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« Reply #550 on: May 04, 2016, 03:21:19 pm »


from The Washington Post....

World Bank: The way climate change is
really going to hurt us is through water


By CHRIS MOONEY | 4:25PM EDT - Tuesday, May 03, 2016

The dried-up riverbank of the Ganges is seen from a bridge in Allahabad, India, on May 3rd. Much of India is reeling from a heat wave and severe drought conditions that have decimated crops, killed livestock and left at least 330 million Indians without enough water for their daily needs. — Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press.
The dried-up riverbank of the Ganges is seen from a bridge in Allahabad, India, on May 3rd. Much of India is reeling from a heat wave
and severe drought conditions that have decimated crops, killed livestock and left at least 330 million Indians without enough water
for their daily needs. — Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press.


AS India, the world's second-most populous country, reels from an intense drought, the World Bank has released a new report finding that perhaps the most severe impact of a changing climate could be the effect on water supplies.

The most startling finding? The report suggests that by 2050, an inadequate supply of water could knock down economic growth in some parts of the world a figure as high as 6 percent of GDP, “sending them into sustained negative growth.” Regions facing this risk — which can at least partly be averted by better water management, the document notes — include not only much of Africa but also India, China and the Middle East.

“When we look at any of the major impacts of climate change, they one way or another come through water,” said Richard Damania, a lead economist at the bank and the lead author of the report, on a call with reporters on Tuesday. “So it will be no exaggeration to claim that climate change is really in fact about hydrological change.”

Climate change hits water supplies in multiple ways. Warm temperatures can cause more evaporation of water from landscapes, while changes in precipitation can lead to both more intense individual downpours but also swings into drought conditions. The threat from all this is not just to what people drink but what they eat: The human activity that consumes the most water is agriculture.

And then, there's sea-level rise: It can push into coastal aquifers, as is happening today in the state of Florida, and thus threaten to make them more saline and less usable for human needs. So it isn't only surface waters that may be depleted by climate swings, but also groundwater.

The World Bank report says that 1.6 billion people on Earth already live in nations that are subject to water scarcity. Depending on the precise definition of the concept, other research has put that number even higher, finding that 4 billion live in regions that face conditions of “severe” water scarcity during at least some part of the year. Using its own definition, the World Bank fears the number of people living with potential water threats will double over the next two decades.

The problem will be exacerbated by greater populations overall, and more demand for water due to increased needs in the electricity generation and agricultural sectors. But the impacts, the study found, will also be very uneven, with little projected economic harm to North America or Europe from water supply changes.

“Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding cities will converge upon a world where the demand for water rises exponentially, while supply becomes more erratic and uncertain,” the report says.


The Aral Sea in 2015. The body of water has shrunken in size dramatically in recent years because of water withdrawals from rivers that feed it. — Photograph: NASA Earth Observatory.
The Aral Sea in 2015. The body of water has shrunken in size dramatically in recent years because of water withdrawals
from rivers that feed it. — Photograph: NASA Earth Observatory.


It's not the case that the world as a whole will have inadequate fresh water — it's that some places will be fine but others won't have enough, and there's not much means of mass water redistribution over long distances. Rather, grapping with these looming water scarcity problems has to occur in specific regions, where it will be important to address water waste, mis-alloaction, and efficiency in water use — in other words, using the same amount of water for more diverse purposes or needs.

That's a crucial task, the report finds, due to staggering projected increases in fresh water demand. The report finds that in the next 30 years, “the global food system will require between 40 to 50 percent more water; municipal and industrial water demand will increase by 50 to 70 percent; the energy sector will see water demand increase by 85 percent; and the environment, already the residual claimant, may receive even less.”

And when water shortages happen, the poor will inevitably be hit the hardest — when it comes to both food and drinking water, because they may not be able to purchase supplies from elsewhere to get them through hard times.

What's most new about the report, perhaps, is tying the problem of potential future water scarcity — which has been already much discussed in the past — to particularly dire economic impacts. “We will have expanding water deficits. When you do the analysis, it turns out that economic growth is a thirsty business,” Damania said.

The report finds that water, or the lack thereof, can damage economies in multiple ways — ranging from cutting down business efficiencies, to harming the health of citizens, to spurring natural disasters.

And the problem won't be steady or chronic — there are likely to be sudden crises spurred by droughts or extreme weather events, such as floods. These, again, will hit unstable regions the hardest — and take a major economic toll. “When we have poverty, when we have division, when we have polarization, you add to that a water shock, something like a drought, this becomes a threat multiplier,” Damania said.

If there's good news, it's that the report does find that resilience measures, such as low-hanging-fruit improvements to water infrastructure, can reduce the risks in many regions. “Some cities, even in arid areas, lose more water through leaking pipes than they deliver to households,” the report notes.


• Chris Mooney reports on science and the environment for The Washington Post.

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Read more on this topic:

 • Why we're still so incredibly confused about methane’s role in global warming

 • Dominoes fall: Vanishing Arctic ice shifts jet stream, which melts Greenland’s glaciers


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« Reply #551 on: May 06, 2016, 11:59:22 am »

quote from one of the news stories sums it all up

I think it’s safe to say that big things are afoot in this global technocratic power grab.


German Professor: NASA Has Fiddled Climate Data On ‘Unbelievable’ Scale




A German professor has confirmed what skeptics from Britain to the US have long suspected: that NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies has largely invented “global warming” by tampering with the raw temperature data records.

Professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert is a retired geologist and data computation expert. He has painstakingly examined and tabulated all NASA GISS’s temperature data series, taken from 1153 stations and going back to 1881. His conclusion: that if you look at the raw data, as opposed to NASA’s revisions, you’ll find that since 1940 the planet has been cooling, not warming.

According to Günter Ederer, the German journalist who has reported on Ewert’s findings:

From the publicly available data, Ewert made an unbelievable discovery: Between the years 2010 and 2012 the data measured since 1881 were altered so that they showed a significant warming, especially after 1950. […] A comparison of the data from 2010 with the data of 2012 shows that NASA-GISS had altered its own datasets so that especially after WWII a clear warming appears – although it never existed.

Apart from Australia, the planet has in fact been on a cooling trend:

Using the NASA data from 2010 the surface temperature globally from 1940 until today has fallen by 1.110°C, and since 2000 it has fallen 0.4223°C […]. The cooling has hit every continent except for Australia, which warmed by 0.6339°C since 2000. The figures for Europe: From 1940 to 2010, using the data from 2010, there was a cooling of 0.5465°C and a cooling of 0.3739°C since 2000.

But the activist scientists at NASA GISS – initially led by James Hansen (pictured above), later by Gavin Schmidt – wanted the records they are in charge of maintaining to show warming not cooling, so they began systematically adjusting the data for various spurious reasons using ten different methods.

The most commonly used ones were:

• Reducing the annual mean in the early phase.
• Reducing the high values in the first warming phase.
• Increasing individual values during the second warming phase.
• Suppression of the second cooling phase starting in 1995.
• Shortening the early decades of the datasets.
• With the long-term datasets, even the first century was shortened.

