To Bully the scientific community to validate bugus theory

The writing is on the wall and it says those in the Climatologist field that refuse to sing in tune with the ideals of man made global warming will pay the price

As you can see they are effectively bullying those who want to keep their jobs and feed their families to keep their mouths shut. While at the same time publicly denouncing those who speak out for common sense logic. Look for this guy to go down like the other dissenters. In the mean time they will likely put Albert Gore up for a Nobel Peace Prize since the socialist seem to have hijacked that think tank. Why don't they simply call it the "Socialists agree with your ideals and want to trick the idiot public into thinking you are a validated genius" Award?





Del. global warming skeptic stands pat
State climatologist on opposite side of governor in court case
By JEFF MONTGOMERY, The News Journal

Posted Thursday, February 1, 2007

Delaware's state climatologist David R. Legates
Delaware's state climatologist has found himself in the middle of a political squall after taking skeptical stands on global warming and climate change -- in one case directly contradicting the state's own policy.

David R. Legates, a University of Delaware geography professor, co-wrote a "friend of the court" brief that opposed Delaware's position in a multi-state U.S. Supreme Court case.

In the appeal, state regulators argued that carbon dioxide from new cars should be regulated because of evidence the gas was contributing to rising global temperatures, climate shifts and changes in the environment. The Bush administration and industry critics opposed the demand, saying the dire warnings are unproven.

Enter Legates, a Ph.D. climatologist who received the title of state climatologist in 2005 from Daniel Leathers, now the head of the University of Delaware's geography department.

Legates joined a group of scientists late last year in urging the court to reject the state claims, in a brief filed by the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute.

"It is simply impossible to conclude that the net effect of greenhouse gases endangers human health and welfare," the brief said.

The institute has sued the government in the past to block some fuel economy standards for automobiles.

Two sides of the coin

The appearance of Delaware's climatologist on the other side of the court case left some state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control officials frustrated.

"He's taken a position that 'The climate is changing, but we don't have any danger signs,' " said Ali Mirzakhalili, air quality management chief for DNREC.

Recently branded "a favorite scientist of the global warming denial machine" by one national environmental group, Legates said he was following scientific evidence in arguing the institute's position in the court case. He has taken similar positions dating back to at least 1998, while a professor at Louisiana State University.

"The science brought in by the one side had given a more extremist view of climate change," Legates said. "What we're trying to say is, the science isn't necessarily that well settled, and in many cases it isn't that extreme. I'm not saying it isn't a problem."

As state climatologist, a position the state doesn't fund, Legates collects and shares climate data with the National Climatic Data Center, the Northeast Regional Climate Center and the National Weather Service office in Mt. Holly, N.J. Similar positions exist in 41 other states and Puerto Rico, generally staffed by state employees or university staffers.

"I don't think the doctor [Legates] speaks for the state's position," said Philip Cherry, a DNREC administrator who recently invited Legates to address agency employees. "I think the governor speaks for the state's position."

Delaware has accepted the view human activities contribute to global warming, and changes are needed to curb risks of sea level rise and climate change. The state adopted a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2000.

An updated report on global warming and its consequences by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due Friday, is expected to include forecasts of rising sea levels and changing weather and climate conditions worldwide.

Legates disputes warnings

Federal scientists have long warned that sea-level increases could be most pronounced along the mid-Atlantic, including the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay.

Some forecasts have predicted that Delaware could lose 50 percent or more of its tidal wetlands under worst-case scenarios.

But during a presentation sponsored by the conservative Heritage Foundation last year, Legates said, "This has become climate alarmism."

Then in early 2006, the National Policy Research Center, a conservative think tank, published a paper by Legates saying science "does not support claims of drastic increases in global temperatures over the 21st century, nor does it support claims of human influence on weather events and other secondary effects of climate change."

NPRC listed Legates as an adjunct scholar at the time the paper was released, as well as director of the University of Delaware's Climatic Research Center.

In 2003 Legates was called to testify in the U.S. Senate by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla, a global warming skeptic prone to talk of "debunking" scientific climate change conclusions that are now widely accepted.

During that testimony Legates disputed findings of the international panel, saying researchers failed to prove recent warming trends or that human causes are "the only significant factor."

Wilmington resident Chad Tolman, a retired DuPont Co. research scientist who held positions with the National Academy of Sciences, said Legates' position clashed awkwardly with most Delaware scientists.

"I just don't know how, in the face of all the evidence, [he] maintains [his] position," Tolman said.

