2005 and ONWARD!
Return Home or 2001-2004; 1998-2000 ;1991-1997;1977-1990; 1967-1976; 1953-1966; 1930-1952;
1896-1929;1864-1895; 1817-1863; 1739-1816; 1671-1738; 1600-1670; 1531-1599;
1295-1529; 400-1294; 2200BC-309AD; 25ka-2250BP; 4.6Billion - 36kaBP...
Post Catastrophic Progress, the World is Changing, and
We are still The Problem...
Some People are Mis presenting Facts -
From the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) report
that stresses that 'extreme and dangerous' trend, etc...
While others are making the records not so Straight,
But More Complete, Thus More Meaningful...
The Long-Term Pattern From OSU Climatologist George Taylor's Report -
That show the recent decade is Not Yet as warm as past records,
Like So Many Others...
As clearly described by Dr. Robert E. Steveson back in 2000,
OCEAN WARMING/COOLING is NOT About Humans...
The
Most Recent Fiasco -
Steve McIntyre points out the Glitch in the GISS USA Weather Records
after 2000 -
Upon which Hansen et al base their phony claim -
"1998 warmest ever"...
Quantifying
the Hansen Y2K Error - by Steve McIntyre -
and then
We look at Northern Europe - an analysis by Timo Niroma, Solar Advocate -
Plus his home town - Helsinki, Finland
Meanwhile- look at other regions, such as Australia (or California's Trends by population size or by Location, as provided by James Goodridge, 55 year veteran State Climatologist)
The Role Of Urbanization and associated Heat Island phenomena are evident:
Australia's Cities
Vs
Then in Brazil -
Sao Paolo went from a few hundred thousand to Post WWII growth to ~ 20 million
over this graph's time scale:
Meanwhile only 950 or so kilometers inland is the Mission San Juan Bautista Paraguay -
a relatively small community:
Hmmm...
What Do You Think Causes the Trends in Cities?
Then, for those who have never looked at the dates of the
Hi and Lo Temperature Records for Each of the States in the USA
Everyone has a Right To Their Opinions - But - Facts Count...
Well, lets look at CO2 vs Population Size for the recent Two Centuries or so...
Then perhaps, instead of blaming People - Look at Climate History (Temperature) and CO2 levels
or at NCDC Paleo Data Series
SOHO PROJECT
- Imagery - PAST, PRESENT, ETC.
Look Down, Then Around, and Then - Maybe At the MOON
Check Out The State of the World Ocean
Links to Myriad Sites About the Oceans and Their Inhabitants
The Real Climate Change Issue - Facts or Religion
The Ocean Acidification Game!
Starck Reality - Check Out http://www.goldendolphin.com/
Click on ECO ISSUES at the left/bottom
And Arctic Sea Ice - Anyone linked Polar Ice Changes to E N SO Yet Again ???
More About the Blizzard of OZ
What? Fewer Tropical Storms ?? ?
And Those Shrinking Glaciers ALL Around the Globe !! - ? ??
about the Rotating Earth
Looking back at the Wars and Economic Crises of the 20th Century,
Let's NEVER Forget that Lots of Wars/Changes Occured Before...
