The Economic Times
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LONDON: Bucking the overall global warming trend, Alaska may actually be heading for an ice age with scientists reporting a steady temperature decline in the snow covered US state.
New study by Alaska Climate Research Center shows that temperatures in Alaska are actually getting colder since the beginning of the 21st century - contrary to global warming concerns.
In the Last Frontier, where temperatures can get as cold as 50 degrees below zero, residents of the state have experienced the increasing chill and scientists now confirm that the Northwest state is indeed seeing a temperature drop.
A study by the University of Alaska Fairbanks shows the state has cooled by 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 2000, the 'Daily Mail' reported."
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Monday, 7 January 2013
Canada – Dec 2012 – 25 Coldest Stations – Whitehorse was 13.2C colder than normal
sunshine hours
"These are the 25 coldest stations (of the ones Environment Canada thinks are worth calculating anomalies for) in Canada for Dec 2012. The anomaly is calculated from the 1971-2000 normals. 13.2C colder than normal for Whitehorse Airport. Yukon data scraped from here. Any mention in the news? You would think it would make the news wouldn’t you?"
"These are the 25 coldest stations (of the ones Environment Canada thinks are worth calculating anomalies for) in Canada for Dec 2012. The anomaly is calculated from the 1971-2000 normals. 13.2C colder than normal for Whitehorse Airport. Yukon data scraped from here. Any mention in the news? You would think it would make the news wouldn’t you?"
New paper finds Pacific tropical cyclones coincided with solar activity
The Hockey Schtick
"A new paper published in the Journal of Climate examines landfalling tropical cyclones along the eastern Pacific coast between the 16th and 20th centuries and finds the most persistent cycle lasted ~ 12 years and coincided with the ~11-12 year solar cycle."
"A new paper published in the Journal of Climate examines landfalling tropical cyclones along the eastern Pacific coast between the 16th and 20th centuries and finds the most persistent cycle lasted ~ 12 years and coincided with the ~11-12 year solar cycle."
Does NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) keep two separate sets of climate books for the USA?
WUWT
"Glaring inconsistencies found between State of the Climate (SOTC) reports sent to the press and public and the “official” climate database record for the United States. Using NCDC’s own data, July 2012 can no longer be claimed to be the “hottest month on record”. UPDATE: Click graph at right for a WSJ story on the record."
"Glaring inconsistencies found between State of the Climate (SOTC) reports sent to the press and public and the “official” climate database record for the United States. Using NCDC’s own data, July 2012 can no longer be claimed to be the “hottest month on record”. UPDATE: Click graph at right for a WSJ story on the record."
2013 Begins With Record Cold And Snow In The US
Real Science
"A sure sign of global warming doom is -28F in New Mexico."
"A sure sign of global warming doom is -28F in New Mexico."
Sunday, 6 January 2013
The logical case against climate panic
WUWT
"How the profiteers who market Thermageddon offend against the principles of formal logic: ....Believers talk of a “consensus of evidence”. Yet evidence cannot hold opinions. Besides, there has been no global warming for 18 years; sea level has risen for eight years at just 1.3 in/century; notwithstanding Sandy, hurricane activity is at its least in the 33-year satellite record; ocean heat content is rising four and a half times more slowly than predicted; global sea-ice extent has changed little; Himalayan glaciers have not lost ice; and the U.N.’s 2005 prediction of 50 million “climate refugees” by 2010 was absurd. The evidence does not support catastrophism."
"How the profiteers who market Thermageddon offend against the principles of formal logic: ....Believers talk of a “consensus of evidence”. Yet evidence cannot hold opinions. Besides, there has been no global warming for 18 years; sea level has risen for eight years at just 1.3 in/century; notwithstanding Sandy, hurricane activity is at its least in the 33-year satellite record; ocean heat content is rising four and a half times more slowly than predicted; global sea-ice extent has changed little; Himalayan glaciers have not lost ice; and the U.N.’s 2005 prediction of 50 million “climate refugees” by 2010 was absurd. The evidence does not support catastrophism."
Greens Are Really Reds
The Right Scoop
"Al Gore just got a 100 million dollars richer with the sale of his leftist tree-hugging channel to AQ’s voice in the ME…al-Jazeera. Happy Al? No, of course not. Al wants more money. More of your and my money that is. What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Huh Al? Now how could some Divinity school flunkey come up with the idea that a gas that makes up .038 % of our atmosphere should be regulated? .......Oh and there is no consensus in science. That document that the loons refer back to that supposedly had 94% of scientists agreeing with it? Try again. 77 of 10,000 scientists responded in the affirmative. The rest took a pass. Three disagreed with its contents. ...."
