‘It is interesting to note that the authority of climate science has come to include moral issues so that these scientists can now assert unequivocally that “climate change is the moral issue of our time”. Presumably, this too is based on modelling, a General Morality Model perhaps. One wonders what values they use for their lying and exaggerating parameters.’ Walter Starck.
The Ocean Really is Cooling
THERE are 3,000 free-drifting buoys in the world’s ocean; first deployed in the year 2000 they allow continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean.
There has though been some difficulty in interpreting the data from these buoys. Initial signs of cooling were dismissed as due to technical errors subsequently corrected based on a small sample of the 3,000 buoys known as profiling floats.
Craig Loehle has analysed the data from only the profiling floats for ocean heat content from 2003 to 2008. In a paper recently published in the journal Energy and Environment he has concluded that there has been ocean cooling over this period.
This graphic is from figure 1 of the technical paper and shows the decline in ocean heat content (x1022J) smoothed with a 1-2-1 filter.
Dr Loehle’s findings are consistent with satellite and surface instrumental records that do not showing a warming trend over recent years.
Belief in AGW Declining
SINCE Gallup began tracking domestic sentiment on global warming in 1997, American views that climate change was being underestimated were at their highest in 2001 and 2006 (the year An Inconvenient Truth came out). The poll also saw declines from last year in the number of people who believe the effects of global warming are occurring now, and in the number that believe global warming will pose a “serious threat” in their lifetimes. Read more here.
West Antarctica To Collapse Again – But Not Soon
CLIMATE change has always been driven by the sun, the earth’s orbit and plate tectonics, at least that is what many so-called sceptic would argue.
In a new paper in this week’s journal Nature Tim Naish and colleagues conclude that there is a relationship between the past collapse of West Antarctic ice shelf and the earth’s orbit. In the same issue of Nature there is an article by David Pollard who, with Robert De Conto, ran a five-million-year computer simulation of the ice sheet and concluded that if surrounding waters increase by 5 degrees Celsius, it could melt in one thousand years or so.
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Shell To Speed Development of Next Generation Biofuels
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL has become the world’s largest distributor of biofuels. Shell is also a leader in the development of next generation biofuels, using non-food bio materials, alternative processes and high performance fuels. That’s according to a recent media release from the corportaion. It also states that:
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Weather Bureau Blows Budget on New SuperComputers
THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University will spend $30 million on two new supercomputers that will more accurately predict cyclones, tsunamis and the effects of climate change. Read more here.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.