Cherry, who is managing Delaware's efforts with other states to cap regional greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, said Legates was free to take a stand that contradicts Delaware.

"But I have to say he's in the very small minority," Cherry said.

Contact Jeff Montgomery at 678-4277 or jmontgomery@delawareonline.com.

 

Not that I really give a shit about the British Monarchy but really folks the public seized on the idea that Prince Charles was a retard to be trivialized way back when he married Diana that was a joke from the start. The best thing that ever happened to the Monarchy bloodline was Prince Harry. That other blond headed kid he…that ones questionable in my book also. And having Prince Charles as a mouth piece for the environmentalist is like. The anti-gun crowd capitalizing on Jim Brady being a retard unable to speak for himself and them parading him all around at anti-gun rallies.

You know I bet that is what is going to happen that that new retard in the Senate the one with the stroke. I bet they parade him around in some sort of twist of logic that some socialist medicine issue would have prevented this. And then proceed to display him on a stage like a freak with dribble coming out of his mouth. Effective however given the right media coverage to have people thinking. “How pathetic …we must all go and vote for a Democrat cause that guy slobbers all over himself and waddles around like Quasimodo so anyone with a heart must vote for a Democrat.”

 

11 feet of snow and the global warming army dominated National Weather Service refuses to call it a record snow fall citing lost documentation

Feb 13, 6:21 AM (ET)

By WILLIAM KATES

(AP) Dylan Kazyaka spay paints a message on the side of a large pile of snow, Monday, Feb. 12, 2007, in...






REDFIELD, N.Y. (AP) - Whether it's a record or not, 141 inches is a lot of snow even for upstate New York. And, if that's not enough, there's more on the way.

"We're ready. It can't snow too much for people around here," said Redfield Clerk Elaine Verdon, whose small town is a mecca for snowmobilers and cross-country skiers.

Incomplete records prevent the National Weather Service from calling the 11 feet, 9 inches of snow that fell here over the past 10 days an official record, but it does beat the 10 feet, 7 inches that fell in nearby Montague over seven days ending Jan. 1, 2002.

More is on the way. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning from parts of Iowa and Missouri east to cover most of Illinois and parts of central and northern Indiana. It was expected to reach New York later this week.

All but one of Ohio's 88 counties' roads were wet or at least partially covered in snow early Tuesday, the Ohio Department of Transportation warned on its Web site. Some flights out of Cincinnati's airport were canceled.

At least two people were killed and more injured in several accidents in Nebraska on Monday, as icy roads and blowing snow brought poor visibility and slick roads across the state.

Four to 6 inches of snow already had blanketed parts of western and central Nebraska by 10:30 p.m. Monday, said John Springer, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in North Platte.

In Indiana, about a dozen officials from the Department of Homeland Security and other state agencies hunkered down in the basement of the state government center in Indianapolis on Monday night to direct emergency operations as the storm swept into the state from the southwest.

Road crews spent much of Monday treating interstates and other highways, with snowplows to head out around the clock with drivers on 12-hour shifts once the snow started to fall, said Will Wingfield of the state Department of Transportation.

A winter storm watch was posted Tuesday night and Wednesday for all of western and central New York with the storm system approaching from the Midwest. Forecasters said the storm could bring 8 to 20 inches of snow to upstate New York.

"We're ready for the next round," said Terry Grimshaw, mayor of the village of Mexico. "All the main streets have been widened, the hydrants are open, most of the sidewalks are cleared. We're in good shape. Another foot now is no big deal."

Upstate New York's most recent heavy snow has been produced by a stalled system of intense lake-effect squalls that blanketed communities along eastern Lake Ontario. Lake-effect snow continued to fall in the area Monday.

Residents in Redfield were unfazed by the snow that has already accumulated. Redfield receives an annual average of 270 inches - more than 22 feet. It snowed 180 inches in January 2004.

"It's not an unusual amount, it's just unusual that it fell in such a short period of time," Verdon said.

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6 Inches of Ice Close Pa. Highways


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Feb 16, 9:24 AM (ET)

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM


HAMBURG, Pa. (AP) - A thick layer of ice kept major highways closed Friday morning, a day after hundreds of drivers became stranded on a hilly stretch of eastern Pennsylvania that had been hit by a monster storm.

National Guard troops used Humvees to ferry in food, fuel and baby supplies on Thursday to the lines of motorists caught in a 50-mile traffic jam on Interstate 78. Friday morning, the troops were busy towing away the remaining vehicles while road crews struggled to melt ice that had built up four to six inches in places.

