CFACT'S FACTOID CLEARING HOUSE, CLIMATE DEPOT THINKS TURNING TUNDRA INTO MOLTEN MUSKEG IS A GOOD THING, AS IT MEANS HIGHER CROP YIELDS IN BAFFIN ISLAND & LAPLAND
TODAY'S OTHER STORIES FROM UNUSUALLY RELIABLE CLIMATE DEPOT SOURCE SEBASTIAN KETTLEY:
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
RENEWABLE ENERGY: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR
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| A FIFTY FOOT WALL OF ADVANCING LAVA SUGGESTS HAWAII GEOTHERMAL MAY HAVE OVERPERFORMED ON SITE SELECTION |
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
THE HOCKEY SKATE CURVE
A famiiar climate wars curve can be seen reflected in the growing pile-up of ambulance chasers on the appelate superhighway: | |
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Sunday, May 27, 2018
KRAKATOA, EAST OF WALL STREET
THE WSJ COMMENTARIAT ERUPTS IN DEFENSE OF
PROF. EMERITISSIMUS S. FRED SINGER’S OP-ED,
PROF. EMERITISSIMUS S. FRED SINGER’S OP-ED,
David Darlow
5 days ago
Melting ice is not the only thing that can raise the sea level. Note the eruption of hundreds of undersea volcanoes in the oceans and what they deposit. All of the rivers of the world flush millions of acre feet of mud and silt into the sea floor daily. During an undersea earthquake a tectonic plate could override another, affecting a thousand miles of sea floor, displacing a great deal of water and raising the sea level.
Gerald Ference
5 days ago
Mr. Darlow dares state a truth that the climate scientists fail to acknowledge.
Ray Hull
5 days ago
Signators: Speaking of volcanic eruptions, what kind of NEW knowledge and prognostications can we expect from your learned body following the current eruptions in Hawaii?...
A shortage of LGBTQ "Virgins" for the volcanic Gods?
Durn you, and your actual facts!
You are not posting fairly in the Unicorn world of Eco-Nuttery.
David Rowan
4 days ago
I am going to get solar panels for my roof which will stop the undersea volcanic activity.
Diane Thorton
4 days ago
Profs. Dutton and Mann:
To counter your opinion, I offer that of another that Forbes published in May of 2012:
Niel Barabbas
4 days ago
Ha ha ha, the proven liar Mann chimes in? Now we know for sure Singer is correct.
Grant Miner
3 days ago
Google "Antarctic volcano melting ice" and you will get dozens of articles from the past six months reporting on discoveries of volcanoes below the ice sheet that are causing melting. Included are articles about a "supervolcano" bigger than Yellowstone. These articles are from Newsweek, Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes, UK Examiner, and many other reputable sources.
They can't all be wrong.
FORGET TURTLES- IT'S DODGY PIZZAS ALL THE WAY DOWN
Sceptics Deny the Earth is Flat.
Therefore the World is Warming
The Conversation’s Environment editor Willy de Freitas, after insulting cliscep contributors Paul Matthews and John Ridgway, as well as barrister Robin Guenier and emeritus professor of philosophy Hugh McLachlan, has decided to thumb his nose at us by publishing an article so stupid that even we wouldn’t stoop to criticise it.
Sorry Willy. I’ll stoop at anything.
The authors of “Flat Earthers vs climate change sceptics: why conspiracy theorists keep contradicting each other” Gareth Dorrian and Ian Whittaker are respectively Post Doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in astrophysics at Nottingham Trent University. The evidence that they possess the reasoning abilities of retarded five-year-olds is in the title of their article. Yes, no, really. What these astrophysicians are saying is that flat earthers and climate sceptics are both wrong – because they contradict each other.
They make this astounding point in their very first paragraph, and repeat it ...
Flat Earthism and the idea that human activity is not responsible for climate change are two of the most prevalent conspiracy theories today. [1] Both have been increasing in popularity since the late 20th century. Currently, 16% of the US population say they doubt the scientifically established shape of the Earth...
No they don’t. According to the link, just 2% think that the earth is flat, a percentage which corresponds to the lower range of estimates of respondents who regularly give stupid answers to surveys just to annoy the interviewers...
Get that? Some flat earthers are not climate deniers…
Former White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci (dismissed by president Trump after ten days in office), meanwhile, believes that the Earth is in fact round, but does not believe in anthropogenic climate change, as he made clear in an interview with CNN
...while some climate change sceptics are not flat earthers.
Are all astrophysicists idiots or was Terry Pratchett right about Discworld? My binary seaweed tells me it’s got to be one or the other. But would you award either of these morons a wizardship at the Unseen University?
