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Another Study and Another Blow To Consensus "Fact" That Modern Climate Warming Is Unprecedented

Study after study has provided a multiplicity of evidence that the modern 21st century warming is not unprecedented, much to the chagrin and angst of elite alarmists and doomsday claimants.

Now we have a recent peer-reviewed study that examines 2,000 years of temperatures, which clearly reveals a past that indeed was warmer than present (see adjacent chart).

"Aside from the obvious millennial-scale climate oscillation seen in the temperature reconstruction, it is important to point out that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about current temperatures on the southern Tibetan Plateau (STP). As indicated by the horizontal red line depicting the current temperature, there have been multiple times during the past two millennia when temperatures were warmer than present, including the 400 year period from 850-1250 AD, despite their being 50% less CO2 in the atmosphere than there is today. Because of this fact, it is clear that rising atmospheric CO2 is having little, if any, effect on current STP temperatures witnessed during the Current Warm Period."

"But if not CO2, what is or could be the cause of the 20th century warming? Based on additional analyses performed by Guo et al., it was their conclusion that changes in solar irradiance "played the most important role in influencing the climatic variabilities over the STP on a multi-centennial timescale.""

Conclusion: Mainstream media, Democrat politicians, and Hollywood celebrities continue to spread consensus anti-science claims in regards to the current global warming facts.

8/11/19 - 8/17/19: The Past Week In News You Would like To Forget

UNHINGED: It's another weekly list of headlines documenting just how crazy extreme the Democrats, liberals, and progressives have become.

Seriously...you can't make this stuff up.

Senate Democrats deliver totalitarian warning to Supreme Court: ‘Heal’ or face restructuring

Stunning Hypocrisy: Democrats reject push to alert ICE when illegal immigrants fail firearm background checks

Your Future News Already Planned: New York Times chief outlines coverage shift: From Trump-Russia to Trump racism

Veritas: Google Blocked NewsBusters, Other Conservative Sites from Search

Antifa Violence Strikes Again, Mainstream Media Blames The Right

CBS News forgets to mention why the entire Portland police force was bracing for violence – Antifa

'Anarchy and Chaos': Violent Antifa Protests Break Out in Portland

Here are Antifa "anti-fascists" in Portland taunting black police officers, telling cops to commit suicide

Google Staffers Fight Working with ICE, Compare Agency to ‘Nazis’

HBO's Bill Maher Slams Media for Ignoring Anti-Semitism in Mideast

California Introduces Radical Anti-Semitic High School Curriculum

First Day Of School, California Teacher Hands Out Gender Identity Graphic To Middle Schoolers. Parents Are Furious.

Boston Herald Calls Out Democrat Sen. Warren for ‘Dangerous and False Rhetoric’

CNN's Dumb & Dumber: Another Embarrassing Day For Journalism

CNN In Hot Water: April Ryan Has Bodyguard Violently Eject Journalist, Steal Camera

CNN Conspiracy Theory Blames Trump for Sex Assault Allegation Against Don Lemon

What mainstream media forgot to mention: Poll: Half of Hispanic Americans Approve of Trump Following ICE Raids

Democrat Castro: My Brother Was Right to Dox/Expose Donors of Trump's 'Campaign of Hate'

‘So edgy’: Democrat comedienne says pro-life men ‘are just jealous they’ll never know how good it feels to kill a baby’

Meanwhile, This Is What LGBTQ Organizations Are Doing To Society

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Unhinged MSNBCers Keep Comparing Trump to Hitler

NY Times Fails in Attempt to Blame Conservative Media for Inspiring El Paso Killings

CNN: We're Headed for Recession, But the Good News Is It Will Hurt Trump!

FNC's MacCallum Slams 'Unpatriotic' and 'Inhumane' Media Rooting for a Recession

MSNBC, CNN Ignore 2020 Democrats Falsely Claiming Michael Brown Was Murdered

The campaign to brand Trump a racist

Democrat Julián Castro: Trump 'Wants a Whiter, Wealthier Nation'

Democrat AOC: Trump Supporters Not Educated Enough to Recognize Their Own Racism

CUNY Prof: All White People Responsible For "Ideology Of Racialized Terrorism"

MSNBC Panelist On Most White People: ‘Destroy Them’

Democrat Robert Francis "Beto" O’Rourke Thinks You’re Racist - Big League Politics

Former MSNBC Reporter Spills Details On Pro-Establishment Bias In Media

Women Who Don't Believe Israel Has Right To Exist Not Sure Why They Got Banned From Israel

Democrats Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites

Democrat Beto O’Rourke Endorses Mandatory Assault Weapon Buyback Confiscations

CNN Pushes Gun Control Despite Knowing Little About Attack on Philly Police

Fake: President Kamala Harris will close that ‘online sales loophole’ that makes guns a click away

MSNBC Host, Analysts Speculate About Removing Trump From Office

Eight-in-Ten Democrats Want Easier Migration and Asylum Rules

Democrat Beto O’Rourke repeats the ‘very fine people’ lie (and more) in his tough-talking message to President Trump

MSNBC Analyst Likens Trump Supporters to Members of a ‘Terrorist Organization’

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Climate Doomsday Dies In Illumination: Severe Weather, Greenland, Corals, Extreme Precipitation, Global Cooling, & Existential Threat

It's been a bad week for the climate doomsday acolytes.

The bright white light of empirical evidence, new analyses, and recent published studies, which the mainstream media does not report on, continues to seep into the public consciousness. 

Clearly, the climate facts do not line up well with the doomster claims and narratives, and people are more aware than ever of the falsehoods.

Claim that severe cold weather is result of melting Arctic sea ice is much to do about nothing.

Claim that Greenland was soon to melt to a sea of water was a hoax.

Claim that global warming is posing an extinction threat to the Great Barrier Reef.

Claim that global warming will cause more frequent and intense precipitation events.

Claim that global cooling is not possible due to the greenhouse gas CO2.

Claim that climate change is causing more frequent 'hot' days during summer.

Claim that climate change would devastate food production.

Claim that CO2 is the dominant force behind climate change.

Claim that climate change is an existential threat.

By any measurement, consensus science published by the establishment media is a cornucopia of failed predictions.

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The Blacklist: Establishment Anti-Science Journal Advocates For Blacklisting Censorship

The politically correct sewer hole that the once premier science journal Nature has crawled into can no longer be contested.

Its recent publication of a study calling for a blacklist for collusion-censorship by mainstream media and science journals of contrarian scientific opinions and debate is now completely undeniable.

"Nature, the former science giant, just launched the tenets of science over the event horizon. This paper is Argument from Authority rolled into false equivalence, and powered with cherry-picked errors in both category and in categorization. Nonsense on a rocket. It’s not what science is, and it’s not what journalism should be either. And Nature is supposed to be both. Judith Curry calls it The latest travesty in ‘consensus enforcement’ and the worst paper she has ever seen in a reputable journal."

"What’s troubling is not enemies list,they’ve been around for a long time. What’s troubling is that they are now laundered by academic journals & used by scientists & journos to silence or otherwise cause professional harm to their peers. It is really amazing. And it works."

POST-MODERN WITCH HUNT: NATURE PUBLISHES BLACKLIST OF CRITICAL SCIENTISTS & WRITERS

8/4/19 - 8/10/19: The Past Week In News You Would like To Forget

Just another edition of that weekly tirade from the Democrat/liberal/left/progressive insanity, with a complementary fistful of incitement that is fueling hate and violence against other Americans. (Simply scroll through the headlines below to get a taste of the extreme, over-the-top incivility.)

As usual, Democrat politicians, lefty celebs, and, of course, the progressive mainstream media continue to be a perpetual gushing torrent promoting the fringe, bizarre craziness, virulent ugliness, divisiveness, contempt, intolerance, sanctimony, bullying, hypocrisy, derangement, racism, conspiracies, socialism, extremism, falsehoods, misrepresentations, including a strong demeanor of censorship and other all-encompassing anti-American attitudes.

Over a week's period, they pretty much cover all the bases of awful. (source of image)

 

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO FULL OF HATE? Leftists doxx and threaten Dayton nurse who saved lives for appearing in picture with Trump

IT GOT UGLY: Blaming ‘Racist’ Trump and Gun Owners for Mass Shootings

Google Favors CNN, Left Media in Biased Mass Shooting Search Results

Weaponizing the dead of El Paso & Dayton. But Chicago? With 55 shot over the weekend and two "mass shootings?"

Journalists Are Throwing ‘Hissy Fits’ Over Factual Reporting Of Dayton Shooter’s Politics

Dayton Attacker Was Hardcore Leftist, Pro-Warren, Pro-Socialism, Pro-Satan; Promoted Bernie, Antifa, Gun Control

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Forced To Apologize for Saying Trump Is ‘Talking About Exterminating Latinos’

Networks Silent: Dayton Shooter Alleged Twitter Account Supported Antifa Violence, Elizabeth Warren

Democrat Sen. Cory Booker: ‘Donald Trump Is Responsible’ for Mass Shootings Around the Country

MSNBC's Brzezinski: Trump 'Seems to Want' White-Nationalist Mass Murders to Happen

Media Outlets Publish Misleading Headlines About Trump’s Comments Following Weekend Shootings

Press & Democrats Claiming Trump’s Rhetoric Inspires Mass Murder

NYT Blames ‘White Nationalist’ Trump Facebook Ads for El Paso Shooting

LIAR: Ex-Senator Pushes Claim Trump Made It Easier for Mentally Ill to Buy Guns

NY Times: ‘Conservatism Has a Violence Problem’; GOP, Shooters Have ‘Same Goal’

MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Republicans ‘Have Blood on Their Hands’

Former CNN Host & Democrat Party supporter Reza Aslan Says Trump Supporters Must Be ‘Eradicated From Society’

Twitter Allows Violent #MassacreMoscowMitch Hashtag

CNN's Luis Gutierrez: Trump Must Be 'Eliminated'

Disgusting: CNN Downplays, Refuses to Condemn Death Threats to Mitch McConnell

CNN Neglects to Report DNC, Presidential Hopefuls Fundraising off Mass Shootings

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: President Poses ‘Existential Threat’ to America

CBS Parrots Democratic Talking Points: Hold Trump 'Accountable' for Slaughter

DIABOLICAL: CNN Smears Gun Owners, Trashes ‘Diversionary’ Speech by Racist Trump

MSNBC Analyst Uses Numerology to Link Trump’s Decision to Fly Flags at Half-Staff to Neo-Nazism

Journalistic Malfeasance: Trump & The Charlottesville Lie

Media Lies: Trump's 'Fine People' hoax

Celebs Attack 2nd Amendment, ‘Hater in Chief’ Trump After Weekend Shootings

Another Inconvenient Climate Science Truth: Humans Turning World Into A Green Paradise

Per recent multiple peer-reviewed studies, climate doomsday alarmists can no longer deny the scientific consensus: CO2 and global warming are returning the earth's biosphere to a green paradise of lush vegetation. (image source)

“Carbon‐climate interactions led to significant increases in tropical forests and the forests of North America, Eurasia, and China.”

"Due especially to the rise in CO2 concentrations, 52% of the globe’s vegetated lands have shown statistically significant greening/gross primary production trends since 1981, whereas just 12% of vegetated areas have been browning. CO2’s greening effect has been underestimated by 60% with outdated models."

"According to scientists, the overwhelming majority of the “significant increases in tropical forests and the forests of North America, Eurasia, and China” since the early 1990s can be attributed to the combination of CO2 fertilization (56%) and climate change (35%)."

"Historical increase of atmospheric CO2 concentration, from 280 to current 400 ppm, has resulted in enhanced GPP [gross primary production/greening] due to its radiative and physiological effects"

"Our central finding is, the effect of ambient CO2 concentration on terrestrial photosynthesis is larger than previously thought, and thus, has important implications for future carbon cycle and climate.”

“Climate  change  associated  with  rising  atmospheric  carbon  dioxide  (CO2)  concentration  may  have  impact  on  crop production and soil health. Increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration may enhance crop growth with higher demand for nutrients by the crop....Grain and biomass yield of rice was significantly higher under elevated CO2 condition."

“The relative top heights of the young [Ed: tree] stands [Ed: sessile oaks] were significantly higher than of the older stands, which means that the overall growing conditions were better in the last 30-35 years due to atmospheric changes..."

And humans, the industrial revolution, and economic prosperity deserve a robust round of applause from everyone.

7/21/19 - 8/3/19: The Past 2 Weeks of Headlines You Would like To Forget

Source: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/the-week-in-pictures-dark-psychic-forces-edition.php

More headlines documenting the constant daily demonstrations of the Democrat/liberal/left/progressive hate, incitement, violence, ugliness, craziness, sanctimony, hypocrisy, derangement, racism, socialism, extremism, and, of course, falsehoods.

Hard to believe that suburban moms will actually believe, support, and embrace this type of daily spewing of bizarro. 

Democrat Rep. Tlaib: We’re Going to Take Money from the Rich and ‘Give It Back to the People, Those Who Earned It’

Bill Maher finds 2020 Dems currently too ‘crazy’ to beat Trump but hopes for an economic recession to help them out

Extravagant 2020  Democrat Candidate Promises

That Headline Aged Badly, NY Times: ‘No, Democrats Don’t Want ‘Open Borders’'

CNN's Stelter Rages Against Trump Backers After Bad Mueller Day: 'Reject the Lies'!

Joy Behar: Will GOP Stand Up to Trump’s Racism When ‘David Duke Is Part of the Cabinet?’

