Month: March 2017

‘Science builds bridges, not walls’ – except when climate science is involved

‘Science builds bridges, not walls’ – except when climate science is involved

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From the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING and the department of “tribal science”, comes this press release that is generally true, until you look at general science’s bastard child, climate science, and some of the ugliness and oppressive activism and tribalism that surrounds that branch of science. Science builds bridges, not walls, diplomacy experts […]

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March 2, 2017 at 07:00AM

More Fake News From The Guardian

More Fake News From The Guardian

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By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Joe Public

 

 

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More fake news from the Guardian:

 

Spring is arriving ever earlier in the northern hemisphere. One sedge species in Greenland is springing to growth 26 days earlier than it did a decade ago. And in the US, spring arrived 22 days early this year in Washington DC.

The evidence comes from those silent witnesses, the natural things that respond to climate signals. The relatively new science of phenology – the calendar record of first bud, first flower, first nesting behaviour and first migrant arrivals – has over the last three decades repeatedly confirmed meteorological fears of global warming as a consequence of the combustion of fossil fuels.

Researchers say the evidence from the plant world is consistent with the instrumental record: 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded, and it was the third record-breaking year in succession. Sixteen of the hottest years ever recorded have happened in the 21st century.

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Of course, when we consider the facts we get a totally different story.

Take Greenland, for instance. The article refers to a study in West Greenland, which looks at 12 years of observations.

When we look at the official DMI data for SW Greenland, we find that spring temperatures have indeed risen since 2000, but have simply returned to the levels seen in the 1920s to 1940s.

In fact, spring temperatures were unusually low in the 1980s and 90s.

There is also a similar pattern with winter temperatures.

 

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As for Washington DC, the claim is based on using a 1981-2010 baseline.

If we look at daily temperature records in spring at the long running USHCN station of Oakland, MD, we find that the hottest days occurred in the 1940s.

 

 

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Night time temperatures were also higher in the 1940s and 50s.

 

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Being a decadal study, this analysis from CDIAC only runs to 2010. But statewide spring temperatures show no upward trend since 2001. Indeed three of the last four years have been below average.

 

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We find the same pattern with spring mean temperatures at Oakland:

 

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And for good measure, temperatures in February there. Unfortunately, GISS have no data for 2016, but February 2015 was one of the coldest on record.

 

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According to Weather Underground, mean temperatures at Oakland last month were 2C. While it was certainly mild, it was not as warm as years such as 1925, 1932 and 1949, which all got close to 4C.

 

 

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In February 1932, for instance, temperatures reached 76F, compared to a top temperature of 70F last month.

Such temperatures nowadays would send Guardian readers into apoplexy!

 

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From start to finish, the Guardian report is fraudulent fake news, based in turn on junk science and cherry picked, dodgy data.

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March 2, 2017 at 06:45AM

Democratic Attorneys General and Other Party Operatives

Democratic Attorneys General and Other Party Operatives

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From NY Times, February 6:

This is an admission from NY Times: Democratic Party operatives and democratic attorney generals and governors do not know the differences between their roles.  Per admission, democratic attorney generals and governors are Democratic Party operatives appointed to the positions where they benefit other Democratic Party operatives and Democratic Party donors:

“In interviews, more than a dozen Democratic attorneys general, governors and party operatives detailed a week of frenzied litigation, late-night and early-morning phone calls and text messages, and strategies devised on airplanes and at sporting events.  All told, Democrats say, the legal onslaught against Mr. Trump was a crystallizing moment for the party’s attorneys general — and a model for how to stall or unwind the administration policies they find most offensive.”

“Mr. Schneiderman, a former state senator from Manhattan who is in his second term as attorney general, called the travel ban a ‘first test’ of the Democratic legal apparatus under Mr. Trump.”

NY Times sees nothing unnatural about the fact that democratic attorney generals are a part of the democratic legal apparatus!

“It was [WA Attorney General] Mr. Ferguson’s suit that won the biggest victory: a federal judge’s ruling on Friday that froze, at least temporarily, the carrying out of a travel ban.”

“Even before Mr. Trump’s directive, Democratic attorneys general were gearing up to play a larger role in national politics.”

“While Mr. Trump was being sworn in last month, three up-and-coming Democratic attorneys general — Mr. Balderas, Mr. Schneiderman and Maura Healey of Massachusetts — joined a conference of wealthy political donors in South Florida to deliberate over the party’s future.”

“On the last Friday in January, many of those officials had gathered in Fort Lauderdale for a conference of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, a group that helps raise money for their campaigns.”

“He [Hector Balderas, the New Mexico attorney general] described the attack on Mr. Trump’s immigration order as a blueprint for state attorneys general who aim to rein in the White House.”

“‘It does seem that we are becoming, potentially, the fourth branch of government,’ Mr. Balderas said in an interview.”

It seems to me like it could be a seditious conspiracy.

How did attorney generals gain so much apparent power?  According to NYT:

“They [state attorneys general] were once primarily local law enforcement figures who rarely pursued issues beyond state borders. But with the growth of their clout and ambition over the last three decades, they have become magnets for lobbyists, campaign donors and other corporate representatives looking to intervene in regulatory policy and tip investigations, a New York Times investigation found in 2014.”
“Under President Bill Clinton, attorneys general pioneered the major multistate lawsuit that has served as a model for interstate collaboration since, with nearly all the states joining together to win a groundbreaking settlement with the tobacco industry. Liberal states later collaborated to force the E.P.A. under President George W. Bush to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, winning a Supreme Court decision that made it easier for the states to sue the federal government.”

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March 2, 2017 at 05:38AM

Dem AGs Stonewall GOP Efforts To Subpoena Anti-Exxon Crusade

Dem AGs Stonewall GOP Efforts To Subpoena Anti-Exxon Crusade

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Democratic attorneys general in New York and Massachusetts refused Wednesday to comply with a congressional subpoena demanding they disclose information related to their investigation into ExxonMobil’s climate research. New York AG Eric Schneiderman and Maura Healey, of Massachusetts, have vowed to deny GOP Texas Rep. Lamar Smith’s communications related to their probes. The Texas Republican has worked […]

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March 2, 2017 at 05:04AM