.REFERENCES (contact <gsharp@redshift.com> for more info)
To 2001-2004 or
| Year | Locale | Event | Source |
2013 - March/April |
Canada and USA |
Deep
Meridional Pressue Cells Affect Jet Stream, and Cause Extreme Weather -
From Hurricane Sandy's Collision with the Jet Stream - but -It Is Not Unusual, Just part of another Cycle = re Klyashtorin & Lyubushin's Studies |
TOM
HARRIS, director of the International Climate Science Coalition
(ICSC), delivered at a branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Explaining
History and Ongoing Changes - in Contrast to AGW $ALE$men PJ Media |
2013 - January/February |
Global Perspective |
January was a mild and dry month for the contiguous U.S. but one of the coldest on record for Alaska. Excessive rainfall induced flooding conditions in parts of Australia and Brazil. A massive cold wave began to affect Europe towards the end of the month. A powerful Category 4 tropical cyclone swirled in the waters between Madagascar and Mozambique in Africa. The coldest summer maximum temperature ever recorded in Australia was measured on January 11th. February was notable weather-wise for the extreme cold wave and snow that affected a large part of Europe, excessive rains and flooding in Australia, two strong tropical storms that caused flooding and fatalities, in Madagascar, and a major snowstorm in Colorado that occurred in spite of a generally warmer than normal month in the United States. California wrapped up its 2nd driest climatological winter on record. |
Weather Underground News |
| 2012
- SH Winter |
Argentina
& South Africa |
In
Ushuaia an
entire neighborhood had to be evacuated because the cold froze water
pipes and blocked natural gas valves. No heating, no cooking, streets
with 2.5 metres of snow. In two weeks snowed more than an entire normal
winter season. And winter hadn't begun yet! Flooding, Snow and Cold to Freezing Temperatures on the South African Penninsula - |
News |
| 2012 | Europe | Many Rivers Froze, Snow from the UK well into Italy south to Rome, and Eastern Europe's Lows Kill Hundreds - while Thousands of Serbian Villagers are trapped in Snow | News All Right On Track with Projections by JO Fletcher, Jack Eddy, Leonid Klyashtorin, and Theadore Landscheidt - and Months Ahead Forecasts by Piers Corbyn - All of Whom Pay/ed Attention to The SUN! |
| 2012 | North
America - After a relatively Mild Winter - Wildfires Rage from the eastern Slopes in washington, southward into Arizona - and eastward all along the Rockies - with many occuring after the Dry Heat Wave from Arkansas into the NE - |
Summer
Record Highs in the NW Plains, and From Kansas, North Dakota into the East Coast as the Overlying Flat Jet Stream and Deep Cold Troughs to the east and west - suck Hot wet air in from Mexico - and Hurricane Debby Floods western/northern Florida - with some Record Lows in California, Arizona and Louisiana - |
Weather
Underground, NASA and NOAA US WildFire Maps with a little History and maybe Where Weather Comes From |
| 2012 | Solar System | Projection of Solar Activity |  NASA Projects
|
| 2010-2011 | Pacifc
Rim/Ocean Aleutian Islands Alaska - Papua New Guinea Japan 12/2010 Honshu = 7.4 3/2011 Tohoku/Sendai = 9.0 4/2011 Hunshu = 7.1 |
Earthquakes in Chile, 2/2010, Maule = 8.8 3/2010, Pichilemu = 6.9 1/2011, Auracania = 7.1 Ecuador, 8/2010 = 7.1 Baja California 4/2010 = 7.2 New Zealand, 9/2010 Canterbury = 7.1 9/2010 White island = 6.4 2/2011 Christchurch = 6.3 Phillipines 2010 Moro Gulf = 7.3 12/2010/Vanuatu = 7.3 |
Japan
in Press Will the Pacific Northwest or Californai be Next? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes> Lessons Anyone? All Around the World The Prophets are Waiting |
| 2010-2011 | Winter Starts with lots of Cold and Snow with Warm/Wet in between | Northern Hemisphere is undergoing intensive Mobile Polar Highs - thus shifting the jetstream equatorward and Cold Airmasses meet the warmer wetter Equatorial Fronts creating snowfalls with warm/drier intervals between these Cold Fronta Zones | Northern
Hemisphere Snow Extent Second Highest on Record Only Folks who have never read Marcel Leroux's work would believe the ongoing European weather is a 'freak' pattern - and then there is Media Hyped Junk Science Natural Cycles - including the low solar activity are right on schedule |
2010 |
