Month: May 2017

Uncategorized 10 May 2017

Goldmann Sachs — bigger than fossil fuel in the climate debate

We can’t blame Goldmann Sachs. It’s just good business.

Goldmann Sachs pours money into lefty causes and politicians of both stripes. The gifts to left-wing flagships like climate change and same-sex marriage buy protection from the anti-bank Occupy crowd. And climate propaganda is doubly useful — Goldmann Sachs can invest and profit from government largess. And these are very big biccies – -in 2009 Goldmann Sachs announced it would spend $150 billion on green energy by 2020.

The message to non-left causes is that if you want to get multimillion dollar philanthropic funds, mobilize people and march in the street. When Goldmann is afraid of what you might do against their bonuses or profits they might get interested in your cause too.

But infamously and so much more importantly, Goldmann donates to both sides of politics and their people are appointed to key positions in the Treasury and corridors of power. When Goldmann crashes, it gets bailed out — and that has happened four times in the last 20 years. The TARP bailout for Sachs was as much as $10 billion, so a mere $675k in speaking fees for Hillary-nearly-Pres might be viewed as a decent investment at the time […]

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May 10, 2017 at 05:07AM

Uncategorized 10 May 2017

Analysis Confirms Global-Warming-Defying Protracted Northern Hemisphere Winter!

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Meteorologist Paul Dorian of Vencore Weather here presents an analysis of just now ending winter of 2017. It’s nothing you’d expect from a world that is supposedly warming.
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As the following Environment Canada chart shows snow is running at well above normal levels across the Northern Hemisphere”

Europe had an extended period of colder-than-normal weather in April accompanied by lots of snow.

Now much of the US is experiencing an extended period of colder-than-normal weather as we transition from early-to-mid May.

Snowfall has been running at above normal levels this winter across the Northern Hemisphere and continues at those higher-than-normal levels as we head towards the middle of May.

Arctic now cooler than normal

In addition, temperatures in the Arctic region – which have been generally running at above-normal levels in recent weeks – have actually dropped to below-normal in recent days and, if this trend continues, it should prevent any chance for sea ice extent to reach record lows up there this summer.

Temperatures in the Arctic region (>80 degrees N) have fallen to below-normal levels (circled area) in recent days following several weeks at generally above-normal levels; map courtesy Weather Bell Analytics/Dr. Ryan Maue

One of the main factors contributing to this late season cold across much of the Northern Hemisphere is a blocking pattern in the upper part of the atmosphere centered over Greenland and Iceland and this tends to contribute to cold air outbreaks into the land mass areas on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;During the month of April, Europe experienced a persistent colder-than-normal pattern and significant snow piled up in the Alps across the central part of the continent. &amp;nbsp;The air was so cold, in fact,&amp;nbsp;that many vineyards from England-to-Italy suffered serious losses as the battle with freezing conditions was relentless in many areas. &amp;nbsp;In the US, a colder-than-normal pattern has kicked in for much of the nation and should continue into the middle of the month and there has been some accumulating snow in the western US and across portions of the Northern Plains and interior Northeast. &amp;nbsp;In fact, the next ten days or so will see more in the way of accumulating snow in the western US and many ski resorts in that part of the country will have good conditions right into the month of June. &amp;nbsp;The Sierra Nevada Mountains of eastern California, for example, will get more substantial snowfall over the next ten days or so to add to the massive totals that they received this winter.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt; 
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&amp;lt;div id=”yui_3_17_2_1_1494352393596_133″ class=”image-block-wrapper has-aspect-ratio” data-description=”&amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;500 millibar height anomaly pattern with strong blocking (in red) over Greenland and Iceland and deep upper-level lows over the Northeast and Southwest US; map courtesy AER/Dr. Judah Cohen&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;noscript&amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;img src=”http://ift.tt/2q6bZi2” alt=”500 millibar height anomaly pattern with strong blocking (in red) over Greenland and Iceland and deep upper-level lows over the Northeast and Southwest US; map courtesy AER/Dr. Judah Cohen” /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

500 millibar height anomaly pattern with strong blocking (in red) over Greenland and Iceland and deep upper-level lows over the Northeast and Southwest US; map courtesy AER/Dr. Judah Cohen

500 millibar height anomaly pattern with strong blocking (in red) over Greenland and Iceland and deep upper-level lows over the Northeast and Southwest US; map courtesy AER/Dr. Judah Cohen

The upper-level pattern across the Northern Hemisphere is playing a big role in this late season cold. Indeed, blocking is now well established over Greenland/Iceland as indicated by the latest 500 millibar height anomalies (red region) and this type of pattern can force cold air southward from northern latitudes into land mass areas on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;img src=”http://ift.tt/2q698ps” alt=”Arctic Oscillation (top) and North Atlantic Oscillation (bottom) index values for the current time and past few months (in black) and forecasted values are shown in red through the month of May; data courtesy NOAA” /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

Arctic Oscillation (top) and North Atlantic Oscillation (bottom) index values for the current time and past few months (in black) and forecasted values are shown in red through the month of May; data courtesy NOAA

Two indices that meteorologists can track in order to monitor the pressure patterns over the northern latitudes are the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). When these indices drop into negative territory for extended periods this time of year, the result is often an upper-level blocking pattern across the northern latitudes.

There is some hope that later this month this blocking pattern will fall apart and the computer model forecasts of the AO and NAO indices (shown in red) do suggest a return to positive territory in the near future.

Text by Meteorologist Paul Dorian, with some editing by NTZ.
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May 10, 2017 at 04:58AM

Uncategorized 10 May 2017

Follow Up On The California Permanent Drought

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It has been one year since fake governor Jerry Brown and the fake news New York Times announced the California permanent drought.

California Braces for Unending Drought – The New York Times

Since then, California has had their sixth wettest May to April on record, and record amounts of snow. There has been no trend in California precipitation since 1895.

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

h/t to Don Penim for the snow video. Fake climate policy is based on superstition, junk science, politics and fraud.

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May 10, 2017 at 04:47AM

Uncategorized 10 May 2017

Trump Delays Decision on Paris Climate Accord Until After G7 Meeting

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President to first meet with G-7 leaders in Italy before rendering final verdict

President Donald Trump won’t make a decision on whether to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change until after he meets with G-7 leaders later this month, the White House’s top spokesman said Tuesday.

Mr. Trump will wait to make his decision because he “wants to make sure that he continues to meet with his team to create the best strategy for this country going forward,” press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at Tuesday’s briefing.

White House officials had been expected to soon close an internal debate on whether the U.S. should withdraw or take more measured steps, but a key meeting on the matter scheduled for Tuesday was postponed at the request of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who would have been unable to attend, an administration official said.

A Tuesday meeting scheduled between Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a White House adviser, was also postponed, according to an administration official.

Mr. Trump’s decision to wait until later this month to render an official verdict comes as a blow to advocates of withdrawing from the climate change accord, since the G-7 summit in Italy will allow advocates of the agreement to press the president not to withdraw.