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https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-boris-johnson-climate-and-environment-government-politics-9aa9651b8ace23c992bfbf2599e9f80d “Truss, who just took office Tuesday, also said she will approve more North Sea oil drilling and lift a ban on fracking to increase the U.K.’s domestic energy supply.” When faced with the decision to address an imaginary crisis, (Global warming) or an actual one (energy poverty), the adult at 10 Downing St. chose the latter.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/sep/5/the-ignorant-mobs-climate-crisis-is-a-hoax/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow What climate alarmists claim: “Climate research and reporting have largely degenerated into a parody of itself. Global warming has been blamed for volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and war in Syria. It has been claimed that climate change will cause dogs to become depressed, increase the incidence of rape, turn human beings into hobbits, and cause snakes to grow as large as buses. The latest absurdity is the theory that climate change is responsible for childhood obesity. The list of this nonsense is virtually endless. Global warming is a hypothesis that can never be falsified. Every data point has to be contorted into conformity with a rigid ideology. Even cold weather is said to be symptomatic of a warming climate. In February of 2013, the northeastern U.S. was struck by a powerful winter storm. A few days later, the Associated Press blithely assured us that global warming would cause “little snow but large blizzards,” an oxymoron if there ever was one.” What is actually happening: “From 1967 through 2021, winter snow cover in the northern hemisphere increased slightly. There’s been no change in hurricane or cyclone frequency or intensity since 1980. From 1954 through 2018, the incidence of violent and strong tornadoes in the US decreased. According to the U.S. EPA, from 1895 through 2020 there was no increase in drought in the conterminous U.S. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, wildfire burnt area in the U.S. has decreased significantly. Climate-related deaths and the costs of weather-related disasters are both decreasing. The polar bear population is increasing. We’ve been lectured incessantly that climate change will destroy coral reefs. Yet a few weeks ago we learned that two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia had the highest growth and expansion recorded in the last 36 years.

I was asked to provide a graph that encompassed more current data and I abided. No goalposts were moved.

Olof, what are you still doing here?

Looks like she learned from her mistakes. What do you do?

Here is a list SCIENTISTS ARGUING THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS PRIMARILY CAUSED BY NATURAL PROCESSES — scientists that have called the observed warming attributable to natural causes, i.e. the high solar activity witnessed over the last few decades. Khabibullo Abdusamatov, astrophysicist at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[81][82] Sallie Baliunas, retired astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.[83][84][85] Timothy Ball, historical climatologist, and retired professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg.[86][87][88] Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa.[89][90] Vincent Courtillot, geophysicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences.[91] Doug Edmeades, PhD., soil scientist, officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit.[92] David Dilley, B.S. and M.S. in meteorology, CEO Global Weather Oscillations Inc. [198][199] David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester.[93][94] Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University.[95][96] William Happer, physicist specializing in optics and spectroscopy; emeritus professor, Princeton University.[39][97] Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, Theoretical Physicist and Researcher, Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[98] Ole Humlum, professor of geology at the University of Oslo.[99][100] Wibjörn Karlén, professor emeritus of geography and geology at the University of Stockholm.[101][102] William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology.[103][104] David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware.[105][106] Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Missouri.[107][108] Jennifer Marohasy, an Australian biologist, former director of the Australian Environment Foundation.[109][110] Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa.[111][112] Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and professor of geology at Carleton University in Canada.[113][114] Ian Plimer, professor emeritus of mining geology, the University of Adelaide.[115][116] Arthur B. Robinson, American politician, biochemist and former faculty member at the University of California, San Diego.[117][118] Murry Salby, atmospheric scientist, former professor at Macquarie University and University of Colorado.[119][120] Nicola Scafetta, research scientist in the physics department at Duke University.[121][122][123] Tom Segalstad, geologist; associate professor at University of Oslo.[124][125] Nedialko (Ned) T. Nikolov, PhD in Ecological Modelling, physical scientist for the U.S. Forest Service [200] Nir Shaviv, professor of physics focusing on astrophysics and climate science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[126][127] Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.[128][129][130][131] Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.[132][133] Roy Spencer, meteorologist; principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville.[134][135] Henrik Svensmark, physicist, Danish National Space Center.[136][137] George H. Taylor, retired director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University.[138][139] Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, professor emeritus from University of Ottawa.[140][141] SCIENTISTS PUBLICLY QUESTIONING THE ACCURACY OF IPCC CLIMATE MODELS Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck, chemical engineer at Abo Akademi University in Finland, former Greenpeace member. [203][204] David Bellamy, botanist.[19][20][21][22] Lennart Bengtsson, meteorologist, Reading University.[23][24] Piers Corbyn, owner of the business WeatherAction which makes weather forecasts.[25][26] Susan Crockford, Zoologist, adjunct professor in Anthropology at the University of Victoria. [27][28][29] Judith Curry, professor and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[30][31][32][33] Joseph D’Aleo, past Chairman American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, former Professor of Meteorology, Lyndon State College.[34][35][36][37] Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus of the School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study; Fellow of the Royal Society.[38][39] Ivar Giaever, Norwegian–American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (1973).[40] Dr. Kiminori Itoh, Ph.D., Industrial Chemistry, University of Tokyo [202] Steven E. Koonin, theoretical physicist and director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University.[41][42] Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan emeritus professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences.[39][43][44][45] Craig Loehle, ecologist and chief scientist at the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement.[46][47][48][49][50][51][52] Sebastian Lüning, geologist, famed for his book The Cold Sun. [201] Ross McKitrick, professor of economics and CBE chair in sustainable commerce, University of Guelph.[53][54] Patrick Moore, former president of Greenpeace Canada.[55][56][57] Nils-Axel Mörner, retired head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University, former chairman of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999–2003).[58][59] Garth Paltridge, retired chief research scientist, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research and retired director of the Institute of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, visiting fellow Australian National University.[60][61] Roger A. Pielke, Jr., professor of environmental studies at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder.[62][63] Denis Rancourt, former professor of physics at University of Ottawa, research scientist in condensed matter physics, and in environmental and soil science.[64][65][66][67] Harrison Schmitt, geologist, Apollo 17 astronaut, former US senator.[68][69] Peter Stilbs, professor of physical chemistry at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.[70][71] Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London.[72][73] Hendrik Tennekes, retired director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.[74][75] Anastasios Tsonis, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.[76][77] Fritz Vahrenholt, German politician and energy executive with a doctorate in chemistry.[78][79] Valentina Zharkova, professor in mathematics at Northumbria University. BSc/MSc in applied mathematics and astronomy, a Ph.D. in astrophysics. SCIENTISTS ARGUING THAT THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING IS UNKNOWN Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.[142][143] Claude Allègre, French politician; geochemist, emeritus professor at Institute of Geophysics (Paris).[144][145] Robert Balling, a professor of geography at Arizona State University.[146][147] Pål Brekke, solar astrophycisist, senior advisor Norwegian Space Centre.[148][149] John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to several IPCC reports.[150][151][152] Petr Chylek, space and remote sensing sciences researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory.[153][154] David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma.[155][156] Stanley B. Goldenberg a meteorologist with NOAA/AOML’s Hurricane Research Division.[157][158] Vincent R. Gray, New Zealand physical chemist with expertise in coal ashes.[159][160] Keith E. Idso, botanist, former adjunct professor of biology at Maricopa County Community College District and the vice president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.[161][162] Kary Mullis, 1993 Nobel laureate in chemistry, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method.[163][164][165] Antonino Zichichi, emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bologna and president of the World Federation of Scientists.[166][167] SCIENTISTS ARGUING THAT GLOBAL WARMING WILL HAVE FEW NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES Indur M. Goklany, electrical engineer, science and technology policy analyst for the United States Department of the Interior.[168][169][170] Craig D. Idso, geographer, faculty researcher, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University and founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.[171][172] Sherwood B. Idso, former research physicist, USDA Water Conservation Laboratory, and adjunct professor, Arizona State University.[173][174] Patrick Michaels, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and retired research professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia.[175][176] Someone should let these guys know about the “settled science”