Southern Hemisphere | Killer Cold Waves affecting both livestock and people Argentina, Uruguay, Peru | In Peru,
Uruguay,
Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia |
| 2010 | Northern Hemisphere Summer Heatwave |
United
States, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Taiwan, China, North Africa and the
European continent, parts of Canada, Russia, Indochina, South Korea and
Japan = Droughts/Fires/Floods |
 |
| 2010 | North
America, Europe
India
and China |
Cold Winter, Lots of Snow and Ice - Coldest since 1985 or so... | Accuweather, Farmer's Almanac,
and on they
go... |
| 2009 | Global | Hacking of the computer files of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia has opened the doors to too many questions... | Previous
Decade's descriptions of the IPCC and it's Gamers - <http://www.congregator.net/articles/majordeception.html> Steve Schulin's statement about the recent letter to Senator's signed by 18 US 'scientific association heads' re CO2 - |
| 2009 | Finland | Timo
Niroma died - Starting a huge gap in our understanding of the Solar System's influences on Earth's Climate - |
His
final Update of his Work is found here - <http://personal.inet.fi/tiede/tilmari/sunspots.html#alert> |
| 2009 | New Mexico | John (Jack) Eddie Passes- June 14th - An Honest, Major Contributor to Astrophysics and Earth's Climate - WE ARE ALL Waiting for the 'Eddie Minimum' |
Connection Between the Earth's Climate and the Sun - Transcript of Historical 4/1/1999 AGU Interview OBITUARY |
| 2009 | Australia and Beyond | I was visited by Bob Foster - his wife and In-law Family - and we chatted about the Duel of Hypotheses Then lunch at Phil's Fish Market - then we came back to view the two hour Joseph Fletcher's 2000 21st Century Climate Forecast - Dr. Floor Anthony on the subject What is Happening to Our Sea |
Warwick
Hughs' Commentaries
on Media Science Vs Reality A note about the poorly recognized, long gone John Daly, and the mess that is today's sources of information - |
| 2009 | Global | June 5th - an important event in the global warming debate occurred, with the release of Climate Change Reconsidered, - an 880-page book produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. | |
| 2009 | Earth | Various Regions suffer record Cold/Snow/etc. while others enjoy Warm/Dry. | It
is another sign of the times - given the failure of IPCC GCM forecasts to match the ongoing changes - around the Globe - and it sure is not just about CO2 - |
| 2008 - 2009 | Earth | Cooling | Timo
Niroma's forecast
is closer - and ominous - given the potential for another minimum - and related climate cooling - |
| 2008 | Mars | Phoenix
Missions lands a smart probe on Mars -  |
NASA
News |
| 2008 | China, Sichuan Province |
7.9
Earthquake 6.0 Aftershock(s) |
News Media |
| 2008 | Southern
Chile \ and / Downstream |
Chaiten
Volcano Erupts |
News
- "There are 25 million to 30 million people that live very close to at least one of these potentially active volcanoes in the Andean Arc, including the cities of Quito and Santiago," said CU-Boulder geological sciences Professor Stern. "This is a good example of what could happen at any time in the region, and it is fortunate the Chaiten eruption is occurring in a pretty sparsely populated area." "The volcano went into a higher state of activity this morning," Stern. "What happens after today is anybody's guess." In addition to covering towns and villages and polluting air and water, the ash fall will undoubtedly affect agricultural and ranching activities, Stern said. "Because there is relatively little precipitation in the region of Patagonia east of the volcano, it will take a long time to naturally wash the ash from the landscape." Stern and Jose Naranjo of the National Service of Geology and Mining, who published a 2004 paper in the journal "Geology of Chile," used radiocarbon methods to date the last eruption of Chaiten and concluded the eruption generated layers of volcanic tephra on the surrounding landscape up to five feet thick. The same prehistoric eruption apparently created the two-mile-diameter crater where the current eruption is centered, the authors said. Stern said the possibility of the Chaiten volcano affecting Earth's climate is probably fairly low. "In to order to significantly affect the climate, a volcano has to put out a lot of sulfur dioxide aerosols into the stratosphere for an extended period, which then reflects sunlight away from the Earth," "Our data from Chaiten showed the last eruption was high in silica and low in sulfur." |
