Illegal for Sea Level to Rise in North Carolina.



www.newscientist.com/article/dn21951-the...olina.html?full=true

It would be funny if dults like these didn't dominate the legislative branch in this country. But at least they didn't legislate that sea level isn't rising - so I guess that passes for progress these days.

a lighter take on the issue...
www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report...-word---sink-or-swim

The recent news release concerning the melting glaciers in Glacier National Park seems somewhat deceptive. I am a National Park Service retiree. I started my career in Glacier National Park in 1963 and attended my first park staff meeting in September of 1963.

At that meeting the United States Geological Survey staff presented the results of their annual glacier monitoring program and reported that the park glaciers were continuing to shrink. They assured the park staff that the glaciers would eventually disappear, but would not make any time predictions.

The park superintendent thanked the USGS for their effort and took the opportunity to remind the staff that the park was named Glacier because of the park topography that was formed by the action of continental glaciers thousands of years ago, not because glaciers existed in the park. It was understood and accepted by the National Park Service and the United States Geological Survey that the park glaciers were a remnant of the last ice age and would eventually melt.

It is disconcerting to hear government professionals now blame the ice melting on anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming.

The USGS wondered 50 years ago why glaciers remained in the park when the mountains north and south of the park at the same elevations did not have glaciers. The USGS of 50 years ago also would not have claimed that the disappearance of glaciers would result in uncontrolled wildfire threats. A review of the hydrology involved is needed.

The park master plan that was in place at the time specified a visitor center at the foot of Lake McDonald and the park staff was recommending an audio-visual presentation in a theater facing the head of the lake. The presentation would illustrate on screen a glacial landscape followed by movement and melting of the ice and finally curtains would open to show the existing landscape.

One of the objectives was to show the park visitor what a glacier was and could do, because it was understood that they would soon be gone.

Why Seas Are Rising Ahead of Predictions: Estimates of Rate of Future Sea-Level Rise May Be Too Low


ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2012) — Sea levels are rising faster than expected from global warming, and University of Colorado geologist Bill Hay has a good idea why. The last official IPCC report in 2007 projected a global sea level rise between 0.2 and 0.5 meters by the year 2100. But current sea-level rise measurements meet or exceed the high end of that range and suggest a rise of one meter or more by the end of the century.




www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121101153549.htm

Glaciers all over the world have been melting for at least the last 50 years, and the rate of melting is speeding up. Many glaciers in Alaska and other parts of the United States have shrunk dramatically.

Maximum warming is predicted to occur in the middle and upper tropical troposphere.

Fresh hockey sticks from the Southern Hemisphere

www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2...southern-hemisphere/

When Steve McIntyre asked for the full data, she refused. Gergis has an activist past which she has recently tried to hide. She was proud to mention in her biography that her data has been requested from 16 nations: So requests from Tunisia, Cuba, and Brazil are OK; but Canada — not so much. Apparently she didn’t appreciate his expertise with statistics and told him to get the data himself from the original authors, and added ” This is commonly referred to as ‘research’. We will not be entertaining any further correspondence on the matter. “

IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation's most senior weather experts warned yesterday.

Once again UAH gets it wrong. I never did trust Spencer and his satellite data. He needs to spend more time doing his job and getting his data right and less time advocating his homespun climate theories for the denialist groupies that read his blogsite.


New Research Brings Satellite Measurements and Global Climate Models Closer


ScienceDaily (May 7, 2012) — One popular climate record that shows a slower atmospheric warming trend than other studies contains a data calibration problem, and when the problem is corrected the results fall in line with other records and climate models, according to a new University of Washington study.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507151209.htm
1.Stephen Po-Chedley, Qiang Fu. A bias in the mid-tropospheric channel warm target factor on the NOAA-9 microwave sounding unit. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2012; : 120123121514002 DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00147.1

BS Detector Coming


www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/bull-beware-tr...s-sentences-in-news/

The contributions to this forum from several notable individuals ought to light up like a christmas tree.

Federal Agency Encourages Its Scientists to Speak Out

blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...ntists-to-speak-out/

www.cnn.com/2011/12/07/world/europe/floo...ther-2011/index.html
Floods, landslides, fire and drought: Extreme weather the norm in 2011

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208173647.htm

Paleoclimate Record Points Toward Potential Rapid Climate Changes


ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2011) — New research into Earth's paleoclimate history by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not abated

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.


....."In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354....-runs-the-world.html

Cooling the Warming Debate: Major New Analysis Confirms That Global Warming Is Real


ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2011) — Global warming is real, according to a major study released Oct. 20. Despite issues raised by climate change skeptics, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study finds reliable evidence of a rise in the average world land temperature of approximately 1°C since the mid-1950s.



www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111021144716.htm