December 2011
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New Year’s Resolutions For Climate Scientists by...
1. I will admit that warming has been much slower than we expected. 2. I will admit that recent sea level rise is nothing unusual or threatening. 3. I will admit that our forecasts of declining snow cover were...
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Stowe Boyd: Graph Rank: Just Another Proof That... →
stoweboyd:
A former CTO was briefed on ‘Facebook’s advertising strategy’ (although it’s not clear by who) and suggest that they are up to no good:
Anonymous via Betabeat
If you logged onto Facebook yesterday, perhaps you caught a link at the top of the News Feed that read: “About Ads: Ever wonder how…
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Why We Are So Concerned About Global Warming →
Real-Science has recently posted this as a question.In reply I wrote my comment of course, but I think this has been just a provoke to start an incessant discussions. Let’s see what would happen next times.
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Man Made Global Warming →
The post: Man Made Global Warming is an ultra interesting articles among the Scientists. A friend told me this story:
“When somebody wants to discuss about a certain subject, he has to be very careful, he must take care about to whom he wants to speak with, is the person either pro CO2 or the anti CO2, because the aftermath is undoubtedly different. How? At once you find the scientist in...
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Climate Scientists And The Permanent El Nino
by Steven Goddard
They warned of permanent El Nino and permanent drought in Australia. Now that we have persistent La Nina, they also blame that on global warming.
November 7, 1997
Scientists are warning that global warming could make the El Nino a permanent feature of the world’s weather system.
El Nino events normally occur roughly every 5 years, and last for between 12 and 18 months....
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Kyoto – in the past for Canada
New post on Watts Up With That? Kyoto – in the past for Canada by Anthony Watts Read more of this post More at BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16151310 UPI says: The cost of meeting Canada’s obligations under Kyoto would be $13.6 billion, Kent said. “That’s $1,600 from every Canadian family — that’s the Kyoto cost to Canadians, that was the legacy of an...
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Climate change blamed for dead trees in Africa
New post on Watts Up With That? Climate change blamed for dead trees in Africa by Anthony Watts 510-643-7741 University of California - Berkeley Berkeley — Trees are dying in the Sahel, a region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, and human-caused climate change is to blame, according to a new study led by a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley....
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Comment on Tisdale on Climate Models Confirming Or... →
I am somewhat amused by the use of climate models for predicting the future. Regardless of how “good” models may be, it is well recognized that models have little, if any, predictive value. I would like to quote the abstract and conclusion from a paper by Carter, et. al. (Carter, et. al., “Our Calibrated Model Has No Predictive Value”, Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, Los Alamos National...
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Comment on Durban: what the media are not telling... →
Comments here are just unbelievably narrow minded.
An example country x notices fish stocks reaching survivable critical levels.
Country x forces its fisherment to put away their factory ships
Country y sees this as an oportunity to increase its fish yeilds with this dwindling reserve.
Result = no fish = every one unhappy
What should have happened
Countries a to zzz agree to reduce catches...
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Comment on Sustainability runs amok in my town,...
TANSTAAFL says:
December 9, 2011 at 8:03 am
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-G.B. Shaw
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That is a real interesting quote given that Shaw was a founding member of the Fabian society. (UK ex prime minister Tony Blair is a member)
The Real...
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Comment on Tips & Notes by Skiphil
Anthony, have you considered asking Jonathan Jones to perhaps revise/expand his recent post at Bishop Hill for a guest article here?? Or maybe it’s perfect as it is, I thought this was a very powerful statement on behalf of integrity and rigor in science, in the face of so much dubious behavior from The Team:
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/12/2/tim-barnett-on-the-hockey-stick.html
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Comment on Skeptic Agrees with Climate Change by...
Durr says:
December 9, 2011 at 4:59 pm
They seem to like the word “cause” on the other side, don’t they…
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Comment on “Very wet rain events” from tropical...
crosspatch says:
December 8, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Sorry, I just don’t buy it. I don’t believe the “surface load” of even a couple of hundred feet of soil has any relative impact so several miles of rock. What I might find more believable is the percolation of water into fault acting as a lubricant. But that only works in areas that are normally arid….....
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FW: Comment on “Very wet rain events” from... →
“The heavy rain induces thousands of landslides and severe erosion, which removes ground material from the Earth’s surface, releasing the stress load and encouraging movement along faults.”
