” Martin Pack, an RWE spokesman, said by phone from Essen, referring to a type of soft coal that dominates RWE’s consumption of the fuel.

EON generated 10 percent more electricity from burning coal in the first half than in the same period a year ago. RWE’s coal-fired power output in Germany rose by 12 percent in the same period. Reliance on coal may continue to increase after Statkraft SF shuttered its gas-fired plant in Emden in March and EON and RWE warned they may mothball generators that lose money.

Reliance on Coal
...Coal is being used in part because the prices for permits that allow the emissions of carbon dioxide linked to climate change are too low to spur other forms of generation. The price of carbon-dioxide permits in the European Union has dropped 43 percent over the past year.

Switching to coal from gas is “a consequence of the low prices” in Europe’s carbon market, Helm said. “Germany needs to exit coal and switch to gas as a transitionary fuel, not the other way around, as quickly as possible if it really cares about the climate.”

Merkel’s government wants utilities to build 10,000 megawatts of coal- and gas-fired generators this decade to replace older, dirtier generators and underpin a growing share for wind turbines and solar panels.

Carbon Market
...Building new coal generators in Germany isn’t easy. A group of local utilities last month scrapped plans to spend 3.2 billion euros to construct the nation’s biggest hard-coal plant in Schleswig-Holstein after resistance from environment groups and the state government led by the Social Democratic Party and Green Party.

The Greens, Germany’s second-biggest opposition group, are against building new coal plants and favor gas ahead of Germany’s federal elections scheduled for the fall of 2013, when Merkel seeks to win a third term as chancellor.

“We need to do a lot of things to make the German energy switch a success, but building new coal plants is not among them,” Oliver Krischer, energy spokesman for the Green Party’s parliamentary group, said in a statement last month.

More Efficient
The so-called BoA coal plant near Cologne shows how new fossil fuel plants, which are more efficient than their older models, “not only help to reduce carbon emissions but can also make an outstanding contribution to the success of the energy industry’s transformation,” Environment Minster Peter Altmaier, who was present at the plant’s opening last week, said in a statement distributed by RWE.

RWE says coal plants are key to ensuring supply security as Germany raises the market share of renewable generation to at least 35 percent by the end of the decade, and to 80 percent by 2050. BoA, which has an efficiency of 43 percent, can raise or lower output by 500 megawatts per unit within 15 minutes, Peter Terium, RWE’s CEO, told reporters in a call on Aug. 14.

It can “step in immediately when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not shining,” Terium said. Like most power plants in Germany, BoA burns lignite, a soft coal that’s sourced from domestic open-cast strip mines and emits about 29 percent more carbon dioxide than hard coal when burned. Environmental groups are concerned about the growing use of the fuel.

“It’s very alarming that leading German politicians praise a plant run on lignite,” Gerald Neubauer, a Greenpeace campaigner in Germany focusing on energy issues, said by phone on Aug. 16. “Burning lignite spews more carbon dioxide than using most other energy sources, and mining it inflicts major damage on the environment.”



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Why doom has not materialized
By George F. Will
August 17

Sometimes the news is that something was not newsworthy. The United Nations’ Rio+20 conference — 50,000 participants from 188 nations — occurred in June without consequences. A generation has passed since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, which begat other conferences and protocols (e.g., Kyoto). And, by now, apocalypse fatigue — boredom from being repeatedly told the end is nigh.

This began two generations ago, in 1972, when we were warned (by computer models developed at MIT) that we were doomed. We were supposed to be pretty much extinct by now, or at least miserable. We are neither. So, what went wrong?

That year begat “The Limits to Growth,” a book from the Club of Rome, which called itself “a project on the predicament of mankind.” It sold 12 million copies, staggered the New York Times (“one of the most important documents of our age”) and argued that economic growth was doomed by intractable scarcities. Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish academic and “skeptical environmentalist,” writing in Foreign Affairs, says it “helped send the world down a path of worrying obsessively about misguided remedies for minor problems while ignoring much greater concerns,” such as poverty, which only economic growth can ameliorate.

MIT’s models foresaw the collapse of civilization because of “nonrenewable resource depletion” and population growth. “In an age more innocent of and reverential toward computers,” Lomborg writes, “the reams of cool printouts gave the book’s argument an air of scientific authority and inevitability” that “seemed to banish any possibility of disagreement.” Then — as now, regarding climate change — respect for science was said to require reverential suspension of skepticism about scientific hypotheses. Time magazine’s story about “The Limits to Growth” exemplified the media’s frisson of hysteria:

“The furnaces of Pittsburgh are cold; the assembly lines of Detroit are still. In Los Angeles, a few gaunt survivors of a plague desperately till freeway center strips . . . Fantastic? No, only grim inevitability if society continues its present dedication to growth and ‘progress.’”

The modelers examined 19 commodities and said that 12 would be gone long before now — aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten and zinc. Lomborg says:

Technological innovations have replaced mercury in batteries, dental fillings and thermometers; mercury consumption is down 98 percent, and its price was down 90 percent by 2000. Since 1970, when gold reserves were estimated at 10,980 tons, 81,410 tons have been mined, and estimated reserves are 51,000 tons. Since 1970, when known reserves of copper were 280 million tons, about 400 million tons have been produced globally, and reserves are estimated at almost 700 million tons. Aluminum consumption has increased 16-fold since 1950, the world has consumed four times the 1950 known reserves, and known reserves could sustain current consumption for 177 years. Potential U.S. gas resources have doubled in the past six years. And so on.

The modelers missed something — human ingenuity in discovering, extracting and innovating. Which did not just appear after 1972.

Aluminum, Lomborg writes, is one of earth’s most common metals. But until the 1886 invention of the Hall-Heroult process, it was so difficult and expensive to extract that “Napoleon III had bars of aluminum exhibited alongside the French crown jewels, and he gave his honored guests aluminum forks and spoons while lesser visitors had to make do with gold utensils.”

Forty years after “The Limits to Growth” imparted momentum to environmentalism, that impulse now is often reduced to children indoctrinated to “reduce, reuse, and recycle.” Lomborg calls recycling “a feel-good gesture that provides little environmental benefit at a significant cost.” He says that “we pay tribute to the pagan god of token environmentalism by spending countless hours sorting, storing and collecting used paper, which, when combined with government subsidies, yields slightly lower-quality paper in order to secure a resource” — forests — “that was never threatened in the first place.”

In 1980, economist Julian Simon made a wager in the form of a complex futures contract. He bet Paul Ehrlich (whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted that “hundreds of millions of people” would starve to death in the 1970s as population growth swamped agricultural production) that by 1990 the price of any five commodities Ehrlich and his advisers picked would be lower than in 1980.

Ehrlich’s group picked five metals. All were cheaper in 1990.

The bet cost Ehrlich $576.07. But that year he was awarded a $345,000 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant and half of the $240,000 Crafoord Prize for ecological virtue. One of Ehrlich’s advisers, John Holdren, is Barack Obama’s science adviser.



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Priceless.





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Hurricane Warning; McKibben Alert
by Caleb Shaw


I would like to venture two predictions which I believe have a, (as they say,) “high degree of probability” of proving true.

The first is that a terrible hurricane, as bad as the ferocious 1938 “Long Island Express,” will roar north and bisect New England. True, it might not happen for over a hundred years, but it also might happen this September. The fact is, 1938 showed us what could happen. 1938 set the precedent.

My second prediction is that if such a storm happens this September, it will not matter if it a Xerox copy of the 1938 storm; Bill McKibben will call it “Unprecedented.”

It really makes me wonder: Why on earth would such a seemingly smart person want to make such a total fool of himself? How can McKibben call so many events “unprecedented’ when all you need to do is open a history book, and you can see so many other prior storms set precedents?

It leaves the poor fellow, despite his Harvard education and obvious altruistic impulses, wide open for attack from people far less educated. I could have made mincemeat of his arguments when I was only twelve, (and had very few altruistic bones in my body.)

At age twelve my interest in hurricanes was largely motivated by two things: First, hurricanes made things go crash, smash and boom, and I was the sort of kid who could endure “The Bridge Over The River Kwai,” (including the intermission,) just for the train wreck at the end. (I was not alone. It might not be politically correct, but the entire theater burst into wild cheering and applause, when that train finally, finally wrecked.)

The second reason was that a hurricane might cancel school. I hated school. McKibben apparently loved what I loathed, for he went to Harvard, and there became ignorant where I became wise, for he doesn’t even know what I knew at age twelve: The precedent has already been set. Wicked awesome hurricanes have hit New England in the past.

I hoped they’d happen again, but they never did. When I wondered why not, and studied the subject, (which McKibben seemingly has failed to do,) I ran across books by a meteorologist-historian named David Ludlum, who spoke of the time after 1960 as the “quiescent present.” This suggested there were lulls in the activity of hurricanes in New England, and also active times. In other words, long before I had heard of such things as the AMO or PDO or sunspot minimums, I grasped the concept of “cycles.”

I was disappointed to learn that New England might be spared force-three hurricanes for periods of time so long that people actually forgot major hurricanes ever did more than clip Cape Cod. During such long lulls an amnesia set in: Authorities stated, “New England is never hit by hurricanes,” shortly before the 1938 monster hit. But that was only because they didn’t study the past as David Ludlum did, didn’t know of Saxby’s Gale in 1815, or the Great Colonial Hurricanes of the 1600’s. Those long-ago hurricanes set the precedent, and in many ways 1938 was just a copy.

Because hurricanes refused to happen after 1960, and refused to let me observe disaster first hand, at first I could only quench my boyish thirst for mayhem by reading boring books. I studied how the most powerful hurricanes had wrecked things in the past, and discovered a second thing that McKibben seems oblivious of. It is the simple fact that one of the ways the ecology of an area can be seriously damaged has nothing to do with man: Mother Nature does it.

McKibben seems to feel Nature exists in a steady state, and man is a thug who walks about wrecking things: Nature is balanced, and man is unbalanced. In actual fact the so-called “balance of nature” takes some very wild swings, often at mankind’s jaw, and also at ecology’s. Either Mother Nature is not the prissy twinkle-toes McKibben envisions, or else she has a Brother Nature who loves to splash and crash and smash, just as joyfully as a schoolboy.

McKibben can lecture all he wants about the proper maintenance and care of a forest, but a hurricane can come along and flatten the whole thing in an hour. Thick pines get snapped like match sticks, as anyone who saw what Hugo did north of Charleston can attest to. The same sort of blow-downs have happened, and can happen, in New England. When they happen the so-called “delicate ecology” of a forest gets hammered. The populations of some bugs, birds and beasts crash, as others soar. However this is not “unprecedented.” This is reality.

Perhaps McKibben can be forgiven for failing to understand reality. He grew up in one of those unreal, sheltered places called a “suburb,” where you are protected from nasty inner-city stuff. I grew up in a similar suburb, around eight miles away, and can attest to the fact Boston’s suburbs can bore a boy to tears. Fortunately I grew up eight years before McKibben, and could escape suburbs due to a wonderful form of public transportation that existed back then, called “hitchhiking.” You could go anywhere for free, and it was surprisingly safe (back then,) and all that was asked of you was that you tell tales, and listen to tales.

This enabled me to skip the bother of books. If the ride was long enough, (and I wandered from Montreal to Florida,) I could usually work the subject around to hurricanes, and get first hand accounts, not merely of hurricanes, but of Pacific typhoons. It makes me feel sorry for McKibben, for he got stuck in the rarified armchairs of Harvard and the New Yorker Magazine, and seemingly missed meeting the real salt-of-the-earth people who have been on boats in the bowels of a hurricane, or have fought the floods, or have battled to survive the jackstraw aftermaths. It is from such first-hand-accounts you learn the most, and see the precedent that has been set, and know something of what to expect.

It turns out that if you really want to learn about how a hurricane can destroy an ecology, you should ask a clam-digger on Cape Cod. Back in 1968 you could learn, from such fellows, of the 1938 Long Island Express, the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane, 1954’s trio of Carol, Edna and Hazel, the amazing drenching rains of 1955’s Connie and Diane, of Donna in 1960, and of the pounding surf caused by the bizarre loop of Esther in 1961.

I was, of course, green with envy hearing about all the crashing and smashing and splashing I missed (or was too young to remember,) but right then a grizzled old timer would use a word you don’t hear any more, “’Pshaw.” He’d say Esther’s pounding surf “t’weren’t nothing, compared to 1893.”

Look up the hurricane season of 1893, when there were four full-fledged hurricanes prowling the Atlantic at the same time, with a fifth that barely missed making the quartet a quintet. It matched the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, when 4 Atlantic hurricanes were active on the same day. Then imagine the total fit McKibben would have, if the exact same season happened today. He would insist it was “unprecedented,” and even if it was a carbon copy he would say it was all due to carbon dioxide.

However McKibben would likely then go even further.

It turns out shorelines are mobile things, and that the vast estuaries of salt marsh behind dunes are very vulnerable to the dramatic changes hurricanes bring about. Not only can dunes be shoved inland and smother marshes, but inlets get filled in as new inlets are abruptly gouged, and the brackish water behind the dunes can be made poisonously salty by inrushes of ocean, or poisonously fresh by feet of rainfall, and the ecology of the marsh gets hammered, with crashes in the populations of clams, bay scallops, oysters, and blue claw crabs. But would McKibben blame nature, if such a population-crash happened today? Not likely. He would likely jump to the conclusion man was the culprit.

Actually it turns out that, (once man outgrows his boyish delight in mayhem,) man is not all that fond of disaster, nor of the ruin of ecosystems that his livelihood depends upon. Man actually tries to built dikes and stop the sea. And here is where a real bad entity, according to McKibben, appears: The US Army Corp of Engineers.

(I don’t know where McKibben gets off bad-mouthing engineers, especially when he himself is trying to engineer the entire planet’s climate.)

The simple fact of the matter is engineers are given a thankless and fairly hopeless task: They are asked to control the awesome powers of nature. They, more than anyone else, know how rivers want to meander and shorelines want to shift. Their geologists often write the best papers about the forces of Nature, the power of Nature, the wrath of Nature, and the whimsical ways Nature wants to go the opposite way of ways that makes life easier for man. Unlike McKibben, engineers have first hand experience with how fine-sounding plans and altruistic desires go awry. Rather than “The Law of Unintended Consequences,” they tend to simply call it “Murphy’s Law.” The amazing thing is not that, despite their best efforts, shorelines do shift and rivers do meander, but rather that so many disasters are averted.

One disaster they have managed to prevent (so far) involves the fact that the Mississippi River dumps 406 million tons of dirt at its mouth every year. (I’m not sure how many Manhattans that is.) As the water slows nearing the sea, the dirt settles out, not only building up the delta, but also building up the river’s bed and the floodplains, until the mouth of the river gets to be higher than the river upstream, whereupon the river decides not to flow uphill, but rather to take a new route to the sea. In the case of the Mississippi the new route would be the Atchafalaya River. The Mississippi likely wanted to take that new route seventy years ago, which would have been an economic and ecological disaster for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and the Delta. You don’t just stop delivering 406 million tons of dirt a year, and expect a delta to not wash away, (even as a new delta grows to the west.)

In essence Mother Nature wants everyone to pack up and move. Not merely humans, but entire ecosystems. In the process it will not matter to her if historic districts vanish, along with the habitat of various endangered critters. A few creatures might even be unable to make the shift west, and go extinct, (in which case Mother Nature might get a tongue lashing from McKibben.)

In the face of this perhaps inevitable shift in the course of the Mississippi stand a group of puny engineers, who seem to catch hell no matter what they do. People upstream get mad if they allow erosion to occur, while people in the delta want more than the allotted 406 million tons of eroded dirt delivered each year, and get mad if shorelines wash away. The entire city of New Orleans is settling down into the dirt. Even as attempts to keep it a viable port involve dredging away dirt, dirt needs to be added. Engineers face delightful examples of Murphy’s Law such as the MRGO channel, which was 650 feet wide when dug, but rapidly eroded to 1500 feet wide. Then the very same people who demanded engineers build that channel accused the poor engineers of contributing to Katrina’s flooding.

Before Katrina, politicians demanded more money for levees, but the money strangely vanished in “administering” the levees, and the engineers didn’t get enough to build with. Even more money needed to be spent on lawsuits with environmentalists who didn’t like levees. Prior to Katrina the engineers were pointing out the precedent set by the 1947 hurricane, (and three earlier storms,) and the dangers New Orleans faced if levees weren’t strengthened, but guess who got the blame, when the levees failed during Katrina?

Then along comes McKibben, after the fact, and he states the Katrina was “unprecedented.” She wasn’t. She was only force-three, and a force-four storm had hit New Orleans in earlier times. If anything was unprecedented, it was the bureaucratic bungling of people who were entrusted with preparing for the storm, and also McKibben’s post-storm audacity.

Perhaps McKibben can be excused for using the word “unprecedented” so frequently, because no two snowflakes are alike, and this mean every snowflake is unprecedented, and unlike any snowflake that ever came before. However it is how he uses the word that irks me. He uses it like a bludgeon, to threaten people with, always ignoring factors that might allow people to relax. For example, while discussing Katrina he never mentions that other storms may have been as powerful, when they were as far out to sea as Katrina was when she reached level-five, but back when earlier storms blew up there were no satellites or storm-hunter aircraft to measure such storms with. He often follows his spiel about Katrina with a mention that Wilma, that same season, set “an Atlantic Ocean record for barometric lows,” failing to mention that a sailing ship of the old days could not possibly measure such a storm, because they were destroyed.

None of us wants to be destroyed by a storm, but none of us wants to be panicked into a purchase either, which is what McKibben’s railings often strike me as doing. Over and over he works himself up into a tizzy, promoting a sales-pitch he insists we must accept because “the offer expires soon,” but I’ve endured too many commercials in my time to fall for that, especially when his evidence includes stuff I knew was false when I was twelve.

Part of the sales-pitch seems extremely ungrateful to me. In order to heap up the grotesquely one-sided and inaccurate evidence he employs, he need to get the evidence from somewhere, and often he gets the evidence from papers writen by, or including references to, the very same engineer-geologists he later scorns and derides as being know-nothings.

No engineer wants the humiliation of building something that falls down, and therefore they are constantly seeking how Murphy’s Law might ruin what they build. This involves imagining their constructs being exposed to a worse-case-scenario, and in New England this involves hurricanes. In fact, if you want to become alarmed by what could possibly go wrong, engineers are often the people you should consult. It is due to engineers that much of our knowledge of coastal erosion and other geologies-in-flux exist. It was engineers who first had the need for the core samples from marshes, which show us layers of sand in the peat, which hint of monster hurricanes that occurred before history was written.

New England has a written history longer than other parts of the United States, including a record of floods along the Connecticut River clear back to the 1600’s. Such floods had never exceeded 30 feet, until the 1938 hurricane, whose flood was truly “unprecedented,” for its flood crested at 35 feet above normal.

A simple-minded conclusion would be that floods were getting worse, and levees must be built higher. (Another would be that the 1938 hurricane was a rare, once-every-400-year event, and nothing needed to be done for 399 years.) However the engineers looked into the problem, and came up with an amazing reason for the unprecedented floods. The reason the 1938 floods were worse had to do with the changing fashions of men’s hats.

In the early 1800’s men decided powdered wigs were no longer hip, and stove-pipe hats (such as the one Abraham Lincoln is often pictured wearing) were wicked groovy. These hats were made of the fur of beavers, which were then hunted nearly to extinction in the tributaries and headwaters of the Connecticut River. Thousands of beaver dams, which had formerly held back flood waters, no longer existed, and floods became worse.

Now, where do you suppose McKibben would go with that? Would he suggest engineers build flood-control reservoirs to replace the missing beaver dams? Or would he gnash his teeth about how mankind screws everything up, and how people should be moved out, and their towns be demolished as beavers were reintroduced?