New York Times Bigwig Doubts Franken & Biden Accusers, But Kavanaugh's Guilty!

MSNBC Guests Claim MAGA, Trump Are a 'Nazi Symbol'

CNN: Fox News Doesn't Cover Socialism 'Fairly'

Rev. Al Sharpton: Trump ‘Has a Particular Venom for Blacks and People of Color’

MSNBC's Matthews, Guest: Trump, Base Are ‘Existential Crisis,’ ‘White Identity Cult’ Who Hate America

Hollywood's Rob Reiner says what the Founding Fathers fought for will have been for nothing if Trump isn’t impeached

CNN Changes Graphic as Nasty Don Lemon Attacks Black Pastor Who Met Trump

MSNBC: ‘Sound the Alarm’ to Trump and Rise of Nazi Threat in 2020

CNN, MSNBC Show Double Standard In Reporting on ’Racist’ Comments

Washington Post Misleads in Story Suggesting Trump’s Presidency Making Latinos Sick

Daily Beast Attacks Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera Over 'Far-Right' Politics

CNN: When Trump called Baltimore ‘infested,’ was he talking about rats or ‘black and brown people’?

Baltimore Mayor: Smelling Rats in Baltimore

MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch: We are ‘At War’ With Republican ‘Liars, Cheaters, and Stealers’

Gillette CEO: $8 Billion Loss over Woke Ads 'Worth Paying'

AT&T Promotes Trump-Hater Snoop Dog

‘This boycott aged well’! News of America’s ‘favorite fast food restaurant’ could further trigger lefties

Sticking to Sports: ESPN Ratings Soar As Network Abandons Politics

Hollywood's Tom Arnold is ‘looking forward to the day’ that he’s standing over the dead body of Donald Trump Jr.

 

Dear Greta: Sorry, But The Science Tells Us There Is No Climate Change Crisis

The doomsday weary populace of the world is plagued by an overload of climate change false messiahs who really should not be listened to, but unfortunately, the extremely gullible continue to do so.

And the major promoters of climate-porn to the gullible is none other than the mainstream media, and pandering liberal/left politicians who can't even pass a basic fact check by a comrade-in-arms news outlet.

And it is with great and absolute certainty that no one in their right mind should be listening to Greta Thunberg. A teenager who is even more gullible - due to a woeful lack of humility, experience, wisdom, and knowledge - than even the anointed elites.

Now compare the anti-science falsehoods from the mouths of political partisans, Hollywood celebrities, and teenager messiahs with the recent real-world facts and evidence being published about the climate and the empirical science.

Global greening is happening faster than climate change, and it’s a good thing

Experts say there is no ‘climate emergency’

New paper: no experimental evidence for the significant anthropogenic climate change

Scientists Find Antarctica Is Rapidly Cooling And Any Ice Sheet Melt Is Not Due To CO2, But Natural

Greenland Endures

New Science: 89% Of The Globe’s Islands – And 100% Of Large Islands – Have Stable Or Growing Coasts

More 2019 Evidence of Nature’s Sunscreen

Ignore climate hysteria: world grain crop set to break record

and for the coffee lover readers, fantastic news...

New world record: oversupply of coffee beans sends global prices tumbling

Climate Change: The Laughable But Yet Stunning Hypocrisy of Establishment Elites

The "Let them eat cake" crowd is simply beyond redemption.

(Click the image to watch a video take-down of the privileged, arrogant, never-ending hypocritical elites that we have to share the planet with.)

One could imagine there are an awful lot of people who would not mind seeing a comeback of the guillotine for the participants of this Google opulent conference, be they royal imbeciles or Hollywood's ultra-hypocrites. 

The comeuppance schadenfreude would be colossal, especially if turned into a gigantic, global audience televised event.

7/14/19 - 7/20/19: The Past Week In News You Would like To Forget

For some reason, the U.S. mainstream media, as represented by the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, Associated Press, MSNBC, and CNN, is not inclined to report on the ugliness, hate, intimidation, censorship, and violence that comes from the mouths of Democrat politicians, new media personalities, entertainment celebrities, or academia. 

Editors note: Source of this article's image, plus many more. 

The below listing is this past week's contribution to incivility by numerous liberal/progressive/left voices. (No need to read each article...simply scroll through the headlines to get a sense of the vitriol, hate, and craziness.) 

 

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: Trump Supporters Must Be ‘Confronted and Destroyed’

Democrat Reps Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Introduce Radical BDS Resolution That Compares Israel to Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan

WaPo: ‘Send Her Back’ Chant Was ‘Fire Of Racial Animus’ Within Trump’s Base

What the Media Won't Tell You About the 'Send Her Back' Chant

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: Republicans Have ‘Embraced the Racial Ideology of David Duke’

Whenever Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib calls Republicans crazy, remember to watch this video

Shocker! Virginia Dems gladly took contributions from racist Gov. Ralph Northam *after* calling on him to resign

FACEBOOK Bans Violent Threats… Except the Violent Threats Against Conservatives...

CNN's Cuomo: 'Make America Great Again' Means 'Make America Hate Again'

MSNBC’s Deutsch Warns Liberals: 'Be Afraid', Trump Voters Want White Supremacist Dictator

Watch CNN Panel Gush Over 'The Squad,' Bash Trump as a 'Racist'

Documenting The World of Liberal/Progressive Hate, Divisiveness, & Incitement

Tacoma ICE Fire-Bomb Attacker Urges Leftists to Ignore Laws, Arm Themselves

It's not fair asking Democratic contenders to take a position on policy

Illiberal Liberalism | Democrat Liberals No Longer Believe In Civil Debate

The 'Squad' Won't Condemn Antifa Terrorism....WHERE Are The Media?

Newest Liberal / Maoist Hysteria : Chris Pratt's 'Don't Tread On Me' Shirt Has White Supremacy Ties

Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar After Trump Twitter Attack: ‘It’s Time for Us to Impeach This President’

Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley Goes On Racially Tinged, Homophobic Rant at Netroots Nation

Media Rushes to Defend Pelosi, Blame Trump For Speaker’s Violation of House Rules

New York Times's Pro-Communist Bias Stretches to the Moon and Back

Democrats Start Petition To BAN Trump Rallies

MSNBC: Trump’s Immigration Policies Prove He’s Racist

Democrat Rep. Omar: “[Trump is] unapologetically racist. And, if you support him, so are you.”

We TOLD You So: CBS's Norah O’Donnell’s ‘Evening News’ Debut Becomes Trump Hatefest

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Hates Nazi-Like Trump Fans at ‘Nuremberg Rally’

5 Things House Democrats Are Ignoring in Favor of Condemnation, Impeachment, & Contempt

Democrat Reps. Omar, Tlaib Refuse to Apologize for Their Own Incendiary Comments: ‘I Do Not Regret’ Them

Politico: Tipping Has ‘Racist Past,’ So Raise The Minimum Wage

Facebook-Sponsored Panel: ‘I Don’t Believe in Free Speech’

Twitter Censors Texas Governor Abbott Over ‘Blue Angels’ Tweet

Google Shopping Sells Antifa ‘Riot F**k Cops’ Merchandise

Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib brags about ABYSMAL House vote that only proves they don’t WANT to impeach Trump

CNN's Tapper, Brinkley Compare Trump to 'Demagogues' Like Huey Long and George Wallace

MSNBC Unhinged: ‘Nazi’ Trump Supporters Engage in ‘Ethnic Cleansing Politically’

Corporate Green Virtue Signaling Not All It's Cracked Up To Be: Budweiser's Wind Turbine P.R. Disaster

Don't be impressed by Budweiser's clean energy virtue signaling.

They must hope you'll be too beer drunk that you'll miss the serious issues that their "green" wind energy projects are creating for both nature and humans.

Master Resource has a good write-up in regards to the severe shortcomings and unintended consequences of Budweiser's lame efforts to appear corporately responsible for the environment and climate.

“It’s time for Anheuser-Busch to shed its superficial ‘green’ veneer and take corrective action to reverse the harms its wind purchases have caused. This includes publicly abandoning the ‘100% renewable energy’ goal which, if continued, is certain to bring more, and greater international destruction.”

CO2 Acidification: Is The Southern Ocean Marine Food Chain Ecosystem At Risk?

A recent "study" by "scientists" playing with their computer climate model simulations guesses that there might be a future depth shift of the Southern Ocean carbonite event horizon based on simulated output from the model.

Editor Note: The aforementioned depth shift is speculated to occur when human emissions of CO2 infiltrate the ocean's waters, thus causing an acidifcation process associated with lower pH.

They report that maybe the ocean's pteropods species (a sea snail) will be harmed and may not be able to adapt.

The model output results do not seem to correlate well with known scientific facts..."Some estimate it began as early as 2006 in discrete locations, while others predict it will begin as late as 2038. The research suggests that the change may be inevitable..."

Their scientific conclusion from zero empirical evidence? "If that occurs, it could impact marine food webs significantly and lead to cascading changes across ocean ecosystems, including disruptions of vital global fisheries." And, "These factors put us closer to a threshold that might be harmful for a lot of organisms,."

In comparison to the above "scientists," there are scientists who actually conduct experiments to determine outcomes that are based on observed reality and not simulations.

For example, this 2018 study by 9 scientists determined that actual phytoplankton organisms, a major food source for the Southern Ocean ecosystem, were test for survival in waters with a lower pH - i.e. acidified waters. The scientists found the increased levels of CO2 "did not have a significant impact on the [phytoplankton] community, either individually or in combination with other factors,".

Then there is this study by 7 scientists who investigated the impact of different levels of elevated water CO2 on Southern Ocean adult krill, a crucial marine food staple for blue whales and other mammal species.

What did they find? "Ericson et al. state that "the measured physiological processes in adult Antarctic krill were robust to near-future ocean acidification (1000-2000 µatm pCO2)." In particular, they note that "the survival rate of krill subject to near-future pCO2 increased by up to 11%" and that such pCO2 levels "did not affect the size of adult krill," nor their ability to moult, grow, store fat or mature."

Getting back to the pteropods, this 2018 scientific study with the apt title, "Pteropods counter mechanical damage and dissolution through extensive shell repair", pretty much counters the pteropod doomsday scenario conjured up by the computer simulation jockeys.  

The study's 5 scientists determined the following: ""the ability of L. helicina [pteropod] to repair shell damage in naturally undersaturated conditions indicates that this species has more potential to counteract the deleterious effects ocean acidification may have on their shells than previously considered." ...it adds "to the growing body of evidence that many polar calcifiers, exposed to undersaturated waters, can withstand and repair damage to their shells, perhaps on account of natural exposure to heightened physical and chemical variability, which have resulted in organisms developing or exhibiting an inherent resilience strategy.""

In summary, per the real-world science, the Southern Ocean food chain ecosystem appears not to be at risk for CO2 emissions.

One should remember that there is no computer simulation substitute for real scientific investigation and research.

Unfortunately, climate computer models have harmed the scientific endeavor and reputation with simulated doomsday results that have little basis in reality. It is our opinion, as we have stated before, policymakers across all forms of government should never rely on output from computer models - they are fundamentally flawed and promulgated by agenda-driven "scientists." 

Previous climate model articles.

7/1/19-7/13/19: Democrats' Divisiveness, Hate & Violent Rhetoric Tearing At Fabric of Society

Not only are the liberals/leftists/progressives taking their opinions and policy positions to the extreme fringe left of American politics, in doing so they are producing a very loud and vocal stream of hate, intolerance, violence, intimidation, harassment, mistruths, distortions, degradations, censorship, incitement, and anti-American sentiments that are unprecedented in modern U.S. history.

The daily sources of these destructive and divisive forces are numerous and widespread, including Democratic Party politicians, mainstream media, Hollywood, government employees, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, the tech industry, entertainment personalities, and even the Democrat voter base. 

Below are a multitude of headline examples from the first couple of weeks of July 2019 that provide ample proof Democrats have become seriously unhinged from Americans, thus threatening the peaceful coexistence and mutual collaboration of our diverse 'melting pot' of different ethnicities, religions, and political opinions.

Democrats have eagerly put a target on our joint society and cultural structure, which makes one sometimes wonder if they are actually colluding with the Chinese and Russians to bring America down.

 

Democrat Rep.Maxine Waters in a photo-op with violent Antifa supporter, Joseph Alcoff

MSNBC host Joy Reid insults part of President Donald Trump's base.

Beto O’Rourke: “In My Administration We Are Going to Make Sure No One Is Criminally Prosecuted for Being a Human Being”

Latest rant from flustered CNN's @BrianStelter: “These smears, these lies...on the right from pro-Trump Web sites, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts..."

Democrat Rep. Tlaib Says No Person Is ‘Illegal’

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) says that the Palestinian movement against Israel is non-violent...(talk about lying)

Procter & Gamble Vows to Donate Over Half a Mil to USWNT for Equal Pay

Illegal Immigrant threatens President Donald Trump's life "If you send me back to my country i come to fuck you up"

Another study finds trigger warnings are useless, or even harmful. The scientific consensus now says to stop using them.

AOC Attacks President Trump : 'You won’t accept a nation that sees healthcare as a right or education as a #1 priority, especially where we’re the ones fighting for it.'

Illinois enacted a first-of-its kind ban on privately-run immigration detention...scrambles to find more jail space in an already overcrowded system.

Kamala Harris Blames ICE for Domestic Abuse That Goes Unreported

Scarlett Johansson speaks truth about Hollywood PC culture, triggers liberals in process

“What they probably didn’t anticipate was handing Donald Trump the 2020 presidential election.”

 

Climate Doomers: How Accurate Are Their Predictions?

Climate change predictions by alarmist scientists and activist 'doomers' have been absolutely atrocious. Possibly (being generous), there has been limited 'accuracy' here and there, but remains sufficiently insufficient to demonstrate even a minuscule level of actual, consistent reliability.

The constant litany stream from politicos, media sources and celebrities of failed climate catastrophe predictions is wide and deep and seemingly knows no bounds.

And this article provides a brief summary of where we are headed, if these bureaucratic-loving and power hungry politicians produce policies and regulations based on the proven failed prediction capabilities of the "experts." Needless to say, it's not going to be very pretty if they are successful.

The good news is that these establishment elites self-identify as liars since no truthful person would ever repeat anti-scientific, imbecilic doomsday trash, such as the end of humanity within a generation.

The bad news is that the USA's Democratic Party embraces the lies and is eagerly pushing the climate anti-science alarmism on a daily basis as the 2020 election edges closer.

Blatant significant dishonesty to mislead voters is a risky electoral strategy yet, unfortunately, now appears to be a go-to favored method for most Democrats on a host of important issues.

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UK Project Reveals Cost of Retrofitting Homes To Reduce CO2 Emissions Is Exorbitant & Not Viable

An analysis of a UK home retrofitting project provides a glimpse into the future massive costs of doing this for an entire country, while not achieving the  CO2 emission reduction goal desired per home.

The project architects had hoped for achieving an 80% CO2 decrease by replacing all existing appliances with newer more efficient ones; by increasing full wall insulation; by adding underfloor insulation; and etc.

Instead, a 60% CO2 reduction was achieved. The estimated cost of doing the same for every UK home would amount to a total of $5.6 trillion, which is about $193,000 per home (there are 29 million UK homes). The payback period from the energy savings for each home owner would be 150 years.

Assuming that same style of retrofit was done for the approximately 138 million U.S. homes, which tend to be larger than UK homes, the total retrofit cost would be some $26 trillion for just a 50-60% CO2 reduction.

And that's just for the U.S. residential units. Add on the retrofit cost of all commercial, industrial, and government structures and entire cost for the U.S. would be significantly higher. 

It's not just the UK retrofit project that throws real shade on the Green New Deal's insanely expensive concept of retrofitting homes for "maximum" CO2 reductions. A study out of Australia suggests that decreases in both CO2 and total home energy usage would not be significant in long run.

Image source.

Those Stubborn Facts: Research Indicates That CO2 Emissions Have Zero Impact On Temperatures In Central Asia

A new peer-reviewed study provides additional evidence that significant parts of the world have not experienced the hypothesized dangerous and rapid global warming impact of CO2 emissions.

Central Asia represents a large swath of the globe's land area where one would expect that the "powerful" temperature impact of humanity's CO2 would be rather robust.

Although the area exhibited warming in the 20th century, it is not much different than earlier warming from periods centuries ago (see graph at bottom).

And there has been a recent late 20th century cooling that is attributed to natural factors.

"[T]he recent cool-moist period from 1985 to 2000 has been related to the Arctic Oscillation...During this recent cool-moist period, ice mass accumulation of the glaciers in the Russian Altai Mountains was observed and Narozhniy and Zemtsov (2011) connected this phenomenon to annual precipitation increased by 8% – 10% especially in winter and spring (April-May) as a result of a strengthening of the zonal circulation over the Altai Mountains.”

Conclusion: Those stubborn facts again get in the way of the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming doomsday claims. Central Asia's warming and cooing during both the past and modern era look to be more a function of natural volcano variations and ocean oscillations.

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Ocean Acidification Study: Unexpectedly, Atlantic Salmon Grow & Thrive With Increased Acidification

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Acidification of ocean waters from human CO2 emissions has raised concerns that aquatic life would be severely impacted. Yet, actual studies testing acidification levels on different species more often than not reveal that sea life is not impaired.

Adding to that empirical evidence is a new study on Atlantic salmon smolt.

"In a test of the above hypothesis, McCormick and Regish examined "the effect of future ocean        acidification on the salinity tolerance and early seawater growth of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar        smolts."..."Results of the analysis, in the words of the authors, revealed that "ocean acidification  will not negatively affect the survival and ion regulatory ability [and, hence, salinity tolerance] of S. salar smolts," Furthermore, McCormick and Regish add that "rather than have a detrimental effect, ocean acidification conditions may actually improve the growth of S. salar in the first 2 weeks after seawater exposure." With respect to this latter parameter, Figure 1 graphically portrays the mean specific growth rates of the fish inhabiting the two seawater pH regimes, revealing 40 percent higher specific growth rates of Atlantic salmon in the ocean acidification treatment compared to ambient seawater pH."

Possible conclusion: CO2 makes for very happy fish.

New Study: U.S. States That Imposed Renewable Energy Goals Resulted In Consumers Paying An Additional $129 Billion

Green Renewables: It's all about the Benjamins.

Every country that has attempted to force solar and wind energy sources on their national grid have all discovered the same thing: the cost of retail electricity jumps with the consumer being the ultimate chump that has to fork over more money to the providers.

Study out of University of Chicago has determined the same result happened in the 29 U.S. states that imposed Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS).

"RPS "significantly increase average retail electricity prices, with prices increasing by 11% (1.3 cents per kWh) seven years after the policy’s passage into law and 17% (2 cents per kWh) twelve years afterward," the economists write."..."All in all, seven years after passage, consumers in the 29 states had paid $125.2 billion more for electricity than they would have in the absence of the policy,"

And the money flowing out of consumer wallets - for dubious climate change "improvements" - will only keep climbing faster as renewable % goals are increased.

And making the pain even worse for consumers. is the following comment from the researchers:

"But are renewables cost-effective climate policy? They are not. The economists write that "the cost per metric ton of CO2 abated exceeds $130 in all specifications and ranges up to $460, making it at least several times larger than conventional estimates of the social cost of carbon."

That last comment indicates the massive stupidity of today's virtue signaling politicians who could care less about the real impacts on society and constituents when imposing regulatory schemes that have been proven failures wherever implemented.

Green New Deal Footprint: 100% Solar or Wind Renewable Energy Sources Require A Ludicrous Amount Of Land Space

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The Green New Deal, as supported by most Democrats, envisions a U.S. power consumption market that is 100% served by renewable energy sources - primarily solar and wind renewables.

Is it hypothetically possible that either solar or wind, or some combination of the two, could deliver 100% of U.S. energy needs in the future?

Sure, but in reality it would not be practical, nor achievable, nor a desired outcome. 

A very gigantic stumbling block to either wind or solar are the ludicrously huge land space requirements that are essentially insurmountable.

Using the total U.S. power 2017 consumption (estimated) as the goal to be met, either the wind or solar solutions would need to be able to generate 97.7 'quads' (97.7 quadrillion BTUs) on a yearly basis. That BTU figure converts to approximately 28,633 annual terrawatts, which in turn translates to an annual 28,633,000,000,000,000 watts consumed.

As the adjacent graphic indicates, whether it's a 100% wind renewable solution or a 100% solar solution, the approximate space needed in the continental U.S. would be astronomical for either, making these energy solutions politically and economically nonviable.

In contrast, even with current reactor technology, the land requirement for a nuclear solution (see green-filled rectangle on map) is a physical sliver of either solar or wind needs. In fact, the land needed by nuclear would amount to an approximate space as small as Connecticut.

And if the U.S. were to pursue a Gen-IV nuclear technology solution, such as molten salt reactors, the new reactors could be placed on the existing nuclear plant sites to use the old radioactive waste as fuel that is currently being stored at nuclear sites. Yes, Gen-IV technology can consume the old stored waste as fuel.

And because nuclear facilities produce energy 24/7/365, they do not require the same natural gas, pumped storage, or battery storage back up capability that wind and solar require, due to their being intermittent sources of energy. (The method of back up needed by renewables will also add to the the total land area requirements, which is not depicted on map image.)

Then there is the issue of new electrical transmission lines to be constructed. Because of geographical size of the solar/wind options, the number of new transmission lines to serve all the different wind/solar energy farms will be multiple times more than that required by the nuclear option.

Finally, as a plus, the Gen-IV technology is safe from melt down or potential containment vessel explosions due to its inherent design fundamentals. Conceivably, due to less risk, the total land needed for such technology might end up being less than the older nuclear plant sites.

Due to land requirements alone, it would behoove politicians of both parties to plan for and promote an industry standard design of the Gen-IV reactor technology to be adopted and installed as quickly as possible. It should become the nation's major source of electricity generation, along with smaller installations of solar and wind where locations favor their utilization - i.e., the sunny and windy regions. 

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Note: The land requirements for nuclear, solar, and wind were supplied from this NEI.org article. The adjacent table is a summary of the basic information used to calculate the land requirements assuming that all power consumption for all sectors would be in the form of electricity from non-fossil fuel sources, including transportation and heating. For the above U.S.map image, the square mile size of each U.S. state -- used to visualize the approximate land mass needed for each energy production source. Best case scenarios assumed for solar and wind capacity efficiency; industry average scenario used for nuclear capacity efficiency. Existing hydro power generation (about 2.9% of 2017 total) would slightly reduce amount of land required by wind, solar, and nuclear. Offshore wind farms could be utilized but they may ultimately be 2 to 3 times more costly; and will be exposed to greater natural weather and environmental stresses that cause more frequent operational maintenance/repair that will likely be difficult and lengthy.

 

 

 

Settled Science? Only 12 Years Until U.S.A. Is Burnt To A Crisp From #CO2 #GlobalWarming & #Climate Change?

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Does @AOC's prediction that we are all going to fry within 12 years because of CO2 emissions have any basis in empirical reality? (Or, for that matter, does her #GreenNewDeal utopia?)

Here is a chart from the NOAA National Centers For Environmental Information. It is a plot of the maximum temperatures for the hottest U.S. month - July - going back to 1895.

The trend line (blue line) plotted by NOAA reveals that maximum temperatures in July have been on a declining trend of -0.07°F per century since 1914 through July 2018.

And if the exact same NOAA plot was done for August maximum temperatures - the 2nd hottest month for U.S. summers - there is a declining trend of -0.26°F per century since 1928.

Unequivocally, the recent maximum temperatures over the most recent 5 years, during the two hottest months of summer, are not unprecedented.

Below is a table of the 10 hottest months since 1895, along with the respective global atmospheric CO2 level at the time. The lack of correlation between hottest years and CO2 is striking.

Clearly, all the human CO2 emissions produced during the modern era have not significantly changed the overall trend of maximum temperatures since the early 20th century.

Conclusion: The AOC climate change fearmongering, along with her fellow Green New Deal Democrats', is a narrative without any empirical evidence. The narrative that U.S. adults, children, and grandchildren will to survive in a 'living hell' that will destroy our society within the next 12 years is highly, highly unlikely. Per the evidence presented in the chart and table, we have survived warmer temperatures in the past, and will do so in the future because we've adapted and can now better cope with both higher and lower temperatures (thank the modern advances in technology, engineering, medicine, and food production and they will continue).

Note: Trend lines are not predictions. They provide a sense of direction from the past to a specific endpoint, but they provide absolutely no proof of what will take place in the future, especially with a global climate that is dominated by large natural oscillations and variations. NOAA web site that maximum temperature plots are available from.

Winning: Trump's Energy & Climate Polices Bring Obama's Global Warming Peak To Cooling Climate Status

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HadCrut 4.6, the gold-standard global temperature dataset, confirms that Trump's energy and climate policies are delivering dramatic results the benefit of mankind!

After global warming temperature trends hit a post-1950 peak under the Obama administration, Trump has dropped the Obama's scary warming peak to a cooling status for the last 5 years.

Yes, temperatures have now decelerated to a rate of a cooling climate.

Obama couldn't lower the seas as promised but Trump lowered the world's fever of ever increasing temperatures.

One never tires of 'Winning.' :-)

 

[Note: Excel used to calculate 5-year temperature trends. Excel used to plot trends - HC4.6 global dataset. Trends are only temporary and not predictions. Climate change exists and constantly happens and warming has taken place since the Little Ice Age.]

New Peer-Reviewed Study: An Example of Why "Global Warming" Is Not Global

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What many journalists and politicians do not realize is that climate change warming is not global. At any given time, there are regions of the world that are warming, while at the same time other regions are either cooling or exist within a stable temperature range.

An example of the actual real-world climate regime is the South China Sea denoted by the accompanying chart.

A group of researchers from China produced a better methodology to reconstruct a historical dataset of sea temperatures for the month of March from 1893-2011.

The findings from their research?

"...above-average temperatures occurred in 1904-1913, 1929-1948, 1961-1973 and 1991-2006. Below-average temperatures, on the other hand, occurred in 1914-1925, 1949-1960, 1979-1990 and 2007-2011. What is particularly insightful about the reconstruction, however, is the absence of any apparent anthropogenic influence on the 119-year record of SST variability. In fact, there appears to be nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about current temperatures. Indeed, temperatures of the past four decades have remained relatively stable over the whole length of the record."

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And on the other side of the world, we have the example of a cooling Ireland, which clearly seems to have missed this "global warming" that everyone in media, Hollywood, and D.C. continuously claim - obviously, without ever checking the actual evidence.

But, don't hold your breath expecting either the mainstream media or politicians or celebrities pushing the climate change alarmism to inform the public that "global warming" is not truly global.

