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Not Evil Just Wrong

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HOLLYWOOD loves a movie full of dire predictions about the end of the Earth.   Of course global warming has been all the rage with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth winning an Oscar.  Although I did prefer The Day After Tomorrow in which a climatologist, played by Dennis Quad, tried to save his son in New York from an ice age.

There is a new movie due for release on October 18, Not Evil Just Wrong, which explores society’s interest in Armageddon-type scenarios with a particular focus on the cost, and potential costs, of the policies following concerns about DDT and AGW [anthropogenic global warming].

I was lucky enough to be given a sneak preview of the feature length documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney last week.   [Read more…] about Not Evil Just Wrong

IPCC Climate Modeller: World Might Cool

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Mojib Latif predicts that in the next few years a natural cooling trend will dominate because of cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). He told 1,500 climate scientists in Geneve recently: we could be about to enter one or even two decades during which temperatures cool. Read more here.

Marine Cloud Whitening: Best Solution to AGW?

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WASHINGTON, DC – After deliberations into the best responses to global warming, an Expert Panel of five top economists including three Nobel Laureates concluded that greater resources should be spent on research into climate engineering and green energy.

The Expert Panel’s findings highlight the problems with the current political focus on carbon taxes, and underscore the vast promise shown by alternative responses to global warming.

The Expert Panel scrutinized 21 ground-breaking research papers by top climate economists that analyzed the costs and benefits of different responses to global warming, ranging from a focus on black carbon mitigation to climate engineering and varying levels of carbon taxes. Based on an analysis of the new research, they created a prioritized list (overleaf) that outlines the best and worst ways to respond to climate change.

The Expert Panel concluded that the most effective use of resources would be to invest immediately in researching marine cloud whitening technology (where boats spray seawater droplets into clouds above the sea to make them reflect more sunlight back into space, reducing warming).  [Read more…] about Marine Cloud Whitening: Best Solution to AGW?

More on Californian Bushfires

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“I moved from San Francisco to the LA area about a month ago so am experiencing the fires from a little closer vicinity. The local news
told us that the areas on fire last burnt about 1929! The brush is 20ft high in many places! After a week of burning they finally pulled
in the larger drop aircraft including the DC-10.” Vernon.

Record Warm Sea Surface Temperatures

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Sea Surface Temperatures Spencer v2SCIENTISTS at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) recently announced that the average global sea surface temperatures in July was 62.6 degrees F making it hotter than the previous record of 1998 and the hottest since record-keeping began in 1880.

The record average is from satellite based measurements and was initially disputed by some sceptics including climate scientists Roy Spencer, University of Alabama, Huntsville. Dr Spencer initially attributed the error to a data processing blunder at NOAA, but has since conceded the blunder in the calculations was his.   [Read more…] about Record Warm Sea Surface Temperatures