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No, AUSTRALIA wildfires and the weather in 2019 are not evidence of climate change. Bush fires have a long and natural history down under. The fires have been more severe in the past than this year, for example as recent as 1974 much greater fires when there was fear of global cooling. Most important bush fires have not been a problem for most of the past two decades. The bush fires today cannot be evidence of a trend or climate change as they only provide statistics for the weather of one year. We need many decades or better yet centuries of bush fires to see if there is a trend.HOT DRY WEATHER DOES NOT CAUSE BUSH FIRES.Overwhelming evidence shows humans are to blame for bush fires either intentionally or accidentally. In fact the weather is unusually cold in Australia with record cold temperatures in parts of the country.Weather is not the issue as most of the fires are started by humans either intentionally or accidentally. In fact temperatures are record cold in many parts of Australia.25+ LOCATIONS ACROSS SOUTH AUSTRALIA HAVE JUST SUFFERED THEIR COLDEST JANUARY DAYS EVER — MAINSTREAM MEDIA SILENTJANUARY 6, 2020 CAP ALLONParts of South Australia have just shivered through some of their coldest January days on record — with Adelaide missing out on beating its 1970 record by just 0.7C.The temperature at Adelaide’s West Terrace weather station reached just 16.6C on Sunday — about 13C below the average for the time of year, and below the city’s previous lowest January max temp on record, the 17.1C from 1970.However, because of the controversial way the BOM now measures Australia’s maximum temperatures “as the highest reading during the 24 hours to 9am each day,” an observation of 17.8C at Adelaide’s West Terrace site just before 9am on Monday has gone down as the official max for the 24 hour period.So Adelaide may have narrowly –and conveniently– missed out, but more than 25 locations across South Australia have just endured their coldest January days on record, as reported by www.adelaidenow.com.au and quietly logged by the BOM.Just look at the temp departures during the first week of the year:25+ Locations across South Australia have just suffered their Coldest January Days ever - Mainstream Media Silent - ElectroverseOne very hot year of bush fires in Australia cannot possibly be evidence of climate change (distorted meaning human forced change). One year of weather hot or cold is just weather because the climate is chaotic and non-linear incapable of prediction more than a few days out and changes very slowly.There must be weather data for a long time at least measured in many decades or centuries or thousands of years to see any trend, otherwise the weather data for a year or decade is just noise and irrelevant until more data happens.CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNSEENClimate change is any significant long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a region (or the whole Earth) over a significant period of time. Climate change is about abnormal variations to the climate, and the effects of these variations on other parts of the Earth. W.ROSS MCKITRICK“Climate change is as remote from our experience as the world of atomic movements, and we are just as unable to see or experience it directly in our daily lives. But that is because climate is too large and slow to see, rather than too small and quick…When you look out the window, the weather you see is not climate. As with atoms and molecules, you can only get some idea of it through indirect means. There may be palm trees or there maybe snow outside to give you a clue, but you cannot actually see climate itself with your own eyes. Our knowledge and experience of it is fundamentally indirect, accumulated from years of experience or from the prevailing plant life. We often defer to elders and look at records accumulated over generations to get a sense of it.”Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warmingby Christopher Essex (Author), Ross McKitrick (Author) page 64.“We have shown, page after page, that certainty on the subject of the future direction of climate is impossible; that anyone who thinks we can predict the climate only courts the laughter of the gods...BLACK THURSDAY 168 Years Ago : Bushfires Burn 5 Million Hectares or A Quarter Of VictoriaPosted: February 7, 2019 | Author: Jamie Spry |Black Thursday, February 6th. 1851, as depicted by William Strutt in 1864“People have been imagining that the climate is changing,exaggerating every weather event, getting widespread press coverage,and blaming it on man – for as long as there have been newspapers.”– Tony HellerClimate Change Insanity Never Changes“The only way to get our society to truly change is tofrighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”– emeritus professor Daniel Botkin***THE Black Thursday bushfires were a devastating series of fires that swept through Victoria on February 6, 1851. They are considered the largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history, with approximately 5 million hectares, or a quarter of Victoria, being burnt. Twelve lives were lost, along with one million sheep and thousands of cattle.THE year preceding the fires was exceptionally hot and dry and this trend continued into the summer of 1851. On Black Thursday, a northerly wind set in early and the temperature in Melbourne was reported to have peaked at 47.2 degrees C (117 degrees F) at 11:00am.“The temperature became torrid, and on the morning of the 6th of February 1851, the air which blew down from the north resembled the breath of a furnace. A fierce wind arose, gathering strength and velocity from hour to hour, until about noon it blew with the violence of a tornado. By some inexplicable means it wrapped the whole country in a sheet of flame — fierce, awful, and irresistible.” (Wikipedia)…IN 1851, carbon dioxide levels were around 285 ppm. Today, carbon dioxide“pollution” levels are around 400 ppm.CLIMATE change alarmists, like Tim Flannery ,their ABC, and The Greens claim Australian bush fires are unprecedented and becoming more extreme, thanks to human carbon dioxide “pollution” emissions.THEY tell you this because the ultimate prize of the Climate Crisis Industry is the control of carbon dioxide (energy). Virtually every human activity, including breathing, releases carbon dioxide. Consequently, greenhouse gases have become weaponised in the global effort to control every aspect of your life and lifestyle.WHY AUSTRALIA’S BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY HIDES PRE-1910 TEMPERATURESOn February 6, 1851 – Melbourne was 117°F at 8AM. Data like this wrecks the global warming story, so BOM simply makes them disappear..ASSOCIATE editor at The Australian and Sky news presenter Chris Kenny hits back with logic and reason to the lazy correlation by Leftist media and celebrities who associate every weather event and bushfire to man’s emissions, in an effort to improve ones virtue and morality over the next.The inanity of a) pretending we haven’t always faced horrendous fire conditions b) pretending Australian action can change the climate while global emissions growth dwarfs anything we do.This debate is conducted at an embarrasssingly low intellectual level. Fact averse. Quentin Dempster on TwitterBLACK THURSDAY 168 Years Ago : Bushfires Burn 5 Million Hectares or A Quarter Of Victoria— Chris Kenny (@chriskkenny) February 4, 2019 Yes 2019 is a very bad bush fire time but look at the previous two decades where bush fires were modest and the fact in 1974 bush fires far exceed today. These anomalies mean it is impossible to attribute today’s fires to climate change. There is no trend up or down.Ref for data is Climate Fraud Could Crush Australia’s EconomyWhen you see there were almost no bush fires in 2018 you are surely fooled by randomness to think one swallow doth a summer make. Climate change does not start and stop like a yoyo.The fires are often started by humans sometimes deliberately for managing grassland. The Australian soil is enhanced with grass fires from time immemorial and in fact Aborigines have used fire sticks for this purpose. Sometimes controlled burns get out of control.Aboriginal burn practices again used on countryA recent burn conducted at a bush reserve near Wedderburn held significance beyond being a land management tool.Members of the Dja Dja Wurrung community applied the burning practices of their ancestors to Bush Heritage Australia’s Nardoo Hills Reserve, a parcel of land set aside for bush regeneration and conservation.“Our fire management practice, which we call Djandak Wii, is an obligation we have to the land, and we love to see the greater biodiversity it brings, and the gradual return to health it brings to country,” Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation chief executive officer Rodney Carter said.“BushfireIgnition SourceBushfires can originate from both human activity and natural causes with lightning the predominant natural source, accounting for about half of all ignitions in Australia. Fires of human origin currently account for the remainder and are classified as accidental or deliberate. Fires lit deliberately can be the result of arson or might be designed to achieve a beneficial outcome but conditions have changed, resulting in uncontrollable spread.Unfortunately deliberate and accidentally lit fires are more prevalent near populated areas and have a disproportionately higher risk of infrastructure impact. Arsonists place people and property at serious and unnecessary risk, particularly when igniting fires on extreme fire weather days.Where do bushfires occur?The Australian climate is generally hot, dry and prone to drought. At any time of the year, some parts of Australia are prone to bushfires. The widely varied fire seasons are reflected in the continent's different weather patterns. For most of southern Australia, the danger period is summer and autumn. For New South Wales and southern Queensland, the peak risk usually occurs in spring and early summer. The Northern Territory experiences most of its fires in winter and spring.Grassland fires frequently occur after good periods of rainfall which result in abundant growth that dries out in hot weather. Bushfires tend to occur when light and heavy fuel loads in Eucalypt forests have dried out, usually following periods of low rainfall.The potential for extreme fire weather varies greatly throughout Australia, both in frequency and severity. When potential extreme fire weather is experienced close to populated areas, significant loss is possible. In terms of the total area burnt, the largest fires are in the Northern Territory and northern areas of Western Australia and Queensland. Most loss of life and economic damage occurs around the fringes of cities where homes are commonly in close proximity to flammable vegetation.”Bushfire | Geoscience AustraliaBut weren't solar panels supposed to stop bushfires? Not a #ClimateEmergency it's a #ScienceEmergency. Don't leave a lot of fuel lying around. It's chemistry. 67 years of WA fires show..Climate Fraud Could Crush Australia’s EconomyPosted on December 28, 2019 by tonyhellerThe climate fear mongering being pushed by the press in Australia is off scale. Latest being that the five day Boxing Day cricket test match (Australia’s biggest sporting event according to MP Craig Kelley) is going to get too hot…>Climate Fraud Could Crush Australia’s Economy (Climate Fraud Could Crush Australia’s Economy)This year, which still has six weeks to run, sits fractionally behind 1984. Both are a long way behind 1974, when more than 3.5m hectares burned.COMMENTSCeri PhippsDecember 8, 2012 at 8:51 amI spent three weeks in the out back as a junior geologist doing field mapping back in 1986, I think it must have been October (ish) and I was on the north coast on the border of Wester Australia and the Northern Territories. While I was there, you could see wild fires every night in most directions. Mostly they were small areas burning at at any one time, and most were deliberately set to burn off dead grass to encourage the new growth. What surprised me, was although the fires would move through very quickly, you always ended up with a few old stumps and logs burning for up to a couple of days afterwards. We speculated that some of the bright spots you could see in the distance might be natural gas seeps burning, but we never investigated (we had other things to do) as I recall, the Australian geologist I was with referred to the night lights as ‘Ning Bings’JimboDecember 8, 2012 at 1:01 pmIf you want to know how to reduce fire risks in Australia – just ask the Indigenous Australians.Fire ecology and Aboriginal land management in central Arnhem Land, northern Australia: a tradition of ecosystem managementWe attribute the ecological integrity of the site to continued human occupation and maintenance of traditional fire management practice, which suppresses otherwise abundant annual grasses (Sorghum spp.) and limits accumulation of fuels in perennial grasses (Triodia spp.) or other litter. Suppression of fuels and coordination of fire use combine to greatly reduce wildfire risk and to produce and maintain diverse habitats. Aboriginal people derive clear economic benefits from this style of management, as evidenced by abundant and diverse animal and plant foods. However, the motives for the Aboriginal management system are complex and include the fulfillment of social and religious needs, a factor that remains important to Aboriginal people despite the rapid and ongoing transformation of their traditional lifestyles. The