Month: March 2017

Russian Scientists Predict Global Cooling In The Next Few Decades

Russian Scientists Predict Global Cooling In The Next Few Decades

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In a new paper published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, seven senior scientists analysed the monthly average and annual average data of charged particle fluxes in the lower atmosphere, concluding that “a rise in the charged particle flux in the lower atmosphere in the next few years” would lead to “a decrease in the global temperature of the near-surface air layer.”

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One of the most important problems facing humanity is finding the physical mechanism responsible for global climate change, particularly global warming on the Earth. Figure 1 presents the data on changes ΔT in the monthly average values of global temperature (averaged over the globe) in the near-surface air layer [1, 2]. The ΔТ values, shown as the fine curve, are counted from the average value of the global temperature acquired over the period 1901–2000. It can be seen that the changes in the ΔT values are irregular in character. A more or less smooth increase in temperature has been observed from around 1970 to the present. The thick curve represents calculations based on a spectral analysis of the monthly average data on ΔT for the period 1880–early 2016. The calculations show that the experimental data contain four main periodic components. Their characteristics (amplitude А in relative units; phase Ф and period P in years) are А1 = 0.406, Ф1 = 125.81, P1 = 204.57; А2 = 0.218, Ф2 = 31.02, P2 = 69.30; А3 = 0.079, Ф3 = 17.14, P3 = 34.58; and А4 = 0.088, Ф4 = 10.48, P4 = 22.61. The amplitudes of other spectral components with periods of less than 22 years are negligible. Summation of these periodicities for the future (after 2015) allows us to forecast the next few decades. The solid heavy line in Fig. 1 shows that cooling (a drop in ΔTvalues) is expected in the next few decades. The first harmonic А1 has the highest uncertainty in the considered method, due to the shortness of the series of ΔT values. […]

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CONCLUSIONS

Our results could be connected with the mechanism of charged particle fluxes influencing the Earth’s climate; it includes, first of all, the effect charged particles have on the accelerated formation of centers of water vapor condensation, and thus on the increase in global cloud cover. The total cloud cover is directly connected with the global temperature of the nearsurface air layer. This mechanism of the connection between the global temperature of the near-surface air layer and the charged particle flux will be tested in the next 2–3 years. The Solar System is now in the positive phase of the 22-year solar magnetic cycle. This phase is being characterized by a rather fast recovery (rise) of the cosmic ray flux after the maximum solar activity of 2014. If there is a rise in the charged particle flux in the lower atmosphere in the next few years, there will have to be a drop in ΔT, i.e. a decrease in the global temperature of the near-surface air layer.

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March 14, 2017 at 10:23PM

Report: Trump Orders Massive UN Budget Cuts

Report: Trump Orders Massive UN Budget Cuts

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Guest essay by Eric Worrall

h/t Breitbart – According to http://ift.tt/SrzB8i, the Trump White House has ordered the State Department to cut at least 50% of US contributions to the United Nations.

EXCLUSIVE White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United Nations

U.S. retreat from U.N. could mark a “breakdown of the international humanitarian system as we know it.”

State Department staffers have been instructed to seek cuts in excess of 50 percent in U.S. funding for U.N. programs, signaling an unprecedented retreat by President Donald Trump’s administration from international operations that keep the peace, provide vaccines for children, monitor rogue nuclear weapons programs, and promote peace talks from Syria to Yemen, according to three sources.

The push for such draconian measures comes as the White House is scheduled on Thursday to release its 2018 budget proposal, which is expected to include cuts of up to 37 percent for spending on the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign assistance programs, including the U.N., in next year’s budget. The United States spends about $10 billion a year on the United Nations.

The cuts would fall heaviest on U.N. programs, like peacekeeping, UNICEF, and the U.N. Development Programme, that are funded out of the budget of the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs. It remains to be seen whether other U.N. agencies popular with Congress, like the World Food Programme and U.N. refugee operations — which are funded out of separate accounts in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the State Department, respectively — will get hit as hard. But one source tracking the budget proposal said the Trump administration is considering cuts of up to 36 percent on humanitarian aid programs.

The United States has to pay just over 22 percent of the U.N.’s $2.5 billion administrative budget. Additionally, Washington pays billions of dollars for peacekeepers and helps underwrite a swath of other programs that fight hunger, settle refugees, and battle climate change.

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There are no details of specific cuts to UN Climate Change programmes, but it seems likely they will be cut.

My question – why not cut 100%? How does anonymising aid money through the UN bureaucracy benefit US taxpayers? If a country wants to receive the generosity of United States, say to help with resolving a crisis, the leader of that country should appeal in public, in person to President Trump, so the whole world knows where the aid money is coming from.

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March 14, 2017 at 09:29PM

SCANDAL OF TAXPAYERS MONEY WASTED ON OVERSEAS CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTS

SCANDAL OF TAXPAYERS MONEY WASTED ON OVERSEAS CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTS

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The UK government has once again been caught out wasting money on pointless overseas aid projects. This article gives the details. At a time when so many vital services are being cut to the bone it is simply astonishing to see such waste.  

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March 14, 2017 at 07:00PM

Australian Wind Lobby Joins Massive Opposition to Threatened Jupiter Wind Farm

Australian Wind Lobby Joins Massive Opposition to Threatened Jupiter Wind Farm

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*** Nothing generates more hatred and bitter community division than a wind farm. While all eyes are on Australia’s brewing energy catastrophe and the Large-Scale RET that caused it, it’s easy to forget that the battle against the great wind power fraud is still being fought town by town and community by community, in the […]

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March 14, 2017 at 06:33PM