Obama Says That Africans Will Boil The Earth If They Get Cars And A/C
Posted: July 31, 2013 Filed under: Alarmism, Climate, Eco-Activists, Propaganda, Taxpayer waste | Tags: AC, Africa, Alarmism, climate, Obama, Obamaclimate Leave a comment“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.” – Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over — unless we find new ways of producing energy.”
Obama: ‘Planet Will Boil Over’ If Young Africans Are Allowed Cars, Air-Conditioning, Big Houses Trunews:
The man is a bona-fide whack job.
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Arctic Ice Growth Since 1971
Posted: July 31, 2013 Filed under: Arctic, Fact Check, Global Cooling | Tags: arctic, Climate Change, death spiral, global cooling, Global Warming Leave a commentNat Geo news 2008:
Arctic Ice in “Death Spiral,” Is Near Record Low
“With additional heating due to global warming, the extent of sea ice cover has gotten smaller and smaller over the summers since the 1980s”
Look forward to the 2013 Arctic Ice Death Spiral update: “We’ve got no idea what we’re talking about. However human’s are still to blame, the problem of global warming has not gone away. ”
#ArcticIceScam
Reader Brian D sent over this 1971 National Geographic map, which shows that there is a lot more Arctic sea ice now than there was 42 years ago.
Arctic Ocean Map 1971 by National Geographic from Maps.com.
I remember seeing that map at the time. The next map overlays current ice extent on the 1971 map, with green representing ice present in 2013 that was not present in 1971, and red representing the opposite.
NSIDC likes to pretend that ice has been declining steadily, by starting their graphs near the century maximum in 1978.
But sadly for them, the 1990 IPCC report captured the growth in ice prior to 1979.
www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_full_report.pdf
NCAR mentioned the ice growth at the time
by Walter Orr Roberts Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
In February of 1972 earth-orbiting artificial satellites revealed the existence of a…
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Obama Job Math
Posted: July 31, 2013 Filed under: Failed Green Schemes, Taxpayer waste | Tags: Obama, renewables, solar, unreliables, wind Leave a comment
“Five million green energy jobs” means throwing billions of dollars down the drain for failed green companies run by his campaign supporters.
Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
Solyndra ($535 million)*
Beacon Power ($43 million)*
Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
SunPower ($1.2 billion)
First Solar ($1.46 billion)
Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
Amonix ($5.9 million)
Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
Abound Solar ($400 million)*
A123 Systems ($279 million)*
Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
Johnson Controls ($299 million)
Schneider Electric ($86 million)
Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
ECOtality ($126.2 million)
Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
Range Fuels ($80 million)*
Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
GreenVolts ($500,000)
Vestas ($50 million)
LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
Nordic…
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Runaway Global Sea-Level-Rise
Posted: July 31, 2013 Filed under: Climatism, Uncategorized | Tags: AGW, Alarmism, climate, sea level rise Leave a commentMore than 1,700 U.S. cities will be partially underwater by 2100: study
By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
Monday, July 29, 2013 18:33 EDT
The IPCC forecasts 8-24 inches of sea level rise this century. Guardian alarmists want more.
McKibben Calls For Zero Carbon Emissions
Posted: July 31, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
McKibben is flying all over the country generating vast amounts of CO2 and telling other people that they can’t generate any.
“If we’re going to stop climate change, we don’t need to just cut our carbon emissions a little bit — we need to cut them down to zero,” he added.
Environmentalist Bill McKibben supports Net-Zero Petition – Cambridge, Massachusetts – Cambridge Chronicle & Tab
If we do cut our carbon emissions to zero, we can stabilize the climate to what it was like in the 1920s.
25 Sep 1926 – APPALLING HURRICANE. MIAMI IN RUINS. 1300 DEAD; …
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Manne-Made Global Warming
Posted: July 29, 2013 Filed under: Alarmism, Alarmism uncovered, Climate, Climatism, Propaganda | Tags: Carbon Dioxide, climate, Global Warming, Heat-wave, KYOTO, Manne, NOAA, US Drought 2012 1 Comment
A completely dried-up marsh in south-central Kansas. Experts called the drought of 2012 the worst drought in the US in more than 50 years. Photograph: Jim Reed/Corbis
Climate change: some reasons for our failures – the guardian
Academic Robert Manne knew evil human beings were responsible for catastrophic global warming 25 years ago.
“..primarily through the burning of fossil fuels human beings were responsible for potentially catastrophic global warming.”
“And yet, since Kyoto, greenhouse gas emissions have risen very steeply. The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—280 parts per million before the industrial revolution—is now 400 parts per million.”