Actually engineers suggested some older dams in New England should be torn down. Water power was no longer as economical as it had been, many old mills had gone bankrupt, and their mill ponds stood behind dams that were not maintained and were crumbling. Some dams had barely held through the 1938 storm. Unfortunately funds were not available, due to a major wars keeping engineers occupied overseas until the Korean War wound down in 1954. By then it was too little too late, as Connie and Dianne hit in 1955.

In parts of Southern New England Connie and Dianne’s rainfall approached two feet, (which was “unprecedented,”) and some old dams collapsed. Forty percent of Worchester was under water, and in places where the Blackstone River usually is seventy feet wide it grew to a width of a mile and a half. Despite the fact the rain was not as heavy to the north, the Connecticut River crested above thirty feet for the second time in its history. Even the meek Charles River reached “unprecedented” levels, and one of my earliest memories is of my mother looking out the window at that river in the back yard as the rain poured and poured and poured, and of her murmuring to herself, “What a rain!”

That got the engineers cracking, and, over the next decade and a half, New England’s system of flood-control reservoirs appeared. I know a little about it, as my grandfather was an engineer, though he was more focused on Boston’s storm drains. I know for a fact he was concerned about the environment, and was downright apologetic about a design flaw in Boston’s system. When the storm drains originally were put in, it was quite normal for sewerage to flow into rivers, and when storm drains were overwhelmed by excessive rainfall the overflow went through the sewer systems, which was a good way of flushing the sewers out, until people started thinking sewerage should be kept separate and be treated. Murphy’s Law had reared its head, and a design which once had been elegant and efficient now had to be reengineered, at great expense to the tax-payer. Mistakes like that made my grandfather cringe.

The new system of flood control reservoirs didn’t make him cringe, because before the man died it had been tested by heavy rains, (which in localized areas were “unprecedented.”) They work. It is highly unlikely the Connecticut will ever crest over thirty feet again. This is not only due to the engineer’s dams, but also due to the fact that beavers, (without asking McKibben’s permission,) have reintroduced themselves in New England, even to a degree where they cause flooding and are a nuisance in the very suburb McKibben grew up in. Also white tailed deer have returned to become a nuisance, eating people’s flowering crabs, and, because hunting them is difficult in such close proximity to picture windows, coyote have returned to eat deer, and also to eat cats and small dogs, and occasionally to snarl at joggers. All in all, suburbs sound a lot more exciting than they were when I grew up, and when McKibben learned to detest them.

Besides controlling floods, engineers have worked with the more reasonable environmentalists to improve New England’s rivers. The tidal basin of the Charles River used to hold dyes from factories up stream, and I can recall, during a long drought that afflicted New England in the 1960’s, that the water in the Charles River’s tidal basin was actually purple. It also reeked. It took guts to be a member of the Harvard crew, and row in that sludge. Now it is clean and the fish are returning. In other rivers salmon are returning, and engineers are working to remove older dams, and to design fish-ladders around dams that remain.

It seems clear to me that we are better off when we work with engineers to foresee what the future’s threats might be, and to allow engineers to take steps that remove the threats, and enhance that which we enjoy.

If a hurricane as powerful as the 1938 monster returns this September, the wisdom of some of our developments will be tested. We have, after all, built cottages on dunes that tend to shift, despite breakwaters, and we have built neighborhoods on floodplains that are called floodplains because they flood, even with flood-control reservoirs upstream. Now that I am too old to enjoy the mayhem I yearned to see as a youth, I’d see it, and also see all sorts of examples of Murphy’s Law.

It is important to consider Murphy’s Law, when preparing for a storm. You prepare for the worst even while (if you are old) you hope no mayhem occurs. There are some things I think New Englanders should consider, but, before I go one word further I should do something McKibben fails to do, and state I am not an engineer. I don’t truly know what I’m talking about.

One thing you’re told over and over, as a writer, is that “you should write about what you know.” It is close to being a Commandment.

Thinking about this, look at the start of McKibben’s essay, “A Deeper Shade Of Green,” which appeared in the August, 2006 National Geographic (which had the tabloid headlines: “No End In Sight.” “KILLER HURRICANES,” and “New Orleans: Home No More.”) McKibben begins with:

“This is the year we finally started to understand what we are in for. Exactly 12 months ago, an MIT professor named Kerry Emanuel published a paper in Nature showing hurricanes had slowly but steadily been gaining in strength and duration for a generation. It didn’t gain widespread attention for a few weeks — not until Katrina roared across the Gulf of Mexico and…”

It may be a splendid introduction and demonstrate McKibben’s skill at writing, but it annoyed the heck out of me at the time, because I’d been expecting, (due to my belief in “cycles,”) the 2005 season to be like the 1933 season, which set the old record of 20 hurricanes in a year. McKibben’s intro gave the impression of being precise, “Exactly 12 months ago,” even while blurring things, “for a generation,” and he failed to mention the precedent of 1933 at all.

However I now notice something else. In his intro McKibben is breaking the commandment, “Write about what you know about.” He obviously hasn’t studied the history of hurricanes, and is only repeating what others have told him. He uses the “appeal to authority,” unaware that if you only repeat what Kerry Emanuel tells you, you are little more than a parrot, and, if Kerry is merely using you, you are in danger of being a puppet. To put it most bluntly, when a writer, even a gifted writer, relies on others rather than himself, he is in grave danger of being nothing but a dupe.

I was already aware of McKibben’s alarmism before that article appeared. After all, the suggestion that Katrina proved that CO2 caused hurricanes was being spoken by Kerry Emanuel before Katrina even hit. It seemed a lie to me for anyone to state that hurricanes had become different, when there were so many examples of precedents in history books. It also seemed, due to my belief in “cycles,” that, if the 1938 hurricane hit five years after the 1933 season, we should prepare for 1938-like monster to bisect New England exactly 5 years after 2005, in 2010. (FAIL.) However what aggravated me most was McKibben’s absurd assertion that the way to prepare for a hurricane was to buy curly light bulbs, wobble about on bicycles, and live crunched cheek-to-jowl like students in a Harvard dorm (even as he himself enjoyed his gentleman-farmer, Vermont country-life.)

Therefore, back in 2006, I decided to out-McKibben Mckibben, and to incite a riot, (or at least alarm,) by yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, but by doing so in a way that didn’t mention CO2 at all. Part of my essay was as follows, (and engineers will have to excuse me for writing about what I don’t know about.)

“…Next time you drive down our shady streets, look up at the electrical wires, and imagine 10% of our beautiful trees blown onto those wires. (On some hills, imagine 100%.) Also understand there are far more trees in New England now than in 1938, (and far fewer roadside elms, which withstood wind better.) We tend to gripe when the electricity is off for six hours. Can you handle six days? How about sixteen? Or even six weeks?

Our builders have displayed amnesia for fifty years, and have built on riversides that were under twenty feet of water, and on dunes that were below raging storm tides, and atop hills that were scoured by winds over a hundred miles an hour. Add some shade trees crashing onto roofs, and we are likely to have some homeless neighbors, if we are not homeless ourselves.

We have also become far more dependant on computers and cell phones. Look carefully at the flat receivers up in cell-phone towers, and imagine them stressed as winds rise past a hundred. (In 1954 the WBZ radio tower was blown over by Carol, resulting in new building codes for such towers.) Will we be able to telephone anyone, after a storm?

Cell phone companies go through great efforts to keep their receivers firmly anchored atop sturdy towers. Receivers must be able to withstand stresses such as thick, heavy, winter ice, for the receivers must be very carefully aimed to transmit correctly. The companies are aware of the power of wind, and competition forces them to try to be better than each other at repairing receivers bent ever-so-slightly out-of-line by hurricane-force winds. After storms their crews race each other to be back-on-line first, transporting mobile generators, and even mobile receivers, however repairs can be slowed if fallen trees and flooding make roads impassable. After a major hurricane one should therefore expect to have no phones for a while, besides having no electricity.

This sort of alarmist talk worries some, if only because they figure insurance companies may raise rates, if they hear about risks. However insurance companies should perhaps worry less about our barking dogs, and instead focus more on the integrity of their own high-rises. Both the Prudential Building and John Hancock Tower in Boston were built after the last major hurricane and before building codes became as strict as they now are. Both structures had design flaws that were exposed after construction, and old-timers can remember the windows popping out of the John Hancock Tower at such an alarming rate that the sky-scraper was more or less sheathed in plywood. Lastly, due to the experience of “The Big Dig,” Bostonians are not entirely confident builders obey codes, even when codes exist and engineers respect them. Alarmists can therefore gloat about the situation insurance companies now find themselves in; after all, one of their skyscrapers falling down does a lot more damage than a barking dog.

Anyone who has been up in high-rises during a gale knows they do sway in a most alarming manner. One then hopes the engineers knew what they were doing, and also wonders what fatigue occurs to the metal and concrete which form a high-rise’s trunk and roots, especially as decades of winter gales blast it, and the swaying building ages. (The 1978 blizzard’s peak winds gusted to 125 mph on Cape Cod.) Lastly, one knows the codes have become more strict, and one then wonders if this means the older buildings are suspect; after all, codes are made more stringent for definite reasons.

In actual fact no engineer wants his name attached to a building which comes crashing down, and the engineering that goes into such massive structures is amazing and, to some degree, reassuring. A building like the John Hancock Tower sticks up like a huge, flat sail, and therefore must have a huge keel, and it turns out high-rises are imbedded into astounding amounts of reinforced concrete. Such buildings are designed to withstand winds 25% higher than the worst ever recorded, in the area they are built.

However, if you are a true alarmist, you hesitate at those words: “The worst ever recorded.” The worst winds recorded in Boston are recorded at Logan Airport, down at sea level. The tops of high-rises thrust up into winds which are far higher. Considering the force exerted by wind increases roughly 100% with every ten mph, construction costs also increase greatly if one builds a structure to withstand a wind only ten mph higher. Besides the pressure of wind, engineers also face the pressure of budgets, and therefore must decide “what they can get away with.” Their decisions have been excellent so far, for wind has never toppled a high-rise, however a true alarmist notes no high-rise has yet been truly tested, especially in the north, where codes are not as demanding. No high-rise has yet faced a direct hit from a F-5 tornado, and Boston’s have never been tested by a major hurricane.

Recalling the words, “the worst ever recorded,” one hurries back to the data, and discovers there is no data involving a worst-case-scenario. A worst-case-scenario would take a major hurricane through Boston’s western suburbs; when Donna took that route in 1960 it had been downgraded to tropical-storm status. The next closest pass was the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, however it passed to the east, with its most devastating east-side winds away from Boston, over Cape Cod. The worst hurricanes of the last 30-year-stormy-cycle, the 1938 storm and Carol in 1954, both passed west of Worchester; however the 1938 storm, even with its center over the Connecticut River, was still able to sustain winds of 73 miles per hour, with gusts to 87, at Boston’s Logan Airport. One wonders what it’s winds were like at the altitude of Boston’s high-rises, and a true alarmist glances south to the summit of the Blue Hills, just south of Boston. At an altitude of 681 feet, on September 21, 1938, the Blue Hills anemometer registered steady winds of 121 mph, with gusts to 186.

If one transposes the tracks of Carol or the 1938 hurricane east, so they pass through the western suburbs of Boston, the city’s high-rises would be exposed to tremendous stresses. When I asked an engineer whether such buildings were designed to withstand winds of 186 miles per hour, his reply was, flatly, “No.” He did add that it was likely a high-rise’s windows would give out before the steel beams, and stress would be greatly reduced once the wind could pass through the structure, rather than around it. I found this reassuring. It is much better to have glass, copiers, office desks, computers and filing cabinets raining down onto the streets of Boston, than to have it be entire buildings….”

Well? Does my writing out-McKibben McKibben? Are you alarmed? Should I be selling insurance?

At the very least my essay should provoke a response. Hopefully it will provoke preparations other than buying curly light bulbs, if a hurricane starts up the coast and, unlike Irene, doesn’t dawdle over cold shelf waters, but rather stays out over the warm Gulf Stream, accelerates northward to over 50 mph, and only hooks inland at the last minute, like the 1938 monster.

However my writing likely also deserves the response of a good slap-down from engineers, and I deserve to be told to practice what I preach, and to “stick with writing what I know about.”

If McKibben would only write what he knows about, he might avoid saying foolish things, like he did last year when he stated Irene had Global Warming at her core. The joke of it was that, due to dawdling over cold shelf waters and ingesting drier air from inland, Irene’s eye wall collapsed and she soon didn’t even have a core. Was McKibben subconsciously stating Global Warming’s core was a nothing, like Irene’s was?

If McKibben wrote what he knows about one thing he would write about is what growing up in the suburbs of Boston was like. I actually strongly agree with a lot of his views on that subject. Suburbs were suppose to be a green paradise, but always struck me as a hollow vacuum. However just because I don’t like them, and moved on, gives me no reason to outlaw others from choosing to build them and live in them, should they desire to do so. Instead I should state what I find objectionable, and describe an alternative. McKibben does this rather well, but doesn’t seem to like the fact people ignore him, and do what they please. It’s a free country, but at times he seems to disapprove of freedom.

McKibben should also write autobiographical books, one describing Harvard when he attended it, and another describing the New Yorker Magazine and the changes it went through when he worked there. Those were two weird worlds, and I’m sure people would be fascinated.

Of considerable interest would be another book about the world of environmentalists. He wouldn’t have to say whether he feels his trust was misplaced, or whether he feels his considerable talents were misused, or whether Emanuel played him for a dupe. A simple description of the world where some scientists got rich as others went hungry, and some writers got fame, fortune and flattery as others knew poverty, would suffice.

However one thing McKibben absolutely should not write about is the subject of hurricanes. It only makes him look odd, like Paul Revere galloping down the streets in the dead of night shouting, “Buy curly light bulbs! Buy curly light bulbs!”




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‘Climate Consensus’ Data Need a More Careful Look
By Roger Cohen, Ph.D., William Happer, Ph.D., & Richard Lindzen, Ph.D.
August 13, 2012



In his Aug. 6 op-ed, "A New Climate-Change Consensus," Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp speaks of "the trend—a decades-long march toward hotter and wilder weather." We have seen quite a few such claims this summer season, and Mr. Krupp insists that we accept them as "true." Only with Lewis Carroll's famous definition of truth, "What I tell you three times is true," is this the case.

But repetition of a fib does not make it true. As one of many pieces of evidence that our climate is doing what it always does, consider the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's year-by-year data for wet and dry years in the continental U.S. ( http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/sotc/drought/2012/06/uspa-wet-dry-mod-ext-190001-201206.gif )

From 1900 to the present, there are only irregular, chaotic variations from year to year, but no change in the trend or in the frequency of dry years or wet years. Sometimes there are clusters of dry years, the most significant being the dry Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. These tend to be followed by clusters of wet years.

Despite shrill claims of new record highs, when we look at record highs for temperature measurement stations that have existed long enough to have a meaningful history, there is no trend in the number of extreme high temperatures, neither regionally nor continentally. We do see the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s setting the largest number of record highs, at a time when it is acknowledged that humans had negligible effect on climate.

What about strong tornadoes? Again there is no trend. Last year was an unusually active season, and unfortunately some of those storms ravaged population centers. We were told that these disasters were the result of human CO2 emissions. Yet 2011 was only the sixth worst for strong tornadoes since 1950 and far from a record. And have any of us heard about this tornado year? Why not? Because 2012 has been unusually quiet. Most of the tornado season is behind us, and so far the tornado count is mired in the lowest quintile of historical activity. As for hurricanes, again there is no discernible trend. Regarding wildfires, past western fires burned far more acreage than today. Any climate effect on wildfires is complicated by the controversial fire suppression practices of the past hundred years.

Lurid media reporting and advocates' claims aside, even the last comprehensive Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report noted that "archived data sets are not yet sufficient for determining long-term trends in [weather] extremes." Yet this has not stopped global warming advocates from using hot summer weather as a tool to dramatize a supposedly impending climate Armageddon.

In a telling 2007 PBS interview, former Sen. Tim Wirth gloated about how he had rigged the 1988 Senate testimony chamber to dramatize the impact of NASA scientist James Hansen's histrionic testimony on imminent danger from global warming: "We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer . . . So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day on record in Washington or close to it."

Not content to gamble on the vagaries of weather statistics, Mr. Wirth also boasted, "What we did is that we went in the night beforehand and opened all the windows . . . so the air conditioning wasn't working inside the room . . . when the hearing occurred, there was not only bliss, which is television cameras and double figures, but it was really hot." Tricks like those described by Sen. Wirth have been refined to an art to promote the cause of economically costly action to prevent supposedly catastrophic consequences of increasing CO2. Contrast these manipulations with the measured and informative Senate testimony of climatologist John Christy earlier this month ( http://epw.senate.gov/public/index....Store_id=66585975-a507-4d81-b750-def3ec74913d ).

In an effort to move the science debate completely into the political arena, Mr. Krupp implies that with the exception of a few enlightened Republican governors and captains of industry, most "conservatives" are climate skeptics—and vice versa. But some of the most formidable opponents of climate hysteria include the politically liberal physics Nobel laureate, Ivar Giaever; famously independent physicist and author, Freeman Dyson; environmentalist futurist, and father of the Gaia Hypothesis, James Lovelock; left-center chemist, Fritz Vahrenholt, one of the fathers of the German environmental movement, and many others who would bristle at being lumped into the conservative camp.

Whether increasing CO2 in the atmosphere is bad or good is a question of science. And in science, truth and facts are not the playthings of causes, nor a touchstone of political correctness, nor true religion, nor "what I tell you three times is true."

Humanity has always dealt with changing climate. In addition to the years of drought and excessive moisture described above, the geological record makes it clear that there have been longer-term periods of drought, lasting for many years as during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to many decades or centuries. None of these past climate changes, which had a profound effect on humanity, had anything to do with CO2, and there are good reasons for skepticism that doubling CO2 will make much difference compared to natural climate changes.

It is increasingly clear that doubling CO2 is unlikely to increase global temperature more than about one degree Celsius, not the much larger values touted by the global warming establishment. In fact, CO2 levels are below the optimum levels for most plants, and there are persuasive arguments that the mild warming and increased agricultural yields from doubling CO2 will be an overall benefit for humanity. Let us debate and deal with serious, real problems facing our society, not elaborately orchestrated, phony ones, like the trumped-up need to drastically curtail CO2 emissions.


Roger W. Cohen
Fellow, American Physical Society
La Jolla, Calif.

William Happer
Princeton University
Princeton, N.J.

Richard S. Lindzen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Mass.
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We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.
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-Richard Feynman​


 
...The real truth is, oil, and other carbon-based fuels, are merely the affordable means by which we can satisfy our true addictions – long life, good health, prosperity, technological progress, adequate food supplies, internet services, freedom of movement, protection from environmental threats, and so on– without affordable, reliable energy, life is brutal and short.

Folks are quick to condemn carbon fuels while overlooking the obvious reasons for their use and the astounding benefits they provide (and in which they participate). Fossil fuels have provided accessible energy that has been indisputably responsible for enhancing security, longevity, and the overall welfare of human life. In other words, carbon-based energy has lifted billions out of an impoverished, brutal existence...
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-Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D.​





...The question is whether recent changes in CO2 have caused global warming. The planet has a particular system that includes both liquid oceans and greenhouse. As a non-linear system – and this is where eyes glaze over and I am accused of word salad by the ignorant and bombastic – the system is characterised by a preferred complex system state topology and abrupt transitions between these system states. Conceptually – small changes in conditions precipitate non-linear responses in the system and the system shifts into a ‘new’ state that is either warmer or cooler by amounts that, because of multiple negative and positive feedbacks, bear no linear relationships to the original control variable. This is simply a description of complex systems – of which climate is one...
-Robert I Ellison​

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Oh No! Six Thousandths Of One Percent (0.006%) More Of The World’s Ice Melted This Summer!
By P Gosselin
27 August 2012

So just how bad is the Arctic ice melt this year? Listening to the alarmists you’d think the world’s ice supply was rapidly dwindling.

When dealing with such phenomena, you have got to pull your eyeballs back a little and take a look at the entire picture to put things in their proper perspective.

The headlines are that Arctic ice melt will reach a record low since satellite measurements have been taken (all the way back to the 1970s, i.e. roughly a whole half an AMO cycle – sarc off).

So how much more Arctic sea ice has melted (been dispersed) this year? Let’s say the Arctic sea ice retreats to 3.5 million km2 by mid September. That would mean 800,000 sq. km less than 2007. That sounds frightening. But how much ice is that? Answer: 800,000 km2 x 0.002 km thick = 1600 cubic km. Holy moly!

Now, how much is that in relation the world’s total ice volume? This is important to know. If it’s 2 or 3%, then we will need to worry.

Using the numbers from Wikipeda we can calculate a rough inventory:

1. Antarctica continent:
Area = 13,700,000 km2 covered with ice
Mean ice thickness: 1.6 km
Ice volume: 21,920,000 km3

2. Antarctica sea ice (Aug):
Area 15,000,000 km2
Mean sea ice thinkness: 0.002 km (rough conservative estimate)
Antarctica sea ice volume = 30,000 km3

3. Greenland
Ice volume (Wikipedia) = 2,850,000 km3

4. Arctic sea ice
Area, September 2007: 4.3 million km2
Average ice thickness: 0.002 km
Total September Arctic sea ice volume = 8600 km3

Adding them up, it yields a total ice volume of: 24,808,600 cubic km stockpiled on the planet (neglecting the glaciers on mountains, which are puny in comparison).

This year in the Arctic, I estimate that a “whopping” 1600 km3 more Arctic sea ice will have melted by mid September. Yes, 1600 km3 from the total of almost 25 million we have stocked on Earth!

How much is that in percent? (1600 / 24,808,600) x 100 = 0.006%

0.006% more of the world’s ice melted this year. At this rate it’ll take 166 years to see a 1% reduction. This is like taking a glass of ice from a frozen swimming pool. The number is so small that it is outside the statistical margins of certainty. Scientists are not even sure how thick the ice is at many locations. As one reader points out: we are talking about parts per million here!

This is why it’s just plain stupid to hysterically focus on a thin film of ice at one pole. It’s utter nonsense. Ice-free Arctics happened in the past and are nothing new.

So with the wave of hysteria about to be unleashed by the merchants and prophets of doom in the days and weeks ahead, it will do everyone some good and keep it all in perspective.

Not only should the focus expand beyond the Arctic, but it also has to expand back beyond the cool days of Ronald Reagan. If you want a clear picture of the Arctic, go back and look at the entire Holocene.

Yes, the climate is a little warmer than 30 years ago, and so a little more ice (0.006%) is going to melt. How astonishing.




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You're incredibly credulous. You've been spoon-fed the Tyndall gas effect and from that you make the unproved, unwarranted and unjustified leap to the CAGW conjecture.

You have absolutely no idea why the climate changes. The forecasts have been dead wrong. The models have been dead wrong. It takes a heap of chutzpah to expect anyone to believe a word you say after you've been so completely wrong for as long as you have. You're destroying what little is left of climatology's already tattered credibility.





...Heck no, we don’t know enough. We are operating under conditions of deep uncertainty...
http://judithcurry.com/2012/09/01/rhetoric-and-rafts/
-Judith A. Curry, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 1982
NASA Advisory Council Earth Science Subcommittee
Fellow, American Meteorological Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Geophysical Union​
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One could be forgiven for wondering what the fuss is all about.




RSS-MSU Global Temperature Anomaly


http://www.climate4you.com/images/MSU%20RSS%20GlobalMonthlyTempSince1979%20With37monthRunningAverage.gif

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Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset (the CET dataset is the longest instrumental record of temperature in the world— 1772-2014)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/graphs/HadCET_graph_ylybars_uptodate.gif

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/


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Temperatures from University of Alabama-Huntsville (NASA)

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_July_2014_v5.png

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Temperatures from Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA

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Global Land and Sea Temperatures from Hadley Centre, Climate Research Unit, UK Meteorology Office, University of East Anglia

http://www.woodfortrees.org/graph/hadcrut3gl/from:1995/normalise

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1995/normalise


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Global Land and Sea Temperatures from Hadley Centre, Climate Research Unit, UK Meteorology Office, University of East Anglia
CO2 from Earth Sciences Research Laboratory (Mauna Loa) NASA


http://www.woodfortrees.org/graph/hadcrut3gl/from:1995/normalise/plot/esrl-co2/from:1995/normalise

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1995/normalise/plot/esrl-co2/from:1995/normalise


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The upper panel shows the air temperature at the summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet, reconstructed by Alley (2000) from GISP2 ice core data. The time scale shows years before modern time. The rapid temperature rise to the left indicate the final part of the even more pronounced temperature increase following the last ice age. The temperature scale at the right hand side of the upper panel suggests a very approximate comparison with the global average temperature (see comment below). The GISP2 record ends around 1855, and the two graphs therefore ends here. There has since been an temperature increase to about the same level as during the Medieval Warm Period and to about 395 ppm for CO2. The small reddish bar in the lower right indicate the extension of the longest global temperature record (since 1850), based on meteorological observations (HadCRUT3). The lower panel shows the past atmospheric CO2 content, as found from the EPICA Dome C Ice Core in the Antarctic (Monnin et al. 2004). The Dome C atmospheric CO2 record ends in the year 1777.



http://www.climate4you.com/images/GISP2%20TemperatureSince10700%20BP%20with%20CO2%20from%20EPICA%20DomeC.gif

http://www.climate4you.com/images/GISP2 TemperatureSince10700 BP with CO2 from EPICA DomeC.gif
http://www.climate4you.com/

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Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset (the CET dataset is the longest instrumental record of temperature in the world— 1772-2014 )

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Global Land and Sea Temperatures from Hadley Centre, Climate Research Unit, UK Meteorology Office, University of East Anglia
CO2 from Earth Sciences Research Laboratory (Mauna Loa) NASA

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Temperatures from Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)

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Temperatures from University of Alabama-Huntsville (NASA)

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An Engineer's Critique of Global Warming "Science"
by Burt Rutan (yes, THAT Burt Rutan)

ht tp://burtrutan.com/burtrutan/downloads/EngrCritiqueCAGW-v4o3.pdf


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http://burtrutan.com/burtrutan/downloads/EngrCritiqueCAGW-v4o3.pdf




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http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybe...onversation-with-aerospace-legend-burt-rutan/



A Cool-Headed Climate Conversation With Aerospace Legend Burt Rutan
by Larry Bell

My wife Nancy and I recently enjoyed a couple of great days with Burt Rutan and his wife Tonya at their beautiful new home in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The visit afforded an opportunity to discuss many topics of keenly shared interest, including the global warming “debate”. Although Burt is world renowned for his remarkable record-setting achievements in aircraft and spacecraft design, he has devoted a great deal of attention to this subject as well.

By way of brief introduction, Burt Rutan designed Voyager, the first aircraft to fly around the globe without stopping or refueling. He also designed SpaceShipOne financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen which won the $10 million Ansari X-Prize in 2004 for becoming the first privately-funded manned craft to enter the realm of space twice within a two-week period. Both, along with three other of his aircraft, are on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Burt’s recent projects include a flying car, and the Virgin GlobalFlyer which broke Voyager’s time for a non-stop solo flight around the world.


Burt, as someone with such intense involvement in aerospace design and development, what got you interested in climate issues?

Even though I’ve been very busy throughout my entire career developing and flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force, I’ve always pursued other research hobbies in my time away from work. Since I’m very accustomed to analyzing a lot of data, about three or four years ago many alarmist claims by some climate scientists caught my attention. Since this is such an important topic, I began to look into it firsthand.

Although I have no climate science credentials, I do have considerable expertise in processing and presenting data. I have also had extensive opportunities to observe how other people present data and use it to make their points. There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit…bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

The first thing that got my attention, a lot of people’s attention, was statements that the entire planet is heading towards a future climate catastrophe that is attributable to human carbon dioxide emissions. So I decided to take a look at that and just see if this conclusion was arrived at ethically. It’s obviously an extremely important issue which has gotten a huge amount of media attention. I was particularly concerned because the proposed solutions will have enormous impacts upon costs of energy, which of course, will increase costs of everything.

Many people seem to get much of their information from what they see in newspapers, with variously biased viewpoints presented in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Canadian Free Press, etc. I may be considerably different, in that I always like to look at both sides of things that I take special interest in. So when I decided to look closely at the anthropogenic [man-made] global warming crisis claims, I avoided focusing on media reports, and instead, went directly to available raw climate data. The intent was to see if that data might just as reasonably be interpreted differently.

Then, what really drew me into the subject, was when I found that I couldn’t obtain the raw data that I was looking for. I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn’t share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.

I even read Al Gore’s book, which was very enlightening…but not in a good way. When you look for data to back up his claims, you immediately discover that they are totally unsubstantiated. This was frankly astonishing because analyzing data is something I’m very good at. All my professional life I have been analyzing complex flight test data, interpreting it and presenting it. Something that I always did in flight test is to make a chart that shows every bit of the data, and only then, decide later on the basis of real observed results which parts of the data were valid.

Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute. Meanwhile, that alarmism has generated billions of dollars more to finance a rapidly growing climate science industry with budgets that have risen by a factor of 40 since the early 1990s. I consider this failure to speak up just as unethical as the behavior of those who put out the false catastrophic claims.

Burt, what was most astonishing to you in the disconnect between what you were seeing in the raw data you were able to obtain and what you’re seeing in various report conclusions and in the media?

Well, one of the first things I did was to get out the [U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] IPCC summary for policymaker’s reports. Inexplicably, the Medieval Warm Period appearing in the first report which was warmer than today’s temperatures, disappeared from the second. The last Little Ice Age disappeared as well. They were replaced by the infamous “hockey stick” graph, which appeared multiple times. That was a big disconnect.

Actually, looking back over the past 11,000 or so years since Earth began to recover from the last big Ice Age, we’re experiencing a very moderate and stable climate stage. And going back nearly half of the past million years, a long Ice Age occurred about every 90,000 years or so with a large percentage of the planet uninhabitable. We’re talking about ice as much as a mile or more thick covering large portions of North America and Europe. Any local warming that alarmists talk about is only a brief and tiny blip.

There’s certainly nothing alarming about the stable period we currently enjoy. I was struck by claims that we are experiencing unprecedented warming caused by Man, where data clearly shows that our recent warming isn’t unprecedented. I think that’s the main thing that drove me into an obsession to look at this climate subject very closely during my early investigations. I don’t do so much nowadays, and hardly did anything last year, but in those early years I spent an enormous amount of time researching data and comparing it with what I was seeing in the IPCC summary reports as products from the alarmists.

Another important thing that caught my attention was that the increased atmospheric CO2 that all this alarmism centers on is of huge benefit for agriculture. Green houses actually supplement CO2 to make plants grow better. It has been shown that crop yields actually go up some 30% or more with doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere. So I’m a very confused as to what’s wrong with CO2. It’s the food plants need to grow and feed all animals, including us.

I’m very impressed by all the data that you have made available on charts you prepared for your website. Readers can find that and much more at: www.burtrutan.com

What I’m doing really, is just put out all of the data I can in order to enable anyone to look at everything before arriving at a conclusion. If someone forms a conclusion at the onset, they can always find and focus only on data that supports their theory.

I recognize that you feel very strongly about the importance of this topic. What happened when you began to speak publicly about this and let your conclusions be known?

Good question Larry. I first decided to present the results of my study and my data at the Oshkosh Air Show, an event that I have been continuously going to ever since 1971. Of course I have had an enormous following there, and I had always previously spoken on the subject of aircraft development. But on this occasion I thought that the global warming subject was too important not to mention because it was indeed fraudulent. Its effect on America’s competitiveness and economy would be enormous compared to anything else that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

The interesting thing is that I decided to preview this talk for a totally unusual audience, in fact one that would be considered to be opposite of any I normally address. This was on the occasion of receiving a lifetime design achievement award at the Pasadena Art College in July 2009. That was to be a very liberal crowd, mostly college students. The event was about design as it related to what they design in an art college… things like automobiles and motorcycles primarily involving styling rather than dealing with engineering. They had some phenomenal talents for showing beautiful shapes applied to transportation. My designs, which many consider beautiful, are determined by complex flight dynamics and laws of physics.

The transportation design theme attracted Jay Leno to bring one of his very rare cars to the event, a steam-powered vehicle that was absolutely beautiful. Jay sat right in the front row for my presentation. I had previously been on his show twice, appearances related to our SpaceShipOne program. The audience had obviously expected me to present my designs and my philosophy…discuss how I approached creative design. So I did that for maybe five minutes, and then I launched into showing what I have found with my climate hobby. I included chart after chart of data that clearly showed there was fraud and cherry picking bias used by alarmists presenting climate data in order to try to make their point…namely that the Earth faces a catastrophe because of emissions into the atmosphere by Man.

I didn’t really know what to expect, because this was the first time I had ever made a public presentation of any of my hobbies. And when I looked out into the audience, what I saw might best be described as stunned silence. I clearly knew that audience was generally liberal, and had assumed that Jay Leno was also. But as soon as I was done, he rushed to the stage, took me off to the side, and told me that he didn’t know anything about this, or that the subject was even debatable.

It really surprised me that someone who reaches millions of people every evening could be so totally insulated from any skeptical views on what the alarmists were trying to sell as a future catastrophe. What shocked me most is that I had originally been thinking that the average viewer was at least aware that there are two sides to the issue, rather than almost universally accepting alarmist positions as absolute truth.

But also keep in mind that this was before the East Anglia University Climategate e-mails were released which clearly showed some of the IPCC folks were indeed fraudulent in their science… before there was any way to make a big case that there is a large problem here.

Burt, I’m aware that when you joined with many others in signing a letter about this that was published in the Wall Street Journal, you were taken back by the hostile responses directed your way. Can you comment about that experience?

The skeptic community was actually already starting to pay attention to me because they tended to appreciate my large data presentation effort. So I got an e-mail from someone who had rounded up a dozen or so climate scientists that agreed there is no need for alarm regarding catastrophic human-caused global warming to be co-signers, and had gotten approval to have it published in the Wall Street Journal. When asked to join them, I wrote back and said that while I enthusiastically agreed with everything the letter said, I didn’t want to sign it because I would be in a group of people who were all climate scientists, and I’m not a climate scientist. I finally agreed to allow them to put my name under it only if they made it clear that I am an engineer, not a climate scientist. I still receive a lot of flak from alarmists who challenge how an airplane designer can have the temerity to disagree with their views of science.

Larry, I wasn’t really taken back so much by the hostile responses. I expected some of that. But later when I decided to answer some of the more than 150 comments posted at the Scholars and Rogues website, I was surprised that I was often attacked in a very personal way which denigrated my intelligence and accused me of bias. I have no reason to have any bias. Some said I was obviously being paid for by oil companies, which seemed like a joke. If you go through and read my responses you will find that I did so with hard data that alarmists will not publish. But they don’t hesitate to publish personal attacks.

So Burt, what are some of the most important points that you wish to emphasize to readers?

One of the most important is to have the general public, the media, and policymakers understand is that any claims that 97%, 98%, or whatever, of all climate scientists agree that our planet is heading for a climate catastrophe are totally bogus. Have humans had any influence on climate? Sure, probably so, although no one has ever succeeded in accurately measuring them. In the absence of everything else, would adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere have produced some warming? Again, yes. Answering these two questions, and these two questions only, you will see a very large consensus, not only among alarmists, but essentially, every skeptic would also agree.

But none of this presumed warming should be taken to suggest that the results will be catastrophic, causing terribly dangerous things to happen…like serious heat waves and droughts which cause crops to fail…or that when they occur they are “unprecedented”. It doesn’t require anyone with a climate science-related degree to recognize, for example, that 1938 was the warmest year in recent times, and that CO2 levels were much lower then. These consensus issues are discussed in some detail in three PowerPoint charts included near the end of my “An Engineer’s Critique of Global Warming Science” report. The bottom line: there is no consensus on the claims of planet catastrophe.

Even prominent former global warming doomsayers, are finally seeing the light of reason. One is my good friend James Lovelock who once said that within the next 50 years or so the few remaining humans will be huddled up in high latitudes to escape the heat of the lower latitudes. He has recently said the alarmists were wrong, and has moved to a new coastal home, unafraid of rising seas.

In-so-far as your involvement in this subject, what’s next for Burt Rutan?

Larry, I’ve done all I plan to do on this for now, and have moved on to other interests. This debate will all get sorted out, and I am confident it will be for the better. When I started, I strongly believed that the debate needed me because I didn’t see anyone out there really looking at the data the way an engineer looks at. Then, about a year ago, I realized that I really can’t continue to play a significant role in this, although I do believe what I have done has indeed been worthwhile. For example, if you Google AGW, out of 8 million hits, my presentation for download shows up on the first or second page. This is far above what I thought would ever happen, far above what I thought I could be able to contribute to help in this debate. Now I see that other people are doing this, including climate scientists and non-scientists the world over by the tens of thousands, people who are actually looking at the real data just like I have. I still follow the status of the debate, and occasionally comment on it.

After working an average of 60 to 70 hours a week for 46 years, having a lot of fun starting in flight testing Air Force airplanes during the Vietnam War, and then developing some 45 new airplane types, I decided that I wanted an enormous change in retirement. I have now cleared my calendar entirely, even de-emphasizing golf, so that I am free to investigate and do absolutely whatever interests me the most. However, after designing 372 new types of aircraft, of which 45 have been built and taken through flight test, I realize I can’t quite get that urge out of my system. So right now I’m designing a seaplane, just for myself, which I can use to explore the hundreds of small lakes and rivers around this beautiful area of north Idaho where I now live.

You can bet that it will be very different than any standard seaplane. Hell, if I wanted something conventional, I would just buy a Super Cub on floats. I do look forward to building and enjoying that fun new airplane within the next year.

Burt, I want a ride!
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Also see:


"An Engineer's Critique of Global Warming "Science":
http://burtrutan.com/burtrutan/downloads/EngrCritiqueCAGW-v4o3.pdf​


 
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Anthony Watts is interviewed by PBS Newshour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIJCGQzCiU







Comment on: The Dangers of Being Right

Posted 2013-08-24T22:39:30


Maybe, just maybe, Michael Mann pulled the wool over your eyes and the refusal to acknowledge that fact has had dire consequences.
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: The Dangers of Being Right

Posted 2013-08-24T22:10:15


Strange things happen when science becomes politicized and polarized:
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: CLIMATE PERSUASION

Posted 2013-08-24T22:07:10


Frequently wrong but never in doubt.
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: CLIMATE PERSUASION

Posted 2013-08-24T21:39:04


You don't say. That's a lot of joules to squeeze into a confined space. By the way, you should be congratulated for raising the tone of the discussion.


Comment on: CLIMATE PERSUASION

Posted 2013-08-24T21:28:42


Jonathan Jones, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Brasenose College
Oxford University

http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...
Fascinating. Dr. Jones links the cause of polarization to "Piltdown" Mann.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-24T20:44:18


N'est-ce pas.

How about NASA? Do you think NASA is a good source?

Temperatures from Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

How about the U.K.'s Meteorological Office?

Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset (the CET dataset is the longest instrumental record of temperature in the world— 1772-2013)
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ha...


Comment on: CLIMATE PERSUASION

Posted 2013-08-24T11:17:09


No.


Comment on: CLIMATE PERSUASION

Posted 2013-08-24T11:11:58


Antarctic sea ice has just set an all-time record for its largest areal extent.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_i...

Meanwhile, global sea ice area is right smack dab on its 30-year (1979-2008) average. There has been some loss of sea ice in the Arctic but that has been more than made up by the increased sea ice in the Antarctic. Net-net, global sea ice area hasn't diminished at all.


Comment on: CLIMATE PERSUASION

Posted 2013-08-24T00:20:56


Where in the world is Waldo?

3,633 buoys located in all the world's oceans diving to 700 meters: http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/index...


