Climate Change

Tang Q, Zhang X, Francis JA. Extreme summer weather in northern mid-latitudes linked to a vanishing cryosphere. Nature Clim Change;advance online publication. http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2065.html

The past decade has seen an exceptional number of unprecedented summer extreme weather events in northern mid-latitudes, along with record declines in both summer Arctic sea ice and snow cover on high-latitude land. The underlying mechanisms that link the shrinking cryosphere with summer extreme weather, however, remain unclear.

Here, we combine satellite observations of early summer snow cover and summer sea-ice extent with atmospheric reanalysis data to demonstrate associations between summer weather patterns in mid-latitudes and losses of snow and sea ice.

Results suggest that the atmospheric circulation responds differently to changes in the ice and snow extents, with a stronger response to sea-ice loss, even though its reduction is half as large as that for the snow cover. Atmospheric changes associated with the combined snow/ice reductions reveal widespread upper-level height increases, weaker upper-level zonal winds at high latitudes, a more amplified upper-level pattern, and a general northward shift in the jet stream. More frequent extreme summer heat events over mid-latitude continents are linked with reduced sea ice and snow through these circulation changes.


Francis JA, Vavrus SJ. Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes. Geophysical Research Letters 2012;39(6):L06801. http://marine.rutgers.edu/~francis/pres/Francis_Vavrus_2012GL051000_pub.pdf

Arctic amplification (AA) – the observed enhanced warming in high northern latitudes relative to the northern hemisphere – is evident in lower-tropospheric temperatures and in 1000-to-500 hPa thicknesses. Daily fields of 500 hPa heights from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Reanalysis are analyzed over N. America and the N. Atlantic to assess changes in north-south (Rossby) wave characteristics associated with AA and the relaxation of poleward thickness gradients. Two effects are identified that each contribute to a slower eastward progression of Rossby waves in the upper-level flow: 1) weakened zonal winds, and 2) increased wave amplitude. These effects are particularly evident in autumn and winter consistent with sea-ice loss, but are also apparent in summer, possibly related to earlier snow melt on high-latitude land. Slower progression of upper-level waves would cause associated weather patterns in mid-latitudes to be more persistent, which may lead to an increased probability of extreme weather events that result from prolonged conditions, such as drought, flooding, cold spells, and heat waves.
 
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US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016
Is conventional modelling out of pace with speed and abruptness of global warming?
US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016 | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com


Maslowski W, Clement Kinney J, Higgins M, Roberts A. The Future of Arctic Sea Ice. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 2012;40(1):625-54. An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie

Arctic sea ice is a key indicator of the state of global climate because of both its sensitivity to warming and its role in amplifying climate change. Accelerated melting of the perennial sea ice cover has occurred since the late 1990s, which is important to the pan-Arctic region, through effects on atmospheric and oceanic circulations, the Greenland ice sheet, snow cover, permafrost, and vegetation. Such changes could have significant ramifications for global sea level, the ocean thermohaline circulation, native coastal communities, and commercial activities, as well as effects on the global surface energy and moisture budgets, atmospheric and oceanic circulations, and geosphere-biosphere feedbacks. However, a system-level understanding of critical Arctic processes and feedbacks is still lacking. To better understand the past and present states and estimate future trajectories of Arctic sea ice and climate, we argue that it is critical to advance hierarchical regional climate modeling and coordinate it with the design of an integrated Arctic observing system to constrain models.
 
US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016
Is conventional modelling out of pace with speed and abruptness of global warming?
US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016 | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

Antarctic sea ice hit 35-year record high Saturday

But by 2016 it's all going to be gone. Riiiiiight. [:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)]

Antarctic vs Arctic

Get your head out of your ass!!!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-JPKwDihE]Fucking Idiot - YouTube[/ame]
 
This changes NOTHING wrt to climate change, but get your rocks off!!!