Two minor points Manne glossed over:
- OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. In other words, there has been no atmospheric global warming since 1998 despite a substantial increases in green-house gas emissions.
- A US Government NOAA report found the summer drought of 2012 was not caused by manne-made global warming but by natural variations in the weather. Manne’s emotional lead photo of a drought ravaged, dried-up marsh thus rendered alarmist propaganda. The NOAA study was released in March 2013. Manne’s article published 22 July 2013. Plenty of opportunity for due diligence. A second NOAA paper submitted to the American Meteorological Society also found the US record heat-wave of 2012 was due to natural variation and not caused by manne-made carbon dioxide emissions.
Arctic Death Spiral: The North Pole Lake
Posted: July 28, 2013 Filed under: Alarmism, Arctic, Climatism | Tags: Alarmism, arctic, climate, Climate Central, North Pole, North Pole Lake 2 CommentsClimate Central with the Arctic global warming smoking gun:
The pictures are dramatic — a camera at the North Pole Environmental Observatory, sitting in the middle of what appears to be either a lake or open ocean, at the height of the summer sea ice melt season. Set against the backdrop of the precipitous decline in sea ice cover in recent decades due in large part to global warming, this would seem to be yet another alarming sign of Arctic climate change.
Image from one of the North Pole Environmental Observatory webcams, taken on Thursday, July 25.
Credit: NSF’s North Pole Environmental Observatory.
The Arctic has surface melt every summer and Climate Central’s alarmists weren’t sure if the ice buoy was located at the North Pole or a few hundred miles away:
Image: Galileo Movement
This is what the North Pole looked like in 1958 – 1959:
Skate (SSN-578), surfaced at the North Pole, 17 March 1959. Image from NAVSOURCE
Ice at the North Pole not so thick ~ Watts Up With That?
What would NSIDC and our media make of a photo like this if released by the NAVY today? Would we see headlines like “NORTH POLE NOW OPEN WATER”? Or maybe “Global warming melts North Pole”? Perhaps we would. sensationalism is all the rage these days. If it melts it makes headlines.
It was that way again in 1962:
Seadragon (SSN-584), foreground, and her sister Skate (SSN-578) during a rendezvous at the North Pole in August 1962
And of course then there’s this famous photo:
But contrast that to 1999, just 12 years later, lots of ice:
USS Hawkbill at the North Pole, Spring 1999. (US Navy Photo)
But in 1993, it’s back to thin ice again:
USS Pargo at the North Pole in 1993. (US Navy Photo)
The North Pole is not static, ice varies significantly. The Arctic is not static either. Variance is the norm.
UPDATE: Arctic Swimming Hole Gone
UPDATE via wattsupwiththat:
UW issues statement on the ‘North Pole Lake’
Posted on July 31, 2013 by Anthony WattsFrom the University of Washington: Santa’s workshop not flooded – but lots of melting in the ArcticBy Hannah Hickey Santa’s workshop at the North Pole is not under water, despite recent reports. A dramatic image captured by a University of Washington monitoring buoy reportedly shows a lake at the North Pole. But Santa doesn’t yet need to buy a snorkel.
“Every summer when the sun melts the surface the water has to go someplace, so it accumulates in these ponds,” said Jamie Morison, a polar scientist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and principal investigator since 2000 of the North Pole Environmental Observatory. “This doesn’t look particularly extreme.”
NSF North Pole Environmental Observatory The view from webcam 2 on July 26 shows open water on the ice.
After media coverage in CBS News, The Atlantic and the U.K.’s Daily Mail, Morison returned from overseas travel late last week to a pile of media inquiries. Over the weekend the team posted anexplanatory page on the project website. Keep Reading »
UPDATE
From wattsupwiththat
Follow up: the bogus ‘North Pole becomes a lake’ story
Posted on wattsupwiththat August 10, 2013 by Anthony WattsRemember this Associated Press before and after image that purportedly showed the North Pole turning into a lake due to “global warming”?
This was the day Brad Johnson of “Forecast the Facts” (a political group affiliated with the Center for American Progress and paid to harass TV weathercasters and meteorologists who don’t share their melting world view) made himself look like the complete idiot we know him to be. Observe the propaganda they sent around:
Note that WUWT published on why this imagery has no scientific merit, and the principal scientist issued a statement saying that it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.