 

Climate Change Apocalypse Cult: Does Empirical Evidence Support AOC's Doomsday In 12 Years Prediction?

Does AOC's (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) well publicized and dramatic prediction that climate-doomsday will strike humanity in a very short 12 years have any empirical validity?

If indeed that is the case, then surely global warming must be accelerating at a fevered rate that should easily be detected within today's known empirical measurement evidence, or not.

Per the CAGW hypothesis, the coming climate collapse prediction demands that the rapid global warming acceleration be closely linked with the undisputed continuous growth of atmospheric CO2 levels.

But does the empirical evidence support such a link?

The adjacent chart plots the global warming acceleration per century rates (12 month, 36 month, 60 month, and 120 month) using the HadCrut global temperature dataset through February 2019. In addition, the levels of atmospheric CO2 are plotted.

The temperature plots show a wide range of acceleration/deceleration, especially for the shorter time frames.

Viewing the chart (click on to enlarge), it becomes obvious that a major 12-month acceleration trend can turn quickly into a major deceleration trend - a 40 degree +/- change in direction is not uncommon.

Currently, both the 36-month (bright red) and 60-month (bright green) are exhibiting a cooling rate (respectively, a -5.9°C cooling/century rate and a -2.1°C cooling per century rate).

The 120-month acceleration rate is falling but still in warming mode at +2.6°C/century; and the 12-month acceleration rate of 10.9°C warming rate/century has reversed its trend from a -31.8°C cooling rate reached in December 2017.

Putting the current 120-month (i.e. 10-year) acceleration rate in context, as recently as October 2013 there existed a deceleration period - i.e. a minus cooling rate trend. In addition, the February 2019 rate is significantly below the highest warming peaks of November 1983, September 1988, and September 2002; and it is below the pre-1950's peaks of 1941 and 1916.

The good news is that there is no indication in the chart's plots that anything extraordinary is now taking place suggesting there is a total climate system of "rapid" accelerated warming. There is nothing there that would provide a reasonable rational basis for any fear of climate change destruction in 12 years.

Since the actual current trends do not support the AOC climate change doomsday claim, is there at least any empirical evidence that establishes a strong link between atmospheric CO2 levels and rapid acceleration of warming trends?

Nope.

The correlations between the CO2 levels and the rate of temperature increase is close to being nonexistent. For the 12-month rate the r² is +0.0006; the 36-month r² is +0.008; the 60-month rate r² is +0.04; and the 120-month r² is +0.14.

With such low r²'s, the claim that CO2 levels are a dominant forcing which determine the rate of increase in global warming is a hypothesis without empirical clothing. And puts into serious question the validity of the overall CAGW hypothesis.

Conclusion: Based on an analysis of the gold-standard global temperature dataset and current atmospheric CO2 levels, there is conclusive evidence that acceleration/deceleration rates of temperature are within a natural variation range, with little to any apparent relationship or enhancement from greenhouse gases, such as CO2. Doomsday from CO2 greenhouse emissions within 12 years is beyond unlikely.

[Note: Excel used to calculate temperature trends. Excel used to plot trends and CO2 levels. HC4.6 global dataset; historical CO2 dataset and recent CO2 dataset.]

Latest Peer-Reviewed Research: Canadian North Experienced Warmer Temperature Periods Than Modern Era

Both higher and lower temperature spans during pre-industrial periods are evident in the boreal forested areas of Quebec, Canada.

"Hoping to provide some additional knowledge of Holocene climate fluctuations in the boreal region of north-eastern Canada, the six researchers thus developed a new summer temperature proxy by analyzing chironomid assemblages from lake sediment cores obtained from Lac Aurelié. The new record spanned 8200 years with an average temporal resolution of 45 years."

During the Holocene Thermal Maximum, temperatures were approximately 0.9°C warmer than now; and during the Medieval Warming Period, temperatures were about 1.0°C higher than in modern era.

The Little Ice Age period from the 1400's to 1800's had summer temperatures cooler than modern era by 2.1°C.

"In light of the above findings, it would appear that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about current summer temperatures in central Quebec, which fall well within the range of natural variability for this area."

Referenced article on peer-reviewed study.

Climate Change: Worried About A 2 Degree Rise In Temperatures? Don't Be

This article points out the fact that Europe has already experienced a 2 degree Celsius temperature increase since 1750, as shown in the chart on the right.

Yet, the predicted climate change apocalypse, cataclysm, disasters, calamities, tragedies, and destruction from the global warming 2°C meltdown have not taken place across Europe and don't seem likely to happen anytime in the near future.

Instead, as the left chart indicates, overall death rate has plummeted, along with an incredible increase of livelihood prosperity and health; and all the while when atmospheric levels of CO2 were growing fast. Way back in 1750, Europe was just starting to crawl out of the depths of Medieval backwardness with the onset of the Age of Enlightenment.

"In summary:

•We’ve done the two degree Celsius experiment.

• The lack of any climate-related catastrophes indicates that warming is generally either neutral or good for animal and plant life alike.

• Climate related deaths are only about a twentieth of what they were a hundred years ago.

• The people of the planet generally don’t see climate as an important issue. Fact Check: They are right."

What if another 2 degree increase occurs across Europe by 2100AD? Probably Europe will gain even more prosperity, health, and happiness and still without the doomsday scenarios portrayed by "experts."

In The Real World, Existential Threat of Global Warming + Climate Change Is A Double-Nothingburger

The mainstream journalists have been reporting over the last 20 years that global warming was dangerously accelerating due to greenhouse gas emissions, primarily CO2.

They reported that this rapid temperature elevation would bring untold climate change disaster and calamity to humanity - per the climate model based speculations - if we did not cease using the fossil fuels that produced the CO2.

Yet, despite growing emissions that now surpass 400 ppm in the atmosphere, at the end of 2018, according to HadCrut annual global temperature dataset, the globe warmed by a measly +0.056°C since 1998 - not even a tenth of a degree over 20 years.

A nothing-burger.

(Note: see the +0.056°C increase on adjacent thermometer where the small white dots represent the 1998 temperature.)

If that 20-year amount of "warming" is repeated every 20 years, then by the end of 100 years, global warming would have increased a barely measurable +0.3°C degree. This is not your AOC's warming that will end the world in a short 12 years.

In addition, the last 20 years of actual warming does not match well with the predicted warming from the most sophisticated climate models' compilation. For the 20 years ending 2018, the models' approximate mean estimate of global warming is +0.50°C .

Thus, the expert predicted warming is roughly 8 times greater than actual.

All of the above tells one that actual warming has not been either extreme or dangerous.

This has been literally worry-free warming over the last 2 decades notwithstanding the climate model scenarios of excessive near-death-warming that must be upon us. 

Besides the recent actual tiny warming, there also have been multiple peer-reviewed studies published over the last 12 months that establish catastrophic global warming to be more science fiction than scientific reality. For example:

“Global Warming” Leaves Ireland In The Cold …Emerald Island Has Been Cooling Over Past 3 Decades!

New Study: North America Has Been Cooling Since 1998 – With No Significant Overall Warming Since 1982

New Papers Find Significant COOLING In W. Virginia, Appalachia, And The Yellow Sea Since The Early 1900s

World Cooling

The Disappearance of March Heatwaves

Fading Warming…More Cooling: Winters At Austria’s Ischgler Idalpe Have Become 1.3°C COLDER Over Past 30 Years!

90% Of Japan’s Rural Stations Show Cooling Or No Trend Over Past 2 Decades!

False Alarm: New Study Finds Global Ocean Warmed By 0.02°C From 1994-2013, With Cooling Below 3600m

New Study Reveals The Arctic Region Was 4.6°C Warmer Than ‘Present Day’ During The 1930s

North Atlantic Ocean Rapidly Cooling…Cool Down And Growing Arctic Sea Ice May Follow

12 New Papers Affirm A 21st Century Cessation Of Arctic Warming And A Rapid Cooling Across Antarctica

And then there are the other actual climate change empirical indicators...or aka - multiple climate change nothingburgers

No Trend In Extreme Weather In The US

New Study: Number & Intensity of US Hurricanes Have Remained Constant Since 1900

2018 is the first year with no violent tornadoes in USA – 5 years without an EF-5 tornado & number of EF-3 tornadoes will be a record low as well

Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends (1967-2018): A comparison between climate models and observations

Record Snowfall Across Himalayas

‘Colorado snowpack so juiced in 2019 that they had to redo the scale’

Key Greenland glacier growing again after shrinking for years, NASA study shows

‘California is drought-free for the first time in nearly a decade’ – ‘It’s official: California is 100% drought-free’

US Drought Near Historic Lows

30 years of NOAA tide gauge data debunk 1988 Senate hearing climate alarmist claims

Sea-level rise within natural variation of past several thousand years

Data Show Polar Sea Ice Stable 12 Years

Polar Bear Population May Have Quadrupled Since 1960s

Record corn yield and soybean production predicted for 2018

SUMMARY: There exists no empirical evidence, nor research studies based on actual empirical evidence, indicating that humanity is being threatened by disastrous warming or associated climate change manifestations. On the contrary, real world indications are that natural climate changes do occur but they do not amount to the claimed existential menace, even with the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases. These facts confirm that proposed billions to trillions of American's dollars should not be spent on unproven and highly controversial attempts to fix what amounts to non-threatening global "warming" and mild climate "change."

Latest Peer-Reviewed Research: "North America (180-0°N, 15-60°N) has been characterized as a “major cooling center”"

From this recent article, the main takeaways from 2019 study are: 

North America (180-0°N, 15-60°N) has been characterized as a “major cooling center” by the authors of a new paper (Gan et al., 2019) published in Earth and Space Science...The continent warmed from 1982-1998, but a cooling trend since 1998 has nearly wiped out all the previous warming...Overall, there has been no significant temperature change in North America since 1982.

Climate science alarmists are devastated by these findings and are scrambling to smear its scientific authors rather than challenge the empirical evidence, one would imagine.

Then again, possibly the alarmists will finally admit defeat by accepting the skeptical AGW viewpoint - that CO2 is not the dominant forcing in climatic trends, it is a minor one at best.

The authors of this study assess the likely reason for the cooling as being a natural climate change phenomenon from one of the known natural oscillations/cycles.

This study should again confirm that current climate predictions from "experts" and their computer models have been fabulously wrong.

Conclusion: Politicians and bureaucrats should table any discussions and regulations in regards to actual climate and energy policies, since the assumptions and hypothesis being utilized are clearly without scientific merit.

Amazingly, Another Country With A Winter Cooling Trend, Despite The 'Warming' Prediction Due To CO2

A few days ago, we discussed Japan's cooling winter temperature trend and now it's Germany's turn. If Italy also develops a similar cooling trend, it will be the new #ClimateChange Axis, so to speak.

As usual, we are beating a dead horse - climate expert predictions that are based on the trace gas CO2 are worthless.

No climate or energy policy should ever be based on computer models that are focused on human emission of carbon dioxide. These models cannot simulate natural climate cycle variation at all and thus make for incredibly lousy prediction outputs.

Just another case of those stubborn facts getting in the way of pseudo science by simulation.

Climate Science Truth-Crisis: The Climate Change Fear-Mongering Is No Crisis

The Democrats are now pursuing a media propaganda strategy that purposefully misleads the American public with #hysterical claims about climate change.

The propaganda represents a 'truth-crisis' that has no basis in reference to empirical evidence.

Joe Bastardi, who has some 35 years of weather/climate forecasting at prominent organizations, provides the adjacent climate evidence that clearly debunks the cult-like nonsense about "disastrous" climate change impacts.

Top-Left: Global warming has not caused permanent droughts in the U.S. that are claimed by alarmists.

Top-Right: Snow coverage is actually increasing across the N. Hemisphere contrary to doomsday #experts."

Bottom-Left: Occurrences of violent tornadoes in the U.S. have dropped significantly since 1954.

Bottom-Right: Opposite of the Democrats' propaganda, both the frequency and intensity of hurricanes has declines in total contrast to the UN's and official climate agencies have predicted.

Although the climate change fear-mongering by the Democrats is required to justify their proposed socialist 'Green New Deal', in reality, the climate crisis does not exist.

(Note: In order to bring the climate-truth to U.S. citizens, please share with friends, relatives, and associates. And using Twitter: #tcot @POTUS @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @Sen_JoeManchin @RepFletcher)

Why The Democrats Socialist Dream of A 'Green New Deal' Will Ultimately Fail

 

 

Essentially, we rely on accessible and affordable fossil fuels for almost everything we use and consume. The progressive elites and green leftists demanding we forsake fossil fuels are completely oblivious to to how intertwined they are in everyday modern existence.

There are no replacement alternatives that would provide the same comprehensive benefits serving humanity.

The Forever Stream of Failed Climate Predictions Continues To Cause Never-Ending Embarrassment For Experts, Politicos & Pundits

The failure of the climate "experts" to accurately predict short or long-term has been well documented in the past.

And this article points to the latest examples of such failure, which the #Dems and #Green #Socialists will again deny, despite the scientific empirical evidence. (That is what is called science denial.)

The climate prediction failure stream will continue until the point when the "science experts" finally realize that natural climate processes are the significant primary drivers of climate change and not the trace gas CO2.

Rest Assured, AOC Isn't The Only One Making Those Bogus Climate Change End-of-World Predictions

It is absolutely laughable that anyone at this point would believe the climate catastrophe hoaxes from "experts" and know-it-alls since each and every prediction has been wrong.

