All Solar, Et Al, In 12 Years?

[Randolph Kinney]

And some people believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, but guess what? They really don't exist! Congrats on a vibrant imagination.

Your government busy at work figuring out ways to pick your pocket and then lie about it.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

When truth needs to be silenced


Promoters of ‘official’ climate, which is defined as the works of the UN IPCC, are desperate. Twenty of them, including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) members like Kevin Trenberth, asked the Obama administration to file Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) charges against climate deniers. All but two of the twenty are at Universities, and the two are career bureaucrats associated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). They all live off the public purse, but somehow in the weird world of climate science that is untainted money. The RICO charge is ad hominem, not about the science. Virtually all the research funding for global warming comes from government and goes to those supporting the unproven hypothesis. There is no comparison between the amounts of government money going to the ‘official’ side of the science and that going to skeptics.

The RICO charge is a particularly nasty form of ad hominem attack. By applying it in the global warming case, it tries to make criminals out of people doing their job properly. The real criminal part of their enterprise is that skeptics are doing what scientists are supposed to do, that is disproving the AGW hypothesis. They accuse these properly named scientific skeptics of performing the scientific method, either through ignorance of the method or to silence them. The twenty, like the IPCC and its supporters, directly or indirectly thwart the scientific method by accepting the hypothesis as proven. They then deflect or ignore overwhelming evidence that the hypothesis is wrong including failed predictions (projections). They consistently refuse to consider the null hypothesis.

Upton Sinclair said,

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Tolstoi summarized their plight.

“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”

The Climate Conference of the Parties (COP21) scheduled for Paris is clearly facing failure, which is pushing IPCC defenders, such as the twenty making the RICO request, to extremes. Their comparison of scientists trying to perform proper science to organized crime leaders is beyond outrageous. It is especially egregious because the people making the charges are guilty of scientific malfeasance. While not necessarily criminal, it is worse in the damage it has and will do to everyone. The monster they created using incorrect science became the justification for imposing destructive, expensive, and completely unnecessary policies on the world. These policies will do far more damage to the poor and the environment they claim to protect. As it was anonymously said,

If an honest man is wrong, after demonstrating that he is wrong, he either stops being wrong or he stops being honest.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

A group of climate scientists, including Professor Kevin Trenberth, have demanded President Obama abuse the RICO act, to silence criticism of their theories.

The letter:

Dear President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and OSTP Director Holdren,

As you know, an overwhelming majority of climate scientists are convinced about the potentially serious adverse effects of human-induced climate change on human health, agriculture, and biodiversity. We applaud your efforts to regulate emissions and the other steps you are taking. Nonetheless, as climate scientists we are exceedingly concerned that America’s response to climate change – indeed, the world’s response to climate change – is insufficient. The risks posed by climate change, including increasing extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and increasing ocean acidity – and potential strategies for addressing them – are detailed in the Third National Climate Assessment (2014), Climate Change Impacts in the United States. The stability of the Earth’s climate over the past ten thousand years contributed to the growth of agriculture and therefore, a thriving human civilization. We are now at high risk of seriously destabilizing the Earth’s climate and irreparably harming people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people.

We appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the face of a recalcitrant Congress. One additional tool – recently proposed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse – is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change. The actions of these organizations have been extensively documented in peer reviewed academic research (Brulle, 2013) and in recent books including: Doubt is their Product (Michaels, 2008), Climate Cover-Up (Hoggan & Littlemore, 2009), Merchants of Doubt (Oreskes & Conway, 2010), The Climate War (Pooley, 2010), and in The Climate Deception Dossiers (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2015). We strongly endorse Senator Whitehouse’s call for a RICO investigation.

The methods of these organizations are quite similar to those used earlier by the tobacco industry. A RICO investigation (1999 to 2006) played an important role in stopping the tobacco industry from continuing to deceive the American people about the dangers of smoking. If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters are guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented in books and journal articles, it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth’s climate, before even more lasting damage is done.

Sincerely,

Jagadish Shukla, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Edward Maibach, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Barry Klinger, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Paul Schopf, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

David Straus, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Edward Sarachik, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Michael Wallace, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
William Lau, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
T.N. Krishnamurti, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Vasu Misra, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Ben Kirtman, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Robert Dickinson, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Michela Biasutti, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY
Mark Cane, Columbia University, New York, NY
Lisa Goddard, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY
Alan Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT

Why not use the IRS to silence these companies, organizations and individuals? Oh yeah, that has been done before and it works too, for a little while.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Jerry Brown warns of mass migration in California if global warming continues


Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that his legislative setbacks on climate change last week should be viewed “not in terms of me,” warning California will endure European-style effects of mass migration if the state fails to act on global warming.

