Mann’s Climate Madhouse Effect

Actually, it’s the alarmism that is doing it. You have kids who are afraid to drink water for fear of causing drought.

Watts Up With That?

From Mike Mann’s Facebook page:

Cover of my new book w/ Tom Toles due out in September, “The ‪#‎MadHouseEffect‬: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying our Politics, and Driving us Crazy”

I’d say when it comes to being driven crazy, it’s too late for Dr. Mann, because Barack O’Bama says:

It’s the heat, not the humility, apparently. Mann’s book will likely be a howler, not because it will be funny, but because Mann’s so dead pan humorless, his attempt at being humorous will likely backfire just as badly as his attempts to conjure statistically significant warming trends from dead trees. He’ll need more than just “Mike’s Nature Trick” to pull that off.  I’m sure he’ll take some potshots at all the usual players, including Mark Stein, and maybe yours truly.

Meanwhile, Mann already has the book on his curriculum vitae, even though it’s…

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Ontario Spent 170 million to Convert a Coal Power Plant to burn Norwegian Wood Pellets

Uninformed or ignorant? If they did their research, they’d find it actually pollutes *more*.

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Ontario has shut down its coal power plants. One of those coal power plants was Atikokan. What OPG decided to do (because they needed dispatchable power) was to convert the plant to biomass. And that biomass was wood pellets. Not just any wood pellets. It was “Advanced Biomass”.

Advanced biomass has been treated to withstand exposure to rain, and has handling and storage properties similar to those of coal. It is still in the early stages of development, which is why OPG purchases advanced biomass fuel from Norway.

Before we get to CO2 and squandering hundreds of millions to change from one fuel you burn to anther fuel you burn …. you may ask yourself why you need to make wood pellets waterproof.

Wet biomass catches on fire. Or explodes.

Biomass fuel has a wide range of possible refuse items: pellets, chip logs, forestry, sewage sludge, methane…

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Claim: Fossil Fuels Cause Global Warming

Science Matters

Recently I addressed this claim by referring to this chart produced by scientists from AARI.

Figure 5.1. Comparative dynamics of the World Fuel Consumption (WFC) and Global Surface Air Temperature Anomaly (ΔT), 1861-2000. The thin dashed line represents annual ΔT, the bold line—its 13-year smoothing, and the line constructed from rectangles—WFC (in millions of tons of nominal fuel) (Klyashtorin and Lyubushin, 2003). Source: Frolov et al. 2009

In their commentary, it is clear why the data does not support claiming fossil fuels cause global warming.  From Frolov et al. 2009:

The WFC curve shows an exponential increase, which doubles approximately every 30 years, increasing 25-fold since the middle of the nineteenth century. The global air temperature anomaly curve shows a positive trend of +0.06°C/10 years (Sonechkin et al., 1997). At the same time, there are cyclic changes with periods of about 60 years. The correlation between these curves changes its…

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