Ewert’s findings echo that of US meteorologists Joseph D’Aleo and Anthony Watts who examined 6,000 NASA weather stations and found a host of irregularities both with the way they were sited and how the raw data had been adjusted to reflect such influences as the Urban Heat Island effect.

Britain’s Paul Homewood is also on NASA GISS’s case. Here he shows the shocking extent of the adjustments they have made to a temperature record in Brazil which has been altered so that a cooling trend becomes a warming trend.



Unadjusted temperature record: shows cooling trend.



http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/24/german-professor-nasa-fiddled-climate-data-unbelievable-scale/


Top Scientist Resigns Admitting Global Warming Is A Big Scam
Submitted by IWB, on September 30th, 2015



Top US scientist Hal Lewis resigned from his post at the University of California after admitting that global warming was a big scam, in a shocking resignation letter.

From the Telegraph

The following is a letter to the American Physical Society released to the public by Professor Emeritus of physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara

Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis
From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society
6 October 2010

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).

Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence – it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it…

I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club.

http://investmentwatchblog.com/top-scientist-resigns-admitting-global-warming-is-a-big-scam/


Judicial Watch Sues for Documents Withheld From Congress in New Climate Data Scandal

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit on December 2, 2015, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking records of communications from National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials regarding methodology for collecting and interpreting data used in climate models (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Commerce (No 1:15-cv-02088)). The lawsuit sought the same documents unsuccessfully subpoenaed by a House committee.  Less than week after Judicial Watch served its lawsuit on NOAA, the agency finally turned over the targeted documents to Congress.

Judicial Watch sued the Department of Commerce after the agency failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted on October 30, 2015 – NOAA is a component of the Department of Commerce.  The timeframe for the requested records is October 30, 2014, through October 30, 2015, and requests all documents and records of communications between NOAA officials, employees, and contractors regarding:

The methodology and utilization of night marine air temperatures to adjust ship and buoy temperature data;
The use of other global temperature datasets for both NOAA’s in-house dataset improvements and monthly press releases conveying information to the public about global temperatures;
The utilization and consideration of satellite bulk atmospheric temperature readings for use in global temperature datasets; and
A subpoena issued for the aforementioned information by Congressman Lamar Smith on October 13, 2015.
Judicial Watch is investigating how NOAA collects and disseminates climate data that is used in determining global climate change. NOAA collects data in thousands of ways – from temperature gauges on land and buoys at sea, to satellites orbiting Earth.  Considered the “environmental intelligence agency,” NOAA is the nation’s leading collector of climate data.  In July, Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) asked NOAA for both data and internal communications related to a controversial climate change study.  After the agency refused to comply with the document request, Smith’s committee issued a subpoena on October 13.  According to the Science, Space, and Technology Committee:

In June, NOAA widely publicized a study as refuting the nearly two-decade pause in climate change. After three letters requesting all communications from the agency surrounding the role of political appointees in the agency’s scientific process, Chairman Smith issued a subpoena for the information. Smith subsequently sent a letter on December 1st offering to accept documents and communications from NOAA political, policy and non-scientific staff as a first step in satisfying the subpoena requirements.

Information provided to the Committee by whistleblowers appears to show that the study was rushed to publication despite the concerns and objections of a number of NOAA employees.

Judicial Watch sued the agency on December 2 and served the complaint on the agency on December 8.  Less than a week later, on Tuesday, December 15, NOAA finally began to turn over documents to the House committee.  That same day, NOAA called and told Judicial Watch that it would begin searching for documents responsive to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request.

On November 26, Smith published an opinion editorial in The Washington Times, which accused NOAA of tampering with data to help promote global warming alarmism:

NOAA often fails to consider all available data in its determinations and climate change reports to the public. A recent study by NOAA, published in the journal Science, made “adjustments” to historical temperature records and NOAA trumpeted the findings as refuting the nearly two-decade pause in global warming. The study’s authors claimed these adjustments were supposedly based on new data and new methodology. But the study failed to include satellite data.

“We have little doubt that our lawsuit helped to pry these scandalous climate change report documents from the Obama administration.  The Obama administration seems to care not one whit for a congressional subpoena but knows from prior experience that a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit cannot be ignored,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.  “Given the lawless refusal to comply with our FOIA request and a congressional subpoena, we have little doubt that the documents will show the Obama administration put politics before science to advance global warming alarmism.”

Judicial Watch previously investigated alleged data manipulation by global warming advocates in the Obama administration.  In 2010, Judicial Watch obtained internal documents from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) related to a controversy that erupted in 2007 when Canadian blogger Stephen McIntyre exposed an error in NASA’s handling of raw temperature data from 2000-2006 that exaggerated the reported rise in temperature readings in the United States. According to multiple press reports, when NASA corrected the error, the new data apparently caused a reshuffling of NASA’s rankings for the hottest years on record in the United States, with 1934 replacing 1998 at the top of the list.

In late 2014, Judicial Watch litigation forced out documents withheld in response to another congressional subpoena – one issued in the Fast and Furious scandal.  Thanks to the Judicial Watch lawsuit, Congress finally obtained the information it had sought for years on Obama’s gun-running scandal.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-for-documents-withheld-from-congress-in-new-climate-data-scandal/

NASA Admits Antarctica Gaining Land Ice (But good news is bad news to climate alarmists)



by James Corbett
TheInternationalForecaster.com
November 3, 2015

Do you spend sleepless nights worrying about the sea level rise caused by the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet? Well enjoy your slumbers, my friend, NASA has just given you reason to sleep easier.

A new study–entitled “Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses” and published in the Journal of Glaciology–overturns previous assessments (including that relayed in the latest IPCC report) that Antarctica is losing land ice and thus contributing to sea level rise. As NASA states in a press release, previous assessments had falsely assumed that increasing surface height of the ice sheets was due to snow accumulation, but the new study shows that the rise in elevation is in fact due to ice gain.

The upshot is that previous assessments, including the IPCC’s, got the Antarctic contribution to sea level rise–previously pegged at 0.27 millimeters per year–precisely wrong. “The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away.” Well, they were only off by 185%, I suppose, and got the change in the wrong direction. It could be worse…I mean better.

But don’t worry, things are still bad. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”

You see, the same researchers who can’t even accurately say whether the Antarctic ice sheets are gaining or losing mass (let alone how much mass) are able to determine global sea level rise to within hundredths of a millimeter. No accuracy issues there, of course. So you can continue worrying, I suppose. (Except for that pesky little Stanford study from September showing that previous models vastly overestimated future sea level rise.)

If this seems like deja vu all over again, then congratulations; you’re paying attention.

