I’ve uploaded another global warming video to YouTube.
You can watch it here (which might help my YouTube stats), or you can see it in this post.
If you think this is a worthwhile effort, it will greatly help me make time for more if you can make a donation (there’s a link at the end of the post). In any case, enjoy!
This blog is made possible by readers like you; join others by donating at Peaseblossom’s Closet.
I’ve started a new YouTube channel about Global Warming Basics. The first video is here:
Global Warming: Loading the Dice
If you’re willing, please watch it on YouTube (to increase the channel’s stats). Thanks! You can also watch it right here:
This blog is made possible by readers like you; join others by donating at Peaseblossom’s Closet.
A new paper in Science bears the innocuous title Climate change: The 2015 Paris Agreement thresholds and Mediterranean basin ecosystems [Guiot & Cramer, Science, 354(6311), 465-468, DOI:10.1126/science.aah5015], but comes to the disturbing conclusion that if the world exceeds the 1.5°C threshold, much of the Mediterranean region will not be able to sustain the ecosystem in which it has thrived for 10,000 years. In particular, it may suffer from reduced rainfall and see now-fertile land turn into extensive desert.
WUWT has a post in which Neil Frank proclaims that Hillary Clinton is no hurricane expert but he is. (Frank’s post was originally published on The Daily Caller, but was reprinted on WUWT with permission.) He objects to Clinton having recently said that “Hurricane Matthew was likely more destructive because of climate change.”
Some make light of the fact that the Japanese have announced the CO2 level at their Antarctic station (Syowa) exceeded 400 ppmv (part per million by volume) this year.
Climate deniers hate the surface temperature data sets, but they love to insult ’em. That’s because they show how much the globe has warmed … and that’s something deniers don’t want to admit, not even to themselves. They live in denial of it. They’ll do almost anything to minimize and/or discredit it.
Their favorite argument is to say that all adjustments made to surface temperatures from land-based thermometers are bad and wrong, and they usually throw in a thinly-veiled implication or outright accusation that the scientists who do that are perpetrating a fraud. Never mind that the whole purpose of adjustments is to improve things, that it’s a time-tested and proven procedure in many sciences, or that for most organizations the entire process is transparent (NASA, e.g., makes all the original data, the methodology, even the computer programs they use to do so available online for all to see).
The climate denial machine has gotten desperate. Among the many signs is that the British newspaper Sunday Telegraph still publishes the work of Christopher Booker. And Booker is still making arguments like this one (referring to the U.K. met office, scroll down to find it):
This year witnessed a September minimum of Arctic sea ice which was only the 2nd-lowest on record. But the year’s minimum isn’t the surprising thing about this year’s sea ice. That would be the surprising lows observed during May and part of June, and now, it seems, during the most recent few days of October. Here’s the data, with 2016 in red:
Not long ago I posted about how multiple factors, including in particular the use of “broken trends,” can lead us astray about what the trend really is by allowing distinctly non-physical changes. It also amounts to ignoring evidence about the trend, namely all the data that comes before a chosen start time. Let me illustrate.
Over at WUWT someone posted a comment on Bob Tisdale’s post (see my post about that) drawing attention to my removal of the influences of el Niño, volcanic aerosols, and solar fluctuations from the temperature record. This didn’t sit well with some of their readers, particularly someone using the moniker “Javier,” who had this to say:
 | kinimod on A High Schooler’s Take o… |
 | geoffbeacon on A High Schooler’s Take o… |
 | Bob Loblaw on Not Even Wrong? |
| Bob Loblaw on Not Even Wrong? |
 | Tom Passin on Not Even Wrong? |
 | convictstreak on A High Schooler’s Take o… |
| Bob Loblaw on Not Even Wrong? |
 | Cliff Mass on Not Even Wrong? |
 | jgnfld on Not Even Wrong? |
| Bob Loblaw on Not Even Wrong? |
| kinimod on A High Schooler’s Take o… |
| jgnfld on Not Even Wrong? |
| geoffbeacon on A High Schooler’s Take o… |
 | climatefreak on A High Schooler’s Take o… |
 | Lowlander on Not Even Wrong? |
Open Mind 