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POPSSoftware predicts where El Niño will strike next By applying the technique to climate records from 1979 to 2005, the team found that the majority of these links are stable over time, forming a "skeleton" to the world's climate. Yet it's the weaker links, which break and then reform, that are of more interest. Under normal climate conditions this happens only occasionally, but disturbances from an El Niño event cause the links to "blink" on and off every few weeks. The location of the blinking links reveal where the El Niño is having an influence, he says.
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POPSNASA: 70% of climate change due to Pacific oscillations, not CO2 What this means is no matter how much you change your CO2 footprint, how much you try to be CO2 green, no matter how much liberal governments tax you - you cannot save the planet from its natural cycles. Say they reduced the CO2 25%. Say the CO2 is the driver for the remaining 30% of Global Warming (which it cannot be, but let’s just be only half as ridiculous as the IPCC), then all that effort would only impact 7.5% of the forces driving the global climate. The other 92.5% would roll on, impervious to the effort. And since CO2 is not 100% of the remaining 30% of the equation (more like 10%), a more realistic expectation is that all the suffering that would go into dropping CO2 levels by 25% would result in a less than 1% change in the forces driving our climate.
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POPSChicken Little? No warming since 1998. Even some alarmists say we are in for at least a decade of cooling.
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POPSMcCain’s Assault On Reason: Dr. Roy W. Spencer So, here we are with bad science ready to support bad policy decisions that will lead to bad economic times ahead, and no presidential candidate who is willing to ask the hard questions. While we hate to be pandered to by politicians, in this case I can only hope that they really are pandering — that this is hot air and not prospective policy.
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POPSImages from Borneo including a deforestation projection graphic One half of the annual tropical timber acquisition of the whole world comes from Borneo. Palm oil plantations are rapidly encroaching on the last remnants of primary rainforest. The rainforest was also greatly destroyed due to the forest fires in 1997 to 1998 which were started by people and coincided with an exceptional drought season of El Niño. During the great fire, hotspots could be seen on satellite images and a haze was created that affected Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
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POPSNumber Watch: A complete list of things caused by global warming This site is devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media. Whether they are generated by Single Issue Fanatics (SIFs), politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad), such numbers swamp the media, generating unnecessary alarm and panic. They are seized upon by media, hungry for eye-catching stories. There is a growing band of people whose livelihoods depend on creating and maintaining panic. There are also some who are trying to keep numbers away from your notice and others who hope that you will not make comparisons. Their stock in trade is the gratuitous lie. The aim here is to nail just a few of them.
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POPSKing Penguins face extinction as planet warms An example of how a broken link in a food chain can wipe the whole chain out. Their main diet , small fish, and squid, in turn rely on krill-tiny shrimp- which are sensitive to temperature change. Many Whale species prime source of food is also krill. There are many other creatures whose sensitivity to temperature can make life for them literally impossible either through being unable to survive themselves or through a threat to their food sources and so food chains. The environment is a house of cards, being dismantled from the bottom up. When the house collapses, it will do so in a flash. We won't have time to get our coats.
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POPS Little Net Global Warming In The Past 70 Years
Derived from a large number of tree-ring density chronologies obtained from some 400 sites in the western United States, Canada, Europe, Fennoscandia and northern Siberia, this temperature record shows a dramatic departure from the instrumental temperature record over the last 70 years, with the instrumental record depicting dramatic 20th century warming, but with the tree-ring record showing nothing of the sort. It is very likely, therefore, that enhanced tree growth induced by the historical rise in the air's CO2 content - possibly augmented by enhanced nitrogen deposition (Idso, 1995) - has been increasing the growth rates of trees all around the world for over a century or more , Furthermore, this growth enhancement has been accelerating over time (Phillips and Gentry); and it is this ever-intensifying biological phenomenon that some are using to bolster their claim that the earth is warming at an ever-increasing rate, when such may not really be the case.
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POPSLos adolescentes de 15 años no entienden lo que leen.escuela,pia,aprender Se lee poco, normal si cuando se lee no se entiende lo que se lee, leer tiene que ser muy aburrido. Vivimos en una sociedad con un exceso de ofertas de ocio de consumo. El niño o adolescente pierde todo o casi todos los alicientes para aprender a leer. Hay a su alrededor muchas actividade más divertidas y "cool" antes que meterse en un texto lleno de letras sin sentido.
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POPS Droughts Not Global WArming The Global WArming crowd thinks of plants solely in terms of their ability to absorb carbon dioxide, but Dr. McAlpine takes a more scientific view by looking at the specific ways plants can affect the surrounding environment.
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POPSWave action could eat more coast The studies are of the Australian coasts, but there are no doubt effects that will be felt all over the world. Apart from the compound effect of the erosion, with sea level rise, it could be an escalation of the global warming problem, but the big question will remain.How can we pretend our computer models are accurate because of the limited amount of information we put in them. There are too many things we "Don't think of" The computers are being fed volumes of information but the lack of certain effects can still make predictions a waste of time. The weather is changing dramatically, but you don't have to be a weather man to know that. We are still as good at predicting weather as we have ever been
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POPSEl Niño del Sako Es un grupo español de 8 madrileños, su myspace es: http://www.myspace.com/elninodelsako
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POPSGlobal warming - models based on history Facts and figures we should all be aware of!! Yet how many of us are changing our lifestyles, both in the home and at the corporate level, to reduce these greenhouse gas emissions and the dire consequences that will follow? One may ask what point is there changing your habits when countries, such as China, continue to spew it. Beijing was shrouded in smog during the 'celebrations' in the 12 month lead up to the 2008 Olympic Games. Is this all going to change in the next year?
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