implication of this study is that the maintenance of the biodiversity of the Arnhem Land plateau requires intensive, skilled management that can be best achieved by developing co-operative programmes with local indigenous communities.http://tinyurl.com/d9qo7nnAs for earning carbon credits for what the have traditionally done is insane. A bit like paying oil companies for pumping co2 into wells when they have been doing it for almost 40 years now.http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=enhanced-oil-recoveryjanamaDecember 8, 2012 at 7:57 pmI agree with John Gardner – the bush fires in the top end occur in the winter and are all started by man. Station owners start them to get extra green grass for their cattle, indigenous peoples start them as it’s supposedly their tradition. Local land councils have people employed to start fires. Driving from Kununurra to Wyndham at dusk I noted fires had been lit every kilometer, the resultant fires burnt for days. From Broome in the west to Karumba on the Gulf was on fire!There’s a big difference between the original nomadic tribes wandering the area with a fire stick and a Toyota landcruiser troopee with 5 guys with diesel guns as occurs today.The burning of the top end of Australia every winter is IMHO one of the worst nature disasters on the planet. The vegetation can hardly survive it – small gum trees that have been ring barked by fire every year eventually give up and fall over – you see them everywhere. We called them “falldown trees” and they were great for firewood as they shattered into small pieces when they hit the ground. Broome to Fitzroy Crossing will eventually become like the Nullarbor – no trees – yet I eventually found a patch that hadn’t been burnt. It had tall beautiful trees, birds, roos and wildlife everywhere. The burning of the grasses takes away the seed for birds so you see few birds where there once used to be huge flocks. According to the owner of the Bird Park south of Broome whilst they continue the burning we’ll never see the huge flocks again.https://realclimatescience.com/2019/12/climate-fraud-could-crush-australias-economy/Man charged after allegedly starting fire with fireworksBy Sarah KeoghanIs climate change to be blamed for Australia’s fire?AllPhilip Brown, JD Law & Politics, St. John's University School of LawAnswered Nov 12No—in fact most scientists say there is no link between fires and Climate Change.Heat and hot weather do not cause fires! The Sahara Desert gets hotter and dryer and there ain’t no fires there!The biggest problem is the Green propaganda. The propaganda proscribes that everything in the forests/the bush to fully be allowed to grow. And there ought not be reasonable management and control of the forests. So, with all that can burn, it burns. Without management and control.That’s a helluva difference from Western Civilization. In which, the success of Western Civilization has been man’s ability to control nature. However, now we have developed this culture in which nature is glorified.And, as to the dryness of the forests, there is technology to do something about that—desalination, However, the Green movement opposes desalination. That is notwithstanding the people is Africa are starving due to the lack of water. Yet, the dogma provails.Philip BrownWith the impact of climate change, is Australia reaching a point where it becomes functionally uninhabitable for significant populations?Richard Simpson, lives in Sydney, AustraliaAnswered 10h agoMost of Australia has been “functionally uninhabitable for significant populations” since well before Western Settlement.Most of Australia has poor soils and low (or very intermittent) rainfall, which is why those parts of Australia do not now, and never have had “significant populations”.Australia is known as the “sunburnt country”, dry to an extent that other countries don’t understand. To try and give you some context, California (40 million people) has less than 20,000 firefighters. NSW (my state - 7.5 million) has more than 70,000 firefighters.Australia burns. Every year.But its critical lack is water. That is what makes parts of Australia unable to support significant populations.We have made it worse than it need have been, treating water like it was in boundless supply, granting “water rights” well beyond what can be supplied.For the last 20 years we have been working on ‘fixing’ that, but it is slow going, but we have to fix it if we are to thrive, so fix it we will.Is climate change making this worse?“climate change’ is a slow process, with small year-on-year effects, compared to the dramatic swings in the weather systems that bring “drought and flooding rains” - so it is hard to pick the “data” (from climate change) from the “noise” (the natural variation in the multi-year weather patterns).It is only when we look at multi-decade data that the trends become clearer - and even then it is possible that we are just seeing a multi-decade weather cycle. We don’t have enough recorded history to be sure.But yes, if climate change is indeed leading to a slow decline in rainfall across Australia (as the data suggests it is) then it will be an increasing problem for us, putting more and more pressure on our water supply and nibbling at the edges of what parts of Australia are lush and rich. (Note: I am using “lush” and “rich” in an Australian context, it would seem quite dry to a European)It is also possible that the warming of the oceans will result in dramatic changes in Australia’s weather and drive much more rainfall across currently arid regions. Possible but not likely and not something I would want to bet my kid’s future on.So in summary, climate change will likely present Australia with significant ongoing challenges to manage the impact, but we are a rich country with considerable skills and a functional political system (at least compared to much of the rest of the world) so I expect we will meet the challenges and Australia will not - even with a 4C world temp increase - become “functionally uninhabitable for significant populations”Much better to avoid the problem of course, but the world (and Australia’s Federal Government) appears intent on not acting in time to do that, so it seems we will just have to manage.With the impact of climate change, is Australia reaching a point where it becomes functionally uninhabitable for significant populations?It's weather, not climate change, Governor BrownGuest Blogger / February 16, 2018Weather, not human-caused CO2-fueled global warming, is responsible for California wildfiresGuest essay by Robert W. Endlich2017 featured incredibly intense, damaging wildfires in California: first the Wine Country fires of October, and later the massive Thomas Fire in December. Each destroyed hundreds of homes, the latter in many of the affluent suburbs