Human caused climate apocalypse is not in the cards (unless your one of those who believes in Tarot card reading).

Politicians and celebrities need to stop believing the 'Harold Campings' of the world. Enough is enough.

 

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U.S. Drought Before SUVs Vs. Drought After SUVs

 

#GreenNewDeal @marcorubio @joniernst

Ad nauseam, the global warming and climate change alarmists tell the masses that the world will soon end - maybe in 12 years - due to such things as a global starvation event caused by droughts from human CO2. The actual scientific facts do not support this level of hysteria.

As this climate-alarmism skeptic reports, even the somewhat hysterical NOAA climate site displays real evidence that completely undercuts the notion that we are now experiencing the "disastrous" consequences of excessive amounts of the SUV CO2 trace gas molecule.

 

Custer's Last Stand?

From 'C3' Twitter Account:

#Establishment #Elites DO NOT want to be challenged by #Empirical evidence: Former Defence Chiefs Demand President Trump Desist From Reviewing Climate Change Advice https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/06/former-defence-chiefs-demand-president-trump-desist-from-reviewing-climate-change-advice/ …

The Washington Post: Where Climate Science Dies In Darkness

As most are aware, the Washington Post (WaPo) has become known as a major purveyor of climate fear mongering propaganda.

And this recent article is a perfect example of their predilection to do so, especially in regards to human CO2 emissions and the very speculative catastrophic global warming climate change said emissions will have.

But, if growing human-based CO2 emissions are the primary cause of disastrous climate change, why aren't they the primary cause for changes in atmospheric CO2 levels? (more on that later.)

 

 

Below is a quote from this article that exemplifies the propaganda that the world needs to drastically cut global emissions or ELSE.

“We are in trouble. We are in deep trouble with climate change,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said..."It is hard to overstate the urgency of our situation,” he said. “Even as we witness devastating climate impacts causing havoc across the world, we are still not doing enough, nor moving fast enough, to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption.”

The article is mostly void of any facts but certainly has plenty of fringe green activist estimates, projections, speculations, and "expert" opinions masquerading as facts. Observed empirical climate evidence was not a mainstay of the article.

One of their key "facts" presented at the beginning of the article is that global emissions for 2018 are projected to be 2.7% larger than 2017. Certainly sounds like an authoritative scientific fact until one reads much later in the article that maybe the 2018 emissions could be a much smaller global increase of only 1.8%.

Then again, maybe the final number will be +1.5% or maybe even +1.2%. Truth be told, no one knows for sure what the real number is at this time, although a more accurate number will likely be known by mid-2019.

Of course, the WaPo hopes that readers will walk away from this article with the thought that the estimated CO2 emission growth will lead to much higher CO2 atmospheric levels, thus resulting in the Earth suffering "calamitous" global warming outcomes.

Their hope is that readers will simply believe and not bother to check or question the lack of factual evidence supporting the underlying causation assumption. 

When one does check the empirical evidence for the impact of annual CO2 emissions change on atmospheric CO2 levels an obvious disconnect becomes apparent - there is no significant impact of a specific percent increase in CO2 emissions and a subsequent percent increase in CO2 atmospheric levels (ppm).  

In fact, as the above chart reveals, the correlation between the annual % increase of CO2 emissions and annual % rise of CO2 atmospheric levels is a ridiculously low with a r² of +0.002. That is basically zero over the 53-year time span from 1966 through 2018 (assuming the WaPo 2018 estimate of 2.7% is correct).

The chart also depicts a declining linear trend for CO2 emissions while there is a slight increasing trend for CO2 levels, which is another indication that a positive correlation relationship between human emissions and CO2 levels is rather suspect.

For the WaPo's climate fear mongering apostles and recent converts, the lack of correlation seriously undercuts their faith in the 'CO2 Control Knob' hypothesis of climate change: the dogmatic faith that government bureaucrats can just turn a dial knob that decreases CO2 emissions by a certain percentage; the result being that atmospheric CO2 levels will respond by a certain lower percentage increase; and thus the desired climate result being less global warming.

If the "control knob" on CO2 emissions does not correlate at all with atmospheric CO2 levels, it's not very likely to correlate well with a specific percentage change in global temps.

Another way to examine the same datasets is plotting the annual changes of human emission CO2 tonnes versus the annual change in CO2 atmospheric levels (ppm). Again, the correlation might as well be zero due to an r² of +0.041. (see below)

Again, how can this be if the control knob hypothesis relies on a strong change relationship between CO2 emissions and atmospheric CO2 levels?

 

 

The empirical evidence does not lie, but since it is inconvenient, WaPo "journalists" just make it go away no matter the serious consequences. Just another case of those hated stubborn facts.

Conclusion: Bad journalism combined with bad science will kill democracy from the baseless fear mongering.

Note: Datasets used for Excel plots in above charts: CO2 tonne (metric ton) emissions and CO2 atmospheric levels. Link to research article on correlation between CO2 emissions and atmospheric CO2 levels (h/t Thongchai Thailand).

Global Warming + World Ending: It's A '5-AOC' Event

The Washington Post is infamous famous for assigning multiple 'Pinocchios' to a variety of claims that challenge their liberal-lefty-Democrat-progressive standard of "truth".

 

It's A '5-AOC' Rating

But a new standard of incredulity may need to be established beyond the simple 'lying-Pinocchio' for a growing onslaught of clown claims.

A possible contender for a standard is the '5-AOC' for those claims that makes one wonder if the specific person is just flat-out stupid, or embarrassingly ignorant, or extremely gullible, or hilariously hysterical, or may suffer from an indisputable facts allergy. Most importantly, the recipient of a '5-AOC' could be affected by all the above characteristics to varying degrees.

Of course, the honorary recipient for the very first '5-AOC' should be none other than the original A.O.C., Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. for her incredibly bizarre prediction that "the world is gonna end in 12 years" due to climate change from CO2-induced global warming.

For those millennial A.O.C. contemporaries who believe that the world's climate has changed immensely over the last 50 years, and is soon to be an uninhabitable climate disaster, the below image is based on the extreme hot and cold temperatures recorded, as tabulated by the UN's own World Meteorological Organization.

This world map image shows the year the hottest and coldest temperatures were recorded for each continent. For the record, the last "hottest" temperature for a major continent was recorded in 1982, which was 36 years (and billions and billions of CO2 emission tonnes) ago. 

Does this mean the world is not warming?

No. It means that human CO2 emissions are not very climatic(ly) powerful since no new record-setting temperatures by continent have been recorded in over three decades.

Will there be new "hottest" temperatures recorded for the continents?

Yes. And it's primarily due to the fact that the natural climate forces can cause huge climatic fluctuations that are much more powerful than a trace gas emission produced by humans. 

Are the majority of humans facing a catastrophic climate doomsday in 12 years?

The empirical evidence suggests not. Rest easy.

Whether It Is A U.S. Politician or An EU Politician, Forcing Carbon Taxes On The Masses To Fight Climate Change Is Dumb

Politicians across the political spectrum and across the globe are discovering how dumb it is to demand the average citizen pay a carbon tax.

Dumb because a carbon tax will not have a single impact on climate change, be it natural or man-made.

Dumb because it is widely unpopular due to its regressive nature, which punishes the non-wealthy to an excessively painful extent.

Plus, the average tax-paying citizen no longer believes the elites' hyperbole about climate change doomsday and global warming. The constant 'crying wolf' and then demanding more taxes in the next breath has proven time and again to be a politically losing proposition.

Even in the EU, the populace rejects having to pay higher taxes that will only enrich the establishment with more money and control. Noteworthy are the recent major protests in France regarding Macron's hydrocarbon tax. A levy that is boosting fuel costs for the masses, which has proven to be, not only wildly unpopular, but also deadly.

And in the U.S., politicians who push a carbon tax on the masses might as well not plan on getting elected the next time. A classic example is a GOP incumbent Latino in Florida who had all the right qualifications, except for his 2018 climate change tax stupidity - a political position of 'I am going to save the world and you will pay for it' that did not exactly resonate with voters.

When a politician chooses to advocate taxing his/her constituents more on a daily basis, one does not have to be a petroleum engineer to figure out that votes will not come gushing in for that politico.

Finally, if politicians were really serious about battling climate change with taxes, they would propose a climate change reparations surcharge tax on asset wealth. The 'asset wealthy' being not only individuals who own Teslas, but also foundations, endowments, religious institutions, and any other organization responsible for directly (or indirectly) using large amounts of fossil fuels.

A climate surcharge on the asset-rich, which would be unable to pass the surcharge taxes onto the masses via price increases. The asset-rich who will then deservedly become the elites' role models for saving the climate from their own doomsday scenarios.

Importantly, the mass of voters - conservative or progressive - would likely support that type of climate change tax in a heartbeat.  

Drip...Drip...Drip, Climate Change Alarmism Suffers Torturous Death By Facts

Research studies and actual climate change observations continue to confirm Trump's decision to pooh-pooh the alarmism and doomsday fears of both Democrats and the GOP-elites' never-Trumpers.

Adding to their joint misery is fact that Trump's energy policies are reducing U.S. CO2 emissions faster than their favored major country signatories of the UN's globalist Paris and Kyoto climate initiatives.

Surprised? Global Warming Doomsday Canceled, Again: Another Bogus Climate Model Prediction Fails

Maybe politicians and establishment types should quit believing computer models that are poor replicates of reality and often riddled with forecasting methodology errors.

Heaven Help Us: Only 1 Week After The 2018 Election & 103 Weeks of Crazy To Go Before 2020 Election

The first week's headlines after the November 2018 election do not provide a lot of comfort for moving forward; the next 2 years (103 weeks) are going to be brutal if below headlines are an indication.

 

Democrats Mulling 85 Investigations, Subpoenas for Trump White House 

Democrats Now Say They Won't Try To Impeach Brett Kavanaugh But They Make No Promises On POTUS

Poll: Top Three Dem 2020 Candidates Are Biden, Sanders, And O’Rourke- all are white males

Hillary Clinton Crashes High School Football Game, Takes Selfies

Leftist Sherrod Brown for president? He’s thinking about it 

Democrat Maxine Waters: Violent Protests ‘Make America Better’, Republicans Should ‘Feel Uncomfortable’ 

Maxine Waters's Daughter Will Pocket More Than $200K For Campaign Operation 

Majority Of Likely US Voters Are Against Impeaching Kavanaugh

Democrat Nadler: We're not impeaching Kavanaugh, but the White House ... 

Is Comrade Jerrold Nadler The Most Powerful Actual Socialist in Congress? 

Congress braces for high-drama lame duck | TheHill 

Here's The Complete 'Democratic Hit List' Of Trump Investigation Targets

Exclusive poll: Most Democrats see Republicans as racist, sexist

Guardian: White Women Voting GOP Embrace ‘Racist Sadism’ 

The Liberal Mob Continues To Attack

Georgia Southern Prof Claims Trump and GOP Used Fear and Prejudice in Midterms 

Look inward, not to Washington, to fix the culture of incivility 

TRIGGERED: ‘It’s OK to Be White’ posters are back … and again campus officials, students go… 

MSNBC: Trump Would 'Call the Military' if He Lost 2020 Re-Election Bid

RUN, HILLARY, RUN! Hillary Clinton will run for White House again in 2020, says former adviser. Th… 

Celebrity Sarah Silverman: I Feel 'Very Lucky' Trump Doesn't Make Me Wear Star of David 

MSNBC's Joy Reid Suggests Florida Democratic Voters Might Be Racist

Broward County Elections Supervisor To Be 'Forced From Office' After Violating Florida Law, Says Report

'Emergency Voting' Centers Opened by Dem Recorder Raise Questions 

Florida Vote Scandal Coverage Shows Media-Democrat Complicity. Again. 

Florida Recount: Broward County Recount is a Dumpster Fire, Palm Beach Officials Decry Deadline 

MORE DEMOCRAT TRICKS: GOP Candidate Wins NM Seat in Congress - Then Magic Stash of 8,000 Ballots Turns Up (VIDEO 

There are Still 7 House Seats 'Too Close to Call' - All Republican - Will GOP Leaders Allow Democrats to Steal These Seats Too? 

Provisional Ballot Boxes Discovered Inside AVIS Rental Car At Ft. Lauderdale Airport

Georgia Democrats tout surprise ballots that could sink Brian Kemp's bid for governor 

POSTMODERN POLITICKING: Stacey Abrams Allegedly Attempts To Run Illegal Ads In Support Of A Non-Exis… 

Soros-Tied Hillary Alumni Group Helping to Organize Volunteers for Florida Recount

Fired: Broward County Employee Gives Affidavit, Blank Ballots Being Filled Out

What The Hell? Broward And Palm Beach Counties Ignore Court Ruling On Vote Counts; UPDATE: Reporters Threatened? 

Election Fraud Expert: Brenda Snipes Allowed Illegal Aliens and Felons to Vote; Illegally Destroyed Ballots

MSNBC's Scarborough: Rubio's Broward ‘Conspiracy Theory’ on Election Legitimacy What Happens in 'Banana Republics'

Nearly 200,000 Florida Voters May Not Be Citizens - NBC 6 South Florida 

6.5M people with active Social Security numbers are 112 or older: IG

Trump Or Cheney? NYT Asks "Who's The Real American Psycho?"