Comment on: CLIMATE PERSUASION

Posted 2013-08-23T21:54:44


Trenberth still can't locate the "missing heat."

Where are those missing joules?


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T18:06:10


Hardly. No matter the stakes you are implicitly (whether you'll admit it or not) assigning a probability to various outcomes— as you are, of course, to the CAGW conjecture.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T15:41:22


A journalist reviews Richard Harris' interview of Dr. Judith Curry and finds it wanting:

http://blogs.discovermagazine....


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T15:05:07


Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T15:03:47


Herr Doktor Mann (a/k/a "Piltdown" Mann) would have gotten away with scientific malpractice were it not for McIntyre's insistence that somebody (anybody) verify the putative science behind the Hockey Stick.

Where were all those vaunted peer reviews?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T15:01:14


Kindly inform us of the studies that "prove" Mr. Trenberth's missing heat has been located. There's a big difference between proof and speculation. The ARGO buoys certainly haven't detected any missing heat.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T14:57:31


The comment is most assuredly germane. If you don't think China and India are relevant to the discussion, you're operating in a vacuum.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T14:55:53


There already is a price. Maybe you can choose whether to pay it or not but raising the price of energy will force millions of people into energy poverty.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T14:25:55


Should we assume that you don't fly on airplanes or drive an automobile? You could die.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T14:22:58


Ready. Fire. Aim.

Maybe, just maybe, it might be a good idea to know what you're doing BEFORE you fix something that may not be a problem in the first place. If you want to go live in a cold, dark cave feel free to do so— just don't impose it on those of us who happen to like heat in the winter and light at night.

Notwithstanding all the fear-mongering, the fact of the matter is that the evidence advanced to support the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous. Harris and NPR and the IPCC may want to ignore the fundamental unknown of climate sensitivity but that doesn't mean the rest of the world is going to ignore the spate of recent papers that question the IPCC's assumption.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T13:27:24


We all know that Richard Harris isn't a journalist. This hatchet job and the editorializing are a dead giveaway.

Having salved his conscience with a pro forma acknowledgement that serious scientists and sentient individuals are well aware of the ambiguous and equivocal evidence offered up by the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming ("CAGW") evangelicals, Harris is now free to resume his propagandizing and regurgitation.

If you'd like to know what the eight hours he spent with Dr. Curry were actually like, here's her account:
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T18:06:10


Hardly. No matter the stakes you are implicitly (whether you'll admit it or not) assigning a probability to various outcomes— as you are, of course, to the CAGW conjecture.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T15:41:22


A journalist reviews Richard Harris' interview of Dr. Judith Curry and finds it wanting:

http://blogs.discovermagazine....


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T15:05:07


Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T15:03:47


Herr Doktor Mann (a/k/a "Piltdown" Mann) would have gotten away with scientific malpractice were it not for McIntyre's insistence that somebody (anybody) verify the putative science behind the Hockey Stick.

Where were all those vaunted peer reviews?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T15:01:14


Kindly inform us of the studies that "prove" Mr. Trenberth's missing heat has been located. There's a big difference between proof and speculation. The ARGO buoys certainly haven't detected any missing heat.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T14:57:31


The comment is most assuredly germane. If you don't think China and India are relevant to the discussion, you're operating in a vacuum.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T14:55:53


There already is a price. Maybe you can choose whether to pay it or not but raising the price of energy will force millions of people into energy poverty.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T14:25:55


Should we assume that you don't fly on airplanes or drive an automobile? You could die.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T14:22:58


Ready. Fire. Aim.

Maybe, just maybe, it might be a good idea to know what you're doing BEFORE you fix something that may not be a problem in the first place. If you want to go live in a cold, dark cave feel free to do so— just don't impose it on those of us who happen to like heat in the winter and light at night.

Notwithstanding all the fear-mongering, the fact of the matter is that the evidence advanced to support the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous. Harris and NPR and the IPCC may want to ignore the fundamental unknown of climate sensitivity but that doesn't mean the rest of the world is going to ignore the spate of recent papers that question the IPCC's assumption.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T13:27:24


We all know that Richard Harris isn't a journalist. This hatchet job and the editorializing are a dead giveaway.

Having salved his conscience with a pro forma acknowledgement that serious scientists and sentient individuals are well aware of the ambiguous and equivocal evidence offered up by the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming ("CAGW") evangelicals, Harris is now free to resume his propagandizing and regurgitation.

If you'd like to know what the eight hours he spent with Dr. Curry were actually like, here's her account:
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T11:53:57


Global Sea Ice Area:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/c...
There it sits— right smack dab on its 30-year (1979-2008) average

Temperatures from Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset (the CET dataset is the longest instrumental record of temperature in the world— 1772-2012)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ha...

Where's the beef?


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:31:29


None of which is necessary. Want to save money? Walk.

It's that simple.

Want to save money? Buy an automobile that gets good gasoline mileage.

See, that was easy and it didn't require government or a massive bureaucracy or the Employment Prevention Agency or an Act of Congress.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:19:28


Very precise. And precisely wrong.
Otherwise, hilarious.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T03:17:46


Is that you, Dr. Mann?


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:12:44


Nice hatchet job by Richard Harris.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T17:38:50


You ought to read it:
The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and The Corruption of Science (London, 2010) by Andrew W. Montford.

There you will discover all sorts of things including, but not limited to, Steve McIntyre's dogged effort to replicate Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick," the misuse of bristlecone pine tree rings as temperature proxies and the abuse of Principal Components Analysis.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T14:26:55


Also, see Dr. Judith Curry's blog post titled "Scientists and Motivated Reasoning." Humans remain, well, human.

http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T14:24:09



I can't define it but I know it when I see it.

-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (on pornography)


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-22T12:51:52


I'm unable to tell from your comment whether you are familiar with the fatally flawed assumptions that were incorporated in Wall Street's computer models of pools of mortgage-backed securities. In the event you are not, the use of historic mortgage default rates as a key variable in those computer models led to a horrendous underestimation of the riskiness of those securities. Regulators, managers, ratings agencies, buyers, sellers and the public who naively relied on those models were (obviously— in hindsight) badly misinformed.

Computer models of little-understood, massively complex, highly volatile, non-linear systems are largely useless. That's why replication, reproduction and verification are critically important. Blind reliance on computer models can cause disasters.

While "hundred year" floods are rare, not only do they occur, they can occur twice in one year.


Comment on: 'Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?' A Runner's Beautiful Confession

Posted 2013-08-22T12:23:02


A word of caution:
hypothermia is quite subtle. It can affect you without your being fully aware that you're being affected. I've had two experiences with it that could have been disastrous were I not in the company of someone who recognized the danger. The first episode happened when I was climbing in the rain in the Alps and the second occurred offshore in the rain aboard a sailboat.

A good rule is: if your teeth start to chatter or you're shivering, get out of the cold/wet ASAP. In those circumstances, don't tempt fate by playing the "tough guy."


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T11:53:57


Global Sea Ice Area:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/c...
There it sits— right smack dab on its 30-year (1979-2008) average

Temperatures from Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset (the CET dataset is the longest instrumental record of temperature in the world— 1772-2012)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ha...

Where's the beef?


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:31:29


None of which is necessary. Want to save money? Walk.

It's that simple.

Want to save money? Buy an automobile that gets good gasoline mileage.

See, that was easy and it didn't require government or a massive bureaucracy or the Employment Prevention Agency or an Act of Congress.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:19:28


Very precise. And precisely wrong.
Otherwise, hilarious.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T03:17:46


Is that you, Dr. Mann?


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:12:44


Nice hatchet job by Richard Harris.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T17:38:50


You ought to read it:
The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and The Corruption of Science (London, 2010) by Andrew W. Montford.

There you will discover all sorts of things including, but not limited to, Steve McIntyre's dogged effort to replicate Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick," the misuse of bristlecone pine tree rings as temperature proxies and the abuse of Principal Components Analysis.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T14:26:55


Also, see Dr. Judith Curry's blog post titled "Scientists and Motivated Reasoning." Humans remain, well, human.

http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T14:24:09



I can't define it but I know it when I see it.

-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (on pornography)


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-22T12:51:52


I'm unable to tell from your comment whether you are familiar with the fatally flawed assumptions that were incorporated in Wall Street's computer models of pools of mortgage-backed securities. In the event you are not, the use of historic mortgage default rates as a key variable in those computer models led to a horrendous underestimation of the riskiness of those securities. Regulators, managers, ratings agencies, buyers, sellers and the public who naively relied on those models were (obviously— in hindsight) badly misinformed.

Computer models of little-understood, massively complex, highly volatile, non-linear systems are largely useless. That's why replication, reproduction and verification are critically important. Blind reliance on computer models can cause disasters.

While "hundred year" floods are rare, not only do they occur, they can occur twice in one year.


Comment on: 'Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?' A Runner's Beautiful Confession

Posted 2013-08-22T12:23:02


A word of caution:
hypothermia is quite subtle. It can affect you without your being fully aware that you're being affected. I've had two experiences with it that could have been disastrous were I not in the company of someone who recognized the danger. The first episode happened when I was climbing in the rain in the Alps and the second occurred offshore in the rain aboard a sailboat.

A good rule is: if your teeth start to chatter or you're shivering, get out of the cold/wet ASAP. In those circumstances, don't tempt fate by playing the "tough guy."


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T11:53:57


Global Sea Ice Area:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/c...
There it sits— right smack dab on its 30-year (1979-2008) average

Temperatures from Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset (the CET dataset is the longest instrumental record of temperature in the world— 1772-2012)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ha...

Where's the beef?


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:31:29


None of which is necessary. Want to save money? Walk.

It's that simple.

Want to save money? Buy an automobile that gets good gasoline mileage.

See, that was easy and it didn't require government or a massive bureaucracy or the Employment Prevention Agency or an Act of Congress.


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:19:28


Very precise. And precisely wrong.
Otherwise, hilarious.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-23T03:17:46


Is that you, Dr. Mann?


Comment on: CLIMATE DOUBT

Posted 2013-08-23T03:12:44


Nice hatchet job by Richard Harris.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T17:38:50


You ought to read it:
The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and The Corruption of Science (London, 2010) by Andrew W. Montford.

There you will discover all sorts of things including, but not limited to, Steve McIntyre's dogged effort to replicate Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick," the misuse of bristlecone pine tree rings as temperature proxies and the abuse of Principal Components Analysis.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T14:26:55


Also, see Dr. Judith Curry's blog post titled "Scientists and Motivated Reasoning." Humans remain, well, human.

http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-22T14:24:09



I can't define it but I know it when I see it.

-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (on pornography)


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-22T12:51:52


I'm unable to tell from your comment whether you are familiar with the fatally flawed assumptions that were incorporated in Wall Street's computer models of pools of mortgage-backed securities. In the event you are not, the use of historic mortgage default rates as a key variable in those computer models led to a horrendous underestimation of the riskiness of those securities. Regulators, managers, ratings agencies, buyers, sellers and the public who naively relied on those models were (obviously— in hindsight) badly misinformed.

Computer models of little-understood, massively complex, highly volatile, non-linear systems are largely useless. That's why replication, reproduction and verification are critically important. Blind reliance on computer models can cause disasters.

While "hundred year" floods are rare, not only do they occur, they can occur twice in one year.


Comment on: 'Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?' A Runner's Beautiful Confession

Posted 2013-08-22T12:23:02


A word of caution:
hypothermia is quite subtle. It can affect you without your being fully aware that you're being affected. I've had two experiences with it that could have been disastrous were I not in the company of someone who recognized the danger. The first episode happened when I was climbing in the rain in the Alps and the second occurred offshore in the rain aboard a sailboat.

A good rule is: if your teeth start to chatter or you're shivering, get out of the cold/wet ASAP. In those circumstances, don't tempt fate by playing the "tough guy."


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-22T11:56:07


Computer models have a place and are useful when the underlying process or science is mature, known and settled.

When used where the underlying system is not understood, computer models may be interesting but they have little utility (see the Club of Rome's The Limits To Growth, see also Wall Street's recent experience with computer models of mortgage-backed securities and derivatives).

In fact, in the hands of incompetents, proselytizers or sales people, computer models are flat-out misleading and dangerous.


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-21T21:34:56


Your cluelessness about Mikey "Piltdown" Mann's fraud/incompetence and the blind eye of those who purported to "peer review" it is what's comical.


Comment on: 'Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?' A Runner's Beautiful Confession

Posted 2013-08-21T20:20:28


I need to know that I'm easily able to clock off five miles through the forest and across country. It makes me feel good. I'm Daniel Day-Lewis/Hawkeye running deer to ground.

I no longer need to do marathons; I know I can, if I want to but I no longer want to endure that much discomfort.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-21T20:16:20


ROTFL.


The IPCC is about to throw Mikey "Piltdown" Mann and his "Hockey Stick" under the bus.


Comment on: ACT: Only Quarter Of Grads Ready For All Subjects

Posted 2013-08-21T17:50:12


Yet Big Government and Big Education keeps on encouraging (and subsidizing) them to go to "Kollidge."


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-21T16:25:09


Every time you defend Mikey "Piltdown" Mann's hockey stick, you damage your own credibility and that of science.


Comment on: Conn. Firm Lured To N.C. By Incentives And

Posted 2013-08-21T16:16:19


Spell check is an invention of the devil.


Comment on: The Dangers of Being Right

Posted 2013-08-21T13:44:17


Humans are still humans.

Dr. Judith Curry has a fascinating piece on her blog:
Scientists and Motivated Reasoning
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: Police: Australian Player Killed By

Posted 2013-08-21T13:36:46


Sick.


Comment on: Why Instant Ramen Noodles Could Save The World

Posted 2013-08-21T00:39:52


With little scientific basis and no reason, the CAGW zealots and propagandists want to artificially raise the cost of energy [and collaterally, food prices] thereby plunging those on the margin into energy poverty and food insufficiency.


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-22T11:56:07


Computer models have a place and are useful when the underlying process or science is mature, known and settled.

When used where the underlying system is not understood, computer models may be interesting but they have little utility (see the Club of Rome's The Limits To Growth, see also Wall Street's recent experience with computer models of mortgage-backed securities and derivatives).

In fact, in the hands of incompetents, proselytizers or sales people, computer models are flat-out misleading and dangerous.


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-21T21:34:56


Your cluelessness about Mikey "Piltdown" Mann's fraud/incompetence and the blind eye of those who purported to "peer review" it is what's comical.


Comment on: 'Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?' A Runner's Beautiful Confession

Posted 2013-08-21T20:20:28


I need to know that I'm easily able to clock off five miles through the forest and across country. It makes me feel good. I'm Daniel Day-Lewis/Hawkeye running deer to ground.

I no longer need to do marathons; I know I can, if I want to but I no longer want to endure that much discomfort.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-21T20:16:20


ROTFL.


The IPCC is about to throw Mikey "Piltdown" Mann and his "Hockey Stick" under the bus.


Comment on: ACT: Only Quarter Of Grads Ready For All Subjects

Posted 2013-08-21T17:50:12


Yet Big Government and Big Education keeps on encouraging (and subsidizing) them to go to "Kollidge."


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-21T16:25:09


Every time you defend Mikey "Piltdown" Mann's hockey stick, you damage your own credibility and that of science.


Comment on: Conn. Firm Lured To N.C. By Incentives And

Posted 2013-08-21T16:16:19


Spell check is an invention of the devil.


Comment on: The Dangers of Being Right

Posted 2013-08-21T13:44:17


Humans are still humans.

Dr. Judith Curry has a fascinating piece on her blog:
Scientists and Motivated Reasoning
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: Police: Australian Player Killed By

Posted 2013-08-21T13:36:46


Sick.


Comment on: Why Instant Ramen Noodles Could Save The World

Posted 2013-08-21T00:39:52


With little scientific basis and no reason, the CAGW zealots and propagandists want to artificially raise the cost of energy [and collaterally, food prices] thereby plunging those on the margin into energy poverty and food insufficiency.


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-22T11:56:07


Computer models have a place and are useful when the underlying process or science is mature, known and settled.

When used where the underlying system is not understood, computer models may be interesting but they have little utility (see the Club of Rome's The Limits To Growth, see also Wall Street's recent experience with computer models of mortgage-backed securities and derivatives).

In fact, in the hands of incompetents, proselytizers or sales people, computer models are flat-out misleading and dangerous.


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-21T21:34:56


Your cluelessness about Mikey "Piltdown" Mann's fraud/incompetence and the blind eye of those who purported to "peer review" it is what's comical.


Comment on: 'Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?' A Runner's Beautiful Confession

Posted 2013-08-21T20:20:28


I need to know that I'm easily able to clock off five miles through the forest and across country. It makes me feel good. I'm Daniel Day-Lewis/Hawkeye running deer to ground.

I no longer need to do marathons; I know I can, if I want to but I no longer want to endure that much discomfort.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-21T20:16:20


ROTFL.


The IPCC is about to throw Mikey "Piltdown" Mann and his "Hockey Stick" under the bus.


Comment on: ACT: Only Quarter Of Grads Ready For All Subjects

Posted 2013-08-21T17:50:12


Yet Big Government and Big Education keeps on encouraging (and subsidizing) them to go to "Kollidge."


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-21T16:25:09


Every time you defend Mikey "Piltdown" Mann's hockey stick, you damage your own credibility and that of science.


Comment on: Conn. Firm Lured To N.C. By Incentives And

Posted 2013-08-21T16:16:19


Spell check is an invention of the devil.


Comment on: The Dangers of Being Right

Posted 2013-08-21T13:44:17


Humans are still humans.

Dr. Judith Curry has a fascinating piece on her blog:
Scientists and Motivated Reasoning
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: Police: Australian Player Killed By

Posted 2013-08-21T13:36:46


Sick.


Comment on: Why Instant Ramen Noodles Could Save The World

Posted 2013-08-21T00:39:52


With little scientific basis and no reason, the CAGW zealots and propagandists want to artificially raise the cost of energy [and collaterally, food prices] thereby plunging those on the margin into energy poverty and food insufficiency.


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-22T11:56:07


Computer models have a place and are useful when the underlying process or science is mature, known and settled.

When used where the underlying system is not understood, computer models may be interesting but they have little utility (see the Club of Rome's The Limits To Growth, see also Wall Street's recent experience with computer models of mortgage-backed securities and derivatives).

In fact, in the hands of incompetents, proselytizers or sales people, computer models are flat-out misleading and dangerous.


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-21T21:34:56


Your cluelessness about Mikey "Piltdown" Mann's fraud/incompetence and the blind eye of those who purported to "peer review" it is what's comical.


Comment on: 'Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?' A Runner's Beautiful Confession

Posted 2013-08-21T20:20:28


I need to know that I'm easily able to clock off five miles through the forest and across country. It makes me feel good. I'm Daniel Day-Lewis/Hawkeye running deer to ground.

I no longer need to do marathons; I know I can, if I want to but I no longer want to endure that much discomfort.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-21T20:16:20


ROTFL.


The IPCC is about to throw Mikey "Piltdown" Mann and his "Hockey Stick" under the bus.


Comment on: ACT: Only Quarter Of Grads Ready For All Subjects

Posted 2013-08-21T17:50:12


Yet Big Government and Big Education keeps on encouraging (and subsidizing) them to go to "Kollidge."


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-21T16:25:09


Every time you defend Mikey "Piltdown" Mann's hockey stick, you damage your own credibility and that of science.


Comment on: Conn. Firm Lured To N.C. By Incentives And

Posted 2013-08-21T16:16:19


Spell check is an invention of the devil.


Comment on: The Dangers of Being Right

Posted 2013-08-21T13:44:17


Humans are still humans.

Dr. Judith Curry has a fascinating piece on her blog:
Scientists and Motivated Reasoning
http://judithcurry.com/2013/08...


Comment on: Police: Australian Player Killed By

Posted 2013-08-21T13:36:46


Sick.


Comment on: Why Instant Ramen Noodles Could Save The World

Posted 2013-08-21T00:39:52


With little scientific basis and no reason, the CAGW zealots and propagandists want to artificially raise the cost of energy [and collaterally, food prices] thereby plunging those on the margin into energy poverty and food insufficiency.