and enclaves northwest of Los Angeles and Hollywood.The Thomas Fire is the largest in modern California history, with over 1000 structures destroyed. The fires and subsequent mudslides killed over 60 people and left many others severely burned or injured.California Governor Jerry Brown almost predictably blamed human-caused, carbon dioxide-fueled global warming and climate change, specifically droughts, as the cause of these conflagrations. During a December 9 visit to Ventura County, he again insisted that the drought conditions were the “new normal.” While acknowledging that California has experienced “very long droughts” throughout its history, he claimed that the returning dry spells of recent decades were “very bad” and would be “returning more often” because of manmade climate change.It’s a nice attempt to deflect blame from his state’s ultra-green policies and poor forest management practices. Moreover, Governor Brown is just wrong about the alleged role of manmade climate change, as an examination of meteorological and climate data demonstrates. NOAA’s rainfall records for California show rainfall slightly increasing in California over the 125-year period since rainfall records began.Meteorological conditions, as they develop over the course of a year, and during the multi-year El-Niño to La Niña cycles known as ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), result in conditions that favor wildfires in California. Fire is a part of nature, much to the consternation of those who blame manmade climate change, and much to the dismay of those whose lives are disrupted by wildfire events such as these.Of course, they can be – and are – worsened and even made catastrophic by failures to manage forests properly, especially when hundreds of homes are built near forests, and when weather and climate cycles intersect with those failures and incidents that start a wildfire.In the United States, the “Sun Belt” from California to Florida receives that name because a feature of global circulation causes descending air about 30 degrees north and south of the equator. At the surface, this “Hadley cell” is evident in high pressure monthly and annual means (or averages); it’s also called the subtropical high and subtropical ridge.In the northern hemisphere, the position and strength of the subtropical ridge changes over the course of the year, getting stronger and moving further north in the summertime.In California that poleward migration of the subtropical ridge diverts rain-producing storm systems poleward to the north, resulting in an almost complete loss of rainfall in the summer. The annual Los Angeles climatology illustrated in Figure 1 helps tell the story of the California wildfire season.With this information, if we think critically, the usual situation is for vegetation to sprout in wet winter months, grow – and then dry out because of the lack of summer rainfall, causing vegetation to be driest in late summer and early fall.This is exactly the situation described in a recent article that mentions October as the worst month for wildfires and quotes University of California fire expert Max Moritz, who says “By the time you get to this season, right when you’re starting to anticipate some rain, it’s actually the most fire prone part of the year.” Power line and other management failures increase the likelihood of disaster.Yet another factor is the failure or refusal of government agencies to permit the removal of dead, diseased and desiccated trees and brush from these woodlands – especially in the broad vicinity of these communities. In fact, California forests have 129 million dead trees, according to the US Forest Service. Together, these factors all but ensure recurrent conflagrations and tragic losses of property and lives.As autumn sets in, the first cold frontal passages and cold air masses build into Nevada and adjacent states, and a northeasterly pressure gradient develops over California. Because of atmospheric physics, a process called adiabatic compression causes hot, dry winds to develop, often quickly and dramatically.The Wine country fires of 2017 began suddenly during the evening of October 8, with development of the first fierce Diablo Winds of the season. Contemporary news accounts link the onset of ten fires within ninety minutes to PG&E power poles falling, many into dry trees. In one account, a Sonoma County resident said “trees were on fire like torches.”The Mercury News carried a story saying that Governor Brown had vetoed a unanimously-passed 2016 bill to fund power line safety measures. But the governor wants to spend still more money combating manmade climate change and compelling a major and rapid shift from fossil fuels to expensive, unreliable, weather-dependent wind and solar power for electricity generationThere was a significant cooling of Pacific Ocean temperatures from the peak of the 2015-16 El Niño to December 2017, such that La Niña conditions have developed in recent months. This distinct pattern shift brought distinctly drier conditions from southern California and Arizona to Florida and South Carolina.This pattern shift is part of the evolution of temperature and precipitation change areas characteristic of the ENSO sequence of events. Contrary to Governor Brown’s politically inspired assertions, it clearly is not the result of human-caused, CO2-fueled global warming.This brings us to the devastating Thomas Fire, which began on the evening of 4 December 2017, and was not completely contained by New Year’s Eve, 31 December. Behavior of this fire was controlled by a large-in-extent and long-in-duration Santa Ana Wind event, and like the previous Wine Country Fire, was dominated by high pressure over Nevada and persistent hot, dry, strong down-slope winds that commonly occur during such meteorological conditions.In short, it is meteorological conditions which create the environment for the spread of such fires. This year’s changeover from wet El Niño to dry La Niña conditions played a significant part in the atmospheric set-up for the 2017 fires.In Australia, it is widely accepted that fuel reduction actions are an accepted practice in fire management.This is not the case in the USA, where considerable debate still rages over the issue, and where environmentalists, politicians, regulators and courts have united to block tree thinning, brush removal and harvesting of dead and dying trees. The resulting conditions are perfect for devastating wildfires, which denude hillsides and forest habitats, leaving barren soils that cannot absorb the heavy rains that frequently follow the fires – leading to equally devastating, equally deadly mudslides.In fact, environmental regulations associated with ill-fated attempts to help the spotted owl have eliminated logging and clearing throughout California and most