Some drivers were angry that they had been let on the road at all. State police didn't close all the entrance ramps to I-78 until around 5 p.m. Thursday, more than 24 hours after cars and trucks started getting caught. They also closed sections of I-81 and I-80, to help keep the area clear.

"Why would they have that exit open if they were just going to let us sit there?" said a crying Deborah Miller. Her 5-year-old son was trapped in the car with her, running a 103-degree fever from strep throat.

Eugene Coleman of Hartford, Conn., who is hyperglycemic, said he was trapped for 20 hours along with his girlfriend and pregnant daughter. They had no food or water for about 18 hours and Coleman said his legs were swollen.

"God forbid somebody gets really stuck on the highway and has a life-threatening emergency. That person would have died," Coleman said.

State Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler said Friday morning that the highways would stay closed indefinitely so crews and chemicals could do their work.

"In many areas, we're finding sections of ice covering the highway that measure four to six inches. This simply poses too great a risk to motorists," Biehler said in a news release. "Additionally, this extra time allows the chemicals we applied overnight to work, as they heat with the rising daytime temperatures."

The sprawling storm system hit Wednesday and blew out to sea Thursday, leaving huge snow piles, frigid temperatures and tens of thousands without power across the Midwest and Northeast. It was blamed for at least 15 deaths.

In Maryland, BGE utility officials said it could be late Friday before power is restored to everyone. The worst outages were in Anne Arundel County, with 22,000 without power, and in Prince George County, where 7,700 were without power.

More than 137,000 customers had lost power at the height of the storm.

Numerous areas saw more than a foot of snow, with 42 inches falling in the southern Adirondacks in New York. Gusty wind had morning wind chills below zero, and in some areas, the snow was followed by several inches of ice.

A few flights were canceled Thursday after numerous cancelations Wednesday that had stranded some passengers for hours on runways. Many school districts that had canceled classes Wednesday extended the unplanned vacation by an extra day.

"This storm was rare because of the unusual amount of snow and ice," Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler said. "This series of accidents that blocked our way made it really, really difficult."

Eugene Coleman, who is hyperglycemic, was trapped for 20 hours while on his way home to Hartford, Conn., from visiting his terminally ill mother in Georgia, along with his girlfriend and pregnant daughter.

"How could you operate a state like this? It's totally disgusting," Coleman said.

 

Brrrrr! Coldest March day since 1950

By Bill Fortier

A meteorologist in the Taunton office of the National Weather Service today confirmed what anybody walking outside quicky realizes, which is, it is about as cold as it can be for the month of March.

At 11 a.m. it was 3 degrees above zero with a wind child of about 20 degrees below zero, Meteorologist William Simpson said.

The temperature at midnight was 16 degrees which is the March 6 record for the lowest maximum temperature for the date, according to Mr. Simpson.

The record low maximum temerature for the month of March is 10 degrees, set on March 3, 1950. With a high temperature of 9 degrees predicted for the rest of the day, today will rival that record even though it won't show in the record book because the high temperature was recorded at midnight.

"Certainly, today is the coldest March day since 1950," Mr. Simpson said.

 

Coldest April Easter in 57 years

Better grab your insulated bonnets; we're in for the coldest Easter Sunday in years.

That didn't stop a group of early Easter egg hunters in Anoka this afternoon. They bundled up for the holiday tradition, despite the cold.

"That's Minnesota for you. But we still have our Easter spirit," said Sarah Oftelie.

Easter Sunday's high temperature will struggle to make 40 degrees, barely higher than Christmas day. In fact, we haven't seen April temperatures like this in almost 60 years.

Other parts of the country are freezing, too. Friday's Twins game is canceled in Chicago, and Atlanta could see its coldest Easter Sunday in 120 years.

By Karla Hult, KARE 11 News

Chilly Augusta brings out ear muffs and mittens

AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Ear-muffs and mittens, parkas and fleece...the patrons of Augusta National looked dressed for skiing rather than the third round of the Masters on Saturday.

"I'm wearing long johns, a sweater and a jacket," Roberta Goslen of Conyers, Georgia told Reuters. "I'm ready."

Overnight temperatures fell below freezing and with icy winds gusting to 20-mph, talk turned to wind-chill numbers among the fans who staked out prime positions at the par-three 16th.

There were no Hawaiian shirts on view and few shorts.

Goslen has been watching the Masters for more than 40 years, since she came dressed in her Easter finery as a four-year-old.

"You don't see anybody throwing down their badges and walking away," said Goslen's husband Clif. "It's still the Masters."

While most spectators were prepared, others had to improvise. Many bought decorative Masters throw blankets to wrap around themselves for warmth

John Thompson and Kathy Quarles of Louisville turned $10 Masters socks into mittens.

"It's a little bit cold for my taste," said the sun-tanned Quarles.

One man carrying four beers to his friends said "at least it's keeping the beers cold".

Seeking out the right place to watch the golf became a challenge. "Wind and shade are killers," said Bill Dean of Minnesota who tried to take comfort from the fact "it was 15 degrees at home yesterday".

Elegantly dressed in pink and unperturbed by the chill was Alethia Nowell, a retired librarian from Augusta and veteran of nearly 40 Masters who was sitting in the sun by the 16th green.

"Even though there are a lot of complaints about the cold, it is so much better than when it rains," she said. "I think it's a beautiful day."

Another visitor agreed.

"Hey, I'm from England. This is still a nice day to me," said Del Bingley.

Cold Weather Chills Spring Rituals


Apr 7, 9:17 PM (ET)

By ERRIN HAINES

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ATLANTA (AP) - It may be two weeks into spring, but it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Cold temperatures in much of the country have those celebrating Easter this weekend swapping out frills, bonnets and sandals for coats, scarves and socks. Baseball fans are huddled in blankets, and instead of spring planting, backyard gardeners are bundling their crops.

The National Weather Service was predicting record lows Sunday for parts of the Southeast and Midwest, and an unseasonably cold weekend for much of the Northeast. Snow was forecast in parts of Ohio, Michigan and New England.

"Our musicians are worried about their fingers," said the Rev. Michael Bingham, pastor of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church in Columbia, S.C., where Sunday lows were predicted to be in the low 20s. The church's sunrise Easter service usually held in a courtyard will be moved indoors.


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In Chicago, kids bundled in winter clothing for an Easter egg hunt at the Glessner House Museum. The high temperature in the city reached just 32 degrees on Saturday - matching a record set in 1936 for lowest high temperature. In early April, the Windy City's average high is 54 degrees.

"It was freezing," said Clare Schaecher, the museum's education director. "All the little kids had boots on and some of them were trying to wear their spring dresses. It was awful."

In Morrison, Colo., officials were forced to cancel an annual sunrise service scheduled for Sunday at the Red Rocks Amphitheater because seats and stairways were covered in ice.

In Washington, D.C., visitors to the nation's capital awoke Saturday to see cherry blossoms coated with snow. Snow also fell in metro Atlanta Friday night, and even in parts of West Texas and the Texas Panhandle.

Heavier snow in Ohio postponed Saturday's doubleheader between the Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners. The doubleheader had been scheduled because Friday's home opener in Cleveland was postponed.

In Nashville, Tenn., a forecast low of 22 degrees Sunday would beat the current record set on March 24, 1940, when the morning temperature was 24 degrees.

"We're going to be in record territory, for sure," said Jim Moser, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Nashville.

Farmers were worried about the impact the weather could have on crops. Blueberries could be particularly affected, said Stanley Scarborough, production manager of Sunnyridge Farms, which has fields in Baxley and Homerville, Ga.

Scarborough said the majority of the state's blueberry crop, a variety called rabbit-eye, is normally harvested around June 1. This year, the bushes bloomed early because of a wave of warm temperatures last week. Scarborough the blueberries are not able to withstand freezing temperatures.

"At 26 or 27 degrees, you would probably lose half of the Georgia crop," valued at about $20 million to $25 million dollars, Scarborough said.

In Alabama, growers scrambled to protect early blooming peach orchards. State Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks said if temperatures stay at 28 to 29 degrees for two hours, there could be "very severe" damage to the crop.

"If we stay there for four hours, we could possibly lose the peach crop," he said.

(State College, PA) - A steady surge of polar air has brought winterlike temperatures east of the Rockies, leading to near-record lows to start the Easter Sunday. With the cold air blasting into the Deep South, agricultural areas will be at risk of crop loss.

This morning, residents of the Southeast faced record or near-record lows. With high pressure building into the Tennessee Valley supplying a fresh arctic air mass, which combined with light winds and a sky that is clear to partly cloudy, morning temperatures plummeted to values more typical of the middle of winter, not early spring. This morning, cities such as Atlanta, Ga., and Charlotte, N.C., had already broken record lows, and this list will expand greatly through the day.

The South Regional News lists additional cities with record lows set Saturday morning, and the National Weather News Summary lists how one city in the Southeast broke four records in one day!

