NOT ANOTHER BAD HAT : LE CHAPEAU MOPGA

FRANCE'S PRESIDENT RAISES THE EXISTENTIAL  STAKES 

IN  THE  CLIMATE  WARS  BY  THREATENING  TO  

UNLEASH  MOPGA HATS UPON THE WORLD

"  Le changement climatique est l’un des plus grands défis de notre temps. Il change déjà nos vies quotidiennes, à l‘échelle mondiale. Chacun d’entre nous est impacté.  Et si nous ne faisons rien, nos enfants  vont connaître  un monde de migrations, de  guerres, et  de  pénuries. Peu importe où nous vivons, nous partageons la même responsabilité: Make our planet great again! "

-- Emmanuel Macron
MACRON'S  HOMAGE  TO THE MAGA HAT MAKES  ONE  WONDER  WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP GOT THE IDEA?

MAY THE FORCE X FROM OUTER SPACE BE WITH YOU

New Jo Nova Science 23: 

Four mysteries and The Force-X Hypothesis

Is Force X two different forces? 
The Sun could influence Earths climate through magnetic fields, solar particle flows, or spectral changes. | Image: ESA

There are two key clues, almost contradicting each other, which we must solve to figure out what Force X is.

How do we explain that mysterious pattern — ... David calculates that to “notch” out the extra sunlight would only take an increase in clouds of 0.05%. It’s too small to detect.

As usual, electrical engineers will be most at home with David’s analysis. Force D works like a low pass filter and notching occurs in every Western electrical system, both of which are bread and butter stuff for electrical engineers. Come with us on another step towards figuring out the system…  — Jo

May 10, 2016 at 2:51 pm

David Evans 
I am writing a book on this at the moment, aimed at my arts graduate mother, and within the grasp of most politicians and journalists, with no equations and lots of pretty pictures.

UPDATE: Not that James [Delingpole] isn’t supportive of our efforts on the science front. On the contrary, he wrote two rather nice articles on the Cool Futures Hedge Fund (see also here), which the head of the Lord Monckton Foundation set up to take financial advantage of the cluelessness of the warmists and the upcoming collapse of their intellectual and financial world, based on our efforts:

- I’m putting my money where my mouth is and betting against climate change
- World’s First Anti-Global-Warming Hedge Fund Sticks It To The Greenies

FAKE NEWS OF THE DAY: DELINGPOLE MEETS HIS MATCH

 BREITBART  LONDON

Delingpole: Bill Nye’s New ‘Science Guy’ Movie is More Climate Change Propaganda

by JAMES DELINGPOLE29 Sep 2017 

Bill Nye — the man who has built an entire media career on the somewhat flimsy basis that his surname rhymes with “Guy” and if you put “Science” in front of it then it makes “Science Guy” — has made a movie...it's Ghostbusters remake awful. You’ll cry, you’ll writhe, you’ll scream. It will put you off science forever.

... the problem is, of course, Bill Nye himself... Everything about him from that fruity bow tie to the creepy uncle twinkle in his eye says: “The only time a guy like this should be allowed anywhere near children is in a Stephen King movie, wearing a clown suit"

...the computer models predicting extreme global warming due to man-made carbon dioxide are wrong...
For Nye to tout this nonsense in a movie isn’t science...If he had any sense of integrity or humility (lol) then he would heed the wise words of the late Michael Crichton on the subject of the global warming “consensus.”

I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; 

The fact that Nye doesn’t understand this fundamental point speaks volumes about his ineptitude as a “scientific” thinker...

History will judge Bill Nye as a fool and a fraud.

But then, his name does rhyme with “Big Lie.”

