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[crystalclear] 13/3/2014 00:40

cassiopeia
The end of a warm, dry winter in #Arctic Svalbard.

Is that place that use to have about 2,000 polar bears, which were counted as 2,000 polar bears, and now has about 2,500 polar bears, which are not counted at all in the official polar bear count, as the estimate is not reliable enough?

Or am I confusing it with somewhere else cass?

[crystalclear] 12/3/2014 23:42

hxxp://www.heritage-house.org/insulation-causes-damp.html

Cass was complaining that the government is reducing its home insulation program. The one that causes respiratory problems due to mold from damp induced by the homes no longer breathing properly.

[crystalclear] 07/3/2014 13:22

"If we broadly agree on this, the debate can crucially move on to what action is needed to deal with a warming planet," he said.

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But what if the planet is cooling cass, and cooling dangerously. I guess your solution would be to burn as much fossil fuel as we can to minimise the damage would it?

If not, what measures would you put in place to prevent a return to an ice age?

[captain hindsight] 06/3/2014 13:38

Cc we should use this thread more.

[crystalclear] 01/2/2014 17:47

hxxp://www.oldwings.nl/content/c47_yic/c47b2006.jpg
2006

See header for 1958 Arctic conditions

[crystalclear] 01/2/2014 17:40

Facts are facts aren't they Jazza? A fact learned in one context can be used in another. You learn 2+2=4 in a primary school context of counting balls and apply it to coefficients of adhesion, abrasion and deformation of Moto GP tyres when calculating spring and damper settings for a race setup. It out of its original context, but a fact is a fact.

Is there any part of the fact that you disagree with?

1998 was a particularly strong El Niño year, something that causes short-lived higher temperatures - part of natural variation.

If so, why did you say it?

[captain hindsight] 12/1/2014 17:45

Week 50 Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Was Third Highest On RecordPosted on January 10, 2014 by stevengoddardWeek 50 Northern Hemisphere snow extent was the third highest on record, and has been trended upwards by almost 10% since 1966. Climate experts tell us that snow is a thing of the past, and skiing is doomed.We picked up our #spiritofmawson t-shirts today and will have them posted by the end of the week @wattsupwiththat pic.twitter.com/uy6Fwacd7qTime Mag's Climate DeceptionHere's what Time magazine had to say about the now infamous "polar vortex" during the great ice age scare in June 1974: "Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds – the so-called circumpolar vortex – that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world." Four decades later, they're using the same argument as evidence of global warming. On Monday Time claimed, "[I]t may well be that global warming could be making the occasional bout of extreme cold weather in the U.S. even more likely. Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles." Whatever fits the narrative.THIS A BIG ONE, TAKE NOTE CASSFebruary 20, 2013 at 05:30 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0) ShareThisNOAA Conducts Large-Scale Experiment And Proves Global Warming Skeptics CorrectMost global warming skeptics believe that humans have some measurable impact on global temperatures and the climate, but that natural climate forces, over longer periods, will overwhelm the human influence...in addition, skeptics believe that the human influence will not result in the hysterical catastrophic climate disasters presented by doomsday pundits...Noaa experiment proves global warming skeptics correct uscrn ...and finally, global warming skeptics believe, for a multitude of reasons, human errors/mistakes/failings have caused late 20th century global warming to be significantly overstated.This article addresses this last point. What if the climate experts conducted an actual experiment that would prove whether the global warming skeptics were right or wrong about world-wide warming being overstated?Well, NOAA has actually conducted said experiment by building their U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), which precisely, and automatically, measures temperature and weather conditions across the U.S. The USCRN effort is based on the concept that the best way to measure the impact of greenhouse gases on global temperatures is to place state-of-the-art climate stations in pristine rural areas that are little impacted by people, buildings, vehicles, equipment, asphalt and etc.An example of one of NOAA's pristine climate measurement stations is the top image (Image #1). And the middle image depicts the location of each pristine station - there are currently 114 of them, and clearly they are well dispersed providing good U.S. coverage.By carefully planning and maintaining these pristine stations and by using the best technology available, this large-scale experiment eliminates the following problems with the older weather measurement network:There are no observer or transcription errors to correct.There is no time of observation bias, nor need for correction of it.There is no broad scale missing data, requiring filling in data from potentially bad surrounding stations. (FILNET)There are no needs for bias adjustments for equipment types since all equipment is identical.There are no need for urbanization adjustments, since all stations are rural and well sited.There are no regular sensor errors due to air aspiration and triple redundant lab grade sensors. Any errors detected in one sensor are identified and managed by two others, ensuring quality data.Due to the near perfect geospatial distribution of stations in the USA, there isn't a need for gridding to get a national average temperature.So, what has this NOAA experiment found? The bottom image (Image #3) tells that story - when compared to measurements from the old, inaccurate, non-pristine network, temperature "warming" in the U.S. is being overstated anywhere from +0.5°C on average, up to almost +4.0°C (+0.9°F to +7.2°F) in some locations during the summer months.To clarify, this range of overstatement depends on the given new and old stations being compared. However, when the new network versus old network results are examined in total, for the recent summer heat wave in the U.S., the old stations were reporting bogus warming during July that amounted to some +2.1°F higher than the actual temperatures.What does this mean? Within the climate science realm, the old climate/weather station system had long been considered the best and most complete measurement network in the world. But when pitted against a brand new climate measurement system that has the best qualities that science can provide, we find that the traditional U.S. methodology is significantly overstating the "global warming" phenomenon. This means that if other countries replaced their own low quality network with NOAA's greatest and latest technology, with the best location site standards applied, we would discover that world-wide temperature increases have been wildly overstated also.Conclusions: A large-scale NOAA experiment has proven that global warming skeptics were correct: temperature warming in the U.S. has been significantly overstated in recent decades. This NOAA experiment should be expanded to other continents and countries since it is now obvious that the combined older technology and substandard weather station sites have well overstated the global warming phenomenon. Before any further dollars are spent on climate change adaptation and/or mitigation, the world needs to upgrade their global weather/climate reporting network to the USCRN standard so that policymakers have correct temperature change mesurements to base their decisions on.

