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Multiyear Arctic ice is effectively gone: expert

The arctic melts down A LOT, and OFTEN. That's all there is to say of any consequence. Anywhere from 40 year periods, to more typically, from 70 to i think.. about 130 years, there's very regular melting back of the north ice cap. Ships' logs record it; and we've just had a hot, 30 years, so it's not surprising at all, it's melted back a lot. Not to worry the world's ocean levels are measured accurately from satellites that are laser ranged, and the total sea level, mean differentials around the earth, are TINY. Each oceanic bowl has a low side & high side and there are currents which create shifts in sea level height by a few millimeters to a couple of inches when they're in place; but No. The oceans aren't boiling either.  (9 min ago | post #261)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

Grandpa when you wake up every morning and light your first spliff, Go to the internet. Find most recent infra red photograph of planet earth: that's the one we're on, and the one you stay high because you're afraid's gonna explode- And if you see (come closer it's a bigggg secret) a red stripe LoL forming up along that equator - you look around your trailer for stuff to sell in your moving sale, and envision northerly environs in your near future. If NOT: go get back in bed with whatever animal or high human being you've been able to pick up to numb the fear, and take another little moonbat nap, till alcohol cravings drive you out again when the sun goes down.  (44 min ago | post #105)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

"The oceans are rising!" RofL you CANT make this UP. LoL Ever since I took up this blogging thing.. I have laughed .. more... LoL Phd's and shit LoL... not able to look at an infrared HEMISPHERIC PHOTO and say: hmmm.. red... is hotter.. Didn't anybody tell you Grampa LoL there's an infallible test for growing system energy if it's got an atmosphere, and you can photo it? Oh my GOSH... Well, Ludie, here's a clue: heat rises infallibly due to a mechanism called convection: based on the ratio: I know you're a moonbat it's like a vampire and daylight - a RATIO of atomic[molecular] mass, and it's volume. And a crazy lil thing called GRAVITY dingBAT. And the oceans, lol.. aren't rising. There's an oceanic bowl for each one, and prevailing winds etc make one shore's height be jussst A little LESS than it's opposite. And THAT'S online as measured, stabilized using LASERS, too. So put away the paper bag you keep in case of hyperventilation go hang upside down from a horizontal object, and take a little MoonBat Nap.  (51 min ago | post #104)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

Oh yea hey Gramps: the seas AREN'T rising. Surprise.  (59 min ago | post #102)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

Cause you're gonna need it Grandpa.  (1 hr ago | post #99)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

That's *in*ability to profitably manage anything.. And like California Russia Germany China they've all met MoonBat Science. Like the HIV/AIDS plague, THEY met your MoonBat Science. You didn't really flip the laws of human genetics there did you... 35 million dead and 30 million sick based on "superior understanding of how things work, today." Like ALL these and the 50 million babies who met a MoonBat and got aborted Depending on your judgement's not real swift. Cause moonbats are WIRED to take the shortcut through the tar pit, to the water hole. And that spells trouble. Just like this time. And we wish you just as good luck next.  (1 hr ago | post #98)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

And, as usual, like ALL MoonBats, you, like your Scam-Daddy here, succumb to the existential angst of your kind: hopeless, faithless, utterly without the slightest moral fiber. "John "You can't imagine what this has cost me - to actually allow the operator to assign false WMO codes!! But what else is there in such situations? Especially when dealing with a 'Master' database of dubious provenance (which, er, they all are and always will be). ****************** ************ False codes will be obtained by multiplying the legitimate code (5 digits) by 100, then adding 1 at a time until a number is found with no matches in the database. THIS IS NOT PERFECT but as there is no central repository for WMO codes - especially made-up ones - ****************** ************ we'll have to chance duplicating one that's present in one of the other databases. In any case, anyone comparing WMO codes between databases - something I've studiously avoided doing except for tmin/tmax where I had to - will be treating the false codes with suspicion anyway. Hopefully. Of course, option 3 cannot be offered for CLIMAT bulletins, there being no metadata with which to form a new station. This still meant an awful lot of encounters with naughty Master stations, when really I suspect nobody else gives a hoot about. So with a somewhat cynical shrug, I added the nuclear option - to match every WMO possible, and turn the rest into new stations (er, CLIMAT excepted). ****************** ************ In other words, what CRU usually do. ****************** ************ It will allow bad databases to pass unnoticed, and good databases to become bad, ****************** ************ but I really don't think people care enough to fix 'em, ****************** ************ and it's the main reason the project is nearly a year late." Don't worry though Grandpa: just as California has become a SOCIALIST WASTELAND, evidence of your ABSOLUTE ability to manage ANYTHING profitably - just as SURE as that sun rises and sets Winter's here and it's going to be a GREAT, COLD one. With it, the faiths and hopes of people everywhere. http://www.telegra ph.co.uk/earth/ear thnews/6494213/Cli mate-change-belief -given-same-legal- status-as-religion .html  (1 hr ago | post #97)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

