The man who could help decide Australia’s climate change policy is in the US attending climate sceptic conferences… Family First senator Steve Fielding’s vote could be crucial. Read more here. And the visit has generated mainstream media interest with Mr Fielding declaring himself sceptical of a direct link between carbon dioxide and global warming. Read more here [Interview June 3, with Tony Jones].
Climate & Climate Change
Low Clouds Cause Cooling
ACCORDING to NASA we are in for a period of low solar activity which means more cosmic rays getting through to earth. According to research at the Danish National Space Center more cosmic rays means more cloud nuclei in the lower atmosphere and thus more low bright clouds which reflect incoming sunlight having a cooling effect on planet earth.
And Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, explains at his blog how the climate modellers get cause and effect the wrong way around for these clouds:
Big Handouts for Climate Change
By 2011-12, carbon emission-related direct and indirect hand-outs for industry will constitute about half the total of overall Australian Government help to industry. In short, business has a new trough into which it can aim its ravenous snout. And lobbyists, industry associations and political parties will benefit. Read more.
Earth’s Atmosphere to Cool and Contract: NASA
THERE is a new forecast from a panel of international scientists who study the sun. In a media release from Science@NASA, Tony Phillips explains they predict that the sun will remain generally calm for at least another year and this means low solar activity which can have “a profound effect on Earth’s atmosphere, allowing it to cool and contract”.
Summarizing comment from the expert panel, Dr Phillips explains that “cosmic rays that are normally pushed back by solar wind instead intrude on the near-Earth environment.
The graph shows yearly-averaged sunspot numbers from 1610 to 2008. Researchers believe upcoming Solar Cycle 24 will be similar to the cycle that peaked in 1928, marked by a red arrow.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm
Enron’s Other Secret
Every penny that leaves the hands of consumers does so by design, the final step in elaborate and often brilliant orchestrations of public policy, all the more brilliant because the public, for the most part, does not know who is profiteering on climate change, or who is aiding and abetting the profiteers. Read more here.
Relative Humidity has been Falling
Correlation is not causation. But it is always exciting to see a good correlation between two variables that one assumes will correlate because of some theory or other.
According to the ‘Saturated Greenhouse Effect’, a controversial theory developed by Hungarian physicist Ferenc M. Miskolczi, adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will result in a reduction in relative specific humidity.
According to data from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, relative humidity has been generally trending down, especially at higher elevations, since 1948. [Read more…] about Relative Humidity has been Falling
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.
