Unfortunately, IPCC seems far more concerned about secrecy than in requiring its contributors to archive data. I received another request to remove discussion of IPCC draft reports. On this issue, David Appell and I are in full agreement – see David Appell’s collection of ZOD chapters here. IPCC’s most recent request was as follows: From: IPCC WGI TSU On Behalf Of Pauline Midgley Sent: January-24-12 8:54 AM To: Stephen McIntyre Cc: ‘IPCC WGI TSU’ Subject: WGI AR5 FOD Dear Mr McIntyre, In a recent thread on the blog that you host, Climate Audit, you quote text and…
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Referees Call Foul on Boehner Shilling for Big Oil
350.org - Movement Dispatches and Climate News27 Jan 2012 | 4:28 pm350 Ohio Field Organizer, Danny Berchenko, had the following to say about their trip to the Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner's district office Thursday afternoon. It's become clear that Speaker of the House, John Boehner, is more interested in filling his pockets with dirty energy's money than in representing his constituents and ensuring ecological and economic security for Americans (and the rest of the planet). So yesterday morning, a group of twenty citizen referees braved the cold and rain to pay his district office in West Chester, Ohio a visit and call foul on his dirty… -
Giant Veil of “Cold Plasma” Discovered High Above Earth
Watts Up With That?27 Jan 2012 | 9:17 pmFrom National Geographic: Clouds of charged particles stretch a quarter the way to the moon, experts say. Clouds of “cold plasma” reach from the top of Earth’s atmosphere to at least a quarter the distance to the moon, according to … Continue reading → -
Activists want climate change on TV weather reports - Houston Chronicle
"climate change" - Google News28 Jan 2012 | 12:06 amActivists want climate change on TV weather reportsHouston ChronicleBy Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle None of Houston's TV meteorologists made Forecast the Fact's list of some four dozen television forecasters who are "deniers" of climate change. In their own words, here are the views of three of them on climate change -
NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye'
ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News27 Jan 2012 | 4:48 pmPowerful Cyclone Funso's eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA's Aqua satellite noticed it had "closed" and become filled with high clouds on January 27.
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Referees Call Foul on Boehner Shilling for Big Oil
27 Jan 2012 | 4:28 pm350 Ohio Field Organizer, Danny Berchenko, had the following to say about their trip to the Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner's district office Thursday afternoon. It's become clear that Speaker of the House, John Boehner, is more interested in filling his pockets with dirty energy's money than in representing his constituents and ensuring ecological and economic security for Americans (and the rest of the planet). So yesterday morning, a group of twenty citizen referees braved the cold and rain to pay his district office in West Chester, Ohio a visit and call foul on his dirty… -
Why I'm worried about my trip to Canada...
25 Jan 2012 | 11:23 amWe just sent out this email to our folks in Canada. Not getting our emails? Sign up here. It's time to fight back. Prime Minister Harper and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver are waging a dirty campaign to discredit anyone who is opposed to burning the oil sands or building Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline. Sign the petition to help build a groundswell of Canadians who are ready to stop the oil sands: www.350.org/canadian-groundswell Dear friends in Canada, I've been visiting Canada all my life, but I'm a little worried about my upcoming trip. In late March I'm supposed to… -
Solidarity to stop dirty coal in Kosovo
25 Jan 2012 | 5:58 amUPDATE: This campaign is now out in French, German, and Spanish as well. SOLIDARITY ACTION: Help communities in Kosovo overcome a proposed coal plant beign pushed by the World Bank and the United States State Department: http://www.350.org/kosovo We're harnessing the power of this movement to stop a proposed coal plant in Kosovo. And it’s not just any coal, it is lignite coal, the dirtiest kind. We need to support the people of Kosovo in their struggle to move beyond coal and enter a new phase of development based on clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Kosovo is a tiny… -
Hundreds "Blow the Whistle" on Dirty Energy Money in Congress
24 Jan 2012 | 1:21 pmWe just sent out the following press release about the amazing action that took place in Washington, DC this afternoon. The action is still continuing, as our referees march over to the American Petroleum Institute to protest the Big Oil front group. We'll try and get more photos and video up soon, but here's the initial report: WASHINGTON – At a protest on Capitol Hill this afternoon, hundreds of people dressed as referees called "foul" on members of Congress for supporting the Keystone XL pipeline while taking millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel… -