YOU WERE EXPECTING INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY?:  Boston Globe Defends Mobbing of Jewish Republican. S… 

Facebook Fired Oculus Founder For His Political Beliefs And Pro-Trump Donations

INFURIATING! Fox's Kat Timpf ‘chewed out, abused, run out of establishment’ and you’ll never guess WHY (ok, you might)

Donald Trump: Honest Vote Count in Florida 'No Longer Possible' 

Fed Board Run By Obama Holdovers Is ‘Hemorrhaging’ Taxpayer Money On Legal Fees

Illegal Alien, Released in NJ, Charged with Triple Murder in Missouri 

BECAUSE IT’S ON THE LEFT: Here’s The Anti-Semitism The Media Doesn’t Want To Mention 

‘INSANITY’: Friend of FOX's Tucker Carlson says it’s unfair to call what happened at his house a ‘protest’

Vox's Matt Yglesias Defends 'Terrorizing' FOX's Tucker Carlson's 'Family' 

DEMENTED: AntiFa goons who terrorized FOX's Tucker Carlson’s family have doubled down

‘What the HELL is wrong with you?’ Soledad O’Brien victim-blames, basically tells Tucker Carlson his ‘skirt was too short’

“Why Trump Should Be Worried About 2020” 

Hollywood Director Adam McKay accuses media of ‘dereliction of duty’ for not reporting why ‘BILLIONS WILL DIE’

Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Slated For Victory As Vote Count Heads In Her Direction

NBA Players Protest Gun Violence Following Thousand Oaks Shooting

Activists Fly Banner over Jets Stadium, Urge Team to Support Gun Control 

Dangerous UN Migration Pact wants to make migration a human right 

Bulgaria will not join the UN Migration Pact and joins growing list of countries 

France's Macron Rips Nationalism. Then He Gets Slammed.

Germany's Merkel attacks nationalism and says only UN values and cooperation pave a new future 

Actress crushed by Beto O’Rourke’s loss wants white women to ‘choke to death on the white supremacist patriarchal c*ck’

Archdiocese Of Detroit Declares Abuse Claim Credible Against Dead Priest

As Of October 2018, The US Is Now Energy Independent

Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer Lists Trump’s ‘Denial’ Of Climate Change As Justification For Impeachment

Planned Parenthood President Says Organization Is All ‘About Saving People’s Lives'

Writer Seth Mandel calls out media for their ‘drive to normalize’ leftist anti-Semites like Ilhan Omar

Broward, FL County's Brenda Snipes... idiocy and how to destroy the electoral system 

California’s Wildfires Wiped Out This Small Town — Now It Might Never Come Back

Facebook executive's firing fan the flames of an anti-conservative debate in Silicon Valley 

Illegal immigrants break November 2017 number in 2 days - Washington Times 

University Reprimands Professor For Not Calling Transgender Student By Preferred Pronoun. Professor Files Suit

First Democrat Officially Announces 2020 Presidential Bid. Trump's Already Given Him A Nickname.

PC GONE MAD: Phrase ‘Long Time No See’ Is Declared Racist

Former 'ThinkProgress' Writer Allegedly Participated In The Mob Attack At Tucker Carlson's Home

France, Google Facebook Push Online Hate Speech Regulation 

Here's a Preview of House Democrats' Cavalcade of Investigations 

Ignored ICE detainer causes release of illegal alien who goes on to murder 3 

Mainstream Media Gave Less Coverage to GOP's Young Kim Than Similarly Historic Democratic Peers 

Media Takes Democrats’ Side in Florida Recount - Accuracy in Media 

Michelle Obama: America Chose ‘Misogynist’ Trump Over ‘Exceptionally Qualified’ Clinton

Minnesota Dem Congresswomen-Elect: I Believe In, Support BDS Movement 

MSNBC Host Incorrectly Claims Broward County Election Supervisor Is a Republican 

Fox News Sunday Panel Slams Broward Vote Counting Incompetence, Credibility Issues 

Illegal immigrants break November 2017 number in 2 days - Washington Times 

University Reprimands Professor For Not Calling Transgender Student By Preferred Pronoun. Professor Files Suit

Every Week, Illegal Border Crossings Dwarf Caravan That’s ‘Hundreds Of Miles Away'

Poll: Top Three Dem 2020 Candidates Are Biden, Sanders, And O’Rourke

Fed up San Franciscans catalogue images of their city's new depravity 

Actor Gerard Butler Lost His House In The California Wildfires. You Won't BELIEVE Why Leftists Say They Don't Feel Sorry For Him

NY Times Blames Trump Alone for Rocky Relationship With Press Corps - Accuracy in Media 

OPINION: Jim Acosta Cements Himself As Jester Of Donald Trump’s Court

Planned Parenthood President: 'Very Real Likelihood' Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade 

Shawnee State University Wins Competition Of Unhinged Academic Lunacy

Survey of Financial Journalists Shows Liberals Outnumbering Conservatives 14-to-1 

Vatican Halts US Bishops’ Attempt To Adopt New Abuse Protocols And Establish Investigative Lay Commission

Top Dems Melt Down Over Whitaker-Mueller "Unconstitutional" Oversight

Tucker Carlson Rebuts 'Assault' Claim: Country Club Booted Avenatti Client 

UW Institutes 'Diversity' Training After Professor’s Op-Ed on Sex Differences | Trending 

VOTE: What Should The Lame Duck Republican Congress Focus On?

WATCH: Michelle Says She Was Suspicious Of Barack Because White People Liked Him

Democrats: ‘Cruel and Unscientific’ to Define Legal Sex by Biology 

Trump Blames Market Drop On Democrats "Harassing" The President

She MAD! CNN analyst Susan Hennessey defensive after being slammed for GARBAGE take on Rubio calling out FL voter fraud

Avenatti client: I'm pursuing assault charges against Tucker Carlson over incident at country club last month 

OPINION: Radical Environmentalists Are To Blame For California’s Wildfires

Macron attacks Trump by calling nationalism treason 

Get Cynical, Get Angry, And Stay Free 

2018 Proved Obama Is Electoral Kryptonite In Battleground States 

Kemp Calls Abrams Delusional as She Files Lawsuit Seeking Count of Rejected Votes 

'No Consistent Evidence' $3 Billion Disability Program Helps Recipients Find a Job 

HATE CRIME HOAX: Guess Who Posted The Racist Note At Kansas State University

Jerry Brown Blames Climate Change for California Wildfires

UMass Students Upset by Racist Graffiti Found in Dorm 

CNN's Alisyn Camerota jabs Fox News covering Obama in eye-roll inducing segment on Trump’s canceled cemetery visit (watch)

Liberal California Blames Wildfires on Trump 

GOP Pundit: Trump's 'Combative' Style 'a Problem' with Black Women 

Vatican Official: Migrants Teach Western Women to ‘Be Feminine Mothers’ 

‘Too rich’! Nate Silver sees danger in Trump/GOP ‘trying to delegitimize election results’ (and people have questions)

BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL: Adam Schiff says if the acting attorney general doesn’t recuse himself fr… 

Defeated GOP Rep. Lewis Blames McCain’s Vote Against Obamacare For House Loss

Brave New Stupid: Man 'Marries' Hologram, But Craziest Part Is How Company That Made 'Her' Reacts

Stacey Abrams Files Suit To Force Georgia Gubernatorial Election Into A Runoff

Kemp Says Updated Vote Totals Affirm His Victory as Abrams Files Lawsuit 

LET’S GET FRACKING: Saudi Export Cuts, OPEC Committee Hints on Production Send Oil Sharply Higher…. 

YOU DON’T SAY: Recounts Rarely Change Elections Results, But When They Do, They Favor Dems. “Republi… 

OPINION: House Democrats Need To Conduct Hearings … On Government Waste

The Most Barbaric Pro-Abortion Ad Of All Time

Women’s March Loses Human Rights Award Due To Rampant Anti-Semitism

Chip Roy Turns Tables On Democrats: They Have ‘Blood On Their Hands’ On The Border

Another Justice Resigns From Scandal-Plagued West Virginia Supreme Court

Environmentalists Urging New Democratic Congress To Investigate Exxon

Maxine Waters: GOP Is Scared of a 'Strong, Black Woman' Like Me in Leadership

Virgil: France’s Macron Attacks America’s Trump, and Americans Help Pay For It 

INSANE: Environmental groups in Calif. want PG&E to cut down *FEWER* trees near power lines #CampFire

Religion Under Attack More Than Ever as International Religious Freedom Act Turns 20 

A Bloodbath for Christians, No Response from Egypt 

UN Member States: Migration Is a Human Right 

CNN gearing up to sue over Jim Acosta's suspended White House press pass 

69-Year-Old Dutch Man Asks Court To Change His Age To 49

GOP Candidate Rick Scott Files 3 More Election Lawsuits in Florida 

Beijing Biden: Biden's Bro Linked to Chinese Foreign Agent

All of a sudden, Mexico is warmly welcoming the migrant caravan... 

Hungary wants more info on Soros-UN debit cards as they may finance terrorism 

Trump warns of effort to "steal" Florida races after recount declared 

Murderer Deported to Mexico Last Month Recaptured in Texas; Convicted Of Murder in Austin, TX, Spent 11 Years in Prison, Deported to Mexico but RETURNED 

While Twitter banned Infowars, it reportedly gave information to Saudi Arabia about a dissident journalist who ended up dead 

Cruz: 'Under No Circumstances' Should We Let Migrant Caravan into America

Kyrsten Sinema gains 4,000 votes in Arizona Senate race

German NGO rescinds award to US Women's March due to antisemitism charge

Prominent terror cases with ties to Florida 

European police smash ring smuggling Palestinians with 'bogus asylum claims'

Teacher Fails Straight A Student For Not Denying God

White director who won minority theater grant defends decision to identify as black. 'Although I'm white, with white parents, I have gone through the struggles of a black man' 

Fox News Boycotting Twitter For Allowing Doxxing Of Tucker Carlson, Source Says

Daring or defensive? The election results have left Democrats deeply divided over which strategy will help them oust President Trump in 2020. 

Democratic Lawyers Object To 'Non-Citizen' Florida Ballot Being Thrown Out

WHY HE WENT SO EASY ON HILLARY: HE WAS ESTABLISHING A CONVENIENT PRECEDENT. James Comey used personal email to discuss FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server 

Living In The Forest And Risking Their Lives: The Extreme Measures Enviros Will Take To Stop A Crude Oil Pipeline

Exit Polls: Regular Churchgoers Voted Republican in Midterms 

Swalwell: GOP Won't Get Democratic Votes to Fund Government if They Won't Protect Mueller Probe

CNN’s Toobin: Trump 'Is Always Attacking Black People'

Trump Gaining Popularity Year-by-Year in France as Macron Plummets 

Migrant Family Apprehensions in October Up 378 Percent over Prior Year 

Soros-Funded Groups Demand Gov. Rick Scott Recuse Himself from Florida Recount

Surprise! Georgia Democrats encouraged as ‘thousands of new votes’ have come in for Stacey Abrams

Left Furious at White Women for Voting for Hispanic Cruz 

Florida Recounting Senate, Governor Races Amid Fraud, Suppression Allegations 

Country Club Bars Man Who Called Carlson's Daughter 'C*nt,' 'Whore' 

Central American Migrants Continue to March Towards US Border 

Dem Congresswoman-Elect: I Won't Vote Pelosi for House Speaker 

What’s Happening In Florida and Arizona | Power Line 

Arizona GOP Accuses Dem Recorder of Destroying Evidence 

Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins

From Asylum to the Keystone Pipeline, Obama’s Judges Continue Thwarting Trump

Why Suburban Women Cost the Republicans the House 

Newly Unsealed Documents Show Top FDIC Officials Running Operation Choke Point 

Florida orders recount in contentious senate, governor races | US Midterms 2018 News

Scott wins two lawsuits as he fights a blatant attempt by Dems to violate the law 

Weird. The Palm Beach elections supervisor threatened to arrest reporters and it’s not a bigger story

No big deal, just Palm Beach County refusing to comply with the recount court order

QUESTION ASKED: Why Hasn’t Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes Been Fired Yet?… 

Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades - WSJ 

Broward County Is An Embarrassment, And The Potential For A Stolen Florida Election Is Real 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Destroy American Institutions: Abolish the Electoral College and Pack the Supreme Court, Like FDR Tried to Do 

ACLU files lawsuit to stop Trump's new asylum restrictions | News

Federal Judge Says It's Plausible That Andrew Cuomo Violated the First Amendment by Pressuring Banks and Insurers to Shun the NRA - Hit & Run : Reason.com 

Where Do We Go When Journalism Fails Us?

CNN’s Camerota Slams Broward County’s “Absurd” Vote Counting, “None Of This Inspires Confidence” 

Michelle Obama: 'I'd Never Forgive' Trump For Birther Conspiracy. Trump Hits Back: I’ll Never Forgive Barack. 

Mystery as Teacher finds locked ballot box 'left behind' at Broward County polling place

Stanford hosts lecture on Trump admin's 'racist agenda' 

College offers space to 'process' 'stressful' midterm election results 

Jon Stewart Thinks It's Harder To Get A Cat Than A Gun 

New voters helped GOP the most in Georgia 

Scotland is first country to approve LGBTI school lessons 

REAL MEN: Witness Says Men In Thousand Oaks Shooting Knelt To Block Shooter From Shooting Others

Viktor Orban: Let’s take the side of the people and protect them from illegal migration, terrorism and crime! 