Here's how a MoonBat invests in facts: she makes them up! "Quote: " This is pretty obviously the same station (well OK.. apart from the duff early period, but I've got used to that now). But look at the longitude! That's probably 20km! LUckily I selected 'Update wins' and so the metadata aren't compared. This is still going to take ages, because although I can match WMO codes (or should be able to), I must check that the data correlate adequately - and for all these stations there will be questions. I don't think it would be a good idea to take the usual approach of coding to avoid the situation, because (a) it will be non-trivial to code for, and (b) not all of the situations are the same. But I am beginning to wish I could just blindly merge based on WMO code.. the trouble is that then I'm continuing the approach that created these broken databases. Look at this one: ... Here, the expected 1990-2003 period is MISSING - so the correlations aren't so hot! Yet the WMO codes and station names /locations are identical (or close). ****************** ************ What the hell is supposed to happen here? Oh yeah - there is no 'supposed', I can make it up. So I have :-) ****************** ************ If an update station matches a 'master' station by WMO code, but the data is unpalatably inconsistent, the operator is given three choices: <BEGIN QUOTE> You have failed a match despite the WMO codes matching. This must be resolved!! Please choose one: 1. Match them after all. 2. Leave the existing station alone, and discard the update. 3. Give existing station a false code, and make the update the new WMO station. Enter 1,2 or 3: <END QUOTE> You can't imagine what this has cost me - to actually allow the operator to assign false WMO codes!! But what else is there in such situations? Especially when dealing with a 'Master' database of dubious provenance (which, er, they all are and always will be). " __________________ ___________  (1 hr ago | post #95)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

Here's how you got that way: From: Joseph Alcamo <alcamo@usf.uni -kassel.de> To: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk, Rob.Swart@rivm.nl Subject: Timing, Distribution of the Statement Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 18:52:33 0100 Reply-to: alcamo@usf.uni-kas sel.de Mike, Rob, Sounds like you guys have been busy doing good things for the cause. I would like to weigh in on two important questions -- Distribution for Endorsements -- I am very strongly in favor of as wide and rapid a distribution as possible for endorsements. I think the only thing that counts is numbers. The media is going to say "1000 scientists signed" or "1500 signed". No one is going to check if it is 600 with PhDs versus 2000 without. They will mention the prominent ones, but that is a different story. ****************** ****** Conclusion -- Forget the screening, forget asking them about their last publication (most will ignore you.) Get those names! ****************** ****** Timing -- I feel strongly that the week of 24 November is too late. 1. We wanted to announce the Statement in the period when there was a sag in related news, but in the week before Kyoto we should expect that we will have to crowd out many other articles about climate. 2. If the Statement comes out just a few days before Kyoto I am afraid that the delegates who we want to influence will not have any time to pay attention to it. We should give them a few weeks to hear about it. 3. If Greenpeace is having an event the week before, we should have it a week before them so that they and other NGOs can further spread the word about the Statement. On the other hand, it wouldn't be so bad to release the Statement in the same week, but on a diffeent day. The media might enjoy hearing the message from two very different directions. Conclusion -- I suggest the week of 10 November, or the week of 17 November at the latest. Mike -- I have no organized email list that could begin to compete with the list you can get from the Dutch. But I am still willing to send you what I have, if you wish. Best wishes, Joe Alcamo ------------------ ------------------ ---------------- Prof. Dr. Joseph Alcamo, Director Center for Environmental Systems Research University of Kassel Kurt Wolters Strasse 3 D-34109 Kassel Germany Phone: +XX xxx xxx xxxx Fax: +XX xxx xxx xxxx  (1 hr ago | post #94)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

How soon the MoonBats would have us all forget. " “In our further exploration of the social network of authorships in temperature reconstruction, we found that at least 43 authors have direct ties to Dr. Mann by virtue of coauthored papers with him.One of the interesting questions associated with the ‚hockey stick controversy’ are the relationships among the authors and consequently how confident one can be in the peer review process. In particular, if there is a tight relationship among the authors and there are not a large number of individuals engaged in a particular topic area, then one may suspect that the peer review process does not fully vet papers before they are published. However, it is immediately clear that the Mann, Rutherford, Jones, Osborn, Briffa, Bradley and Hughes form a clique, each interacting with all of the others. A clique is a fully connected subgraph, meaning everyone in the clique interacts with every one else in the clique.” Wegman report to Congress You really are utterly duped.  (1 hr ago | post #93)

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Multiyear Arctic ice is effectively gone: expert

It's normal. There's nothing else to say about it.  (2 hrs ago | post #258)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

Wow. It's just a joyous Holiday Season. One man born to eventually save entire generations from their sins.. the fires of hell.. an entire world - being fooled and misled into empty religious observances while ignoring the plights of the needy and oppressed, by sophists and frauds, to eventually be redeemed by the coming of one man.. I was talking about Jesus Christ - not the guy who leaked that data.  (2 hrs ago | post #86)

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Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto

No, pretending you're having a seizure isn't going to get you sympathy. It DOES look like your daddy's handiwork: a glut of senseless drivel passed off with the schmooze, of a pose. <shakes head again> Tell us which climatic instrument-verifie d databases have you convinced the world's about to flip upside down from the amount of CO2 that amounts to less than the oceans' MARGIN of ERROR. Explain to me your rational, where you said to yourself, YEA! even though it's only .003% or something of all the gas in the atmosphere, and although we only make three percent of that YEAH! the WHOLE ATMOSPHERE is going to CHOKE and cough and sputter, WIPING out civilizations that have stood seaside, for MILLENIA.. Yea... it's less than the ocean's MARGIN of ERROR but SURE: as a matter of fact, how could it be OTHERWISE? gO Ahead and BREAK it on down from BoreHoleVille, perfesser.  (2 hrs ago | post #91)

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Scientists: Global warming's effects speeding up

various* above  (3 hrs ago | post #84)