| 2008 | Myanmar/ Burma |
Cyclone Nargis | News UN rep says - Aid delivery will be a major logistic problem - It was and continues to be...  FAO |
| 2008 | Arctic | Return of the Arctic Sea Ice - Nothing New - Given the Information that Joseph Fletcher - died July 6th - shared with me over many years since we met back in 1986 - He had seen the Arctic ice cover shift from full to minimal coverage many times since he started flying over the Arctic in the 1940s - before setting up the 1st Ice-Island Observation Camps - Then there are the Comparisons of the Staellite data since 1989 - with earlier/longer data sets |
Canadian Ice Service The Cryosphere Today National Snow and Ice Data GODAE Polar Fiction Polar Bear Hearing: Armstrong Testimony Richard Glenn Testimony & Inhofe vs Al Gore |
| 2008 | Global | Despite
the Known
History of Global Warming - The Debate over AGW Consensus Goes On - and - On - and - So On! George Carlin Dies June 23 - But His Perspectives - Live On! |
Climate Change Facts Anyone? The IPCC Reviewed - There Are Real Issues - Around the Globe - BUT AGW is Way Down the List... Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat - Roy W. Spencer, Reid Bryson, one of Weather Forecasting's 'Fathers' - AGW Facts - & Fiction Cold Facts About GW |
| 2007/2008 | Global | La Niña | Updated
news About
Rossby Waves and Ocean Heat Transport Across
the Globe - per Eddies and Wave Dynamics in the
Indian Ocean - The basics of Todays Satellite Tracking of Upper Ocean Features - Andrew Dessler - dilemmas - in Physician - Heal Thyself |
| October 2007 | Nobel
Peace Prize - IPCC & Al Gore 'share the wealth' & Maybe the Nobel Fleece Prize? Grin - & Bear IT! |
Nobel
Ink: Announcement: Last Sentence: "Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control." John Christy - on IPCC's Level of Ignorance... Taipei News: Energy Bulletin: Bayou Buzz: Sydndey Morning Herald: William Gray - Speak UP! Christopher Monckton of Brenchley's 35 Errors in AIT: Maybe Windfarms will earn the Nobel Pox Prize? |
|
| 2007
- August |
USA | Steve McIntyre finds faults in the NASA/GISS US Temperature data used in James Hansen's repeated media over-estimations of recent Temperatures - Thus, given the NASA/GISS error these were not quite record temperatures and one wonders about the supposedly 'scary' - likely future scenarios... | Probably
the worst
example of the sort of 'over-statement' that the public continuously
faces - by Agency and Political folks who are immersed in the quest for
funding - rather than the Quest
for 'Truth'. My own family history is laden with 'facts' from the mid- 1930 Dustbowl days - when the farmers in North Texas, Kansas and eventually throughout the mid-west suffered huge droughts, extreme temperatures - etc. - All well documented in the film series by Pare Lorentz - The success of these projects led Roosevelt to establish the United States Film Service in 1938 under Lorentz' direction. The USFS was active until 1940, when Congress cut off its funding - per usual... Meanwhile - Hansen Gets Mugged - again - CO2 Science Critique of Hansen Testimony 4/2007 Muddling vs Modeling & What Causes What - Debate: |
| 2007 | Europe,
Great Britain/Scotland - and - East Africa - and - the Agulhas Current Shifts to creat a Warmer SE Coast - and the Fish Follow - |
Heavy Weather and Flooding WARNINGS OF SURPRISE FLOODS which the Met Office wouldn't see coming issued by Weather Action 4 days before the floods. - Wet period 12th-14th June first forecast by Weather Action 6 months ahead. - 16th-19th June will be finer than Met Office say. - Another serious deluge with dramatic thunderstorms 24th-26th June. |
I
knew floods were coming: Other Comments from GB Elgin UK Flood History Forres UK Flood History Rothes Scots Flood History Meanwhile, back at the Mill - The Environment Agency spokesman Anthony Perry said: "We have not seen flooding of this magnitude before. The benchmark was 1947 and this has already exceeded it." What about those earlier Floods that set all the real records??? Then, we find that in East Africa - Sunspot abundance linked to heavy rains ... intense rainfall in the region often leads to flooding and disease outbreaks. The analysis by a team of U.S. and British researchers shows that unusually heavy rainfalls in East Africa over the past century preceded peak sunspot activity by about one year. Because periods of peak sunspot activity, known as solar maxima, are predictable, the researchers propose - so too are the associated heavy rains that precede them. |