TODAY: Blowing the Whistle on Dirty Energy Money
24 Jan 2012 | 10:39 amA guest blog from our friend Steve Kretzmann, cross-posted from our friends at Oil Change International. On Tuesday, January 24, as Washington readies for the annual State of the Union address, more than 500 people in referee outfits are converging on Capitol Hill to “blow the whistle” on Congress. Why? Consider these two facts: 1. The American people believe (rightly) that Members of Congress are more responsive to their campaign donors than to their own constituents. 2. Americans of all affiliations clearly favor ending fossil fuel industry handouts. Americans are sick of watching…
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Giant Veil of “Cold Plasma” Discovered High Above Earth
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Major x class solar flare
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Alaska On The Rocks
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Two Feet of Snow in Seattle
27 Jan 2012 | 12:14 pmMore proof of global warming climate change global climate disruption has been seen with this latest snowstorm in Seattle. Readers may recall this story from 2008 from where the mayor even refused to bring out salting/snowplowing for fear of environmental … Continue reading → -
Friday Funny – modeling double feature
27 Jan 2012 | 10:17 amJosh of cartoonsbyjosh.com writes: There is a wonderful George Monbiot article here… http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jan/26/weather-forecasters-daily-mail …on how the Daily Mail hired ‘Positive Weather Solutions’, a bunch of models, to do their weather forecasting for them… very funny. But it is the kind … Continue reading →
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Activists want climate change on TV weather reports - Houston Chronicle
28 Jan 2012 | 12:06 amActivists want climate change on TV weather reportsHouston ChronicleBy Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle None of Houston's TV meteorologists made Forecast the Fact's list of some four dozen television forecasters who are "deniers" of climate change. In their own words, here are the views of three of them on climate change -
Climate Change Denial Sweeping Into Public Schools - Care2.com (blog)
27 Jan 2012 | 8:20 pmClimate Change Denial Sweeping Into Public SchoolsCare2.com (blog)But did you know that a host of anti-science bills mandating the teaching of climate change denial or “skepticism” as a credible “theoretical alternative” to climate change is also an ALEC bill? So far Texas and Louisiana have introduced education ALEC Behind Push to Require Climate Denial Instruction in Schoolstruthoutall 2 news articles » -
UCLA faculty experts advisory: California aims to cut emissions, increase ... - UC Los Angeles
27 Jan 2012 | 6:25 pmFox NewsUCLA faculty experts advisory: California aims to cut emissions, increase UC Los AngelesAnn Carlson, professor of law and faculty director of the UCLA Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, is an authority on constitutional questions affecting environmental law and policy, including the division of regulatory authority California moves against climate change with new clean car rulesMonsters and Critics.comCalifornia Adopts Robust Plan for Cleaner CarsUnion of Concerned Scientistsall 799 news articles » -
New USDA plant zones clearly show climate change - Washington Post (blog)
27 Jan 2012 | 2:57 pmNewsdayNew USDA plant zones clearly show climate changeWashington Post (blog)Although these zones, which serve as a guide to the kinds of plants that can grow, have shifted north in most areas, USDA shied away from making a climate change connection. “The map is not a good instrument for determining climate change,” said Kim Gardeners in a new zoneOmaha World-HeraldUS Dept. of Agriculture New Hardiness Zones Show Impact of Global WarmingPR Web (press release)Planting zones remapping won't affect Big Country much, ag observers sayReporterNews.comall 39 news articles » -
A dangerous shift in Obama's 'climate change' rhetoric - Washington Post
27 Jan 2012 | 2:36 pmOutcome MagazineA dangerous shift in Obama's 'climate change' rhetoricWashington PostWhat happened to “climate change” and “global warming”? The Earth is still getting hotter, but those terms have nearly disappeared from political vocabulary. Instead, they have been replaced by less charged and more consumer-friendly expressions for Climate Change Debate Brewing in American ClassroomsWall Street Journal (blog)Natural England's Climate Change Risk Assessment And Adaptation PlaneGov monitorThe State of the Union's Climate EducationHuffington PostMedicine Hat…
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Another IPCC Demand for Secrecy
26 Jan 2012 | 4:43 pmUnfortunately, IPCC seems far more concerned about secrecy than in requiring its contributors to archive data. I received another request to remove discussion of IPCC draft reports. On this issue, David Appell and I are in full agreement – see David Appell’s collection of ZOD chapters here. IPCC’s most recent request was as follows: From: IPCC WGI TSU On Behalf Of Pauline Midgley Sent: January-24-12 8:54 AM To: Stephen McIntyre Cc: ‘IPCC WGI TSU’ Subject: WGI AR5 FOD Dear Mr McIntyre, In a recent thread on the blog that you host, Climate Audit, you quote text and… -
More Spurious East Anglia Arguments Rejected
23 Jan 2012 | 11:15 amAn excellent article at Bishop Hill here describing a clean sweep for Don Keiller in court (with David Holland as a “Mackenzie friend”) against the University of East Anglia and its solicitors. Decision is here. The article reports on Keiller’s appeal to the First-Tier Tribunal (Case No. EA/2011/0152) in the General Regulatory Chamber – Information Rights. The appeal related to the second part of Keiller’s original FOI – instructions sent by CRU to Georgia Tech on their use of CRUTEM. CRU had argued that they didn’t have the information because Jones… -
Neukom and the Steig Over/Under
19 Jan 2012 | 10:29 amEarlier this year, I reported on the refusal of Raphael Neukom, an associate of IPCC confidentiality advocate and WG1 Co-Chair Thomas Stocker at the University of Bern, to archive data used in a then recent multiproxy study, Neukom et al 2011 (Clim Dyn). In his refusal letter, Neukom stated that Most of the non-publicly available records were provided to us for use within the PAGES LOTRED-SA initiative only Neukom’s website lists a set of multiproxy data, many of the series said to be “available on request for LOTRED-SA contributors”. Despite Neukom’s… -
Stocker’s Earmarks
12 Jan 2012 | 6:52 pmIn December, the WG1 TSU of the IPCC sent me a formal notice asking me to remove Climate Audit discussion of the IPCC Zero Draft. In this notice, they stated: It has come to our attention that several Chapters of the Zero Order Draft (ZOD) of WGI AR5 are being cited, quoted and discussed on the blog that you host, Climate Audit, despite the fact that each of these chapters is clearly marked “Do not cite, quote or distribute”. We would respectfully request that you remove the relevant parts with discussions of the ZOD from your blog and, furthermore, that this does not happen with the FOD. -
Nature and the Inundation Legend
7 Jan 2012 | 11:30 pmClimategate 2.0 emails shed remarkable light on the role of Nature news “reporter”, Olive Heffernan, in the development of a “legend” to place CRU data obstruction in a better light. They show that Jones had candidly admitted to Heffernan that his real reason for refusing data was simply to obstruct potential critics – a position essentially unchanged from his notorious 2005 refusal on the grounds that “we have 25 years invested in this”. Instead of reporting Jones’ admission, Nature attributed Jones’ data obstruction to an imaginary…
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NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye'
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NASA eyes cyclone Iggy's threat to western Australia
27 Jan 2012 | 4:48 pmNASA satellites are providing valuable data to forecasters as Tropical Cyclone Iggy nears Western Australia. NASA's Aqua satellite provided visible and infrared data on Iggy, observing colder cloud tops and strengthening storm. Iggy has already triggered warnings and watches along coastal areas. -
Space weather center to add world's first 'ensemble forecasting' capability
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New ideas sharpen focus for greener aircraft
27 Jan 2012 | 4:37 pmLeaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three industry teams under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project. -
NASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'
27 Jan 2012 | 4:32 pmTwo years ago, scientists released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of "missing energy" in the planet's system. Where was it going? Or, they wondered, was something wrong with the way researchers tracked energy as it was absorbed from the sun and emitted back into space? An international team of atmospheric scientists and oceanographers set out to investigate the mystery.
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Climate Change News | Planetsave
27 Jan 2012 | 7:22 pmOther than the climate change and science stories we've already covered this week, here's a roundup of some of the top climate change (especially climate science) stories I've seen around the interwebs: Arctic Temperatures -
RealClearPolitics - Climate-Change Deniers' Greatest-Hits
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Climate Change Debate Brewing in American Classrooms ...
27 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pmClimate change and Evolution like quantum physics, string theory, dark matter…have no business being taught in public schools. These are not subjects non-college kids can learn anything from on a scientific basis. There are -
Climate Change Goes Back to Square Zero | Mother Jones
27 Jan 2012 | 12:15 pmClimate Change Goes Back to Square Zero. —By Kevin Drum. | Fri Jan. 27, 2012 10:15 AM PST. Tweet. The Wall Street Journal has apparently tapped into the tea party id today and written the ur-text of modern-day climate denial we've all -
Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government | Mother ...