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T13:16:33


Evidence? Evidence?


We don't need no stinkin' evidence !!



Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T11:24:10


Rain, of course, isn't normal.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-20T11:20:03


News flash. Sea levels drop.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T20:05:07


You won't bother to watch because you don't want your preconceived notions challenged but it's possible those who are truly interested in the field might take the time to investigate.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...


I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.

-Anthony Watts


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T18:17:47


You (obviously) haven't looked at Mann's use of bristlecone pine tree rings and you haven't examined his abuse of principal components analysis in his invention of The Hockey Stick, which everyone now agrees is peripheral to the global warming hypothesis, but was nevertheless promoted by the IPCC as if it meant something.



Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T16:30:19


When you defend Mikey Mann, you defend fraud and/or incompetence. It's that simple.

The "Hockey Stick" Team has behaved abominably— in direct contravention of all that science is supposed to stand for. In so doing, they have severely damaged science in general and climatology in particular.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-18T23:24:40


Self-portrait by John Cook, proprietor of the wildly misnamed "Skeptical Science" blog:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.w...

Do ask Mr. Cook (former cartoonist) why that image was on the skepticalscience website ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/201... )


Comment on: Is Weak Evidence Better Than No Evidence?

Posted 2013-08-18T23:15:16


Can you read? I'm beginning to doubt it.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T20:50:38


Fish? Taxonomy, obviously, isn't your strong suit. Stick to proselytizing bad science.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T16:05:15


N'est-ce pas.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/pl...
or would you prefer NASA's satellite-based temperature of the global lower atmosphere (UAH) or RSS-MSU?


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T13:16:33


Evidence? Evidence?


We don't need no stinkin' evidence !!



Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T11:24:10


Rain, of course, isn't normal.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-20T11:20:03


News flash. Sea levels drop.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T20:05:07


You won't bother to watch because you don't want your preconceived notions challenged but it's possible those who are truly interested in the field might take the time to investigate.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...


I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.

-Anthony Watts


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T18:17:47


You (obviously) haven't looked at Mann's use of bristlecone pine tree rings and you haven't examined his abuse of principal components analysis in his invention of The Hockey Stick, which everyone now agrees is peripheral to the global warming hypothesis, but was nevertheless promoted by the IPCC as if it meant something.



Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T16:30:19


When you defend Mikey Mann, you defend fraud and/or incompetence. It's that simple.

The "Hockey Stick" Team has behaved abominably— in direct contravention of all that science is supposed to stand for. In so doing, they have severely damaged science in general and climatology in particular.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-18T23:24:40


Self-portrait by John Cook, proprietor of the wildly misnamed "Skeptical Science" blog:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.w...

Do ask Mr. Cook (former cartoonist) why that image was on the skepticalscience website ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/201... )


Comment on: Is Weak Evidence Better Than No Evidence?

Posted 2013-08-18T23:15:16


Can you read? I'm beginning to doubt it.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T20:50:38


Fish? Taxonomy, obviously, isn't your strong suit. Stick to proselytizing bad science.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T16:05:15


N'est-ce pas.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/pl...
or would you prefer NASA's satellite-based temperature of the global lower atmosphere (UAH) or RSS-MSU?


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T13:16:33


Evidence? Evidence?


We don't need no stinkin' evidence !!



Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T11:24:10


Rain, of course, isn't normal.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-20T11:20:03


News flash. Sea levels drop.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T20:05:07


You won't bother to watch because you don't want your preconceived notions challenged but it's possible those who are truly interested in the field might take the time to investigate.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...


I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.

-Anthony Watts


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T18:17:47


You (obviously) haven't looked at Mann's use of bristlecone pine tree rings and you haven't examined his abuse of principal components analysis in his invention of The Hockey Stick, which everyone now agrees is peripheral to the global warming hypothesis, but was nevertheless promoted by the IPCC as if it meant something.



Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T16:30:19


When you defend Mikey Mann, you defend fraud and/or incompetence. It's that simple.

The "Hockey Stick" Team has behaved abominably— in direct contravention of all that science is supposed to stand for. In so doing, they have severely damaged science in general and climatology in particular.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-18T23:24:40


Self-portrait by John Cook, proprietor of the wildly misnamed "Skeptical Science" blog:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.w...

Do ask Mr. Cook (former cartoonist) why that image was on the skepticalscience website ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/201... )


Comment on: Is Weak Evidence Better Than No Evidence?

Posted 2013-08-18T23:15:16


Can you read? I'm beginning to doubt it.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T20:50:38


Fish? Taxonomy, obviously, isn't your strong suit. Stick to proselytizing bad science.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T16:05:15


N'est-ce pas.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/pl...
or would you prefer NASA's satellite-based temperature of the global lower atmosphere (UAH) or RSS-MSU?


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T13:16:33


Evidence? Evidence?


We don't need no stinkin' evidence !!



Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T11:24:10


Rain, of course, isn't normal.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-20T11:20:03


News flash. Sea levels drop.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T20:05:07


You won't bother to watch because you don't want your preconceived notions challenged but it's possible those who are truly interested in the field might take the time to investigate.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...


I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.

-Anthony Watts


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T18:17:47


You (obviously) haven't looked at Mann's use of bristlecone pine tree rings and you haven't examined his abuse of principal components analysis in his invention of The Hockey Stick, which everyone now agrees is peripheral to the global warming hypothesis, but was nevertheless promoted by the IPCC as if it meant something.



Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T16:30:19


When you defend Mikey Mann, you defend fraud and/or incompetence. It's that simple.

The "Hockey Stick" Team has behaved abominably— in direct contravention of all that science is supposed to stand for. In so doing, they have severely damaged science in general and climatology in particular.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-18T23:24:40


Self-portrait by John Cook, proprietor of the wildly misnamed "Skeptical Science" blog:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.w...

Do ask Mr. Cook (former cartoonist) why that image was on the skepticalscience website ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/201... )


Comment on: Is Weak Evidence Better Than No Evidence?

Posted 2013-08-18T23:15:16


Can you read? I'm beginning to doubt it.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T20:50:38


Fish? Taxonomy, obviously, isn't your strong suit. Stick to proselytizing bad science.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T16:05:15


N'est-ce pas.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/pl...
or would you prefer NASA's satellite-based temperature of the global lower atmosphere (UAH) or RSS-MSU?


Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T13:16:33


Evidence? Evidence?


We don't need no stinkin' evidence !!



Comment on: Sea Level Seesaw: Why Australian Rains Made Ocean Levels Drop

Posted 2013-08-20T11:24:10


Rain, of course, isn't normal.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-20T11:20:03


News flash. Sea levels drop.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T20:05:07


You won't bother to watch because you don't want your preconceived notions challenged but it's possible those who are truly interested in the field might take the time to investigate.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...


I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.

-Anthony Watts


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T18:17:47


You (obviously) haven't looked at Mann's use of bristlecone pine tree rings and you haven't examined his abuse of principal components analysis in his invention of The Hockey Stick, which everyone now agrees is peripheral to the global warming hypothesis, but was nevertheless promoted by the IPCC as if it meant something.



Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-19T16:30:19


When you defend Mikey Mann, you defend fraud and/or incompetence. It's that simple.

The "Hockey Stick" Team has behaved abominably— in direct contravention of all that science is supposed to stand for. In so doing, they have severely damaged science in general and climatology in particular.


Comment on: NASA: Russian Meteor Threw Up Globe-Girdling Plume Of Debris

Posted 2013-08-18T23:24:40


Self-portrait by John Cook, proprietor of the wildly misnamed "Skeptical Science" blog:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.w...

Do ask Mr. Cook (former cartoonist) why that image was on the skepticalscience website ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/201... )


Comment on: Is Weak Evidence Better Than No Evidence?

Posted 2013-08-18T23:15:16


Can you read? I'm beginning to doubt it.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T20:50:38


Fish? Taxonomy, obviously, isn't your strong suit. Stick to proselytizing bad science.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T16:05:15


N'est-ce pas.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/pl...
or would you prefer NASA's satellite-based temperature of the global lower atmosphere (UAH) or RSS-MSU?


Comment on: Menschs, Martinis And Manuscripts: Publishing In The Old Days

Posted 2013-08-18T11:28:53


When I look at my overloaded bookshelves, I see the imprimatur of Knopf, Random House, Morrow, Norton, Viking and FSG on the vast majority of those book spines.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T01:41:38


Sixteen (16) years of little-to-no warming. Zero. Nil. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Bupkis.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-17T18:49:00


Cue Christopher Joyce or Richard Harris or Elizabeth Shogren to blame it all on catastrophic anthropogenic global warming climate disruption extreme weather climate change.


Comment on: A Gossipy, Nostalgic Look Back On A Publishing

Posted 2013-08-17T16:15:04


Give me Knopf; it's not the powerhouse of the heyday of Alfred A. and H. L. Mencken but its imprimatur still carries a lot of weight with me.


Comment on: Shipping

Posted 2013-08-17T16:09:08


Malcolm McLean singlehandedly put a lot of longshoremen out of work and revolutionized the world. His ingenuity benefited all of us. Those of us who make trans-oceanic passages aboard small sailboats will tell you that one of our greatest fears is colliding with a semi-submerged container in the middle of the night— that's the stuff of nightmares.

There are currently only two East Coast U.S. ports with channels that are sufficiently deep to handle "Post-Panamax" ships: Baltimore and Norfolk.


Comment on: Island Reads: Finding Out Ancestors Were Slave Owners

Posted 2013-08-17T13:38:10


The legacy of slavery in the "Sugar Islands" remains today and will continue for centuries. The 19th century abolition of slavery left a large population in place with no means of earning a living. The descendants wrestle with the residual problem to this very day. The vision of immense brilliant green sugar cane fields stretching to the cobalt blue Caribbean horizon is one I will carry to the grave.

I will run a copy of Ms. Stuart's book to ground.


Comment on: Al Jezeera America Will Have To Work Hard To Win Viewers

Posted 2013-08-16T22:32:50


The hypocrisy of "Fat Albert" (a/k/a "We're All Going to Boil") Gore getting filthy rich by selling out to a Middle East oil producer is a message for the "useful idiots" who have become intoxicated by Al's Klimate Kool-Aid.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-16T19:56:33


Get some professional help for your disorder.


Comment on: Stock Market Falls As U.S. Economy Does Better

Posted 2013-08-16T11:57:49


Wessel is an idiot. He has no idea what he is talking about. Mixing economics with the stock market is a guarantied mash-up.
Talking down to his audience of economic illiterates makes it even worse.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-16T10:29:23


I'll tell you what. I'll pay the $30 if you pay the $1.80.


Comment on: Menschs, Martinis And Manuscripts: Publishing In The Old Days

Posted 2013-08-18T11:28:53


When I look at my overloaded bookshelves, I see the imprimatur of Knopf, Random House, Morrow, Norton, Viking and FSG on the vast majority of those book spines.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T01:41:38


Sixteen (16) years of little-to-no warming. Zero. Nil. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Bupkis.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-17T18:49:00


Cue Christopher Joyce or Richard Harris or Elizabeth Shogren to blame it all on catastrophic anthropogenic global warming climate disruption extreme weather climate change.


Comment on: A Gossipy, Nostalgic Look Back On A Publishing

Posted 2013-08-17T16:15:04


Give me Knopf; it's not the powerhouse of the heyday of Alfred A. and H. L. Mencken but its imprimatur still carries a lot of weight with me.


Comment on: Shipping

Posted 2013-08-17T16:09:08


Malcolm McLean singlehandedly put a lot of longshoremen out of work and revolutionized the world. His ingenuity benefited all of us. Those of us who make trans-oceanic passages aboard small sailboats will tell you that one of our greatest fears is colliding with a semi-submerged container in the middle of the night— that's the stuff of nightmares.

There are currently only two East Coast U.S. ports with channels that are sufficiently deep to handle "Post-Panamax" ships: Baltimore and Norfolk.


Comment on: Island Reads: Finding Out Ancestors Were Slave Owners

Posted 2013-08-17T13:38:10


The legacy of slavery in the "Sugar Islands" remains today and will continue for centuries. The 19th century abolition of slavery left a large population in place with no means of earning a living. The descendants wrestle with the residual problem to this very day. The vision of immense brilliant green sugar cane fields stretching to the cobalt blue Caribbean horizon is one I will carry to the grave.

I will run a copy of Ms. Stuart's book to ground.


Comment on: Al Jezeera America Will Have To Work Hard To Win Viewers

Posted 2013-08-16T22:32:50


The hypocrisy of "Fat Albert" (a/k/a "We're All Going to Boil") Gore getting filthy rich by selling out to a Middle East oil producer is a message for the "useful idiots" who have become intoxicated by Al's Klimate Kool-Aid.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-16T19:56:33


Get some professional help for your disorder.


Comment on: Stock Market Falls As U.S. Economy Does Better

Posted 2013-08-16T11:57:49


Wessel is an idiot. He has no idea what he is talking about. Mixing economics with the stock market is a guarantied mash-up.
Talking down to his audience of economic illiterates makes it even worse.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-16T10:29:23


I'll tell you what. I'll pay the $30 if you pay the $1.80.


Comment on: Menschs, Martinis And Manuscripts: Publishing In The Old Days

Posted 2013-08-18T11:28:53


When I look at my overloaded bookshelves, I see the imprimatur of Knopf, Random House, Morrow, Norton, Viking and FSG on the vast majority of those book spines.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T01:41:38


Sixteen (16) years of little-to-no warming. Zero. Nil. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Bupkis.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-17T18:49:00


Cue Christopher Joyce or Richard Harris or Elizabeth Shogren to blame it all on catastrophic anthropogenic global warming climate disruption extreme weather climate change.


Comment on: A Gossipy, Nostalgic Look Back On A Publishing

Posted 2013-08-17T16:15:04


Give me Knopf; it's not the powerhouse of the heyday of Alfred A. and H. L. Mencken but its imprimatur still carries a lot of weight with me.


Comment on: Shipping

Posted 2013-08-17T16:09:08


Malcolm McLean singlehandedly put a lot of longshoremen out of work and revolutionized the world. His ingenuity benefited all of us. Those of us who make trans-oceanic passages aboard small sailboats will tell you that one of our greatest fears is colliding with a semi-submerged container in the middle of the night— that's the stuff of nightmares.

There are currently only two East Coast U.S. ports with channels that are sufficiently deep to handle "Post-Panamax" ships: Baltimore and Norfolk.


Comment on: Island Reads: Finding Out Ancestors Were Slave Owners

Posted 2013-08-17T13:38:10


The legacy of slavery in the "Sugar Islands" remains today and will continue for centuries. The 19th century abolition of slavery left a large population in place with no means of earning a living. The descendants wrestle with the residual problem to this very day. The vision of immense brilliant green sugar cane fields stretching to the cobalt blue Caribbean horizon is one I will carry to the grave.

I will run a copy of Ms. Stuart's book to ground.


Comment on: Al Jezeera America Will Have To Work Hard To Win Viewers

Posted 2013-08-16T22:32:50


The hypocrisy of "Fat Albert" (a/k/a "We're All Going to Boil") Gore getting filthy rich by selling out to a Middle East oil producer is a message for the "useful idiots" who have become intoxicated by Al's Klimate Kool-Aid.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-16T19:56:33


Get some professional help for your disorder.


Comment on: Stock Market Falls As U.S. Economy Does Better

Posted 2013-08-16T11:57:49


Wessel is an idiot. He has no idea what he is talking about. Mixing economics with the stock market is a guarantied mash-up.
Talking down to his audience of economic illiterates makes it even worse.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-16T10:29:23


I'll tell you what. I'll pay the $30 if you pay the $1.80.


Comment on: Menschs, Martinis And Manuscripts: Publishing In The Old Days

Posted 2013-08-18T11:28:53


When I look at my overloaded bookshelves, I see the imprimatur of Knopf, Random House, Morrow, Norton, Viking and FSG on the vast majority of those book spines.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T01:41:38


Sixteen (16) years of little-to-no warming. Zero. Nil. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Bupkis.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-17T18:49:00


Cue Christopher Joyce or Richard Harris or Elizabeth Shogren to blame it all on catastrophic anthropogenic global warming climate disruption extreme weather climate change.


Comment on: A Gossipy, Nostalgic Look Back On A Publishing

Posted 2013-08-17T16:15:04


Give me Knopf; it's not the powerhouse of the heyday of Alfred A. and H. L. Mencken but its imprimatur still carries a lot of weight with me.


Comment on: Shipping

Posted 2013-08-17T16:09:08


Malcolm McLean singlehandedly put a lot of longshoremen out of work and revolutionized the world. His ingenuity benefited all of us. Those of us who make trans-oceanic passages aboard small sailboats will tell you that one of our greatest fears is colliding with a semi-submerged container in the middle of the night— that's the stuff of nightmares.

There are currently only two East Coast U.S. ports with channels that are sufficiently deep to handle "Post-Panamax" ships: Baltimore and Norfolk.


Comment on: Island Reads: Finding Out Ancestors Were Slave Owners

Posted 2013-08-17T13:38:10


The legacy of slavery in the "Sugar Islands" remains today and will continue for centuries. The 19th century abolition of slavery left a large population in place with no means of earning a living. The descendants wrestle with the residual problem to this very day. The vision of immense brilliant green sugar cane fields stretching to the cobalt blue Caribbean horizon is one I will carry to the grave.

I will run a copy of Ms. Stuart's book to ground.


Comment on: Al Jezeera America Will Have To Work Hard To Win Viewers

Posted 2013-08-16T22:32:50


The hypocrisy of "Fat Albert" (a/k/a "We're All Going to Boil") Gore getting filthy rich by selling out to a Middle East oil producer is a message for the "useful idiots" who have become intoxicated by Al's Klimate Kool-Aid.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-16T19:56:33


Get some professional help for your disorder.


Comment on: Stock Market Falls As U.S. Economy Does Better

Posted 2013-08-16T11:57:49


Wessel is an idiot. He has no idea what he is talking about. Mixing economics with the stock market is a guarantied mash-up.
Talking down to his audience of economic illiterates makes it even worse.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-16T10:29:23


I'll tell you what. I'll pay the $30 if you pay the $1.80.


Comment on: Menschs, Martinis And Manuscripts: Publishing In The Old Days

Posted 2013-08-18T11:28:53


When I look at my overloaded bookshelves, I see the imprimatur of Knopf, Random House, Morrow, Norton, Viking and FSG on the vast majority of those book spines.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T01:41:38


Sixteen (16) years of little-to-no warming. Zero. Nil. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Bupkis.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-17T18:49:00


Cue Christopher Joyce or Richard Harris or Elizabeth Shogren to blame it all on catastrophic anthropogenic global warming climate disruption extreme weather climate change.


Comment on: A Gossipy, Nostalgic Look Back On A Publishing

Posted 2013-08-17T16:15:04


Give me Knopf; it's not the powerhouse of the heyday of Alfred A. and H. L. Mencken but its imprimatur still carries a lot of weight with me.


Comment on: Shipping

Posted 2013-08-17T16:09:08


Malcolm McLean singlehandedly put a lot of longshoremen out of work and revolutionized the world. His ingenuity benefited all of us. Those of us who make trans-oceanic passages aboard small sailboats will tell you that one of our greatest fears is colliding with a semi-submerged container in the middle of the night— that's the stuff of nightmares.

There are currently only two East Coast U.S. ports with channels that are sufficiently deep to handle "Post-Panamax" ships: Baltimore and Norfolk.


Comment on: Island Reads: Finding Out Ancestors Were Slave Owners

Posted 2013-08-17T13:38:10


The legacy of slavery in the "Sugar Islands" remains today and will continue for centuries. The 19th century abolition of slavery left a large population in place with no means of earning a living. The descendants wrestle with the residual problem to this very day. The vision of immense brilliant green sugar cane fields stretching to the cobalt blue Caribbean horizon is one I will carry to the grave.

I will run a copy of Ms. Stuart's book to ground.


