I'm starting to call these things “heat polluters” when it comes to climate change. They certainly contaminate the temperature record. I don't think scientists consider the heat they produce in the historical temperature record and in climate models. While it's good to consider the pollution effects of ash plumes, etc., the effect of the heat … Continue reading Role of Intense Heat From Volcanoes Needs Consideration in Climate Change/Global Warming
Month: June 2018
Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 176 – 2018
Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier
By Paul Homewood
From National Science Foundation:
June 27, 2018
Tracing a chemical signature of helium in seawater, an international team of scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has discovered a previously unknown volcanic hotspot beneath the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
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Sea level rise: isostatic adjustment
by Judith Curry
A discussion thread to ponder the uncertainties in glacial isostatic adjustment and the implications for past and future sea level rise.
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2018 Update: Fossil Fuels ≠ Global Warming
Previous posts addressed the claim that fossil fuels are driving global warming. This post updates that analysis with the latest (2017) numbers from BP Statistics and compares World Fossil Fuel Consumption (WFFC) with three estimates of Global Mean Temperature (GMT). More on both these variables below.
WFFC
2017 statistics are now available from BP for international consumption of Primary Energy sources. 2018 Statistical Review of World Energy.
The reporting categories are:
Oil
Natural Gas
Coal
Nuclear
Hydro
Renewables (other than hydro)
This analysis combines the first three, Oil, Gas, and Coal for total fossil fuel consumption world wide. The chart below shows the patterns for WFFC compared to world consumption of Primary Energy from 1965 through 2017.
The graph shows that Primary Energy consumption has grown continuously for 5 decades. Over that period oil, gas and coal (sometimes termed “Thermal”) averaged 89% of PE consumed, ranging from 94% in 1965 to…
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Intolerable Cruelty: Rocketing RE Power Costs Punishing Poorest & Most Vulnerable
Energy poverty was once synonymous with dirt-poor Third World countries. Now, thanks to an obsession with subsidised wind and solar, it’s part and parcel of life at the bottom in the First World, too.
As winter starts to bite across Australia, the working poor, unemployed and pensioners face an anxious battle between being frozen to death now or being ultimately crushed by crippling power bills, later. The ‘choice’ is literally down to heat or eat.
The majority of homes in Australia are equipped with reverse cycle air-conditioning and their owners use the heating cycle to keep warm in winter.
The poorest households tend to rely upon extremely inefficient electric radiators or blow heaters (and, short of that, scruffy blankets and kerosene heaters).
With power prices rocketing out of control, middle-class suburbs are now drenched in a pall of woodsmoke, as householders keep warm using scavenged timber.
It’s like stepping…
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The EFFECT MUST always FOLLOW the CAUSE; Climate Alarmists Fail Science 101
Why the Sun Controls the Climate and CO2 is Meaningless
Blame California’s Crazy Left-Wing Politics For Water Rationing
By Jarrett Stepman ~
California suffers from droughts, but the state’s government is an endless well of bad ideas.
The latest absurd legislation, which Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed into law, places onerous restrictions on water usage.
California citizens will be limited to using 55 gallons of water a day now and just 50 per day by 2030.
California has turned to water restriction to solve its drought problem. However, this won’t fix the underlying issue of recurring droughts. (Photo: Ingram Publishing/Newscom)
According to the San Jose Mercury News, the new laws will “require cities, water districts and large agricultural water districts to set strict annual water budgets, face fines of $1,000 per day if they don’t meet them, and $10,000 a day during drought emergencies.”
As some have noted, the restriction could make it difficult for some California citizens to do laundry and take a shower on…
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100 Days ago The End of the World Was Near
100 days ago the arctic was so hot (but still 10C below freezing) the world was going to end.
The greenline is normal. The blueline is 0C – freezing.
Not so much now. It is slightly below normal … and has been normal for 75 days.
And it is now suspiciously quiet.
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