tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post6634031161885122285..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Since no bunny reads commentsEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-48966447758519378552014-03-20T07:45:34.295-04:002014-03-20T07:45:34.295-04:00anon n+1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volok...anon n+1<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/03/18/senate-democrats-talk-about-climate-threat-increase-risk/<br /><br />Senate Democrats talk about climate threat, increase risk<br /><br />" Senate Democrats are willing to talk about climate change all night if it will please a major donor, but when it comes to casting tough votes they take a pass. Despite all the talk, no serious climate legislation is on the table in the Senate. Worse, the same Senators who claim climate change is an urgent problem support legislation to increase the nation’s vulnerability to the threat of warming-enhanced storm surges and potential sea-level rise. Just three days after the climate talk-a-thon, all-but-one of the Senate Climate Caucus voted to gut recent reforms of the National Flood Insurance Program that reduced federal subsidies for coastal development. In other words, the same Senators who say climate change is an urgent threat are happy to have taxpayers and other premium payers subsidize coastal development that lies in harm’s way. "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-47330509678319513602014-03-15T11:48:20.838-04:002014-03-15T11:48:20.838-04:00I took another look at the UAH data. I downloaded...I took another look at the UAH data. I downloaded the latest TMT time series file, <a href="http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2/uahncdc_mt_5.5.txt" rel="nofollow">uahncdc_mt_5.5.txt </a>, then played with it in a spreadsheet, plotting the tropical data. <br /><br /><a href="http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq268/Know_body/TMT55b.jpg" rel="nofollow">HERE's the Graph</a><br /><br />As expected, the trend is very small and the moving average smoothed curve appears to show little apparent warming.E. Swansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458400506150142847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-4506361907343294362014-03-15T09:52:53.243-04:002014-03-15T09:52:53.243-04:00Anon@3:15,
Yet another quote without attribution. ...Anon@3:15,<br />Yet another quote without attribution. This one is by rightwing nutjob Arnold Ahlert, who thinks that the Kochsuckers should have a monopoly on buying the gummint.a_ray_in_dilbert_spacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-32331402668097372402014-03-15T06:15:44.855-04:002014-03-15T06:15:44.855-04:00" Make that some billionaire generosity. Sen...." Make that some billionaire generosity. Sen. Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats are doubtlessly thrilled by leftist hedge fund manager and environmentalist Tom Steyer, who has pledged to spend as much as $100 million to pressure politicians to enact climate change laws. Steyer spent $11 million last year helping to elect Terry McAuliffe governor of Virginia. He spent additional millions on a Massachusetts Democratic congressional primary. And as the New York Times is forced to admit, Steyer is “seeking to build a war chest that would make his political organization, NextGen Climate Action, among the largest outside groups in the country, similar in scale to the conservative political network overseen by Charles and David Koch.” <br />"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-7314826259755675362014-03-14T11:40:47.009-04:002014-03-14T11:40:47.009-04:00Digging still deeper into the void, I found the so...Digging still deeper into the void, I found the source of the graph which Senator Sessions threw up in the Senate. It's a graph presented by John Christy before a hearing on 11 Dec 2013 before the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. <a href="http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-113-SY18-WState-JChristy-20131211.pdf" rel="nofollow">HERE's a LINK</a> to Christy's written statement. The graph uses data for the Middle Troposphere, that is, the UAH and RSS MT products, as well as balloon data, all shown as 5 year trailing averages. The balloon data using radiosonds records temperature at discrete altitudes and is thus processed to simulate the UAH/RSS measurements. These data are said to be for the tropics, not the full global data. This would appear to be an earlier version the graph which McNider and Christy showed in their WSJ commentary on 19 February. The satellite data suffers from the problem of contamination by the contribution of emissions from the stratosphere, a fact which has been known for more than 20 years. As a result, the "actual temperature measurements" surely understate the warming trend for the globe, both because of the contamination and the fact that the higher latitudes are excluded.E. Swansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458400506150142847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-23131434025974120472014-03-14T00:57:55.107-04:002014-03-14T00:57:55.107-04:00Things seem to be escalating into the realm of r...Things seem to be escalating into the realm of rhetorical overkill, with both sides fantasizing about the brave punishments they hold in store for the other- I hope Eric does not end up in competition with the author of"<br /><br /><br /><i><a href="http://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2014/01/bowing-to-extreme-pressure-from-handful.html" rel="nofollow">The 19 eminent scientist who had co-written the dozen learned papers in the special issue had suggested – tell it not in Gath and Ashkelon – that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a racketeer-influenced criminal organization headquartered in Switzerland (which conveniently has no RICO statute ...</a></i>THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-33220016384980257102014-03-13T22:16:55.998-04:002014-03-13T22:16:55.998-04:00Eli, yup, that's me, back to wandering the Net...Eli, yup, that's me, back to wandering the Net after TheOilDrum became an archive.<br /><br />After looking at the graph from Senator Sessions, I decided to try to reproduce it. Using the UAH TLT 5.6 anomaly data for global temperature, I applied a 60 month moving average, "centering" the result on the middle of the 60 months. That is, each data point represents an average for the data combining that date with the previous 29 and following 30 months of data. The last month of 1978 and the first month of 2014 were left of the average<br /><br /><a href="http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq268/Know_body/TLT_56A.jpg" rel="nofollow">HERE's the Result</a>.<br /><br />Notice the peak at July 1989 and the absence of the 1998 spike, which has been smeared by the averaging process. Using the centered average, there's no result before June 1981 or after June 2011. The graph which Sessions presented appeared to continue to the end of 2013, so one wonders how this was done. Perhaps Spencer just calculated a trailing average, though he (or was it Christy) knows of the problem. I doubt that Sessions is aware of the subtle manipulation in the graph...E. Swansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458400506150142847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-5374614050969181072014-03-13T20:58:56.507-04:002014-03-13T20:58:56.507-04:00First we have The Ship of fools, now The Chamber o...First we have The Ship of fools, now The Chamber of Fools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com