on 06-11-2013 09:45 AM
In January of this year, the state of Texas unleashed Tea Party looney bird Ted Cruz to wreak havoc on the nation, and believe it or not, there may be someone worse than he is who could end up as the other senator from Texas a year from now.
David Barton is an evangelical Christian minister who believes that separation of state and church is a “myth”, evolution should not be taught in school, the government should regulate gay sex, schools turn kids gay, the bible opposes the minimum wage, and that people should legally be able to own bazookas, tanks and fighter planes. He has been urged to challenge incumbent senator John Cornyn by Glenn Beck and is, of course, a Tea Party darling.
Barton, in a discussion with snake oil salesman televangelist Kenneth Copeland, comes to the conclusion that abortion is behind global warming and the accompanying crazy weather patterns. They come up with this brilliant explanation by this head-scratching sequence of events…
First, God got mad at us for voting in pro-choice politicians.
Then, with God **bleep** off and wanting to unleash his anger on us, He “opened the door to the curse,” which led to a barrage of floods, tornadoes, murder and pedophilia.
And unlike in the old days when our ancestors would get together and pray for repentance when bad weather struck them, now we just call it global warming and don’t kneel down and pray every time a strong wind gust or blast of thunder is unleashed on us.
on 07-11-2013 10:37 PM
@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:
The more literate know that even the creators of the UAH Satellite, (who make the graph) discuss the "pause" or "warming hiatus" that
Bolt refers too....... Bolt is spot on................The article-------ridiculous alarmist rubbish..........
giggle........
A pause does not negate the overiding trend shown on the graph.
Bolt = idiotic, right wing garbage.
on 07-11-2013 10:49 PM
@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:
The more literate know that even the creators of the UAH Satellite, (who make the graph) discuss the "pause" or "warming hiatus" that Bolt refers too.......
Bolt does also refer to stuff.
on 08-11-2013 07:22 AM
The IPCC like to ignore the 16 year "pause" as well Buzz, because it doesn't help your Alarmist point of view does it?
"... more recent period of time, say since the record warm year of 1998, one could say that it has cooled in the last 10-12 years"...
(Dr Roy Spencer)
You should probably ignore that too....since co2 is at a record high.............
Dr Roy Spencer is one of the few people in the world with the credentials to comment on the Climate..
Dr. Spencer received his B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1980 and 1982. He then continued at the University of Wisconsin through 1984 in the Space Science and Engineering Center as a research scientist. He joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in 1984, where he later became Senior Scientist for Climate Studies. He resigned from NASA in 2001 and joined the Univeristy of Alabama in Huntsville as a Principal Research Scientist.
Dr. Spencer has served as Pricipal Investigator on the Global Precipitation Studies with Nimbus-7 and DMSP SSM/I, and the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer High Altitude Studies of Precipitation Systems. He has been a member of several science teams: the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Space Station Accommodations Analysis Study Team, Science Steering Group for TRMM, TOVS Pathfinder Working Group, NASA Headquarters Earth Science and Applications Advisory Subcommittee, and two National Research Council study panels.
Since 1992 Dr. Spencer has been the U.S. Team Leader for the Multichannel Imaging Microwave Radiometer (MIMR) team and the follow-on AMSR-E team. In 1994 he became the AMSR-E Science Team leader.
He received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1991, the MSFC Center Director’s Commendation in 1989, and the American Meteorological Society’s Special Award in 1996.
Bolt is probably more interested in the opinion of the likes of Dr Roy Spencer (above) and Dr John Christy (who
are qualified in Climatology)...... and not rantings of (unqualified) hysterical Alarmists.
Kudos to you Bolt.
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on 08-11-2013 09:32 AM
on 08-11-2013 09:42 AM
The more hi-rise buildings & sealed roads & concrete in a city the hotter it will get.
Airports by nature of their construction and the discharge of turbine exhausts are
also local hotspots.
Incidentaly most local temps are being taken at airports these days.
on 08-11-2013 10:02 AM
@spotweldersfriend wrote:
Cooling down. That's so funny :-D.Hobart 42c and Sydney 46c last summer.:-)
Europe is cooling down
on 08-11-2013 10:04 AM
"... more recent period of time, say since the record warm year of 1998, one could say that it has cooled in the last 10-12 years"...(Dr Roy Spencer) Who just happened to select a 1998 record El Niño warming event for the selected period. Is that where you obtained your somewhat erroneous comment some while ago SRBA, which I post again (*plus giggle):
SRBA: "So...... how come the temperature has dropped.......giggle........"
"We still haven't matched the temperatures of 1998..."
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.txt
NASA Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (C) (Anomaly with Base: 1951-1980)
Year Annual 5-year
Mean Mean
1997 0.46 0.45
1998 0.61 0.44
1999 0.40 0.48
2000 0.41 0.51
2001 0.53 0.51
2002 0.62 0.53
2003 0.60 0.58
2004 0.52 0.60
2005 0.66 0.60
2006 0.59 0.58
2007 0.62 0.59
2008 0.49 0.59
2009 0.59 0.58
2010 0.66 0.57
2011 0.55 *
2012 0.56 *
2013 * *
1998 annual mean was warm (spike) due to a El Niño event, but in annual mean it was exceeded in 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2010. However, if one takes the more meaningful 5 year_Mean, every year after 1998 has a greater (+) temperature anomaly from the 1998 and the 1951-1980 base.
The same Spencer:
"Spencer is a signatory to An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming, which states that "Earth and its ecosystems – created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting"
Spencer: "I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world"
Actually minority nuts like Spencer and Monkton (media focused junkies) are useful in this debate, because their ridiculous claims/comments serve to underwrite the majority findings of the world's scientific bodies.
"A new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists (2010) finds the past year was tied for the second warmest since 1880. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year on record."
"January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record."
As Spencer is also a quasi creationist nut, he would/should be limiting his available datasets chronology period to just 6000 years.
nɥºɾ
on 08-11-2013 10:38 AM
Andrew Renta view uses sources to back his arguments that he himself has no faith in. In the states, people like Alex jones are fringe loonies.. in Australia his local equivalent Bolty has been carefully positioned as mainstream, this is not an accident . i wonder where the money comes from ? its a fact that channel ten took a major revenue hit having to cancel Video Hits (it was in fact one of the few timeslots making money) for The bolt Report' Ms Rinehart promised the board she would make up the shortfall, but last i heard was resisting doing so. He is a pawn of the mining and energy conglomerates.. his ass is theirs.
on 08-11-2013 10:52 AM
C04: "The more hi-rise buildings & sealed roads & concrete in a city the hotter it will get.
Airports by nature of their construction and the discharge of turbine exhausts are
also local hotspots.
Incidentaly most local temps are being taken at airports these days."
What codswallop. Airports are prefered for weather observation sites, whilst built up areas do have recognised problems which are largely allowed for by homogenisation.
A good reference source is this excellent BOM pdf document:
Techniques involved in developing the Australian
Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air
Temperature (ACORN-SAT) dataset
http://www.cawcr.gov.au/publications/technicalreports/CTR_049.pdf
Excerpt:
Over time, there has been a general trend towards moving sites away from built-up areas. This
has been driven by a number of factors, including the decreased role of post offices and the
increased role of airports in the observing network, and the increasing recognition of the
importance of having good network representation in non-urban environments.
nɥºɾ
08-11-2013 12:24 PM - edited 08-11-2013 12:25 PM
Who did you quote MM?
What are their credentials in Climatology.?.....