 We interrupt Dellers diatribe to show his being tutored on the subject by  Royal Society  President   Sir Paul Nurse:

THIS DEMOLITION BEGINS 35 MINUTES INTO THIS BBC PROGRAMME:

THANKFULLY, ALL 18 OF HIS GUARDS CAN SWIM

MATT ISN'T REALLY A COAL BARON, HE'S A COAL VISCOUNT

Since William F. Buckley's demise National Review has moved ever further away from the conservative center it claims to hold by adding to the political polarization of science rather than redressing it

What  sort  of  editor  relies on the energy policy advice of a  science writer  without bothering to weigh his  views  against  the literally millions  of  tons  of  coal  that have  provided  his family fortune for  five  generations or more ? 

Viscount Ridley's Northumbrian  estates span some of the most productive coal seams in the UK.

And willful indifference to fail to state where NR writers are coming from as well:

 THE CORNER 
National Review 
Matt Ridley: Climate Change’s Rational Optimist

 by JULIE KELLY September 28, 2017 4:00 AM 
 The irrational pessimists leading the international climate-change crusade consider Ridley a heretic. He calls himself a “lukewarmer” on climate change. The author of several scientific books — including The Rational Optimist, his paean about how human grit and ingenuity have historically prevailed over a harsh natural world — Ridley acknowledges that the greenhouse-gas effect is real and humans have caused most of the warming over the past 50 years: “I just don’t think it will ever get dangerous, and if it does, by that time, we will have had plenty of time to adapt to it with new technologies,” he told me from his home in northern England. 

While most reasonable people would agree with his logical and hopeful approach to potential global catastrophe, the irrational pessimists leading the international climate-change crusade consider it heresy. Many have smeared Viscount Ridley, who is also a Conservative-party member of the House of Lords, as a climate “denier” and targeted him for professional destruction. “I’ve written about many controversial issues during my career,” Ridley said. “Never, have I ever experienced anything like what happens when you write about climate, which is a systematic and organized attempt to blacken your name rather than your arguments, and to try to pressure any outlet that publishes me into not publishing me any more.”  

A group of activists and scientists is urging the Times (U.K.) to stop publishing a regular column authored by Ridley because his views often challenge the climate tribe’s reigning dogma. Fortunately, none of this seems to have dampened Ridley’s good humor or self-effacing manner. Quite to the contrary: This rational optimist is now talking about the benefits of rising carbon dioxide emissions. 

In a speech last year at the Royal Society of London, Ridley presented the evidence on global greening, which is the spread of green vegetation around the world over the past 30 years. It is called the “CO2 fertilization effect” ... 

Climate scientists, environmentalists, and politicians here and abroad could use a healthy dose of that kind of rational optimism. Instead, they will no doubt continue their scare tactics, push their unattainable and punitive zero-emissions goal, and bully any “denier” who doesn’t capitulate to their political agenda. Too bad we don’t have more Matt Ridleys on this side of the Atlantic.     

READ MORE:     Climate-Change Activists are the Real Science Deniers     The Religion of Climate Change     Climate McCarthyism

— Julie Kelly is a writer from Orland Park, Ill. 

TOSS ANOTHER TON OF COAL ON THE BARBIE

Finding her catastrophic global cooling hedge fund undersubscribed, Jo Nova  advertises  an   advertisement  for the next  Ice Age, calling on  Australia to build 1,200 new coal-fired power plants:

Advert in The Australian describes what real climate change looks like

An advert today describes the real climate change we should afraid of, discusses how past CO2 levels did not cause dangerous global warming, and extra CO2 has a smaller and smaller effect, then connects failed climate models with rising electricity bills.

WE'RE DOOMED- ARAB CO2 EMISSIONS TO DOUBLE BY 2020 !