of the Mountain West – with catastrophic results. Special legislation has been drafted to begin to address this problem.However, it is uncertain whether the legislation will be enacted and whether timber harvesting and/or fuel reduction strategies can be implemented in time to address the fuel excesses that exacerbate these dangerous conditions, setting the stage for yet another round of infernos and mudslides that wipe out wildlife habitats, destroy homes and communities, and leave hundreds of people dead, injured or burned horribly. When will the responsible parties be held accountable, and compelled to change their ways?Remember Australia endured a very early and record cold winter in 2019 that filled the mountains with snow.Australia ski resorts in heaven with record snowfall this year.Mother nature often causes a balance with an unusually cold winter followed by an unusually hot summer.The Snowy Mountains Is A Year-Round Attraction in AustraliaA region well worth visiting while on your Australia vacation is the Snowy Mountains. Ideal during both summer and winter months.The Snowy Mountains Is A Year-Round Attraction in Australia | GowayThe media have been fooled by this chaotic randomness and have ignored the record winter snowfall because it doesn’t fit their bias to prove runaway warming.IN fact the record mountain snowfall in Australia in 2019 winter (our summer) is making the climate colder through the albedo process of reflecting as much as 90% of sunlight away. Mountain snow climate impacts last beyond the winter cooling temperatures.The media are distorting reality once again. Wildfires do not have a continuing impact like the snowfall albedo.Are Australia’s wildfires natures balance from unusually cold winter (August 2019)? The August 9-12 weather event in Australia was one of the longest cold stretches and greatest snowfall totals so far in this century, according to climate and atmospheric scientists.”It was cold in Australia last weekend | EarthSky.orgKangaroos in the snow in Lyonville, in Victoria’s central highlands. Image via Nicholas Dunand/The Conversation.Australian climate and atmospheric scientists noted that it was one of the longest cold stretches and greatest snowfall totals in Australia in the 2000s. They said that, although snow falls on Australia’s mountains almost every year, it “only rarely” spreads down onto the plains and cities. And they explained:Last weekend’s event was probably the most significant snowfall since 2000 in parts of Victoria north of the ranges, and in southern inland New South Wales. In central and northern New South Wales, the last snowfall on this scale was in 2015, while in the hills around Melbourne it was on a par with 2008.FORTUNATELY THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOR A GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”**90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”** (90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”)By P Gosselin (P Gosselin) on 4. July 2019*In 1517, a 33-year-old theology professor at Wittenberg University walked over to the Castle Church in Wittenberg and nailed a paper of 95 theses to the door, hoping to spark an academic discussion about their contents. **Source* (What Was Luther Doing When He Nailed His 95 Theses to the Wittenberg Door?). *The same is happening today in Italy concerning climate science as dogma*.**90 Italian scientists sign petition addressed to Italian leaders** (L'Opinione delle Libertà)**To the President of the Republic****To the President of the Senate****To the President of the Chamber of Deputies****To the President of the Council****PETITION ON GLOBAL ANTHROPGENIC HEATING (Anthropogenic Global Warming, human-caused global warming)**The undersigned, citizens and scientists, send a warm invitation to political leaders to adopt environmental protection policies consistent with scientific knowledge.In particular, it is urgent to combat pollution where it occurs, according to the indications of the best science. In this regard, the delay with which the wealth of knowledge made available by the world of research is used to reduce the anthropogenic pollutant emissions widely present in both continental and marine environmental systems is deplorable.But we must be aware that CARBON DIOXIDE IS ITSELF NOT A POLLUTANT. On the contrary, it is indispensable for life on our planet.In recent decades, a thesis has spread that the heating of the Earth’s surface of around 0.9°C observed from 1850 onwards would be anomalous and caused exclusively by human activities, in particular by the emission of CO2 from the use of fossil fuels in the atmosphere.This is the thesis of anthropogenic global warming [Anthropogenic Global Warming] promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations, whose consequences would be environmental changes so serious as to fear enormous damage in an imminent future, unless drastic and costly mitigation measures are immediately adopted.In this regard, many nations of the world have joined programs to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and are pressured by a intense propaganda to adopt increasingly burdensome programs whose implementation involves heavy burdens on the economies of the individual member states and depend on climate control and, therefore, the “rescue” of the planet.However, the anthropogenic **origin of global warming IS AN UNPROVEN HYPOTHESIS**, deduced only from some climate models, that is complex computer programs, called General Circulation Models .On the contrary, the scientific literature has increasingly highlighted the existence of a natural climatic variability that the models are not able to reproduce.This natural variability explains a substantial part of global warming observed since 1850.The anthropogenic responsibility for **climate change observed in the last century is therefore UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED and catastrophic predictions ARE NOT REALISTIC.**The climate is the most complex system on our planet, so it needs to be addressed with methods that are adequate and consistent with its level of complexity.