Now China's pollution being blamed for lack of predicted warming

Posted on 6 July 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

For years I’ve been saying that one likely reason for the apparent rise in temperatures after the 1970s was the introduction of anti-pollution measures in the 1970s. The logic seemed simple: evaporative pan measurements had shown a reduction in evaporation that seemed to correlate with pollution levels and  it seemed there was a strong connection between pollution and the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth … and of course the greens had taken this whole scenario to its absurd extreme with doomsday nuclear winter which was supposedly the inevitable result of any nuclear explosion. Continue reading →

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Australia: land of the hysterical!

Posted on 29 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

As they say: “no news is good news”, and there certainly has been a lack of any real news story on global warming if the news search engine results are to be believed. There is still those who deny reality and harp on about the “obvious effects of warming”, but there is an increasing number of sceptic reports, and I’m sure it won’t be long before I pass the next milestone: “a day when sceptic news reports are the top .. 10? stories“. We’ve already had days when the top 2,3 even 4 news articles have been sceptic. Continue reading →

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How not to develop wave energy

Posted on 28 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

Government to pump £20m into wave power generation
Well before they decided to go ahead with the Orkney marine energy development centre, I had made my findings clear to the idiots that ran so called “Scottish Enterprise” (an oxymoron) that they were going about it in entirely the wrong way.
The simple fact was that they said they were trying to reproduce the success of Denmark in wind energy. They had been told (by academics and other grant fed organisations) that  the key to success of Danish wind had been their wind research “institute” called Risø, and therefore by inference, the need was to create a research institute for Marine energy and to pump all the money to grant fed organisations (particularly academics) and … etc. Continue reading →

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Which collapses first? The Euro or Global Warming?

Posted on 23 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic
It’s interesting to compare the two charades: The Euro and Manmade warming. Both of them exist in the absence of any substantial material support, and almost exclusively due to a huge political pressure that “wants” them to exist. In one sense, it is quite amazing that people can achieve so much with so little, in another sense it just shows how we really haven’t progressed as a society since WWII and how someone like Hitler could still easily lead an advanced nation down the road of ruin. But back to the present crisis(es … is that the plural?)
In the case of the Euro, we have numerous countries each with their own economies, each therefore going at their own economic speed, but somehow despite the obvious fact that they are different economic units, nothing but human will power and a “definition” of economic unity have linked them together under one currency.
Of course, the Euro cannot change the fundamentals: it cannot make Greece as prosperous as Germany, or to put it another way, it cannot force Germany to sacrifice its economy in order to boost Greece and create economic parity which is what is needed if two economic units are to share a common currency.
Likewise, the “belief in warming”, cannot change the facts about natural variation. That belief can change the apparent temperature by so distorting the temperature record and the “science”, interpreting that record, that for a short time it can hide the fact the real world does not support the belief.
But … like the Euro, sooner or later real temperatures, like real economies, will divulge so much from the myth that has been created, that no amount of political willpower, coercion, “hiding the decline”, propaganda, myth creation and outright fabrication of the statistics will be able to prevent everyone realising that the reality is far different from the myth.
Of course, the biggest difference is that it is possible to physically align currencies … in effect to remove local economic control and replace it with one “empire” of Europe, but I doubt that is acceptable, so it is pretty inevitable that the Euro will collapse, obviously the biggest cracks will be between those economies which differ most in their “speed” and so develop the greatest mismatch soonest, but as all economies are independent, and so move at different speeds, sooner or later they will all reach sufficient mismatch to create the same “cracks” and one after another they will depart the Euro.
The big question, though is which will happen first? Will the real climate force global warmist to drop global warming before or after the real different speeds of the Euro countries force them to drop the Euro?
Both are slow process, the rate at which climate divulges from the myth is decades, the rate at which currencies mismatch their economies is a few percent a year. The Euro has been going since 1 January 1999, when the former European Currency Unit (ECU) was replaced by Euro coins and banknotes entered circulation on 1 January 2002. But, the attempt to align the currencies/economies goes back further: back to 1989 when France extracted German commitment to the Monetary Union in return for support for German reunification. The myth of warming has been going … since the myth of global cooling got blown out the water in the 1970s, but the real political support didn’t start until around 1990 … about the same time everyone starting worrying about the millennium bug!! (And they say there is always madness around the millennium!)
So the reality is that European countries have been trying to maintain economic parity for around the same 20 years that the global warming myth has been going. 20 years during which even at a modest differential economic growth rate of 0.5%, would now create a massive 10% divergence between economic “strength” and currency “strength”. 20 years, during which even a modest 0.05C/year supposed warming would now have reached 1C … enough for everyone to see whether or not it was happening.
Perhaps an even more interesting question, is whether one might precipitate the other? It is quite clear that if when the Euro fails, the myth of European political Union will also fail and along with it all the stupid goals like “death by renewables”. But could it work the other way around? Could the failure of the political establishment to show suitable scepticism on the “proven facts of science”, undermine their credibility with the “proven facts of monetary Union”?
Interesting time!
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Alarmists turn to bite the hand that fed them

