Global warming Death threats

The chief executive of the Met Office, John Hirst, has revealed that, in common with global warming sceptics such as former children’s TV presenter Johnny Ball, he has received death threats for his stance on climate change.
(Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/77902,people,news,met-office-boss-gets-death-threats-over-climate-change#ixzz1JtxSXvJ9)

Usually I’d have every sympathy with people who receive death threats, but when it comes to the Met Office, they supposedly provide a life and death service and we have been so let down by the Met Office so many times because of their fixation with global warming rather than the real killer in Scotland: Cold winters.
The real death threat the Scottish people face, is not some nutter writing an email, but a supposedly “official” even “scientific” body like the Met Office who fail to provide the life and death service they are supposed to due to poor politically motivated leadership.

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Global warming must be true, Charles Manson believes in it.

Global warming must be true, Charles Manson believes in it. Killer breaks 20-year silence on 40th anniversary of gruesome Sharon Tate murders.
‘If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem…’ he added, trailing off.
Manson, who described himself to his interviewer as a ‘bad man who shoots people’, brainwashed members of a commune known as The Family into butchering eight people including film director Roman Polanski’s pregnant wife Sharon Tate in July and August 1969.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378178/Charles-Manson-breaks-20-year-silence-40th-anniversary-gruesome-Sharon-Tate-murders.html#ixzz1Ju1WNezJ

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A climate of apathy

In selling his carbon tax compensation plan last week, Greg Combet told the ABC1’s Lateline: “Australia is not acting alone. We’re not out ahead of the rest of the world. Other countries are taking important steps as well.”
So, it’s a good time to see how the big polluting nations are faring in the battle to price carbon. So far, not so good. Australia in the cold on global warming

The article from ABC continues, Continue reading →

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Media interest falls to record low

In 2007 the average number of google hits for a news search for “global warming” was around 20,000 stories. It then steadily declined until just before climategate it was around the 10,000+ news articles.
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Our Carbon

Our carbon, which art in the heavens,
Damned be thy name,
Thy power be gone,
Emissions none,
On earth as it is in heaven,
Give us this day our daily rations,
And forgive us our emissions.
As we forgive those who emissions are greater,
For their need is more,
His name is Al Gore,
For his is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever and ever, Carbon.

Addendum

It’s now four years later and WUWT have highlighted a far better version by Dominic Lawson in the Daily Mail:

Our Gaia, Who art in danger,
Sustainable be thy name,
Thy renewable energy resources come,
Thy Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s will be done
On Earth as it is in the upper atmosphere
Give us this day our daily organic ciabatta
Forgive us our carbon emissions
Though we can’t forgive those multinationals who emit against us
Lead us not into excessive plane travel
Deliver us from genetically modified crops
For thine is the moral high ground
The onshore wind farms and the subsidies
For as long as the taxes can be raised. Amen.

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Scientists discover why wet soil is dark

In a major breakthrough Associate Profession William Philpot of Cornell School of Civil & Environmental Engineering has cracked the secret of wet soil. He has now produced a simple theoretical model describing the reflectance from wetted soils which describes the major variations of changes in the spectral reflectance which lead to soil getting darker when wet. Continue reading →

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No news – the lull before the storm?

For three of four years I’ve been keeping tabs on the news headlines by regularly using a search engine to highlight the days news. Even a year ago, that would daily harvest a couple of really juicy stories on global warming. So what is the headline news today?

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England expects every Scot to do their duty

Chris Huhne is back on the bandwagon proclaiming Scotland’s renewable “industry” as “mission critical” to England achieving its global warming targets. Too true.
Of course Scotland is mission critical because scamming the Scots has been a key part of this policy from the beginning; the way Scottish politicians have allowed Scotland to be yet again fleeced on energy policy makes my blood boil. (hence the nationalist rant … even though I’m a unionist, but sometimes nationalists do have a point)
Even before all this nonsense over global warming started, Scotland was already producing something like 8% of our energy from “clean green” hydro (or as others would see it: “another blot on the landscape”). So, when the UK government committed to a  policy of 1% increase in renewables each year from 2000, Scotland should have been able to sit back for eight years watching the English struggle to achieve their own targets, and even have benefitted from all those ugly eyesores that dot the Scottish landscape: we could have “sold” the benefit of hydro to allow England to meet its self-imposed target and raked in millions and millions for Scottish public services even allowing those greens to bask in the glory of doing more than our fair share to salve the conscience of the world.
EEeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (scratching sound of record being hastily changed) Continue reading →

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The end of scepticism – personal thoughts.

I became a sceptic not because I could prove the world wasn’t warming, but because I could prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the public were being lied to on global warming. The test I set was simple: a warmer climate undoubtedly has benefit such as reduced deaths from cold in places like Scotland. Therefore, I reasoned, if the “science” were really science, and not propaganda, then I should see a large number of references to the known benefits of warming in the scientific papers on the subject.
So, I sat down one day and searched every single paper I could find on the effects of global warming/climate change and after reading around a hundred papers I was horrified to have found only one half-hearted mention of “some benefits of warming”. Continue reading →

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What does CO2 really Contribute to global warming – 2nd Update


Figure 3.1: Two-layer model consisting of the atmosphere and the Earth's surface


I have now received and roughly translated the majority of the paper from Hermann Harde. At 52 pages long this is a superb piece of work, but it will take me a few days just to digest what it says. On the big question “why is it 0.45C warming as opposed to around 1C direct warming based on the IPCC information”, there is no real answer.
Hermann can only speculate regarding the big difference of his results to that provided by others because he couldn’t get adequate information about the methodology used in previous calculations and specifically the conditions and assumptions on which these calculations were performed. This lack of information was his motivation to undertake his own calculations particularly as he was aware of the problems in this type of analysis from his own work in the spectroscopy of gas absorption:

This was one motivation to make my own calculations, particularly when I read that authors are dealing with broad band models to compute the absorption of well mixed gases with strongly overlapping spectra. Continue reading →

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