Say tempt, Soma – lia a country in trans – ishun?
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21577437-new-government-mogadishu-has-yet-prove-its-mettle-centre-holds
Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Beth Cooper
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Alexej Buergin
How about small gubmint Somalia vs big gubmint North Korea?
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Girma
Max
I agree that the concept of warming on the pipe line does not make sense. If the sunspot count drops, it will wipe out the warming that would occur to achieve the equilibrium condition. Warming in the pipe line assumes a constant solar forcing, which is wrong.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Beth Cooper
Hope yer temp’ted ter respond tempt m’ dear… )
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Michael
Life Expectancy;
Somalia 54 yrs
N Korea 68 years.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by phatboy
14 more years of suffering
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Beth Cooper
Michael a bit of context here. North Korea ain’t
a country in transition, it’s an established autocracy
that has the population firmly inder the thumb. While
yer about it, cf North and South Korea why don’cha?
A serf.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Alexej Buergin
Comparing apples and apples:
Life expectancy
Big gubmint North Korea 68 years
Smaller gubmint South Korea 81 years
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Bart
There is a deceleration</a>, in lock step with the temperature pause. Right at the time <a href="http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html" rel="nofollow">emissions were accelerating</a>.
That is because temperatures control CO2, not humans. In a few years, the divergence will be so great that the real deniers will have to confront it.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Bart
<a href="http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/derivative/mean:12/from:1979/plot/rss/scale:0.24/offset:0.12" rel="nofollow">The deceleration</a> in atmospheric concentration.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Beth Cooper
Infant mortality,
a chasm,
medieval
in its extreme,
‘twixt north
and south.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by WebHubTelescope (@whut)
Manacker constantly tries to change the laws of physics to suit his needs. He uses the technique of belligerent assertion with a huge dose of dripping condescension thrown in.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by WebHubTelescope (@WHUT)
The two Swiss Missies, Buergin and Manacker, are having a cute catfight arguing over the diff between ECS and TCR.
Let me clear things up for you two Heidi Ho’s. When you look at the observational data concerning average global temperature, multiply the current number by 3/2 to get a rough idea what the steady state value will be.
BTW, while the 1/3 is not observed, it is still building up under the ocean surface as heat, suitable for melting ice and other relentless activities.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by omanuel
Neutron stars are no longer considered “dead nuclear embers” of stars that had been earlier heated by fusion.
This quote from the first and last sentences in the abstract of the paper by Abdo et al. illustrates the scientific revolution in nuclear and particle physics that will settle the debate over AGW.
“A young and energetic pulsar powers the well-known Crab Nebula. . . . These are the highest-energy particles that can be associated with a discrete astronomical source, and they pose challenges to particle acceleration theory.”
This explains observations on the Sun that were recorded by Birkeland in the The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition of 1902-1903.
http://archive.org/details/norwegianaurorap01chririch
He describes radiation from an old pulsar, after passing through billions of tons of waste products that have been gravitationally retained around the pulsar that made our elements and birthed the solar system five billion years (5 Gyr) ago.
Thank you, Professor Curry, for having the courage to publish comments that give the physics community proper credit for its role in the current climate wars controversy.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by GaryM
It takes a particular kind of blind ideologue to call Somalia an example of “small government.” The Hobbesian state of anarchy in Somlaia is an example of “small government” only in the fever swamps of the progressive imagination.
tempterrain is like the mom of the 600 pound guy who can’t leave his own apartment, telling him “Honey, ignore all that nonsense from the doctor about diet and exercise. Famine is not healthy”
Big government – USSR, China, Cambodia, Viet Nam, North Korea (155th on the life expectancy sweepstakes by the way – and that’s assuming you are dumb enough to believe statistics produced by that megalomaniacal regime).
Small government – there are virtually no examples in the west because all government right now are run by progressives. Europe is on the verge of economic implosion, the U.S. is probably only five years behind in the race to the abyss. California and Illinois are leading the way toward state bankruptcy, and the tempterrains of the world claim the only alternative is social anarchy.
I know progressives need straw men, because they can’t argue with conservative economics (since they don’t have a clue what that’s all about), but it would be nice if y’all would at least try for a modicum of rationality in your demagoguery.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Bill
Quite a strawman. No one here advocates no government, but rather limited government – a night watchmen type of state – with the rule of law and a lot of economic freedom as well as political freedoms.
Democrats tend to favor (or used to) more political freedoms and Repubs used to favor more economic freedoms (now its mostly rhetoric) but both are really still mostly classical liberals as that is the history of the U.S.
Here is a ranking of economic freedom:
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Sweden ranks 5th with the U.S. 10th, although I heard we had recently fallen to 16th. North Korea is like 177. Places like Iraq and Somalia are not ranked (about ten out of 200 fall into this category) as they are in the middle of civil war or strife.
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Alexej Buergin
WebHubbi
before you try to clear anything up, you should first understand it yourself.
Looking at Figure 9.1 Girma calculates the (equivalent of the) slope of the interval from 70 to 140 and then extrapolates to doubling of CO2 (the whole interval from 70 to 140). If he would use the IPCC numbers, he would get 3.25°C, That is more or less the ECS (3.5°). Multiplying by 1.5 gives you the 5°C from year 70 to year 300, obviously nonsense.
In Fig. 9.1 there is an equilibrium before the year 0, in 1960 there was none. So we cannot start in the year 0.
You have looked at Figure 9.1, have you not? It is “The Scientific Basis”, from the IPCC itself, and not very complicated.
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Comment on Week in review 1/20/12 by red bottom shoes
The writer of the show, Ray McKinnon, was somewhat familiar with my case. His late wife, Lisa Blount was a friend of mine. She and I exchanged letters while I was on death row in Arkansas, and she even sang at a concert in Arkansas, along with Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith, and Johnny Depp, to help raise awareness about my plight.I heard that McKinnon also did research into the cases of other men who had been on death row and had been released or exonerated. It paid off. I can tell you from first hand experience that Rectify is a very realistic show
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by lolwot
It’s simple. CO2 is rising due to human emissions and the rate of CO2 rise is increasing (ie CO2 level is accelerating).
No CO2 rise hasn’t stopped. To those who claim that CO2 rise follows temperature AND also claim that there has been a pause in global temperature. How do you explain why CO2 continues to rise?
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Comment on More on the ‘pause’ by Alexej Buergin
You use the interstate to go shopping (speed limit 50 mph); on the slip road (speed limit 40 mph) you drive 45, are measured by radar and get a fine. Fortunately you do have the yearly interstate-decal on your windscreen (100 bucks), and you did pay the yearly 500 bucks for your tag. There are lots of free parking spaces at Walmart, but you have to pay for it anyhow (by order of the state). If too many people go shopping there, Walmart pays a fine. You buy a newspaper and read that the state has opened all thick letters from India to count the number of Viagras included. The recipient gets a fine, or a bill for the counting. And so on.
You call that small gubmint?
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