“What we’ve in Europe now with mass migrations, that will happen in California, as ... Central America and Mexico, as they warm, people are going to get on the move,” Brown told reporters at a Mather news conference on California’s wildfires.

Brown, who has made climate change the signature issue of his administration, suffered a setback when he and legislative leaders – facing opposition from oil companies and moderate Democrats – were forced to abandon a proposal to require a reduction in petroleum use in motor vehicles in California. Another bill, to increase California’s greenhouse gas reduction targets, also fell apart.

Brown maintained that he will continue to seek petroleum reductions under his executive authority.

Brown has long used the state’s wildfires to draw attention to climate change, with rising temperatures and drought increasing the risk of fire.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article35247639.html#storylink=cpy

A pen and a phone works for the president, now the governor will use that method to impose his will upon the citizenry. Maybe the Gov should launch RICO prosecutions against deniers?

 

[Randolph Kinney]

The Many Terrifying Ways Global Warming Will Soon Be Ravaging California

California's unabated drought (the one that's been going on for four long years) has parched the entire state and led to some frightening consequences (parts of the state are sinking), but the worst is yet to come and "there's no way out," according to climate scientists. Those were their literal words. They presented to regulators and reps from the Governor's Office at the California Climate Change Symposium this week, the Daily Breeze reports, telling them that the drought had been dramatically exacerbated by global warming, and that there's a lot worse in store: less water, more pollution, scarier weather, bigger storms, floods, and fires.

"What we're beginning to understand is that there's no way out," said Susanne Moser, who's described as a leading expert on climate change. "We need transformational change. We don't need more studies as much as we need to communicate the urgency and make solid changes. We need to not debate forever." But as the DB's Sandy Mazza writes, there's little funding at all to handle climate change and its effects, and even less for low-income communities, which are "therefore less prepared than their more affluent counterparts." But even the preparation that's already been done is wildly insufficient: "We're getting over the illusion that we can (fix) this with just a few little changes.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/..._warming_will_soon_be_ravaging_california.php

 

[Randolph Kinney]

JERRY BROWN TROLLS BEN CARSON ON CLIMATE CHANGE

California Gov. Jerry Brown sent a letter to Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson on Thursday, along with a flash drive containing the latest science on climate change, challenging him to “review the material.”

Brown quoted recent comments made by Dr. Carson: “I know there are a lot of people who say ‘overwhelming science,’ but when you ask them to show the overwhelming science, they never can show it… There is no overwhelming science that the things that are going on are man-caused and not naturally caused. Gimme a break.”

In his letter, Brown urged Dr. Carson to “use your considerable intelligence to review this material.” The flash drive contained the 2015 “synthesis report” of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

.@JerryBrownGov to climate science denier @RealBenCarson: “Climate change is much bigger than partisan politics.” pic.twitter.com/NpsbvlvpEl

— Gov. Brown Press Ofc (@GovPressOffice) September 10, 2015

Ironically, the period covered in the report includes revisions to account for data showing a “pause” in global warming over nearly two decades, which sophisticated computer models of climate change failed to predict.

There is scientific consensus that the planet is warming, and there is also consensus that production of greenhouse gases by human use of fossil fuels may be a factor–though how, and to what extent, is not well understood.

What is clear is that the alarmist predictions on which politicians like Brown have based their costly policies–such as a ridiculous claim that rising sea levels could force the relocation of LAX airport–have failed to materialize.

Brown may have been smarting from his defeat in the California legislature last week, when moderate Democrats voted with Republicans to stop a draconian climate change bill that could have raised fuel prices dramatically. In defeat, Brown vowed to wage a “life-and-death struggle” to “change…our industrial economy.”

That, critics charge, is the environmental lobby’s real goal–not to save the planet, but to control and shape the economy.

Dr. Carson’s campaign told CNN that the candidate would keep an open mind.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/09/13/jerry-brown-trolls-ben-carson-on-climate-change/

 

[Meandering]

I have a question.

As the ground water is pumped out, the space that once held the water collapses from the weight of the surface, then when it rains, I'll assume the earth won't plump back up, so those underground reservoirs are lost forever. Hence the earth sinks, but, isn't it the elevation that is used to measure the rising seas? So if the earth sinks are we going to claim rising seas from global warming? Or sinking land from sucking too hard?

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[Meandering]

That, critics charge, is the environmental lobby’s real goal–not to save the planet, but to control and shape the economy.

Green = the new Industrial Revolution.

In their minds.