Comment on: Al Jezeera America Will Have To Work Hard To Win Viewers

Posted 2013-08-16T22:32:50


The hypocrisy of "Fat Albert" (a/k/a "We're All Going to Boil") Gore getting filthy rich by selling out to a Middle East oil producer is a message for the "useful idiots" who have become intoxicated by Al's Klimate Kool-Aid.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-16T19:56:33


Get some professional help for your disorder.


Comment on: Stock Market Falls As U.S. Economy Does Better

Posted 2013-08-16T11:57:49


Wessel is an idiot. He has no idea what he is talking about. Mixing economics with the stock market is a guarantied mash-up.
Talking down to his audience of economic illiterates makes it even worse.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-16T10:29:23


I'll tell you what. I'll pay the $30 if you pay the $1.80.


Comment on: Menschs, Martinis And Manuscripts: Publishing In The Old Days

Posted 2013-08-18T11:28:53


When I look at my overloaded bookshelves, I see the imprimatur of Knopf, Random House, Morrow, Norton, Viking and FSG on the vast majority of those book spines.


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-18T01:41:38


Sixteen (16) years of little-to-no warming. Zero. Nil. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Bupkis.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...


Comment on: Mid-Atlantic Dolphin Die-Off Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Posted 2013-08-17T18:49:00


Cue Christopher Joyce or Richard Harris or Elizabeth Shogren to blame it all on catastrophic anthropogenic global warming climate disruption extreme weather climate change.


Comment on: A Gossipy, Nostalgic Look Back On A Publishing

Posted 2013-08-17T16:15:04


Give me Knopf; it's not the powerhouse of the heyday of Alfred A. and H. L. Mencken but its imprimatur still carries a lot of weight with me.


Comment on: Shipping

Posted 2013-08-17T16:09:08


Malcolm McLean singlehandedly put a lot of longshoremen out of work and revolutionized the world. His ingenuity benefited all of us. Those of us who make trans-oceanic passages aboard small sailboats will tell you that one of our greatest fears is colliding with a semi-submerged container in the middle of the night— that's the stuff of nightmares.

There are currently only two East Coast U.S. ports with channels that are sufficiently deep to handle "Post-Panamax" ships: Baltimore and Norfolk.


Comment on: Island Reads: Finding Out Ancestors Were Slave Owners

Posted 2013-08-17T13:38:10


The legacy of slavery in the "Sugar Islands" remains today and will continue for centuries. The 19th century abolition of slavery left a large population in place with no means of earning a living. The descendants wrestle with the residual problem to this very day. The vision of immense brilliant green sugar cane fields stretching to the cobalt blue Caribbean horizon is one I will carry to the grave.

I will run a copy of Ms. Stuart's book to ground.


Comment on: Al Jezeera America Will Have To Work Hard To Win Viewers

Posted 2013-08-16T22:32:50


The hypocrisy of "Fat Albert" (a/k/a "We're All Going to Boil") Gore getting filthy rich by selling out to a Middle East oil producer is a message for the "useful idiots" who have become intoxicated by Al's Klimate Kool-Aid.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-16T19:56:33


Get some professional help for your disorder.


Comment on: Stock Market Falls As U.S. Economy Does Better

Posted 2013-08-16T11:57:49


Wessel is an idiot. He has no idea what he is talking about. Mixing economics with the stock market is a guarantied mash-up.
Talking down to his audience of economic illiterates makes it even worse.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-16T10:29:23


I'll tell you what. I'll pay the $30 if you pay the $1.80.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T23:15:11


What next? Eugenics?


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:37:06


Yeah, good idea! Let's make the tax system even more complicated.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:02:19


Hardly. It's government's voracious appetite for spending.

Here's a history of one state's sales taxes. For more than a century and a half, my state got along just fine with NO sales tax.

Then, they introduced a 2% sales tax in 1947.

In 1959 the sales tax increased to 3 percent.

It became 4 percent in 1968.

In 1977, sales tax increased to 5 percent.

The sales tax rate increased to 6 percent in 2007.

Now, I simply don't spend. I'll be dam*ed if I'm going to pay $1.80 extra every time I buy a $30 book.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T21:23:45


"Pious" owners think other people should pay taxes.

"Pious" owners think more expensive electricity is a good thing.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T20:27:01


I forgot— It's NPR. Nobody knows anything about economics or temperatures or facts. Everything is fine as long as it's somebody else's money.

The times may be changing but the temperatures aren't.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:42:42


There are no current subsidies for hydrocarbon-based energy companies beyond those that are currently available to every resource company (e.g. timber or mining companies). Those who believe otherwise are either badly misinformed or intentionally spreading falsehoods.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:37:24


The immature soi-disant "science" of climatology isn't anywhere close to understanding the climate system. We've now had sixteen (16) straight years of little-to-no warming.

The climate system is a wickedly complex, dynamic, multivariate, non-linear system that is not understood.

What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T11:46:51


Since when is a 50% increase in the cost of electricity a good thing? Since that makes you so happy, I think you should pay for it.

Insanity brought to you by:
Bad Science + Propaganda + Delusion = http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: The Disaster Scenario Power Companies Aren

Posted 2013-08-15T11:41:57


...and who pays for that "public asset?"

...and what incentives exist to control costs? (we've all know what happens when a "cost plus" system is in place).


Comment on: Flood Insurance Rates Skyrocket In Coastal Communities

Posted 2013-08-14T23:15:52


It's about time. This is long overdue.

Rising sea levels, my foot. We've now had sixteen (16) years of no significant warming.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T23:15:11


What next? Eugenics?


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:37:06


Yeah, good idea! Let's make the tax system even more complicated.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:02:19


Hardly. It's government's voracious appetite for spending.

Here's a history of one state's sales taxes. For more than a century and a half, my state got along just fine with NO sales tax.

Then, they introduced a 2% sales tax in 1947.

In 1959 the sales tax increased to 3 percent.

It became 4 percent in 1968.

In 1977, sales tax increased to 5 percent.

The sales tax rate increased to 6 percent in 2007.

Now, I simply don't spend. I'll be dam*ed if I'm going to pay $1.80 extra every time I buy a $30 book.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T21:23:45


"Pious" owners think other people should pay taxes.

"Pious" owners think more expensive electricity is a good thing.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T20:27:01


I forgot— It's NPR. Nobody knows anything about economics or temperatures or facts. Everything is fine as long as it's somebody else's money.

The times may be changing but the temperatures aren't.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:42:42


There are no current subsidies for hydrocarbon-based energy companies beyond those that are currently available to every resource company (e.g. timber or mining companies). Those who believe otherwise are either badly misinformed or intentionally spreading falsehoods.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:37:24


The immature soi-disant "science" of climatology isn't anywhere close to understanding the climate system. We've now had sixteen (16) straight years of little-to-no warming.

The climate system is a wickedly complex, dynamic, multivariate, non-linear system that is not understood.

What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T11:46:51


Since when is a 50% increase in the cost of electricity a good thing? Since that makes you so happy, I think you should pay for it.

Insanity brought to you by:
Bad Science + Propaganda + Delusion = http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: The Disaster Scenario Power Companies Aren

Posted 2013-08-15T11:41:57


...and who pays for that "public asset?"

...and what incentives exist to control costs? (we've all know what happens when a "cost plus" system is in place).


Comment on: Flood Insurance Rates Skyrocket In Coastal Communities

Posted 2013-08-14T23:15:52


It's about time. This is long overdue.

Rising sea levels, my foot. We've now had sixteen (16) years of no significant warming.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T23:15:11


What next? Eugenics?


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:37:06


Yeah, good idea! Let's make the tax system even more complicated.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:02:19


Hardly. It's government's voracious appetite for spending.

Here's a history of one state's sales taxes. For more than a century and a half, my state got along just fine with NO sales tax.

Then, they introduced a 2% sales tax in 1947.

In 1959 the sales tax increased to 3 percent.

It became 4 percent in 1968.

In 1977, sales tax increased to 5 percent.

The sales tax rate increased to 6 percent in 2007.

Now, I simply don't spend. I'll be dam*ed if I'm going to pay $1.80 extra every time I buy a $30 book.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T21:23:45


"Pious" owners think other people should pay taxes.

"Pious" owners think more expensive electricity is a good thing.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T20:27:01


I forgot— It's NPR. Nobody knows anything about economics or temperatures or facts. Everything is fine as long as it's somebody else's money.

The times may be changing but the temperatures aren't.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:42:42


There are no current subsidies for hydrocarbon-based energy companies beyond those that are currently available to every resource company (e.g. timber or mining companies). Those who believe otherwise are either badly misinformed or intentionally spreading falsehoods.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:37:24


The immature soi-disant "science" of climatology isn't anywhere close to understanding the climate system. We've now had sixteen (16) straight years of little-to-no warming.

The climate system is a wickedly complex, dynamic, multivariate, non-linear system that is not understood.

What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T11:46:51


Since when is a 50% increase in the cost of electricity a good thing? Since that makes you so happy, I think you should pay for it.

Insanity brought to you by:
Bad Science + Propaganda + Delusion = http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: The Disaster Scenario Power Companies Aren

Posted 2013-08-15T11:41:57


...and who pays for that "public asset?"

...and what incentives exist to control costs? (we've all know what happens when a "cost plus" system is in place).


Comment on: Flood Insurance Rates Skyrocket In Coastal Communities

Posted 2013-08-14T23:15:52


It's about time. This is long overdue.

Rising sea levels, my foot. We've now had sixteen (16) years of no significant warming.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T23:15:11


What next? Eugenics?


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:37:06


Yeah, good idea! Let's make the tax system even more complicated.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:02:19


Hardly. It's government's voracious appetite for spending.

Here's a history of one state's sales taxes. For more than a century and a half, my state got along just fine with NO sales tax.

Then, they introduced a 2% sales tax in 1947.

In 1959 the sales tax increased to 3 percent.

It became 4 percent in 1968.

In 1977, sales tax increased to 5 percent.

The sales tax rate increased to 6 percent in 2007.

Now, I simply don't spend. I'll be dam*ed if I'm going to pay $1.80 extra every time I buy a $30 book.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T21:23:45


"Pious" owners think other people should pay taxes.

"Pious" owners think more expensive electricity is a good thing.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T20:27:01


I forgot— It's NPR. Nobody knows anything about economics or temperatures or facts. Everything is fine as long as it's somebody else's money.

The times may be changing but the temperatures aren't.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:42:42


There are no current subsidies for hydrocarbon-based energy companies beyond those that are currently available to every resource company (e.g. timber or mining companies). Those who believe otherwise are either badly misinformed or intentionally spreading falsehoods.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:37:24


The immature soi-disant "science" of climatology isn't anywhere close to understanding the climate system. We've now had sixteen (16) straight years of little-to-no warming.

The climate system is a wickedly complex, dynamic, multivariate, non-linear system that is not understood.

What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T11:46:51


Since when is a 50% increase in the cost of electricity a good thing? Since that makes you so happy, I think you should pay for it.

Insanity brought to you by:
Bad Science + Propaganda + Delusion = http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: The Disaster Scenario Power Companies Aren

Posted 2013-08-15T11:41:57


...and who pays for that "public asset?"

...and what incentives exist to control costs? (we've all know what happens when a "cost plus" system is in place).


Comment on: Flood Insurance Rates Skyrocket In Coastal Communities

Posted 2013-08-14T23:15:52


It's about time. This is long overdue.

Rising sea levels, my foot. We've now had sixteen (16) years of no significant warming.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T23:15:11


What next? Eugenics?


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:37:06


Yeah, good idea! Let's make the tax system even more complicated.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:02:19


Hardly. It's government's voracious appetite for spending.

Here's a history of one state's sales taxes. For more than a century and a half, my state got along just fine with NO sales tax.

Then, they introduced a 2% sales tax in 1947.

In 1959 the sales tax increased to 3 percent.

It became 4 percent in 1968.

In 1977, sales tax increased to 5 percent.

The sales tax rate increased to 6 percent in 2007.

Now, I simply don't spend. I'll be dam*ed if I'm going to pay $1.80 extra every time I buy a $30 book.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T21:23:45


"Pious" owners think other people should pay taxes.

"Pious" owners think more expensive electricity is a good thing.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T20:27:01


I forgot— It's NPR. Nobody knows anything about economics or temperatures or facts. Everything is fine as long as it's somebody else's money.

The times may be changing but the temperatures aren't.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:42:42


There are no current subsidies for hydrocarbon-based energy companies beyond those that are currently available to every resource company (e.g. timber or mining companies). Those who believe otherwise are either badly misinformed or intentionally spreading falsehoods.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:37:24


The immature soi-disant "science" of climatology isn't anywhere close to understanding the climate system. We've now had sixteen (16) straight years of little-to-no warming.

The climate system is a wickedly complex, dynamic, multivariate, non-linear system that is not understood.

What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T11:46:51


Since when is a 50% increase in the cost of electricity a good thing? Since that makes you so happy, I think you should pay for it.

Insanity brought to you by:
Bad Science + Propaganda + Delusion = http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: The Disaster Scenario Power Companies Aren

Posted 2013-08-15T11:41:57


...and who pays for that "public asset?"

...and what incentives exist to control costs? (we've all know what happens when a "cost plus" system is in place).


Comment on: Flood Insurance Rates Skyrocket In Coastal Communities

Posted 2013-08-14T23:15:52


It's about time. This is long overdue.

Rising sea levels, my foot. We've now had sixteen (16) years of no significant warming.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T23:15:11


What next? Eugenics?


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:37:06


Yeah, good idea! Let's make the tax system even more complicated.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:02:19


Hardly. It's government's voracious appetite for spending.

Here's a history of one state's sales taxes. For more than a century and a half, my state got along just fine with NO sales tax.

Then, they introduced a 2% sales tax in 1947.

In 1959 the sales tax increased to 3 percent.

It became 4 percent in 1968.

In 1977, sales tax increased to 5 percent.

The sales tax rate increased to 6 percent in 2007.

Now, I simply don't spend. I'll be dam*ed if I'm going to pay $1.80 extra every time I buy a $30 book.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T21:23:45


"Pious" owners think other people should pay taxes.

"Pious" owners think more expensive electricity is a good thing.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T20:27:01


I forgot— It's NPR. Nobody knows anything about economics or temperatures or facts. Everything is fine as long as it's somebody else's money.

The times may be changing but the temperatures aren't.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:42:42


There are no current subsidies for hydrocarbon-based energy companies beyond those that are currently available to every resource company (e.g. timber or mining companies). Those who believe otherwise are either badly misinformed or intentionally spreading falsehoods.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:37:24


The immature soi-disant "science" of climatology isn't anywhere close to understanding the climate system. We've now had sixteen (16) straight years of little-to-no warming.

The climate system is a wickedly complex, dynamic, multivariate, non-linear system that is not understood.

What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T11:46:51


Since when is a 50% increase in the cost of electricity a good thing? Since that makes you so happy, I think you should pay for it.

Insanity brought to you by:
Bad Science + Propaganda + Delusion = http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: The Disaster Scenario Power Companies Aren

Posted 2013-08-15T11:41:57


...and who pays for that "public asset?"

...and what incentives exist to control costs? (we've all know what happens when a "cost plus" system is in place).


Comment on: Flood Insurance Rates Skyrocket In Coastal Communities

Posted 2013-08-14T23:15:52


It's about time. This is long overdue.

Rising sea levels, my foot. We've now had sixteen (16) years of no significant warming.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T23:15:11


What next? Eugenics?


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:37:06


Yeah, good idea! Let's make the tax system even more complicated.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T22:02:19


Hardly. It's government's voracious appetite for spending.

Here's a history of one state's sales taxes. For more than a century and a half, my state got along just fine with NO sales tax.

Then, they introduced a 2% sales tax in 1947.

In 1959 the sales tax increased to 3 percent.

It became 4 percent in 1968.

In 1977, sales tax increased to 5 percent.

The sales tax rate increased to 6 percent in 2007.

Now, I simply don't spend. I'll be dam*ed if I'm going to pay $1.80 extra every time I buy a $30 book.


Comment on: HYBRID GAS TAXES

Posted 2013-08-15T21:23:45


"Pious" owners think other people should pay taxes.

"Pious" owners think more expensive electricity is a good thing.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T20:27:01


I forgot— It's NPR. Nobody knows anything about economics or temperatures or facts. Everything is fine as long as it's somebody else's money.

The times may be changing but the temperatures aren't.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:42:42


There are no current subsidies for hydrocarbon-based energy companies beyond those that are currently available to every resource company (e.g. timber or mining companies). Those who believe otherwise are either badly misinformed or intentionally spreading falsehoods.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T16:37:24


The immature soi-disant "science" of climatology isn't anywhere close to understanding the climate system. We've now had sixteen (16) straight years of little-to-no warming.

The climate system is a wickedly complex, dynamic, multivariate, non-linear system that is not understood.

What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture is equivocal and ambiguous.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-15T11:46:51


Since when is a 50% increase in the cost of electricity a good thing? Since that makes you so happy, I think you should pay for it.

Insanity brought to you by:
Bad Science + Propaganda + Delusion = http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: The Disaster Scenario Power Companies Aren

Posted 2013-08-15T11:41:57


...and who pays for that "public asset?"

...and what incentives exist to control costs? (we've all know what happens when a "cost plus" system is in place).


Comment on: Flood Insurance Rates Skyrocket In Coastal Communities

Posted 2013-08-14T23:15:52


It's about time. This is long overdue.

Rising sea levels, my foot. We've now had sixteen (16) years of no significant warming.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-14T23:09:56


Poor economic decisions arise from immature science. Precious capital and resources are diverted from alternative and more productive uses.

Rent-seeking promoters are favored by vote-buying politicians. It's a corrupt, influence-peddling process. Why not let markets supply reliable, affordable energy without meddling by venal politicos.

Here's a horror story of delusional, nay, insane, behavior caused by reliance on the dubious crystal ball forecasts and fear-mongering of climatology:
http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T19:49:22


Still waiting for you to learn how to read.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T18:40:04


What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture gets fuzzier and fuzzier all the time.


Comment on: Pentagon Details Plan To Extend Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses

Posted 2013-08-14T18:15:51


That photograph reminds me that it wasn't that long ago that it was situated amidst cornfields.

It was a wonderful country until the hordes invaded to feed at the trough of Big Government and transformed what was once a nice place into The Mistake On The Potomac.


Comment on: Terrorists Turn To Online Chat Rooms To Evade US

Posted 2013-08-14T17:48:31



...All three intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the threat...

Then why are they yapping?

Are they incapable of keeping their mouths shut?


Comment on: If The Knuckleball

Posted 2013-08-14T17:23:53


...and, boy, if you don't throw that thing well— the ball will be hit on a near-stratospheric trajectory and won't stop rolling for another 600 or more feet.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:35:58


Equilibrium climate sensitivity. It may not be what you think it is. The curious keep learning.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-di...


Comment on: Welcome to the new NPR homepage

Posted 2013-08-14T15:25:26


Dreadful. Truly awful. Monumentally bad.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:20:52


There's a rather big (and important) difference between AGW and CAGW.

http://judithcurry.com/

Have a nice day!


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T15:13:03


Pumped storage is fantastic. There's just one catch— environmentalists and a massive amount of NIMBY.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-14T23:09:56


Poor economic decisions arise from immature science. Precious capital and resources are diverted from alternative and more productive uses.

Rent-seeking promoters are favored by vote-buying politicians. It's a corrupt, influence-peddling process. Why not let markets supply reliable, affordable energy without meddling by venal politicos.

Here's a horror story of delusional, nay, insane, behavior caused by reliance on the dubious crystal ball forecasts and fear-mongering of climatology:
http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T19:49:22


Still waiting for you to learn how to read.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T18:40:04


What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture gets fuzzier and fuzzier all the time.


Comment on: Pentagon Details Plan To Extend Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses

Posted 2013-08-14T18:15:51


That photograph reminds me that it wasn't that long ago that it was situated amidst cornfields.