"Al Gore just got a 100 million dollars richer with the sale of his leftist tree-hugging channel to AQ’s voice in the ME…al-Jazeera. Happy Al? No, of course not. Al wants more money. More of your and my money that is. What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Huh Al? Now how could some Divinity school flunkey come up with the idea that a gas that makes up .038 % of our atmosphere should be regulated? .......Oh and there is no consensus in science. That document that the loons refer back to that supposedly had 94% of scientists agreeing with it? Try again. 77 of 10,000 scientists responded in the affirmative. The rest took a pass. Three disagreed with its contents. ...."
Must-reads
Bishop Hill
"A couple of posts that I simply must point out to readers. Firstly, Steve M is back in the saddle at Climate Audit, reviewing his recent visit to the AGU and making some disturbing revelations about the AGU's welcoming back of Peter Gleick into the fold. .....Meanwhile, Tallbloke and his readers have uncovered a downwards revision in the Met Office's temperature projections. It's interesting to wonder why a statistically insignificant rainfall trend was worthy of a Met Office press release while a major reining back on the projections wasn't."
"A couple of posts that I simply must point out to readers. Firstly, Steve M is back in the saddle at Climate Audit, reviewing his recent visit to the AGU and making some disturbing revelations about the AGU's welcoming back of Peter Gleick into the fold. .....Meanwhile, Tallbloke and his readers have uncovered a downwards revision in the Met Office's temperature projections. It's interesting to wonder why a statistically insignificant rainfall trend was worthy of a Met Office press release while a major reining back on the projections wasn't."
Vermont Leaders Present Powerful Case For A Moratorium On Wind Turbines…”Let The Truth Come Out!”
NoTricksZone
"Today, now that some windparks have been erected on mountains tops just a couple miles from my hometown, Vermont residents are starting to wake up, and many are truly shocked by the ugly reality of industrial wind energy. Citizens are realizing the wool had been pulled over their eyes."
"Today, now that some windparks have been erected on mountains tops just a couple miles from my hometown, Vermont residents are starting to wake up, and many are truly shocked by the ugly reality of industrial wind energy. Citizens are realizing the wool had been pulled over their eyes."
New Pravda article: "For years, the Elites of the West have cranked up the myth of Man Made Global Warming as a means first and foremost to control the lives and behaviors of their populations...This is a religion replete with an army of priests, called Government Grant Scientists"
Tom Nelson
"...the elites moved to use this new "science" to guilt trip and scare monger their populations into smaller and more conservatives forms of living. In other words, they coasted them into the poverty that the greed and treason of those said same elites was already creating in their native lands."
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From Russia, with Love: Global warming, the tool of the West (SPPI) Full article
"...the elites moved to use this new "science" to guilt trip and scare monger their populations into smaller and more conservatives forms of living. In other words, they coasted them into the poverty that the greed and treason of those said same elites was already creating in their native lands."
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From Russia, with Love: Global warming, the tool of the West (SPPI) Full article
Why IS Britain about to pay £110billion to enter a new Dark Age? A damning indictment of the new 'Green-friendly' Energy Bill
Daily Mail
"The stupidest international agreement since the Treaty of Versailles expired at midnight on New Year’s Eve. Fifteen years after its launch, the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change died a miserable failure. Few are likely to mourn.
According to Kyoto’s authors, it should by now have triggered a five per cent fall in the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. In fact, they have risen by 58 per cent because the world’s faster-growing economies never ratified Kyoto at all, nor the drastic cuts in the use of fossil fuel it prescribed. China, America, Brazil and India simply ignored it, while Canada, New Zealand and Russia, although initially committed, later cast it aside.
In Britain, however, the Government remains wedded to a post-Kyoto strategy, and along with the rest of the EU has agreed to ‘extend’ the treaty’s provisions. One consequence of this is the new Energy Bill, which by 2020 will triple the subsidies paid by taxpayers and consumers to ‘renewable’ energy suppliers to £7.6 billion a year.
The bungs paid to operate offshore wind turbines – the most expensive form of energy ever devised – will rise 16-fold to an annual £4.2 billion. The hated onshore turbines will also get huge new subsidies, at least doubling their number to about 6,500.
Even this underestimates the Bill’s full burden, which is closer to £110 billion. Among its enormous further costs are those which will be incurred by the inconvenient fact that wind turbines make electricity for only a third of the time."