Majority of Germans feel strangers in their own country since the influx of Muslim migrants - Study 

Video Shows Baltimore Student Punching Female Teacher in the Face 

Bernie Sanders Claims Voters' RACISM Led To Gillum, Abrams Losses, Quickly Gets Schooled

Larry King: "CNN Stopped Doing News A Long Time Ago"

Police Warn Of Brooklyn Teens Targeting Jews In Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes

‘It’s not about you’: Brit Hume has some sage advice for showboating journos like Jim Acosta

‘Some Say’ Question Brings Tough Response From Trump - Accuracy in Media 

Video Contradicts CNN and NY Times Claims About Acosta Incident 

Rubio Charges Electoral Malfeasance in Democratic Florida Counties, Says Lawyers Trying to 'Steal' Races 

Fed Signals Further Rate Increases Amid Strong Economy 

Liberal Boomer Says Older Conservatives ‘Suck’ In NowThis Video

Republicans File Lawsuit Over Tight Arizona Senate Race

Cory Booker says American Justice system "a CANCER on the soul of our country." 

Trump Administration Officially Rolls Back Obama Birth Control Rule

Stephen Colbert Condemns Alleged Antifa Members Targeting Tucker Carlson

Jim Acosta straight-up lied about touching WH staffer — and CNN helped [video]

Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on DACA Immigration Program 

Election Officials Encourage Non-Citizen Voting, Influence Voters on Hidden Camera 

Gallup Poll : U.S. Democrats Favor Someone Other Than Pelosi as Speaker 

The Media Engaged in Blatant Hypocrisy in Attacking the White House for Revoking Credential From CNN’s Jim Acosta 

BDS Activists Celebrate Celebrity Chef's Withdrawal from Israel Event 

Portland Freak Show Not Happy With the 2018 Election Results 

Claire McCaskill, unleashed and sounding a lot more liberal after her election loss 

More than 47 percent of the voting-eligible population cast a ballot in the midterm elections on Tuesday — the highest turnout for a midterm election since 1966. 

AN ELECTION BEING STOLEN IN FLORIDA? … 

Texas Democrat Celebrates Re-Election in Jail Cell 

Broward recount shenanigans: 46,000 Democrat votes “found” after election day, with more to come | The Capitolist 

HOLY CRAP! FLORIDA VOTER Films Broward County Election Officials Transferring Ballots in Rented Truck on Election Night! (VIDEO) 

Comparing Republicans to Nazis -- Who Started it?

Every Republican Presidential Candidate Is Hitler

GOP Controlled Senate: Democrats’ Fears Come to Pass

Media Uninterested in First Korean Woman in Congress... Because She's Republican

Fox News host Tucker Carlson's home targeted by protesters: 'They were threatening me and my family' - The Washington Post 

NBC Reporter Wonders How Long ‘American Majority Will Tolerate Being Pushed Around By A Rural Minority’

Democrats Are Going On About The House And Senate ‘Popular Vote.’ Here’s Why That’s Dumb.

OPINION: Student Hysterics Over The Koch Brothers Are Out Of Line

‘This is really bad’: CNN tries to rescue Jim Acosta from ‘un-American’ Trump, makes themselves look even worse

UMass Campus Police Called Over Alleged ‘Confederate Flag’ Graffiti

Texas Poll Worker Tells Undercover Journalist: ‘We’ve Got Tons of DACA Voters’ 

The 2018 Midterms: Why The House Moved Left and the Senate Moved Right 

Report: Google, Facebook Earn 25x More from Political Ads in 2018 than 2014

NO WAY! Slate has an awakening about why Dem blue wave expectations ‘feel mediocre’

8 Big Takeaways From The Midterm Elections

Hell hath no wrath like a physically aggressive CNN reporter who refuses to take no for answer. 

John Harwood thinks Trump’s presidency now in ‘mortal danger’ (and people have questions)

Democrats Aren't Losing Faith In Our Constitutional System. They Just Don’t Like It. 

Democrats flipped governorships in seven states Tuesday, installing governors poised to play key roles in the next redistricting process in 2021 and 2022 

Hundreds of thousands of ballots still out in tight Arizona Senate race 

After Trump’s Scolding, Black PBS Reporter Now Has ‘Residue Of Hate’

Among Black Voters, Trump’s Popularity Inches Upward - WSJ 

‘Holy biased reporting’! NBC News puts total bullsh*t spin on Jim Acosta wresting mic from female WH staffer

‘This is starting well.’ Nancy Pelosi makes YUGE gaffe during victory speech and it’s BAD (like really bad)

‘Embarrassed himself today’: FNC’s Chris Wallace slams Jim Acosta’s ‘shameful’ behavior

Dow jumps by more than 500 points as Sessions resigns as Attorney General amid Mueller probe 

Leftist Hysteria . Watch: This cardiologist is being accused of lashing out at his Spanish-speaking patients for not speaking English. 

Republican Losses In The Midterms Could Play Right Into Donald Trump’s Hands

Tom Steyer’s Renewable Energy Initiative Fails In Arizona

Countless Triggered Twitter Randos ‘Literally Shaking’ Over Beto Loss

Bloomberg’s Big Bucks Is Torpedoing This California Republican’s Re-Election Bid

Beto-Bros Sob After ‘Rockstar’ Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke Loses In Texas 

Progressives Turn On White Women After Underwhelming Midterm Results 

Has Trump Put the Senate Out of Democrat Range for 2020? | Roger L. Simon 

Betomania Crashes and Burns 

Linda Sarsour: "The Jews are our misfortune." 

Not Even 24 Hours: Democrats Say They'll Demand Trump's Tax Returns As Soon As They Take Over The House 

Most Democrat Senators Who Voted Against Brett Kavanaugh Lost in Midterms 

The Blue Ripple 

Trump Can Fight Democratic House With New Attorney General And Begin Investigating The Investigators, Says Former Clinton Adviser

Why This Is a Very Scary Time for Young Men - Minding The Campus 

The Left Is Normalizing Hatred | Trending 

Jerry Brown’s Legacy Stays Intact After California Voters Fail To Nix Gas Tax Increase

Both Sides Claim Victory on Immigration Politics 

OUCH! So how did the Dems Obama campaigned for do on #ElectionNight?

Jersey Trash: Sleazy Bob Menendez Wins Re-Election 

Israeli firm says info for 62 million US voters found for sale online

Poll Workers in Texas tell Project Veritas Reporter Dreamers Can Vote 

Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts for trademark infringement  

The Kavanaugh Election

Big Labor Still All-In for Dems 

Firepower for U.S. Stocks May Lose Spark as Democrats Gain Clout 

Armed Black Panthers for Democrat Gov. Candidate Stacey Abrams 

The moment Black teens hurled a pole through a synagogue window 

How The Caravan Could Lead To A U.S. Refugee Crisis Like Europe’s 

Fiji: Scientists Establish The Relationship Between Modern CO2 Emissions & Severe Flooding

Scientists investigated whether the expert climate change prediction that growing CO2 emissions, and the subsequent atmospheric increase of CO2, would cause an increase in the frequency and severity of large flooding.

The island nation of Fiji was chosen to validate the expert prediction due to a Fiji locality having 12 centuries decades of flood climate records. 

And the result of this peer-reviewed investigative research of the supposed relationship between CO2 and flooding?

Even with a long-term record stretching across 12 centuries decades, the scientists were unable to find any validation of expert and climate model predictions that CO2 greenhouse gas warming produces an outcome of increased severe flooding.

The empirical CO2-warming and flooding relationship appears to be zero. 

"...real scientists engaged in real research have used sound statistical methods to investigate this topic; and what they typically find does not bode well for climate alarmists.....performed a series of statistical analyses on these data, seeking to determine "whether the data set can reveal the degree to which islands in the Pacific are already seeing the impact of global climate change on the risk of severe flooding." Results of the analysis revealed that despite a persistent warming trend of ~0.18°C per decade over the past seven decades, there has been no consistent trend in flooding. Consequently, McAneney et al. matter-of-factly attest that they were "unable to detect any influence of global warming at this tropical location on either the frequency or the height of major flooding." What is more, they add that their study demonstrates "the difficulty of achieving statistical significance in terms of attribution of extreme weather even with relatively long data sets.""

Just another example of failed predictions based on the CO2-centric anthropogenic catastrophic global warming hypothesis. 

Source: Fiji flood image

Does Empirical Evidence Debunk The Runaway Global Warming Consensus?

The consensus regarding the catastrophic global warming hypothesis is completely reliant on a proposed positive feedback producing runaway global warming that will destroy human civilization. Simply, is it happening? 

(click on to enlarge)

To answer that question, one can examine the HadCRUT4 (HC4) empirical climate surface temperature record in order to identify if a positive feedback is evident.

The positive feedback would reveal its existence if global temperatures were accelerating to a tipping point of runaway warming, due to the ever-increasing human CO2 emission releases into the atmosphere,

As done with a previous article involving the analysis of the satellite record of temperature acceleration warming trends, the same can be accomplished with the HC4 global dataset. Thus, this analysis will also focus on both short and long-term warming trends to determine whether a constant state of acceleration is present. 

First, the chart on the right represents satellite short and long-term acceleration plots used in the prior article; the chart of the left plots the short and long-term warming per century acceleration rates derived from the HC4 land/sea global dataset.

To attain the best apple-to-apple comparison, both charts are based on a start date that coincides with the advent of the satellite measuring technology in 1979 and through month-end February 2018.

Visually, the chart similarities of the two different temperature measuring methodologies are striking.

When scrutinized closely, there are differences, but those would be expected when one methodology is measuring lower atmosphere temps and the other methodology is based on near-surface temps of land and water.

As found in the prior analysis of the lower atmosphere temperature record, global surface temperatures accelerate at a faster pace and then always decelerate to a slower pace that may even indicate the potential of a cooling climate regimen. 

More importantly, the HC4 temperature dataset verifies what the prior article on the satellite dataset established: despite multiple major warming El Nino events, and with over 60% of all 1850-2016 total CO2 emissions being released since 1979, there is absolutely zero indication of a positive feedback's existence producing a runaway, "tipping point" warming acceleration.

On the contrary, as of February 2018, all 3 short-term temperature HC4 acceleration trends at the end of February 2018 are well below their respective beginning trend values; and the ending February 2018 long-term per century trend is practically the same as the beginning trend value.

This finding matches with what was identified in the previous satellite analysis.

Additionally, as noted at the bottom of each chart, the positive correlations between the rolling monthly temperature trends and the cumulative growth of CO2 levels (ppm) are empirically not much different from zero; plus, both the long-term satellite and surface global trends seemingly have an inverse relationship with accumulating CO2 gases (a possible explanation?).

If correlation is an indicator of potential causation, then one would need to look at an entirely different reason other than CO2 emissions for any attempt to justify a belief in the runaway global warming scenario.

Analysis Summary: 

Since a dangerous accelerating climate warming simply does not exist after decades of vast amounts of human greenhouse emissions being released, it is fair to conclude that the consensus of a catastrophic runaway global warming is debunked and entirely without any empirical merit or validity. 

It still remains mere speculation after all these years, and should possibly be considered another candidate for the ash heap of group-think "consensus science." 

Note: Excel used to calculate trends and to plot. HC4 dataset. The satellite dataset is 50/50 weighting of the RSS and UAH datasets. Monthly CO2 dataset. Calculated trends do not predict the future trends.

Facts Don't Lie: Unexceptional Global Climate Warming In The U.S.

Is there dangerous, human-caused global warming affecting the climate of the continental U.S.?

In a word: No.

As reported by NOAA, the adjacent plot of monthly 1,419 months) maximum temperatures experienced in the U.S. corn belt, a major agricultural breadbasket region, since 1900 is rather unremarkable.

As can be seen, maximum temperatures peak and then they don't.

The 5-yr average (60mth avg.) red curve tells the story: despite huge global emissions of the greenhouse gas, the U.S. breadbasket has a narrowly stable maximum temperature pattern.

And, amazingly, the maximum temperatures of this large region during the 21st century still DO NOT exceed those experienced in the early 20th century.

Conclusion: As discussed in the prior article, [Ed: meant to link to this prior article] unusual and unprecedented dangerous "global" climate warming is not close to being an empirical reality. As the U.S. corn belt reveals, every regional climate is different - they experience major warming and cooling periods for different reasons, at different times, and at different rates, regardless of the global atmospheric CO2 levels. 

Peer-Reviewed Confirmation: Growth of Human CO2 Does Not Result In Unusual Climate Warming

There is the following science consensus: the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis has never been empirically validated outside the confines of a computer simulation.

Essentially, across many parts of the world, the lack of warming and the lack of unusual warming - i.e. unprecedented, exceptional warming - confirms that the fear of human CO2-driven catastrophic warming is likely very misplaced.

Similar to the recent scientific findings of unexceptional modern warming for many parts of the world, such as in the U.S., across Antarctica, and multiple other regions of the world, scientists in China have analyzed a 350+ year climate record and found modern warming is not unusual versus the warming of earlier periods in the record. 

Per this study:

"In general, the average length of cold periods was shorter than that of warm periods. The cold period of 1869–1877 was the longest and coldest cool period had a mean of 17.63°C. The longest warm period extended from 1655 to 1668, and the warmest period in AD 1719–1730 had a mean of 20.37°C. However, we should point out that the rapid warming during the 20th century was not especially obvious in our reconstructed RLST."

The scientists also determined that human CO2 was not a factor driving the warming and cooling analyzed.