Remember when “NASA satellites detect[ed] unexpected ice loss in East Antarctica” in 2009? The results were “unexpected” because East Antarctica was previously considered stable, with the continent’s ice loss (well, net gain) supposedly taking place in West Antarctica. It took a science-hating-denier-skeptic-heathenbeast to point out that the numbers were derived from gravity measurements which were picking up on isostatic adjustment, i.e. changes taking place beneath the surface of the ice, not changes in the ice levels themselves. And lo and behold a few months later a team led by another NASA JPL researcher found that the gravity measurements had in fact been measuring…wait for it…isostatic adjustment.

But somehow “Unexpected ice loss in East Antarctica” generated more headlines than “Ooops, Sorry About That, We Were Measuring Something Else Entirely.” Go figure.

This is not an isolated phenomenon, of course.

Do you remember when NASA released this dramatic image of the temperature trends in Antarctica showing a clear positive warming trend of between 0.05C and 0.1C throughout most of the continent?



And yes, this is the same Club of Rome whose members include the Al Gores and Mikhail Gorbachevs and Tim Wirths and Paul Ehrlichs of the world with the means, motive and opportunity to indeed ‘make humanity the enemy.’

And now we’re on the verge of the latest United Nations climate conference, the COP21 summit scheduled to take place in Paris from November 30 – December 11. Just like in Copenhagen in 2009, this conference is threatening a slate of new global governmental institutions, regulations and mechanisms to combat the (non-existent) climate change threat. On the table in the draft text of the new climate treaty: a new UN Tribunal to adjudicate on non-compliance with climate commitments.

Given the fact that eugenecist Bilderberger Bill Gates is now piling on UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres’ admission earlier this year that the conference will intentionally “change the economic development model” of the world by admitting that only big government can save the world from global warming, coupled with China being drawn into the global warming fold as part of its five year plan bid to become more involved in international institutions and tripled with Obama threatening to do an end run around the Senate to get the treaty passed, I think it’s safe to say that big things are afoot in this global technocratic power grab.

https://www.corbettreport.com/nasa-admits-antarctica-gaining-land-ice-but-good-news-is-bad-news-to-climate-alarmists/
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« Reply #552 on: May 06, 2016, 12:27:55 pm »

and ktj the fear mongering about water is a joke




This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air

Designer Arturo Vittori says his invention can provide remote villages with more than 25 gallons of clean drinking water per day




Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-tower-pulls-drinking-water-out-of-thin-air-180950399/#hqwXi1Q2EDG36SjP.99


How to get fresh water out of thin air
Fog-harvesting system developed by MIT and Chilean researchers could provide potable water for the world’s driest regions.

http://news.mit.edu/2013/how-to-get-fresh-water-out-of-thin-air-0830


Creating Water from Thin Air


http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/manufacture-water1.htm









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« Reply #553 on: May 08, 2016, 02:24:45 pm »


from the International Business Times....

Climate Change: Five Reef Islands In The Pacific
Have Now Been Lost To Sea-Level Rise


By AVANEESH PANDEY | 6:18AM - Saturday, May 05, 2016

Kennedy Island (front) sits atop its own reef in the remote Western Province of the Solomon Islands on July 28th, 2003. — Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images.
Kennedy Island (front) sits atop its own reef in the remote Western Province of the Solomon Islands on July 28th, 2003.
 — Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images.


LEADERS from over 170 nations gathered in New York last month to sign a historic climate pact that aims to keep the rise in global temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — an internationally-accepted red line. However, for some low-lying island nations, it may already be too late.

According to a new study published on Friday in the Environmental Research Letters, sea-level rise and coastal erosion have already claimed five reef islands in the Pacific's Solomon Islands. The study, carried out by a team of Australian researchers, provides the first scientific evidence that confirms numerous anecdotal accounts of extreme shoreline changes put forward by scientists and local inhabitants across all provinces of the Solomon Islands.

“Shoreline recession at two sites has destroyed villages that have existed since at least 1935, leading to community relocations. Rates of shoreline recession are substantially higher in areas exposed to high wave energy, indicating a synergistic interaction between sea-level rise and waves,” the authors said in the study. “Understanding these local factors that increase the susceptibility of islands to coastal erosion is critical to guide adaptation responses for these remote Pacific communities.”

Over the past 100 years, global average sea level has risen nearly 7 inches, at a rate of about 3.4 millimetres per year. However, the seas surrounding the Solomon Islands have risen at an average rate of seven to ten millimetres per year — up to three times faster than the global average.

This has put Solomon Islands, which support a population of roughly 560,000 people, at a much greater risk of inundation due to climate change-induced sea level rise.

“Five of the twenty vegetated reef islands along the barrier reef on the exposed, northern coast of Isabel have been totally eroded away in recent decades,” the authors said in the study, referring to one of the provinces of the Solomon Islands. “A further six islands on Isabel had declined in area by more than 20 percent between 1947 and 2014.”

All the islands that disappeared ranged in size from one to five hectares but were not populated. However, the other six islands facing imminent inundation are.

“These rapid changes to shorelines observed in Solomon Islands have led to the relocation of several coastal communities that have inhabited these areas for generations. These are not planned relocations led by governments or supported by international climate funds, but are ad hoc relocations using their own limited resources,” the authors of the study wrote for The Conversation. “In fact, in some cases entire communities have left coastal villages that were established in the early 1900s by missionaries, and retraced their ancestral movements to resettle old inland village sites used by their forefathers.”

Solomon Islands are far from the only low-lying pacific region located at ground zero of global warming. Previous studies have shown that over the past decade, 15 percent of the population of Tuvalu — an island nation halfway between Australia and Hawaii — has left the country, while 12 percent moved internally. In Nauru, which has a similarly-sized population of just over 10,000, 10 percent have left the country in the past decade.


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« Reply #554 on: May 11, 2016, 02:12:38 pm »

you don't think the earth's crust moves up and down do you ?

the world's crust is floating on magma whole islands and continents can move,rise and fall and some believe the poles have moved and the earth's crust has rotated and destroyed land masses but some highly paid scientist dumb arses think that co2 the thing that all life is made of is evil.

global warming scientist need to justify their huge funding and their very existence,they have been caught over and over faking the data,and yet a lot of scientist are not in agreement with the ones who say climate change is man made.

i think many of the climate change fear porn stories have proven to be a load of rubbish because too many of them were based on lies that keep leaking out.

islands made of sand can wash away  "it's always been that way"

so if your island is sinking then you should move, adapt or die.

or build an ark lol
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from The Conversation....

Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence

By SIMON ALBERT, ALISTAIR GRINHAM, BADIN GIBBES, JAVIER LEAON and JOHN CHURCH | 7:16AM AEST - Saturday, May 07, 2016

The Solomon Islands are low-lying and vulnerable to changes in sea level. — Photograph: Javier Leon.
The Solomon Islands are low-lying and vulnerable to changes in sea level. — Photograph: Javier Leon.

SEA-LEVEL RISE, erosion and coastal flooding are some of the greatest challenges facing humanity from climate change.

Recently at least five reef islands in the remote Solomon Islands have been lost completely to sea-level rise and coastal erosion, and a further six islands have been severely eroded.

