ERA OF EPIC EPOCH DENIAL DAWNS IN OIL PATCH

 THE  IGNORAMOCENE ERA DAWNS, NOT WITH A BANG,
BUT A BOOK REVIEW, AT WATTS UP WITH THAT? 

The Shortest Book Ever Written

David Middleton / 5 hours ago 

Knowledge in the Anthropocene

1. Deborah R. Coen

The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene Jürgen Renn Princeton University Press, 2020. 579 pp.

 I didn’t bother to read it because the Anthropocene is 100% fake science. A scientifically accurate book about the Anthropocene would have this many pages:

Since Rush Limbaugh has told his audience he believes the benthic bacteria that cause global warming go back as far as the Plasticene Era,  why is David Middleton raising Cain about post-modern geology ?

SNOWBALL FIGHT ERUPTS AS UNIMPEACHABLE HOCKEY STICK CURVE IS REVEALED TO SENATE

                             CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS ADMONISHES
                    SENATOR INHOFE TO STOP THROWING LIKE A GIRL

SINCE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 
RADIATIVE  IMPEACHMENT  DOUBLING SENSITIVITY HAS RISEN TO 
 ~ 3  DISGRACED  INCUMBENTS PER 100 PPM CO2  DENIED 

WEATHERING THE DRUDGE REPORT AT CLIMATIC CHANGE

Climatic Change

January 2020, Volume 158, Issue 1

Weathering the storm or storming the norms? 

Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture

• Sophia Huyer
• Samuel Partey

This article is part of a Special Issue on “Gender Responsive Climate Smart Agriculture: Framework, Approaches and Technologies” 

Edited by Sophia Huyer and Samuel Tetteh Partey

Potential of climate-smart agriculture in reducing women farmers’ drudgery in high climatic risk areas

• Arun Khatri-Chhetri
• Punya Prasad Regmi
• Nitya Chanana
• Pramod K. Aggarwal         First Online: 17 January 2019
Abstract

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has a significant role to play in reducing the gender gap in labor burden for women in agriculture.

 A targeted approach to address this gap can be useful in developing a women-responsive climatic risk management plan focused on reducing their labor burden in agriculture, especially in areas with high climate risks. 

The paper therefore presents a top–down approach to identify potential labor-saving CSA technologies for women farmers in areas facing high climate risks. It involves mapping women in agriculture, climate risks, and poverty hotspots and entails understanding the role of women in agricultural activities to identify the suitable CSA options for reducing the levels of labor drudgery... for Nepal where feminization of agriculture is rapidly increasing,

TRUMP DEFENSE BOMBSHELL: RADIATIVE FORCING, FAKE IMPEACHMENT AND GLOBAL WARMING HOAX ARE PARTS OF THE SAME VAST CONSPIRACY

ACCORDING TO PRESIDENTIAL
 FREEDOM  LAUREATE  RUSH LIMBAUGH
   CONNECTING THE DOTS REVEALS
SO-CALLED "WARMING " TO BE  THE HANDIWORK OF A 200 YEAR OLD ELITIST WHIG CABAL 

CLIMATE MARKETS TUMBLE ON FALLING IGUANA FEARS

National Weather Service warns of falling iguanas

Updated 4:11 PM EST January 21, 2020

As the coldest air of the season spreads across the Eastern US, even some southern states are feeling the chill.

Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service in Miami issued a rare forecast regarding cold temperatures but it was for iguanas. Yes, you read that correctly. 

I - guan - as

"Don't be surprised if you see iguanas falling from the trees tonight," tweeted the Miami National Weather Service office. 

The concern for people in South Florida is that these iguanas often sleep in trees, so when their bodies go dormant, they appear to fall from the sky onto streets, cars, pools, or even people walking around. And since iguanas are large -- adult males can reach 5 feet in length, and weigh up to 20 pounds -- this can be dangerous if one lands on top of you.

ANOTHER HARD DAY'S WORK ON K STREET

UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCES IN RAPLPH REED'S OFFICE REPORT WUWT'S CHARLES ROTTER, AND PAUL DRIESSEN AND DUGGAN FLANAKIN OF CFACT HAVE WON THE INCREDIBILITY TRIFECTA WITH  
 A PLAGIARIZED FACEBOOK FACTOID 
POSTED IN A BIRTHER BLOG

WUWT:
Fight fires with facts – not fake science

Charles Rotter / 7 hours ago 

Eliminate fuel, prevent ignition, stop arson, end irresponsible land management policies

By Paul Driessen & Duggan Flanakin,

“We are all born ignorant,” Benjamin Franklin once said, “but one must work very hard to remain stupid.”

