Jan 24

Arctic native ribbon seal swims to Seattle to escape global cooling

By Editor Global cooling, Uncategorized No Comments »

That’s the logical conclusion, right?

I mean, if a stray bird from warmer parts of the northern hemisphere is found much farther north in traditionally cooler climes, and it is blamed on global warming…

A bird of prey spotted flying over Larne Lough has been confirmed as the first sighting of the rare Montagu’s harrier in Northern Ireland.

And the birdwatcher who caught sight of the harrier believes climate change may have played a part in bringing it to more northerly climes.

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The birds may be starting to appear further north because of climate change, he said.

“As the temperature goes up, they are getting pushed further and further north. There are things happening – it’s definitely global warming that is pushing them further north,” he said.

 

…then the inverse must be true too, right?

An example:

SEATTLE (AP) — A ribbon seal commonly found in the frigid waters off the coasts of Alaska and Russia has been spotted twice in the Seattle area.

It’s quite unusual to observe the animals this far south, said Peter Boveng, leader of the polar ecosystem program with the National Marine Mammal Laboratory, part of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. “There are not many people who see these regularly.”

The ribbon seal, likely a young adult male, appears to be in good shape, though not as fat as expected, said Boveng.

The seal first showed up one morning earlier this month on the dock of a Seattle woman, who lives about a mile up the Duwamish River south of downtown.

Then last Friday, it was spotted on a snow-covered dock in Marysville, about 35 miles north of Seattle. A snow and ice storm had hit the state, leaving snow piled high in many parts of the region.

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Ribbon seals inhabit the northern North Pacific Ocean and sub-Arctic and Arctic seas. They are found in the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska and the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia. They have distinctive white bands or ribbons that encircle the head, base of the trunk and two front flippers over a dark coat.

Since it is commonplace among the media to blame  any finding of species farther north than they normally would be (or south in the Southern Hemisphere) on global warming, is there any speculation by the media that this ribbon seal swam 1500 miles south to escape global cooling?  None.

To be sure, I’m not suggesting that this ribbon seal swam to Seattle to escape global cooling.  In fact, I have no idea why that ribbon seal showed up in Seattle, or why a Montagu’s harrier would show up in Northern Ireland, but I suspect it has less to do with global warming/cooling, and more to do with their freedom, i.e. animals with no citizenship, no borders, and even more importantly no sense of their own range habitat as pronounced by some wildlife biologist in a text book.  They can go where ever their bodies are capable of carrying them to – scientists’  habitat range maps be damned.

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Nov 23

From the Climategate 2.0 files: CRU scientist admits ‘…”our” reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann’s work were not especially honest.’

By Editor Climategate 2.0, Uncategorized 8 Comments »

Dr. Douglas Maraun performs time series analysis, extreme value statistics, and analysis of precipitation extremes at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

…he also actually pondered, “how do we avoid sounding religious or arrogant?”, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Dr. Douglas Maraun, a scientist at the Climatic Reasearch Unit at the University of East Anglia wrote to his colleages in an e-mail on October 24, 2007.  Dr. Maraun, who seems to have more of a conscience than many of his colleagues, had some concerns which he wished to address in a “discussion seminar” to be held in the coffee room that afternoon.  Among Dr. Maraun’s points he wished to discuss were:

-How should we deal with flaws inside the climate community? I think,
that “our” reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann’s work were not
especially honest.

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Sep 02

Five part video series: Henrik Svensmark discusses his pioneering research on cosmic rays, cloud formation and global warming

By Editor Uncategorized 1 Comment »

I first posted this five-part video series in November, 2008 because I felt that Svensmark was truly on to something very important in climate research.  As the debate over Svensmark’s research intensified, I posted it again in July, 2009 for the same reason.  Recently, Svensmark’s research was validated in the CERN experiment which makes this video series more relevant than ever, and casts further doubt on Al Gore’s theory of castastrophic man-made climate change.  So, for the third time, I present this five-part video series just as I did back in 2008:

This is a five-part video series featuring Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark, author of The Chilling Stars.

Svensmark’s has researched the effects that cosmic rays have on cloud formation. His theories contradict Al Gore and the IPCC’s theory of an anthropogenic cause for the global warming we experienced in the latter part of the 20th century. Therefore, Svensmark has been ignored by the climate alarmists.

Svensmark:

“Instead of thinking of clouds as a result of the climate, it’s actually showing that the climate is a result of the clouds, because the clouds take their orders from the stars.”

This is GORE LIED must-see-TV. The videos are in order from top-to-bottom – #1 is on top & #5 is on the bottom.

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Mar 02

Greens get honest: ‘We need to stop trying to scare the pants off of the American public. Doing so has demonstrably backfired.’

By Editor evironmentalism/religion 13 Comments »

Yes, it has backfired.

In a surprisingly honest appraisal of the current state of the environmental movement,  Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute declared in a speech at Yale University titled, The Long Death of the Environmnental Movement, that:

…today, environmental efforts to address climate change and build a green economy lie in ruins.

Shellenberger and Nordhaus offer Twelve Theses for a Post-Environmental Movement (heh, a 12-step program) to reboot the environmental movement, of which “we need to stop trying to scare the pants off of the American public” (as noted in the headline above) comes in at #2.