These islands lost to the sea range in size from one to five hectares. They supported dense tropical vegetation that was at least 300 years old. Nuatambu Island, home to 25 families, has lost more than half of its habitable area, with 11 houses washed into the sea since 2011.

This is the first scientific evidence, published in Environmental Research Letters, that confirms the numerous anecdotal accounts from across the Pacific of the dramatic impacts of climate change on coastlines and people.


All that remains of one of the completely eroded islands. — Photograph: Simon Albert.
All that remains of one of the completely eroded islands. — Photograph: Simon Albert.

A warning for the world

Previous studies examining the risk of coastal inundation in the Pacific region have found that islands can actually keep pace with sea-level rise and sometimes even expand.

However, these studies have been conducted in areas of the Pacific with rates of sea level rise of 3-5 mm per year — broadly in line with the global average of 3 mm per year.

For the past 20 years, the Solomon Islands have been a hotspot for sea-level rise. Here the sea has risen at almost three times the global average, around 7-10 mm per year since 1993. This higher local rate is partly the result of natural climate variability.

These higher rates are in line with what we can expect across much of the Pacific in the second half of this century as a result of human-induced sea-level rise. Many areas will experience long-term rates of sea-level rise similar to that already experienced in Solomon Islands in all but the very lowest-emission scenarios.

Natural variations and geological movements will be superimposed on these higher rates of global average sea level rise, resulting in periods when local rates of rise will be substantially larger than that recently observed in Solomon Islands. We can therefore see the current conditions in Solomon Islands as an insight into the future impacts of accelerated sea-level rise.

We studied the coastlines of 33 reef islands using aerial and satellite imagery from 1947-2015. This information was integrated with local traditional knowledge, radiocarbon dating of trees, sea-level records, and wave models.


Waves add to damage

Wave energy appears to play an important role in the dramatic coastal erosion observed in Solomon Islands. Islands exposed to higher wave energy in addition to sea-level rise experienced greatly accelerated loss compared with more sheltered islands.

Twelve islands we studied in a low wave energy area of Solomon Islands experienced little noticeable change in shorelines despite being exposed to similar sea-level rise. However, of the 21 islands exposed to higher wave energy, five completely disappeared and a further six islands eroded substantially.


Many homes are close to sea level on the Solomons. — Photograph: Simon Albert.
Many homes are close to sea level on the Solomons. — Photograph: Simon Albert.

The human story

These rapid changes to shorelines observed in Solomon Islands have led to the relocation of several coastal communities that have inhabited these areas for generations. These are not planned relocations led by governments or supported by international climate funds, but are ad hoc relocations using their own limited resources.

The customary land tenure (native title) system in Solomon Islands has provided a safety net for these displaced communities. In fact, in some cases entire communities have left coastal villages that were established in the early 1900s by missionaries, and retraced their ancestral movements to resettle old inland village sites used by their forefathers.

In other cases, relocations have been more ad hoc, with indivdual families resettling small inland hamlets over which they have customary ownership.

In these cases, communities of 100-200 people have fragmented into handfuls of tiny family hamlets. Sirilo Sutaroti, the 94-year-old chief of the Paurata tribe, recently abandoned his village. “The sea has started to come inland, it forced us to move up to the hilltop and rebuild our village there away from the sea,” he told us.

In addition to these village relocations, Taro, the capital of Choiseul Province, is set to become the first provincial capital in the world to relocate residents and services in response to the impact of sea-level rise.


The global effort

Interactions between sea-level rise, waves, and the large range of responses observed in Solomon Islands — from total island loss to relative stability — shows the importance of integrating local assessments with traditional knowledge when planning for sea-level rise and climate change.

Linking this rich knowledge and inherent resilience in the people with technical assessments and climate funding is critical to guiding adaptation efforts.

Melchior Mataki who chairs the Solomon Islands' National Disaster Council, said: “This ultimately calls for support from development partners and international financial mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund. This support should include nationally driven scientific studies to inform adaptation planning to address the impacts of climate change in Solomon Islands.”

Last month, the Solomon Islands government joined 11 other small Pacific Island nations in signing the Paris climate agreement in New York. There is a sense of optimism among these nations that this signifies a turning point in global efforts.

However, it remains to be seen how the hundreds of billions of dollars promised through global funding models such as the Green Climate Fund can support those most at need in remote communities, like those in Solomon Islands.


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Simon Albert is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland; and receives funding from the MacArthur Foundation and Australian Government.

Alistair Grinham is a Senior research fellow at The University of Queensland; and receives funding from The MacArthur Foundation and Australian Government.

Badin Gibbes is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland; and has worked in the water resources and environmental management fields since the 1990s, with funding from a variety of organisations including the Australian Research Council, the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia, Healthy Waterways and Seqwater.

Javier Leon is a Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast; and has received funding from the Australian Research Council.

John Church is a CSIRO Fellow at the CSIRO; and receives funding from the Australian Climate Change Science Program.

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1001 Reasons Why Global Warming Is So Totally Over In 2016


Let’s start the New Year as we mean to go on: by dancing joyfully and triumphantly on the grave of man-made global warming.

Climate change is over. It’s a busted flush. The alarmists now have all the credibility of bewildered Harold Camping followers shivering on a mountaintop the morning after the night before, looking all shifty and embarrassed as they realise the Rapture their models so confidently promised just ain’t going to happen…

If you still doubt this, here are three recent pieces which should put your mind at rest.

The first – modestly titled The Most Comprehensive Assault On Global Warming Ever – was written by a US physics professor called Mike van Biezen. It lists ten of the reasons (though there are many more) why man-made global warming theory no longer has any credibility. They are:

1.Temperature records from around the world do not support the assumption that today’s temperatures are unusual

2. Satellite temperature data does not support the assumption that temperatures are rising rapidly

3. Current temperatures are always compared to the temperatures of the 1980’s, but for many parts of the world the 1980’s was the coldest decade of the last 100+ years

4. The world experienced a significant cooling trend between 1940 and 1980

5.Urban heat island effect skews the temperature data of a significant number of weather stations

6. There is a natural inverse relationship between global temperatures and atmospheric CO2levels

7. The CO2 cannot, from a scientific perspective, be the cause of significant global temperature changes

8. There have been many periods during our recent history that a warmer climate was prevalent long before the industrial revolution

9.Glaciers have been melting for more than 150 years

10. “Data adjustment” is used to continue the perception of global warming

Then there are two pieces on what, for me, is the single most persuasive argument against man-made global warming theory: the (considerably more dramatic) fluctuations of climate long before mankind was in any position to influence it.

Here are the key points of an essay on the subject by Ed Hoskins:

Our current beneficial, warm Holocene interglacial has been the enabler of mankind’s civilisation for the last 10,000 years. The congenial climate of the Holocene epoch spans from mankind’s earliest farming to the scientific and technological advances of the last 100 years.