Even AP saw they’d screwed up and issued a retraction:
Title : ELIMINATION North Pole Lake
Caption : EDITORS, PHOTO EDITORS, AND PHOTO LIBRARIANS – PLEASE ELIMINATE AP PHOTO NY109 THAT WAS SENT ON SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2013. THE CAPTION INACCURATELY STATED THAT ‘THE SHALLOW MELTWATER LAKE IS OCCURRING DUE TO AN UNUSUALLY WARM PERIOD.’ IN FACT, THE WATER ACCUMULATES IN THIS WAY EVERY SUMMER. IN ADDITION, THE IMAGES DO NOT NECESSARILY SHOW CONDITIONS AT THE NORTH POLE, BECAUSE THE WEATHER BUOY CARRYING THE CAMERA USED BY THE NORTH POLE ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORY HAS DRIFTED HUNDREDS OF MILES FROM ITS ORIGINAL POSITION, WHICH WAS A FEW DOZEN MILES FROM THE POLE- This frame grab provided by NOAA shows images from the wide-angle camera trained on a weather buoy maintained by the North Pole Environmental Observatory at the North Pole. The top image is a June 7, 2013 frame grab. The bottom image is a July 25, 2013 frame grab. (AP Photo/NOAA)
Source: http://foto.agerpres.ro/index.php?i=7147048
Will Brad Johnson and “Forecast the Facts” issue a retraction? Doubtful, because to do so would highlight their own stupidity disguised as paid agenda.
h/t to Brendan
To Climate Alarmists, Expanding Means Shrinking
Posted: July 28, 2013 Filed under: Alarmism, Greenland | Tags: Alarmism, Ben Cubby, Climate Change, Glacial Expansion, Greenland, SMH Leave a comment
The Petermann Glacier at the north end of Greenland is constantly pushing out towards the Nares Strait. Chunks of ice calve off as icebergs and float away. In 2010, a large chunk broke off and floated away.
Alarmists got hysterical about this at the time, and are recycling the nonsense today at SMH.
Greenland glacier: Before/after pics
One thing these scumbags aren’t telling you is that two years later the entire region in that picture is now covered with ice. The current image below shows the boundary between glacial ice and sea ice as the red dashed line. The sea ice extends tens of miles past where it was in 2011.
EOSDIS Worldview (Alpha)
h/t to climatism
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Steroids, Baseball and Climate Change
Posted: July 28, 2013 Filed under: Agenda 21, Alarmism, Climate, Climatism, ICLEI | Tags: Agenda 21, Alarmism, Alberta, Canada, Climate Change, Extreme weather, flood, ICLEI, IPCC Leave a commentICLEI Canada believe the difference between “normal” extreme weather and “climate change enhanced” extreme weather is anthropogenic “steroids”.
It’s mid-July [2013], and summer has already produced a number of very significant and newsworthy weather events. But can we blame climate change? Yes, but it isn’t as simple as saying that climate change caused any single event.
On June 20th, continued heavy rains in southern Alberta overwhelmed many streams and rivers emanating from the Rocky Mountain foothills, causing widespread flooding.
Of course, these types of extreme events have existed forever, and it would be incorrect to place all of the blame of these events on changing climates…The challenge is often explaining the difference between “normal” extreme weather and “climate change enhanced” extreme weather.
EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE CHANGE – ICLEI Canada
The flow rate of the Bow River in Calgary peaked at 1,500 cubic metres of water per second. Previous floods in the 1900s, 1930s and late 1800s were ‘worse’ in terms of river flow rate. Red Deer River flow rate peaked at 1,930 cms in 1915.
2013 Alberta floods were ‘worse’ due to the presence of a highly-developed city of over one million residents downstream. Thus, because of increased economic loss, the floods were naturally caused by human green-house gas emissions, and a climate on steroids.
Fortunately the IPCC can’t find the link between anthropogenic steroids and extreme weather, confirming “We do not know if the climate is becoming more extreme”
In any case, if extreme flooding is a concern, you can always take refuge on the 45th floor of a United Nations ICLEI Agenda 21 ‘Human Habitat Settlement Zone’ high-rise building. Coming to a ‘smart growth zone’ near you!
H/t to Brendan
100° Days, Past and Future
Posted: July 28, 2013 Filed under: Climate models, Climatism | Tags: Alarmism, Climate Change, climate models, CMIP5, Global Warming, IPCC, NOAA Leave a commentClimate models project that 100-degree days will become more numerous and widespread by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.
NOAA Climate.gov
More than tornadoes, flash floods, or hurricanes, heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States. As greenhouse gas emissions and the planet’s temperature continue to rise, models project that heat waves will become more frequent, more severe, and longer-lasting.
Be afraid. These are those models:
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