| 2007 | Pacific Basin - "Ring of Fire" and Beyond |
The Earth
has about 10 earthquakes greater than magnitude 5 every day - BUT... Lunar Eclipse & Earthquakes, etc. Here are the dates of full lunar eclipses from 2001 to 2007 2001 Jan 09 2003 May 16 2003 Nov 09 2004 May 04 2004 Oct 28 2007 Mar 03 When to Expect the Next Lunar Eclipse |
Mitch Battros Earth Changes Media August 6, 2007 NASA StarrySkies - What is a Lunar Eclipse? |
| 2007 | Global | The News Media is Finally
Letting Go of the One-Way Global Warming-Think that has been ongoing
for over a decade - You can finally get some facts and opinions that are Not Deadly The upcoming IPCC 2007 Report - well disguised... but not all science. |
Nir Shaviv
takes on the IPCC science - and basis of their
doom-and-gloom scenarios. James Hansen's Congressional Testimony on Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: Takes Gas from experts who work at Separating Scientific Fact from Personal Opinion When Will Media Report the Kyoto Carbon Con? Media Ignore Al Gore’s Financial Ties to Global Warming Ernst Beck's Presentation on the History of CO2 David Archibald's .pdf - Failure To Warm Presentation: |
| 2007 | Global | Extensive interests in the ongoing changes in oceanographic conditions along with many other issues have caused a lot of changes recently in the availability and thus web-site development... | Real
Time Analyses of SSTs While Anomalies were of great interest - they seems to have become harder to find - The Japanese website here is working away on these issues. Higher resolution aspects of these data are offered by the GODAE Pilot Project And then there is Cloud Cover - the major interference with SST satellite measurements IPCC et al Know what is Needed - But - When ??? |
| 2007 | Asilomar, Monterey Bay | 23rd Pacific Climate
Conference May 13-16 |
The
Announcement/Schedule
and - Proceedings, abstracts and eventual CD with all of the material
will appear in about two years - as the documents are completed, and
funding appears. |
| 2007 | Washington DC | April 17th Congressional Hearing - Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans: “Wildlife and Oceans in a Changing Climate” |
My Invitation:
Congressional Committee Hearing site: My own Testimony: My Answers to the Follow-up Questions: Some interesting links to John Everett's various websites: UN Ocean Atlas - Climate Change Facts: Fortunately, I did not have to pay my own way to and from - Thank You! Marshall Institute. Some Very Useful,
and up to date insights into the Ocean Acidification Issue:
<http://oceanacidification.wordpress.com/><http://www.ocean-acidification.net/> <http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/> Lots to Learn...
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| 2007 | Global |
NCAR's Michael H Glantz
Updates the Perspectives on El
Niño/La
Niña & ENSO
The US Climate
Prediction center provides the SOI
values since 1950 -
While Australia's CSIRO have SOI data back into the 1860s - The fundamental message as I read these records - "Never the same Twice" |
"The Potential Use and Misuse of El Niño Information in North America" |
| 2007 | Global | News Media Nightmare
Generation HYPE & SPIN Rather Than FACTS |
CO2
& Other GHG Nir Shavir - CONSequences March 2007 Senate hearing - Gore Vs EveryFact - Fluorocarbons & SFl6 NAS Science Museum Weather and Climate |
| 2006 | Pacific Basin | Western USA has delayed
winter- and 130-150% precipitation then Early ENSO Warm Event - weak version |
Unusually wet and
resulting oceanographic consequences puzzle Scientists - OSU Marine
Science Center
|
| 2006 | Black Sea | Continuous Changes | Ascherson, N. Black Sea. 1998 - Sorokin Yu.I. Black Sea Ecology and Oceanography. (2002) - Zaitsev Yu., Mamaev V. 1997 Biological Diversity in the Black Sea: A study of change and decline. |
|
2006 |
Remembering Global Cooling? |
Media Hype - More and More... Senator
Inhofe is called
names for being careful...
