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» A Classic Tale of Global Warming Alarmism
» More Evidence Against a Methane Time Bomb
» Agriculture: Tropical Cyclones are Welcome Visitors
» Sea Level Acceleration: Not so Fast
» Hansen Is Wrong
» Earth’s Carbon Sink Still Strong and Growing
» Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears
» Illiteracy at NASA
» The Heat Was On—Before Urbanization and Greenhouse Gases
» What’s to Blame for the Rains on the Plains?
*** NewsBusters - Global Warming
» Christie Dismisses Climate Change Question from NBC's Lauer as 'Distraction,' 'Esoteric Theory'
» Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming Theory Activists
» Sen. Whitehouse Blames GOP For Okla. Tornado, Storms, Rising Seas, Etc.
» Comedy Central 'Daily Show' Creator: Oklahoma Tornado 'Ordered to Only Target Conservatives'
» MSNBC's Hayes Plugs 'Incredible Story' of Felon Who Disrupted Oil Lease Auction
» TIME's Kluger Warns Manhattan Residents Could Soon Be ‘Swimming’ Due to Global Warming
» NYT's Gillis, Writing Under False Headline, Rants Against Warming Skeptics With 'Little Scientific Credibility'
» Dennis Miller Slams 'Phony,' 'Detestable' Al Gore, 'Everybody Should Shun'
» British Journalist Melanie Phillips: Environmentalists ‘Wrench’ Evidence to Fit Climate Conclusions
» Professors Publish Picture of Them Burning Book Refuting Global Warming
» CA Dem: Global Warming Will Force Women Into Prostitution
» Billionaire Tom Steyer -- the 'Liberal Analogue of the Koch Brothers'
» ABC Celebrates Earth Day By Pushing Carbon Taxes, Touting Anti-Keystone 'Agitator'
» Environmentalism of Sam Champion, Who Previously Hyped Avoiding Toilet Paper, Now Mostly Ignored
» U.S. Carbon Emissions Have Dropped Thanks To Free Market Economics, Natural Gas Exploration
» Senator: Climate Change Must Be ‘Right Behind Immigration and Gay Rights As An Issue'
» As Latest Global Warming Scare Report Crumbles, Where's the New York Times's Follow-Up?
» Matthews Trashes Republicans With New Conspiracy Theory Poll, Ignores Democrat Responses
» Ted Turner Tells Obama to Get 'Climate Change Under Control'
» WaPo Omits Bad Pew Study Numbers On Global Warming
*** Science and Public Policy Institute
» Climatic Effects of Black Carbon
» Spinning the Climate, The Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change (IPCC)
» Interactive Effects of Temperature and Enhanced C02 on Agricultural Crops
» Atmospheric Methane Concentrations
» Solar Influence on Temperatures in Europe
» Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays
» Request for Correction of Serious Inaccuracy
» Cook "The Books" is Wrong to Slam Roy Spencer
» Is C02 Mitigation Cost-Effective?
» Solar Influence on Global Temperature
» Evidence of a Medieval Warm Period in Antarctica
» Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions & Potential "Savings" in Future Global Temperature & Global Sea Level Rise
» Storm Trends Across the North Atlantic Ocean
» Drought Trends Across the Eastern United States
» Storm Trends Across North America
» Historical Response of Heat Waves to Global Air Temperature
» Drought Trends Across the Western United States
» Drought Trends in the Northern Great Plains, USA
» Precipitation Variability in Europe
» Historical Trends of Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones
» Historical Flood Trends in Europe
» Precipitation Variability in Asia
» Effects of Atmospheric C02 Enrichment on Wood Density
» Drought Trends in Asia
» No Global Warming for Almost Two Decades
*** Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group
» 2012 Climate Science Weblog in Review by Dallas Jean Staley – A Guest Post
» The Weblog Is Retiring
» Publication Of “Reply to “Comment On ‘Ocean Heat Content And Earth’s Radiation Imbalance. II. Relation To Climate Shifts’ ” by Nuccitelli Et Al. By Douglass and Knox 2012
» Q&A From A Group Of Retired NASA Personnel And Associates
» The Importance of Land Use/Land Practices On Climate – A Perspective From Jon Foley
» Interview With James Wynn In The English Department At Carnegie Mellon University
» University Of Alabama At Huntsville October 2012 Lower Tropospheric Temperature Analysis
» USA Election Day 2012
» New Paper “Climatic Variability Over Time Scales Spanning Nine Orders of Magnitude: Connecting Milankovitch Cycles With Hurst–Kolmogorov Dynamics” By Markonis And Koutsoyiannis
» New Paper “Indian Ocean Warming Modulates Pacific Climate Change” By Luo Et Al 2012
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» Briffa 2013
» UnderCooked Statistics
» PAGES2K Online “Journal Club”