Let’s examine this hypothesis in light of the facts:
Landslides and erosion cannot and do not “remove ground material from the Earth’s surface”. Landslide material is deposited immediately adjacent to the...
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[Shared Post] Understanding Man Made Global... →
acckkii (acckkii@live.com) thinks you may be interested in the following post: Understanding Man Made Global Warming
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[Shared Post] Hansen: "Humans have overwhelmed the...
acckkii (acckkii@live.com) shared a post from Watts Up With That?
Post : Hansen: &;Humans have overwhelmed the natural, slow changes that occur on geologic timescales&;
URL : http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/09/hansen-humans-have-overwhelmed-the-natural-slow-changes-that-occur-on-geologic-timescales/
Posted : December 9, 2011 at 1:54 am
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FW: [New post] Friday Funny – The Booker Prize for...
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New post on Watts Up With That?
> Friday Funny – The Booker Prize for the biased BBC
by > Anthony Watts
Josh sketches up some humorous vignettes from the GWPF Report...
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[New post] Hansen: “Humans have overwhelmed the...
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New post on Watts Up With That?
> Hansen: “Humans have overwhelmed the natural, slow changes that occur on geologic timescales”
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[New post] Windsplode in Scotland by Anthony Watts
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New post on Watts Up With That?
> Windsplode in Scotland
by > Anthony Watts
I wonder what the incident frequency is for wind turbine fires versus say coal, hydro, or nuclear plants? From STV Scotland:
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[New post] Birds apparently can’t out fly climate...
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New post on Watts Up With That?
> Birds apparently can’t outfly climate change
by > Anthony Watts
From Duke University , another Durban doozy, yes we’ll have roasted fowl in...
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FW: Comment on Radiative Forcing and the Surface... →
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Posted on: 09 December, 2011 2:01 AM
Author: Colin Davidson
Subject: Comment on Radiative Forcing and the Surface Energy Balance by Colin Davidson
DeWitt Payne (0152, 9Dec11) went on to say:
“There are very good reasons for the radiative forcing to be defined at the tropopause after allowing the stratosphere to equilibrate to the new ghg...
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FW: [New post] Goreathon – now in a living color...
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> Goreathon – now in a living color poster
by > Anthony Watts
WUWT readers likely remember the 24 hours of the Goreathon on WUWT, one of our most viewed...
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[New post] The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple...
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New post on Watts Up With That?
> The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal (ho ho)
by > Anthony Watts
From Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.some comments on the recent scathign...
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[New post] Heavy tropical cyclone rains linked to...
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Subject: [New post] Heavy tropical cyclone rains linked to earthquakes
New post on Watts Up With That?
> Heavy tropical cyclone rains linked to earthquakes
by > Anthony Watts
From the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine &...
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Comment on In China, there are no hockey sticks by... →
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Posted on: 08 December, 2011 10:46 PM
Author: Alcheson
Subject: Comment on In China, there are no hockey sticks by Alcheson
Theo Goodwin says:
December 8, 2011 at 5:25 pm
“To predict an event is show that it is an instance of a well confirmed hypothesis. ”
“Explain to me how you can point to a line on a graph as an explanation of a...
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[Shared Post] Windsplode in Scotland - plus some...
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Post : Windsplode in Scotland &; plus some turbines can&;t handle 50mph
URL : http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/08/windsplode-in-scotland/
Posted : December 8, 2011 at 10:59 am
Author : Anthony Watts
Tags : Ardrossan, Energy, Nuclear power, Scotland, STV, Turbine,...
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Comment on “Very wet rain events” from tropical... →
If you drill a deep drill hole into solid rock, at about 4 km depth +/- 3 km, there is a zone where reasonable preconceptions about pressure do not hold because of mineral transitions involving dehydration. An observable effect, first reported from the Kola superdeep in Russia, is a zone of microfracturing. This zone does not have to be associated with a fault. Indeed, it might be a...
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Britain Suffers as a Bystander to Europe’s Crisis →
By SARAH LYALL and STEPHEN CASTLE
Published: December 7, 2011
LONDON — No matter what happens at the European summit meeting on the euro in Brussels that begins Thursday, Britain is sure to lose.
On Wednesday, Mr. Cameron told a fractious Parliament that his main goal in Brussels was to “seek safeguards for Britain” and “protect our own national interest” by resisting measures like a...
