There is no money in non-alarmism. That alarmist papers outnumber non-alarmist papers is hardly surprising, given the prerequisites for government funding.
(Can't resist this)
Why else would he build a big shp like that???
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailyteleg...legraph/comments/climate_alarm_is_turned_off/
Climate alarm is turned off - Miranda Devine, 28 April 2012
...She [climate activist Anna Rose] didn’t even try to meet Minchin half way. It was as if sceptics were supposed to be pathetically grateful to get airtime on the ABC at all.
The alarmists have only been driven to dialogue with the enemy through desperation, as public opinion deserts them...
...They tried ignoring the sceptics. But that just made them look shifty and insecure. They tried to smear sceptics by linking them to Big Tobacco or Big Oil but that made them look mean and tricky. They tried accusing sceptics of violence and death threats but it didn’t wash. They even talked about suspending democracy.
Now when they’re licked, they deign to talk. Big concession...
"As far as the data go, I don’t really trust the satellite data. While satellites clearly have some advantages over the surface thermometer record, such as better sampling, measuring temperature from a satellite is actually an incredibly difficult problem. That’s why, every few years, another big problem in the UAH temperature calculation is discovered. And, when these problems are fixed, the trend always goes up. It’s also worth noting that there have not been any similar revisions to the surface temperature data, despite the fact that people have looked at it very, very carefully."
Dessler is referring to the complex nature of constructing a global temperature series from the satellite observations. The microwave sounding units (MSU) aboard the satellites don't actually measure air temperature, but rather the intensity of microwave radiation given off by oxygen molecules in the atmosphere, and the intensity of this radiation is a proxy for air temperature. Given that the radiation reaches the satellite sensors having travelled through a warming lower atmosphere and cooling stratosphere, that bias exists between the various sensors, issues with orbital decay, and a host of other obstacles, there's a lot of careful and painstaking analysis required, and much that can go wrong.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/uah-misrepresentation-anniversary-part1.htmlUAH Misrepresentation Anniversary, Part 1 - Overconfidence
Posted on 27 December 2011 by dana1981, Albatross
Christy Crocks November 2011 marked the 33rd year of atmospheric temperature measurements from satellite instruments. Roy Spencer and John Christy at the University of Alabama (UAH) were effectively the originators of the satellite temperature record. Unfortunately, they marked this anniversary with a press release propagating much of the same misinformation about global climate change as they have throughout their careers at UAH. Spencer and Christy not only made a number of misleading statements in the UAH press release and in subsequent blog posts about it, they also ignored a body of scientific literature that contradicts their views on global climate change.
The Met Office has caused a storm of controversy after it was revealed their £30million supercomputer designed to predict climate change is one of Britain's worst polluters.
We ridiculed these claims at the time. According to this article, we were right. The FOI adjudicator found 10 of the 11 emails were harmless, and the 11th '..perhaps alluding to a threat..'
Climate blogger Simon Turnill had to work hard to access the documents under FOI, as the ANU initially refused to release them.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...s-go-up-in-smoke/story-e6frg8y6-1226345224816
Climate scientists' claims of email death threats go up in smoke, Christian Kerr From: The Australian May 03, 2012 (Subscription required)
prop·a·gan·da
Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
I found this truly shocking. A ponzi scheme of the worst kind, the insiders include union superann funds, and we're subsidizing it through rising kWh rates for coal-fired energy.
Wind farm scam a huge cover-up
James Delingpole May 03, 2012 (Subscription needed)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...huge-cover-up/comments-e6frgd0x-1226345185075
And yet some here seem so dense that they don't understand why people have a healthy, questioning attitude to this whole AGW thing.
The more that comes out now, it seems the smellier this AGW thing gets. Which makes carbon tax look like one big scam, imo
I watched an interesting episode of Catalyst this afternoon. (link with video below)
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3488105.htm
Apparently there is a bit of a Global tree die off going on, has been for the last decade or so.
Of course the deniers will say trees die all the time, have done for century's right, even in Townsville...google turned up some more reading.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/science/earth/01forest.html?pagewanted=all
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2252
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