» Cook’s Survey
» More Kaufman Contamination
» Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman
» Steig’s Bladeless “Hockey” Stick
» Non-centring in the Forest 2006 study
» PAGES2K Reconstructions
» PAGES2K South America
*** Watts Up With That?
» Time to leave – California wants to ban campfires at the beach
» 97% Undercooked uncertainty
» Updated climate sensitivity estimates using aerosol-adjusted forcings and various ocean heat uptake estimates
» Washington Post’s photo phraud – it’s deja vu all over again
» The worst consequences of the global warming scare
» Where Lies the Younger Dryas Smoking Gun?
» Just had an earthquake in California – 56 earthquakes (so far) in cluster near Mt. Lassen Volcanic National park
» Crowdsourcing An Opensource Temperature Data Monitoring Methodology and Spreadsheet
» NOAA predicts active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season
» Dana Nuccitelli’s Twitter war with Richard Tol over that 97% consensus paper
» Great moments in activist climate science – NRDC’s Dr. Laurie Johnson: ‘CO2 makes your car hot’
» Bill Nye the clueless weather guy – flattened by tornado data
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» No Fine If Wind Farm Kills Endangered Condors — Fish and Wildlife Service
» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part II: Fuel Economy*
» EPA Demonstrates IRS-like Bias on FOIA Requests
» WSJ Op-Ed Explains Benefits of CO2
» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part I: Bait-and-Fuel-Switch*
» CO2 Litigation: Court and EPA Can’t Both Be Right — and Both May Be Wrong
» EPA Doubles Down on E15 — Literally
» Senate Schedules Vote for EPA Nominee
» Biofuels Policy Itself is Warning That It’s Near Breaking Point
» Hansen Compares Conservatives and Climate Change Skeptics to Neanderthals
*** Fox News - Climate Change Stories
» Heat-related deaths may increase with climate change
» College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds
» Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View later this year
» House approves Keystone pipeline bill
» Democratic senator apologizes for citing Okla. tornadoes in climate change speech
» More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
» What happens when Google and NASA build a computer?
*** Michelle Malkin - Enviro-Nitwits
» Dueling headlines — ‘Is is hot in here or is Al Gore crazy?’ edition
» News flash: Al Gore still trying to get everybody to panic
» A grisly Earth Day reminder: Eco-pacifist fraud Ira Einhorn, a killer in P.C. clothing
» Federal study concludes man-made climate change not cause of 2012 drought
» Taxpayer-backed Fisker lays off 75 percent of workforce; poor sales attributed to global shortage of people named Leonardo DiCaprio
*** DailyTech Michael Asher`s blog
» Will the Real Antarctica Please Stand Up?
» Global Warming May Decrease Hurricanes, Research Suggests
» Japanese Report Disputes Human Cause for Global Warming
» Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
» A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Climate) Forum
» Climate Report Downgrades Ice Loss; Media Reports Opposite
» Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"
» Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow
» Electric Car Sales in Freefall; Industry Risks Collapse
» Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
*** C3 - Climate Cycles Change
» Revealed: Michael Mann Has Twin Who Is Even Dumber - Works For Mainstream Press Outlet
» Confirmed: 68% of Recent Peer Reviewed Studies Reject Catastrophic Global Warming Disaster Predictions
» Obama Administration's View On Disappearance of Global Warming - "I Don't Know"
» Simple, Basic Factual Truths: Dangerous, Accelerating Global Warming Does Not Exist
» Global Warming: Fabrication of Misleading Temperature Data By IPCC Related Scientists Continues
» Michael Mann's Scary New Sea Level Predictions Identified As Bogus, Confirms 97% Consensus That He Fibs
» Reality Wake-Up Call: Climate "Experts" Sea Level Prediction Found To Be Wildly Wrong