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[Randolph Kinney]

As the ground water is pumped out, the space that once held the water collapses from the weight of the surface, then when it rains, I'll assume the earth won't plump back up, so those underground reservoirs are lost forever. Hence the earth sinks, but, isn't it the elevation that is used to measure the rising seas? So if the earth sinks are we going to claim rising seas from global warming? Or sinking land from sucking too hard?

Groundwater takes literally hundreds and in some cases thousands of year to permeate to depths of a thousand feet below the surface, depending on the geological formation.

Karst topography is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes, dolines, and caves.[1] It has also been documented for weathering-resistant rocks, such asquartzite, given the right conditions.[2] Subterranean drainage may limit surface water with few to no rivers or lakes. However, in regions where the dissolved bedrock is covered (perhaps by debris) or confined by one or more superimposed non-soluble rock strata, distinctive karst surface developments might be totally missing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst

When a water-bearing rock readily transmits water to wells and springs, it is called an aquifer. Wells can be drilled into the aquifers and water can be pumped out. Precipitation eventually adds water (recharge) into the porous rock of the aquifer. The rate of recharge is not the same for all aquifers, though, and that must be considered when pumping water from a well. Pumping too much water too fast draws down the water in the aquifer and eventually causes a well to yield less and less water and even run dry. In fact, pumping your well too much can even cause your neighbor's well to run dry if you both are pumping from the same aquifer.

A relationship does not necessarily exist between the water-bearing capacity of rocks and the depth at which they are found. A very dense granite that will yield little or no water to a well may be exposed at the land surface. Conversely, a porous sandstone, such as the Dakota Sandstone mentioned previously, may lie hundreds or thousands of feet below the land surface and may yield hundreds of gallons per minute of water. Rocks that yield freshwater have been found at depths of more than 6,000 feet, and salty water has come from oil wells at depths of more than 30,000 feet. On the average, however, the porosity and permeability of rocks decrease as their depth below land surface increases; the pores and cracks in rocks at great depths are closed or greatly reduced in size because of the weight of overlying rocks.

Groundwater occurs in the saturated soil and rock below the water table. If the aquifer is shallow enough and permeable enough to allow water to move through it at a rapid-enough rate, then people can drill wells into it and withdraw water. The level of the water table can naturally change over time due to changes in weather cycles and precipitation patterns, streamflow and geologic changes, and even human-induced changes, such as the increase in impervious surfaces on the landscape.

The pumping of wells can have a great deal of influence on water levels below ground, especially in the vicinity of the well, as this diagram shows. If water is withdrawn from the ground at a faster rate that it is replenished, either by infiltration from the surface or from streams, then the water table can become lower, resulting in a "cone of depression" around the well. Depending on geologic and hydrologic conditions of the aquifer, the impact on the level of the water table can be short-lived or last for decades, and it can fall a small amount or many hundreds of feet. Excessive pumping can lower the water table so much that the wells no longer supply water—they can "go dry."

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgwaquifer.html

 

[Randolph Kinney]

El Niño’s Dark Side Could Bring More Trouble to California

El Niños occur when warmer-than-normal water in the equatorial Pacific works with the atmosphere above the ocean to change weather patterns around the world.

In the U.S., this can bring milder winters to the northern states and push the typical winter storm track further south.

The depression of that track is where things could start to go very wrong for California.

It plays out like this: Flooding rains sweep across the south, causing mudslides, damaging highways and homes and creating general mayhem. Meanwhile, almost no rain falls at all in the northern part of the state, where most of California’s reservoirs are, Anderson said Tuesday at a workshop on drought and assessment tools at the University of California at Irvine.

The end result is a natural disaster bill along with a fifth year of drought.

“Not only were we dry, but we were very dry in the climate zone that is very important: the Central Valley,” said Alex Tardy, a National Weather Service warning-coordination meteorologist based in San Diego.

Tardy’s concern took on greater urgency when workshop participants got the news that a daily U.S. Climate Prediction Center model suggested El Nino may have reached its peak already. The model shows it starting to weaken by January. That’s not the scenario anyone wants to see in a state that needs rain in December, January and February and must build up a significant snow pack in the mountains.

There’s another wrinkle. New research suggests that when snow piles up on parched soil, some of the runoff that would be collected by the reservoirs soaks into the ground instead, Haynes said.

There was very little snowpack in some of California’s mountains last year, so the ground is pretty dry.

In short, a lot can go wrong – a message that’s being repeated by experts across the West and that’s getting louder.

They said they worry that not enough people know about El Niño’s dark side and have heard only of the positives. It’s human nature to hope for the best.

“We torture the data until it tells us what we want to hear,” Haynes said. “Hopefully, it is wet everywhere.”

Even if that happens, there still may be a long road ahead for California.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2015/09/18/382166.htm