THEY DON'T MAKE REALITY LIKE THEY USED TO

PR Artiste  Tony Heller, long fraudulently known as Steve Goddard,  has opened the door to an alternative reality under the rubric Real Climate Science. He outlines this brave new world thus-

  100 % of US Warming Is Due To NOAA Data Tampering

• 100% Predictable Fraud From Government Climate Scientists
• 1986 – The Year When Climate Fraud Reached A Tipping Point
• Arctic Sea Ice Fraud
• Biggest Fraud In Science History
• Climate Racketeering
• CRU Temperature Fraud
• CU Sea Level Fraud
• Global Temperature Record Is A Smoking Gun Of Collusion And Fraud
• History Of NASA/NOAA Temperature Corruption
• NASA Sea Level Fraud
• NASA/CRU Southern Hemisphere Temperature Fraud
• NOAA Global Temperature Fraud
• NOAA US Temperature Fraud
• NOAA’s US Climate Extremes Index Is Fraudulent
• The 100% Fraudulent Hockey Stick
• The Corrupt History Of NASA Temperature History
• The NASA Temperature Record Is Garbage
• West Antarctic Collapse Scam

Unfortunately,  the content of Tony's new dimension less recalls the twilight zone than that of  the 1970's  TV show That's Incredible , which vanished from prime time  when it dawned on the audience that its offerings fell into two broad epistemic categories, That's Mildly Interesting,  and  That's Not True.

IF TRUMP FIRES PRUITT, WILL HAWKING GET HIS EPA JOB ?

MOVING  TO  REALITY  TELEVISION  FROM  THE  LUCASIAN CHAIR  IN MATHEMATICS  AT  TRINITY COLLEGE  CAMBRIDGE, STEPHEN HAWKING HAS CALLED ON PRESIDENT TRUMP  TO  FIRE   OIL  PATCH  AMBULANCE  CHASER   EPA  ADMINISTRATOR   PRUITT, ALREADY  IN  THE  DOG HOUSE  FOR  HAVING CHARTERED A COLORADO  JET TO  RETURN TO THE SWAMP  TO WORK ON A LEANER, MEANER, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

HOW DO YOU SAY 'DOUBLESPEAK' IN CANADIAN ?

Climate skeptic: ‘Big Brother watched me’

WUWT Guest Blogger / 5 hours ago 
By Tom Harris, writing in the Toronto Sun

“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.”

This slogan appeared on posters of the Party leader in the dystopian society of George Orwell’s 1984.

It was a constant reminder of omnipresent government surveillance for “thoughtcrime” — independent thinking.

In Orwell’s book, Winston Smith, a Ministry of Truth “history re-writer,” quietly rebelled against this oppression, secretly starting a diary expressing forbidden thoughts...

As head of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), I have been feeling a bit like Smith these days.

In December, 2015 while in Paris attending counter conferences to the United Nations’ climate meetings, 

Paris 2015: is that a check in Tom's hand ? - ICSC received $45,000 from the Heartland Institute in 2007 alone

I learned the environmental organization Ecojustice had registered a complaint with the Competition Bureau on behalf of six prominent Canadians against ICSC, Friends of Science, and the Heartland Institute.

WUWT  seems  a mighty odd place  to  denounce Big Brother  -- Watts' staff of  permanent censors have long  suppressed comments by climate scientists, and Big Brother Watts' Ministry of Truthiness  introduced a  climate blogging first four years ago:

 AUTOMATED CENSORSHIP:

Calling blacklisting whitelisting may seem Orwellian to oldthinkers, but
James 'It's not my job to sit down and read peer reviewed papers' Delingpole 
finds the bellyfeel of  Wattsspeak doubleplus good--

  "Then, of course, there is the great Anthony Watts – founder of the most widely read and important sceptical website of the lot... I owe Wattsy an enormous amount...

Ultimately, it seems to me, that the war we're fighting concerns the battle between openness, honesty, truth, liberty and freedom of expression on the one hand, and corrupt, dishonest, bullying authoritarianism on the other. What's particularly valuable about Watts Up With That? is ... Anyone is welcome to contribute to the debate," Daily Telegraph  11 April 2013

AS  A FRIEND OF SCIENCE , TOM REALLY OUGHT TO ASK  DELINGPOLE  WHY  HE'S FOLLOWED WATTS' ORWELLIAN LEAD IN  BANNING SCIENTISTS  COMMENTS ON HIS BREITBART COLUMNS 

THEY ALSO PUBLISHED FRED SINGER'S LAST 300 OPEDS

September 22, 2017

Oops! Climate Cultist Destroys Own Position  

By Daren Jonescu

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been doing the leftist media interview circuit recently, pressing his peculiar thesis that professional (i.e., paid) scientists are a superior class of humans whose conclusions are intrinsically beyond reproach and must therefore be accepted blindly by unscientific lunks like you.

In each of these interviews, a non-climate scientist asks a series of predetermined questions designed to elicit rehearsed responses from the non-climate scientist Tyson, the upshot of which is that ... people who question man-made global warming are anti-scientific fools driven by irrational agendas; 

Daren Jonescu writes about politics, philosophy, education, and the decline of civilization at http://darenjonescu.com.

Even deeper thoughts soon surfaced  in its wake:

THE FARCE AWAKENS

 In the Climate Wars, Every  God Emperor  Needs  A God-Fearing  Science Advisor

The runner-up was Jar Jar Binks  

PRESIDENT  TRUMP'S   HUNTSVILLE  SERMON HAS  INSPIRED A REPORT FROM

  UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA  CLIMATOLOGIST  &  HEARTLAND INSTITUTE 

 OF  THE YEAR  DR. ROY SPENCER   :

Cracks in the Empire’s Armor Appear

September 20th, 2017 

Yesterday brought widespread news coverage of a new “study” published in Nature Geoscience which concludes that global warming has not been progressing as fast as expected, and that climate models might be a “little bit” wrong.

My initial reaction to the news was captured by my wife:

I’ve been thinking about what led to this turn of events. I’ve decided it was not some random realization by rogue elements of the Empire. It was not a tactical anomaly, but instead a strategic trial balloon of sorts.

Had John Christy or I tried to publish such a paper, Storm Troopers led by Darth Trenberth would have been quickly dispatched to put down the rebellion.

I suspect there have been years of discussions in e-cigarette vapor-filled back rooms where Empire leaders have been discussing how the increasing disparity between models and observations should be handled. The resulting new paper is part of a grand scheme that Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich perfected decades ago.

                              HAVING  LEFT MIT FOR  THE CATO INSTITUTE,  DICK LINDZEN MIGHT SPIN IT DIFFERENTLY:

TWO NEW SCIENCES: SURREALIST HYDRODYNAMICS & SOLID STATE METEOROLOGY

           

     AT  WUWT    --

Gravity waves influence weather and climate

Anthony Watts / 9 hours ago 

1. Stephen Wilde

    

   September 21, 2017 at 11:05 am 

   AGW theory proposes that a new equilibrium is set at a higher surface temperature when GHGs increase but a new equilibrium cannot be set because any such proposed new equilibrium would permanently upset the balance between the upward pressure gradient force and the downward force of gravity. 

   Either the atmosphere would expand indefinitely (if the net effect of GHGs is warming) and be lost to space or it would contract indefinitely (if the net effect of GHGs is cooling) and fall to the ground as a congealed solid.

   The net effect on hydrostatic balance at any given level of insolation by the radiative effects of GHGs must be zero...
2. 
   Extend the logic to realise that they mediate the climate response to everything that would otherwise serve to disrupt hydrostatic equilibrium.
   
   So, one can concede that human emissions might affect global air circulation patterns INSTEAD OF changing surface temperatures but due to the vastly greater effects of solar and oceanic variability we could never notice or measure it.

CO2? NAH, IT'S THE FIRST LAW OF SNYDERGAARDYNAMICS

BREITBART: Mets’ Noah Syndergaard Claims Recent Hurricanes Are Global Warming ‘Karma’ for President Trump Leaving Paris Accords

by WARNER TODD HUSTON19 Sep 2017

Mets Pitcher Noah Syndergaard has leapt into the global warming debate, by saying that the recent hurricanes are a sort of revenge, exacted by global warming due to President Trump’s decision to leave the Paris Climate Accord.