Posted on 22 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

From the climate depot we get this “snippet” of news. I’m unable to trace the source, nor to be frank do I share the site’s politics which is ardently republican and therefore anti Obama (who has done more than any other president to care for the sick of the US) so I fully expect it to be a bit “over the top” on the facts … but here it is:-

Gore declares Obama failed to fight for global warming cause: ‘No real change from the Bush era’ — George W. Obama? Visit Site  Continue reading →

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Euro vs. Engineering: If it doesn't bend it'll break

Posted on 21 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

There’s a simple rule of thumb in engineering which says: “If it doesn’t bend it will break”, or in more general terms: “if there is no give, it will break”. That is why if you examine any bridge (that is still standing), railway or large building you will discover expansion joints. These are joints which allow the structure to expand and contract due to e.g. temperature otherwise as the structure expands due to rising temperature, the pressure due to the increase in size will rise and rise and rise until something has to give: either the structure will bend, warp or even break completely. In some instances the whole structure has collapsed simply because of the repetitive stress due to temperature change. Continue reading →

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Guardian alarmist in chief funded by Auto trader

Posted on 18 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

For years I’ve watched as the Guardian hyped the global warming story and exaggerated every single possible aspect of the scare to force us gas guzzling miscreants to cease our harmful ways and give up the car and join the crusade to save mother earth with our sandals and bikes, death to cars, etc.
So, I was not a little please to read that the Guardian is loosing £30 million a year and will run out of money. And then I read:

In truth, the only reason The Guardian has been able to carry on as long as it has done without making savage cuts is because it has been subsidised by large profits from Auto Trader, which is owned by GMG. (Telegraph)

THE HYPOCRITES!!!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8583220/Riches-to-rags-as-Guardian-bleeds-33m-in-a-year.html

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My submission to NOAA integrity review

Posted on 18 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic
Following the post on WUWT:

Ask and ye shall receive NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio...

A while back, I highlighted this, and now comments are open to the public and I’m sure there will be many readers who would like to contribute.
NOAA seeks public comments on scientific integrity policy

I sent them the following email (to: integrity.noaa@noaa.gov)
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New boost to global warming stories

Posted on 17 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

Just as I thought global warming stories were going out of fashion, along comes sunspots. And strangely, all the people who used to write about doomsday global warming are suddenly writing about doomsday lack of sunspots.
I personally think its all part of survival instincts … humanoids on the African plane possibly spent their time watching the big hunters and then swooping in to steal their kill. So, we just can’t help be interested in death and destruction, hence the “car crash” syndrome whereby drivers can’t help watching the pile-up on the other lane helping create a new pile up on their own.
Likewise, when the biggest, most ugly planet-eating predator in town (the sun) decides to change its spots, in kicks 1,000,000 years of evolution and we just can’t help watching this predator strut its stuff.
The bigger the disaster, the bigger the casualty count, the more compelled our natural car-crash-goggling instinct  kicks in!

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Australian PM's ratings slump after carbon tax

Posted on 15 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

Seems like the chickens are coming home to roost for the Australian PM who went into her election campaign promising not to implement carbon taxes. And I may be wrong, but I seem to recollect that she only got the job because the previous incumbent was likewise obsessed with taxing carbon:

Support for Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is now even lower than that of her predecessor whom she ousted almost a year ago, driven down by her government’s push to impose a deeply unpopular tax on carbon emissions.
The next scheduled election is not for two years, but media have begun speculating that Gillard could also be dumped by nervous backbenchers unless her Labor Party manages to engineer a rapid turnaround in the next few months.
Her approval rating has shed five points in just a fortnight to 30 per cent, lower than former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s rating when Gillard replaced him in a partyroom coup ahead of last year’s dead-heat election, a Newspoll in The Australian newspaper showed.
(Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/world/5149985/Gillards-ratings-slump-after-carbon-tax)

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