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Next week I plan on making a big push to get this information out to many, many people. This is one of the key topics that is covered in my book. It is not the only critical topic, but this one by itself is enough to demonstrate in a scientific way that warming as described by The Theory of Global Warming is impossible. My goal is to present this and related information to a wide audience next week. Wish me luck.
I am going to be the first to admit that I have been taking it easy for the past couple of weeks. By that I mean I have still been working my full-time job and trying to raise 4 children (all of them teenagers by the end of 2012). The good news is that the kids are back in school tomorrow which will help me have some more spare time for some articles that I want to write for the website. As my experience in this has increased I have found that the articles I like to write explain what is going on with the Earth and it’s climate. More and more what I write will require an understanding of the science in my book. Expect this year to have many articles that explain the Earth’s climate in context of the longer climate cycle.
I have been reading a fair amount of the news associated with the latest release of the CRU emails and have even downloaded the whole cache and peeked through them a little. It is entertaining and somewhat informative, but my response to the whole thing seems to be very different than the response of others. [...]
Later today there is going to be a debate at my daughter’s school about Global Warming. She is one of the few students to sign-up for the opposing side of the debate. Since the debate will be taking place at the 8th grade level I am not exactly sure the depth that the debate will cover, but she is getting to take the original “proof” copy of my book to school to use for her debate. I suspect that it is far too much information for her debate, but she will be well prepared. The one other thing I also wanted to prepare her with was some basic information about what is going on with the climate in the year of 2011 with the Earth’s temperature. This was also a topic that I wanted to write about anyway, so the time is right for this article.
I fully agree with the assertion that CO2 is dependent on temperature (ocean temperature specifically) and I have shown why this is in the past. What I had not considered was that the entire baseline for CO2 could be incorrect. What the ice cores really provide though is a natural ceiling for the total ‘natural’ level of CO2 in the atmosphere. The ice cores show that for the past 400,000 years the level of CO2 never exceeds 300 ppm. The highest recorded value in the Vostok ice core is 298.7 ppmv which was for YBP 323,485. If that data is accepted, then values higher than that today must be unnatural. That is certainly what warmists like to show.
The recent presentation by Dr. Murry Salby is getting lots of attention. I have now listened to his podcast and I must say it is intriguing. Instead of rehashing discussion that has been done to death on other sites I am going to show some things that I found previously that tie in well with his paper. I didn’t understand what I found at the time, but now it is clear that what I found actually supports what he is proposing. That human emissions have almost no impact that global CO2.
When I was working with the sea level data and the acceleration rates for the sea level I also used that same method on temperature and CO2 level. Acceleration is the rate at which the rate is changing. Acceleration is zero if the speed is not changing. When I used the same method for determining the acceleration for temperature I ended up with this result.
There is a new paper involving the omnipresent Michael Mann that is going to get lots of attention. The paper isn’t even out yet, but already I am very intrigued because the data used in the charts is clearly not the data that it says it is. The graph in the paper shows significantly more warming that the data it claims to be. For a peer-reviewed document that should be the gold standard, this one is already seriously lacking at the first cursory review.
At first glance I saw something wrong with the top chart in this figure.
In the global warming debate there is the idea that for the first time ever the entire Earth is showing warming. In the past there were aberrations where a single part of the Earth would warm up. An hotly debated example of that is the Medieval Warming Period (MWP) where the idea is presented that the warming 1,000 years ago was only around Greenland and Norway while the rest of the Earth was cool. This leads to the idea that what is happening now is unprecedented.
I decided to take a closer look at the modern temperature data for the Earth by different region. I chose the UAH data for this because it has the most data by specific latitude. Using three specific zones it is possible to break the Earth down into three specific regions that are nearly identical in coverage.
The Economist has put together a large special edition about the problems facing California. It is a very sobering article about the problems that have been developing for the past 30 years. The overall message of the article is that the initiative process has been disastrous for California because people will vote for a “good” thing, but not understand the consequences. As a result many seemingly “good ideas” are bad for the state as a whole. It does not blame parties, it blames the voters for the problems.
The one section I am going to focus on used some in depth polling of the electorate of the state. The results are simply stunning to say the very least. The opening paragraph is so good and so relevant to the discussion that I have to quote it.
“A POPULAR GOVERNMENT without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to Farce or Tragedy or perhaps both,” James Madison wrote. “A people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.” The question in any democracy, but especially a direct democracy in which citizens legislate at the ballot box, is how much voters do in fact know.
I love science articles about space. Unfortunately this one decided to bring climate change into the discussion. A proper parsing of the article would indicate that what they are actually discussing is the behavior of the seasons on Pluto which last several decades. Since Pluto is outbound on its elliptical orbit now it will be entering into a colder season for a while. Some people might even call that Autumn.
Of course the cause of seasons on Pluto will be dominated by the differences in Perihelion (4.4 billion km) and Aphelion (7.4 billion km) instead of the tilt and geographic distribution like on the Earth.
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