“Cancun: the rationing rationalizing“. Another snide post from Anthony Watts about environmental awareness activities at the UN COP16 climate conference in Cancun. Whatever.
Cancun: the rationing rationalizing
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Greenpeace’s Free Climate Pedometers at COP16
“Greenpeace’s Free Climate Pedometers at COP16“. Another snide post from Anthony Watts about environmental awareness activities at the UN COP16 climate conference in Cancun. Whatever.
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What really goes on at COP16 in Cancun
“What really goes on at COP16 in Cancun“. Hey, there are amateur environmentalist PR events at the COP16 UN climate conference in Cancun! I though amateurs were the best scientists around. Why is Anthony sneering now?
Of course its politics that really motivate Anthony Watts’ readers, so they dig in with gusto.
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Tempest in a teapot: International team of scientists describes swirling natural phenomena
“Tempest in a teapot: International team of scientists describes swirling natural phenomena“. There’s nothing as quite as fun as making ignorant fun of scientists, is there Anthony? In this post Anthony Watts draws attention to scientists using swirling fluids to model vortices. How crazy is that?
Anthony only refers to a press release and chooses to illustrate his post with a photo of a tea-cup. His commenters continue the downward intellectual journey.
The actual paper in Physical Review Letters, titled Finite-Size Effects Lead to Supercritical Bifurcations in Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, used laboratory cylinders to model circulation. From the press release:
Ahlers and his team discovered a new unexpected phenomenon that was not known before for turbulent flows like this.
The authors showed that their experimental findings are in keeping with a theoretical model similar to the one first developed by Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg and Lev Landau in the theory of superconductivity. That same model is also applicable to other areas of physics such as pattern formation and critical phenomena.
Oh Anthony, so quick to mock knowledge!
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University of Colorado and NASA Research Center to Study Sun’s Effects on Earth’s Climate
“University of Colorado and NASA Research Center to Study Sun’s Effects on Earth’s Climate“. Anthony Watts brings us exciting news about climate research. Because the Sun’s effect on the Earth’s climate has never been considered before!
Sorry, this post is just a one-liner. Well, now it’s two lines.
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Curious weather on Jupiter
“Curious weather on Jupiter“. Anthony Watts thinks that useful amateur observations of Jovian weather patterns, noted on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, prove that denialist obsessives such as himself are ‘doing science’ when they troll through weather records.
Coincidentally, William Connolley and Professor Steve Easterbrook recently put this idea in a climatology context on their respective websites. Sorry Anthony!
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New book: Slaying the Sky Dragon
“New book: Slaying the Sky Dragon“. You know a climate denial book is on shaky ground when even Anthony Watts has trouble with the list of authors! Yes, “Iron Sun” kook Oliver K. Manuel is among this confederacy of dunces.
Windmills on the Moon and dragon-riding astronauts!
Still, Anthony’s happy to report that Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory, available as an e-book only, has debunked the greenhouse gas theory. Funny how these devastating “refutations” of accepted science never seem to find their way into an actual scientific journal. Damn those cliquish scientists and their social networks!
Read the author’s modest description of their own work. Bemused emphasis mine.
Even before publication, Slaying the Sky Dragon was destined to be the benchmark for future generations of climate researchers. This is the world’s first and only full volume refutation of the greenhouse gas theory of man-made global warming.
Nine leading international experts methodically expose how willful fakery and outright incompetence were hidden within the politicized realm of government climatology. Applying a thoughtful and sympathetic writing style, the authors help even the untrained mind to navigate the maze of atmospheric thermodynamics. Step-by-step the reader is shown why the so-called greenhouse effect cannot possibly exist in nature.
By deft statistical analysis the cornerstones of climate equations – incorrectly calculated by an incredible factor of three – are exposed then shattered.
This volume is a scientific tour de force and the game-changer for international environmental policymakers as well as being a joy to read for hard-pressed taxpayers everywhere.
Journeyman denialist and former professor of geography Tim Ball seems the only author with even faintly relevant scientific credentials…
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During Cancun COP16 – calls for a return to WWII style rationing
“During Cancun COP16 – calls for a return to WWII style rationing“. Anthony Watts loves to suggest that climate scientists want to install a World Government, tell Americans what to do, and make them live in caves. He finds an article in the Telegraph that lets him take this idea out for another ride around the block. Scientists want to start rationing! And Al Gore will be on the gas vouchers! Or something.
Hmmm. Dr. Kevin Anderson wrote an article in a special report by the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society that discusses the ineffectiveness of current Global Warming mitigation efforts, and the options for improving mitigation efforts.
From a mitigation perspective, the gap between the scientific and policy understanding of the challenge needs urgently to be addressed.
Where’s the “rationing”?
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Overshoot and Undershoot
“Overshoot and Undershoot“. Willis Eschenbach guest posts on Anthony Watts’ blog, saying: when a scientist starts talking about “consistency” between observations and model results, I check my wallet. Now that’s an impartial mind at work.
His theory seems to be that the Earth’s temperature “overshoots” in response to volcanic inputs, but the contemptible climate models don’t. Which means that any undesirable temperature increases, which aren’t happening, will magically reverse themselves. Somehow. Of course like any good denialist he has an Excel spreadsheet to prove it.
Willis’ “observation” is that the Pinatubo eruption caused a dip in global temperatures for about two years, but when temperatures recovered they “overshot” the pre-eruption temperature for a similar period of time.
So Willis;
- Exactly how does temperature rise higher than the initial state without more energy? Shall we whisper “global warming?”
- Were there really no other climate influences other than Pinatubo over the time period in question?
- How do you honestly show a cyclic pattern from half of an imagined cycle?
- Does the fact that cars can have cruise control really mean that the Earth must have one too?
Enjoy the praise of the ignorant, Willis.
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The little conference that can can’t
“The little conference that can can’t“. Yuck, yuck, yuck. A cartoon of an empty conference room is definitely an honest representation of a less ambitious conference with fewer planned delegates. They’re all gubmint freeloaders don’t you know.
"Josh" forgot to label his lonely hearts! Fixed it.
However X-ray analysis of the ‘under-painting’ reveals that it actually depicts the interest that Monckton and Spencer will receive as they make themselves “available to answer questions”.
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