With temperatures dropping below the freezing mark into the Deep South, crops and blossoms will be at risk of damage. Temperatures in recent weeks were pleasant, topping the 80-degree mark across the Southeast. This led to many plants springing into bloom, and trees and crops began to blossom. Sunday morning, subfreezing temperatures will effect the peach orchards across Georgia and the strawberry patches through the Southeast.

In his blog, Frank Strait examines whether this will be the coldest Easter morning ever, as well as list how much snow fell across parts of the South with the recent storm.

This afternoon, temperatures in the Southeast will moderate slightly, although they will remain significantly below normal north of Florida. Today is the final day of the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga., and besides the great golf, the tournament will be noted for how cold it was. This morning, temperatures dropped below the freezing mark in Augusta, which broke the record low of 32 degrees from 1971. The frigid temperatures in the morning may delay the start of tee times.

This plunge of cold air into the southern Plains will also lead to additional snow and sleet from Colorado into the panhandle of Texas. Yesterday, accumulating snow was seen through central and western Texas, with Copperas Cove receiving 4.0 inches, while over 2 inches of snow blanketed Lubbock. Even cities where snow is rarely seen got snowflakes. Flurries were seen in Dallas, Texas, for only the fourth time in its April history.

Snow will also be found in more traditional places in April, particularly around the Great Lakes and into the Northeast. Cold air will continue to rush over the lakes, and this will produce additional lake-effect snow showers, with several inches accumulating in favored areas. The East Regional News details how much snow fell yesterday across parts of the Great Lakes region and when the significant snowbands from the Great Lakes will begin to diminish. Record lows also occurred across the Northeast this morning, and as the cold air continuing into the afternoon and evening, it may force more postponements of professional baseball games, as well as local college and high school games that are played outdoors.

Severe weather has been held to a minimum with the cold, stable air gripping the eastern two-thirds of the nation. A storm system is on the horizon and will enter the Rockies and Plains later this week. The Severe Weather Center reports that a clash between the very cold air east of the Rockies and the moist, Pacific air from the West will lead to strong thunderstorms, rain and snow later in the week.

By AccuWeather.com Meteorologist David Thomas

 

gloriously sunny weather here

 

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National Overview for Sunday Night:
UK: Broken cloud with patchy showers over Scotland and Northern Ireland Monday night. Showers will be most frequent across western Scotland. Partly cloudy and largely dry across England and Wales with fog patches possible late.

IRELAND: Rather cloudy with a few patchy showers in the North Monday night. Mainly dry elsewhere with cloudy and clear periods. Lows 5-9C. A light westerly wind.

 

yes and as i mentioned in the other thread where you cross-posted this (obviously rilli rilli important!) crap... it was lovely clear skies and sunshine today and yesterday.. but tonight and tomorrow?

whats your point again? we had really hot days in december and snow in march here.. so.. your point?

everythings fine?

 

May 8, 2007
Neptune News
Filed under: Climate Changes —
Neptune is the planet farthest from the Sun (Pluto is now considered only a dwarf planet), Neptune is the planet farthest from the Earth, and to our knowledge, there has been absolutely no industrialization out at Neptune in recent centuries. There has been no recent build-up of greenhouse gases there, no deforestation, no rapid urbanization, no increase in contrails from jet airplanes, and no increase in ozone in the low atmosphere; recent changes at Neptune could never be blamed on any human influence. Incredibly, an article has appeared in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters showing a stunning relationship between the solar output, Neptune’s brightness, and heaven forbid, the temperature of the Earth. With its obvious implications to the greenhouse debate, we are certain you have never heard of the work and never will outside World Climate Report.


In case you have forgotten your basic science lessons on the planets, Neptune orbits the Sun at a distance 30 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun and Neptune revolves around the Sun once every 164.8 Earth years. Neptune has 17 times the mass of the Earth, its atmosphere is primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, with traces of methane that account for the planet’s distinctive blue appearance. It was the only planet discovered mathematically – scientists noted variations in the orbit of Uranus, they calculated the orbit and position of a yet undiscovered planet that could cause the variations noted for Uranus, they determined where the planet should be, and on the first night they searched for it (September 23, 1846), they discovered the large planet sitting within 1 degree of their predictions. The new planet was named for Neptune, Roman god of the sea, given its distinctive blue color. Observations from Earth and a 1989 Voyager 2 flyby have revealed that Neptune’s cloud tops are extremely cold (−346°F) being so far from the Sun while the center of the planet has a temperature of 13,000°F due to high pressure generating extremely hot gases.