Or, to pose the question in more civilised tones, are Dorrian and Whittaker as stupid as they seem to be, or is there method in their madness? Did someone in the astrophysics community whisper to them:
“Look, let’s face it. Our salaries depend on the whim on our political masters whose understanding of science is such that they can’t tell the difference between someone poisoned by a deadly nerve gas and someone who’s eaten a dodgy pizza.
Friday, May 25, 2018
WE DON'T NEED YOUR FEELTHY ABSORPTION INTEGRALS
Climatic Distortions Due to Diminutive Denominators
Guest essay by Thomas P. Sheahen
We all learned in elementary school that “you can’t divide by zero.” But what happens when you divide by a number very close to zero, a small fraction? The quotient shoots way up to a very large value.
Pick any number. If you divide 27 by 1, you get 27. If you divide 27 by 1/10, you get 270. Divide 27 by 1/1000 and you get 27,000. And so on. Any such division exercise blows up to a huge result as the denominator gets closer and closer to zero.
There are several indices being cited these days that get people’s attention, because of the big numbers displayed. But the reality is that those big numbers come entirely from having very small denominators...prominent examples of this mathematical artifact [include] the feedback effect in global warming models...
The misuse of numbers here has led to all sorts of dreadful predictions about the need to do away with very minor trace gases like methane (CH4), N2O and others.
“Global Warming Potential” was first introduced in IPCC ...To grasp what it means, it is first necessary to understand how molecules absorb and re-emit radiation...
Once a molecule absorbs a photon, it gains energy and goes into an excited state; until that energy is lost (via re-radiation or collisions), that molecule won’t absorb another photon. A consequence of this is that the total absorption by any gas gradually saturates as the amount of that gas increases. A tiny amount of a gas absorbs very effectively, but if the amount is doubled, the total absorption will be less than twice as much as at first; and similarly if doubled again and again. We say the absorption has logarithmic dependence on the concentration of the particular gas. The curve of how total absorption falls off varies according to the exponential function, exp (-X/A), where X is the amount of a gas present [typically expressed in parts per million, ppm], and A is a constant related to the physics of the molecule. Each gas will have a different value, denoted B, C, D, etc. Getting these numbers within + 15% is considered pretty good.
There is so much water vapor in the atmosphere (variable, above 10,000 ppm, or 1% in concentration) that its absorption is completely saturated, so there’s not much to discuss. By contrast, the gas CO2 is a steady value of about 400 ppm, and its absorption is about 98% saturated. That coincides with the coefficient A being roughly equivalent to 100 ppm.
This excursion into the physics of absorption pays off when we look at the mathematics that goes into calculating the “Global Warming Potential” (GWP) of a trace gas...the reality is that every one of the GWPs calculated is enormously inflated due to division by the extremely small denominator associated with the slope of the CO2 absorption curve.
The calculation of GWP is not so much a warning about other gases, but rather an indictment of CO2, which (at 400 ppm) would not change its absorption perceptibly...
When it is too difficult to carry out an actual integral over data that is very uncertain and widely variable, the next best thing is to select one number for the lifetime and multiply by it...
The guesswork involved in that will probably afflict both numerator and denominator is roughly the same way.
While the good doctor has not found a scientific publisher for this view, he does not expect us to take it on faith, and offers the following supporting information on his website, which by an odd coincidence is linked via The Heartland Institute:
Science
When God created the laws of physics General Relativity
Quantum Chromodynamics, etc.
He created a universe that would bring forth a creature capable of loving Him in return.
When God created the laws of physics General Relativity
Quantum Chromodynamics, etc.
He created a universe that would bring forth a creature capable of loving Him in return.
Science Grew From Christianity
• Antiquity: science just a curiosity, no rational order• Christianity: God made the universe intelligible,
Subject to human reasoning• There were great churchmen/scientists of past 5 centuries
• Antiquity: science just a curiosity, no rational order• Christianity: God made the universe intelligible,
Subject to human reasoning• There were great churchmen/scientists of past 5 centuries
Data
- As science advanced, a preference for experimental and observational data emerged
- Data became the final arbiter of scientific truth
- Theories are mankind’s reasoned attempts to explain the data.
- But in the final analysis, data is supreme.
Data Trumps Theory
No global warming for 18 years 4 months
All the models over-predict
warming
Christy & Spencer (2013)
warming
Christy & Spencer (2013)
Real Data
- CO2 has increased from 280 ppm to > 400 ppm since start of industrial revolution
- The computer models predict that the Temperature would already have risen.