» Multiple Proxy Study Confirms "Global Warming" Skeptic Views - Modern Temps Not Unprecedented, Not Global
» New Major Study Determines Dangerous, Accelerating Sea Levels Due To CO2 Emissions Is Fantasy
» The Known Physics of Global Warming Vs. The Anti-Science of Green-Fundamentalists
» Fact Check: Rice Crop Yield Improves With Global Warming, Higher CO2 Levels - Opposite of Alarmist Predictions
» Boiling Oceans? Warming of Oceans On Path To +0.16°C Increase Over Next 100 Years Say Experts
» IPCC Climate Science Confirmed By NOAA: Global Warming Causes Global Cooling
» Newly Released Evidence Establishes That Arctic Region Was Warmer During Medieval Period
» Stuck-On-Stupid: Majority of Mainstream Journalists Too Stupid To Recognize Failure of CAGW Climate Science
*** CATO - Global Warming
» Finally Talking Terror Sensibly
» Genetically Modified Foods and the Limits of Trade Agreements
» Governing Is about Choices, Even on Disaster Aid
» Senate Immigration Bill Lurches to the Right
» E-Verify Wrong for America
» Amartya Sen Wrong in His Claim That Delay in Food Bill Killing a Thousand Every Week
» Europeans Should Welcome UK's Shift on the EU
» Our Indispensable Government
» Restrain the Abusive Administative State
» Why Obama Is Silent on Killed Babies
» Hot Money, Cold Credit
» 'Impeachment' Is Not a Four-Letter Word
» Delivering Serbs to the Wolves
» Why the IRS Cannot Be Reformed
» The Islamic Republic of Pakistan: The World's Most Dangerous Nation Holds an Election
» Common Core Needs More Debate
» Evolving out of Inefficient Corruption
» Denigrating Medicine: ObamaCare Turns Physicians into Assembly Line Workers
» Is the Government Spying on Reporters More often than We Think?
» Hospital Lobby Fears They Might Not Get Medicaid Subsidies
» Obama’s War on the Young
» Why People Keep Misunderstanding the 'Connection' between Race and IQ
» Blame Campaign Finance Crusaders for IRS Mess
» At Last, Justice for Locked-in Juveniles?
» U.S. Defense Cuts: An Ax Is Needed, Not a Scalpel
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» MURPHY: Using the CBO Report to Critique a US Carbon Tax
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» A Classic Tale of Global Warming Alarmism
» More Evidence Against a Methane Time Bomb
» Agriculture: Tropical Cyclones are Welcome Visitors
» Sea Level Acceleration: Not so Fast
» Hansen Is Wrong
» Earth’s Carbon Sink Still Strong and Growing
» Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears
» Illiteracy at NASA
» The Heat Was On—Before Urbanization and Greenhouse Gases
» What’s to Blame for the Rains on the Plains?
» Christie Dismisses Climate Change Question from NBC's Lauer as 'Distraction,' 'Esoteric Theory'
» Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming Theory Activists
» Sen. Whitehouse Blames GOP For Okla. Tornado, Storms, Rising Seas, Etc.
» Comedy Central 'Daily Show' Creator: Oklahoma Tornado 'Ordered to Only Target Conservatives'
» MSNBC's Hayes Plugs 'Incredible Story' of Felon Who Disrupted Oil Lease Auction
» TIME's Kluger Warns Manhattan Residents Could Soon Be ‘Swimming’ Due to Global Warming
» NYT's Gillis, Writing Under False Headline, Rants Against Warming Skeptics With 'Little Scientific Credibility'
» Dennis Miller Slams 'Phony,' 'Detestable' Al Gore, 'Everybody Should Shun'
» British Journalist Melanie Phillips: Environmentalists ‘Wrench’ Evidence to Fit Climate Conclusions
» Professors Publish Picture of Them Burning Book Refuting Global Warming
» CA Dem: Global Warming Will Force Women Into Prostitution
» Billionaire Tom Steyer -- the 'Liberal Analogue of the Koch Brothers'
» ABC Celebrates Earth Day By Pushing Carbon Taxes, Touting Anti-Keystone 'Agitator'
» Environmentalism of Sam Champion, Who Previously Hyped Avoiding Toilet Paper, Now Mostly Ignored
» U.S. Carbon Emissions Have Dropped Thanks To Free Market Economics, Natural Gas Exploration
» Senator: Climate Change Must Be ‘Right Behind Immigration and Gay Rights As An Issue'
» As Latest Global Warming Scare Report Crumbles, Where's the New York Times's Follow-Up?
» Matthews Trashes Republicans With New Conspiracy Theory Poll, Ignores Democrat Responses
» Ted Turner Tells Obama to Get 'Climate Change Under Control'
» WaPo Omits Bad Pew Study Numbers On Global Warming
» Climatic Effects of Black Carbon
» Spinning the Climate, The Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change (IPCC)
» Interactive Effects of Temperature and Enhanced C02 on Agricultural Crops
» Atmospheric Methane Concentrations
» Solar Influence on Temperatures in Europe
» Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays
» Request for Correction of Serious Inaccuracy
» Cook "The Books" is Wrong to Slam Roy Spencer
» Is C02 Mitigation Cost-Effective?
» Solar Influence on Global Temperature
» Evidence of a Medieval Warm Period in Antarctica
» Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions & Potential "Savings" in Future Global Temperature & Global Sea Level Rise
» Storm Trends Across the North Atlantic Ocean
» Drought Trends Across the Eastern United States
» Storm Trends Across North America
» Historical Response of Heat Waves to Global Air Temperature
» Drought Trends Across the Western United States
» Drought Trends in the Northern Great Plains, USA
» Precipitation Variability in Europe
» Historical Trends of Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones
» Historical Flood Trends in Europe
» Precipitation Variability in Asia
» Effects of Atmospheric C02 Enrichment on Wood Density
» Drought Trends in Asia
» No Global Warming for Almost Two Decades
» 2012 Climate Science Weblog in Review by Dallas Jean Staley – A Guest Post
» The Weblog Is Retiring
» Publication Of “Reply to “Comment On ‘Ocean Heat Content And Earth’s Radiation Imbalance. II. Relation To Climate Shifts’ ” by Nuccitelli Et Al. By Douglass and Knox 2012
» Q&A From A Group Of Retired NASA Personnel And Associates
» The Importance of Land Use/Land Practices On Climate – A Perspective From Jon Foley
» Interview With James Wynn In The English Department At Carnegie Mellon University
» University Of Alabama At Huntsville October 2012 Lower Tropospheric Temperature Analysis
» USA Election Day 2012
» New Paper “Climatic Variability Over Time Scales Spanning Nine Orders of Magnitude: Connecting Milankovitch Cycles With Hurst–Kolmogorov Dynamics” By Markonis And Koutsoyiannis
» New Paper “Indian Ocean Warming Modulates Pacific Climate Change” By Luo Et Al 2012
» Briffa 2013
» UnderCooked Statistics
» PAGES2K Online “Journal Club”
» Cook’s Survey
» More Kaufman Contamination
» Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman
» Steig’s Bladeless “Hockey” Stick
» Non-centring in the Forest 2006 study
» PAGES2K Reconstructions
» PAGES2K South America
» Time to leave – California wants to ban campfires at the beach
» 97% Undercooked uncertainty
» Updated climate sensitivity estimates using aerosol-adjusted forcings and various ocean heat uptake estimates
» Washington Post’s photo phraud – it’s deja vu all over again
» The worst consequences of the global warming scare
» Where Lies the Younger Dryas Smoking Gun?
» Just had an earthquake in California – 56 earthquakes (so far) in cluster near Mt. Lassen Volcanic National park
» Crowdsourcing An Opensource Temperature Data Monitoring Methodology and Spreadsheet
» NOAA predicts active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season
» Dana Nuccitelli’s Twitter war with Richard Tol over that 97% consensus paper
» Great moments in activist climate science – NRDC’s Dr. Laurie Johnson: ‘CO2 makes your car hot’
» Bill Nye the clueless weather guy – flattened by tornado data
» No Fine If Wind Farm Kills Endangered Condors — Fish and Wildlife Service
» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part II: Fuel Economy*
» EPA Demonstrates IRS-like Bias on FOIA Requests
» WSJ Op-Ed Explains Benefits of CO2
» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part I: Bait-and-Fuel-Switch*
» CO2 Litigation: Court and EPA Can’t Both Be Right — and Both May Be Wrong
» EPA Doubles Down on E15 — Literally
» Senate Schedules Vote for EPA Nominee
» Biofuels Policy Itself is Warning That It’s Near Breaking Point
» Hansen Compares Conservatives and Climate Change Skeptics to Neanderthals
» Heat-related deaths may increase with climate change
» College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds
» Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View later this year
» House approves Keystone pipeline bill
» Democratic senator apologizes for citing Okla. tornadoes in climate change speech
» More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
» What happens when Google and NASA build a computer?