James Hansen's claim about 'Censorship' makes headlines - Why? Then there was the Great debate over What Hurricanes are All About... mostly confused by those just recently starting to look into Tropical oceans and their influences... Hansen and others make claims about Global Warming that Other Real Experts just don't Buy - In fact, They debunk much of the mythology promoted in Gore's Hansenesque Movie... |
NCAR's
Solar Activity Model results are Posted
And
NASA's Forecast for the same period They are simply opposites. And as The ESA/NASA SOHO Program calms down - Paal Brekke is back in Norway - working toward the future monitoring of the Sun, et al... As we near the end of 2006 -
75 year old William Gray, Premier Hurricane Forecaster makes his point! Despite FSU's Grant for developing a Hurricane Forecast Model - We will be losing Direction as folks like James O'Brien Retire - as their past efforts have been very substantial, and informative... And then there are those Media folks: MaryAnn Johanson's "I've Been Gored" |
|
2006 |
San Francisco, not Alaska? |
EXXON-Mobile Corp was actively urging a federal appeals court to erase the $5Billion in damages an Alaska jury awarded those affected by the 1989 Valdez Oil Spill. |
News |
|
2006 |
LEGACIES, GLOBAL & Otherwhere |
20 years after Challenger's Cold Day Catastrophe, NASA GISS claims the warmest January for the USA - But February in the east tells another tale. |
History, before my own eyes... Hansen's Courtroom Roots
|
|
2005 |
Global Means Mean ??? |
Multiple Claims of Warmest or As Warm As - The gory details: Or Maybe... Just More Media Babble Canadian Climatologist, Tim Ball, pointed out that these results are based on insufficient sample points given what we know about regional climate differences. As H.H.Lamb noted you can have completely different trends for as much as 100 years in different regions. There are several levels of climate variation - with geography being a major contextual variable. |
Tim Ball <timothyball@shaw.ca>
Arthur Rorsch of Nederlands looked at the records for De Bildt and found the 2000 Mean =10.9 oC; 2002 =10.8 oC ; 2005 10.7 oC. This is a temperature decrease of 0.2 oC. If one considers the fact
that over the past century the temperature rose by 0.8 oC, then it
means that 25 % of the rise has been eliminated since the warmest year
1998. |
|
2005 |
Europe - Nederlands southward into Italy |
"A
record snow storm at the first weekend of Advent has plunged parts of
[Germany's] The winter storm was caused by a low pressure zone over Western Europe, which brought the most sudden drop in air pressure in decades - the backside of another Leroux MPH, of course. |
In case you have no idea what a Leroux MPH is - find and read! - Leroux, Marcel, Global Warming: Myth or Reality? 540 p., Hardcover ISBN:3-540-23909-X. Springer-Praxis books |
|
2005 |
Polar Glaciers |
James Hansen and others make claims about Greenland glacier shrinkages that simply do not correspond with known expansions on the upper levels, and ignore fundamentals of glacier dynamics, e.g., when it snows on top, and is cold, the pressures tend to force 'shedding' along the edges... |
Science,
20 October 2005 European
Space Agency, 4 November 2005 - ESA
SATELLITE SURVEY SHOWS GROWTH OF GREENLAND ICE SHEETS Dr. Patrick Michaels takes a long hard look at Antarctic records - and comments of short-term records and related claims... GLOBAL WARMING MIGHT BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH - The Ottawa Citizen, 14 February 2006 The common cold season is now shorter, researchers say. reports Tom Spears, The Ottawa Citizen Of course we hear, and even learn more about Flu \Pandemics every day - even about 1918's real source... |
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2005 |
North America |
Another interesting link about what is ongoing in
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News |
|
October 2005 |
Pakistan, India and surrounding mountain areas |
7.6 Richter Scale
Earthquake levels neighborhoods, public schools, and isolated suburban regions. |
News |
|
2005 Hurricane Season from Hell! |
Gulf Coast, from New Orleans Inland across Mississippi, Alabama, and points NE |
Just 6 weeks after hurricane Denis erased much of Florida's panhandle coastline, and wandered onshore - Katrina wreaks havoc - flattens coastline, homes, and unplugs the levees - decades overdue for restructuring - flooding entire communities - no power - no water, no information from inside or outside or help from FEMA for days to weeks - and Then Came WILMA! - washed out Cancun resorts and The Keys, then turned the lights off in southern Florida |