**Climate simulation models do not reproduce the observed natural variability of the climate** and, in particular, do not reconstruct the warm periods of the last 10,000 years. These were repeated about every thousand years and include the well-known Medieval Warm Period , the Hot Roman Period, and generally warm periods during the Optimal Holocene period.These PERIODS OF THE PAST HAVE ALSO BEEN WARMER THAN THE PRESENT PERIOD, despite the CO2 concentration being lower than the current, while they are related to the millennial cycles of solar activity. These effects are not reproduced by the models.It should be remembered that the **heating observed since 1900 has actually started in the 1700s**, i.e. at the minimum of the Little Ice Age , the coldest period of the last 10,000 years (corresponding to the millennial minimum of solar activity that astrophysicists call Maunder Minimal Solar ). Since then, solar activity, following its millennial cycle, has increased by heating the earth’s surface.Furthermore, the models fail to reproduce the known climatic oscillations of about 60 years.These were responsible, for example, for a warming period (1850-1880) followed by a cooling period (1880-1910), a heating (1910-40), a cooling (1940-70) and a a new warming period (1970-2000) similar to that observed 60 years earlier.The following years (2000-2019) saw the increase not predicted by the models of about 0.2 ° C [two one-hundredths of a degree]per decade, but a substantial climatic stability that was sporadically interrupted by the rapid natural oscillations of the equatorial Pacific ocean, known as the El Nino Southern Oscillations , like the one that led to temporary warming between 2015 and 2016.The media also claim that extreme events, such as hurricanes and cyclones, have increased alarmingly. Conversely, these events, like many climate systems, have been modulated since the aforementioned 60-year cycle.For example, if we consider the official data from 1880 on tropical Atlantic cyclones that hit North America, they appear to have** a strong 60-year oscillation, correlated with the Atlantic Ocean’s thermal oscillation called Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation** .The peaks observed per decade are compatible with each other in the years 1880-90, 1940-50 and 1995-2005. From 2005 to 2015 the number of cyclones decreased precisely following the aforementioned cycle. Thus, in the period 1880-2015, between number of cyclones (which oscillates) and CO2 (which increases monotonically) there is no correlation.The climate system is not yet sufficiently understood. Although it is true that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, according to the IPCC itself the climate sensitivity to its increase in the atmosphere is still extremely uncertain.It is estimated that a doubling of the concentration of atmospheric CO2, from around 300 ppm pre-industrial to 600 ppm, can raise the average temperature of the planet from a minimum of 1° C to a maximum of 5° C.**This uncertainty is enormous.**In any case, many recent studies based on experimental data estimate that the climate sensitivity to CO2 is CONSIDERABLY LOWER than that estimated by the IPCC models.Then, it is scientifically unrealistic to attribute to humans the responsibility for warming observed from the past century to today. The advanced alarmist forecasts, therefore, are not credible, since they are based on models whose results contradict the experimental data.All the evidence suggests that **these MODELS OVERESTIMATE the anthropogenic contribution** and underestimate the natural climatic variability, especially that induced by the sun, the moon, and ocean oscillations.Finally, the media release the message according to which, with regard to the human causeof current climate change, there would be an almost unanimous consensus among scientists that the scientific debate would be closed.However, first of all we must be aware that the scientific method dictates that the facts, and not the number of adherents, make a conjecture a consolidated scientific theory .In any case, **the same alleged consensus DOES NOT EXIST.** In fact, there is a remarkable variability of opinions among specialists – climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, geophysicists, astrophysicists – many of whom recognize an important natural contribution to global warming observed from the pre-industrial period and even from the post-war period to today.There have also been petitions signed by thousands of scientists who have expressed dissent with the conjecture of anthropogenic global warming.These include the one promoted in 2007 by the physicist F. Seitz, former president of the American National Academy of Sciences, and the one promoted by the Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), whose 2009 report concludes that “Nature, not the activity of Man governs the climate”.In conclusion, given the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE THAT FOSSIL FUELS have for the energy supply of humanity, we suggest that they should not adhere to policies of uncritically reducing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere with THE **ILLUSORY PRETENSE OF CONTROLLING THE CLIMATE**.http://www.opinione.it/…/redazione_riscaldamento-globale-…/… (L'Opinione delle Libertà)**PROMOTING COMMITTEE:**ref. 90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC” (90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”)**Smoke And Deception Blanket Australia: NASA GISS Fudges Data, Cooling Turns Into Warming** (Smoke And Deception Blanket Australia: NASA GISS Fudges Data, Cooling Turns Into Warming)By P Gosselin (P Gosselin) on 3. January 2020**By ****Kirye** (キリエ on Twitter)and P GosselinWe’ve been hearing much fake news about the Australian bush fires supposedly having been caused by man-made climate change. Yet it has emerged that Australian authorities were warned years ago that poor land management practices were in fact escalating the risk of devastating fires, according to an expert.**Forest fuel level highest in 1000 years**In 2015, bush fire scientist David Packham warned (Bushfire scientist David Packham warns of huge blaze threat, urges increase in fuel reduction burns) of a “huge blaze threat” and urged an “increase in fuel reduction burns”.“Forest fuel levels had climbed to their most dangerous level in thousands of years,” wrote Darren Gray here (Bushfire scientist David Packham warns of huge blaze threat, urges increase in fuel reduction burns) in 2015. Today the public is being misled by climate alarmists and the media on the real causes of the devastating bush fires now taking place.In fact NASA data shows that the area burned by global wildfires dropped by 25% since 2003, according to the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) (NASA: Area Burned By Global Wildfires Dropped By 25% Since 2003 - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF))**Misleading temperature trends**Unfortunately, deception is not only taking place in the communication of Australian bush fires, but also authorities (NASA GISS) are grossly misleading the public in terms of temperature trends in Australia.What follows are the curves of six Australian station that go back to the late 19th century. The comparator shows the plots of GISS “unadjusted data compared to the “homogenized” data:*Data: **NASA GISS* (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data_v4_globe/)**Before the homogenization, the unadjusted data from 4 of the 6 stations showed cooling.