Koch-Funded Study Finds Recent Warming "On the High End" and Speeding Up, as Curry Frags Muller Herself. By Joe Romm on October 30, 2011 at 8:40 pm "Koch-Funded Study Finds Recent Warming “On the High End” and Speeding Up, as Curry Frags Muller Herself" We have learned two important things from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST): Denier claims that prior scientific analysis of the key land surface temperature data OVER-estimated the warming trend were not merely wrong, but the reverse was true.
Warming has been high and accelerating.The Deniers and Confusionists and their media allies can never be convinced by the facts and will twist themselves into pretzels to keep spreading disinformation. We also learned that BEST’s Judith Curry still would rather be a confusionist than a scientist — but that ain’t news (see “Judith Curry abandons science“). 201207.gif (GIF Image, 1052 × 744 pixels) 201207.gif (GIF Image, 1052 × 744 pixels) 201207.gif (GIF Image, 2000 × 939 pixels) - Scaled (86%) State of the Climate. Temperature In the atmosphere, 500-millibar height pressure anomalies correlate well with temperatures at the Earth's surface.
The average position of the upper-level ridges of high pressure and troughs of low pressure—depicted by positive and negative 500-millibar height anomalies on the September 2021 map, is generally reflected by areas of positive and negative temperature anomalies at the surface, respectively. Monthly Temperature: September 2021 Temperature anomalies and percentiles are shown on the gridded maps below. The anomaly map on the left is a product of a merged land surface temperature (Global Historical Climatology Network, GHCN) and sea surface temperature (ERSST version 5) anomaly analysis. Scientist: "The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against Climate Change."
By Climate Guest Contributor on August 31, 2011 at 10:05 am "Scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against Climate Change.”
" The Australian is the country’s biggest-selling national newspaper. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which “also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.” Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate — Letters to the Editor. Life-cycle study: Accounting for total harm from coal would add "close to 17.8¢/kWh of electricity generated" In a groundbreaking article to be released this month in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Dr.
Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, details the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal – extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion. These costs, between a third to over half a trillion dollars annually, are directly passed on to the public. In terms of human health, the report estimates $74.6 billion a year in public health burdens in Appalachian communities, with a majority of the impact resulting from increased healthcare costs, injury and death. Emissions of air pollutants account for $187.5 billion, mercury impacts as high as $29.3 billion, and climate contributions from combustion between $61.7 and $205.8 billion.
That’s from a news release for the important new study, “Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal.” Dr. E.P.A. Is Perry’s Favorite Target. Markets Can Be Very, Very Wrong. Muller, Mendelsohn, and Nordhaus have a new paper in the American Economic Review that should be a major factor in how we discuss economic ideology.
It won’t, of course, but let me lay out the case anyway. What MMN do is estimate the cost imposed on society by air pollution, and allocate it across industries. The costs being calculated, by the way, don’t include the long-run threat of climate change; they’re focused on measurable impacts of pollution on health and productivity, with the most important effects involving how pollutants — especially small particulates — affect human health, and use standard valuations on mortality and morbidity to turn these into dollars.
Even with this restricted vision of costs, they find that the costs of air pollution are big, and heavily concentrated in a few industries. In fact, there are a number of industries that inflict more damage in the form of air pollution than the value-added by these industries at market prices. Hahahahaha. AEAweb Journal Articles Display. Article Citation Muller, Nicholas Z., Robert Mendelsohn, and William Nordhaus. 2011.
"Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy. " American Economic Review, 101(5): 1649-75. DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.5.1649 Abstract This study presents a framework to include environmental externalities into a system of national accounts. Must-Read: Economist William Nordhaus Slams Global Warming Deniers, Explains Cost of Delay is $4 Trillion. By Joe Romm on March 2, 2012 at 11:42 am "Must-Read: Economist William Nordhaus Slams Global Warming Deniers, Explains Cost of Delay is $4 Trillion" Yale economist William Nordhaus has eviscerated the 16 scientists who wrote a disinformation-filled Wall Street Journal piece in late January.
