The stock markets do better under Democrats which probably is why rich people do well. Go figure.
Comment on Week in review by Jim D
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Comment on Week in review by John Smith (it's my real name)
well said
I’m still new to this
I see what I think is misleading, purposeful misrepresentation, designed to scare and manipulate the public (me)
perhaps it’s subconscious and well meaning because of strongly held beliefs
I am Joe Public and considerably less genteel than many here
but I simply cannot see how ‘hide the decline’, considering the money involved, does not rise to the level of fr@vd
doesn’t matter much what I think, the pretense will continue
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Comment on Week in review by rls
Rud
Off topic, but a suggestion on your forthcoming essay on historical global temperatures. When I read the essay, it would help to have a section that compares proxy methods. Perhaps this should be done region-by-region.
Richard
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Comment on The Intermittent Little Ice Age by stefanthedenier
salvadore; volcanoes produce WV, CO2, SO2 and lots of heat – the hot lava is 1500-2000C! Whoever told you that volcanoes cool the planet, told you a big lie, because: Temp Self Adjusting Mechanism (TSAM) readjusts the temp because of the volcanic produced heat; nothing to do with aerosols!
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Comment on Week in review by mosomoso
She and her buddies (a trusted body of better types known as “we”) are changing the development model of the last 150 years for the first time in the history of mankind.
Offer someone big tax-free dollars to be pompous, sinister and silly at the same time and…guess what they’ll do!
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Comment on Week in review by AK
Regarding your Ag offshore, I wanna drive one of the tractors, please.
What tractors? I’m thinking of growing crops on large pallets, sort of like giant grow boxes.
The pallets have a soft gasket of fabric around the edges, and can be lifted off the floor with a little air pressure, then pushed around the growing space, including under factory-style harvesting and soil working equipment.
The larger structures where the pallets normally grow would be covered with transparent material, making them into greenhouses, which could be cooled by sea-water, yielding extra fresh water. Being isolated from the surrounding atmosphere, they could have much larger amounts of CO2 (without the need to raising the entire atmospheric pCO2), and be isolated from most airborne insects, birds, weed seeds, fungal spores, etc.
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Comment on Week in review by Danny Thomas
AK,
Nice. Fun toy, but I was envisioning a above surface bouyant tractor that would be fun to buzz around in. Ah well. Air hockey has it’s entertainment value also.
Like the fresh water side benefit, and salt as a byproduct if desired.
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Comment on Week in review by curryja
Agreed, but the issue is this. We are told to trust the ‘experts’ that are the IPCC. This kind of behavior, especially if there is an attempt at cover up, leads to loss of trust of the experts.
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Comment on The Intermittent Little Ice Age by stefanthedenier
Bob, sunspots come and sunspots go – no change in temp on the earth. Sunspots are only the new superstition, nothing more! BUT: if you are superstition person, as some others: -eat plenty of garlic to be safe, and if you want complete protection – carry your rabbit’s foot with you anyway you go.
If you don’t have a rabbit’s foot – order one – until you get one, stay indoors, otherwise the sunspots will get you some day! The safest place from the sunspots is under the bed, stay there!!!
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Comment on The Intermittent Little Ice Age by Ulric Lyons
“In the UK this is manifest as blocking high pressure systems – heatwaves in summer, intense cold in winter,”
With a weaker solar signal there is increased negative NAO which gives increased low pressure and wetter/cooler conditions in summer months for the UK.
As for Greenland temperatures and the polar see-saw, note how much of the detail of GISP temperature moves in the opposite direction to those on CET, e.g. around 1666 and 1686, and the drop from the 1690’s to the 1720’s. The coldest years of Dalton (1807-1817) and the equally cold 1836-1845. 1538-41 was very warm in Europe, and also parts of the 1610’s were very warm, with a relatively large solar cycle maximum in 1615:
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Comment on Week in review by Steven Mosher
so a republican set up. interesting.
republicans want to investigate.
who will they call?
who speaks for you on the case of “fraud”? simple question. not rrocket science
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Comment on Week in review by omanuel
Stalin died in 1953. Luminaries no longer just vanish.