S&N even admit that their side has massively outspent ”fossil fuel interests” in their failed effort:

In the wake of the crash [of the environmental movement], environmentalists pointed their finger at the usual bogeymen. They claimed that the problem has been that fossil fuel interests have massively outspent underdog environmental groups, funding skeptics to mislead the public and duping the media into giving too much credence to skeptical views about climate change.

In reality, the environmental lobby massively outspent its opponents. In just the last two years, by our rough estimate environmental organizations and philanthropies spent somewhere north of $1 billion dollars advocating for climate action. In contrast, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Exxon-Mobil, the Koch Brothers, Big Coal, and the various other well publicized opponents of environmental action might have spent, when all was said and done, a small fraction of that.

Indeed, much of the U.S. energy industry, including the largest utilities, helped write and lobbied for U.S. climate legislation.

And then there’s this precious nugget:

The truth is that the disparate crew of academics and bloggers who make up the skeptic community have toiled in relative obscurity and have been largely ignored by the mainstream media. That skeptics have nonetheless succeeded in raising substantial doubt among many Americans about the reality of global warming suggests, at the very least, that the environmental community has profoundly misframed the issue.

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Feb 28

Climate death panels? Warmist blogger predicts ‘laws permitting euthanasia will become commonplace in about two decades.’

By Editor doomsday 17 Comments »

Joe Romm asks his readers, “What are you doing to prepare for climate impacts?”  The beneficial-molecule-fearing Rommulans obediently reply in droves.  One particular comment from a warmist blogger goes a bit beyond the question Romm posed, and predicts a very dark solution for an imagined future climate hell:

I’ll also predict that laws permitting euthanasia will become commonplace in about two decades. The world will have to choose between keeping the old and ill fed and alive, and keeping the young and fit fed and alive. (Hopefully I’m exaggerating slightly in the second sentence, but maybe not.)

So, he might be exaggerating a bit about the choice of exactly who to euthanize, but he’s not exaggerating about the actual euthanasia itself.

Some of these people have lost their minds.

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Jan 04

BREAKING: Scientific analysis finds Great Pacific Garbage Patch NOT the size of Texas, ‘greatly exaggerated…plastic patch is actually less than 1 percent of the geographic size of Texas’

By Editor alarmism, Great Pacifc Garbage Patch 1 Comment »

Angelicque “Angel” White, an assistant professor of oceanography at Oregon State has found that the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t “Great” after all:

…claims that the “Great Garbage Patch” between California and Japan is twice the size of Texas are grossly exaggerated….

Further claims that the oceans are filled with more plastic than plankton, and that the patch has been growing tenfold each decade since the 1950s are equally misleading….

“There is no doubt that the amount of plastic in the world’s oceans is troubling, but this kind of exaggeration undermines the credibility of scientists,” White said. “We have data that allow us to make reasonable estimates; we don’t need the hyperbole. Given the observed concentration of plastic in the North Pacific, it is simply inaccurate to state that plastic outweighs plankton, or that we have observed an exponential increase in plastic.”

White has pored over published literature and participated in one of the few expeditions solely aimed at understanding the abundance of plastic debris and the associated impact of plastic on microbial communities. That expedition was part of research funded by the National Science Foundation through C-MORE, the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education.

The studies have shown is that if you look at the actual area of the plastic itself, rather than the entire North Pacific subtropical gyre, the hypothetically “cohesive” plastic patch is actually less than 1 percent of the geographic size of Texas.

“The amount of plastic out there isn’t trivial,” White said. “But using the highest concentrations ever reported by scientists produces a patch that is a small fraction of the state of Texas, not twice the size.”

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“Are we doing a better job of preventing plastics from getting into the ocean?” White said. “Is more plastic sinking out of the surface waters? Or is it being more efficiently broken down? We just don’t know. But the data on hand simply do not suggest that ‘plastic patches’ have increased in size. This is certainly an unexpected conclusion, but it may in part reflect the high spatial and temporal variability of plastic concentrations in the ocean and the limited number of samples that have been collected.”

The hyperbole about plastic patches saturating the media rankles White, who says such exaggeration can drive a wedge between the public and the scientific community. One recent claim that the garbage patch is as deep as the Golden Gate Bridge is tall is completely unfounded, she said.

Source: Oregon State University via The Oregonian.

Kudos to Professor White, who will no doubt now be labeled a Great Pacific Garbage Patch denier, for having the cojones to call BS on her fellow scientists chronic doom peddlers.

Scientists exaggerating?  I’m shocked, SHOCKED!  In 2009 The New York Times even dared say that The Great Pacific Garbage Patch “doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas”.  Doing the math, if that had actually been true, the so-called garbage patch would have been the same size as then entire US Lower 48 states in about 35 years.

I’m picturing two environmentalists after having read the OSU report one saying to the other with typical enviro-twisted logic, “Well, I hope the polar bears really are dying.”

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Jan 03

Let’s all walk, bike, swim, or paddle to Peru since Al Gore has pronounced his admiration for ‘the growing eco-tourism that is flourishing in Peru’

By Editor Al Gore, eco-tourism, video No Comments »

I mean Al certainly wouldn’t approve of us going to Peru any other way, would he now?

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