26 Jan 2012 | 1:12 pmAs climate change gets worse, only governments will have the capacity to deal with the catastrophes it creates. —By Christian Parenti. | Thu Jan. 26, 2012 11:12 AM PST. Tweet. Hurricane Irene hits the East Coast on August 26, 2011.
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“Disbelieving is hard work”
19 Jan 2012 | 11:43 pmDaniel Kahneman Theory-induced blindness and Vermeer’s and Rahmstorf’s “Global sea level linked to global temperature.” In one of the many interesting chapters of Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Psychology and winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics discussed Daniel Bernoulli’s 250-year-old mathematical theory of risk aversion. Kahneman points out that “Bernoulli’s essay is a marvel of concise brilliance… Most impressive, his analysis… has stood the test of time: it is still… -
Modern Luddites
31 Dec 2011 | 10:10 pmA friend of yours Suppose a friend of yours believes that the world is facing a dire future because of too much CO2 in the atmosphere. The problem seems clear to him, he says, and so does the best course of action. The fossil fuel powering of the world must come to an end. He knows that bringing that end about is very difficult, but he perseveres. It will be very expensive. Many of the worlds assets will be consumed replacing a thriving fossil fuel based economy with a new “cleaner” economy. The entire world must be convinced to cooperate, so he cajoles and… -
Biofuels leading to disaster
28 Dec 2011 | 1:15 amBiofuels, whose main purpose is to salve the delicate social conscience of environmentalists, is leading to starvation in the third world countries. The all-caring, holier-than-thou, government-schmoozing elite environmentalists of western countries are inventing a new form a imperialism that leads to poverty or starvation in third world countries. Data from the International Land Coalition, as reported in “Land Rights and the Rush for Land“ leads to this inescapable conclusion. The Land Matrix project has recorded worldwide transitions of land ownership, leases and… -
Rahmstorf (2009): Off the mark again (part 13), 21st century projections with gamma = 1
16 Dec 2011 | 10:42 pmRecall the six IPCC families of temperature scenarios, summed up in the following IPCC figure. VR2009 applied these temperature scenarios to their model to yield corresponding sea level rise rates. Let’s consider the A1F1 and A1T temperature scenarios. Figure 1. (top) This is figure 10.26 from the IPCC AR4 Chapter 10, "Global Climate Projections." It shows the temperature projections for each of the six IPCC SRES emission scenarios averaged for the 19 AOGCM models and 3 carbon cycle feed backs and the standard deviations. (bottom) Zoom in on A1F1 and A1t averages. Here… -
Canadian Globe and Mail: “Suppression of climate debate is a disaster for science”
3 Dec 2011 | 2:31 pmClimategate2 gains traction. From Margaret Wente, Canadian Globe and Mail… “Although Climategate has been widely dismissed as nothing more than the usual academic sniping, it is much more than that. In some of the e-mails, scientists propose ways to massage the data to make it look better. They try to figure out how to get dissident scientists fired. Others are unhappy because they believe important information has been simplified, suppressed or misrepresented for public consumption.” See entire article here. Margaret Wente is one of Canada’s leading columnists, winner…
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The verdict is in on climate change
23 Jan 2012 | 7:33 amRecently I had jury duty, and during jury selection something remarkable occurred. Early in the proceedings, the judge posed a hypothetical question to the 60 or so potential jurors in the room: "If I were to send you out now and ask you to render a verdict, what would it be? How many of you would vote not guilty?" A few raised their hands. "How many would vote guilty?" A few more raised their hands. "And how many would say you didn't know enough to decide?" Every remaining hand — about 50 people — went up immediately.That, of course, was the wrong answer, and the judge proceeded to… -
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year On Record
20 Jan 2012 | 11:13 amScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2012) — The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000.NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis that shows temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth… -
In fight against global warming, NASA calls for reduction of black carbon Read more: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/science/in-fight-against-global-warming-nasa-scientists-call-for-reduction-of-black-carbon/#ixzz1jZ9pAMJ0
15 Jan 2012 | 3:52 pmIn the battle against global warming, scientists say they some of the world’s largest emitters should adjust their focus from reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, to curbing the emissions of soot and methane.NASA scientists, in a study published in Science, say that while carbon dioxide from fossil fuels like coal and oil remain a larger overall cause of global warming, reducing methane and soot may offer short-term solutions that could slow down the impacts of global warming. The research, led by Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, finds that focusing… -