Greens are incensed over suggestions that anything but fossil fuels and climate change might be turning green California and Australian ecosystems into black wastelands... 

Sharon Rondeau

Sharon Rondeau has operated The Post & Email since April 2010, focusing on the Obama birth certificate investigation and other government corruption news.   has reported prolifically on constitutional violations within Tennessee’s prison and judicial systems.

POLITIFACT  BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THAT BOGUS BEN FRANKLIN QUOTE  LAST YEAR:

Quotes Benjamin Franklin as saying "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

— Facebook posts on Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 in a Facebook post

No, Benjamin Franklin did not say ‘We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid’

By Samantha Putterman on Friday, June 28th, 2019 at 12:28 p.m.

Another meme attempting to put words into the mouths of historical figures is making the rounds on Facebook.

IN CASE OF WILDFIRE, PUT HEAD IN NEAREST SAND TRAP

It’s not just, as we see in Australia right now, that sports demand the cold. Marathons, cycling, or any outdoor sport that requires a superhuman cardiovascular ability are on the clock. In addition, golf could become something that has to be done inside a dome, as the destruction to local ecosystems caused by golf courses coupled with rising waters make caring for an 18-hole course exceedingly difficult.

Golf Digest reported that “out of 1,168 courses less than two meters above sea level, more than half are vulnerable to disappearance by the end of this century.” President “Global warming is a Chinese hoax” Trump has famously decided to design a sea wall to protect his own golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland...

As for the players at the Australian Open, climate catastrophe has become a workplace safety issue. One player, Canadian Vasek Pospisil, said, “It’s time for a players’ union. This is getting absurd.” Imagine if the players went on strike to cancel the Australian Open in the name of their own health as well as in solidarity with those affected by the fires. Such actions, once unthinkable, might soon become a necessity.

The sports world has for too long had its head in the sand when it comes to our ongoing climate catastrophe. That neutrality will no longer suffice. It can either strive to be a part of the solution or it can be an instrument of distraction. If they choose the latter, the minders of our games will be obscuring the severity of the problem even as their own sports sink into the sea or simply burn.

NEXT IN THE AMERICAN THINKER ALCOHOL KNOWN ONLY SINCE PROHIBITION

September 25, 2019

Carbon Dioxide Known Only Since 1930

By Jonathon Moseley

Thousands of children skipped school last week to march in the streets and demand government action about the hypothetical threat that human industrial activity will change the Earth's climate...

Scientists working under government grants tell us that we have to take action by 1999 or runaway global warming will be irreversible.   See:  Peter James Spielmann, "U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked," Associated Press, June 29, 1989.  Oh, wait.  That  didn't happen...  In any other area of life, would we keep listening to these people?

We do not know how much carbon dioxide was in Earth's atmosphere prior to the 1930s...

Guy Stewart Callendar -- who dreamed up the global warming scare -- rejected nearly all CO2 measurements before 1870 because of “relatively crude instrumentation” and recognized only twelve suitable data sets in the 20th century.   Callendar, G.P. “On the Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere,” Tellus 10: 243-48. (1958)...

The existence of carbon dioxide was not confirmed until 1777 when chemist Antoine Lavoisier thought the gas was a compound of coal and discovered that it was produced by respiration (breathing) as well as by burning coal. 

We cannot measure carbon dioxide content of the Earth's past from air pockets in ice core samples.  First, gases can diffuse through solid walls.   Buy a helium balloon.  A week later the balloon will no longer be floating but on the ground.  The helium gas diffuses out through the walls.  We know that gas does not stay unchanged even in a closed container.

Testimony before the U.S. Senate made this clear in 2004:

Third, real science requires careful protocols.  A measuring instrument must be validated, calibrated, using a meaningful scale, and manufactured with consistency.  That's why the U.S. Government from its earliest days including various agencies to establish "weights and measures."

So, to use trapped gases from ice core samples, we would -- if we were doing real science -- have to put a known composition of gas into an ice air pocket, then come back thousands of years later, and re-test the gas composition.  That would be the kind of real science that the protesting students could have learned had they stayed in school.

REST, RUMMAGE OR TRUDGE ?

The Climate Trail: Survival game pits

 players against climate catastrophe

The developer wants to tap into people's emotions to teach 

them about the risks of unchecked climate change. 