It was a wonderful country until the hordes invaded to feed at the trough of Big Government and transformed what was once a nice place into The Mistake On The Potomac.


Comment on: Terrorists Turn To Online Chat Rooms To Evade US

Posted 2013-08-14T17:48:31



...All three intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the threat...

Then why are they yapping?

Are they incapable of keeping their mouths shut?


Comment on: If The Knuckleball

Posted 2013-08-14T17:23:53


...and, boy, if you don't throw that thing well— the ball will be hit on a near-stratospheric trajectory and won't stop rolling for another 600 or more feet.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:35:58


Equilibrium climate sensitivity. It may not be what you think it is. The curious keep learning.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-di...


Comment on: Welcome to the new NPR homepage

Posted 2013-08-14T15:25:26


Dreadful. Truly awful. Monumentally bad.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:20:52


There's a rather big (and important) difference between AGW and CAGW.

http://judithcurry.com/

Have a nice day!


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T15:13:03


Pumped storage is fantastic. There's just one catch— environmentalists and a massive amount of NIMBY.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-14T23:09:56


Poor economic decisions arise from immature science. Precious capital and resources are diverted from alternative and more productive uses.

Rent-seeking promoters are favored by vote-buying politicians. It's a corrupt, influence-peddling process. Why not let markets supply reliable, affordable energy without meddling by venal politicos.

Here's a horror story of delusional, nay, insane, behavior caused by reliance on the dubious crystal ball forecasts and fear-mongering of climatology:
http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T19:49:22


Still waiting for you to learn how to read.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T18:40:04


What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture gets fuzzier and fuzzier all the time.


Comment on: Pentagon Details Plan To Extend Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses

Posted 2013-08-14T18:15:51


That photograph reminds me that it wasn't that long ago that it was situated amidst cornfields.

It was a wonderful country until the hordes invaded to feed at the trough of Big Government and transformed what was once a nice place into The Mistake On The Potomac.


Comment on: Terrorists Turn To Online Chat Rooms To Evade US

Posted 2013-08-14T17:48:31



...All three intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the threat...

Then why are they yapping?

Are they incapable of keeping their mouths shut?


Comment on: If The Knuckleball

Posted 2013-08-14T17:23:53


...and, boy, if you don't throw that thing well— the ball will be hit on a near-stratospheric trajectory and won't stop rolling for another 600 or more feet.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:35:58


Equilibrium climate sensitivity. It may not be what you think it is. The curious keep learning.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-di...


Comment on: Welcome to the new NPR homepage

Posted 2013-08-14T15:25:26


Dreadful. Truly awful. Monumentally bad.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:20:52


There's a rather big (and important) difference between AGW and CAGW.

http://judithcurry.com/

Have a nice day!


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T15:13:03


Pumped storage is fantastic. There's just one catch— environmentalists and a massive amount of NIMBY.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-14T23:09:56


Poor economic decisions arise from immature science. Precious capital and resources are diverted from alternative and more productive uses.

Rent-seeking promoters are favored by vote-buying politicians. It's a corrupt, influence-peddling process. Why not let markets supply reliable, affordable energy without meddling by venal politicos.

Here's a horror story of delusional, nay, insane, behavior caused by reliance on the dubious crystal ball forecasts and fear-mongering of climatology:
http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T19:49:22


Still waiting for you to learn how to read.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T18:40:04


What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture gets fuzzier and fuzzier all the time.


Comment on: Pentagon Details Plan To Extend Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses

Posted 2013-08-14T18:15:51


That photograph reminds me that it wasn't that long ago that it was situated amidst cornfields.

It was a wonderful country until the hordes invaded to feed at the trough of Big Government and transformed what was once a nice place into The Mistake On The Potomac.


Comment on: Terrorists Turn To Online Chat Rooms To Evade US

Posted 2013-08-14T17:48:31



...All three intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the threat...

Then why are they yapping?

Are they incapable of keeping their mouths shut?


Comment on: If The Knuckleball

Posted 2013-08-14T17:23:53


...and, boy, if you don't throw that thing well— the ball will be hit on a near-stratospheric trajectory and won't stop rolling for another 600 or more feet.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:35:58


Equilibrium climate sensitivity. It may not be what you think it is. The curious keep learning.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-di...


Comment on: Welcome to the new NPR homepage

Posted 2013-08-14T15:25:26


Dreadful. Truly awful. Monumentally bad.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:20:52


There's a rather big (and important) difference between AGW and CAGW.

http://judithcurry.com/

Have a nice day!


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T15:13:03


Pumped storage is fantastic. There's just one catch— environmentalists and a massive amount of NIMBY.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-14T23:09:56


Poor economic decisions arise from immature science. Precious capital and resources are diverted from alternative and more productive uses.

Rent-seeking promoters are favored by vote-buying politicians. It's a corrupt, influence-peddling process. Why not let markets supply reliable, affordable energy without meddling by venal politicos.

Here's a horror story of delusional, nay, insane, behavior caused by reliance on the dubious crystal ball forecasts and fear-mongering of climatology:
http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T19:49:22


Still waiting for you to learn how to read.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T18:40:04


What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture gets fuzzier and fuzzier all the time.


Comment on: Pentagon Details Plan To Extend Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses

Posted 2013-08-14T18:15:51


That photograph reminds me that it wasn't that long ago that it was situated amidst cornfields.

It was a wonderful country until the hordes invaded to feed at the trough of Big Government and transformed what was once a nice place into The Mistake On The Potomac.


Comment on: Terrorists Turn To Online Chat Rooms To Evade US

Posted 2013-08-14T17:48:31



...All three intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the threat...

Then why are they yapping?

Are they incapable of keeping their mouths shut?


Comment on: If The Knuckleball

Posted 2013-08-14T17:23:53


...and, boy, if you don't throw that thing well— the ball will be hit on a near-stratospheric trajectory and won't stop rolling for another 600 or more feet.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:35:58


Equilibrium climate sensitivity. It may not be what you think it is. The curious keep learning.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-di...


Comment on: Welcome to the new NPR homepage

Posted 2013-08-14T15:25:26


Dreadful. Truly awful. Monumentally bad.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:20:52


There's a rather big (and important) difference between AGW and CAGW.

http://judithcurry.com/

Have a nice day!


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T15:13:03


Pumped storage is fantastic. There's just one catch— environmentalists and a massive amount of NIMBY.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-14T23:09:56


Poor economic decisions arise from immature science. Precious capital and resources are diverted from alternative and more productive uses.

Rent-seeking promoters are favored by vote-buying politicians. It's a corrupt, influence-peddling process. Why not let markets supply reliable, affordable energy without meddling by venal politicos.

Here's a horror story of delusional, nay, insane, behavior caused by reliance on the dubious crystal ball forecasts and fear-mongering of climatology:
http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T19:49:22


Still waiting for you to learn how to read.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T18:40:04


What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture gets fuzzier and fuzzier all the time.


Comment on: Pentagon Details Plan To Extend Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses

Posted 2013-08-14T18:15:51


That photograph reminds me that it wasn't that long ago that it was situated amidst cornfields.

It was a wonderful country until the hordes invaded to feed at the trough of Big Government and transformed what was once a nice place into The Mistake On The Potomac.


Comment on: Terrorists Turn To Online Chat Rooms To Evade US

Posted 2013-08-14T17:48:31



...All three intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the threat...

Then why are they yapping?

Are they incapable of keeping their mouths shut?


Comment on: If The Knuckleball

Posted 2013-08-14T17:23:53


...and, boy, if you don't throw that thing well— the ball will be hit on a near-stratospheric trajectory and won't stop rolling for another 600 or more feet.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:35:58


Equilibrium climate sensitivity. It may not be what you think it is. The curious keep learning.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-di...


Comment on: Welcome to the new NPR homepage

Posted 2013-08-14T15:25:26


Dreadful. Truly awful. Monumentally bad.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:20:52


There's a rather big (and important) difference between AGW and CAGW.

http://judithcurry.com/

Have a nice day!


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T15:13:03


Pumped storage is fantastic. There's just one catch— environmentalists and a massive amount of NIMBY.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-14T23:09:56


Poor economic decisions arise from immature science. Precious capital and resources are diverted from alternative and more productive uses.

Rent-seeking promoters are favored by vote-buying politicians. It's a corrupt, influence-peddling process. Why not let markets supply reliable, affordable energy without meddling by venal politicos.

Here's a horror story of delusional, nay, insane, behavior caused by reliance on the dubious crystal ball forecasts and fear-mongering of climatology:
http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T19:49:22


Still waiting for you to learn how to read.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T18:40:04


What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture gets fuzzier and fuzzier all the time.


Comment on: Pentagon Details Plan To Extend Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses

Posted 2013-08-14T18:15:51


That photograph reminds me that it wasn't that long ago that it was situated amidst cornfields.

It was a wonderful country until the hordes invaded to feed at the trough of Big Government and transformed what was once a nice place into The Mistake On The Potomac.


Comment on: Terrorists Turn To Online Chat Rooms To Evade US

Posted 2013-08-14T17:48:31



...All three intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the threat...

Then why are they yapping?

Are they incapable of keeping their mouths shut?


Comment on: If The Knuckleball

Posted 2013-08-14T17:23:53


...and, boy, if you don't throw that thing well— the ball will be hit on a near-stratospheric trajectory and won't stop rolling for another 600 or more feet.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:35:58


Equilibrium climate sensitivity. It may not be what you think it is. The curious keep learning.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-di...


Comment on: Welcome to the new NPR homepage

Posted 2013-08-14T15:25:26


Dreadful. Truly awful. Monumentally bad.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:20:52


There's a rather big (and important) difference between AGW and CAGW.

http://judithcurry.com/

Have a nice day!


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T15:13:03


Pumped storage is fantastic. There's just one catch— environmentalists and a massive amount of NIMBY.


Comment on: The Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You

Posted 2013-08-14T23:09:56


Poor economic decisions arise from immature science. Precious capital and resources are diverted from alternative and more productive uses.

Rent-seeking promoters are favored by vote-buying politicians. It's a corrupt, influence-peddling process. Why not let markets supply reliable, affordable energy without meddling by venal politicos.

Here's a horror story of delusional, nay, insane, behavior caused by reliance on the dubious crystal ball forecasts and fear-mongering of climatology:
http://bishophill.squarespace....


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T19:49:22


Still waiting for you to learn how to read.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T18:40:04


What is the temperature?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...

0.7°C in 165 years? How certain is that? The purported evidentiary data said to underlie the CAGW conjecture gets fuzzier and fuzzier all the time.


Comment on: Pentagon Details Plan To Extend Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses

Posted 2013-08-14T18:15:51


That photograph reminds me that it wasn't that long ago that it was situated amidst cornfields.

It was a wonderful country until the hordes invaded to feed at the trough of Big Government and transformed what was once a nice place into The Mistake On The Potomac.


Comment on: Terrorists Turn To Online Chat Rooms To Evade US

Posted 2013-08-14T17:48:31



...All three intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the threat...

Then why are they yapping?

Are they incapable of keeping their mouths shut?


Comment on: If The Knuckleball

Posted 2013-08-14T17:23:53


...and, boy, if you don't throw that thing well— the ball will be hit on a near-stratospheric trajectory and won't stop rolling for another 600 or more feet.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:35:58


Equilibrium climate sensitivity. It may not be what you think it is. The curious keep learning.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-di...


Comment on: Welcome to the new NPR homepage

Posted 2013-08-14T15:25:26


Dreadful. Truly awful. Monumentally bad.


Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T15:20:52


There's a rather big (and important) difference between AGW and CAGW.

http://judithcurry.com/

Have a nice day!


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T15:13:03


Pumped storage is fantastic. There's just one catch— environmentalists and a massive amount of NIMBY.


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:08:06


Why do you hate freedom?


Comment on: Doctor Wants To Get Off Medical Hamster Wheel

Posted 2013-08-14T15:05:35


Oh, my. NPR and its listeners are not going to like this.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:51:39


Lower equilibrium climate sensitivity? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blo...


"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity.

"We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system – changes that can occur over several decades – and which are coming on top of a long-term warming. The natural changes resulted in a rapid global temperature rise in the 1990s, whereas the natural variations between 2000 and 2010 may have resulted in the levelling off we are observing now."



Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:43:01


Not to mention the fact that U.S. taxpayers have already dumped $10 billion into the Yucca Mountain project.


Comment on: ELECTRIC GRID 10 YEARS LATER

Posted 2013-08-14T12:40:47


The U.S needs more reliable, affordable baseload electrical generating capacity. There are only two ways to produce reliable, economic baseload electricity generating capacity— fossil fuel fired generating units or nuclear powered generating units..


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T12:00:21


Activists are an incredibly polarizing and motivating force. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the case for CAGW (and that's a very important distinction as CAGW is not AGW) that it isn't a particularly strong case. The Climategate emails, Steve McIntyre's destruction of Mikey Mann's "Hockey Stick" and the absurd reliance on computer modeling of an incredibly complex, multivariate, dynamic, non-linear system make it obvious that climatology is not mature science.

Anyone who probes beneath the surface can easily see that climatology's claimed understanding of the climate system has been wildly exaggerated.

Whether you will admit it or not, the fact is that there's been little-or-no significant warming for more than a decade and a half. The evidence for CO2-as-sole-forcing of CAGW is equivocal and ambiguous.

Why the rush for action? What's the hurry?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T11:25:45


Does this apply to Mikey Mann (he of the now infamous, debunked "Hockey Stick")? Does this apply to Keith Briffa? Does this apply to John Cook (of the spectacularly mis-named Skeptical Science)?


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-14T03:11:07


Everbody around here understands the difference between a scientist and a political scientist. And everybody around here understands which category best describes the demonstrated missionary behavior and unscientific attitude.

Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies
http://blogs.plos.org/models/c...
by Tamsin Edwards, Ph.D


As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists...I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science...



Comment on: Headline

Posted 2013-08-14T02:57:07


Try some humility. Climatology has, obviously, countenanced the exaggeration of climatology's understanding of the climate system. Climatology clearly failed to police itself. It took years of dogged effort for an intrepid outsider (Steve McIntyre) to break the stonewall and reveal that Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" was badly flawed. It took the whistleblower of the Climategate emails to demonstrate to the world that the private doubts of the leading lights of climatology were inconsistent with their publicly expressed views. Peer review in climate science has proven to be an abject failure.


“Why should I make my data available to you when your only objective is to find something wrong with it?"
-Phil Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T16:21:50


Actually, you can thank people like Steve McIntyre who insisted that somebody actually verify and reproduce (as in "Scientific Method") the claims of those who promoted "The Hockey Stick." McIntyre revealed the farce of "peer review" in climatology. The failure of climatology to police itself became embarrassingly obvious to anyone who bothered to look.

You can also thank the whistleblower who released the Climategate emails. They made it perfectly clear that the private beliefs of some of climatology's leading figures were radically different from their public statements.

By the way, where is Kevin Trenberth's missing heat?

Apollo Era NASA Retirees publish new report.
The science is not settled !!

http://www.therightclimatestuf...



Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T14:30:16


(The past) is getting colder in Iceland


GISS record of temperature at Teigarhorn, Iceland:
Feb 1901: 0.0C - reported Nov 2011
Feb 1901: -0.9C - reported Mar 2012
Feb 1901: -1.2C - reported Aug 2013

http://endisnighnot.blogspot.c...




Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T14:25:08


It has nothing to do with "sport." The story is all about the need for population control in the form of culling the herd.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:58:47


Neither you nor climatology understands the climate system.

It is a dynamic, highly complex, multi-variate, non-linear system.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:49:49


The main problem is that Gore was/is a purveyor of snake oil (a/k/a "Cargo Cult Science").


Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T11:53:05


Of course it's not cheaper than hunting. This is one more concession to "political correctness run amok" arising from the bizarre "logic" of urban naifs.


Comment on: This Pulsing Earth

Posted 2013-08-13T00:28:03


ROTFL
We'll be waiting for Gavin and Mikey and "Death Train" Hansen and Lewandowsky and John Cook ("the books") to disavow Fat Albert.

Got any more good ones?


Comment on: Gay Couple Asked To Sit In Back Of Bus Gets An Apology

Posted 2013-08-12T15:22:49


PDA is bad manners and is rude.

If you get in someone else's face, expect them to get in your face.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T14:50:32


Paying basketball, football and baseball players $5,000,000 a year? An army of tort lawyers that makes anybody scared to do anything?

BANANA

Build
Absolutely
Nothing
Anywhere
Near
Anything


Comment on: S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 4: The Mystery Of A Missing $100 Million

Posted 2013-08-12T13:43:36


Bad reporting leads to misinformed listeners. Bad reporting begins when reporters have an agenda. Bad reporting is created and reinforced when an institutional culture encourages a particular point of view and glosses over errors of omission or commission.

ESM has done an extraordinarily thorough job of examining what should have been done in the first place. Greater care should have been exercised by the reporters and the editors.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T13:32:22


LOL.
The correct answer is political demagogues. By getting the electorate to believe in perpetual motion, Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy, they destroyed U.S. competiveness.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T14:30:16


(The past) is getting colder in Iceland


GISS record of temperature at Teigarhorn, Iceland:
Feb 1901: 0.0C - reported Nov 2011
Feb 1901: -0.9C - reported Mar 2012
Feb 1901: -1.2C - reported Aug 2013

http://endisnighnot.blogspot.c...




Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T14:25:08


It has nothing to do with "sport." The story is all about the need for population control in the form of culling the herd.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:58:47


Neither you nor climatology understands the climate system.

It is a dynamic, highly complex, multi-variate, non-linear system.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:49:49


The main problem is that Gore was/is a purveyor of snake oil (a/k/a "Cargo Cult Science").


Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T11:53:05


Of course it's not cheaper than hunting. This is one more concession to "political correctness run amok" arising from the bizarre "logic" of urban naifs.


Comment on: This Pulsing Earth

Posted 2013-08-13T00:28:03


ROTFL
We'll be waiting for Gavin and Mikey and "Death Train" Hansen and Lewandowsky and John Cook ("the books") to disavow Fat Albert.

Got any more good ones?


Comment on: Gay Couple Asked To Sit In Back Of Bus Gets An Apology

Posted 2013-08-12T15:22:49


PDA is bad manners and is rude.

If you get in someone else's face, expect them to get in your face.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T14:50:32


Paying basketball, football and baseball players $5,000,000 a year? An army of tort lawyers that makes anybody scared to do anything?

BANANA

Build
Absolutely
Nothing
Anywhere
Near
Anything


Comment on: S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 4: The Mystery Of A Missing $100 Million

Posted 2013-08-12T13:43:36


Bad reporting leads to misinformed listeners. Bad reporting begins when reporters have an agenda. Bad reporting is created and reinforced when an institutional culture encourages a particular point of view and glosses over errors of omission or commission.

ESM has done an extraordinarily thorough job of examining what should have been done in the first place. Greater care should have been exercised by the reporters and the editors.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T13:32:22


LOL.
The correct answer is political demagogues. By getting the electorate to believe in perpetual motion, Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy, they destroyed U.S. competiveness.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T14:30:16


(The past) is getting colder in Iceland


GISS record of temperature at Teigarhorn, Iceland:
Feb 1901: 0.0C - reported Nov 2011
Feb 1901: -0.9C - reported Mar 2012
Feb 1901: -1.2C - reported Aug 2013

http://endisnighnot.blogspot.c...




Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T14:25:08


It has nothing to do with "sport." The story is all about the need for population control in the form of culling the herd.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:58:47


Neither you nor climatology understands the climate system.

It is a dynamic, highly complex, multi-variate, non-linear system.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:49:49


The main problem is that Gore was/is a purveyor of snake oil (a/k/a "Cargo Cult Science").


Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T11:53:05


Of course it's not cheaper than hunting. This is one more concession to "political correctness run amok" arising from the bizarre "logic" of urban naifs.


Comment on: This Pulsing Earth

Posted 2013-08-13T00:28:03


ROTFL
We'll be waiting for Gavin and Mikey and "Death Train" Hansen and Lewandowsky and John Cook ("the books") to disavow Fat Albert.