NBC News Casters ventured before the storm to New Orleans, (Louisiana's official gov website) with only some making it into the more devastated areas in Mississippi, and Alabama some days after the storm. Roffer's Fishery Forecast provides a view of the Mississippi Plume Disaster Response/Relief Management was at its worst. The Blame game continues, but Bush bares his chest. (google on 'failure' for an excellent evaluation of 'W' - before and after) |
|
2005 |
Equatorial Troposphere MSU Vs Surface Satellite Data |
Willis Eschenbach composed and forwarded this message to John Christy, Roy Spencer and the other folks involved with the MSU project - An artifact of the diurnal correction applied to LT has been discovered by Carl Mears and Frank Wentz (Remote Sensing Systems). This artifact contributed an error term in certain types of diurnal cycles, most noteably in the tropics. "We have applied a new diurnal correction based on 3 AMSU instruments and call the dataset v5.2. This artifact does not appear in MT or LS. The new global trend from Dec 1978 to July 2005 is +0.123 C/decade, or +0.035 C/decade warmer than v5.1. This particular error is within the published margin of error for LT of +/- 0.05 C/decade (Christy et al. 2003). We (thank Carl and Frank for digging into our procedure and discovering this error. All radiosonde comparisons have been rerun and the agreement is still exceptionally good. There was virtually no impact of this error outside of the tropics. |
Mears, C.A., and F.J. Wentz, 2005: The effect of diurnal correction on satellite-derived lower tropospheric temperature.
as of August 11, all online at http://www.scienceexpress.org. Roy Spencer, one of the original scientists concerned with the MSU/Surface data set disagreements posted a useful background statement on Techcentralstation on August 11: "Some
Convergence of Global Warming Estimates" "Since
we (UAH) had already been working on a new diurnal adjustment
technique, based upon the newer and more powerful AMSUs that have been
flying since 1998, we rushed our new method to completion recently, and
implemented new corrections. ... the UAH global temperature trends for
the period 1979 to the present have increased from +0.09 to +0.12 deg.
C/decade -- still below the RSS estimate of +0.19 deg. C/decade. |
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2005 |
Northeastern Pacific |
Unseasonably warm water has resulted in a very low zooplankton production throughout the spring and early summer, causing considerable concern over cause, and likely consequences. |
The ECOHAB-PNW (Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms Pacific Northwest) cruise is part of a federally funded effort to determine the environmental factors that make the Washington and British Columbia a hot bed of toxic marine diatoms of the genus Pseudo-nitzschia. |
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2005 |
Wall Street Journal |
Kyoto by Degrees - editorial June 21, 2005; Page A16 Feb. 14, 2005 article by Antonio Regalado |
Online Wall Street Journal Editorial Article by Antonio Regalado HOCKEY GAME CALLED! Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit, 20 July 2005 - Further Comments |
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June 2005 |
Central Europe and Southward
and then there is Australia... |
Serious increases in Pole to Equator winds (& MobilePolar Highs) associated with the Climate Regime Shift that was initiated in 1998-99 - have delivered Cold and Wet to regions that have not seen it for a longwhile. Unseasonably cold June brings 16 inches of snow to the Alps -"heavy snows block mountain passes in Austria and Croatia - IN JUNE - and Somalia just had its first recorded snow fall." Recent
events: Crisis amongst wannabe 'fortune tellers' who try to tie AGW to recent events, from Tsunamis to Hurricanes - What a Mess! |
News Media reports
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June 2005 |
Northeast US Coast - Massachusetts Bay and Spreading |
Red Tide Blooms as Cold surface waters enter the Region from the north, associated with the Cold, Wet Winter, and enhanced pollution. |
News and |
|
2005 |
Arctic Ocean Heat Pulse tracked from North Atlantic |
