Apparently Piers Corbyn was on This Week:
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03b1c7c

For the last month or so, I’ve started keeping a note of articles that I link to when engaging with Natural Climate Deniers – it’s now a sizeable list which may help anyone else looking for suitable responses to the idiot questions we sceptics get asked.

The pause is real

Definition

• Sceptic Dictionary: The Pause

Tampering of temperature

• NOAA/NASA Dramatically Altered US Temperatures After The Year 2000 | Real Science
• NASA Is Constantly Cooling The Past And Warming The Present | Real Science
• NOAA’s Fabricated “Record Temperatures” | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
• Both NOAA and GISS Have Switched to NOAA’s Overcooked “Pause-Busting” Sea Surface Temperature Data for Their Global Temperature Products | Watts Up With That?
• On the Pause in Global Sea Ice Anomalies | Watts Up With That?
• Global Temperature Page | Watts Up With That?
• “Massively Altered” …German Professor Examines NASA GISS Temperature Datasets
• The Pause draws blood – A new record Pause length: no warming for 18 years 7 months | Watts Up With That?
• Record Crushing Fraud From NOAA And NASA Ahead Of Paris | Real Science
• Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum | NASA

Tampering of Stations/regions

• Massive Tampering With South African Temperatures | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
• NASA’s Arctic Fudge Factory: “More Than Half” Of Claimed Arctic Warming Stems From “Data Adjustments”
• View NCDC/CRU station adjustments
• Two-thirds of Australias warming due to “adjustments” — according to 84 historic stations
• Temperature Adjustments Transform Arctic Climate History
• Massive Temperature Adjustments At Luling, Texas
• NASA Iceland Fraud

UAH shows the pause

• Version 6.0 of the UAH Temperature Dataset Released: New LT Trend = +0.11

Ice & Snow are fine

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According to the BGS (Link) between the 19 and 27th November there were 19 earthquakes reported in the UK of which 17 were in the parish of Warsop Nottinghamshire – two even being large enough to have been felt!!!
All were at a depth of 5km and they appear to be on a fault line running as shown below. The last “big” quake is indicated as being at the red pointer marker.
The quakes are too deep to be coal mines collapsing. A series of quakes like this could indicate an active fault which may have ceased – or we may be about to see a bigger quake. So, tie down the crockery if you live near Worksop

Map of recent earthquakes around Worsop

Table (Note too wide to fit so it will overrun)

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Marc Morano: “This film is going to turn the tables on the entire global warming movement.”

Due for release: Cinéma du Panthéon, December 7, 7:30 PM

What a coincidence – the day before Cruzing day!

🙂

I can’t be sure, but it looks to me  that there is now less coverage of climate now that COP21 has started than before. Which suggests

• All the journalists who print this climate porn have flown to a posh hotel in Paris.
• Almost everyone who reads their climate porn is in Paris, leaving no reason to print this climate porn.
• There’s no good news to report.

On an entirely unrelated issue:
Golgafrincham was a planet, once home to the Great Circling Poets of Arium. The descendants of these poets made up tales of impending doom about the planet. The tales varied; some said it was going to crash into the sun, or the moon was going to crash into the planet. Others said the planet was to be invaded by twelve-foot piranha bees and still others said it was in danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star-goat.
These tales of impending doom allowed the Golgafrinchans to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population. The story was that they would build three Ark ships. Into the A ship would go all the leaders, scientists and other high achievers. The C ship would contain all the people who made things and did things, and the B ark would hold everyone else, such as hairdressers and telephone sanitizers. They sent the B ship off first, but of course the other two-thirds of the population stayed on the planet and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

I’ve been looking at the tweets on #cop21 and put simply, they are discussing anything but the actual facts about climate. Indeed many have nothing to do with climate and are the usual “saving the whales, saving the rainforest, saving our grants, saving our right to protest about saving the whales …”
As far as tweeter goes, it is largely a festival of the ill-informed “hangers-on” who use climate to push entirely unrelated issues.
Here’s a typical selection:

Do we really need to take action now? Nah, #flexibledeadlines will do. That’s what world leaders think at #COP21 ^KG
Ce matin, focus sur la résilience secteur #eau en direct de la #COP21 #ClimateIsWater
Looking forward to speaking this morning on crossover between private and public commitments- side event on INDCs #COP21
Tuesday “Ray of the Day” at #COP21
Will the PM be mentioning KP billion tree tsunami and plantation of 130 million trees last year at #COP21? Pakistan’s massive contribution
Corruption = Climate change = Death #ClimateMarchKE 3 Dec 2015 @hakijamiitrust @UKatiba #StopCorruptioninKenya @nanodo2001 @KimanziN #COP21
Tomorrow at #COP21 – We share our work helping develop a process for countries to communicate climate change impacts

