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Comment on Week in review by jhprince2014
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Comment on Challenges to understanding the role of the ocean in climate science by Bob Ludwick
@ Eric
“So Bob, you deny any climate change. Your subjective view is every thing is as it has been.”
Of course I don’t deny any climate change. What do you take me for, a…….? Oh, never mind.
According to the experts, and observation, climate has changed continuously, on all time scales examined. It continues to do so and I anticipate that it will CONTINUE changing indefinitely, no matter what ‘climate change policy’ that we adopt–or whether we choose to ignore the whole idea of ‘climate change policy’.
What I ‘deny’ is that there is any empirical evidence to indicate that the climate that we are currently experiencing is doing anything unusual, compared to its behavior in the past.
I also deny that there is any compelling evidence that the observed changes in climate are strongly correlated with the amount of CO2 that we produce as a byproduct of satisfying our energy requirements.
I further deny that there is any compelling evidence that ANY–or ALL of the ‘climate mitigation plans’ proposed by ‘climate experts’ would have any measurable efficacy in making the climate at any arbitrary time in the future ‘better’ in any meaningful way compared to the climate our descendants would experience if we ignored ‘climate change’ completely and simply supplied our energy needs via the cheapest, most expedient means available.
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Comment on Week in review by beththeserf
They won’t give it to yer moso because of yer being somewhat
of a sceptical persuasion. Now you might switch ter one of those
progressive investigations like measurement of the uncaring
attributes of the Republican Brain or some such, and should yr
statistics come out with the appropriate hockey stick, well …
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Comment on Week in review by PA
Michael | November 15, 2014 at 9:24 am |
PE,
The HS is not a forecast.
Ah, memories….
The hockey stick isn’t even a hindcast.
The proxies by and large attenuated after 1960 so the hockey stick infilled with instrument data.
The “hockey stick” is an exercise in chart making as opposed to something sciency that is factual and informative.
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Comment on Week in review by JCH
They do not die of extreme cold. They die of heart failure from breathing cold air when they step outside.
Why? Because old people in cold areas are living longer. The comparison group in Alabama is already dead.
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Comment on Week in review by R. Gates
PA,
You seem to be talking about natural variability in the flux of energy from ocean to atmosphere. This drives the short-term tropospheric temperature trends. The signal from the longer-term rise and longer-term forcing from GH gas increases needs at minimum a decadal average temperature to see. Also, your notion of a “return to normal” seems a bit off. What is normal?
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Comment on Week in review by R. Gates
The winter is the period that pneumonia is most active and it takes many elderly. For some, it is blessing, and hence it is called the “Friend of the Elderly”:
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
Will Lauren Kurtz leap to the defense of Will Happer because he is getting death threats?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/15/interview-with-physicist-will-happer-on-climate-change/
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Comment on Challenges to understanding the role of the ocean in climate science by R. Gates
“I also deny that there is any compelling evidence that the observed changes in climate are strongly correlated with the amount of CO2 that we produce as a byproduct of satisfying our energy requirements.”
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One of the best definitions of a denier that I’ve seen. Thank you.
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
Gates – sometimes it’s better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and demonstrate it beyond all doubt.
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Comment on Week in review by PA
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-A-F/China–Nuclear-Power/
China has around 28 nuclear plants under construction and plans 1.4 Terawatts (not Terawatts-hours) of nuclear capacity by 2100.
They will keep increasing coal consumption until about 2030 then transition to nuclear as the nuclear plants come on line.
With the emphasis on fast breeders it will be clean and renewable and isn’t that what everyone is calling for. China may lead the world in clean and renewable (nuclear) energy in 2100.
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Comment on Challenges to understanding the role of the ocean in climate science by tonyb
Bob
We all know that climate changes. Here are a variety of examples over the last 2000 years I have gathered;
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/01/a-short-anthology-of-changing-climate/
As you rightly say, when looking at the modern era in a historic context it is difficult to say that today is exceptional
tonyb
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
Or will she not, and prove beyond all doubt she is a political hack?
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Comment on Week in review by Bad Andrew
“people in cold areas are living longer”
Because of Global Warming. It’s consistent with the theory.
Andrew
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Comment on Challenges to understanding the role of the ocean in climate science by Ulric Lyons
I have been doing it for years at the scale of weather. I predicted a major Arctic outbreak from around 10/11the November 2014, the planetary ordering is highly similar to the cold outbreak from week two of March 2013. For last winter I predicted a long severe Arctic outbreak from around Jan 7th 2014. The heatwave from early July 2013, I predicted from back in 2009. This summer UK heat wave I forecast to start from around July 22nd, and I forecast a very warm Sept, but with cooler wetter conditions through the middle two weeks of August. From such detailed signals, I can tell you when Arctic sea ice will be increasing/decreasing relative to the recent average, and get a good idea of what ENSO will be doing.
So if I am seeing a lot of negative NAO/AO conditions, I expect a shift to El Nino conditions/episodes. Which is definitely the case from late 2015, through 2016, and the very long cold start to 2017.
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Comment on Week in review by ordvic
RGates,
Is a half degree of heat since 1880 a lot?
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Comment on Week in review by PA
Well…
The 2014 warming (from what I can tell) was driven by a decrease in clouds.
If that warm water creates more clouds it will get cooler again.
The question for the science people is what is driving cloud cover?
A small permanent increase in cloud cover would offset any foreseeable change in CO2 forcing.
Also we are at the peak of the solar cycle. The strong CO2 warming advocates says this doesn’t make much difference… but we will see by 2020.
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Comment on Challenges to understanding the role of the ocean in climate science by R. Gates
Being skeptical of your claims, but always willing to listen, please post your exact forecast for global weather, month by month, between now and 2017 (a date you stated). You can do it by hemisphere or region, or however you like. Perhaps you already have website that has this information, so that would be fine.
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Comment on Week in review by JustinWonder
Wow! Your post says it all!
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Comment on We are all confident idiots by kim
Comment five hundred in confidence.
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