In the recent article, Hammel and Lockwood, from the Space Science Institute in Colorado and the Lowell Observatory, note that measurements of visible light from Neptune have been taken at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona since 1950. Obviously, light from Neptune can be related to seasons on the planet, small variations in Neptune’s orbit, the apparent tilt of the axis as viewed from the Earth, the varying distance from Neptune to Earth, and of course, changes in the atmosphere near the Lowell Observatory. Astronomers are clever, they are fully aware of these complications, and they adjust the measurements accordingly.

As seen in Figure 1, Neptune has been getting brighter since around 1980; furthermore, infrared measurements of the planet since 1980 show that the planet has been warming steadily from 1980 to 2004. As they say on Neptune, global warming has become an inconvenient truth. But with no one to blame, Hammel and Lockwood explored how variations in the output of the Sun might control variations in the brightness of Neptune.


Figure 1 (a) represents the corrected visible light from Neptune from 1950 to 2006; (b) shows the temperature anomalies of the Earth; (c) shows the total solar irradiance as a percent variation by year; (d) shows the ultraviolet emission from the Sun (Source: Hammel and Lockwood (2007)).

What would seem so simple statistically is complicated by the degrees of freedom in the various time series which is related to the serial correlation in the data (e.g., next year’s value is highly dependent on this year’s value). Nonetheless, they find that the correlation coefficient between solar irradiance and Neptune’s brightness is near 0.90 (1.00 is perfect). The same relationship is found between the Earth’s temperature anomalies and the solar output. Hammel and Lockwood note “In other words, the Earth temperature values are as well correlated with solar irradiance (r = 0.89) as they are with Neptune’s blue brightness (|r| > 0.90), assuming a 10-year lag of the Neptune values.” The temporal lag is needed to account for the large mass of Neptune that would require years to adjust to any changes in solar output.

Hammel and Lockwood conclude that “In summary, if Neptune’s atmosphere is indeed responding to some variation in solar activity in a manner similar to that of the Earth albeit with a temporal lag” then “Neptune may provide an independent (and extraterrestrial) locale for studies of solar effects on planetary atmospheres.”

World Climate Report has covered many articles in the scientific literature showing that variations in solar output, including variations within specific wavelengths (e.g., cosmic, ultraviolet, visible, infrared) are highly correlated with temperature variations near the Earth’s surface. Believe it or not, when the Sun is more energetic and putting out more energy, the Earth tends to warm up, and when the Sun cools down, so does the Earth. The Hammel and Lockwood article reveals that the same is true out at Neptune; when the Sun’s energy increases, Neptune seems to warm up and get brighter given a decade lag.

If for some reason you do not believe that the Sun is a significant player in determining the temperature of the Earth (after all, we are told repeatedly that humans are causing most of the observed warming on the Earth), then asked yourself if you believe that Neptune’s temperature is controlled by the Sun. How is it possible that the Earth’s temperature is so highly correlated with brightness variations from Neptune? The news from Neptune comes to us just weeks after an article was published showing that Mars has warmed recently as well.

If nothing else, we have certainly learned recently that planets undergo changes in their mean temperature, and while we can easily blame human activity here on the Earth, blaming humans for the recent warming on Mars and Neptune would be an astronomical stretch, to say the least.

Reference:

Hammel, H. B., and G. W. Lockwood, 2007. Suggestive correlations between the brightness of Neptune, solar variability, and Earth’s temperature, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L08203, doi:10.1029/2006GL028764.

 

I was meaning to provide the source.

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/05/08/neptune-news/

 

Snow falling in central Sweden
Published: 14th June 2007 13:09 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/7602/

It might be only one week to Midsummer, but nobody seems to have told mother nature. Snow has returned to parts of central Sweden, with five centimetres falling in some places.

The snowfall came in the mountainous Härjedalen area of northern Dalarna. A meteorologist from weather service SMHI told Svenska Dagbladet that snow was unusual at this time of year, usually falling roughly once every ten years.


The snow follows weeks of warm summer weather, but a low pressure area caused a turn in conditions. Temperatures are expected to rise again tomorrow, reaching 15 to 18 degrees, SMHI predicts.



Yellowstone National Park, WY

Hazardous Weather Outlook


Tonight: A slight chance of rain showers, mixing with snow after midnight. Some thunder is also possible. Partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Northwest wind between 8 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly cloudy, with a high near 60. West wind between 5 and 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. South southwest wind between 5 and 14 mph.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly cloudy, with a high near 68. Southwest wind between 7 and 17 mph.

Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. West southwest wind around 10 mph.

Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly cloudy, with a high near 73.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 38.

Thursday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 73.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38.

Friday: A slight chance of snow or rain showers. Some thunder is also possible. Partly cloudy, with a high near 71.

Friday Night: A slight chance of snow or rain showers. Some thunder is also possible. Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.

Saturday: A slight chance of snow or rain showers. Some thunder is also possible. Partly cloudy, with a high near 71.

Saturday Night: A slight chance of snow or rain showers. Some thunder is also possible. Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.

Sunday: A slight chance of snow or rain showers. Some thunder is also possible. Partly cloudy, with a high near 72.



Its been cool and rainy all weekend here in Dallas

 

But fourth graders are whistling a well memorized tune while marching lockstep with the global warming alarmist thanks to American tax funded schooling here is their report:

MAINE VOICES

Pending doom: Global warming crisis
A group of fourth-graders in Portland creates a list of priorities to stop global warming.

June 14, 2007


ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Hallie Repeta, Miranda Richman, Carole Grant, Jacob Austin and Gabrielle Wagabaza are fourth-grade students in Randy Bigelman's class at Portland's East End Community School.


Our school study of global warming started with lots of
questions. What is global warming? What is happening now?
What might happen in the future? What can each of us do to
help? Why should we care? What will the future look like?

A small group of students at our school has been researching
and studying the effects of global warming. The evidence and
data we collected is so overwhelming that we have decided to
write about this issue.

We want everyone to help curb Global warming. It truly means
that the Earth is getting warmer. The ocean is warming at such
an alarming rate that the continents are in danger.

Such a warming of the ocean is fuel for more severe hurricanes
such as Katrina. Katrina was only a Category 1 storm when it
crossed Florida. It became a monster storm by feeding off the
extremely warm water in the Gulf of Mexico.

Not just the ocean temperature, but also the overall temperature
on the planet is rising to dangerous levels.

The 10 "hottest" average years on record have occurred within
the last 14 years. We continue to see record carbon dixoide
levels in the atmosphere year after year. Just notice the strange
weather around us this winter and spring and even summer-like
days in March.

The United States is the leading contributor to the global-
warming crisis, producing one-third of the total greenhouse
gases in the world, more than South America, Africa, Asia and
Australia combined.

Please think about what people are doing and what could
happen if they do not stop.

Have we ever wondered what life might be like in 50 to 100
years? We might have imagined big robotic cities and flying cars,
but I bet we didn't imagine huge cities and tall skyscrapers
underwater. Well, that's what life will be if we keep burning fossil
fuels without thought.

Here are some facts that might help people realize the danger
we are facing.

Glaciers are melting at a faster and faster rate and glaciers are a
huge source of the world's drinking water. Greenland and the
Arctic ice shelf are melting faster each year and will disappear in
our lifetime if our fossil fuel usage continues unchecked. That
melting will raise the water level of the world's oceans nearly 40
feet. Basically, Manhattan would be underwater.

Hopefully, people will understand the danger we are facing. Do
Mainers want this to be our future? Although global warming is a
huge pending global disaster, we all have the means to change it
together.

Because the United States contributes one-third of the carbon
dioxide emissions worldwide, here are seven sensible ways to
save our seven beautiful continents:

nChange light bulbs to long lasting fluorescents and save 150
pounds of CO per year in every household.

nDrive less and save 1 pound of CO for every fewer mile.

nSave 2,400 pounds of CO by recycling plastics and paper.

nPlant a tree -- it breathes over a ton of helpful gases per
lifetime.

nTurn off any electrical items (TV, games, cell phones, lights,
etc.) when not in use to save 1,000 pounds of CO.

nBe informed -- go to www.stopglobalwarming.org or
www.climatecrisis.net.

nStay informed -- Watch Planet Earth (kids) and An Inconvenient
Truth (families).

Is our future already chosen for us? We are all young students,
ages 9-11, and cannot change the world like adults can. All the
facts we have presented are true, real, and will shape our future
unless decisive action is taken.

We will be in great danger if we don't...

get this problem in the
minds of all people and curb the unchecked growth of
greenhouse gas emissions.

It is our future our nation is playing with, so please change the
way people are playing. We encourage everyone to take action
and stop global warming.



— Special to the Press HeraldHave we ever
wondered what life might be like in 50 to 100 years?

 

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?

Global Warming alarmist conspiring to manipulate the facts to support their failed theory? Say it isn't so!



If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters.

