via Watts Up With That?
February 26, 2020 at 08:07PM
I discovered this historic BoM (1999) flyer while searching for a hard copy of a 1992 paper on the 1970’s Pacific Climate Shift. Read how the BoM attributes – El Nino – thousands of years of ice ages and warm periods – solar cycles – volcanic eruptions – oceans and currents – sea-ice extent – greenhouse and on the back page urbanisation and land use changes get a nod. Page one – two – three – four.
I found on my HDD this front page of Kerr R.A. 1992. Unmasking a shifty climate system. Science 255: 1508–1510. – if anybody has a pdf please pass on. Three of the time-series charts in BoM 1999 – temperature – rainfall and cloud cover all show evidence of a shift in the 1970’s.
I sourced updated data for the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) from NOAA and made this monthly PDO chart 1854 to current. Positive periods tend to be dry and negative wet.
We should recall the Qld DPI very useful rainfall maps that I blogged on in March 2018. They have more versions now.
via Errors in IPCC climate science
February 26, 2020 at 08:03PM
Folks fretting about the coronavirus are forgetting there’s another virus already running rampant in the United States, one that’s killed nearly 20 times as many people in this country alone.
Influenza has already taken the lives of 10,000 Americans this season, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 19 million have caught the flu, and an estimated 180,000 became so ill they landed in the hospital.
“Influenza is easier to pick up and there are far, far more cases,” said Dr. Alan Taege, an infectious disease physician at the Cleveland Clinic. “It’s already much larger than coronavirus has been so far in the whole world, in our own country alone.”
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The CDC predicts that at least 12,000 Americans will die from the flu in any given year. As many as 61,000 people died in the 2017-2018 flu season, and 45 million were infected.
SOURCES: Alan Taege, M.D., infectious disease physician, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Bernard Camins, M.D., medical director, infection prevention, Mount Sinai Health System, New York City
Full story here at HealthDay
From the CDC today:
There have been 2,462 associated deaths worldwide; no deaths have been reported in the United States. Fourteen cases have been diagnosed in the United States, and an additional 39 cases have occurred among repatriated persons from high-risk settings, for a current total of 53 cases within the United States.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about this year’s flu season.
See also their section on the Coronavirus
via Watts Up With That?
February 26, 2020 at 06:17PM
What about CO2? It is wise to remember Mark Twain’s observation, ‘It’s easier to fool the people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.’‘
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Another Ice Age is Coming
David John Haskell
Extinction Rebellion and shamefully, Ovid- like politicians, would have you believe we are on the brink of an apocryphal global warming! For those who might foolishly believe this climate change hogwash, do not despair, as we are not! Educated and knowledgeable folk are fully aware we live on a dynamic planet and that climate change is a natural occurring event.
Indeed, scientists of any repute will tell you climate change is real and has been occurring with natural-driven cold and warm cycles for as long as the planet has existed – from glacial to interglacial – the last major Ice Age ending about 11,500 years ago. We are now in the Holocene epoch and there should be little surprise the Earth has been warming through natural causes since the last Little Ice Age ended around 1870 – with actual temperature increases far less than predicted by theoretical climate models.
There is no real evidence anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are a major or dangerous warming influence. On the contrary, CO2 emissions offer great benefits to agriculture, forestry and photosynthesis that is the basis of life on our planet. So do not be seduced by the false prophets of doom, without CO2 we will all perish, and that is fact. Tulip growers do not pump CO2 in their greenhouses to kill plants, but to enhance growth.
Interglacial’s last between 11,000 and 15,000 years, thus we are in the countdown to the next Ice Age – it could actually be starting now, or in 4,000 years time – nobody knows – but come, it will, as sure as the Earth orbits the Sun! Then there will a real challenge and we will be very thankful for fossil fuels and any additional CO2 to the atmosphere.
So when a gullible 16 year old skips school to lecture and hector you about CO2 emissions and preach false science, tell them to go back to school, to pay attention, to learn their lessons (truth) and thus realise the ‘real’ threat to Homo sapiens is that of over-population, to look in the mirror and acknowledge (although no fault of their own) they are part of the problem!
They will also learn our current geological period (Quaternary) has the lowest average CO2 levels in the history of the Earth. They will learn the atmospheric composition of CO2 is just 0.04 per cent and is ideal for life. They will learn the contribution of ‘greenhouse gases’ to atmospheric warming consists of 90 per cent water vapour, 6 per cent CO2, 2 per cent methane with others at 2 per cent. So why is there no discussion relating to the major component, that of water vapour? They will learn that CO2 is correctly written as CO2.
We are being misled by truly ignorant and shameless people. It is wise to remember Mark Twain’s observation, ‘It’s easier to fool the people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.’
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February 26, 2020 at 04:24PM
Iowa Climate Science Education 