Yes, three dozen climatologists already debunked the posers (see “Dentists Practicing Cardiology”), as did I. But Nordhaus’s blunt piece — “Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong” – is worth reading because he is no climate hawk. You may recall his October article that found “Oil and Coal-Fired Power Plants Have Air Pollution Damages Larger Than Their Value Added.” Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming. An Economist Rebuts The Wall Street Journal "16" on Climate Risk. In a contribution to a recent Dot Earth post, William D.
Nordhaus, a Yale University economist who has spent many years examining the costs and benefits of various climate policies, angrily rejected a description of his work used by 16 scientists questioning concerns about global warming in an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal. He has now greatly expanded on his critique of their argument in “Why Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong,” an essay in the New York Review of Books (hat tip to Climate Progress).
His strong words are particularly significant given that Nordhaus has, in the past, strongly challenged analyses — notably the Stern Review — pointing to high economic costs from global warming. The Climate Contrarians by S. Fred Singer. In response to: In the Climate Casino: An Exchange from the April 26, 2012 issue Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong from the March 22, 2012 issue To the Editors: Readers may have followed the ongoing debate between a group of prominent scientists and the nation’s leading environmental economist, Yale professor William D.
The Crisis of Big Science by Steven Weinberg. Last year physicists commemorated the centennial of the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
In experiments carried out in Ernest Rutherford’s laboratory at Manchester in 1911, a beam of electrically charged particles from the radioactive decay of radium was directed at a thin gold foil. In the Climate Casino: An Exchange by Roger W. Cohen, William Happer, and Richard Lindzen. American Thinker- Print Article. Mann's claim to fame derives from his contentious (and now thoroughly discredited) "hockeystick" research papers (in Nature 1998 and Geophysical Research Letters 1999). His idiosyncratic analysis of proxy (non-thermometer) data from sources like tree rings, ice cores, ocean sediments, etc. did away with the well-documented Medieval Warm Period (MWP - 900-1200AD) and Little Ice Age (LIA - 1400-1800AD) -- documented by Prof. H.H. Lamb, the founding director of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia U (CRU-EAU).
Mann then asserted that the 20th century was the warmest in 1,000 years. His temperature graph, shaped like a hockeystick (on its side) immediately became the poster child of Al Gore and the IPCC, the U.N. science panel, to support their claim of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Two Canadian statisticians, Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, soon found serious errors in Mann's analysis; they even showed that random data fed into Mann's algorithm would produce "hockeysticks.
" Climategate Heads to Court. Mann's claim to fame derives from his contentious (and now thoroughly discredited) "hockeystick" research papers (in Nature 1998 and Geophysical Research Letters 1999). His idiosyncratic analysis of proxy (non-thermometer) data from sources like tree rings, ice cores, ocean sediments, etc. did away with the well-documented Medieval Warm Period (MWP - 900-1200AD) and Little Ice Age (LIA - 1400-1800AD) -- documented by Prof. H.H. Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong by William D. Nordhaus.
The threat of climate change is an increasingly important environmental issue for the globe. Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market-based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate change. When I showed an early draft to colleagues, their response was that I had left out the arguments of skeptics about climate change, and I accordingly addressed this at length. But one of the difficulties I found in examining the views of climate skeptics is that they are scattered widely in blogs, talks, and pamphlets. Then, I saw an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal of January 27, 2012, by a group of sixteen scientists, entitled “No Need to Panic About Global Warming.” Jennifer Marohasy » How the US Temperature Record is Adjusted. There has been criticism of the potential for official weather stations in the USA to record artificially high temperatures because of the changing environments in which they exist, for example, new asphalt, new building or new air conditioning outlets.
Meteorologist, Anthony Watts, has documented evidence of the problem and Canadian academic, Ross McKitrick, has attempted to calculate just how artificially elevated temperatures might be as a consequence. A reader of this blog, Michael Hammer, recently studied the official data from the US official weather stations and in particular how it is adjusted after it has been collected. Uncorrupted US Temperature Data Showed Cooling From 1930 To 1999.
