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POPSThe Science Behind Global Warming Is Settled. Sadly, It's Also Been Incinerated
The Dog Ate Global Warming, by Patrick J. Michaels @NRO Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen in December. Steel yourself for the new reality, because the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared. Or so it seems. Apparently, they were either lost or purged from some discarded computer. Only a very few people know what really happened, and they aren’t talking much. And what little they are saying makes no sense. In the early 1980s, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, scientists at the United Kingdom’s University of East Anglia established the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) to produce . .
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POPSWorld's Oceans Warmest on Record They say the 3rd warmest in 129 years. I doubt the temperature readings are very reliable today, much less 129 years ago. I just don't know how they think they know this. It's MSNBC. Take it for what it's worth.
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POPSIdiots Trying To Play Scientist As temperatures rise, the sea bed grows warmer and frozen water crystals in the sediment break down, allowing methane trapped inside them to escape. OK everyone, let’s remember where we are " the ARCTIC, because this is important. It’s really cold in the Arctic, especially in the deep waters. The gas is normally trapped as “methane hydrate” in sediment under the ocean floor. “Methane hydrate” is an ice-like substance composed of water and methane which is stable under conditions of high pressure and low temperature. As temperatures rise, the hydrate breaks down. So this new evidence shows that methane is stable at water depths greater than 400m off Spitsbergen. Trust me when I note that pressure and temperature are not the only factors " by far " which dictate when the methane can be released. The make up of the sea floor is also important. If it is not stable or strong then the methane can be released in one area and not another under the same temps and pressures.
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POPSNew El Niño Threatens World with Weather Woe "Observations and dynamical model forecasts indicate El Niño conditions will continue to intensify and are expected to last through the northern hemisphere winter of 2009-10." The last El Niño was in 2006-07 and, at its peak, sea surface temperatures averaged about 0.9 degrees above normal. But this is a stage which has already been reached by this one. The last El Niño, comparatively weak though it was, is thought to have been partly responsible for the extraordinarily warm weather in Britain between the summer of 2006 and the spring of 2007: July 2006 was Britain's hottest month, autumn 2006 (September, October and November) was the warmest autumn, winter 2006-07 (December, January and February) was the second warmest in Britain, and April 2007 was our warmest April. People have forgotten this because there then began our recent cooler and wetter period, with Britain's two "washout summers" of 2007 and 2008, and they may, in turn,
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POPSTips: how to choose safe tableware for cooking According to the materials, the tableware can be categorized into ceramic tableware, wood tableware, melamine dinnerware set and brass cookware. Do you know how to choose safe and green tableware for your family?
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POPSArctic Cooling Has Begun The latest Arctic heat wave is not identical to the last " firstly it is higher, by maybe 20% in some places, and secondly, the hot-spots are different. But one thing is clear " it is driven by two distinctive factors " a 14% increase in clouds over the North Pole and Beaufort Sea between 1980-2000, and the incursion of warm Atlantic water under the ice and into the Beaufort Gyre. The rapid summer ice loss is due to melting from above (infra red from the clouds) and below (warm Atlantic water). The strength of the Beaufort Gyre determines how far Atlantic water penetrates the Arctic " when the Pacific Decadal Oscillation is warm and Alaskan Shelf winds are low, the gyre weakens and may reverse flow; when cold (as it has been since late 2006), the Alaskan interior cools, the winds strengthen and the gyre strengthens accordingly " there is a lag of a few years. Thus, this domino effect from the Pacific will eventually reach the area between Greenland and Norway and summer sea-ice
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POPSEl Nino has returned I been in California when I first heard of El Nino it hit Long Beach and made it look like a war zone. The effects of an El Nino may not always be the same. Its better to safe than sorry, so time to get prepared.
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POPSCan and Trade Demistified This nonsense about reducing the temperature of the earth by actually impeding with its natural cycle, is a joke. and a costly one at that.
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POPSDoomsday Called Off I still gotta believe that any pollutants inserted into the atmosphere cause problems for "earthlings" I guess I'll watch it now..... Now serious criticism has arisen from a number of heavyweight independent scientists. They argue that most of the climatic change we have seen is due to natural variations. They also state that if CO2 is to play a role at all -it will be minuscule and not catastrophic!
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POPSRutgers Glider RU27 Flies Along Gulf Stream on Transatlantic Voyage Engineers at Rutgers had successfully deployed gliders several dozen times in places all over the world. Glider missions often lasted over a month and covered distances of 500 km or more. But this represents a grander challenge. This is the first time a robot will cross the Atlantic. The robot will make its way by gliding beneath the ocean's surface and will provide a profile of the oceans floor. You can follow the day-to-day operations and progress of the glider at a dedicated website of the Rutgers COOL here: http://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/atlantic/. You cn also follow it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RU27
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POPSDry martini – the king of cocktails To reiterate, a martini is gin and vermouth . More: My Favorite Version (also called the Crisp Cocktail): • 1 ½ oz. Tanqueray 10 Gin • 1 ½ oz. Dolin Dry Vermouth • 1 dash Orange Bitters Combine ingredients in pre-chilled mixing glass. Add ice--lots of it. Stir gently but with purpose. Thirty strokes, taste. Continue until diluted sufficiently that the drink is still pungent and oily. Strain in to chilled cocktail glass. Cut a 1 ¼" circle from an orange rind. Spray zest on top of Martini and discard. Add lemon twist.
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POPSStudy: Cool Spells Normal in Warming World Easterling, D. R., and M. F. Wehner (2009), Is the climate warming or cooling? Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2009GL037810, in press. (accepted 30 March 2009) Abstract Numerous websites, blogs and articles in the media have claimed that the climate is no longer warming, and is now cooling. Here we show that periods of no trend or even cooling of the globally averaged surface air temperature are found in the last 34 years of the observed record, and in climate model simulations of the 20th and 21st century forced with increasing greenhouse gases. We show that the climate over the 21st century can and likely will produce periods of a decade or two where the globally averaged surface air temperature shows no trend or even slight cooling in the presence of longer-term warming.
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