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”

Hadley CRU has form in this regard. In September – I wrote the story up here as “How the global warming industry is based on a massive lie” - CRU’s researchers were exposed as having “cherry-picked” data in order to support their untrue claim that global temperatures had risen higher at the end of the 20th century than at any time in the last millenium. CRU was also the organisation which – in contravention of all acceptable behaviour in the international scientific community – spent years withholding data from researchers it deemed unhelpful to its cause. This matters because CRU, established in 1990 by the Met Office, is a government-funded body which is supposed to be a model of rectitude. Its HadCrut record is one of the four official sources of global temperature data used by the IPCC.

I asked in my title whether this will be the final nail in the coffin of Anthropenic Global Warming. This was wishful thinking, of course. In the run up to Copenhagen, we will see more and more hysterical (and grotesquely exaggerated) stories such as this in the Mainstream Media. And we will see ever-more-virulent campaigns conducted by eco-fascist activists, such as this risible new advertising campaign by Plane Stupid showing CGI polar bears falling from the sky and exploding because kind of, like, man, that’s sort of what happens whenever you take another trip on an aeroplane.

The world is currently cooling; electorates are increasingly reluctant to support eco-policies leading to more oppressive regulation, higher taxes and higher utility bills; the tide is turning against Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. The so-called “sceptical” view – which is some of us have been expressing for quite some time: see, for example, the chapter entitled ‘Barbecue the Polar Bears’ in WELCOME TO OBAMALAND: I’VE SEEN YOUR FUTURE AND IT DOESN’T WORK – is now also, thank heaven, the majority view.

Unfortunately, we’ve a long, long way to go before the public mood (and scientific truth) is reflected by our policy makers. There are too many vested interests in AGW, with far too much to lose either in terms of reputation or money, for this to end without a bitter fight.

But to judge by the way – despite the best efforts of the MSM not to report on it – the CRU scandal is spreading like wildfire across the internet, this shabby story represents a blow to the AGW lobby’s credibility from which it is never likely to recover.

 

EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling

Junk science exposed among climate-change believers

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims.

Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the "trick of adding in the real temps to each series ... to hide the decline [in temperature]."

Mr. Mann admitted that he was party to this conversation and lamely explained to the New York Times that "scientists often used the word 'trick' to refer to a good way to solve a problem 'and not something secret.' " Though the liberal New York newspaper apparently buys this explanation, we have seen no benign explanation that justifies efforts by researchers to skew data on so-called global-warming "to hide the decline." Given the controversies over the accuracy of Mr. Mann's past research, it is surprising his current explanations are accepted so readily.

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There is a lot of damning evidence about these researchers concealing information that counters their bias. In another exchange, Mr. Jones told Mr. Mann: "If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone" and, "We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind." Mr. Jones further urged Mr. Mann to join him in deleting e-mail exchanges about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) controversial assessment report (ARA): "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re [the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report]?"

In another e-mail, Mr. Jones told Mr. Mann, professor Malcolm K. Hughes of the University of Arizona and professor Raymond S. Bradley of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!"

At one point, Mr. Jones complained to another academic, "I did get an email from the [Freedom of Information] person here early yesterday to tell me I shouldn't be deleting emails." He also offered up more dubious tricks of his trade, specifically that "IPCC is an international organization, so is above any national FOI. Even if UEA holds anything about IPCC, we are not obliged to pass it on." Another professor at the Climate Research Unit, Tim Osborn, discussed in e-mails how truncating a data series can hide a cooling trend that otherwise would be seen in the results. Mr. Mann sent Mr. Osborn an e-mail saying that the results he was sending shouldn't be shown to others because the data support critics of global warming.

Repeatedly throughout the e-mails that have been made public, proponents of global-warming theories refer to data that has been hidden or destroyed. Only e-mails from Mr. Jones' institution have been made public, and with his obvious approach to deleting sensitive files, it's difficult to determine exactly how much more information has been lost that could be damaging to the global-warming theocracy and its doomsday forecasts.

We don't condone e-mail theft by hackers, though these e-mails were covered by Britain's Freedom of Information Act and should have been released. The content of these e-mails raises extremely serious questions that could end the academic careers of many prominent professors. Academics who have purposely hidden data, destroyed information and doctored their results have committed scientific fraud. We can only hope respected academic institutions such as Pennsylvania State University, the University of Arizona and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst conduct proper investigative inquiries.

Most important, however, these revelations of fudged science should have a cooling effect on global-warming hysteria and the panicked policies that are being pushed forward to address the unproven theory.