Weird weather around the world sees in 2012
12 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pmWith unusual weather in Europe and the Americas, low Arctic ice, droughts in Africa and Latin America, 2012 picks up where 2011 left off. 2012 has begun where 2011 left off with weird weather in Europe and the Americas, Arctic ice at almost its lowest extent ever recorded in midwinter, disastrous droughts and searing heat in Africa and Latin America, and one of the world's biggest insurance companies warning that climate change will increase damages.Thousands of people in Austria, France and Germany were on Thursday still digging themselves out of some of the heaviest snowfalls… -
Success in Durban can not disguise need for climate adaptation
27 Dec 2011 | 7:10 pmEarlier this month, the world’s heads of state, government, industry and NGOs met in Durban, South Africa, to discuss our common future. These climate negotiations were more successful than many people had feared. A new international climate agreement will enter into force in 2020. This agreement makes life more predictable for industry and supports a future based on low-carbon technology. But we cannot rest on our laurels because - irrespective of political processes - climate forces are wreaking havoc everywhere. The authorities are drowning in information but lack knowledge about…
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Talking at the Sydney Institute about the Need to Restore the Estuary
28 Jan 2012 | 12:55 amI will be speaking at the Sydney Institute on Wednesday 8th February on the need to restore the Murray River’s estuary. More information here: http://www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au/functions/weekly-seminars/ My talk will be published in the on-line journal The Sydney Papers. The talk will be uploaded on to The Sydney Institute’s website as a podcast soon after the event. Also, it is possible that the talk will be filmed by APAC – Channel 648 on Foxtel and Austar – and will be shown in full soon after the event. -
The Average Global Surface Air Temperature for 2011: Ole Humlum
27 Jan 2012 | 5:31 am“ON the whole, the year 2011 was somewhat cooler than 2010… In the Northern Hemisphere close to normal or relatively low surface air temperatures characterized most regions. Relatively warm conditions characterised northern Siberia and Russia, especially along the Arctic Ocean coast. Conditions near the Equator were influenced by the cold La Nina situation, which has prevailed for most of 2011. Most of equatorial Pacific thereby experienced average surface air temperatures below the 1998-2006 average temperatures. In the Southern Hemisphere surface air temperatures were close to… -
The Age of Apocalypse?
25 Jan 2012 | 6:41 am“When questioned, Jesus of Nazareth had this to say on the subject of the end of the world: ‘But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.’ (Mark 13:32) We don’t seem to have improved on that forecast since and not all the research associates and interns toiling at Mead GHQ crunching all the computers that money can buy have been able to come up with anything more precise. “But whether or not we get the Big Bang or the Big Whimper, the new decade is going to be haunted by the specter of an approaching… -
Sustaining Australia on 2,500 Gigalitres of Water
23 Jan 2012 | 10:55 pmYesterday a Murrumbidgee food producer, Virginia Tropeano, had a letter printed in the local Murrumbidgee ‘Area News’ explaining that in an average rainfall year it take 5,000 gigalitres of water to keep the Lower Lakes artificially fresh. Because of the sea dykes across the bottom of the Lower Lakes, they are totally dependent on water from upstream. In drought years this makes the Lower Lakes completely dependent on water in upstream storages. The only really large and reliable storages in drought years are in the upper Murray and Murrumbidgee catchments because they are the only snow… -
Climate Update: Ole Humlum
22 Jan 2012 | 5:49 amDear all. Please find below a link which will take you directly to a monthly newsletter (ca. 1.3 MB) with meteorological information updated to December 2011: http://www.climate4you.com/Text/Climate4you_December_2011.pdf All temperatures in this newsletter are shown in degrees Celsius. Previous (since March 2009) issues of the newsletter, diagrams and additional material are available on http://www.climate4you.com/ All the best, yours sincerely, Ole Humlum Ole Humlum, Professor of Physical Geography Department of Physical Geography, Institute of Geosciences University of Oslo, Norway
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Brief Update: I’ve been a little distracted.
24 Jan 2012 | 10:25 amI know various people are curious about the non-posting. Some are sending me suggestions for ideas. To help those sending ideas understand why I am not setting aside time to give the idea the full consideration it might merit, I thought I’d give a brief update: Jim Sr’s location: In hospital. Number of emergency room admits in last week? Three. I think. Rosemary L. (aka, my mother-in-law): Visiting Jim Sr. at hospital — I think. My brother’s-in-law were supposed to pick her up and take here there; I’ve not heard of any change in plans. So, I think that went as… -
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Megaupload closed down.