**But after NASA changed the data, the cooling disappeared and all 6 stations showed warming!Looking at the three stations Yamba. Moruya and Darwin, here we see that NASA dropped the early part of the temperature record (because they showed warm temperatures?). The result of course is a greater warming trend.Look at NASA GISS data plots for Darwin Airport (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/stdata_show_v4.cgi?id=ASN00014015&dt=1&ds=15) for example. See the huge differences between the versions:So whenever people claim warming is man-made, they are right. But it’s not so much because of the CO2 emitted by man, but rather it is because of the statistical fudging of data at NASA GISS."Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" - Jacob Bronowski. Climate and energy news from Germany in English - by Pierre L. Gosselin "Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" - Jacob Bronowski. Climate and energy news from Germany in English - by Pierre L. Gosselin ("Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" - Jacob Bronowski. Climate and energy news from Germany in English - by Pierre L. Gosselin)

8 Unsolved Medical Mysteries That Still Stump DoctorsModern medicine still struggles to understand these rare and complex cases.The girl who never agedTONHOM1009/SHUTTERSTOCKBrooke Greenberg died at the young age of 20 in 2013. But she didn’t look like your average 20-year-old because her body stopped developing at the age of five. Her hair and nails were the only parts of her body that continued to grow year by year. Despite being born premature, doctors remained perplexed as to why she stopped aging. Numerous DNA studies showed no abnormalities in her genes associated with aging. Nor did her parents have a history of abnormal development. Plus, all her sisters were normal and healthy. Scientists continued to refer to her condition as Syndrome X, a metabolic syndrome. Yet, her unusual condition remains unexplained by science. On the other hand, here are 13 unsolved mysteries easily explained by science.Mermaid syndromeGOLFX/SHUTTERSTOCKSirenomelia is a birth defect that partially or completely fuses the legs together, similar to how a mermaid looks, thus the alternative name “mermaid syndrome.” Most newborns don’t survive for long with this anomaly but some children defy the odds like Shiloh Pepin who lived until she was ten or Tiffany Yorks, the oldest known survivor of the condition, who died at age 27 in 2016. But the exact cause of sirenomelia is still unknown in the medical world because most cases occur randomly for no reason. Due to this randomness, researchers believe a new mutation or environmental factors may play a role in the development of the disorder.Highly superior autobiographical memorySEANIDSTUDIO/SHUTTERSTOCKIf you give Jill Price a date, she can easily tell you what day of the week it fell on and what she did that day. Price was reported as the first known case of highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) in 2006. Since then, more adults and even children have been identified as having this ability. People with HSAM can recall almost anything from their memories in minute detail from events in their life to conversations they’ve had. The true mystery is why some people have this superhuman brainpower and others don’t. Brain images of people with HSAM have shown researchers that some parts of their brain structure are different from people who have a typical memory. But it’s not yet known if these brain differences cause HSAM or if they occur because the person uses areas of the brain associated with memory more.Water allergiesTERNAVSKAIA OLGA ALIBEC/SHUTTERSTOCKFewer than 100 people in the world have been diagnosed with aquagenic urticaria, a rare condition where people break out in hives or rashes every time they’re exposed to water. However, researchers have not found an underlying cause for the condition. Some scientific theories suggest that the hives are caused by an allergen in the water or an interaction between the water and a substance found in or on the skin that generates a toxic material, which causes hives. Some doctors recommend patients only bathe in or drink purified water (that is, if the condition is allergen-based), but an effective treatment still has yet to come to fruition due to limited data on this rare condition.Stiff person syndromeBLAZEJ LYJAK/SHUTTERSTOCKThis rare, progressive syndrome known as stiff person syndrome (SPS) can cause people to experience extreme stiffness, rigidity, and painful spasms in their muscles. Sometimes, these muscle spasms are so strong they can even fracture bones. When the central nervous system, specifically in the brain and spinal cord, has decreased inhibition, it can cause a person’s muscle activity to increase, which can result in SPS. Scientists think the syndrome may have an autoimmune component and research has indicated that it may occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks the brain and spinal cord. Although scientists are on the cusp of discovering what could cause this disabling disorder, they still have yet to understand everything about SPS.Disembarkment syndrome9NONG/SHUTTERSTOCKYou know that feeling you get when you feel wobbly after you disembark a boat? You’ve probably heard someone say you’re “getting your land legs back.” For most people, this feeling of being in constant motion usually goes away after a few minutes or hours. But some people suffer from disembarkment syndrome, a condition where their bodies and brains can never shake that feeling of swaying and rocking. Unfortunately, it’s a hard condition to treat and usually goes away within a year. And it’s not just limited to being out on a boat either; riding in planes, trains, cars, even elevators can cause it too. Unfortunately, doctors still aren’t sure what really lies behind disembarkment syndrome. People who get migraines and women ages 30 to 60 are more likely to get it, but experts are uncertain if hormones play a role or how migraines could be linked.Morgellons disease9NONG/SHUTTERSTOCKPeople with this skin condition typically feel like something is stinging or crawling all over their skin. Unfortunately, Morgellons disease is an uncommon skin condition, characterized by small fibers or particles emerging from skin sores, that modern medicine still doesn’t understand. Some doctors think the condition is all in the patient’s head and try to treat them with cognitive behavioral therapy, antidepressants, antipsychotic drugs, or counseling, while others in the medical field think the fibers could be caused by an infection from the bacterium Agrobacterium, commonly found to cause tumors in plants. As researchers attempt to study the cause of this mysterious disease, there’s still no official guidelines on diagnosis and treatment.The boy who doesn’t feel hungryOKSANA GUSEVA/SHUTTERSTOCKIn October 2013, Landon Jones, a 12-year-old boy from Iowa, suddenly woke up without an appetite or thirst. It only took a year for the boy to go from a healthy 104 pounds to a meager 68 pounds. Doctors were baffled by his condition after countless brain scans, psychiatric evaluations, and medical evaluations for digestive problems or eating disorders showed nothing. Some doctors wonder if he suffers from a rare brain dysfunction, particularly in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls hunger and thirst. In 2014, his parents reached out to the National Institutes of Health to help evaluate Landon and possibly treat him for this rare disease. But there’s been no news to-date to say if doctors have determined a diagnosis.Source 8 Unsolved Medical Mysteries That Still Stump Doctors