"The stupidest international agreement since the Treaty of Versailles expired at midnight on New Year’s Eve. Fifteen years after its launch, the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change died a miserable failure. Few are likely to mourn.
According to Kyoto’s authors, it should by now have triggered a five per cent fall in the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. In fact, they have risen by 58 per cent because the world’s faster-growing economies never ratified Kyoto at all, nor the drastic cuts in the use of fossil fuel it prescribed. China, America, Brazil and India simply ignored it, while Canada, New Zealand and Russia, although initially committed, later cast it aside.
In Britain, however, the Government remains wedded to a post-Kyoto strategy, and along with the rest of the EU has agreed to ‘extend’ the treaty’s provisions. One consequence of this is the new Energy Bill, which by 2020 will triple the subsidies paid by taxpayers and consumers to ‘renewable’ energy suppliers to £7.6 billion a year.
The bungs paid to operate offshore wind turbines – the most expensive form of energy ever devised – will rise 16-fold to an annual £4.2 billion. The hated onshore turbines will also get huge new subsidies, at least doubling their number to about 6,500.
Even this underestimates the Bill’s full burden, which is closer to £110 billion. Among its enormous further costs are those which will be incurred by the inconvenient fact that wind turbines make electricity for only a third of the time."
Trapped in an icy prison: 1,000 ships stranded in frozen ocean as China is gripped by extreme cold snap
Daily Mail
"China is enduring its most brutal cold snap in 28 years - More than 1,000 ships are frozen in place in Shandong province - Travel across the nation has been severely affected"
"China is enduring its most brutal cold snap in 28 years - More than 1,000 ships are frozen in place in Shandong province - Travel across the nation has been severely affected"
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Christmas Getting Colder In The UK
Real Science
"The top ten coldest UK Christmases include the years 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 "
Top ten: Coldest Christmas days « Met Office News Blog
"The top ten coldest UK Christmases include the years 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 "
Top ten: Coldest Christmas days « Met Office News Blog
China chills hit 28-year low, trapping 1000 ships in ice
The Times of India
"SHANGHAI: Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend. Since late November the country has shivered at an average of minus 3.8 degrees celsius, 1.3 degrees colder than the previous average, and the chilliest in 28 years, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing the China meteorological administration. Bitter cold has even frozen the sea in Laizhou Bay on the coast of Shandong province in the east, stranding nearly 1,000 ships, the China Daily newspaper reported. ........Temperatures in the northeast fell even further, reaching a 43-year low of minus 15.3 degrees celsius, about 3.7 degrees below the previous recorded average." (h/t Climate Realists)
"SHANGHAI: Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend. Since late November the country has shivered at an average of minus 3.8 degrees celsius, 1.3 degrees colder than the previous average, and the chilliest in 28 years, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing the China meteorological administration. Bitter cold has even frozen the sea in Laizhou Bay on the coast of Shandong province in the east, stranding nearly 1,000 ships, the China Daily newspaper reported. ........Temperatures in the northeast fell even further, reaching a 43-year low of minus 15.3 degrees celsius, about 3.7 degrees below the previous recorded average." (h/t Climate Realists)
Met Office Accused Of Misleading Public Over Rainfall Trends
WUWT
"Questions Over Met Office Rain & Drought Predictions .........My take on all this is that the alarmists are just getting desperate, spinning any weather and data to suit the CO2 thesis. Remember that the record annual rainfall for England is still less than the average annual rainfall for Scotland, hence if the average track of the jet stream is a little further south than usual then England gets a fair bit more rain. It has nothing to do with the alleged warmer atmosphere having more potential to store H20; if it was why did north-west Scotland have a drought in the spring and early summer? More bollocks from the Met Office. The UK weather and climate is determined by the track of the jet stream (and moderated by the Gulf Stream), and CO2 has feck all to do with it. "
"Questions Over Met Office Rain & Drought Predictions .........My take on all this is that the alarmists are just getting desperate, spinning any weather and data to suit the CO2 thesis. Remember that the record annual rainfall for England is still less than the average annual rainfall for Scotland, hence if the average track of the jet stream is a little further south than usual then England gets a fair bit more rain. It has nothing to do with the alleged warmer atmosphere having more potential to store H20; if it was why did north-west Scotland have a drought in the spring and early summer? More bollocks from the Met Office. The UK weather and climate is determined by the track of the jet stream (and moderated by the Gulf Stream), and CO2 has feck all to do with it. "
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