Uncorrupted US Temperature Data Showed Cooling From 1930 To 1999. Why Hansen Had To Corrupt The Temperature Record. Global Climate Scam » The Corruption of the Temperature Record. Global Climate Scam » The Godfather of Global Warming Lowers the Boom on Climate Change Hysteria. Green Drivel Exposed. Tree rings suggest Roman world was warmer than thought - environment - 10 July 2012. Amplification of Surface Temperature Trends and Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere. Tropospheric and surface temperatures. The Debunking Handbook Part 2: The Familiarity Backfire Effect. The Debunking Handbook is an upcoming guide to debunking myths, by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky. Going Down the Up Escalator, Part 2. Global Surface Temperature: Going Down the Up Escalator, Part 1. Posted on 5 November 2011 by dana1981. The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism.
Posted on 8 December 2010 by John Cook Scientific skepticism is healthy. In fact, science by its very nature is skeptical. Genuine skepticism means considering the full body of evidence before coming to a conclusion. Precision and Radiosonde Validation of Satellite Gridpoint Temperature Anomalies. Part II: A Tropospheric Retrieval and Trends during 1979–90. Satellite measurements of warming in the troposphere. The Debunking Handbook: now freely available for download. Satellite measurements of warming in the troposphere. Satellite temperature measurements. The deniers are winning, especially with the GOP. Should you believe anything John Christy and Roy Spencer say? New study reaffirms broad scientific understanding of climate change, questions media's reliance on tiny group of less-credibile scientists for "balance"
In reported response to Will controversy, Wash. Post ombudsman compounds global warming misinformation. Thomas misrepresents climate science to claim "global warming is a falling doctrine" Myths and falsehoods from the assault on global warming science. Fox Hosts Yet Another Climate Skeptic To Cast Doubt On Global Warming. The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
MIT: Global Warming of 7°C ‘Could Kill Billions This Century’ Home. New study shows half of the global warming in the USA is artificial. The illogic of climate hysteria. Axiom. Truth-bearer. Truth-bearer. Proposition. Probability interpretations. Bayesian probability. Principle of maximum entropy. .: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. .: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. .: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Error found in climate modelling: Too many droughts predicted. SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims - Challenge UN IPCC & Gore. Shredding the “climate consensus” myth: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore. Collide-a-scape » Collide-a-scape >> Keith Kloor’s Blog >> Where Nature and Culture Intersect.
- Prometheus: Lucia Liljegren on Real Climate's Approach to Falsification of IPCC Predictions Archives. A Point Resolved in the Hockey Stick Wars. Rabett Run. Skeptics Find Fault With U.N. Climate Panel. And the 2009 "Citizen Kane" award for non-excellence in climate journalism goes to ... Rabett Run. Only In It For The Gold. The Blackboard » The Other Side is THE DEVIL! OK Getting Serious Again. In yet another front-page journalistic lapse, the NY Times once again equates non-scientists.
False framing: Why is the NY Times spreading "half-truths" about global warming? Boykoff on "Exaggerating Denialism: Media Representations of Outlier Views on Climate Change" - Prometheus: Is the “Hockey Stick” Debate Relevant to Policy? Archives. Hockey stick controversy. IPCC Third Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001 - Complete online versions. Climate myths: The 'hockey stick' graph has been proven wrong - environment - 16 May 2007. EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want. Still Going Down the Up Escalator.
Ask An Infrared Astronomer: Infrared Telescopes. Infrared photography. CMIP5 - Overview. CMIP5 Climate Model Runs – A Scientifically Flawed Approach. More CMIP5 Regional Model Shortcomings. Climate Models. Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy - WIREs Climate Change. Tropospheric temperature change since 1979 from tropical radiosonde and satellite measurements. An alternative explanation for differential temperature trends at the surface and in the lower troposphere.
Science Magazine: Sign In. Green ‘drivel’ exposed. The American Denial of Global Warming - Perspectives on Ocean Science.