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Comment on Week in review by AK
<a href="http://storage.pv-tech.org/guest-blog/storage-behind-the-meter-some-determining-factors-for-end-consumer-owned-ba" rel="nofollow">Storage behind the meter: some determining factors for end consumer owned batteries</a> By Volker Wachenfeld<blockquote>Decentralized residential battery storage systems owned by private end customers are controversially discussed worldwide. Professionals discuss at international conferences the benefits of such solutions, saying that as of today there is no business case which delivers economic viability- without subsidy programmes- or they propose other solutions which offer higher benefits. Despite the discussion, the market already offers a variety of storage solutions which seem to be well accepted by the end-customer. How to explain such a contrast?</blockquote>[...]<blockquote>In Germany, traditionally a strong residential PV Market, almost every fifth PV system installed in 2014 incorporated storage. The main driver is the already reached socket/household parity and not so much the storage incentive programme, which was used by every second customer who installed a storage system. For two years now, PV-produced electricity is cheaper than electricity supplied by utilities in Germany. The more PV-produced energy used in a household, the better the economic viability of the system. Even though the gap between the electricity price and PV-generation costs is not big enough to finance the storage system, the expected increase in electricity prices in future and distrust towards utilities seems to help promoting storage.</blockquote><blockquote>In addition, the storage system acts as energy manager – if the PV supply is higher than the actual demand, the charging of the battery takes place. If it is lower, the battery provides the energy to supply demand. The integration of storage in PV systems gives the customer the feeling of self-dependency. Surely it will take some time to reach economic viability, but several factors such as declining system costs and increasing electricity costs already help.</blockquote>[...]<blockquote>Battery storage systems are true all-rounders, which can be either load or generator – depending on the application and operational strategy defined by the user. Power conversion systems to couple the battery to the grid are capable of “learning” any kind of new functions required from the grid (e.g. DSO or TSO) – just like a student you can teach new knowledge day by day. The control process system of these devices is much faster than any conventional generator could ever be – regardless of any kind of environmental conditions. <b>New requirements such as for grid interoperation might demand new software features, but will never call for additional hardware (and thus costs).</b> [my bold]</blockquote>[...]<blockquote><b>Could we have it all – economic optimization and grid support – in one device?</b> [bold original]</blockquote><blockquote>Asking us as engineers, the answer is as simple as that: yes, for sure. Although the various functionalities a battery storage system can provide are linked to each other, each one will have an impact on any of the others. The combining of all possible virtues needs only an intelligent layout and design as well as an intelligent management strategy – and nothing more. The decision as to which feature is more valuable, the economic optimum of self-consumption or guaranteed emergency power supply, is to be made by the end customer – more comfort for higher costs, a simple but well established principle of mature markets. In contrast, more grid support functionalities without any economic incentive – <b>this does not sound like a good basis for the development of a market.</b> And we will not be able to replace the needed incentive by increased requirements in the applicable grid interconnection standards – <b>less revenue at higher costs will inhibit any kind of market development.</b> In times of climate change and growing demand of electrical energy, it would be negligent not to utilise decentralised, behind-the-meter battery storage to stabilise grid operation and provide congestion relief – <b>we just have to allow them to operate economically!</b> [my bold]</blockquote>
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Comment on Berkeley Earth: raw versus adjusted temperature data by Mark Lewis
Steven (and Zeke) – Thanks for your thankless work. I very much appreciate it – including but not limited to BEST, in the specific case of this post, and in the many (to the many power) thoughtful (and sarcastic [even sardonic!]) posts on this blog.
Even your noise is signal to my ears.
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Comment on Week in review by Steven Mosher
I nominate Rud to speak for skeptics.
Are you willing to go before the committee raise your hand and make a case of fraud.
Simple question. If you agree to be called and make a public charge I’ll do my best to make it happen.
which sense of fraud? since you are offering to make a case, your choice.
Or
since others have made the charge you might have asked them rather than me.
I would say under no definition.
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Comment on Week in review by AK
@Danny Thomas...
See <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2015/02/21/week-in-review-44/#comment-676826" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
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Comment on Week in review by Steven Mosher
Threads dont count
I want the skeptic at the witness table.
hand raised.
sworn testimony
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Comment on Week in review by ordvic
There is only one place that multi-billionaires can egregiously exploit tax laws and preserve and compound their wealth. It is called the derivates market ie futures and options trading through the Chicago Board of Trade. It was listed as being worth $615 trillion in 2009. It is said to be worth close to a quadrillion now.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivatives_market
You can easily add up a small transaction tax that would pay off the US debt. The protection they’ve had is now in a state of flux as the laws have expired. It was a republican Dave Camp who first proposed taxing derivatives. He retired at the end of last term.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/a-sensible-change-in-taxing-derivatives/?r=0
The current congress is taking up tax reform but whether or not Camp’s main reform is enacted is not known to me. They mention his reforms here but I don’t see mention of that specific reform that IMO is the only one that would be truly productive:
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f1a57b7b-bde7-4dfd-9d59-3c5142879649
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Comment on Week in review by ianl8888
> Hammurabi’s Code first posited innocent until proven guilty
Firstly, my comment was aimed at the irony of claiming “conspiracy” as a defence when the silliness of Lewanclownsky’s Recursive Fury has not yet left us. I have no interest in Pachauri’s personal piccadilloes
Your attempt to occupy the high ground seems not to encompass such nuance. Sorry, but I’ll choose another lawyer
Secondly, on the “innocent until proven guilty” concept, I absolutely agree. But I had an unpleasant exchange with both Mosher and McIntyre some years ago on CA concerning whether Gleick was guilty of forgery without hard forensic evidence, cross-examined in a court. I argued for the innocent until proven guilty concept (despite strong circumstantial evidence), Mosher in particular argued that was naive or some such thing
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Comment on Week in review by Steven Mosher
that’s reasonable. tony
Im not sure they want a congressional hearing to discuss statistics.
This is pretty simple. You have a bunch of skeptics with big megaphones
speaking for you whether you like it or not.
And congress listened.
So now they will hold a hearing. And we will see which skeptic utterly discredits themselves with false charges.
Or we will see them try to walk back the outrageous claims.
Of course both sides engage in this. Lots of owngoals.
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