I’m off to Reading in Berkshire for my wife’s employer’s annual Christmas party – so much to my wife’s delight, I’ll be well over 100 miles away from my laptop for most of the weekend. Meanwhile, here are a few bits and bobs:
Magma May Be Melting Greenland Ice
SAN FRANCISCO—Global warming may not be the only thing melting Greenland. Scientists have found at least one natural magma hotspot under the Arctic island that could be pitching in.
Carbon cost of Christmas dinner (yawn!)
A carbon footprint equivalent to 6,000 car journeys around the world will be produced by the UK tucking into Christmas dinner, researchers say (yawn again!)
And a yawn for Oz:
Xmas trees ‘not immune to climate change’
The survey of 1000 Australians revealed more than half would take environmental concerns into account when choosing presents for their loved ones.
Do the Rich Owe the Poor Climate Change Reparations?
In one scenario, Americans would pay the equivalent of a $780 per person luxury tax annually, which amounts to sending $212 billion per year in climate reparations to poor countries to aid their development and help them adapt to climate change. In this scenario, the total climate reparations that the rich must transfer annually is over $600 billion. This contrasts with a new report commissioned by the U.N. Development Program that only demands $86 billion per year to avoid “adaptation apartheid.”
Max Mayfield: ‘No One Forced Me to Say Anything’
Former Hurricane Center Director Contradicts Democrats’ Political Pressure Claims
The former director of the National Hurricane Center says political pressure did not cause him to change his congressional testimony to downplay the link between global warming and hurricanes, contradicting the findings of a Democratic led investigation released Monday.
“I can truthfully say that no one told me at any time what to say in regard to possible impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones,” said Max Mayfield in an e-mail to ABC News. This design characterizes the state’s jobs, like controller or guarantor of advanced personalities (or not one or the other), obligations in getting sorted out information, applications, framework, and the basic standards and working techniques for the computerized character environment as a unified personality the executives foundation. Moreover, new technologies and innovations can help establishments curb the use of a fake id. read more about fake id.
Fiinally, for those wishing to critique the Douglass et al paper:
Welcome to the International Journal of Climatology manuscript submission and peer review website
Have a hysterical weekend!
Regards,
Paul Biggs
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
Louis H. and Ian B. might be particularly interested in Paul’s first link including comment that:
“a new natural contribution to the [Arctic] melt arose when scientists discovered a thin spot in the Earth’s crust under the northeast corner of the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from Earth’s insides could seep through.”
On December 17, 12:00 pm (Pacific time), you are cordially invited to The Great Climate Debate, featuring Dr. Timothy Ball of Canada vs. Dr. Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M ( a piddling little liberal infested institution mostly known for it’t football team ).
You will be able to listen online at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sciguy
Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle will be host and moderator. Audience participation via text message and phone is heartily encouraged.
(Free registration at blogtalkradio required for texting)
More details at this link
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2007/12/the_great_clima.html
Anything but CO2.
Even SJT is welcome.
Well, from recent articles, I see who is responsible for global warming:
• Jewish people for lighting all eight, and not just seven, candles on the menorah,
• the British for delivering Christmas dinners,
• half of the Australians for not considering global warming on Christmas purchases, and
• Americans for not giving away even more money to corrupt governments in poor nations.
If only the Bali conference could have addressed these issues.
I told you it was tectonic/volcanic. So, I suspect, is the warming in the Antarctic Peninsula, and the ocean hotspot around Indonesia which causes El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole.