Category: Climate Change

Complexity Uncertainty Egomania

Mona Charen is a smart lady commentator who is always on the money by my assessment.
Here she talks about the things that von Mises and Hayek tried to teach us about central planning, and she very insightfully takes down the idiocy of what has properly been called “Scientism” and its latest iteration–warmer CRU/IPCC cargo cult science.
Hayek named the problem the “fatal conceit” and the nomenklatura have it and live it.
Models–now there’s something to take to the bank that is a sign of a toxic level of fatal conceit.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367248/things-we-know-just-aint-so-mona-charen

Fulks Sends Out a Cold Warning for the Upper Midwest

Gordon Fulks, physicist, U of Chicago, now in Oregon, keeps me posted.
This news is serious.
From the National Weather Service:
Bitter Cold Temperatures Remain in the Central U.S.
“Temperatures across the central U.S. will continue to be 10-30 degrees below normal as an arctic airmass remains in place. Gusty winds in this region will contribute to extremely cold wind chills, especially in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota where Wind Chill Advisories are in effect.”
From a low this morning of – 37 F, conditions at International Falls, Minnesota have warmed to -8 F this afternoon. But more bitter cold is on the way:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=48.6023149&lon=-93.40406789999997&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=International%20Falls%2C%20MN%2C%20USA#.UsHug_slja8
Wind Chill Warning
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
306 PM CST MON DEC 30 2013
…DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL VALUES EXPECTED TONIGHT…
.ANOTHER PUSH OF ARCTIC AIR WILL ARRIVE TONIGHT AND COMBINE WITH
LIGHT WINDS TO PRODUCE DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL VALUES ACROSS
THE ENTIRE REGION. TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IF VENTURING OUT
TONIGHT OR TUESDAY MORNING.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL
WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON CST
TUESDAY.
* WIND CHILL VALUES…35 TO 45 BELOW ZERO EXPECTED ACROSS
NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND INTO DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EXTREME NORTHWEST
WISCONSIN. WIND CHILL VALUES AS LOW AS 50 BELOW ARE POSSIBLE
FROM INTERNATIONAL FALLS TO THE IRON RANGE AND INLAND AREAS OF
THE ARROWHEAD.
* IMPACTS…EXPOSED FLESH COULD FREEZE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.
Woops, wish we had some warming.

That's the Culprit, the Thing

Remember that The Thing was a monster discovered from an alien landing in Antarctica.
Now Antarctica is biting back.
Here is the NYT warning us about Antarctic ice–like it’s malicious.

1969 New York Times: Princeton scientists worried that Antarctic ice would start a new ice age

2013 Dumb, 2014 Dumber

Here they come, the true believers.
And there is no denying that the true believer thugs have no fear–they will roll the opposition unless the opposition sucks it up.

Climate change debate ready to heat up in 2014 as major aspects of Obama’s climate plan come to fruition

From the NYT Vault–Climatology is ??

This is good stuff from the archives.
Weather and meteorology guys get a forum to criticize climatologists, in the NEEEW YOOOOORK TIIIIMES
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/1977-meteorologists-said-that-climate-scientists-arent-real-scientists/

Killer Winter in Thailand? Call the IPCC

Winter brings respiratory illnesses that make it a killer–pneumonia being the major culprit.
I looked at my handy dandy globe and found that Thailand is a semi tropical place.
The points to be made–even in mild climates winter is a killer, AND it appears that Thailand ain’t gonna be so mild this year.
You might recall that the major respiratory illnesses peak in winter, the viral and bacterial illness, flu and such.
Pneumonia is a devastating disease in the elderly. Influenza is bad for old and young and pregnant woman and immune suppressed people like diabetics and people on medications that reduce resistance.
http://thainews.prd.go.th/centerweb/newsen/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNSOC5612250010001