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Occupy Big Business: The Sharing Economy's Quiet... →
stoweboyd:
Sara Horowitz suggests that the way to change the hypercapitalist system that has led to wide inequity in our society is to defect: to reject the mass affiliation that our established institutions impose. To do so, we have to affiliate with those organizations and businesses that care about people more than profits. This is the Quiet Revolution:
Sara Horowitz via The Atlantic
The...
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The Impact of Urbanization on Land Temperature... →
Anthony Watts
by Zeke Hausfather , Steven Mosher, Matthew Menne , Claude Williams , and Nick Stokes [Note: this is an AGU poster displayed at the annual meeting, available here as a PDF. I’ve converted it to plain text and images for your reading pleasure. I’m providing it without comment except to say that Steven Mosher has […]
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Watchdiscoverynews:
theatlanticvideo:
Exploring the Potential of Animated eBooks
Daniel Savage brings The Mysteris of Harris Burdick, an enigmatic picture book, to life with subtle animated elements
Beautiful and amazing
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It’s Worse Than We Thought… Again… “Warming may be... →
It’s Worse Than We Thought… Again… “Warming may be irreversible by 2017″
Posted on December 5, 2011 by David Middleton
This was in our guest author queue, but I was never notified of its existence. Better late than never. – Anthony
Guest post by David Middleton…
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RealClimate’s Steig: Pacific SST’s influencing...
“Accelerated melting of two fast-moving outlet glaciers that drain Antarctic ice into the Amundsen Sea Embayment is likely the result, in part, of an increase in sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, according to new University of Washington research.
Feed: Watts Up With That? Posted on: 06 December, 2011 7:36 AM Author: Anthony Watts Subject: RealClimate’s...
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Comment on The Dark Future of Solar Electricity by...
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Posted on: 03 December, 2011 8:35 AM
Author: Walter H. Schneider
Subject: Comment on The Dark Future of Solar Electricity by Walter H. Schneider
Sunspot says:
December 3, 2011 at 2:16 am
….Denmark boasts that 50% of their generation capacity comes from wind turbines, however they only manage to deliver around 15% to 20% of their capacity. A...
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Record U.S. Exports Led by Caterpillar Seen in... →
U.S. exports, a driver of expansion in the world’s largest economy, will grow next year even as a sovereign-debt crisis pushes Europe into recession.
The euro area’s share of overseas sales for American-made goods has dwindled to 13 percent from 19 percent at the peak in the early 1990s, according to Joseph Carson of AllianceBernstein LP. A trade shock that cuts all euro-zone imports by 10...
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It sounds like some sensitivity analysis is needed →
In the case of mercury rules:
The Environmental Protection Agency’s top clean-air official aggressively pushed back Wednesday against claims that upcoming pollution regulations will cause so many power plant closures that the country could face power outages. …
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UK Subsidy Risk - Why cut 51% to 55%?
Feed: Posted on: 31 October, 2011 6:40 AM Author: Subject: UK Subsidy Risk - Why cut 51% to 55%? UK proposes a 55% cut in solar energy feed-in tariff. The UK government has proposed cuts ranging from 51% to 55% in solar feed-in tariff, which guarantees above market rates for clean energy. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has released a consultation document, which...
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AEI Research & Consulting →
I have followed AEI. Their job is perfect and I recommend them to the specialists. To introduce them to my colleagues I preferred to quote AEI as they say:
AEI Research & Consulting develops reports, databases and models for advanced materials and photovoltaic device companies covering poly-silicon, ingot, wafer, cell and modules. We have completed over one hundred projects for large and ...
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Calculating the Impact of a Subsidy Cut →
Currently Italy is returning 7.63% to 9.33% MIRR for different module technologies under the existing subsidy structure. Incentives have already been cut substantially, but is there more cutting to come and importantly will an additional cut kill the market? A further 6% cut will be made in 2012, and again the Italian government is proposing to cut subsidies once...
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Unfair trade, or getting whopped →
The U.S. International Trade Commission voted unanimously on Friday in a preliminary ruling on the antidumping petition filed by SolarWorld and five other companies calling for countervailing duties against Chinese solar companies. It’s officially ‘game on’ now as the U.S. ITC will now proceed with a full investigation. But is it ‘game over’ for SolarWorld and those companies failing to...