Got any more good ones?


Comment on: Gay Couple Asked To Sit In Back Of Bus Gets An Apology

Posted 2013-08-12T15:22:49


PDA is bad manners and is rude.

If you get in someone else's face, expect them to get in your face.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T14:50:32


Paying basketball, football and baseball players $5,000,000 a year? An army of tort lawyers that makes anybody scared to do anything?

BANANA

Build
Absolutely
Nothing
Anywhere
Near
Anything


Comment on: S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 4: The Mystery Of A Missing $100 Million

Posted 2013-08-12T13:43:36


Bad reporting leads to misinformed listeners. Bad reporting begins when reporters have an agenda. Bad reporting is created and reinforced when an institutional culture encourages a particular point of view and glosses over errors of omission or commission.

ESM has done an extraordinarily thorough job of examining what should have been done in the first place. Greater care should have been exercised by the reporters and the editors.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T13:32:22


LOL.
The correct answer is political demagogues. By getting the electorate to believe in perpetual motion, Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy, they destroyed U.S. competiveness.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T14:30:16


(The past) is getting colder in Iceland


GISS record of temperature at Teigarhorn, Iceland:
Feb 1901: 0.0C - reported Nov 2011
Feb 1901: -0.9C - reported Mar 2012
Feb 1901: -1.2C - reported Aug 2013

http://endisnighnot.blogspot.c...




Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T14:25:08


It has nothing to do with "sport." The story is all about the need for population control in the form of culling the herd.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:58:47


Neither you nor climatology understands the climate system.

It is a dynamic, highly complex, multi-variate, non-linear system.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:49:49


The main problem is that Gore was/is a purveyor of snake oil (a/k/a "Cargo Cult Science").


Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T11:53:05


Of course it's not cheaper than hunting. This is one more concession to "political correctness run amok" arising from the bizarre "logic" of urban naifs.


Comment on: This Pulsing Earth

Posted 2013-08-13T00:28:03


ROTFL
We'll be waiting for Gavin and Mikey and "Death Train" Hansen and Lewandowsky and John Cook ("the books") to disavow Fat Albert.

Got any more good ones?


Comment on: Gay Couple Asked To Sit In Back Of Bus Gets An Apology

Posted 2013-08-12T15:22:49


PDA is bad manners and is rude.

If you get in someone else's face, expect them to get in your face.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T14:50:32


Paying basketball, football and baseball players $5,000,000 a year? An army of tort lawyers that makes anybody scared to do anything?

BANANA

Build
Absolutely
Nothing
Anywhere
Near
Anything


Comment on: S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 4: The Mystery Of A Missing $100 Million

Posted 2013-08-12T13:43:36


Bad reporting leads to misinformed listeners. Bad reporting begins when reporters have an agenda. Bad reporting is created and reinforced when an institutional culture encourages a particular point of view and glosses over errors of omission or commission.

ESM has done an extraordinarily thorough job of examining what should have been done in the first place. Greater care should have been exercised by the reporters and the editors.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T13:32:22


LOL.
The correct answer is political demagogues. By getting the electorate to believe in perpetual motion, Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy, they destroyed U.S. competiveness.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T14:30:16


(The past) is getting colder in Iceland


GISS record of temperature at Teigarhorn, Iceland:
Feb 1901: 0.0C - reported Nov 2011
Feb 1901: -0.9C - reported Mar 2012
Feb 1901: -1.2C - reported Aug 2013

http://endisnighnot.blogspot.c...




Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T14:25:08


It has nothing to do with "sport." The story is all about the need for population control in the form of culling the herd.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:58:47


Neither you nor climatology understands the climate system.

It is a dynamic, highly complex, multi-variate, non-linear system.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:49:49


The main problem is that Gore was/is a purveyor of snake oil (a/k/a "Cargo Cult Science").


Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T11:53:05


Of course it's not cheaper than hunting. This is one more concession to "political correctness run amok" arising from the bizarre "logic" of urban naifs.


Comment on: This Pulsing Earth

Posted 2013-08-13T00:28:03


ROTFL
We'll be waiting for Gavin and Mikey and "Death Train" Hansen and Lewandowsky and John Cook ("the books") to disavow Fat Albert.

Got any more good ones?


Comment on: Gay Couple Asked To Sit In Back Of Bus Gets An Apology

Posted 2013-08-12T15:22:49


PDA is bad manners and is rude.

If you get in someone else's face, expect them to get in your face.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T14:50:32


Paying basketball, football and baseball players $5,000,000 a year? An army of tort lawyers that makes anybody scared to do anything?

BANANA

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Absolutely
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Comment on: S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 4: The Mystery Of A Missing $100 Million

Posted 2013-08-12T13:43:36


Bad reporting leads to misinformed listeners. Bad reporting begins when reporters have an agenda. Bad reporting is created and reinforced when an institutional culture encourages a particular point of view and glosses over errors of omission or commission.

ESM has done an extraordinarily thorough job of examining what should have been done in the first place. Greater care should have been exercised by the reporters and the editors.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T13:32:22


LOL.
The correct answer is political demagogues. By getting the electorate to believe in perpetual motion, Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy, they destroyed U.S. competiveness.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T14:30:16


(The past) is getting colder in Iceland


GISS record of temperature at Teigarhorn, Iceland:
Feb 1901: 0.0C - reported Nov 2011
Feb 1901: -0.9C - reported Mar 2012
Feb 1901: -1.2C - reported Aug 2013

http://endisnighnot.blogspot.c...




Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T14:25:08


It has nothing to do with "sport." The story is all about the need for population control in the form of culling the herd.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:58:47


Neither you nor climatology understands the climate system.

It is a dynamic, highly complex, multi-variate, non-linear system.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:49:49


The main problem is that Gore was/is a purveyor of snake oil (a/k/a "Cargo Cult Science").


Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T11:53:05


Of course it's not cheaper than hunting. This is one more concession to "political correctness run amok" arising from the bizarre "logic" of urban naifs.


Comment on: This Pulsing Earth

Posted 2013-08-13T00:28:03


ROTFL
We'll be waiting for Gavin and Mikey and "Death Train" Hansen and Lewandowsky and John Cook ("the books") to disavow Fat Albert.

Got any more good ones?


Comment on: Gay Couple Asked To Sit In Back Of Bus Gets An Apology

Posted 2013-08-12T15:22:49


PDA is bad manners and is rude.

If you get in someone else's face, expect them to get in your face.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T14:50:32


Paying basketball, football and baseball players $5,000,000 a year? An army of tort lawyers that makes anybody scared to do anything?

BANANA

Build
Absolutely
Nothing
Anywhere
Near
Anything


Comment on: S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 4: The Mystery Of A Missing $100 Million

Posted 2013-08-12T13:43:36


Bad reporting leads to misinformed listeners. Bad reporting begins when reporters have an agenda. Bad reporting is created and reinforced when an institutional culture encourages a particular point of view and glosses over errors of omission or commission.

ESM has done an extraordinarily thorough job of examining what should have been done in the first place. Greater care should have been exercised by the reporters and the editors.


Comment on: 'We Had No Business' In White Neighborhoods

Posted 2013-08-12T13:32:22


LOL.
The correct answer is political demagogues. By getting the electorate to believe in perpetual motion, Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy, they destroyed U.S. competiveness.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T14:30:16


(The past) is getting colder in Iceland


GISS record of temperature at Teigarhorn, Iceland:
Feb 1901: 0.0C - reported Nov 2011
Feb 1901: -0.9C - reported Mar 2012
Feb 1901: -1.2C - reported Aug 2013

http://endisnighnot.blogspot.c...




Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T14:25:08


It has nothing to do with "sport." The story is all about the need for population control in the form of culling the herd.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:58:47


Neither you nor climatology understands the climate system.

It is a dynamic, highly complex, multi-variate, non-linear system.


Comment on: Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On

Posted 2013-08-13T13:49:49


The main problem is that Gore was/is a purveyor of snake oil (a/k/a "Cargo Cult Science").


Comment on: CATALINA BISON

Posted 2013-08-13T11:53:05


Of course it's not cheaper than hunting. This is one more concession to "political correctness run amok" arising from the bizarre "logic" of urban naifs.


Comment on: This Pulsing Earth

Posted 2013-08-13T00:28:03


ROTFL
 
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by "Nullius In Verba"

I realise it’s difficult when getting graphs from external sources, but it would help if the axis on the graphs went down to zero. That they don’t stands out, and gives a negative impression.

The linear trend overlaid on the second graph is also a bad idea. It’s statistically invalid – the data does not consist of linear trend plus iid Gaussian noise – and it leads the eye to interpret the data in line with the algorithm’s assumptions. Again, for anyone who recognises the technique it gives a bad impression.

The fourth graph of arctic temperature change uses a technique discussed here: https://sites.google.com/site/globalwarmingquestions/howtheipccinventedanewcalculus

Time series with strong autocorrelation, like weather data, have the property that short segments show apparent systematic offsets and trends, even when no such offset or trend exists. It can be very misleading to present such trend calculations without also calculating and showing error bounds that take into account the statistical structure of the data.

Anyone looking at the graph would also ask what happened from 1940 to 1960.

And anyone knowing a bit about how such data is collected would also ask how many thermometers in the Arctic were used to generate this data at each point in time, especially back in 1880. How accurate is it?

The discussion of albedo is not quite correct. While a black surface absorbs more energy than a white one, it also emits more radiation than a white one. For an ideal ‘grey’ body, the two effects cancel. The effect actually arises from having different emissivities at different wavelengths – snow is white to visible light but black in the infra-red, while open water is black at both wavelengths.

That more energy is absorbed by water than ice is true, but the effect is not as strong as you might expect from that since the Arctic is 80% cloudy during the summer. Clouds reflect sunlight whether there is ice or water below them.

The bit about warming air near the ground which melts the ice is incorrect – it gets the causal arrow the wrong way round. Sunlight shines through the water and is absorbed in the top 100 m, the warmer water rises to the top, this melts the ice, and also warms the air. Air has very little heat capacity with which to warm water – the entire atmosphere contains only as much heat as the top few metres of the oceans.

I’m not sure what the story behind the Greenland photo is but it isn’t representative. The graph that follows (again, not showing the 0-100% range that would put it in context) shows a drop to 66%. That picture looks more like 5%. It looks more like the margins of the ice sheet where glacial ice has retreated, exposing eroded sediment.

The map of sea surface temperature anomaly was interesting for how localised the warm spots are – are there intense vortices of CO2 concentrated over those spots do you think? Most of the oceans were at the average or cooler. Apart from not being an equal-area projection, I’m not criticising it though.

The question about a sharper increase in sea level is asked – I presume it isn’t answered because then you’d have to say wiggles over a couple of years weren’t climate.

Whether it’s important for us depends on a range of local factors – coastline dynamics is complicated. But I’d expect the normal cycles of deposition and erosion will continue to be the most important factors.

The next section trying to say weather-is-climate and cherrypicking records I’m not even going to bother with. Nature recently published an editorial discussing how bad an idea this sort of thing is.

The comparison of the Arctic ice behaviour with the IPCC projections is a good one, but the conclusion that the IPCC has therefore been conservative is not. The usual model of climate change is of long-term trends with short-term natural fluctuations imposed on top. That’s why you have to look at very long periods to discern trends from the natural background. That’s why the past 15 years with no significant rise in global temperature doesn’t mean anything. So when looking at the Arctic ice decline, and remembering the fluctuations 1900-1960 in it, you first have to determine how much of that is natural variation, and given that the IPCC have calculated that global warming shouldn’t be having much of an impact yet, the possibility that this is still mostly natural noise has to be considered. It takes considerable statistical finesse to tell the difference.

This is particularly the case when we consider the record-breaking ice you didn’t mention down at the other end of the world. The Antarctic sea ice was recently at a record high for the time of year. I don’t think you can deduce anything from that ridiculously cherrypicked figure, either. But if you want to be a scientist about it, you would show the graphs for both, the comparison with the IPCC projection for both, and draw conclusions the same way from both.

Apart from that, not bad. Plenty of science to look at; much better than the usual appeals to authority. I’ll look forward to the revised version.



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The BBC’s 'dirty little secret’ lands it in a new scandal
The truth of a secret meeting that decided BBC policy on climate change has come out online
by Christopher Booker
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...-little-secret-lands-it-in-a-new-scandal.html


Unfolding in the shadow of the greatest crisis in the BBC’s 90-year history has been another scandal, rather less publicised, which again reveals how profoundly the BBC has gone off the rails, morally and professionally. Last week, I reported how the BBC had spent large sums of our money fielding an array of lawyers against a pensioner from Wales to hide what I called, with considerable understatement, “a dirty little secret”. But that secret has now been disclosed to the world, confirming how seriously the BBC has been misrepresenting its policy on one of the most far-reaching issues of our time.

A year ago, I published a detailed report attempting to unravel what has long been a serious puzzle. How was it that, over the past six years, the BBC has been so ready to betray its statutory duty to impartiality by such relentlessly one-sided promotion of the scare over global warming and all it entails, such as the Government’s policy on wind farms? No organisation has done more to obscure the truth about an issue whose political and financial implications for us all are incalculable.

The BBC’s decision to defy its charter obligation to report on this subject impartially followed from a secret day-long seminar held at Television Centre on January 26, 2006. It was attended by all the BBC’s top brass, including George Entwistle, the short-lived director-general, then head of TV current affairs, and several executives who have had to “step aside” because of the Savile affair, such as Helen Boaden, then director of news, and Steve Mitchell, then head of radio news.

In 2007, the BBC Trust published a report claiming that this unprecedented decision to flout its charter was taken after a “high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts” on climate change. Among those who tried to get the BBC to identify these “experts” was Tony Newbery, the blogger who recently faced the might of a highly paid legal team which persuaded an information tribunal to uphold the BBC’s right to keep secret the names of those attending this seminar.

When, last week, those names were finally revealed – thanks to another blogger, Maurizio Morabito (see omnilogos.com) and the Wayback Machine, which stores information deleted from the internet – the result was even more startling than had been suspected. Only three of the “28 specialists” invited to advise the BBC were active scientists, none of them climate experts and all committed global-warming alarmists. Virtually all the rest were professional climate-change lobbyists, ranging from emissaries of Greenpeace and the Stop Climate Chaos campaign to the “CO2 project manager” for BP, one of the world’s largest oil companies.

As shown in my report, “The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal” (on the Global Warming Policy Foundation website), the consequences of what this roomful of “climate activists” advocated as BBC policy were devastating. The seminar’s co-organisers, Roger Harrabin and Joe Smith, were later able to boast that one of the first fruits of their good work was the BBC’s Climate Chaos season, a stream of unashamedly propagandist documentaries, led off with two fronted by Sir David Attenborough which featured a string of ludicrous scare stories.

This was merely the prelude to hundreds of further examples, up to the present day, of how the BBC has abandoned any pretence at honest or properly researched reporting – all in accord with the party line agreed on at that seminar, the nature of which the BBC was so desperate to keep secret.

As with the Savile scandal, there seems no end to the further embarrassments the BBC cover-up has been bringing to light. Harrabin and Smith ran a small outfit set up to lobby the media on global warming, funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, WWF and the University of East Anglia (home of the Climategate emails scandal).

Stranger still, their co-sponsor of the BBC seminar was another lobbying group calling itself the International Broadcasting Trust, which in the past seven years has received £520,000 from the Department for International Development’s foreign-aid budget for “media research” – which includes lobbying the BBC on issues such as climate change. This body in turn is part of a “coalition” known as the Broadcasting Trust, and one of its partners in that is the Media Trust – of which the BBC is a “corporate member”.

So our climate-change obsessed governments have given public money to bodies to lobby the BBC, including one closely associated with a body that the BBC itself belongs to – all to ensure that the BBC promotes government policy.

There is a scandal here that is, in its own way, as disturbing as the one over the Savile affair. But whereas that is being looked into by a series of inquiries, we can be sure that no one will inquire into this second scandal. Remember, after all, how the BBC Trust (now chaired by that committed warmist Lord Patten) aided the cover-up with that lie about “the best scientific experts” in its 2007 report – which was, laughably, supposed to be addressing the BBC’s statutory commitment to impartiality.

Isn’t it odd how often, through all this, one word recurs: “trust”?





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Skepticism Explained
http://dailybayonet.com/?p=357

A reader asked a question of me in a comment a while ago, and now that I am back to blogging I think I’ll answer it. I write only of my own path to skepticism, I’m sure that there are many others who have different reasons, but that is for them to know and reveal, if they wish.

Jeremy, a hard-core anti-wealth AGW ‘believer’ asked me this question:

Could you just clarify something for me – leave aside the issue of what might be causing it, is the earth heating up or not? Only you say there has been ‘no warming since 1997′, but repeatedly say ‘it’s the sun’ as if the earth is warming after all.​

Short answer, maybe the planet is warming, maybe it’s not; it does not matter. The most asinine label attached to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory is ‘climate change’. Climate always changes, its natural state is to be in constant flux; climate has been warming and cooling long before man came along and will be doing so long after man is gone.

What I do not give credence is that man or his activities have any effect whatsoever on the climate of the planet. Don’t get me wrong, I do not support wanton polluters or casual disregard for natural resources, but nor do I possess a desire to return to the stone age and give up all the wonderful inventions and conveniences of modern life. If environmentalism simply meant promoting cleaner air, water and maximized use of resources like oil and gas, and embraced nuclear power I might even be a member of a group like that.

But AGW is nothing but junk science supported by flimsy computer models designed and operated by alchemists. That Al Gore, a lifelong failure in every academic endeavor he ever undertook, leads this movement is the icing on the cake.

Consider that the planet is estimated to be anywhere between 3.5 and 4.5 billion years old. It has survived meteor impacts, geologic upheavals, volcanic eruptions and glaciation, each of which humble man’s feeble ability to impact the planet. Yet AGW theorists studied fewer than 100 years of recorded temperature data and claim to know not only that the world is warming, but that man is the cause. If it were not so serious in its consequences, it would be laughable.

Why am I a skeptic? Because the first time I heard about the issue of AGW, it was Al Gore and David Suzuki telling me that the science was settled and the debate was over. Really? Science is settled? Show me anyone making that claim and I will show you someone unworthy of the respect due a scientist. The arrogance of the claim raised a red flag in my enquiring mind, and when I started to investigate, the hubris and dishonesty of the AGW proponents became immediately apparent, and this blog was born.

Jeremy asks why I frequently refer to the Sun if I don’t believe in global warming. Simply put, the Sun is the engine that drives climate – an active sun makes us warmer and a quiet sun warms us less, as demonstrated since the late 1990′s. That’s it, all you need to know about climate ‘science’ is right there. No computer models required. Blaming AGW on trace amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere is akin to blaming dolphins for the tides.

I used to think that environmentalists of the old school were decent people, caring for the natural world and bringing attention to things that man could do better. But some time ago the movement was hijacked by activists with agendas like anti-capitalism, anti-industry, anti-nuclear stances and these actvists were soon joined by any number of name-your-grievance losers that were unable to make a go of it in the real world and threw ideological tantrums as a result.

If these deluded folks did nothing but scream about their outrage du jour and did no harm, I’d let them go at it, whatever rows your boat. But there is a dark underbelly to the greens that makes me furious, and I want them held accountable. Greenpeace is a genocidal organization with the blood of millions of dead African children on its hands. Greens try to convince us that using food for fuel is a good idea when almost a third of the global population is starving. Greens claim that the planet cannot support the present population of the planet, and then go about encouraging behavior that makes that prediction a devastating reality. Greens want to ban GM foods, ban DDT, ban fertilizers and anything that promotes efficient food production, never mind how many must die to satisfy their craven delusion that they are doing something ‘good’.

Until the cycle of cynical activism ends, I will use my little blog to represent the skeptical side of the equation. Readers should make up their own minds, don’t take my word for it – educate yourself and see what you think, but at least think about it. That is advice most of the green sites will never encourage, for they know that once people see the reality, their hoax is done.
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