21 Jan 2012 | 7:38 amYesterday the SOPA/PIPA controversy developed a direct tangible climate. Do you all remember that when the first chapters of the ZOD were leaked, some were made available at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IJ40UFBT? Yesterday the Fed’s shut down megaupload techland begins their article with McLEAN, Va. (AP) — One of the world’s largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said. techfleece writes Megaupload, one of the most popular sites for storing and sharing information,… -
NASA CERF Office of the Chief Information Officer: Top Threat?!
18 Jan 2012 | 2:25 pmBecause something tried to load the main page of my domain nearly 30,000 times this morning,I hunted down the API that let me find the underlying IPs that hit my blog recently. The API gives me limited information– I can’t see which pages they hit using that API. Still, it does let me specifically examine the IPs Cloudflare considers “threats”. Here are the “threat” IPs that hit over 20 times in 12 hours. I’ve highlighted two interesting ones:… -
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18 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pmAs is appropriate on SOPA/PIPA protest day, for about for about 1/2 hour, a few of you got banned at cloudflare. Why? Well, a bot tried to reload the root page at least 27,493 times between 6:57 am and 6:47 am. I’ve been fiddling to block the strategy it used. If it’s any consolation, I banned myself. Of course, I noticed I was banned, unbanned myself and anyone else who got blocked this morning. Since it is SOPA/PIPA protest day, I’m encouraging you to sign Google’s petition. My general impression is the law is written too broadly and opens up the possibility of…
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“Vision Prize”, an online poll of scientists about climate risk
22 Jan 2012 | 7:51 pmA group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is trying to get a better understanding of the views of earth scientists regarding various climate change topics. They have set up an ongoing poll to do this, called Vision Prize. It’s a short (10 question) poll, covering topics like the rate of CO2 increase, predicted future temperatures, sea ice and sea level states, and hurricane frequencies. Early participants can designate a $20 donation from the group to a charity of their choice, upon completion. Please take a few minutes to help them out if qualified. -
The dog is the weather
17 Jan 2012 | 7:09 amUpdate January 27: There is also another recent dog-based animations from Victoria (southeast Australia) explaining some of the key drivers of our climate and how some are changing. A TV series that ran on Norwegian TV (NRK) last year included a simple and fun cartoon that demonstrates some important concepts relative to weather and climate: In the animation, the man’s path can be considered as analogous to a directional climatic change, while the path traced by his dog’s whimsical movements represent weather fluctuations, as constrained by the man’s path, the leash, and the… -
Open Climate 101 Online
16 Jan 2012 | 7:41 amAlmost 3000 non-science major undergraduates at the University of Chicago have taken PHSC13400, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, since Ray Pierrehumbert and I (David Archer) first developed it back in 1995. Since the publication of the textbook for the class in 2005 (and a much-cleaned-up 2nd edition now shipping), enrollment has gone through the roof, it’s all I’ve been able to teach the last few years, trying to keep up with demand. I hear it is the largest class on campus, with 4-500 students a year out of an annual class of only around 1400. Now the content of this… -
An online model of methane in the atmosphere
11 Jan 2012 | 7:35 amI’ve put together an easy-to-play-with online model of methane in the atmosphere. I’m going to use it for teaching along with the rest of the Understanding the Forecast webmodels, but it was designed to be relevant to the issue of abrupt new methane burps as we’ve been ruminating about lately on Realclimate. The model runs in three stages: a pre-anthropogenic steady state which ends in the model year -50, addition of a new chronic source for 50 years (from human activity),then a spike beginning at model year 0 (supposed to be today) and running for 100 years into the model… -
An Arctic methane worst-case scenario
