Global Temps Already On Pace to Meet Goals of Paris Accord

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The Paris Accord’s overriding goal is to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100. And if possible, the accord would like to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.” To do that, countries like the U.S. would have to dramatically reduce their carbon […]

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May 31, 2017 at 12:57AM

How Ginger Fights Body Fat

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Ginger, as a supplement or an ingredient in food and drink, may protect against obesity and chronic disease, according to a new research review. While experts can’t yet recommend a specific dosage for preventive purposes, they say that consuming more of the pungent spice is smart for several reasons. The new review, published in the […]

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May 31, 2017 at 12:44AM

Ignoring the green

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Having listened to the BBC’s Costing the Earth show, I can report that it was very much what you would expect from a BBC show about the environment. For example, the first guest interviewed was Professor Kathy Willis, director of science at Kew Gardens. Who also turns out to be professor of “biodiversity” at Oxford. And a trustee of WWF-UK. Hmm.

Equally unsurprising was the fact that there was lots of worrying going on. Crops are facing “increased uncertainty”, apparently. Potatoes, yam and cassava are going to be “the crops of the future” because they store most of their biomass underground. In fact, presenter James Wong  swiftly managed to conjure up a vision of everyone being forced to live off tubers, by eliding directly into a claim that we are going to have to “adapt our diets to the climate”.

Although the programme purported to be about the effect of climate change on crops, in fact it was almost all about drought resistance. The case that the future will be drier was never explained though; nor did we learn anything of the recent history of drought, namely that they are less prevalent than before and that we are getting better at dealing with them. There was just a hint of the lack of any firm basis for the programme when we learned that dry winters are “characteristic of what certain experts may be predicting”, which is a strange form of words if ever I saw one.

Mercifully, after a brief detour to the USA, where climate is (allegedly) “changing faster than plants can adapt”, the focus shifted away from science fiction and back to where it should be, namely science fact, in the shape of a discussion about tactics for bringing extra genetic diversity into the crop gene pool. This was interesting enough, but does seem slightly foolish in a world that seems to be getting greener rather quickly.

But then, when you think about it, the funding for research on drought resistance would presumably come quite a lot more slowly if there was no vision of disaster on the horizon.

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May 31, 2017 at 12:43AM

NASA Climate – Destroyers Of Science And History

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Measured temperatures in Iceland show a cyclical pattern, with the late 1930’s warmer than the present. The measured data doesn’t fit NASA’s theory about CO2 driving climate, so they cool past temperatures to create the appearance of a warming trend.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

Temperatures around 1940 are cooled more than two degrees centigrade.

NASA wants temperatures to track atmospheric CO2, which has been rising exponentially since abut 1940.

Iceland temperatures show essentially no correlation with CO2, so NASA changes the measured temperatures to bring them closer in line with theory.

If the climate people at NASA were actual scientists, they would look for a real explanation of the cyclical behavior of temperatures in Iceland – rather than tampering with data to match their theory. The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) is an ocean circulation pattern which closely matches the cyclical behavior seen in Iceland temperatures.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

The correlation between Iceland temperatures and CO2 is essentially non-existent, but correlation with the AMO is excellent.

We have other physical evidence that the time around 1940 was as warm or warmer than now in the Arctic. NASA data tampering has no justification.

17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier

23 Feb 1940 – THE NORTH POLE

It should be obvious to any serious scientist that NASA doesn’t understand climate, and that they are committing massive, unprecedented  fraud by tampering with the data. But this story is much larger than the Arctic. Atmospheric temperatures for the entire planet closely match the AMO.

Which means that Earth is likely to start cooling again soon.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

This is why Gavin Schmidt at NASA is ramping up his data tampering every month. More and more fraud is required to hide the decline.

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May 31, 2017 at 12:05AM