Global Warming Officially Dead: UK’s Met Office Releases New Temperature Data Showing Earth Has Not Warmed For Past 15 Years… Nail, meet coffin. (Daily Mail) — The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century. Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997. Meanwhile, leading climate scientists yesterday told The Mail on Sunday that, after emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a ‘grand minimum’ in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food. Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak. We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call ‘Cycle 24’ – which is why last week’s solar storm resulted in sightings of the aurora borealis further south than usual. But sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th Century. Analysis by experts at NASA and the University of Arizona – derived from magnetic-field measurements 120,000 miles beneath the sun’s surface – suggest that Cycle 25, whose peak is due in 2022, will be a great deal weaker still. According to a paper issued last week by the Met Office, there is a 92 per cent chance that both Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as, or weaker than, the ‘Dalton minimum’ of 1790 to 1830. In this period, named after the meteorologist John Dalton, average temperatures in parts of Europe fell by 2C. However, it is also possible that the new solar energy slump could be as deep as the ‘Maunder minimum’ (after astronomer Edward Maunder), between 1645 and 1715 in the coldest part of the ‘Little Ice Age’ when, as well as the Thames frost fairs, the canals of Holland froze solid.
I'm sure glad that we're pissing away hundreds of millions of dollars on crap like solar panels and windmills. Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank.
Obama-Funded “Green” Energy Company Amonix Lays Off Two-Thirds Of Its Workforce… (Las Vegas Sun) — Just seven months after California-based solar power company Amonix Inc. opened its largest manufacturing plant, in North Las Vegas, the company’s contractor has laid off nearly two-thirds of its workforce. Flextronics Industrial, the Singapore solar panel manufacturer that partnered with Amonix to staff the new $18 million, 214,000-square-foot plant, laid off about 200 of its 300-plus employees Tuesday. Amonix’s director of manufacturing operations, Eric Culberson, said the layoffs are part of “retooling” the factory as the company prepares to roll out its next-generation product. “The new 8700 utility-scale CPV solar power system is a higher efficiency and lower cost,” Culberson said. “Once it is ready, we will ramp back up to meet the demands of the industry.” Culberson said the job cuts are temporary and expects to begin hiring more people in the second half of the year to meet demand. The company scaled down at all levels of employment at the plant — which was hiring as recently as three months ago — from entry level assemblers, process engineers, production supervisors and quality-control techs, according to one employee who was laid off. Culberson said layoffs were made across the board. Amonix received a $5.9 million investment tax credit through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act in 2010, and another $12 million in private capital helped finance the plant.
Obama’s $500 Million Stimulus-Funded Green Jobs Program Has 10% Success Rate… WASHINGTON – House Republicans are expanding their probe into the Obama administration’s energy programs, investigating $500 million in green job training grants that placed just 10% of trainees in jobs, according to a government report. The program’s goal was to train 124,893 people and put 79,854 in jobs. But 17 months later, 52,762 were trained and 8,035, or roughly 1 in 10, had jobs. Those numbers come from an audit by the Department of Labor’s inspector general, which recommended that the administration end the program and return unspent money. President Obama has made green jobs a cornerstone of his economic agenda. In his first 2012 campaign ad this month, he said clean energy industries created 2.7 million jobs and were “expanding rapidly.” But Republicans have pounced on failures, such as the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a solar panel maker backed with a Department of Energy loan guarantee. Citing what he calls “abysmal results” in the job training program, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is demanding answers about how the Department of Labor awarded the grants, which were funded out of the 2009 stimulus bill.
Yeah while you were golfing, my plans for the Primo Cup were interrupted by the weather. http://www.rivieratimes.com/provence-cote-dazur-article/items/french-riviera-paralysed-by-snow.html I did get to hit a bucket yesterday. The bunkers were still full of snow and sometimes the flags get frozen into the holes.