However all the Northern Hemisphere Ice Core records  from Greenland show:

the last millennium 1000AD – 2000AD has been the coldest millennium of the entire Holocene interglacial.
each of the notable high points in the Holocene temperature record, (Holocene Climate Optimum – Minoan – Roman – Medieval – Modern), have been progressively colder than the previous high point.
for its first 7-8000 years the early Holocene, including its high point “climate optimum”, had virtually  flat temperatures, an average drop of only ~0.007 °C per millennium.
but the more recent Holocene, since a “tipping point” at ~1000BC, has seen a temperature diminution at more than 20 times that earlier rate at about 0.14 °C per millennium.
the Holocene interglacial is already 10 – 11,000 years old and judging from the length of previous interglacials the Holocene epoch should be drawing to its close: in this century, the next century or this millennium.
the beneficial warming at the end of the 20th century to the Modern high point has been responsible the “Great Man-made Global Warming Scare”.
eventually this late 20th century temperature blip will come to be seen as just noise in the system in the longer term progress of comparatively rapid cooling over the last 3000+ years.
other published Greenland Ice Core records as well as GISP2, (NGRIP1, GRIP) corroborate this finding. They also exhibit the same pattern of a prolonged relatively stable early Holocene period followed by a subsequent much more rapid decline in the more recent past.
When considering the scale of temperature changes that alarmists anticipate because of Man-made Global Warming and their view of the disastrous effects of additional Man-made Carbon Dioxide emissions in this century, it is useful to look at climate change from a longer term, century by century and even on a millennial perspective.

The much vaunted and much feared “fatal” tipping point of +2°C would only bring Global temperatures close to the level of the very congenial climate of “the Roman warm period”.

If it were possible to reach the “horrendous” level of +4°C postulated by Warmists, that extreme level of warming would still only bring temperatures to about the level of the previous Eemian maximum, a warm and abundant epoch, when hippopotami thrived in the Rhine delta.

Finally, a study by another amateur enthusiast, JWR Whitfield, examining the relationship between CO2 and climate on an even longer term scale (400,000 years plus).

This represents a fairly recent development in our understanding of climate. Back in 1998, for example, when Michael Mann et al presented their hugely influential paper “Observed Climate Variability & Change”, the ice-core data available to scientists went back only 100,000 years (thus covering only one of the planet’s glaciation periods). Since then, thanks to two enlarged time scale Antarctica ice cores – Vostok and Epica – we can go back much further, covering at least four Glacial (cold) and Interglacial (warm) periods.

Two key things become clear from this data. The first is that, on a longer-term scale, Earth’s climate has fluctuated far more dramatically than the puny and inconsequential 0.8 degrees C rise in global mean temperature we’ve experienced since 1850. And the second is that rises and falls in CO2 lag rises and falls in temperature: that is, it’s temperature which pushes CO2 levels, not the other way round.

Whitfield goes on to examine the influence of the sun and of the oceans on climate which, he demonstrates, is much stronger than the small-to-non-existent influence of the trace gas CO2.

Not that any of this stuff is new, of course. But it’s useful information to keep handy every time you come upon another of those of smug, sanctimonious types who has been taught by the New York Times, the Guardian, the BBC, HuffPo or whoever that “deniers” are motivated solely by money or ideology and have no scientific arguments to support their case.

Actually, this is a classic case of what psychologists call “projection”. The climate alarmists were abandoned by scientific reality long ago – and the only reason they keep on trying to prop up their bankrupt cause is either because it pays the mortgage or because it suits their left-liberal Weltanschauung – or both.

The good news for those on the sceptical side of the argument is that we won it long ago – as will become increasingly clear over the months and years.

The bad news is that there won’t be what our friend Greg Garrison likes to call on his WIBC talk radio show a “blue dress moment” where some killer scientific fact emerges that decides the issue once and for all.

That’s because the whole global warming scare isn’t really about “the science” and never was about “the science.” Always, but always, it has been about the cynical exploitation of mass crowd hysteria and about the sly manipulation by activists and crony capitalists of the political system in order to advance the cause of global governance.

None of the people involved in this scam deserve the merest scintilla of respect. They are pure scum. They have not a single redeeming quality and everything they do is worthless – as I shall not hesitate to remind them from now on.

It strikes me that in the past that I have been far too kind and generous to this bunch of parasites and tinpot tyrants. My New Year’s resolution is to take the gloves off and take the fight to the enemy.

Join me, why don’t you? It could be fun.

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Autumn temperatures the warmest since 1938, says NIWA

By RACHEL THOMAS | 4:41PM - Wednesday, 08 June 2016

A woman in a dressing gown makes the most of the recent autumn weather at Worser Bay, Wellington, with her dog. — Photograph: David White/Fairfax NZ.
A woman in a dressing gown makes the most of the recent autumn weather at
Worser Bay, Wellington, with her dog. — Photograph: David White/Fairfax NZ.


AN “exceptionally warm” autumn has brought the warmest temperatures to the country since 1938.

The national average temperature in autumn was 14.7 degrees Celcius, which is 1.4°C above the autumn average, according to NIWA's climate summary for March, April and May 2016.

Virtually every climate station in New Zealand recorded higher than average temperatures for this time of year, NIWA forecaster Chris Brandolino said.

In Wellington, the average was even higher: 15.3°C, which was 1.6°C above what the city is used to, as well as its highest average on record.

The toasty weather meant power consumption in the capital was down, a Wellington Electricity spokesman said.


Some Wellingtonians found autumn warm enough for swimming. — Photograph: David White/Fairfax NZ.
Some Wellingtonians found autumn warm enough for swimming.
 — Photograph: David White/Fairfax NZ.


“In April and May 2016 we saw electricity consumption decline by about 4 percent compared to the same period in 2015,” the spokesman said.

The network covers the Hutt Valley, Wellington and Porirua.

That trend could well continue, with Niwa predicting a warmer than average winter ahead.

“Expect in the next couple of weeks, this Thursday and Friday especially, there are some opportunities for daily record highs in parts of the North Island,” NIWA meteorologist Ben Noll said.

Auckland, Napier and Gisborne were in line for some especially warm days, he said.


Wellington inner city dwellers make the most of the recent autumn weather. — Photograph: David White/Fairfax NZ.
Wellington inner city dwellers make the most of the recent autumn weather.
 — Photograph: David White/Fairfax NZ.


The balmy weather was a result of high sea surface temperatures to the west, coupled with frequent northwesterlies, Noll said.

“The main driving force is how warm the sea surface temperatures around New Zealand are, they are some of the warmest we have seen in the last 100 to 130 years.”

“That's the baseline for above average temperatures.”

Levin had its highest mean temperature in more than 120 years — measuring 15.7°C, which was 1.9°C higher than its average.

The highest temperature was recorded on March 8th in Hastings, Napier and Gisborne, which all reached 33.1°C.


A sun seeker at Worser Bay during the recent run of great weather. — Photograph: David White/Fairfax NZ.
A sun seeker at Worser Bay during the recent run of great weather.
 — Photograph: David White/Fairfax NZ.


Rainfall levels were near normal or below normal for the main centres, despite extreme storms which hit the lower North Island in May.

