Global Warming

[sergejsh]

american news project, october 1, 2008
http://americannewsproject.com/videos/131

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"recently, it was reported that the rate of carbon dioxide emission during the last seven years exceeded even the ipcc's worst-case scenario. both barack obama and john mccain have offered their support to global warming legislation in the past, but climate legislation continues to stall, as it has for more than a decade. why? in large part, because of an expensive, prolonged propaganda campaign waged by producers of big oil. and what did they look to for inspiration? big tobacco.

this story is aired in conjunction with the publication of the center for public integrity's report, global warming: heated denials, the organized effort to cast doubt on climate change."

[sergejsh]

goddard institute for space studies, 16 september 2008
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2008/lean_rind.html

nasa reported, that the sun contributed "a very slight overall cooling in the past 25 years." the study, "how natural and anthropogenic influences alter global and regional surface temperatures: 1889 to 2006," (pdf document on nasa server) finds:

"empirical models that combine natural and anthropogenic influences (at appropriate lags) capture 76% of the variance in the monthly global surface temperature record, suggesting that much of the variability arises from processes that can be identified and their impact on the global surface temperature quantified by direct linear association with the observations.

natural influences produce as much as 0.2 k warming during major enso events, near 0.3 k cooling following large volcanic eruptions and 0.1 k warming near maxima of recent solar cycles. to properly quantify their amplitudes, the natural and anthropogenic changes must be accounted for simultaneously when analyzing the surface temperature anomalies, since neglecting the influence of one can overestimate the influence of another. for this reason, we suggest that estimated solar cycle changes of 0.2 k and pinatubo cooling of 0.4 k are too large.

none of the natural processes can account for the overall warming trend in global surface temperatures. in the 100 years from 1905 to 2005, the temperature trends produce by all three natural influences are at least an order of magnitude smaller than the observed surface temperature trend reported by ipcc [2007]. according to this analysis, solar forcing contributed negligible long-term warming in the past 25 years and 10% of the warming in the past 100 years…"

[sergejsh]

sciencedaily, september 23, 2008
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0918192943.htm

"abrupt climate change is a potential menace that hasn’t received much attention. that’s about to change. through its climate change prediction program, the u.s. department of energy’s office of biological and environmental research (ober) recently launched impacts – investigation of the magnitudes and probabilities of abrupt climate transitions – a program led by william collins of berkeley lab’s earth sciences division (esd) that brings together six national laboratories to attack the problem of abrupt climate change, or acc."

[sergejsh]

los angeles times, september 26, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/...,6690604.story

"the world pumped up emissions of the chief human-produced global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists' projected worst-case scenario, international researchers said thursday.

the new numbers, which some scientists called "scary," were a surprise because experts thought an economic downturn would slow energy use. instead, carbon dioxide output rose 3% from 2006 to 2007.

that amount exceeds the most dire outlook for emissions from burning coal and oil and related activities as projected by a nobel prize-winning group of international scientists in 2007."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.dailytech.com/alaskan+gla...ticle13215.htm

also this;

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/dia....php?did=10048

be well, be love.

david

boise breaks early snow record, where's the global warming?

snow fell in sydney, australia for the first time in 172 years this year. it snowed in buenos aires, argentina for the first time in 90 years last year. now idaho gets ealy snow. where's the global warming?

alaskan glaciers grow for first time in 250 years

high snowfall and cold weather to blame.

a bitterly cold alaskan summer has had surprising results. for the first time in the area's recorded history, area glaciers have begun to expand, rather than shrink. summer temperatures, which were some 3 degrees below average, allowed record levels of winter snow to remain much longer, leading to the increase in glacial mass.

"in mid-june, i was surprised to see snow still at sea level in prince william sound", said glaciologist bruce molnia. "in general, the weather this summer was the worst i have seen in at least 20 years".

[Billuminous]

temps in the arctic circle are averaging 9 degrees f above the norm right now.

arctic report card 2008
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/index.html

[Billuminous]

http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/egu20...08-a-01526.pdf

[Billuminous]

after almost eight years of stability, atmospheric methane levels — measured every 40 minutes by monitors near remote coastal cliffs — suddenly started rising in 2006. the amount of methane in the air has jumped by nearly 28 million tons from june 2006 to october 2007. there is now more than 5.6 billion tons of methane in the air.
"if it's sustained, it's bad news," said mit atmospheric scientist ron prinn, lead author of the methane study, which will be published in the journal geophysical research letters oct. 31. "this is a heads up. we're seeing smoke. it remains to be seen whether this is the fire we're really worried about.

http://ap.google.com/article/aleqm5i...nubaad9415g5o0

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/art...hp?a_id=145646

be well, be love.

david

evidence of sunspot involvement in climate change compelling
published: 31 oct 08 - 0:00

over the last few years, the evidence that sunspots on our sun are directly related to climate change on earth has been steadily increasing.

i explained the exact proposed mechanism in some detail previously. great work in this field is being carried out by dr henrik svensmark and coworkers in denmark and elsewhere.

briefly, the mechanism is that cosmic rays impact on the earth from deep space. these cosmic rays penetrate our atmosphere and lead to the formation of cloud cover. the cosmic rays nucleate sites in the atmosphere, from which clouds form from the natural water vapour.

if one puts a spoonful of coffee powder into a cup of microwaved water, the water forms bubbles of foam on the coffee grains. this is basically the same principle as the cosmic rays forming clouds in the atmosphere.

the earth’s magnetic field, which acts as a shielding, is altered by the sun’s activity, which, in turn, is indicated by means of the number of sunspots. as the earth’s magnetic shield varies, so the cloud cover varies. few sunspots mean a weaker earth shield, which means more cosmic rays, which mean more clouds, which mean a cooling earth.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/new-and-cool
(the second article down the page)

be well, be love.

david

oct 31, 2008
“global warming” has stopped
lord christopher monckton

in a blog post, bill chameides says “global warming” is still happening. it isn’t. as the global temperature graph below shows, all four of the world’s major global surface temperature datasets (nasa giss; rss; uah; and hadley/university of east anglia) show a decline in temperatures that have now persisted for seven years.

‘global warming’? what ‘global warming’? all four of the world’s major surface temperature datasets show seven years of global cooling. the straight lines are the regression lines showing the trend over past seven years. it is decisively downward. chameides’ graph overleaf appears to have been tampered with to exclude the very rapid cooling that occurred between 2007 (the curve stops in january 2007, when a strong el nino artificially but temporarily boosted temperatures) and 2008. the fall in temperatures between january 2007 and january 2008, carefully not shown on chameides’ graph, was the greatest january-january fall since records began in 1880.