"Accompanied by significant peaks at 60.2 and 73 years, the continuously periodicities around 49–114 years in our regional temperature reconstruction might tentatively be related to PDO, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation...as well as solar activity...The AMO was an important driver of multidecadal variations in summer climate not only in North America and western Europebut also in the East Asia...The 60.2-year peak associated with AMO demonstrated that multidecadal variations in late summer temperature in the NWSP NWSP [northwestern Sichuan Plateau, China ] might be controlled by AMO."

This 2016 study from China adds to the enormous amount of empirical evidence demonstrating that an all encompassing modern "global" warming from human CO2 does not exist.

The scientific evidence is unequivocal: There exist huge regional climate swaths of the globe that have mildly warmed in an unexceptional manner during the modern industrial/consumer era; and there exist multiple large areas that even lack any regional climate-significant modern warming whatsoever. 

Additional modern global and regional temperature charts; and historical temperature charts.

Hot Climate Change In Japan? Evidence Refutes

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One of the major tenets of the anthropogenic hypothesis of global warming is that the number of extremely hot days would increase, potentially causing catastrophic loss of life.

Such occurrences are the expected climate change manifestations from increasing CO2 emissions predicted by consensus experts and climate models.

But do these manifestations occur currently in a non-urban area with greater frequency than in years prior to modern global warming fears?

If CO2-driven global warming and climate change are as truly powerful and to be feared as many suggest, then the evidence of a greater frequency in the number of extreme hot days should be obvious.

As this article explains, there is a non-urban Japanese island (Hachijō Island) lying about 180 miles south of Tokyo in the Philippine Sea provides a long-term climate record of hot-day occurrences. (The island is administered by Tokyo.)

As in many countries, Japan uses the 30°C (86°F) minimum to designate an extreme 'hot day'. 

The adjacent chart for the island identifies the number of 'hot and furious' periods going back to 1926 based on the 30°C criteria. For the 21st century specifically, including year 2000, there has been an average of 22.7 extreme hot days per year through 2017.

That's pretty high, especially when compared to the 1970's. But is that 22.7 number for the last 18 years unprecedented? Turns out the answer is 'no'. 

The following 18-year periods, including 1929-1946, 1930-1947, 1931-1948, 1932-1949, 1933-1950, 1934-1951, 1935-1952, 1936-1953, 1937-1954, 1938-1955, 1939-1956, 1940-1957, 1941-1958, 1942-1959, 1943-1960, 1944-1961, and 1945-1962, had a higher average of hot days versus the 18-year period ending in 2017.

The 18-year span ending in 1958 had the absolute highest average count of extreme hot days - 25.8 days - per year.

What one can hypothesize from the above data and chart is that the huge growth of CO2 emissions has not produced the greater frequency of extreme hot days expected by experts. And also surmise that natural climate processes, for both the past and the present, are the responsible driver for periods with extreme hot weather events.

It should be noted that the modern count of extreme hot-day years has also been shown to be less in the modern U.S. era of high CO2 emissions when compared to the past.

This actual empirical evidence does refute the expert prediction that the frequency of extremely hot days across the globe would be a direct result of higher atmospheric CO2 levels. And although there certainly may well be regional areas of the world that have experienced a greater frequency - especially concrete/steel highly urbanized areas - there are indeed other areas of the world that have not.

Additional failed prediction articles.

Note: This Japanese blogger compiled the data and produced the chart.

Peer Research Analysis: What Is Likelihood of 3 Meter Rise For California Coast Sea Levels By Year 2100?

Simply stated: Slim to none.

Experts in sea level research did a focused analysis on the predicted sea level projections for California by activist groups. These groups are suggesting that sea level rise could be as much as 3 meters by year 2100 due to human CO2 emission release into the atmosphere.

This peer-reviewed study - from experts not associated with an activist agenda group(s) - determined that the alarmist predictions of dramatic increases of California sea levels 'hold no water'.

This chart is from their study analysis, along with the below stinging rebuttal to the activist groups.

"In summing up these and other of their several findings, Parker and Ollier write that "the evidences from real sea level measurements do not support the IPCC models or the even more alarming predictions [made by the National Research Council and California Ocean Science Trust]. The latter, "they continue, "are founded on pure speculation, constructed on unproven assumptions, and do not provide a suitable basis for use in planning or policy making.""

Prior sea level articles.

Science Fact: Per NOAA, "Global Warming" Pause For U.S. Now Exceeds 22 Years (Wrong?)

Connect-The-Dots: The NOAA temperature dataset for the U.S. reveals that for the last 22 years and 3 months, the U.S. continental temperature change has been cooling at a minus -0.02°F per decade.

The chart above was produced by NOAA at their 'Climate at a Glance' web page. In the upper right corner of the chart, NOAA shows its calculated per decade trend of -0.02°F for a period that spans 1996-2018.

After posting this chart and an accompanying article, it just seemed that something was likely wrong with the trend calculation produced by NOAA's web site.

After an Excel analysis of the absolute and anomaly temperature dataset, which can be downloaded from the same web page that produced the above chart, that NOAA trend calculation cannot be confirmed with any confidence. In fact, that NOAA decade trend calculation seems egregiously wrong and very misleading.

Thus, we replaced all of the article's text with the above explanation since the NOAA information looks to be incorrect. That is not to say definitively that they are wrong but that we are completely unable to replicate their calculated trend. 

Lesson Learned: Don't trust government work - always double-check.

Note: Chart was produced at this NOAA climate page. Time period selected for the chart was from January 1996 through March 2018.

Science Consensus Versus Climate Models: Southern Ocean Sea Ice Is Growing

Climate simulation models have proven to be unreliable when their predictions, scenarios, projections, etc. are compared to the observed climate realities. A recent example is in regards to the waters surrounding Antarctica.

The Southern Ocean is comprised of 5 sub-regions. This study reviewed the empirical evidence of sea ice extent and found that 4 of the 5 sub-regions experienced an expanded sea ice extent and the Southern Ocean overall did likewise. The study confirms the growing scientific consensus that sea ice has increased since 1979.

In contrast to the climate models and their prognostications, these scientific observations of climate reality are opposite of what the models expected. 

"Whatever the true cause or causes, one thing is certain, all of the climate models have failed to predict the observed increase in Southern Hemisphere sea ice extent. Rather, as reported in the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), CO2-induced global warming is supposed to reduce its extent by an average of between 16 and 67 percent in the summer and 8 to 30 percent in the winter by the end of the century (IPCC, 2013). Clearly, therefore, something must be fundamentally wrong with the climate models, for their predictions to be so far off from the observed sea ice trends."

Since climate models are dependent on the CO2 greenhouse gas being a major driving force in the simulations, it is not a surprise to those familiar with the subject that the simulated outputs continue to be deeply flawed.

Additional climate model and failed prediction articles.

Climate Apocalypse: Is The Current Climate Warming Unprecedented In Modern Records?

Empirical evidence review: It has now been 30 years since the former chief NASA climate scientist, James Hansen, unleashed his climate apocalypse scenarios on the public in 1988 ... looking back, does the empirical evidence support the fears of "unprecedented" warming?

It has long been common knowledge among both scientists and laypeople that the world has been warming since the Little Ice Age (LIA) ended during the mid-1800s. In fact, from January 1850 through January 1988, the world had already warmed over 1 degree Celsius.

And it was in 1988 that James Hansen decided to present the case that this slow warming since the LIA was soon to become "unprecedented" due to CO2 emissions, thus causing untold climate chaos - i.e. boiling oceans, droughts, famines, Manhattan Island flooding along with other coastal regions, Earth turning into the next Venus, and etc.

Factually, the world has continued to warm since 1988, but is it "unprecedented" versus the climate warming of pre-1988?

It's not enough simply to claim the world is warmer, more important is to determine if temperatures changes are larger than ever.

To determine if today's global warming deserves to be considered unprecedented, an analysis of 30-year (360-month) climate temperature changes would be an effective means.

Using the gold-standard surface temperature record dataset, the HadCRUT4.6 global anomalies stretch back all the way to 1850.

We know from that dataset that the modern 30-year climate temperature change was +0.29ºC of warming at the end of February 2018. To clarify, that is the temperature warming change from February 1988 through February 2018.

That +0.29°C temperature since 1988 change took place in a global climate context that included not only the impact of multiple powerful El Niños, but also an atmosphere that was infused from 1989-2016 with over 50% of the total human CO2 emissions (metric tonnes) emitted since 1850.

Yet, despite all those CO2 emissions over the last 30 years, as the adjacent table reveals, there are 28 previous 30-year changes all ending in the month of February that exceed the "unprecedented" the most +0.29°C change.

All 28 of those 30-year temperature changes took place before the additional 50% of all CO2 emissions were released into the atmosphere.

By expanding the analysis to include all 12 months - not just the month February alone - there have been 247 monthly instances prior to 1988 when long-term the 30-year global temperature warming change exceeded that for February 2018.

In contrast to the above, the 30-year change in CO2 ppm as of February 2018 significantly exceeds all 30-year CO2 changes prior to 1988 without fail. 

As an aside, in regards to the short-term, the 12-month global temperature change was a minus -0.32°C for the month-end of February 2018.

Conclusions:

True: The world has warmed since 1988 as the global temperature dataset establishes.

But, per the same empirical evidence, the current modern warming, as represented by 30-year temperature increases, is not in the least extreme, unusual, or unprecedented.

Prior to the additional 50% of total metric tonnes of CO2 emissions being added to the world's biosphere, global warming change easily matched or exceeded that experienced since 1988 - the year of NASA's James Hansen's predictions of climate apocalypse from human CO2.

Based on all the the gold-standard temperature measurements that the HadCRUT dataset provides, it is evident that periods of exceptional global warming changes (and the recent cooling temp changes) are more likely driven by natural forces than the ever-increasing levels of atmospheric CO2. 

Note: Excel used to calculate 30-year temperature changes from the HadCRUT global land/sea dataset of temperature anomalies and past CO2 data (links found here). Left column of table are months of February and associated year; right column of table are the 30-year changes in temperature anomalies. Only chose to show the sub-list of February examples instead of all months, which was comprised of 247 in total.

An Empirical Reexamination: How Two Recent Major El Niño Periods Compare

The 1997-1998 El Niño versus the 2015-2016 event. How do they differ? How are they similar? The takeaway?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that the global HadCRUT4.6 dataset is available for February 2018, it is possible to examine a 4-year period for both El Niños, including the 'pre' and 'post' months for each.

These two major El Niño events do have some similarities as shown in their respective 4-year charts.

Besides the shared visual pattern of low-to-high-to-low similarity, the peak temperature for both periods came in the month of February (1998 & 2016).

For both, the beginning month (February 1996 and February 2014) were essentially identical: +0.32°C and +0.33°C.

And the end points displayed in the above charts are not dramatically different - there is only a +0.07°C gap between the higher February 2018 anomaly versus that of February 2000.

The small end point difference of only +0.07°C is rather surprising within the context of how much more peak warming took place in February 2016 (+1.11°C) versus February 1998 (+0.76°C). 

Then there is a similarity of linear rate of warming for the 24 months leading up to the peak months of February 1998 and February 2016: +22.3°C per century versus +22.6°C, respectively.

Regarding the differences between the two phenomenons:

There is a large difference for the peak month anomaly of the respective Februaries (1998 & 2016). Indeed, a visually striking difference is apparent.

In addition, on average, the monthly anomalies of the 2014-2018 period are +0.35°C then for the 1996-2000 period. Visually, the entire curve for the later El Niño event has been shifted up. 

With that said, when the anomalies for the 10-year period prior to February 1996 and February 2014 are compared, one finds that the later anomalies were, on average, +0.3°C higher than those of the earlier 10-year period.

Another difference is the overall warming trends exhibited during the two 4-year analysis periods. From February 1996 through February 2000, the warming rate is +3.6°C per century. The warming rate for the February 2014 through February 2018 is significantly lower at +0.72°C per century.

This substantially larger per century warming rate for the earlier event analysis period - ending in February 2000 - is rather unexpected given the typical mainstream headlines leading up to this last major El Niño.

Then there is the difference in how much the temperature anomaly has dropped since the peak month for each of these El Niños. For the 24-month period after the Feb. 1998 peak, the temperature anomaly dropped a -0.3°C. In contrast, the drop from the Feb. 2016 peak has been double the earlier period's - a drop of -0.6°C.

Finally, the deceleration of warming rates after the peak highs do differ but not excessively. For the 24-month span ending February 2000, the deceleration of warming from the February 1998 peak was a -18.81°C per century (i.e. cooling per century) versus a deceleration, from the 2016 peak, of -16.44°C per century ending February 2018.

The Takeaway?

• There is no convincing evidence from the empirical temperature record to suggest that the differences/similarities are nothing more than the expected natural variation seen when comparing the two powerful natural climate/weather phenomenon.
• There is no empirical evidence that higher CO2 levels resulted in the overall higher temp anomalies of the 2015-16 El Niño. With a monthly anomaly average being only +0.35°C higher, that is likely in the realm of natural variance.
• As of yet, there is no empirical evidence that the powerful 2015-16 El Niño event resulted in any long-term climatic changes.
• There is empirical evidence that this recent major El Niño temperature anomaly pattern of up/down and warming/cooling characteristics are similar to past natural El Niño events.
• This NOAA article provides contextual evidence as to why the 2015-16 El Niño was so powerful. 

 

Additional global warming charts.

Note: Excel use to plot and calculate trends for the 2 charts using the published February 2018 global HadCRUT 4.6 dataset (as of March 30, 2018).