“May was sort of two different months,” Noll said.

“The first half was really tranquil and very warm and the second half was a much stormier pattern with cooler temperatures.”

Porirua received a hammering on May 5th, when flooding meant residents were forced to evacuate homes and several schools, and roads were closed.

That same day, Palmerston North suffered surface flooding after a torrential downpour.

Overnight on May 24th, the country was hit by a massive electrical storm, which saw 2,316 recorded lightning strikes around New Zealand in 12 hours.


BY THE NUMBERS:

14.7°C: the national average temperature for March to May.

1.4°C: the rise from the normal national average temperature for March to May.

4 percent: the drop in demand for electricity in Wellington in autumn.

47.8mm: the amount of rain Palmerston North received in three hours on May 5th.

2316: the number of lightning strikes in NZ in 12 hours overnight on May 24th.


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Read more on this topic:

 • Take me to the April sun in Cuba Street: High pressure to thank for blissful Wellington weather

 • ‘Epic’ thunder and lightning light up Wellington

 • Flooding hits Wellington region hard, after long period of settled weather


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30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming.
What they said sounds eerily familiar.


By CHRIS MOONEY | 10:40AM EDT - Saturday, June 11, 2016

John H. Chafee, the late Republican senator from Rhode Island. He died in 1999. — Photograph: Ray Lustig/The Washington Post.
John H. Chafee, the late Republican senator from Rhode Island. He died in 1999.
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IT WAS such a different time — and yet, the message was so similar.

Thirty years ago, on June 10th and 11th of 1986, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works commenced two days of hearings, convened by Senator John H. Chafee (Republican-Rhode Island), on the subject of “Ozone Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change.”

“This is not a matter of Chicken Little telling us the sky is falling,” Chafee said at the hearing. “The scientific evidence … is telling us we have a problem, a serious problem.”

The hearings garnered considerable media coverage, including on the front page of The Washington Post (see below).

“There is no longer any significant difference of opinion within the scientific community about the fact that the greenhouse effect is real and already occurring,” said newly elected Senator Al Gore, who, as a congressman, had already held several House hearings on the matter. Gore cited the Villach Conference, a scientific meeting held in Austria the previous year (1985), which concluded that “as a result of the increasing greenhouse gases it is now believed that in the first half of the next century (21st century) a rise of global mean temperature could occur which is greater than in any man's history.”

“They were the breakthrough hearings,” remembers Rafe Pomerance, then a staffer with the World Resources Institute, who helped suggest witnesses. “You never saw front-page coverage of this stuff.”

The scientists assembled included some of the voices that would be unmistakable and constant in coming decades. They included NASA's James Hansen, who would go on to become the most visible scientist in the world on the topic, and Robert Watson, who would go on to chair the soon-to-be formed United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

And what they said was clear: Human greenhouse gas emissions would cause a major warming trend, and sea level rise to boot.

Here's how the hearings were covered on the front page of The Post:


A story on the front page of The Washington Post on June 11th, 1986.
A story on the front page of The Washington Post on June 11th, 1986.

The New York Times also covered the hearings, writing that “The rise in carbon dioxide and other gases in the earth's atmosphere will have an earlier and more pronounced impact on global temperature and climate than previously expected, according to evidence presented to a Senate subcommittee today.”

Two years later, still more famously, Hansen would testify in another series of hearings that had an even greater public impact when it came to consciousness-raising — in part because at that point, he said that the warming of the globe caused by humans was already detectable. “It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here,” he said then. In 1986, by contrast, scientists were still mostly predicting the future, rather than saying they had measured and documented a clear warming trend — one that could be clearly distinguished from natural climate variability — and that it was already having demonstrable consequences.

“The 1986 testimony is interesting because it was so similar to my 1988 testimony,” Hansen recalls. “I already had, and showed, some of the climate modeling results that formed the basis for my 1988 testimony.”

Granted, in some cases the future temperature projections made in the 1986 hearings — based on assumptions about the rate of increase in greenhouse gas emissions and a high sensitivity of the climate to them — suggested temperatures might rise even more, or even faster, than scientists now believe they will. By email, Hansen clarified that we now know the world is closer to one scenario he presented in 1986 — called Scenario B — than to Scenario A, which assumed a much more rapid rate of greenhouse gas growth, and accordingly, much faster warming.

Still, the theoretical understanding was in place for why temperatures would rise as greenhouse gases filled the atmosphere — simply because scientists knew enough physics to know that that's what greenhouse gases do.

“We knew in the '70s what the problem was,” said George Woodwell, founding director of the Woods Hole Research Center, who also testified in 1986. “We knew there was a problem with sea level rise, all disruptions of climate. And the disruptions of climate are fundamental in that they undermine all the life on the Earth.”

Much of the formal understanding had been affirmed by a 1979 report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, led by the celebrated atmospheric physicist Jule Charney of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That group famously assessed that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were to double, the “most probable global warming” would amount to 3 degrees Celsius, with a range between 1.5 degrees and 4.5 degrees, a number quite similar to modern estimates.

“We have tried but have been unable to find any overlooked or underestimated physical effects that could reduce the currently estimated global warmings due to a doubling of atmospheric CO² to negligible proportions or reverse them altogether,” the scientists behind the report wrote.

Indeed, the fundamental understanding of the greenhouse effect, and that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas because of its particular properties, dates back to the 19th century, when the Irish scientist John Tyndall conducted experiments to determine the radiative properties of gases.

No wonder, then, that there was so much that scientists could say about it in 1986. And indeed, if you look at global temperature trends, it turns out they were speaking at a time when the planet's temperatures were beginning a steady upswing, one that, despite various yearly deviations, would continue inexorably to the present:


Graph: NASA.

“This hearing helped bring the concern together, and essentially painted a picture that things are kind of spinning out of control, that science is trying to tell us something, that the world seems to be changing even faster than our scientific understanding of the problem, and worst of all, our political leaders are way behind the eight ball,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton climate scientist who testified that day, and argued that action was warranted on climate change even though not everything was known about its consequences.

“I have to say, reading my own testimony … you know, I'd stick by everything in that today, even though it's 30 years later,” Oppenheimer said.

There was an additional context, though, that we're now less conversant with: The hearings were also about the issue of the depletion of the Earth's protective ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. Scientists had recently discovered an “ozone hole” over Antarctica that frightened the public, and seemed a definitive indicator of just how much human activities could change the atmosphere.

Even today, some still confuse the issue of climate change with that of the depletion of the ozone layer. They are not the same, but they are closely related in that both showed how seemingly small actions by individual humans, or by human industry, could add up to planetary consequences.

However, the ozone problem would prove far easier to fix. In 1987, just a year later, the nations of the world adopted the Montreal Protocol, which is today regarded as a major success in environmental protection. Under the treaty, a flexible and adaptable approach was taken to reductions — and regular scientific assessments allowed for course adaptation based on the latest information about how well progress was proceeding. Thus, by 2007, the U.N. Environment Program could declare of the treaty that “to date, the results of this effort have been nothing less than spectacular.”