I saw Mike Wilson on the Golf Channel last night, he lives in Chicago when he's not on the tour. He practices chipping out of snow banks...apparently a useful skill on the tour.
Snow makes for an interesting golf ruling. You can choose to treat it as a loose impediment or casual water.
Scientists: Remember How We Said The Himalayas Snow-Caps Were Melting Because of Global Warming? On Second Thought There Hasn’t Been Any Melting… It’s almost like we’ve been right all along. (Guardian) — The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall. The study is the first to survey all the world’s icecaps and glaciers and was made possible by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps – Greenland and Antarctica – is much less then previously estimated, with the lack of ice loss in the Himalayas and the other high peaks of Asia responsible for most of the discrepancy. Bristol University glaciologist Prof Jonathan Bamber, who was not part of the research team, said: “The very unexpected result was the negligible mass loss from high mountain Asia, which is not significantly different from zero.” The melting of Himalayan glaciers caused controversy in 2009 when a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mistakenly stated that they would disappear by 2035, instead of 2350. However, the scientist who led the new work is clear that while greater uncertainty has been discovered in Asia’s highest mountains, the melting of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern.
It snowed all day today and I drove through a blizzard in the Pass. Where the hell is that global warming when I need it? :roll:
Not global warming but all over the board is our current weather in Florida. I ran irrigation Sunday night into Monday morning trying to save our crops as we dipped into the upper 20's and by Wednesday we hit 86 degrees. :shock:
Fun Fact of The Day: Global Temps Have Plunged .56°F Since Release Of Goracle’s Global Warming Propaganda Movie “An Inconvenient Truth”… And Tubby won a Nobel for it. (GL) — The index is calculated upon the release of Dr. Roy Spencer’s UAH Globally Averaged Satellite-Based Tropospheric Temperatures. The GORE LIED graphics department simply whips out a magenta crayon, and marks up Dr. Spencer’s graph to show the temperature change since Al Gore released his fantasy/sci-fi movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Through February, 2012 globally averaged temperatures have plunged .56°°F (.31°C) since An Inconvenient Truth was released at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2006 — truly an inconvenient truth.
And yet companies like Coke come out with packaging to support the Polar Bears. Hey you don't think that the drop in temperature is because of Bush or Limbaugh do you?
This year has been one of the warmest winters on record here in the bay area....... Hey....I like the trend whatever it is.
according to Irish folklore: if Christmas falls on Sunday means the winter will be warm and the summer hot and dry... On Monday foggy winter and a windy summer Tuesday snowy winter and wet summer Wednesday a hard winter and good summer Thursday a soft winter and a good summer on Friday a moderate winter and a moderate Autumn on Saturday a windy snowy winter and a good summer.... ... this year Chrsitmas falls on a Tuesday and next year is predicted to be a ElNino ..... its fun to follow I have had this Irish folklore for some time so far its been pretty right on... think I will stick w. folklore it seems more accurate :wink: Gotta love the Irish!
Well that cinches it. There must be global warming. Of course 8 in. of snow in Rome and snow in Tripoli for the first time in over half a century means nothing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/worst-cold-in-decades-in-europe-us-stays-mild-photos/2012/02/09/gIQAOKHA2Q_blog.html
As I tell my family members who gloat about how great it is to be 88 degrees in our winter months of Florida, all this warm weather is heating up both the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico months ahead of schedule. We are going to have to think of our surrounding water as "jet fuel" to what is shaping up to be a long, hard, difficult hurricane season. The Tampa Bay area has dodged hurricanes for too many years and the odds are the natives need to expect one soon. For those of us that spend 10-12 hours per day in the great outdoors, winter not showing up this year is depressing as hell and only means non-stop heat, humidity, bugs and sweat. :evil:
"For those of us that spend 10-12 hours per day in the great outdoors, winter not showing up this year is depressing as hell and only means non-stop heat, humidity, bugs and sweat". At least global warming is a hoax...... :wink