» Dueling headlines — ‘Is is hot in here or is Al Gore crazy?’ edition
» News flash: Al Gore still trying to get everybody to panic
» A grisly Earth Day reminder: Eco-pacifist fraud Ira Einhorn, a killer in P.C. clothing
» Federal study concludes man-made climate change not cause of 2012 drought
» Taxpayer-backed Fisker lays off 75 percent of workforce; poor sales attributed to global shortage of people named Leonardo DiCaprio
» Will the Real Antarctica Please Stand Up?
» Global Warming May Decrease Hurricanes, Research Suggests
» Japanese Report Disputes Human Cause for Global Warming
» Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
» A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Climate) Forum
» Climate Report Downgrades Ice Loss; Media Reports Opposite
» Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"
» Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow
» Electric Car Sales in Freefall; Industry Risks Collapse
» Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
» Revealed: Michael Mann Has Twin Who Is Even Dumber - Works For Mainstream Press Outlet
» Confirmed: 68% of Recent Peer Reviewed Studies Reject Catastrophic Global Warming Disaster Predictions
» Obama Administration's View On Disappearance of Global Warming - "I Don't Know"
» Simple, Basic Factual Truths: Dangerous, Accelerating Global Warming Does Not Exist
» Global Warming: Fabrication of Misleading Temperature Data By IPCC Related Scientists Continues
» Michael Mann's Scary New Sea Level Predictions Identified As Bogus, Confirms 97% Consensus That He Fibs
» Reality Wake-Up Call: Climate "Experts" Sea Level Prediction Found To Be Wildly Wrong
» Multiple Proxy Study Confirms "Global Warming" Skeptic Views - Modern Temps Not Unprecedented, Not Global
» New Major Study Determines Dangerous, Accelerating Sea Levels Due To CO2 Emissions Is Fantasy
» The Known Physics of Global Warming Vs. The Anti-Science of Green-Fundamentalists
» Fact Check: Rice Crop Yield Improves With Global Warming, Higher CO2 Levels - Opposite of Alarmist Predictions
» Boiling Oceans? Warming of Oceans On Path To +0.16°C Increase Over Next 100 Years Say Experts
» IPCC Climate Science Confirmed By NOAA: Global Warming Causes Global Cooling
» Newly Released Evidence Establishes That Arctic Region Was Warmer During Medieval Period
» Stuck-On-Stupid: Majority of Mainstream Journalists Too Stupid To Recognize Failure of CAGW Climate Science
» Finally Talking Terror Sensibly
» Genetically Modified Foods and the Limits of Trade Agreements
» Governing Is about Choices, Even on Disaster Aid
» Senate Immigration Bill Lurches to the Right
» E-Verify Wrong for America
» Amartya Sen Wrong in His Claim That Delay in Food Bill Killing a Thousand Every Week
» Europeans Should Welcome UK's Shift on the EU
» Our Indispensable Government
» Restrain the Abusive Administative State
» Why Obama Is Silent on Killed Babies
» Hot Money, Cold Credit
» 'Impeachment' Is Not a Four-Letter Word
» Delivering Serbs to the Wolves
» Why the IRS Cannot Be Reformed
» The Islamic Republic of Pakistan: The World's Most Dangerous Nation Holds an Election
» Common Core Needs More Debate
» Evolving out of Inefficient Corruption
» Denigrating Medicine: ObamaCare Turns Physicians into Assembly Line Workers
» Is the Government Spying on Reporters More often than We Think?
» Hospital Lobby Fears They Might Not Get Medicaid Subsidies
» Obama’s War on the Young
» Why People Keep Misunderstanding the 'Connection' between Race and IQ
» Blame Campaign Finance Crusaders for IRS Mess
» At Last, Justice for Locked-in Juveniles?
» U.S. Defense Cuts: An Ax Is Needed, Not a Scalpel
» MURPHY: Using the CBO Report to Critique a US Carbon Tax
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Date published: Fri, 24 May 2013 21:26:34 +0000
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| » | On the Lighter Side: HAARP Tornado Vortex Clouds Attack!
I get scattered e-mails from a lot of people, but I get routine updates from someone named “Ol ... |
| » | A Simple Experiment to Show How Cool Objects Can Keep Warm Objects Warmer Still
The standard explanation of the greenhouse effect is that it keeps the surface of the Earth warmer ... |
| » | Surface Radiation Budget: Where’s the Proof?