[captain hindsight] 10/1/2014 09:07

What's the latest lie, cass?

[captain hindsight] 09/1/2014 18:00

A list of low-temperature records broken Tuesday morning:Alabama4 in Huntsville: Previous record low 57 in Birmingham: Previous record low 1114 in Mobile: Previous record low 18Delaware6 in Dover: Previous record low 10Georgia19 in Savannah: Previous record low 2111 in Macon: Previous record low 146 in Atlanta: Previous record low 1012 in Augusta: Previous record low 157 in Athens: Previous record low 12Maryland3 in Baltimore: Previous record low 8Michigan-14 in Detroit: Previous record low -5-14 in Flint: Previous record low -10YOUR TAKE: Show us your winter weather selfieMississippi13 in Vicksburg: Previous record low 1711 in Meridian: Previous record low 1514 in Jackson: Previous record low 16New York4 in New York City: Previous record low 6North Carolina-1 in Asheville: Previous record low 39 in Raleigh: Previous record low 155 in Greensboro: Previous record low 146 in Charlotte: Previous record low 12Ohio-11 in Akron-Canton: Previous record low -5-12 in Mansfield: Previous record low -7-11 in Cleveland: Previous record low -7-14 in Toledo: Previous record low -6-12 in Youngstown: Previous record low -6-7 in Columbus: Previous record low -5-9 in New Philadelphia: Previous record low -3-8 in Zanesville: Previous record low -3Pennsylvania4 in Philadelphia: Previous record low 7-9 in Pittsburgh: Previous record low -50 in Harrisburg: Previous record low 5-5 in Williamsport: Previous record low -2-13 in Dubois: Previous record low -5South Carolina20 in Charleston: Previous record low 216 in Greenville-Spartanburg: Previous record low 913 in Columbia: Previous record low 1614 in Florence: Previous record low 18Tennessee2 in Knoxville: Previous record low 65 in Chattanooga: Previous record low 9-1 in Kingsport: Previous record low 5Virginia-5 in Blacksburg: Previous record low 18 in Danville: Previous record low 102 in Lynchburg: Previous record low 101 in Roanoke: Previous record low 810 in Richmond: Previous record low 123 at Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia: Previous record low 8West Virginia-8 in Bluefield: Previous record low 0-8 in Lewisburg: Previous record low 7-7 in Morgantown: Previous record low -4

[megryan] 01/6/2013 23:56

Ivor has no grasp whatsoever of satire.

[ivor whopper] 31/5/2013 18:18

knows all about pollution, lol




MegRyan
27 May'08 - 21:32 - 4964 of 60509 0 0


sbs- dihydrogen monoxide is very corrosive stuff and a very powerful GHG (but thankfully with a very short atmospheric residence time). Many thousands of people are killed by it each year.

meg

[bernie123] 22/1/2011 00:26

Sweet Lullaby

[bernie123] 07/1/2011 00:54

Hey, thanks Hyper Al.

[hyper al] 07/1/2011 00:50

bernie123

Good stuff!

[megryan] 06/1/2011 23:33

bernie123.

Brilliant! thanx

Meg xxxxx