7 Jan 2012 | 7:17 amLet’s suppose that the Arctic started to degas methane 100 times faster than it is today. I just made that number up trying to come up with a blow-the-doors-off surprise, something like the ozone hole. We ran the numbers to get an idea of how the climate impact of an Arctic Methane Nasty Surprise would stack up to that from Business-as-Usual rising CO2 Walter et al (2007) says that Arctic lakes are 10% of natural global emissions, or about 5% of total emissions. I believe that was considered to be remarkably high at the time but let’s take it as a given, and representing the…
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Circular Reasoning on Rectilinear Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation
26 Jan 2012 | 6:35 pmI’ve been spending time working on improved sea ice code. Anthony Watts asked for something and Steve McIntyre helped find the right R function to get it going. I want to also overlay SST data as well as flow direction in the videos. Hopefully it will lead us to some statistical analysis. In the meantime JWL has been discussing backradiation on the previous thread. It is an old argument which doesn’t have a lot of entertainment value for some of us. He has put together a pdf which alleges to prove that backradiation (radiation from cold to hot) is impossible in the climate… -
Fun Stuff
21 Jan 2012 | 2:34 pmA guest post by Dr. Weinstein in response to a post by Dr. Spencer. EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC MASS AND CO2 ON GROUND TEMPERATURE Leonard Weinstein, ScD January 17, 2012 The issue has been raised about the effect of the mass of an atmosphere on surface temperature. It can be shown that if no optically absorbing gases, aerosols, or clouds are present in the atmosphere, that the average surface temperature will be determined by albedo, absorbed surface solar radiation (ignoring small radioactive heating effects), and outgoing thermal radiation at the ground level, and I will not discuss that issue… -
The Blog Trap
19 Jan 2012 | 5:13 pmTom Fuller has started blogging again. He used to post at the SF examiner – until he also quit. Many of you will remember that he and I hold different views on politics but I find him honest and a far better writer than me. According to his email, his new blog will focus on energy and climate and appears to be directed at renewable energy. I’m looking forward to his contributions again and expect he will create a comfortable blogging atmosphere where difficult yet reasoned discussions can be held. Let this be a lesson to new bloggers, it is a trap! Tom’s blog (3000quads.com)… -
Full length NSIDC Sea Ice Data
17 Jan 2012 | 8:12 pmBelow is the full length of the NSIDC SEA ice data. From 2.8 gb of data. The graphs of the Arctic and Antarctic are plotted on equal grid scales having a pixel resolution of 25km. The satellite ice data comes from the NSIDC Sea Ice Concentrations as collected from the Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave systems. -
Improved Sea Ice videos
16 Jan 2012 | 11:51 pmUPDATE: High speed video from 2004 to present added below. In response to recent discussions, I’ve taken the time to download the 2.8 gb of data required to plot sea ice. I found a far better software for video creation called virtual dub. And I rescaled the graphs so that the Arctic and Antarctic are plotted on equal grid scales. The pixel resolution is 25km and the satellite ice data comes from the NSIDC Sea Ice Concentrations as collected from the Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave systems. This version represents just a few years of the…
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Tri-Tech to build wastewater treatment plant in Hebei
27 Jan 2012 | 4:04 amTri-Tech has secured a build-transfer contract for the construction of a wastewater treatment plant and a wastewater pipeline network in Dawangdian Industrial Park in Hebei Province. China. -
MPUC approves hydroelectricity purchase deal of Minnesota Power
27 Jan 2012 | 4:02 amThe Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) has approved Minnesota Power's 15-year power purchase agreement with Manitoba Hydro. -
Canadian Solar, Al Fahad Group sign sales agreement
27 Jan 2012 | 4:02 amCanadian Solar has signed an agreement with the Al Fahad Group, which is engaged in Defense & Intelligence, Homeland Security, Networking & Communications and Power. -
USDA allocates $232.5m loan for cellulosic biorefinery in Oregon
26 Jan 2012 | 11:16 pmUS Department of Agriculture (USDA) has allocated a $232.5m loan guarantee to ZeaChem to support the construction of a commercial-scale cellulosic biorefinery. -
enXco Service Canada to provide O&M services for 88MW wind farm
26 Jan 2012 | 9:50 pmenXco Service Canada has signed a multi-year agreement with Suncor Energy and Teck Resources to provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the 88MW Wintering Hills wind power project in Canada.