NASA Spots Coldest Place on Earth in Antarctica at a Record -94.7C
NASA Spots Coldest Place on Earth in Antarctica at a Record -94.7C | The Extinction Protocol

Scientists discovered this coldest spot on Earth while studying the large snow dunes formed by winds blowing across the East Antarctic Plateau. On a closer look they spotted cracks present in the snow surface between the dunes that most likely form when the temperatures during the winter fall so low that the snow layer present on the top shrinks. This ignited a curiosity in the scientists to estimate the range of temperatures and pushed them to look for coldest places on Earth using two kinds of satellite sensors.

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The Heartland Institute and the American Meteorological Society
Heartland Institute: Sowing global warming doubt.

Well, the Heartland Institute is at it again. This fossil-fuel (and tobacco company) funded group has made quite the name for itself in the climate change denial game, from trumpeting the false controversy over Climategate to comparing climate scientists to mass murders to misrepresenting the actions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (which was so egregious the CAS issued a statement against Heartland that used the word “false” four times).
 
Antarctic vs Arctic

Get your head out of your ass!!!

Fucking Idiot - YouTube

Easily done as the shit you write is just that...shit. AWG is BS and you know it:

Arctic Ice Rapidly Growing | Real Science

In the story John Kerry's old warning about an ice free arctic by 2013 is recalled. I guess when that did not happen just bump up the date by three years. In 2016 when ice is plentiful and the idiots are still as abundant as the ice, the next prediction will by 2019.

Not hard to figure out this game. [:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)]
 
Oh come on now 2012 you know the game!

Fund my research because without it no one will be able to predict or prevent the apocalypse!

And that's not Jim being FOS that is the damn truth!

Hey really how is such garbage generated, COMPUTER MODEL PREDICTIONS.

When the "event" doesn't coincide with real time events "as predicted", oh well fund the development of another "model". Folks who don't see this have their eyes closed IMO

This is one of many ways our government wastes taxpayers money!

UUERLY SICKENING
 
Arctic Report Card 2013
Arctic Report Card

There were fewer snow and ice extremes than in 2012. Many regions and components of the Arctic environment were closer to their long-term averages, but the effects of a persistent warming trend that began over 30 years ago remain clearly evident.

The impacts of the warming climate on the physical environment during those 30 years are influencing Arctic ecosystems on the land and in the sea.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPAc5D3Tow0]Arctic Report Card 2013 - YouTube[/ame]
 
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And yet this is not true - the ice is growing. And its plain to see with satellites, which is good because then the alarmist nitwits can't lie about it to get their global agenda of controlling every single frigging aspect of your life enacted. Still, they will lie, and some will eat the shit cake and say "Thank you!, May I have another!?".
 
And yet this is not true - the ice is growing. And its plain to see with satellites, which is good because then the alarmist nitwits can't lie about it to get their global agenda of controlling every single frigging aspect of your life enacted. Still, they will lie, and some will eat the shit cake and say "Thank you!, May I have another!?".

They cant seem to help themselves. Wires are crossed or something.
In the absolute face of reality they dream on. When they have no rights left
and are no longer responsible for the misery in their miserable lives. They will be happy. Just as long as the rest of us are as miserable as them.
 
Study: Earth was warmer in Roman, Medieval Times | The Daily Caller

Damn Romans and their fossil fuels and evil coal plants. Oh wait, that's right, they didn't have cars back then, or coal plants, or other man made emissions, and yet they were warmer? Hmmm....I wonder why? I guess the answer it...we don't fucking know, just like we don't fucking know now. And yet, in an awesome display of stupidity, we are going to let the EPA mandate regulations on something we know nothing about. The models are wrong, the hockey stick is a joke, and yet people still let the feds drive policy that is going to hit them in the pocketbook and the Earth will keep doing what the Earth will do no matter if we are here or not.

You see, there is this big thing in the sky called the Sun. And it has solar flares and other activity that seems to match up pretty well with whats going on down here. And the Sun - which is really, really big and really, really hot (for those of you AWG nitwits who are science challenged) and has a far greater impact of Earth's climate than us. Heck - Krakatoa threw up more greenhouse gasses than we have since the inception of the industrial age. And it did it over a period of a few days. An like magic, we are still here.

So what does all this tell us? That climate science is bunk - it is not science - it is a political movement. And like all ideology, its adherents are not educated in basic statistics, numerical methods, or even have a rudimentary understanding of the limitations of models. For example, did the reader know that every climate model out there treats the earth like a closed system. This simplification makes the numerical solutions easier but we are never told of this simplification because of the obvious: we are not a closed system, our atmosphere interfaces with a vacuum where huge amounts of energy enters it from the Sun. Wow, what an amazing concept.

Dumb climate scientists. I know more about your profession than you ever will. And those whose noses would be up the arses of the climate rock stars if it were not for the face their own heads were planted firmly up their ass - get a life and quit hyping BS that is going to cost you a ton of money one day and, like Obambicare - you are going to regret ever believing in. Time to grow up.
 
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Faux Pause: climate contrarians lose favorite talking point – Greg Laden's Blog

In an ongoing effort to discredit mainstream climate science, climate contrarians have incorrectly asserted that there is a “pause” in the rate of global warming. This was never true, but now, it is even less true.

To any objective observer, the Earth is now a world warmed. The decade 2001–2010 was the hottest decade on record, and every single month since March 1985 has been warmer than the 20th century average. The present year promises to be the sixth warmest year on record. Already this year, our fellow Americans out West have been confronted by record breaking wildfire, extreme drought, and devastating floods. All this in addition to the ongoing pine beetle epidemic ravaging our forests. All of these “natural” disasters are exactly what climate scientists expect from a world warmed by human emissions.

Despite all these facts, the contrarians have been heavily (and somewhat successfully) asserting that the world isn’t warming, that global warming has paused.

While this has always been a blatantly misleading argument that deliberately confuses short-term variation with long-term trends, a new study makes it perfectly clear that the world has warmed.

Contrarians focused on the rate of warming since 1998, which was an exceptionally hot year due to climate change and El Nino. This makes later years appear to be relatively cool, and is a form of lying with statistics. They draw a line on a graph showing the rate of warming from that unnatural peak in 1998 to now, and make it look like warming has continued at a steady pace, and not accelerated as expected (an argument that would fail any Statistics 101 class, as it ignores “regression to the mean”).

With this cherry-picked and statistically laughable graph in hand they cry “Global warming has paused! The climate models have failed!” as though the rate of acceleration of temperatures is somehow going to make or break the fact that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas. This would be quite the achievement, considering CO2’s greenhouse characteristics have been known since the 1820’s!

Our current system for measuring temperatures has a relatively large area around the poles that is not well covered. This new research uses advanced techniques to fill in the gaps in our measurements. When these holes are filled, what looked like a slight stagnation in the rate at which temperatures were increasing rose to agree with model projections.

What Cowtan and Way found, to the dismay of contrarians, was that when the poles are included the rate of global temperatures has been on pretty much the same upward trajectory since at least the 1950s. Climate change has continued to get worse and worse, despite what contrarians claim.

This means that not only is the “pause” a statistically unsound argument, but now we know it never existed in the first place!

So for those keeping score, the contrarians have only a debunked and imaginary pause in the rate of acceleration of warming, while there is a 97% consensus among climate scientists that humans cause warming, the UN’s climate change panel states 95–100% certainty that humans are causing warming, every major scientific institution endorses the consensus that humans cause warming, there have been almost 345 consecutively warm months in a row, and broken extreme weather records all over the world.

For those that may be wondering what motivates contrarians, since it clearly isn’t the science, other new research finds the answer is exactly what you would suspect. Fame and fortune seemingly outweigh the condemnation that comes with resolutely denying the realities of our warmed world.

Given that sad fact, we begrudgingly await for the contrarians next excuse, now that they have been caught trumpeting this “faux pause.”
 
Study: Earth was warmer in Roman, Medieval Times | The Daily Caller

Damn Romans and their fossil fuels and evil coal plants. Oh wait, that's right, they didn't have cars back then, or coal plants, or other man made emissions, and yet they were warmer? Hmmm....I wonder why? I guess the answer it...we don't fucking know, just like we don't fucking know now. And yet, in an awesome display of stupidity, we are going to let the EPA mandate regulations on something we know nothing about. The models are wrong, the hockey stick is a joke, and yet people still let the feds drive policy that is going to hit them in the pocketbook and the Earth will keep doing what the Earth will do no matter if we are here or not.

You see, there is this big thing in the sky called the Sun. And it has solar flares and other activity that seems to match up pretty well with whats going on down here. And the Sun - which is really, really big and really, really hot (for those of you AWG nitwits who are science challenged) and has a far greater impact of Earth's climate than us. Heck - Krakatoa threw up more greenhouse gasses than we have since the inception of the industrial age. And it did it over a period of a few days. An like magic, we are still here.

So what does all this tell us? That climate science is bunk - it is not science - it is a political movement. And like all ideology, its adherents are not educated in basic statistics, numerical methods, or even have a rudimentary understanding of the limitations of models. For example, did the reader know that every climate model out there treats the earth like a closed system. This simplification makes the numerical solutions easier but we are never told of this simplification because of the obvious: we are not a closed system, our atmosphere interfaces with a vacuum where huge amounts of energy enters it from the Sun. Wow, what an amazing concept.

Dumb climate scientists. I know more about your profession than you ever will. And those whose noses would be up the arses of the climate rock stars if it were not for the face their own heads were planted firmly up their ass - get a life and quit hyping BS that is going to cost you a ton of money one day and, like Obambicare - you are going to regret ever believing in. Time to grow up.

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller]The Daily Caller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

The Daily Caller is a politically conservative[1][2] news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Tucker Carlson, a libertarian conservative[3][4] political pundit, and Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney

Senator Bob Menendez prostitution controversy and FBI investigation[edit]
In an article titled "Women: Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex in the Dominican Republic",[20] The Daily Caller reported that New Jersey senator Bob Menendez had allegedly paid two prostitutes to have sex with him during a stay at a Dominican Republic resort. The report included videotaped interviews with the women. The allegation came five days before the 2012 New Jersey senate election. News organizations such as the New York Times, ABC News and the New York Post declined to publish the allegations, viewing them as unsubstantiated and lacking credibility.[21][22][23] The FBI investigated the allegations and found no evidence to substantiate them.[24][25] Subsequently, one of the women who accused Menendez stated that she had been paid to falsely implicate the senator, whom she had never met.[21][25] Menendez's office described the allegations as "manufactured" by a right-wing blog as a politically motivated smear.[26] On March 18, police in the Dominican Republic announced that three women had acknowledged they had been paid $300–425 each to lie about having had sex with Menendez.[27] According to a spokesperson in the Dominican government, the women in question had been paid to make the false claims in question by someone who identified himself as a Daily Caller employee. The Daily Caller issued a statement denying the claims.[28] The Daily Caller denied having paid any individuals for any participation in the stories about Menendez, and detailed the discrepancies between the new reports from Dominican authorities and the original interviews the outlet had conducted.[29][30][31] The Washington Post was extremely critical of the Caller's "eagerness to publish completely unsubstantiated allegations", concluding that the Caller was "ducking accountability".[32][33][34]

To JAMES 2012

How to not look like an idiot – Greg Laden's Blog
The best way to not look like an idiot is to shut up. Works every time.

This time of year a lot of people start sounding like idiots, quite possibly because they are idiots

Why you sound so stupid when you say “global warming has stopped” – Greg Laden's Blog
 
Wait a minute I believe I've heard this outcry previously; hey it was just about SEX (the lie doesn't matter).

The fact that a potential subordinate had "sex"
with another in supervisory capacity doesn't discredit the efforts of the latter, or does it, lol!

Why do some many become so entangled in political dogma they seemingly can't see the forest thru the trees?

No wonder it's better "NOTHING is achieved" by either party regardless of who drips in the Oval Office!

Jim
:)
 
The Daily Caller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Daily Caller is a politically conservative[1][2] news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Tucker Carlson, a libertarian conservative[3][4] political pundit, and Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney

Senator Bob Menendez prostitution controversy and FBI investigation[edit]
In an article titled "Women: Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex in the Dominican Republic",[20] The Daily Caller reported that New Jersey senator Bob Menendez had allegedly paid two prostitutes to have sex with him during a stay at a Dominican Republic resort. The report included videotaped interviews with the women. The allegation came five days before the 2012 New Jersey senate election. News organizations such as the New York Times, ABC News and the New York Post declined to publish the allegations, viewing them as unsubstantiated and lacking credibility.[21][22][23] The FBI investigated the allegations and found no evidence to substantiate them.[24][25] Subsequently, one of the women who accused Menendez stated that she had been paid to falsely implicate the senator, whom she had never met.[21][25] Menendez's office described the allegations as "manufactured" by a right-wing blog as a politically motivated smear.[26] On March 18, police in the Dominican Republic announced that three women had acknowledged they had been paid $300–425 each to lie about having had sex with Menendez.[27] According to a spokesperson in the Dominican government, the women in question had been paid to make the false claims in question by someone who identified himself as a Daily Caller employee. The Daily Caller issued a statement denying the claims.[28] The Daily Caller denied having paid any individuals for any participation in the stories about Menendez, and detailed the discrepancies between the new reports from Dominican authorities and the original interviews the outlet had conducted.[29][30][31] The Washington Post was extremely critical of the Caller's "eagerness to publish completely unsubstantiated allegations", concluding that the Caller was "ducking accountability".[32][33][34]

To JAMES 2012

How to not look like an idiot – Greg Laden's Blog
The best way to not look like an idiot is to shut up. Works every time.

This time of year a lot of people start sounding like idiots, quite possibly because they are idiots

Why you sound so stupid when you say “global warming has stopped” – Greg Laden's Blog

Nice try bozo. The Daily Caller is reporting on a Swedish study so it is not a Daily Caller study. Can you wrap your intellect around that or do you need a little help?
 
ESA satellite reveals that polar ice INCREASED by 50% in a year | Mail Online

Of course the "experts" say "nothing to see here, move along, we have some power to consolidate so we can screw you out of your hard earned money using junk science and the last thing we need is evidence getting in the way. That just won't do".

Al Gore needs a new fleet of jets. I guess selling his station to Al Jazeera didn't pay off as well as he expected. Damn the bad luck. Well, at least he got rich off of stupid people who believe in AGW. And soon your government will too - with your money.

If you like you air conditioning you'll get to keep your air conditioning. Period. I promise. Really, I do.
 
Activist Post: 16 Signs That “Global Warming” Was A Lie And That We Have Now Entered A Period Of Global Cooling

Oh man, this story even mentions - gulp - the leaked UN report that showed the planet has not been warming for the past 15 years. Due to low sunspot activity we may actually be entering a cooling phase. From faux pause to full truth and in your face.

The truth sucks when your on the wrong side of it. AGW believers are going to be looked at as the suckers of the decade in the future. Glad I'm one of the smart ones. [:o)][:o)][:o)]

Best quote in the comments that says it all to anyone who understands science and how it is done: "The problem with global warming is it isn't science. A scientific theory must be able to make predictions that can be verified and replicated. Global warming models cannot do that. On occasion one gets a prediction correct but that is an anomaly for that model. We're told that it is easier to accurately predict weather 100 years from now than to predict it for a week a month a year or ten years from now. And of course whenever anything happens It is the result of global warming--it's hot, global warming; it's cold, global warming; it's normal, global warming; too many tornados, global warming; too few, global warming; too much rain, global warming, too little, global warming; too much ice, global warming, too little, global warming. And yet they still cannot make consistent verifiable predictions to prove their theory correct. Until then, well, AlGore has got his money and the science departments have got their grants and that's all that's important."

And that, for intelligent folk, is the end of the debate. For idiots and hacks it should be the beginning of enlightenment, but most likely is the continuation of being of half-wit twit.
 
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