What is a Climate Hub? | JunkScience.com: "Sounds like passing money around to a favored few to further the climate change agenda. Not much research, but lots of meetings."
Gavin Schmidt and Richard Alley made some comments on extreme weather here . Dick Lindzen (via email) on cold and heat extremes: "Gavin and Alley both seem pretty ignorant. Extremes of both cold and heat depend on advection by baroclinic eddies. This should get weaker in a warmer climate (assuming polar amplification which is another dicey matter). Alley is assuming that one just adds the change in global mean temperature to any current extreme. Marc shouldn’t be so defensive. He’s not dealing with experts. On the other hand, perhaps it should be noted that the reduction in extremes is ‘consistent’ with global warming."
Below is some background information on late 1990s hockey stick hype, the simultaneous elevation of newly-minted Ph.D. Michael Mann to IPCC lead author, the conversion of "many scientists" to believers, and the real-life temperature 1998 temperature spike. My hypothesis is that the natural 1998 temperature spike was crucial in selling both scientists and the public on the validity of Mann's bogus hockey stick. If the exact same paper had been published after, say, an 18+ year hiatus, not nearly as many people would have been fooled. ======= This article looks back at the late 1990s Many scientists who had until then remained sceptical of climate change were convinced and the headlines and broadcasts meant that large swathes of the public were simultaneously concerned about the activities of the oil companies, the profligate use of coal and oil in developed countries, and the amount of carbon dioxide pouring into the atmosphere. IPCC TAR and the hockey stick | Climate Et...
Maybe this year's El Nino will cause RSS and UAH satellite temperatures to jump above that 1998 spike and "stick around for five or 10 years", but I would NOT bet on it. Long-Awaited 'Jump' In Global Warming Now Appears 'Imminent' | ThinkProgress
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