"The Burn,” years of uncontrollable and widespread wildfires fueled by prolonged drought and unrelenting heat across the globe, has devastated much of the United States.You’re trapped in a survivor camp in the ruins of Atlanta along with thousands of other climate change refugees, and the only path to relative safety is due north into Canada.

You set off with a small band of people, among them 

Katherine, a former climate scientist; 

Albert, a hardened Army veteran of the Resource Wars; and 

Bonnie, whose parents died from the plague when permafrost melted, releasing the disease back into the environment. 

You provision your group with water, food, and a portable and valued currency, sorghum seeds, and begin an uncertain journey.

So begins “The Climate Trail“, a free (and ad-free) video game released this past fall that leaps from the pages of today’s climate change news and into a postapocalyptic future said to lie just a few decades ahead of us. It can be played on iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.

“The Climate Trail” was created by William Volk,..

As he developed the game, Volk says he thought of the Cormac McCarthy novel The Road, in which an unnamed catastrophe – maybe nuclear war, maybe the extreme consequences of climate change – have led to environmental ruin. He also was inspired by a fictional short story titled “A Full Life,” in which a teenager named Rue has her world unravel when she and her parents become climate change refugees. The story appeared in MIT Technology Review in a special issue on climate change in April 2019.

ANTHROPOCENE ? WHAT ANTHROPOCENE?

The lastest thing in climate denial is announcing the non-existence of politically inconvenient geological eras, like this one:

Climate Change to Alter Death in the Anthropocene… Or Something Like That
David Middleton / 14 hours ago Guest “WTF?” by David Middleton

Welcome to the Anthropocene
Join thousands of researchers, policymakers and educators who rely on our Weekly Science Dispatch to keep up to date on the latest sustainability science.

The Anthropocene

Welcome to the Anthropocene… It doesn’t exist. Now, on to the story…

DAILY SCIENCE

How climate change could change the way we die
A new study predicts more deaths from injuries in a warmer world.
By Sarah DeWeerdt
January 14, 2020

Global warming of 1.5 °C could result in an additional 1,603 deaths from injuries each year in the United States, an international team of researchers reported yesterday in the journal Nature Medicine. They calculated the death toll from 2 °C of warming at 2,135 excess injury-related deaths yearly...

The Anthropocene

1,603? Are they sure it’s not 1,602 or 1,604?

Dave Middleton describes his  Bibliography:

Over the past few years, I have been publishing most of my climate change and energy articles directly to Watts Up With That?

My name is Dave Middleton. I have been a geoscientist in the evil oil industry since 1981. I have a BS in Earth Science (Geology concentration) from Southern Connecticut State University and I minored in Mathematics... my favorite hobby… Debunking the junk science of radical environmentalists…Particularly the junk science of anthropogenic global warming. 

I use the phrase “junk science” quite often... junk science is what happens when scientists become so focused on the results that they are trying to obtain, or in reinforcing the current paradigm, that they discard inconvenient data and exaggerate the value of supporting data... The classic example of this occurred 500 to 600 years ago when the Ptolemaic (geocentric) Solar System was upplanted by the Copernican (heliocentric) Solar System... 

The field of climate science has been dominated by one ruling theory over the last 20 years or so – The Enhanced Greenhouse Theory... and many other organizations involved in climate science and policy have tunnel-visioned in on the hypothesis that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (primarily carbon dioxide) have driven climate change over the last 200 years. They have clung to this ruling theory despite the fact that the data and observations are increasingly un-supportive of that theory.

CHINA SYNDROME HITS GREATEST LIVING CLIMATEMAN

THE STOCKHOLM SOCK PUPPET SYNDROME

 TOXIC DOXX: WIRED ARTICLE REVEALS 

 'GRETA THUNBERG ' FACEBOOK POSTS WRITTEN BY HER POP IMPRESSARIO FATHER SVANTE OR  CLIMATE FILM PRODUCER  ADARSH PRADAP 

"Facebook Pages give public figures, businesses, and other entities a presence on Facebook that isn't tied to an individual profile...But a bug that was live from Thursday evening until Friday morning allowed anyone to easily reveal the accounts running a Page, essentially doxing anyone who posted to one... screenshots circulated on 4chan, Imgur, and social media appearing to show the accounts behind the official Facebook Pages of... Russian president Vladimir Putin, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton [and]...climate activist Greta Thunberg,"

CHICKEN LITTLE DEATH SQUAD FINDS NEW USE FOR CO2, THE GAS OF LIFE

 The Heartland Institute 
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change

www.co2science.org ⁎ Twitter: @CO2science

CO2 Emissions, Fossil Fuel Use and Human Longevity

It is patently false and borderline fraudulent to claim rising CO2 is enhancing human mortality rates, as many often do, when the data clearly demonstrate there are more people on earth today who are living longer and better lives because of rising CO2 and fossil fuel use.

