macdoc
Philosopher
Yeah I like the approach and that the US military is engaged in it as the largest single consumer of fossil fuels bodes well for fast tracking.
They shoot deniers
They shoot deniers
Abstract
Equilibrium climate sensitivity refers to the ultimate change in global mean temperature in response to a change in external forcing. Despite decades of research attempting to narrow uncertainties, equilibrium climate sensitivity estimates from climate models still span roughly 1.5 to 5 degrees Celsius for a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, precluding accurate projections of future climate. The spread arises largely from differences in the feedback from low clouds, for reasons not yet understood. Here we show that differences in the simulated strength of convective mixing between the lower and middle tropical troposphere explain about half of the variance in climate sensitivity estimated by 43 climate models. The apparent mechanism is that such mixing dehydrates the low-cloud layer at a rate that increases as the climate warms, and this rate of increase depends on the initial mixing strength, linking the mixing to cloud feedback. The mixing inferred from observations appears to be sufficiently strong to imply a climate sensitivity of more than 3 degrees for a doubling of carbon dioxide. This is significantly higher than the currently accepted lower bound of 1.5 degrees, thereby constraining model projections towards relatively severe future warming.
In what is being considered a first by a member of the federal Conservatives, Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid stated publicly on CBC News Network’s Power and Politics that recent extreme weather and climate change are connected.
“We are seeing the effects, the impacts of climate change,” Braid told host Evan Solomon on Monday. “With climate change comes extreme weather events. We saw that through the floods in southern Alberta, we’re now seeing that with the ice storms in Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto, with the extreme cold across the country.”
Solomon later asked Braid to confirm he was saying that extreme weather and climate change are related, to which Braid replied, “Absolutely, I’m confirming I said that.”
The statement comes on the same day that two people were arrested in Vancouver after they came within centimetres of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and displayed signs protesting the government’s policies on climate change.
If you can't explain the 'pause', you can't explain the cause...dissension in the ranks....
If you can't explain the 'pause', you can't explain the cause...
71 new papers reported in 2013 demonstrating the Sun controls climate, not man-made CO2
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/71-new-papers-reported-in-2013.html
An analysis of IPCC's gold-standard HadCRUT surface temperature dataset not only confirms that global warming is AWOL but is morphing towards a dangerous global cooling trend - the climate research empirical evidence is unequivocal.....over the last decade the current global cooling trend accelerated to its largest 10-year rate during the modern era
The essential facts of this gold-standard empirical evidence?
1. Previous global warming has disappeared (i.e. stalled, paused, terminated and etc.)
2. Using 10-year trends, there has been no extended acceleration of warming since the late 1990s
3. The greatest 10-year acceleration of global warming took place during the early 1980's (well before the massive CO2 emissions of the 1990s and 2000s)
4. Global warming deceleration has existed since the early 2000s
5. The 10-year trend of temperatures has changed to the first significant cooling trend over the last 30 years - it is unequivocal, as of June 2013
6. Human CO2 emissions do not force global temperatures to rise faster (i.e. accelerate to ever higher rates) - note the widely diverging fitted trend curves for both CO2 emissions and global surface temperatures
7. Rapid, dangerous, irrefutable, undeniable, unprecedented, incontrovertible, irreversible and accelerating global warming does not exist, in any form or manner
IPCC Climate Research: Modern Global Cooling Accelerates To Its Fastest Pace In Last 30 Years - 'Unequivocal'
http://www.c3headlines.com/2013/07/...fastest-pace-over-30-years-unequivocal-1.html

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-0107-polar-vortex-20140107,0,5548599.story"It affects people that aren't used to cold right now," said Maue, speaking by phone from Tallahassee. "I'm in Florida right now, and they're issuing a wind chill advisory because it's going to go below freezing."
Maue described the polar vortex as a lobe of dense, cold air that's normally bound in by a jet stream. This one headed south from the North Pole and brought a lot of wind with it.
In general, "areas of the world" are largely irrelevant to "global" considerations. Just as the last (3-5-10, even 15) year's weather trends are largely irrelevant to "Climate" considerations, which really deal with trends over a minimum of 20-30 years with a preference for periods vastly longer.
If you can't explain the 'pause', you can't explain the cause...
71 new papers reported in 2013 demonstrating the Sun controls climate, not man-made CO2
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/71-new-papers-reported-in-2013.html
Thank you , I expected that was the answer.
It is just that back a few years ago we had many wonderfully mild winters in a row and all the news and science hype attributed it to Global Warming.
Now the past couple of winters are much colder and I am told it has no bearing as far as climate change .
So will someone please admit that they were speaking in error when they said the warm winters were proof of Global Warming.
Can't have it both ways.
will you answer my question about that alleged prediction by the IPCC that led your doughter to sell her hosue? or will you run?
btw, yes you can have it both ways. get informed
Edited by kmortis:Removed comment in breech of Rule 0
IPCC report: Canada at greater risk from climate change
Stronger storms forecast for Atlantic Canada and Ontario, while Great Lakes warming could be 50-per-cent higher than global predictions.
The IPCC report also says that warming near the Great Lakes, which lost more than 70 per cent of their ice cover between 1973 and 2010, could be 50 per cent higher than what is predicted globally.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2...arm_more_than_global_rise_says_un_report.html
Warmists didn't predict the pause or this intense cold but others did
Arctic invader puts much of Midwest in deep freeze
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-0107-polar-vortex-20140107,0,5548599.story
If you can't explain the 'pause', you can't explain the cause...
The Sun controls the climate not us
Warmists didn't predict the pause or this intense cold but others did
15.3.2.5. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Subregion
Scenario-based studies in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin conducted over the past 15 years (see Section 15.2.1) have indicated consistently that a warmer climate would lead to reductions in water supply and lake levels (Cohen, 1986; Croley, 1990; Hartmann, 1990; Mortsch and Quinn, 1996; Mortsch, 1998).
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch14s14-4.htmlLower water levels in the Great Lakes are likely to influence many sectors, with multi-dimensional, interacting impacts (Figure 14.2) (high confidence). Many, but not all, assessments project lower net basin supplies and water levels for the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Basin (Mortsch et al., 2000; Quinn and Lofgren, 2000; Lofgren et al., 2002; Croley, 2003).
If THAT is true, what is your theory for the rapid decline in arctic ice, leading to the rise of sea levels if we have been in a 10 year cooling trend?
Antarctic ships escape from ice trap
Two ships - a Russian research vessel and a Chinese icebreaker- break free from Antarctic pack ice after being stuck for days.