I’ve had several requests for evidence of the hundreds of watts of downwelling infrared sky ra ... |
| » | Time for the Slayers to Put Up or Shut Up
I have allowed the Sky Dragon Slayers to post hundreds of comments here containing their views of ho ... |
| » | Global Microwave SST Update for April, 2013: -0.04 deg. C
The satellite-based microwave global average sea surface temperature (SST) update for April 2013 is ... |
| » | Imaging the Greenhouse Effect with a FLIR i7 Thermal Imager
What is the atmospheric greenhouse effect? It is the warming of the surface and lower atmosphere cau ... |
| » | UAH Global Temperature Update for April, 2013: +0.10 deg. C
Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2013 is +0.10 ... |
| » | A Simple Model of Global Average Surface Temperature
And, yes, you can try this at home. I put together a simple surface energy balance model in an Excel ... |
| » | How Can Home Insulation Keep Your House Warmer, When It Cools Your House?!
<sarc> There is an obvious conspiracy from the HVAC and home repair industry, who for years ... |
| » | Global Warming Slowdown: The View from Space
Since the slowdown in surface warming over the last 15 years has been a popular topic recently, I th ... |
Date published: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:21:17 +0000
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| » | Amherst, MA Presentation, March 7
I will be rolling out version 3.0 of my presentation on climate that has already been around the Int ... |
| » | Climate De-Bait and Switch
Dealing with facile arguments that are supposedly perfect refutations of the climate skeptics ... |
| » | Lame, Desperate Climate Alarm Logic
Via Kevin Drum: Chris Mooney reports today that there’s also a very simple reason: global warm ... |
| » | Extrapolating From A Single Data Point: Climate and Sandy
I have a new article up at Forbes on how crazy it is to extrapolate conclusions about the speed and ... |
| » | A Great Example of How The Climate Debate is Broken
A climate alarmist posts a “Bet” on a site called Truthmarket that she obviously believe ... |
| » | I Was Right About Monnett
When the news first came out that Charles Monnett, observer of the famous drowned polar bear, was un ... |
| » | Lewandowsky et al. Proves Skeptics are Reasonable and Pro-Science
I am not sure it is worth beating this dead horse any further, but I will make one final observation ... |
| » | Worst Study Ever?
I have to agree with JoNova, the Lewandowsky study ostensibly linking climate skeptics to moon-landi ... |
| » | I Was Reading Matt Ridley’s Lecture at the Royal Society for the Arts….
… and it was fun to see my charts in it! The lecture is reprinted here (pdf) or here (html) o ... |
| » | Still Toying With Security
If you hit an unexpected error, or worse, seem to have been banned, email me at the link on this pag ... |
Date published: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:36:44 +0000
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| » | Hard times for the Church of Global Warming
By John Hayward In response to Hillary Clinton Does ‘Hard Hitting’ Climate Change Interv ... |
| » | GREEN FAIL: Solar Panels Catch Fire on High School Roof – Black Plume Seen for Miles
“Hey, let’s put them on every school.” By Jim Hoft When Webster Groves High School ... |
| » | Obama administration gives wind farms a pass on eagle deaths, prosecutes oil companies
Published May 14, 2013, Associated Press CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. – The Obama administration has neve ... |
| » | In Defense of Carbon Dioxide
By Harrison H. Schmitt and William Happer Of all of the world’s chemical compounds, none has a ... |
| » | Cooling in the Arctic: what to expect?
By Oleg Nekhai Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may ... |
Date published: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:20 +0000
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| » | Briffa 2013
Briffa’s new paper on Yamal is online today here, together with Supplementary Information here ... |
| » | UnderCooked Statistics
Yet another propaganda essay masquerading as a scientific paper has been published (SI here) in the ... |
| » | PAGES2K Online “Journal Club”
I’m listening to a presentation by PAGES2K authors sponsored by Nature: http://blogs.nature.co ... |
| » | Cook’s Survey
John Cook, whose crush on Lewandowsky continues unabated, asked various blogs, including Climat Audi ... |
| » | More Kaufman Contamination
Kaufman and paleo peer reviewers ought to be aware that the recent portion of varve data can be cont ... |
| » | Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman
Darrell Kaufman, lead PAGES2K author, has promoted varvology for Arctic temperature reconstructions. ... |
Date published: Sat, 25 May 2013 02:28:25 +0000
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| » | Climatic Effects of Black Carbon
Writing as background for their work, Kaspari et al. (2011) state that "black carbon (BC, the absorb ... |
| » | Spinning the Climate, The Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The IPCC is claimed by some to have provided evidence that the earth’s climate is harmed by changes ... |
| » | Interactive Effects of Temperature and Enhanced C02 on Agricultural Crops
As the air's CO2 content rises, most plants exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis and biomass pr ... |
| » | Atmospheric Methane Concentrations
Atmospheric methane's contribution to anthropogenic climate forcing is estimated to be about half th ... |
| » | Solar Influence on Temperatures in Europe
We begin this review of the Sun's influence on European temperatures with the study of Holzhauser et ... |
| » | Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays
The study of extraterrestrial climatic forcing factors is primarily a study of phenomena related to ... |
| » | Request for Correction of Serious Inaccuracy
As an Expert Reviewer for the Fifth Assessment Report, 2013, and in accordance with the IPCC Protoco ... |
| » | Cook "The Books" is Wrong to Slam Roy Spencer
Anyone who has met Roy Spencer knows him to be a careful, thoughtful, unpolemical scientist of formi ... |
| » | Is C02 Mitigation Cost-Effective?