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NationalField – “This is social with clear ROI”
18 Jan 2012 | 4:50 amIf any of you read the Metro on your way to work this morning you may have noticed an article entitled ‘The new Social Network’ regarding the enterprising NationalField. For those of you who didn’t, the double page spread lavished praise on Edward Saatchi’s (yes, the son of Charles Saatchi) brainchild, an internal social network similar to that of Yammer and Jive. Known to some as ‘Social software’ solutions, all of the above platforms are meant to enable a set of cost reduction / productivity increase practices including ‘fewer meetings’, ‘more ideas generated’, ‘less… -
Powwownow ❤ Pintrest
9 Jan 2012 | 8:34 amWith the New Year comes a whole host of new innovation! From the pioneering Skillshare, which offers an online marketplace for offline classes, to the increasingly popular Dwolla, a tool that facilitates the transfer of money via social networks and now processes $1 million per day. There are tens of new technologies keeping our office positively buzzing, but it seems there is one website that attracts more kudos than anything else. We just can’t stop discussing Pintrest, an invitation-only site that describes itself as a pinboard to organise and share things you love. The growing… -
Look what came in the Pow Wow post today…
8 Dec 2011 | 8:49 amLast month we teamed up with UK Business Zone and asked their members to tell us their costliest business mistake in the hope to win a MacBook Pro. We were inundated with responses with everything from being mis-sold a franchise to mis-understanding an event speaker’s contract and being hit with a bill for thousands. However, there had to be a winner and we were only too glad to announce Bhavin Patel, marketing director at IdeaBright, as the fortunate (unfortunate??) winner a few weeks back. We sent the Mac. He received the Mac (we were informed), and neither party thought anything… -
How To Bag The Tech Job Of Your Dreams; 8 Key Core Skills To Remember
24 Nov 2011 | 3:43 amIn the midst of fears regarding a double dip recession and on-going worries about the Eurozone crisis, we must console ourselves with the fact it’s not all doom and gloom; at least not for technical folk. Highly skilled developers and coders are still very much in high demand, and by 2018, Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts are expected to see a 53+% increase in salary, with Computer Software Engineers close behind with an anticipated 34% increase in salary. Requirements for these kinds of jobs obviously vary depending on whether you are in charge of the ‘front end’ or… -
Onboarding Remote Staff
21 Nov 2011 | 8:21 amLast week we read about Mashable’s Digital Career Series and were bowled over by the amount of advice on everything from ‘considerations for creating remote policies’ to articles on how to ‘better communicate with remote start-up employees’. However, the article that we found most useful and interesting, was the piece titled ‘5 Tips For Onboarding Remote Workers’. In it, Sharlyn Lauby detailed a series of smart and savvy tips for recruiting, initiating, and developing a long-term relationship with remote workers. Below, we’ve included a copy of that article along with just a…
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The SEC Needs To Stop Dragging Its Feet Over Conflict Minerals Rules
12 Jan 2012 | 9:47 pmSince 1996, over 5.5 million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from war-related causes. Many women and children have been raped. Though the wars officially ended in the DRC in 2003, over 2.5 million people live as refugees. Armed groups earn millions of dollars every year by trading conflict minerals, that [...]Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • Digg • Google Buzz • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS -
Macy’s Needs To Stop Selling Dirty Gold
10 Dec 2011 | 11:50 pmGold mining is one of the most polluting industries on the planet. Gold is commonly extracted through “heap leaching,” which crushes the ore, piles it into heaps and sprays the heaps with cyanide, and the run-off cyanide is stored in artificial ponds for re-use. This process can take decades, and contamination of the environment around [...]Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • Digg • Google Buzz • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS -
New EPA Regulations Will Create Many Jobs
18 Nov 2011 | 4:05 pmThe Clean Air Act (CAA), enacted in 1970 and amended in 1990, provides $4 to $8 in benefits for every $1 spent on compliance. The CAA has also reduced emissions of the most common air pollutants by 41 percent while the GDP increased by 64 percent. A new report looks at the employment impacts of [...]Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • Digg • Google Buzz • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS -
Not Investing In Clean Tech Will Increase Carbon and Cost Big Bucks
15 Nov 2011 | 9:43 pmFor every $1 of investment in cleaner tech that is avoided in the power sector before 2020, an additional $4.30 would need to be spent after 2020 to compensate for the increased emissions, according to International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook(WEO). The WEO presents a 450 Scenario, which traces an energy path consistent with [...]Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • Digg • Google Buzz • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS -
Increased Recycling Rates Mean More Jobs
15 Nov 2011 | 5:22 pmepSos.de /Foter Increasing recycling rates will create a significant amount of jobs and reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a report produced by a coalition of labor and environmental groups. Titled More Jobs, Less Pollution the report looks at both the Base Case Scenario which represents a business-as-usual approach, and the Green Economy [...]Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • Digg • Google Buzz • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS
