Vincent Vega
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
Copenhagen is a wonderful city. bountiful public transport, an attractive, bike-riding populace. i think you'd love it, INDY.
I think he would settle in Christiania and never want to move again.
Copenhagen is a wonderful city. bountiful public transport, an attractive, bike-riding populace. i think you'd love it, INDY.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.
bountiful public transport, an attractive, bike-riding populace. i think you'd love it, INDY.
I probably would love it as that actually describes my hometown pretty well. In fact they even made a big-time-Hollywood movie about a bike race that takes place here every April.
Why not refer to the actual Q&A sessions instead?
BBC News - Q&A: Professor Phil Jones
BBC News - 'Climategate' expert Jones says data not well organised
As usual, the actual comments by Jones are a lot more nuanced and hardly a U-turn on anything.
Nobody's cutting Jones any slack, not even himself if you read the q&a. Do take into consideration that Jones said we're still dealing with a warming trend which can't be explained by natural processes. Hardly a U-turn.
N - When scientists say "the debate on climate change is over", what exactly do they mean - and what don't they mean?
It would be supposition on my behalf to know whether all scientists who say the debate is over are saying that for the same reason. I don't believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this. This is not my view. There is still much that needs to be undertaken to reduce uncertainties, not just for the future, but for the instrumental (and especially the palaeoclimatic) past as well.
D - Do you agree that natural influences could have contributed significantly to the global warming observed from 1975-1998, and, if so, please could you specify each natural influence and express its radiative forcing over the period in Watts per square metre.
This area is slightly outside my area of expertise. When considering changes over this period we need to consider all possible factors (so human and natural influences as well as natural internal variability of the climate system). Natural influences (from volcanoes and the Sun) over this period could have contributed to the change over this period. Volcanic influences from the two large eruptions (El Chichon in 1982 and Pinatubo in 1991) would exert a negative influence. Solar influence was about flat over this period. Combining only these two natural influences, therefore, we might have expected some cooling over this period.
"These findings show that stratospheric water vapour represents an important driver of decadal global surface climate change," the scientists say. They say it should lead to a "closer examination of the representation of stratospheric water vapour changes in climate models".
Solomon said it was not clear why the water vapour levels had swung up and down, but suggested it could be down to changes in sea surface temperature, which drives convection currents and can move air around in the high atmosphere.
She said it was not clear if the water vapour decrease after 2000 reflects a natural shift, or if it was a consequence of a warming world. If the latter is true, then more warming could see greater decreases in water vapour, acting as a negative feedback to apply the brakes on future temperature rise.
The £8billion pension fund is likely to come under close scrutiny over its commitment to promote a low-carbon economy while struggling to reverse an estimated £2billion deficit.
Concerns are growing that BBC journalists and their bosses regard disputed scientific theory that climate change is caused by mankind as “mainstream” while huge sums of employees’ money is invested in companies whose success depends on the theory being widely accepted.
I'll throw a brick through his window for you.Those poor scientists at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have really got a job ahead of them in that case. Micheal Mann's "trick" to hide the decline of global temps may not cut it any more.
I'll throw a brick through his window for you.
As an aside, the university cleared him on most of the allegations.
As hoaxes go,
I guess we will have to put 'global warming' up there with the 'shroud of Turin'.
Which I'm aware of, but I still think it's just deniers in a frenzy over the fact that Michael Mann isn't, in fact, Satan. Trust me, I got approached by of the petitioners.Which is also a controversy since Penn state did the review of itself.
Rally for Academic Integrity | Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus
Los Angeles Times | Sept. 27, 2010 | 1:17 p.m.
Record-breaking 113 degrees in downtown L.A.
Today is the hottest day ever recorded in downtown L.A. At 12:15 p.m., the weather station at USC hit the 113-degree mark, breaking the old all-time high of 112, set on June 26, 1990.
It makes today the hottest day since records in downtown L.A. started being kept in 1877, said Stuart Seto of the National Weather Service.
More at: 113 degrees in downtown? L.A. broils with triple-digit temperatures [Updated] | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times
hottest day ever!!!!
global warming is for real, end of discussion
hottest day ever!!!!
global warming is for real, end of discussion
By John Antczak, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — No need to root around the closet for sweaters and jackets: Californians never really put them away this year.
"The invisible summer, seamless from spring to fall," said Bill Patzert, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies the role of oceans in the global climate.
In Los Angeles, the last full day of summer passed Tuesday under the gloom of a deep marine layer — the low clouds and fog that put a damper on many beach excursions and made a dip in the surf bracing.
"The ocean never warmed," Patzert said.
The cause was a stalled jet stream pattern in the Northern Hemisphere that created a semi-permanent trough of low pressure from Alaska to southern Baja California, Mexico, and kept the entire west coast of North America cool, Patzert said.
Not everyone complained as the trend knocked the upper end off normal daytime summer highs in the inland regions miles from the coast.
"It wasn't the coolest summer ever, that's for sure, but in a warming world, it was a little gift from the weather gods," Patzert said.
Summer began on June 21, a month that was warmer than average but ended with below-normal temperatures, according to the California state climatologist's office.
July's statewide average temperature was a hair above average and included a heat wave, but the climatologist's summary suggested the more important weather event was a persistent onshore flow of ocean air and a deep marine layer that dropped temperatures below normal in coastal regions, setting some records.
"This experience was in stark contrast to other parts of the U.S. and world that experienced record-setting heat in July," the climate summary said.
August's statewide average was cooler-than-normal despite a record-setting heat wave, and the month ended with a significant low-pressure system that even raised concerns that backcountry hikers in the Sierra Nevada might be caught unprepared by a summer snowfall.
September has continued to see cool temperatures. Tuesday's high in downtown Los Angeles was 13 degrees below normal at 70.
Patzert, who studies the ocean warming and cooling phenomena known as El Nino and La Nina, said a strong La Nina is developing but was not responsible for the cool summer.
La Ninas are marked by cold water filling the tropical Pacific and are linked to drought in the Southwest.
"La Nina really has its impact in the fall and the winter on the rainfall," Patzert said. "It's not really a big forecaster of anything during the summer."
Fall begins Wednesday night. Ironically, the National Weather Service forecast the beginning of an extended period of warm, dry weather in California by the weekend as the ridge of high pressure that has dominated the Midwest and East through the summer moves west.
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But that's just me.