This summary updates Monckton of Brenchley (2013), read at the World Federation of Scientists’ 2012 ... |
| » | Solar Influence on Global Temperature
The claim that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have been responsible for the warming detected ... |
Date published: Sat, 25 May 2013 02:52:44 +0000
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| » | Snow in UK and downunder on 15th of May
I am sure this is not rare – the BBC reports – Snow and winds of 65mph hit Devon and Cor ... |
| » | Vote NO to referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to recognize local councils
The Gillard GreenLabor Govt is putting up this referendum question re recognising local councils in ... |
| » | Ongoing decline in efficiency of Perth Dam catchments – reply from WA Minister
The comment by CP on my 2007 article -There never was a rain shortage to justify seawater desalinati ... |
| » | RI sunspot numbers just out for April – NASA/NOAA SWO number confirms the “rabbit ears”
There have been reports on increased sunspot activity in April and the Cycle 24 peak has been widely ... |
| » | You could assist a DVD being produced to show that trying to ‘stop’ climate change is 50 times more expensive than adapting to it
Topher and Lord Christopher Monckton are combining on a project making a DVD. Donations would be ver ... |
| » | ACORN-SAT – The Australian Bureau of Meteorology temperature database – is not to be trusted
Guest article by Ed Thurstan – April 28, 2013 Abstract The second release of ACORN-SAT confirm ... |
| » | 113 years of rainfall at Merredin in the heart of the Western Australian wheat belt
My eye was caught by this ABC article – Eyes skyward for farmers waiting on rain – and t ... |
| » | Update chart monthly irregular boat arrivals – Australian borders still open, come on down
Following on from my June 2012 post – Great Australian open borders experiment – come on ... |
| » | New ice core study from Antarctic Peninsula fails to detect Medieval Warm Period
As reported by the ABC – Antarctic melting 10 times faster than 600 years ago - The paper is p ... |
| » | Proposal that there is a long standing mathematical error in IPCC’s AGW theory
Japanese scientist Kyoji Kimoto proposes that there is a long standing error in IPCC AGW theory. Acc ... |
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Ocean Sediment, It's A Gas by Dr. Doug L. Hoffman |
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![]() Joined: Sun May 11 2008, 12:38PM Posts: 2177 | Methane is an important greenhouse gas, 30 times more potent than CO2, but our knowledge of the methane cycle is woefully inadequate. Sediments on the ocean's floor contain immense quantities of methane and there are enormous fluxes of methane into and out of these sediments. Trapped frozen in ice, there are some 10,000 gigatons of carbon stored under the sea—twice as much carbon as contained in conventional fossil fuel reserves. Some scientists consider the release of this methane the single worst environmental danger we face as a species. A massive release of ocean floor methane could cause real runaway global warming that would have dramatic impact on life. But methane continually leaks from seabeds around the world, contributing to the total amount of carbon injected into the ecosystem. A new report finds that ocean methane concentrations have been underestimated by a factor of 10 to 20 fold. Estimates of sedimentary methane production vary between 85 and 300 Tg per year, but analytical difficulties have made previous measurements too imprecise to tell what the true amount is. Most previous estimates were calculated from ship board readings, not measurements taken at depth. According to a report in Geophysical Research Letters, Zhang et al., in order to avoid the sampling issues that have plagued other methods, employed an in situ technique to measure methane concentrations in sediments. Motivation for the research and general results are listed in the abstract: Ocean sediment dissolved CH4 concentrations are of interest for possible climate-driven venting from sea floor hydrate decomposition, for supporting the large-scale microbial anaerobic oxidation of CH4 that holds the oceanic CH4 budget in balance, and for environmental issues of the oil and gas industry. Analyses of CH4 from recovered cores near vent locations typically show a maximum of ∼1 mM, close to the 1 atmosphere equilibrium value. We show from novel in situ measurement with a Raman-based probe that geochemically coherent profiles of dissolved CH4 occur rising to 30 mM (pCH4 = 3 MPa) or an excess pressure ∼3× greater than CO2 in a bottle of champagne. Normalization of the CH4 Raman ν1 peak to the ubiquitous water ν2 bending peak provides a fundamental internal calibration. Very large losses of CH4 and fractions of other gases (CO2, H2S) must typically occur from recovered cores at gas rich sites. The new data are consistent with observations of