What is your “range of natural variability”.

I’m just updating the “meanwhile in the Arctic” thread that Kallend started some years ago.

looks like Arctic sea ice is rebounding. No additional losses in ten years.

Look at the second graph

I think it is funny how it all comes back to me. Apparently I am living rent free in the brains of more than just poor Olof.

Just for you “In this paper, the effect of forcing an ice-sheet model with several different temperature reconstructions on the Holocene evolution of the Greenland ice sheet is studied. The results show that forcing an ice-sheet model with temperature reconstructions that contain a Holocene climatic optimum that has a sustained period where the temperatures are above present-day values lead to a minimum in ice sheet volume in the early to mid-Holocene. It was further found that applying temperature reconstructions without a Holocene climatic optimum, for example as used in the SeaRISE assessment (Bindschadler and others, Reference Bindschadler2013), leads to a continued mass loss through the Holocene, approaching a steady state in the late Holocene and the smallest ice volume is reached at present day.” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/effect-of-a-holocene-climatic-optimum-on-the-evolution-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet-during-the-last-10-kyr/1B273853FF3CE712602B3AA90A0E57DB

Just wait until next week when I share NOAA’s global temperature report.

Well it just going to have to do. BTW my picture was in response to Bill’s picture.

Better?

If anything it is affluence signaling and I’m not doing it my wife is.

More facts

Bumping is expressly forbidden on this forum, if the mods are doing their job, we won’t enjoy your tomfoolery for another month…..or will we?

If you can afford it, it is no big deal. Just paid $974 for my wife’s schedule B, State inspection and tire rotation. Small price for a paid off 2020 GLS that we will drive for another year+ before the next scheduled maintenance.

Example?

No, not at all. Agree on subsidies. Disagree on Federal land leases, off shore leases, regulatory policies, ANWAR, pipeline restrictions, drilling permits and his rhetoric. So not even close.

Good catch

Sorry, this thread is called President Biden, critics corner

“Pakistan’s economic recovery is facing new risks after the highest rainfall in at least three decades…” So it was worse thirty years ago. Again, if it doesn’t fall outside the range of historical natural variability, it is just weather. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-27/highest-rainfall-in-30-years-threatens-pakistan-s-recovery