Powell’s notion of an apolitical Fed tightly hewing to its congressional mandate is belied by the central bank’s decision to join the NGFS.
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January 18, 2023 at 04:28AM
By Paul Homewood
I regularly get sent scientific papers relevant to my interests sent to me by the Academia website. Many like this one are a few years old, but also highly relevant:
It is already known that Indian monsoons weakened during the global cooling of the 1960s and 70s, and now this study has established that the same thing seems to have taken place during the Little Ice Age.
When the climate gets colder in extratropical latitudes, the ITCZ gets squeezed nearer the equator, something which HH Lamb has frequently commented on. And the graph below shows not only the megadroughts linked to the LIA, but also the much wetter climate during the MWP:
Fig. 8. Stacked time series of proxy records of temperature from the extratropical latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere (color coded). The records from top to bottom are temporal
duration of Swiss glacial advances (Holzhauser et al., 2005), biomarker based sea ice reconstruction (Massé et al., 2008), Icelandic shelf SST (Sicre et al., 2008) and a composite SST
estimate from the Atlantic region (Mann et al., 2009). Vertical gray bars represent temporal duration of MMDs as delineated in Fig. 5 (for interpretation of the references to colour in
this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article).
Climate idiots now believe that building solar farms will somehow put and end to droughts in India, but as the paper notes the real world prospects are much scarier:
The prospect of a repeat of those LIA megadroughts is truly terrifying.
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January 18, 2023 at 03:51AM
The graph below compares the ten warmest years on record for global surface measurements. Here is a link: Annual 2022 Global Climate Report | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (noaa.gov) The year 2022 was the sixth warmest since global records began in 1880 at 0.86°C (1.55°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F). What credence should we put on such data?
Where were the recording stations in the polar regions, bulk of Eurasia, Africa, South America, and the oceans in 1880? How does infrared radiation in a warming atmosphere penetrate the oceans beyond 1 millimeter?
It is hard to believe that there is much value in a claim that these figures are sufficiently accurate to be taken seriously.
The ten warmest years on record
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January 18, 2023 at 03:11AM