- That is clearly not the case.
- Therefore, a capable scientist must build a new theoretical model.
God created the universe with wisdom
far beyond our own
The presence of two major life forms (plant & animal) that use each other’s waste
and thus provide food
Is far to clever for mankind to imagineCO2 is Plant Food
The presence of two major life forms (plant & animal) that use each other’s waste
and thus provide food
Is far to clever for mankind to imagineCO2 is Plant Food
CO2 is plant food
• More CO2 makes the Stomata on leaves open wider
• Allowing water to be converted more efficiently
• Plants grow more• Trees• Grain
• Food• Life
• More CO2 makes the Stomata on leaves open wider
• Allowing water to be converted more efficiently
• Plants grow more• Trees• Grain
• Food• Life
Conclusion
There is nothing to fear from CO2
It does not increase the temperature
If there is no reason to abolish CO2,
Then there is no reason to suppress fossil fuels
Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen is vice president of the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP), Director of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST)
There is nothing to fear from CO2
It does not increase the temperature
If there is no reason to abolish CO2,
Then there is no reason to suppress fossil fuels
Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen is vice president of the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP), Director of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST)
Thursday, May 24, 2018
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SUBMARINE CHEMTRAILS ?
S. FRED SINGER'S PECULIAR OP-ED EARNED THIS WSJ RESPONSE FROM ANDREA DUTTON & MICHAEL MANN
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
WHY BOTHER BUYING COMIC BOOKS TO ROT YOUR BRAIN ?
THE DAILY MAIL WILL DO IT FOR FREE !
Wednesday, May 23rd 2018
CHRISTOPHER BOOKER:
Is the political class’s obsession with global warming rotting their brains?
The Government earned plaudits from the green lobby yesterday for its new plan to crack down on the craze for wood-burning stoves.
As the Mail reported on its front page, the stoves chuck out lethal pollution, particularly from wet wood, and contribute to thousands of early deaths from lung and heart disease.
But hang on!... only recently, the Government and the greens told us burning wood to heat our homes was the best thing we could do for the environment...
this disgracefully wasteful affair is dwarfed by... the conversion of boilers at the giant Drax power station in Yorkshire from coal to wood pellets...
Even the most ardent green activist groups have protested that chopping down millions of acres of forest in America to fuel a system that ends up chucking out more CO2 is an absurd ecological disaster...
Given these horrific facts, why have governments in recent years made wood-burning such a core part of energy policy? ...
The bitter truth is that these fiascos caused by our obsession with wood-burning are just a part of a larger disaster that taints almost every green scheme...
It’s as if the political class’s obsession with global warming rots their brains —
The bitter truth is that these fiascos caused by our obsession with wood-burning are just a part of a larger disaster that taints almost every green scheme...
It’s as if the political class’s obsession with global warming rots their brains —
TRUMP DECLARES VICTORY IN DRAINING SWAMP AFTER
HIGHWAY TO HELL GAPES OPEN ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN
CONGRESSMAN FEARS DEVILISH DECLIVITY IS WORK
OF DEEP STATE "DEEP TIME" CULTISTS
OF DEEP STATE "DEEP TIME" CULTISTS
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
SOMETHING STUPID THIS WAY COMES
Now’s the Time to Restore Integrity to EPA Regulatory Science
For decades ..."Secret science” has been especially common as the basis for...regulation related to anthropogenic global warming (AGW).
Last month EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt requested public comment on a new rule, “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” (STRS), designed to solve that problem.
The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation— a network of scientists, economists, and religious leaders dedicated to environmental stewardship and economic development for the poor... calls the proposed rule “badly needed to assure American taxpayers that the EPA is truly acting in their best interests.”
Opponents of STRS raise three common, and at first sight credible, objections.
The first is that peer review ensures the quality of studies published in refereed journals. But there is actually no empirical evidence that peer review works well...
The second common objection is that the rule would prevent the EPA from using studies that involved confidential information...
A third ... is that “many ...studies cannot be replicated,... for example, a study that used tree-rings as proxy temperature measurements and purported to find that neither the Medieval Warm Period nor the Little Ice Age had occurred but that a rapid and historically unprecedented warming had begun in the late 19th century... No one needed to use a time machine to return to the 11th through 20th centuries and regrow trees to recognize that the authors had committed confirmation fallacy by excluding certain data and misused a statistical procedure, resulting in false results.
STRS will improve, not harm, the EPA’s mission to protect Americans from real environmental risks. It will also reduce the risks caused by unjustified but costly regulations. It should be adopted.
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.