The contrast with climate change is stark. Despite having been alerted by scientists not only in 1986, but also in 1979 and, frankly, even earlier, what happened was not policy action, but rather the beginnings of a long political battle.

Even as the formation of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988, and the global adoption of the Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, signaled steps toward action in the scientific and diplomatic communities, skeptical scientists emerged to challenges the views expressed by Hansen and others, supported by conservative think tanks and sometimes linked to fossil fuel interests. Meanwhile, U.S. politics shifted, as over the 1990s and especially the 2000s the climate change issue became polarized and it became rarer to see Republicans, such as Chafee, who were also strong environmentalists and advocates for climate action.

“Thirty years ago we had a Republican senator who was leading the charge on addressing what he said then was a real and serious threat of climate change from the emission of gases from fossil fuel burning,” says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat-Rhode Island), recalling the 1986 hearings. “You can read through all the things that Senator Chafee said back then, and it has all been proven true. It's very disappointing that thirty years later, there is no such voice anywhere in the Republican Senate, and if you look for a micron of daylight between what the fossil fuel industry wants, and what the Republican Party in the Senate does, you won't find it.”

It was only in late 2015, in Paris, that the United States helped to negotiate a global agreement to address climate change, one in which each country sets its own pace on reducing emissions. But scientists widely agree that this accord isn't strong enough, on its own terms, to ensure that warming remains below a 2-degree Celsius danger zone.

Thirty years after the 1986 hearings, meanwhile, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that if elected, he would attempt “renegotiating” that agreement.

“Those agreements are one-sided agreements, and they are bad for the United States,” Trump said.


• Chris Mooney reports on science and the environment at The Washington Post.

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Related stories:

 • These elephant seals just taught scientists why Antarctica is melting so fast

 • Alaska's huge climate mystery — and its global consequences

 • What Charles Koch really thinks about climate change


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this proves man made global warming is bullshit

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« Reply #560 on: June 13, 2016, 04:50:09 pm »


No it doesn't.

It merely shows that the anti-warmalists/flat-earthers are desperately churning out lots of bullshit propaganda because they KNOW they cannot produce REAL scientific evidence to refute what the GENUINE peer-reviewed scientific world has been saying about global-warming/climate change.
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"Peer reviewed" is the elephant in the room
Independent review, may be a bit more credible.

The warmalists are still struggling with the fact that the world isn't warming according to plan!  Shame on it!
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« Reply #562 on: June 13, 2016, 08:09:41 pm »

the climate scam is all about new ways for the wealthy to control developing nations and milk the world's people out of their hard earned money.
a nice new form of taxing and controlling which will only benefit 1% of the world's richest parasites

follow the money,the man made climate fear mongering scare tactics spewed out by the corporate owned agenda is created by the lying mainstream media and it is purely political and for the rich to rip off the world's poorest people and it's a nice new religion for the self hating brainwashed simpleton minions who are desperate for something to believe in and need a cause to give them a reason to live.

man made warming is a crock of bullshit,humans are like fleas on a dog's back the earth can shake them all off any time it pleases

nothing is new about the climate just one thing the fools started keeping records that dont mean shit because they dont go far enough back.
maybe man will go extinct like the way of the dinosaurs and frankly i dont care if they do because most of them are too stupid selfish and unworthy to live on this beautiful gem we call earth.   
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Greenland ice sheet ‘summit’ plunged to
record low July temperature. So what?


By JASON SAMENOW | 11:59AM - Monday, August 08, 2016



GREENLAND and its ice sheet have warmed briskly in recent years, and this summer — like most in recent years — has been warmer than normal.

But in July's final moments, at the apex of Greenland's ice sheet, the mercury plunged to 23 degrees below zero (-30.7 Celsius).

The frigid measurement at Summit Station set a record low for the month according to the Danish Meteorological Institute. It was 5 degrees (3 Celsius) colder than the previous record set in 1992.

Summit Station, Greenland. — Photograph: NOAA.
Summit Station, Greenland. — Photograph: NOAA.

Several blogs run by climate change doubters have touted the record as if to suggest it is evidence that flies in the face of global warming.

But it's nothing of the sort. It's simply a curiosity that serves as an interesting contrast to recent record warmth.

Consider temperature measurements have been kept at Summit Station only since about 1990, which is “not worth much,” according to Jason Box, an Arctic climate researcher with the Geological Survey of Denmark. Box said the extreme was “interesting” in isolation but noted that the melting on the surface of Greenland's ice sheet was above normal during July.

“I wouldn't start screaming Greenland is cooling down,” added Marco Tedesco, a Greenland expert based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

Konrad Steffen, principal investigator of Greenland's Climate Network, agreed that the cold spell was “nothing significant.” He said that despite the record, the cold was fairly ordinary and similar conditions had occurred in other years.

Much more often than not, Greenland has been unusually warm.

Earlier this year, Greenland logged its highest June and April temperatures ever recorded. These records were established in Southwest Greenland.

Summit Station, at an altitude of almost 10,500 feet (3,200 meters) near Greenland's center, is among its coldest locations. At the end of July, a very strong area of Arctic high pressure was parked nearby.


Surface pressure difference from normal July 31st across Northern Hemisphere. Notice the huge positive anomaly over the Greenland ice sheet. — Graphic: NOAA.
Surface pressure difference from normal July 31st across Northern Hemisphere.
Notice the huge positive anomaly over the Greenland ice sheet. — Graphic: NOAA.


“The anomalous high pressure would likely drive large longwave radiative losses … inducing (record) cold temperatures,” explained Daniel McGrath, a research scientist at Colorado State University, who has studied Greenland temperature trends.

But despite this bitter cold, Summit Station has warmed at a feverish pace in recent decades. McGrath led a study published in 2013 that concluded that Summit Station warmed at a rate “six times the global average” and “in the 99th percentile of all globally observed warming trends” between 1982 and 2011.

This summer has also been much warmer than average. Tedesco said that since April 1st, temperatures at high-elevation weather stations in Greenland, including Summit Station, have been about 1 degree Celsius warmer than normal. “At lower elevations, we are talking about 3 Celsius above the mean for the same period,” he said.


Temperature difference from normal (in Celsius) over Greenland and surrounding areas in July. — Graphic: Jason Box.
Temperature difference from normal (in Celsius) over Greenland and surrounding
areas in July. — Graphic: Jason Box.


Weather data from the Danish Meteorological Institute show warm weather extremes vastly outnumbering cold weather extremes in recent years.

Of all of Greenland's monthly record warm temperatures, 8 of 12 have occurred since 2000, and 10 of 12 since 1990. By contrast, all of Greenland's monthly record cold temperatures (excluding those at Summit Station) occurred before 2000. Records date back to 1958.


• Jason Samenow is The Washington Post's weather editor and Capital Weather Gang's chief meteorologist. He earned a master's degree in atmospheric science, and spent 10 years as a climate change science analyst for the U.S. government. He holds the Digital Seal of Approval from the National Weather Association.