I received this email – at first I assumed “Haszeldine” was someone taking the micky out of “Haseler” – however, it does appear that there is an Professor in Edinburgh (a hot bed of alarmist fanatics in Scotland)

Dear Professor Haszeldine,
Thank you for your views, which as you say do not coincide with mine on carbon capture and storage (CCS) or on alleged man-made climate change.
As a professor of CCS I suppose it is only to be expected that, to paraphrase the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies, “You would say that, wouldn’t you”.
I will defend my stance by disputing just the first two of your climate assertions, which seem to me to be particularly unfounded.
1) “2015 is the warmest year since modern records began”.
This is disputed by the satellite temperature record which many experts say gives a better indication of man-made global warming, or the lack of it, than surface temperature records. In any case, so what? All of the global warming since 1659 (when CET recording began) has been natural, not man-made. I have still not seen a credible rebuttal of this assertion, evidently dismissed by some as not being sufficiently “erudite”. (It is not my assertion, it is credited to Bob Tisdale, an expert in ocean climate thermodynamics, whose extensive source material I link to in my paper.) Even the biassed, politician-controlled UN IPCC say (indirectly) that we have had only a barely perceptible 0.25ºC of man-made global warming since the start of industrialisation, which the biassed media and politicians routinely obfuscate to be 0.8ºC or even, when laying it on thickly, a full 1ºC.
2) “Sealevel rise rates are above the norm 2000 years and are measureable”.
This is disputed by a leading expert in this field, Dr Nils Axel-Mörner, who describes how biassed scientists have manipulated the data. In any case given that we are not causing any global warming there is nothing we can do about it, other than to adapt.
This exchange illustrates how discussions around this subject have been poisoned by deliberate spin, exaggeration, obfuscation and deception created mainly by politicians. I am walking away from it for the sake of my mental wellbeing. I will restrict my future “campaigning” to the ballot box, to vote for the least bad option.
Finally, I am all for sustainability, which is why I think unsustainable CCS is a particularly bad idea, because it would increase the consumption of finite fossil fuel reserves and would probably exhaust safe long-term underground storage reservoirs, on top of being very expensive.
Yours faithfully,
Douglas S Brodie

A while back I wrote an article “why women love ugly men” in which I made the argument that because human faces varied so much, that there had to be a strong impulse to pick faces that are not “normal”. Which could not happen if there were a single concept of beauty and we all sought mates who fitted this stereotype. Because if we did seek mates who were “beautiful”, then very quickly any genetics which caused people to diverge from this standard would be removed from human race.
Logically, humans must select features that are distinctly different from the idealised standard of “beauty” – otherwise diversity of human features would disappear.
So, I was already aware that humans selected for “ugly” (or at least – counter intuitively – we actively select against some idealised form of beauty) but I didn’t understand why.
Then, watching a video on bees it suddenly occurred to me why women love ugly men:

“As long as the queen is mated with drones that are not closely related to her … otherwise spotty brood and diploid drones”.
Obviously closely related queen and drones is a big problem for bees (they become infertile), however closely related humans also causes problems as offspring of closely related parents have a much higher chance of receiving two defective genes from both parents.
How does mother nature tell us not to fall in love with closely related kin? “instinct” tells us that people who look like us tend to be closely related. So, by avoiding people who are as good looking as we all are … we end up with partners who will tend to be only distantly related.
This problem of too much inter-breeding is not such a big problem for loan animals who by their nature have to actively seek a mate, but it is a huge problem for human societies, particularly tribal ones, where “mates” tend to come from within a small social grouping leading to a lot of genetic interbreeding.
So, paradoxically, nature seems to have found a way around this problem of “inbreeding”: by encouraging us to like “ugly” – or at least variations from some idealised concept of beauty. This, to some extent explains why humans have such diverse features, voice, etc.
But of course, we are not the only animals to see such diversity. Seagulls have distinctive calls otherwise chicks would not be able to recognise their own offspring, likewise humans have distinctive voices so that we are all distinct enough to see as individuals. So, in part the reason must also be the advantage of being able to recognise individuals within a large group.