microbial biomass and observed CH4 oxidation rates at hydrate rich sites and support estimates of a greatly expanded near surface oceanic pore water CH4 reservoir. In short, they found concentrations as much as 10 to 20 times higher than those determined by shipboard measurements and conclude that production rates are near the high end of past estimates. Researchers have known since the 1960s that there are large natural deposits of frozen ice containing methane lying on the ocean floor, where the high pressure and cold temperature keep them from melting. Oceanographers have pulled up frozen chunks of this material, called methane clathrate or hydrate, from more than 90 locations around the world. ![]() Methane clathrate deep ocean deposit. Clathrate hydrates are cage-like minerals in which water forms an ice-like cage structure in which gas molecules, such as methane, reside. Huge amounts of methane clathrate exist under the high pressures and cold temperatures of the seafloor, forming a major reservoir of greenhouse gas. Unsurprisingly, some energy companies are investigating ways to tap into this huge reservoir of trapped natural gas. Other key findings include measurements giving a 30× increase in methane concentration and the conclusion that pore water methane is a massively underestimated carbon reservoir. Note that, when sediment particles get deposited on the seafloor they carry some ocean water with them. Water trapped in this way, scientists call “pore water” because it fills the pores between the sediment grains. Because this water is in contact with methane bearing clathrate ice, it also contains elevated levels of CH4. In fact, there must be high levels of gas in the water saturating the mud that methane ice is buried in. Otherwise, according to Peter Brewer, ocean chemist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, the hydrate will not be stable. “If you just put a block of methane hydrate on the sea floor it will dissolve really fast,” says Brewer. “The hydrates in sediments have to be in equilibrium with the water around them, which must contain huge amounts of methane. One would guess it is about the same as the amount in the clathrate itself.” This is why Brewer and his PhD student Xin Zhang, the papers lead author, equipped a remotely piloted submersible with a Raman-based probe to measure methane in place. Raman spectroscopy is well suited to chemical analysis on the ocean floor. The robotic sub can stick its metal probe into the mud next to a hydrate deposit and suck up water, and then a laser beam reveals the amount of methane and other substances in that water. Bottom line: there's a lot more methane down there than is apparent from cores brought to the surface. ![]() A Raman spectroscopy laser on the sea floor. So are the merchants of doom correct? Could a seafloor eruption of methane cause another episode of rapid warming like that of the PETM or even the more prolonged warming of the recently discovered Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum.? Brewer thinks that a mass releases of sea-floor methane is unlikely to cause a blip in today's climate. More likely would be for any released gas to get digested by bacteria or dissolved into sea water, instead of released to the atmosphere. “It's not a scare story,” says Brewer, in an article on Nature.com. Other than having oceanographers all atwitter, what do these new findings mean? It means that we have discovered science has a long way to go before it can claim to truly understand the carbon cycle. Particularly the sort of mid term sequestration of carbon represented by methane clathrates, falling as it does between the short term cycle of vegetation growth and decomposition, and the long term cycle of geological sequestration. There is more carbon being cycled through Earth's environment than science knows about—10, 20, even 30 times more than previous estimates in this case. It comes from sources undetected and is consumed by processes unknown. But there is a larger lesson here. What is important about the work done by Zhang et al. is that they devised better instruments and then actually went out and measured the gas they were studying. In other words they did real science—they didn't just muck about with computer models, or even haul samples back to the lab for measurement. They gathered data about methane ice from where it occurs: on the bottom of the ocean. Real experiment, real observations, real science. If only the twits making doomsday predictions based on their software playthings had as much scientific integrity. But then the whole global warming crisis would fizz away, like a clathrate hauled from its ocean larder. Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical. Source For further articles here at GWH.com archives, click "Forums" and search for your favorite topic . Let it Be Known to Others who Need to be Led! | ||
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