One instrument record, retreived in 2004 by Igor Dmitrenko and a few other scientists, from a mooring located north of the Laptev Sea a few hundred miles off the coast of Siberia and about 150 meters (492 feet) below the ocean surface, recorded a jump in water temperature of 0.4 degrees Celsius on a February day as a column of warm water flooded past the instrument... Recently Igor Polyakov, a Russian scientist, contacted oceanographers from around the world to backtrack the water on its path into the high Arctic. |
Review in September 2005 of the Arctic ice records from 1973 -2002 by John McLean "Warm Atlantic Water
Heads North" |
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May 2005 |
The most recent review of the Earth's Climate System, what to expect, and how to proceed, in a realistic, scientific mode. |
Marcel
Leroux takes a
hard look at the reality of the greenhouse effect, He poses the 'heretical'
question if warming may be considered a benefit in some regions. |
Leroux, Marcel, Global Warming: Myth or Reality? 540 p., Hardcover ISBN: 3-540-23909-X. Springer-Praxis books |
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2005 vs Prior Epochs |
Global |
Recent Media Focus often Distorts Perspectives, given Historical Information, particularly regarding Natural Events - and Social Consequences A timely article in EOS, 04/01/05 weekly report from the American Geophysical Union by Chao (NASA) and Gross (JPL) point out that the Sumatra Event was the 4th largest of the last Century, but had a negligible effect on Earth's Rotation Rate (LOD) - despite Media Hype, and the fact that most of our monitoring technology is not up to the required sensitivity levels. |
International Earth Rotation and reference System's Service (IERS) website for Special Bureau for Mantle observations are recorded (21,600+ major earthquakes with R>5 since 1977). |
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January, 2005 |
Scandanavia, Northern Europe, Western USA |
Mobile Polar Highs encounter warm wet sources, and these regions are now cold, wet, and windy. The strength of the storm over Scandanavia et al has been compared to the one that occured in 1969 After
years of relative drought, some places |
News What is a Mobile Polar High? Well, they are huge Polar Atmospheric Subsidence Events that control the Earth's major energy transport, as they sweep from the Polar source, across continents, into and over oceans, affecting the locations, directions and intensities of the various Trade-Winds - causing vast Cooling Events, storms, and other phenomena - The Linked example occurred April 7, 2005 More Info see Marcel Leroux, 1998, "Dynamic Analysis of Weather and Climate" Wiley/Praxis. NASA Imagery of North Africa Snowstorm 1/26-28/05 |
|
2005 |
Dark Days Dominate the New Year! Sumatra - Then spread throughout the Indian Ocean |
9.0 Richter Earthquake
Sumatra releases another historical Tsunami - and devastation proceeds. |
Official USGS Earthquake Hazards Posting- Description NASA's View of Earth's Changes A fuller description of the Processeses Involved
Catastrophe's Warning
Signs Went Unheeded What Noone Really Wants to See... |
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January 5, 2005 |
Australia |
According to oday's news - Australia's mean temperature in 2004 was 0.4 degrees above the 1961-90 average. The report claims that this makes it the seventh warmest year on record but the Bureau of Meteorology website and then the "sorted Data Set" option) shows it to be the tenth warmest. |
It was also reported that the WMO says that mean temperatures in 2004 were 0.44 degrees warmer than the 61-90 average and this makes it the fourth hottest year on record. In 1998 the anomaly was 0.54 degrees so One (John McLean and I) wonders if this decrease to 0.44 is also part of a trend of decreasing temperatures. |
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January 4, 2005 |
New Zealand |
"December chill the worst for 59 years" "Snow, frost, hail and a tornado marked the first month of summer, with the coldest temperatures recorded in December since 1945." |
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January 4, 2005 |
US Senate |
Senator James M. Inhofe |
Comments defining the Arctic - based on George Taylor's Report on Arctic Climate |
| December 30, 2004 | United Arab Emirates | This time on the Arabian peninsula received snow for the first time IN THEIR RECORDED HISTORY. |
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