TWO BENEFICIARIES OF RISING CO2

Those of you who have been following our new Greening of Planet Earth Confirmed video series, know that nothing could be further from the truth. Fossil fuel use and the CO2 emissions that are a byproduct of its combustion are not causing a climate crisis, but are instead providing great benefits to humanity and nature alike."

AND NOW FOR A SECOND OPINION FROM REASON 

California Killed 1.2 Million Birds To Stop a Virus.

 Pet Owners Say They Were Terrorized.

The euthanasia campaign may be necessary to prevent the spread of the Newcastle disease, but bird owners say that it's being carried out in a cruel manner.
Workers kill birds by breaking their necks, shooting them with firearms, or suffocating them with CO2 gas—methods that officials maintain are humane.

LET'S NOT BE BEASTLY TO THE MURDOCHS

The Daily Beast reports:
FIDDLING WHILE OZ BURNS
Rupert Murdoch’s younger son and his wife issued a rare public rebuke of the family’s media empire and its promotion of climate-change skeptics during Australia’s bushfire crisis.

Lachlan Cartwright
Senior  Daily Beast Reporter

In a long-simmering rift between factions of the Murdoch family over climate change, Rupert’s younger son, James, and his activist wife, Kathryn, are attacking the climate denialism promoted by News Corporation... a spokesperson for the couple exclusively told The Daily Beast as wildfires rage in Australia.

“They are particularly disappointed with the ongoing denial among the news outlets in Australia given obvious evidence to the contrary.” 

The extraordinary public rebuke from Kathryn and James comes as Australia has been ravaged by the worst fires seen in decades... with an estimated 1 billion animals feared dead...

One longtime News Corp executive, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, described the comments by James... as an intentional attack on Lachlan and Rupert. 

“They are pissing inside the tent and that’s unusual. It’s evidence of how high tensions are within the family over climate change. The majority of people who work here agree with James. We are hoping this may be the tipping point,” the exec said.

A day later, News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt wrote in The Herald Sun:

“Let’s assume you’re silly enough to think global warming is causing worse bushfires around the world. (In fact a recent NASA study found that the area burned by fire has dropped 24 percent over 18 years.)… True, the world has warmed slightly as it rebounds from the little ice age that stretched from 1300 to around 1870, but can we cool it on this panic? In that time of warming, life expectancy has shot up, world grain crops have set new records, and the death rate from extreme weather has been slashed by 99 percent...”

[Rupert Murdoch] was forced to address the climate issue at News Corp’s annual general meeting in New York in November


“There are no climate-change deniers around, I can assure you,” Murdoch Senior responded while also touting that the company had “reduced our global carbon footprint by 25 percent, six years ahead of schedule.”


Last week, a News Corp staffer based in Australia, Emily Townsend, sent a damning all-staff email...

“I have been severely impacted by the coverage of News Corp publications in relation to the fires, in particular the misinformation campaign that has tried to divert attention away from the real issue which is climate change to rather focus on arson (including misrepresenting facts),” she wrote.“I find it unconscionable to continue working for this company, knowing I am contributing to the spread of climate-change denial and lies. The reporting I have witnessed in The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, and Herald Sun is not only irresponsible, but dangerous and damaging to our communities and beautiful planet that needs us more than ever to acknowledge the destruction we have caused and start doing something about it.” 

The email was quickly deleted from News Corp employees’ inboxes. 

ON A CLEAR DAY IN VANCOUVER YOU CAN SEE THE DEAD SEA THROUGH THE FOREST FIRE SMOKE

NEW YORK MAGAZINE

This Is How We Live Now
A year’s diary of reckoning  with climate anxiety, conversation by conversation.

By Emily Raboteau


Some scientists say the best way to combat climate change is to talk about it among friends and family — to make private anxieties public concerns. For 2019, my New Year’s resolution was to do just that, as often as possible, at the risk of spoiling dinner. I would ask about the crisis at parent-association meetings, in classrooms, at conferences, on the subway, in bodegas, at dinner parties, while overseas, and when online; I would break climate silence as a woman of color, as a mother raising black children in a global city, as a professor at a public university, and as a travel writer — in all of those places, as all of those people. I would force those conversations if I needed to. I wrote them all down.

