Global Warming

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Flannery.... the letter is in the mail.

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Tim Flannery sacked, Climate Commission dismantled by Coalition
* by: Gemma Jones Political Reporter
* From: News Limited Network
* September 19, 2013 1:35PM

PROFESSOR Tim Flannery has been sacked by the Abbott Government from his $180,000 a year part time Chief Climate Commissioner position with the agency he runs to be dismantled immediately.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt called Prof Flannery this morning to tell him a letter formally ending his employment was in the mail.

Public service shake-up as heads go

In the letter, Mr Hunt tells Prof Flannery: "The Climate Commission does not have an ongoing role, and consequently I am writing to advise you that the Climate Commission has been dissolved, with effect from the date of this letter.

He thanked him for his personal contribution and then said "The Department of the Environment will soon write to you concerning administrative arrangements for finalising your engagement as Chief Climate Commissioner."

All other climate commissioners will also be sacked with the move to save more than $500,000 this financial year and $1.2 million next financial year.

The Coalition will now take advice on climate change from the Department of the Environment.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/ti ... z2fJ7VcbjP" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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How fast is Arctic sea ice melting?

The Arctic's sea ice cover has reached one of its lowest ever summer minima.
The seven summers with the lowest minimum sea ice extents have all occurred in the last seven years.

6.14pm BST My verdict
What we read into the summer sea ice minimum can only be meaningful if we view it as a milestone, not a definitive piece of data.

Climate is not a year-by-year phenomenon. Measurements of climate take decades. All evidence from the satellite record over the past 30 years, and records from ocean vessels before that, point to a downward trend in the Arctic sea ice extent.

While it is clear the sea ice extent is declining overall, this year's weather and the record low of last year have created an illusion in which a 'rebound' apparently occurred. Data like this is ripe to be cherry-picked in order to drive home a political agenda. This year, sceptics seized on the higher minimum and rolled out a prominent barrage of pseudoscience. This is not to say the green movement has been wholly innocent in the past.

The minimum for 2013 was still low compared to the last decade and very low compared to the last 30 years. Climate scientists are bearing witness to the loss of one of our largest climate regulators and warning that when it's gone, it's gone.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... ce-melting" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Arctic sea ice shrinks to sixth-lowest extent on record

Sea ice recovers from record low of 2012 but long-term trend continues towards an ice-free Arctic during the summer months


Sea ice cover in the Arctic has shrunk to one of its smallest extents on record, bringing the days of an entirely ice-free Arctic during the summer a step closer.

The annual sea ice minimum of 5,099m sq km reached last Friday was not as extreme as last year, when the collapse of ice cover broke all previous records.

But it was still the sixth lowest Arctic sea ice minimum on record, and well below the average set over the past 30 years of satellite records.

This suggests the Arctic will be entirely ice-free in the summer months within decades, scientists said.

The annual sea ice minimum, based on a five-day average, is expected to be officially declared by the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Boulder, Colorado, within the next few days.

"It certainly is continuing the long-term decline," said Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the centre. "We are looking at long-term changes and there are going to be bumps and wiggles along the long-term declining trend, but all the climate models are showing that we are eventually going to lose all of that summer sea ice."

Overall, the Arctic has lost about 40% of its sea ice cover since 1980. Most scientists believe the ocean at the north pole could be entirely ice-free in the summer by the middle of the century – if not sooner.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... record-low" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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yeah the north pole is smaller than the south pole


just like the civil war the north will win!

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yeah yeah yeah.... the pole fluctuates on a yearly basis... seasons you know JM.
If you check the images from the last few decades you'll see there is hardly any difference.

A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year — an increase of 60 percent.

The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/08/arcti ... z2fKYFh67p" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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At first the current stall out of global warming was due to the ocean cycles turning back to cold. But something much more ominous has developed over this period. Sunspots run in 11 year short term cycles, with longer cyclical trends of 90 and even 200 years. The number of sunspots declined substantially in the last 11 year cycle, after flattening out over the previous 20 years. But in the current cycle, sunspot activity has collapsed. NASA’s Science News report for January 8, 2013 states,

“Indeed, the sun could be on the threshold of a mini-Maunder event right now. Ongoing Solar Cycle 24 [the current short term 11 year cycle] is the weakest in more than 50 years. Moreover, there is (controversial) evidence of a long-term weakening trend in the magnetic field strength of sunspots. Matt Penn and William Livingston of the National Solar Observatory predict that by the time Solar Cycle 25 arrives, magnetic fields on the sun will be so weak that few if any sunspots will be formed. Independent lines of research involving helioseismology and surface polar fields tend to support their conclusion.”

That is even more significant because NASA’s climate science has been controlled for years by global warming hysteric James Hansen, who recently announced his retirement.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrar ... g-is-here/

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On September 27 2013 the 5th Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be released.

One part of this report will address the so-called “warming hiatus”. This is the argument that warming has stopped, with the further assertion in some quarters that we therefore have nothing to worry about in the future.

It is a fact, based on observations of air temperature, that the rate of global warming measured as surface air temperature has slowed over the past 15 years. The last decade is still the warmest in the past 150 years.

If you measure global heat content then global warming has not slowed. If you measure other indices including sea level rise or ocean temperatures or sea ice cover global warming has not slowed.

However, the warming trend in air temperatures has slowed over the last 15 years. There is a great deal of interest in this “hiatus” in the sense of whether it points to some fundamental error in climate science.

The 5th Assessment Report by the IPCC explains the slowing in the rate of global warming in roughly equal terms as the consequence of reduced radiative forcing (the difference between radiative energy that hits the earth and energy radiated back to space), increased heat uptake by the oceans and natural variability.

The reduced radiative forcing (the amount of energy available to drive the climate system) is due to the recent solar minimum (a period of low solar activity), and volcanic and anthropogenic aerosols (these are particles such as sulphur and soot, which block some radiation from hitting the earth).

The slowing in the rate of warming over the last 15 years is not in the least surprising. We have seen a combination of the solar minimum, anthropogenic aerosol emissions and back-to-back La Niñas.

What is surprising – and what is deeply concerning to me and almost entirely missed in the media commentary – is that we have not cooled dramatically over the last 15 years.

http://theconversation.com/is-global-wa ... atus-18367" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Basically what I said earlier—but, hmmmm, why hasn’t warming stopped and the globe cooled?

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No one cares.

Must feel good to see all those commissions and propaganda units set up during the time of the ALP aberration being torn down and destroyed. I know it warms the cockles of my heart seeing everyone of the shysters and spruikers of bullshit lose their jobs.

The global warming swindle is over.