Syndergaard jumped to Twitter to insinuate that the hurricanes slamming the U.S. is “karma.”

“U.S. pulls out of Paris Climate Accord. Then hit by 4 Hurricanes in 6 weeks. Global Warming Karma?” Syndergaard tweeted on Monday:

Syndergaard added a hashtag identifying himself as a Texan, and a Republican...

Despite the baseball player’s assumption that global warming caused the last few hurricanes, not many climatologists concur with that claim.

Indeed, as Breitbart’s James Delingpole noted, the claim often made by climate change activists that hurricanes will increase in scope and intensity is nothing but “alarmism,” not supported by facts.

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.

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EPA Condemns White House Press Office As Toxic Waste Site

SOME PSEUDS FORGO THEIR PSEUDONYMS ONLY WHEN SPEAKING PSEUDOTRUTH TO POWER

The CPAC Climate Demolition & Disinformation Derby, with NRO's John Fund, [ FULL DISCLOSURE- Fund is the WSJ editor who in 1989 condensed a 5,500 policy journal article of mine into a half page op-ed], Breitbart London's non-science guy, James Delingpole, perennial K-Street hack lawyer and Junk Science Judo author Steve Milloy and climate blogger turned carbon lobbyist Tony Heller, better known by the pseudonym 'Steven Goddard.' Atticus he ain't.

PLACE YOUR BETS !

WINTON CAPITAL SETS UP 

CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION MARKET

• Date: 12/09/17
• Lindsay Fortado, Financial Times

WIDOWS & ORPHANS BEWARE !

One of Europe’s largest hedge funds is looking to move into the gambling industry in the UK, as it sets up a new venue where players can bet on the effects of climate change. The project is hoping to tempt climate scientists to put their money where their models are.

The new “climate prediction market” is the brainchild of Winton Capital, founded by David Harding, and is aimed at finding a market consensus on the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global temperature rises in the future.

The not-for-profit project, which is being funded out of Winton’s philanthropic budget, is hoping to tempt climate scientists to put their money where their models are, and to provide a clear benchmark of the academic consensus at a time of intense interest in man-made climate change.

News of the project comes as the UN General Assembly meeting in New York focuses on the theme of a sustainable planet. Climate change also continues to dominate the political agenda around the world, after President Donald Trump declared he will withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord and roll back regulations on the production of coal.

“With a prediction market, getting the information is the primary objective,” said Mark Roulston, a scientist at Winton who is overseeing the project. “There’s not necessarily a consensus on all the implications of climate change. The idea is to have a benchmark which could track any emerging consensus.”

Under the plan, scientists and experts from around the world will be able to trade contracts based on the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and how far temperatures increase, going decades into the future.

Winton  will act as  a market maker  and  subsidise trading, rather than taking a cut  ... The hedge fund will initially  target  professionals in the climate field  to  participate, 

though it will be open to anyone in the UK. It is being run internally at Winton, with employees able to place notional bets rather than using real money. Mr Roulston said they are hoping to launch it externally later this year to universities, and will open it to the public sometime next year.

FROM JUNK SCIENCE JUDO TO JUNK SCIENCE SUMO

Washington (CNN)

President Donald Trump plans to nominate his longtime campaign aide Sam Clovis (aka Jabba the Hut) to head science at the US Department of Agriculture, despite the fact that Clovis lacks a background in science and a congressional rule maintains that the role must be filled “from among distinguished scientists.”

 As an example of  Chief Scientist Clovis' mastery  of the scientific method  here is his defense of Trump supporters fighting with protesters to CNN’s Alisyn Camerota

Camerota: What do you think about the idea that he was suggesting that there would be violence? Threatening that there would be violence?

Clovis: I don’t think he said violence, he said riots…

Camerota: Riots are violence, by definition.

Clovis: I don’t accept that.

.