January

Tuesday, January 1

At last night’s New Year’s Eve party, we served hoppin’ John. 
Nim said that when he used to visit relatives in Israel, he could see the Dead Sea from the side of the road, but on his most recent trip, he could not. It was a lengthy walk to reach the water, which is evaporating.

Chris responded that the beaches are eroding in her native Jamaica, most egregiously where the resorts have raked away the seaweed to beautify the shore for tourists.

Wednesday, January 2

After losing her home in Staten Island to Hurricane Sandy, Lissette bought an RV with solar panels and has been living off the grid, conscious of how much water it takes to flush her toilet and to take a shower, I learned at Angie’s house party.

Wednesday, January 16

On this evening’s trip on the boat Walter built, he claimed with enthusiasm that we might extract enough renewable energy from the Gulf Stream via underwater turbines to power the entire East Coast.

Moreover, Walter predicted with the confidence of a Swiss watch, no intelligent businessman will invest another dime in coal when there is more profit to be made in wind, solar, and hydrokinetic energy.

Monday, January 21

After Hurricane Irma wrecked her home in Key West, Kristina, a triathlete librarian, moved onto a boat and published a dystopian novel titled Knowing When to Leave , I learned over lobster tail.

Tuesday, February 12

We ate vegetable quiche at Ayana and Christina’s housewarming party, where Christina described the Vancouver sun through the haze of forest-fire smoke and smog as looking more like the moon.

Saturday, February 23

When I see those brown recycling bins coming to the neighborhood, said a student in Amir’s class at City College in Harlem, it tells me gentrification is here and our time is running out.

NO WONDER THE ANTHROPOCENE FEELS WARMER

SCIENCE REPORTS

Human body temperature has declined
steadily over the past 160 years

By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jan. 10, 2020 , 1:55 PM

It’s a number everybody knows by heart—our bodies are supposed to be an average 37°C. But that number may be outdated, according to a new analysis of body temperature records going back to 1860. The study suggests the body temperature of the average U.S. man has dropped by 0.6°C since the Civil War, KQED reports. (A similar drop was found in women.) Other studies had already established these newer, lower baselines, blaming faulty thermometers for the discrepancy. But the new research suggests the original number—established in the 1850s—was correct, and that body temperature has declined gradually ever since. That drop may be a product of lower overall levels of inflammation, thanks to antibiotics, vaccines, and improved water quality, the authors report this week in eLife. Modern technologies, such as central heating and air conditioning, could also help explain the trend.

VERMONT PROPOSES MASSIVE CARBON FOOTPRINT CUT

Greta Thunberg's demand that youth set a global energy conservation example has inspired action in Senator Sander's home state: 

 

IF YOU WANT A WEIRD CLIMATE POLICY, DOWNING STREET WANTS YOU!

Government call for science ‘weirdos’ prompts caution from researchers

We want to hire an unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds to work in Downing Street ...

Of the top 20 people in the world who best understand the science of climate change and could advise us what to do with COP 2020, how many now work as a civil servant/spad or will become one in the next 5 years?

G. Super-talented weirdos

People in SW1 talk a lot about ‘diversity’ but they rarely mean ‘true cognitive diversity’. They are usually babbling about ‘gender identity diversity blah blah’. What SW1 needs is not more drivel about ‘identity’ and ‘diversity’ from Oxbridge humanities graduates but more genuine cognitive diversity.

We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole, weirdos from William Gibson novels like that girl hired by Bigend as a brand ‘diviner’ who feels sick at the sight of Tommy Hilfiger or that Chinese-Cuban free runner from a crime family hired by the KGB. If you want to figure out what characters around Putin might do, or how international criminal gangs might exploit holes in our border security, you don’t want more Oxbridge English graduates who chat about Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers and spread fake news about fake news.

By definition I don’t really know what I’m looking for but I want people around No10 to be on the lookout for such people.

We need to figure out how to use such people better without asking them to conform to the horrors of ‘Human Resources’ (which also obviously need a bonfire).

Send a max 1 page letter plus CV to ideasfornumber10@gmail.com  and put in the subject line ‘job/’ and add after the / one of: data, developer, econ, comms, projects, research, policy, misfit.