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Related stories:

 • Greenland witnessed its highest June temperature ever recorded on Thursday

 • The drought no one is talking about in the southeastern United States


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« Reply #564 on: August 11, 2016, 08:53:03 pm »

Climate scammers they blow smoke out their arse.
it gets a record level colder and they say nothing is happening here lmao

The force can have a strong influence on the weak minded lol



what these fools are really saying is global warming is a load of rubbish

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Yeah, well YOU believe all of the bullshit that spouts out of Trump's arse mouth (), so I guess you'd be silly enough to believe anything, eh?
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Hillary for jail trump for prez Wink
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from the Los Angeles Times....

Even on a summer escape, hints of climate calamity intrude

By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM PDT - Thursday, August 18, 2016

Four years later, a cartoon from 2012 is a reminder of the increasing peril of climate change. — Cartoon: David Horsey/Los Angeles Times.
Four years later, a cartoon from 2012 is a reminder of the increasing peril of climate change. — Cartoon: David Horsey/Los Angeles Times.

LAKE CHELAN, WASHINGTON — There are pluses and minuses to combining work with a vacation. Here's the plus: at this moment as I write, I can look up from my laptop and see speedboats and jet skis carving wakes across the surface of a slate blue lake. Beyond, the hillsides are covered with fir trees and vineyards. The sky is blue, the sun is bright and a slight breeze softly shifts the August heat.

Everything has been picture-perfect here this week. I've only occasionally allowed the daily news to intrude on my holiday escape. That is very different from this time a year ago, when scenes from Lake Chelan became part of the national news. Huge wildfires raged through the forest, burned cabins by the lake, threatened the town and filled the air with a choking smoke that sent vacationers running. Now, this afternoon, I can see the scorched trees and destroyed lakeside homes directly across the lake. But, like a phoenix, new structures are already rising from the ashes. The trees will come back eventually. A new crop of grass already covers the charred ground. Fire is not a new phenomenon in this corner of the West, it is part of a natural cycle.

Still, things are not quite as they once were. There have been observable changes in the 25-plus summers I have come here with my family that go beyond the hundreds of new vacation homes along the shore and the transition from apple orchards to grapes and winemaking. The glacial lake, measuring 1,500 feet at its deepest point, does not feel as frigid as it once did. In past years, a plunge in the water could be bracing, if not shockingly cold; now it feels pleasantly brisk.

Another change: a man I met at a local winery yesterday told me the cold months used to bring snowpack six feet deep. Recent winters, he said, have been nearly snowless. This part of central Washington has shared in the drought that has hit California and much of the western U.S. — a dearth of precipitation that has produced serious water shortages and more extreme and frequent wildfires.

Something big is happening. A drive south down Interstate 5 brings a series of shocks. Two years ago, I approached Mount Shasta in late summer and found it completely bare of snow. The sight was disturbing, like seeing a beloved grandfather pale and naked. Miles further, the the stretch of highway cutting through the dust, haze and barrenness of California's Central Valley feels like a scene from “Mad Max”.

When my son was small enough that I could lift him on my shoulders, we hiked to the marvelous ice caves at Mount Rainier which were the frozen blue reaches of the mountain's glaciers. He is grown now and doesn't need me to carry him, but we could not make the same trek. The ice caves have melted. In the same way, the glaciers in Glacier National Park are melting, and the ice packs at the top and bottom of the world as well. Deserts are expanding, oceans are warming and becoming more acidic and weather phenomena across the planet are increasingly more extreme and dangerous. Something big, indeed.

Some people — including politicians and public relations specialists in thrall to major purveyors of fossil fuels — say the changes that can be observed from Chelan to Miami and Los Angeles to Nantucket are nothing more than normal shifts in the weather. Most of the world's scientists, of course, disagree. They say much of what is happening is the result of rapid changes in Earth's climate caused by human activity. In a rational world, proposals to deal with climate change would be at the top of the agenda in any contest for the presidency. Unlike the many false fears being raised in the current campaign, this is one concern that is verifiable and frighteningly real. Despite that, one of America's major political parties denies the science, dismissing climate change a hoax, skewing the political conversation toward the absurd.

And so, with real action either blocked or coming too slowly, most of us simply get on with our lives, demanding too little from our politicians and shutting out thoughts about a threat so big that it is hard to wrap our minds around it. Still, we cannot avoid small, disturbing reminders — like lake water that is too comfortably warm — even on the sweetest days of summer.


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The WRI say there plans for over 1000 extra coal fired power stations to be built worldwide Shocked

....anything we do in NZ will make no difference, .....it's an evolutionary process...get over it
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« Reply #569 on: August 21, 2016, 06:30:35 pm »

looking forward to some warm weather  Grin
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« Reply #570 on: August 29, 2016, 07:33:38 pm »


looking forward to some warm weather  Grin


Here y'are,  Pantsy, it's brewing for ya

The ocean between New Zealand and Australia is one of the fastest-warming ocean regions on the planet, heating up at four times the global average.
Now scientists are working to understand what this accelerated warming in what's called the East Australia Current means for the coastal environments of both countries and their resident marine species.

Oceanographer Moninya Roughan, a visiting Seelye Fellow at the University of Auckland, is researching the effect of one of the strongest influences on ocean conditions in the region, and will be giving a public talk on her work this week.

"New Zealand and Australia sit at the tail pipe of the East Australia Current where global ocean circulation affects the coastlines of both countries so we need a much better understanding of its effects," she said.

Roughan, from UNSW Australia, leads a comprehensive ocean observation system comprising a network of moorings, HF Radar and an underwater autonomous "glider" that transmits data in almost real time by satellite.

The data should help scientists better understand what drives change in this part of the ocean.

Measurements over the past 70 years show that over the past century, surface temperatures off the coast of Tasmania have risen as much as 2.28degC.

One of the key species that may be affected by environmental changes are tiny lobster larvae that spend a year adrift at sea before returning to the coast to develop into juveniles.

With many not making it back from the journey, the lucrative spiny lobster fishery is facing decline and scientists suspect it is due to changing ocean conditions.

The lobster project, a collaboration between UNSW, Associate Professor Andrew Jeffs from the University of Auckland's Institute of Marine Science and NSW Fisheries, involves observing lobster larvae swimming in a special tank with a continuous flow of seawater to mimic natural conditions.

So far the research has established that while ocean warming may favour baby lobster and help them develop, the strengthening currents transport them further south than normal.


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Your crayfishers will find they must set their pots way down here at my back door soon.



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Yep, that sure describes anti-warmalists to a TEE, eh? 
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« Reply #573 on: September 01, 2016, 01:33:29 am »

screw this cold weather i'm freezing
bring on the summer heat my feet are cold Grin
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Notice how most months over the past few years have beaten the record for the warmest for that particular month ever recorded since records have been kept?

Stop smoking that wacky-backy and allow reality to infuse your brain.

The planet is getting warmer, as documented all over the world.
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