Monday, May 21, 2018
PRUITT MINIONS FLEE FRANKNESS OF BRIDENSTINE
Dozens of Administrator Priutt's EPA minions cast their torches & pitchforks aside last week, and fled into the Potomac fever swamps, horrified by NASA Administrator Bridenstine's shocking lack of contempt for climate science
Saturday, May 19, 2018
WARNING !
CYBORG TRIGGERING MAY AWAKEN DREAD CTHULHU TOO
Monstrous, Duplicated, Potent
Donna Haraway. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene.[sic] Duke, 2016. ALYSSA BATTISTONI
In 1982, the Marxist journal Socialist Review — asked Haraway to write five pages on the priorities of socialist feminism in the Reagan era. Haraway responded with thirty... published in 1985 as “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s,” though it has been known colloquially as the Cyborg Manifesto ever since...
The Manifesto offered a new politics for this new economy. Prescient about the need to organize the feminized, if not always female, sectors, Haraway explicitly called leftists to support SEIU District 925, a prominent campaign to unionize office workers. She also criticized the idea of a universal subject, whether held up by Marxists (the proletarian) or radical feminists (the woman). A new politics had to be constructed ..
In place of old political formations, Haraway imagined new cyborgian ones. She hoped that “the unnatural cyborg women making chips in Asia and spiral dancing in Santa Rita Jail” would together “guide effective oppositional strategies.” Her paradigmatic “cyborg society” was the Livermore Action Group, an antinuclear activist group targeting the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,.. “committed to building a political form that actually manages to hold together witches, engineers, elders, perverts, Christians, mothers, and Leninists long enough to disarm the state.”
What set the Manifesto apart from other reconceptions of feminism was its embrace of science... its famous closing line: “I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
Who wouldn’t? The cyborg’s popularity was no doubt fueled in part by the vision of a bionic babe it suggested — a Furiosa or the Terminator — though it couldn’t be further from her meaning... she has grown weary of its success, admonishing readers that “cyborgs are critters in a queer litter, not the Chief Figure of Our Times.”
Friday, May 18, 2018
MOVE ALONG, THERE'S NOTHING TO HEAR HERE
Bach at the Burger King
By Theodore Gioia
From Theodore Gioia’s website: “Hailing from a line of writers, Theodore has the dubious distinction of being the second best-known writer named Ted Gioia in his family.” The Gioias are like the Therouxs of the 21st Century.
MAY 17, 2018AT THE CORNER of 8th and Market in San Francisco, by a shuttered subway escalator outside a Burger King, an unusual soundtrack plays. A beige speaker, mounted atop a tall window, blasts Baroque harpsichord at deafening volumes. The music never stops. Night and day, Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi rain down from Burger King rooftops onto empty streets.Empty streets, however, are the target audience for this concert. The playlist has been selected to repel sidewalk listeners — specifically, the mid-Market homeless who once congregated outside the restaurant doors that served as a neighborhood hub for the indigent. Outside the BART escalator, an encampment of grocery carts, sleeping bags, and plastic tarmacs had evolved into a sidewalk shantytown attracting throngs of squatters and street denizens. “There used to be a mob that would hang out there,” remarked local resident David Allen, “and now there may be just one or two people.” When I passed the corner, the only sign of life I found was a trembling woman crouched on the pavement, head in hand, as classical harpsichord besieged her ears.… Experts trace the practice’s origins back to a drowsy 7-Eleven in British Columbia in 1985, where some clever Canadian manager played Mozart outside the store to repel parking-lot loiterers. Mozart-in-the-Parking-Lot was so successful at discouraging teenage reprobates that 7-Eleven implemented the program at over 150 stores, becoming the first company to battle vandalism with the viola. Then the idea spread to West Palm Beach, Florida, where in 2001 the police confronted a drug-ridden street corner by installing a loudspeaker booming Beethoven and Mozart. “The officers were amazed when at 10 o’clock at night there was not a soul on the corner,” remarked Detective Dena Kimberlin. Soon other police departments “started calling.” From that point, the tactic — now codified as an official maneuver in the Polite Policeman’s Handbook — exploded in popularity for both private companies and public institutions. Over the last decade, symphonic security has swept across the globe as a standard procedure from Australia to Alaska.Today, deterrence through classical music is de rigueur for American transit systems. …Baroque music seems to make the most potent repellant. “[D]espite a few assertive, late-Romantic exceptions like Mussorgsky and Rachmaninoff,” notes critic Scott Timberg, “the music used to scatter hoodlums is pre-Romantic, by Baroque or Classical-era composers such as Vivaldi or Mozart.”
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