Yes, the evidence is piling up and the public are seeing they have been mislead by politicians spouting false science by government decree. There is no global warming or climate crisis to worry about. The earth is cooling not warming. Temperatures are declining not increasing and this is a matter of real live observation not dodgy computer models.The best minds including those in support of global warming say there is no evidence that extreme weather is a consequence of global warming. Think about the fact weather starts at the equator and moves North and South to the poles. The variability of the weather is the direct result of the differences in temperature between the equator and the poles so as the poles warm there is less difference and this would reduce severe variability. It is not happening especially as to snow.This reality is the very reason the 2000 strong IPCC scientists and many more put winter weather in issue is their belief it would be evidence of global warming. They all predicted in 2001 winters would become moderate global warming.Finally the earth is cooling and not warming and the fear must be a return of the brutal winters and flooding seen during the Little Ice Age. Canadian temperatures are falling and snowfall that the UN predicting would moderate is increasing.PRACTICALLY ALL OF CANADA IS COVERED IN SNOWNOVEMBER 6, 2019 CAP ALLONIt’s been a record-snowy start to the Northern Hemisphere’s 2019 Winter Season, and the stats confirm it.Data from Rutger’s Global Snow Lab (GSL) reveals that practically ALL of Canada is currently covered in snow — a feat that hasn’t been achieved this early in the season (Nov 05) since records began in 1998.The GSL also reveals that Canada’s snow cover has been growing substantially since 2017, with the past 3 years coming out as the top 3 snowiest ever (by early Nov).NOAA’s North America Snow & Ice Chart reveals the same.And also worth noting is the snow-cover in Russia — some 85% of the massive transcontinental nation is currently buried under early-season snow, again a feat rarely achieved at this time of year:· GSL· NOAACanada’s and Russia’s astonishing totals combined are driving the Northern Hemisphere’s snow mass into uncharted territory:”POST NAVIGATIONFinland’s Coldest-Ever Autumn Temperature has just been Smashed + Snow-Depth at its Highest Level in [at least] 60 YearsWave after Wave of Polar-Cold will Crash into Australia this Month”Practically ALL of Canada is Covered in Snow - ElectroverseWinter weather was put in play as relevant to the UN IPCC projections of global warming.Does climate change or global warming affect the frequency of snow?James Matkin, former Deputy Minister at Government of British Columbia (1974-1983)Climate change is not synonymous with global warming except in the minds of alarmist thinkers. Climate change includes both cooling and warming and freezing temperatures are the legacy of cooling not warming.The condition precedent to increasing snowfall must be much more from the fall in temperatures than from the alleged increase in precipitation. Freezing temperatures happen under global cooling, not under global warming. It is a delusion to think that warming or lake effect snow is increasing the frequency of snowfall unless you realize that global warming is not happening.SNOWFALL will become “A very rare and exciting event…Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”Dr David Viner – Senior scientist, climatic research unit (CRU)“Winters with strong frosts and lots of snowlike we had 20 years ago will no longer exist at our latitudes.”– Professor Mojib Latif (2000)“Good bye winter. Never again snow?” – Spiegel (2000)“Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms” – IPCC (2001)“End of Snow?” – NYTimes (2014)WHAT THE ‘VAST BODY ‘ OF SCIENTIFIC ‘EXPERTS’ ASSURED US ABOUT SNOWCRU :IN 2000, climate expert Dr David Viner of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) assured us that :Snowfall will become “A very rare and exciting event…Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”Dr David Viner – Senior scientist, climatic research unit (CRU)SNOWFALL Will Become “A Very Rare And Exciting Event…” | Climatism*U.N. IPCC :IN 2001, the UN IPCC predicted diminished snowfalls as human CO2 increased, claiming that “milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms” due to the activities of mankindpersonkind…IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeTHEY also forecast “warmer winters and fewer cold spells, because of climate change…”warmer-winters-ipcc*CSIRO :A 2003 CSIRO report, part-funded by the ski industry, found that resorts could lose up to 40% of their snow by 2020 …CSIRO Research Publications Repository – Climate change impacts on snow in VictoriaBy 2020, the average annual duration of snow-cover decreases by between five and 48 days; maximum snow depths are reduced and tend to occur earlier in the year; and the total area covered in snow shrinks by 10-40%CSIRO Research Publications Repository – Climate change impacts on snow in Victoria*THE SCIENCE OF SNOWFALL WAS ‘SETTLED’ BY THE ‘97% CONSENSUS’2000 : Prediction from Professor Mojib Latif of Germany’s GEOMAR Heimholtz Centre for Ocean Research…“Winters with strong frosts and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will no longer exist at our latitudes.” – Professor Mojib Latif2000 : Spiegel…“Good bye winter. Never again snow?”2004 : Mark Lynas told us…“Snow has become so rare that when it does fall – often just for a few hours – everything grinds to a halt. In early 2003 a ‘mighty’ five-centimetre snowfall in southeast England caused such severe traffic jams that many motorists had to stay in their cars overnight. Today’s kids are missing out . . . Many of these changes are already underway, but have been accelerating over the last two decades. Termites have already moved into southern England. Garden centres are beginning to stock exotic sub-tropical species, which only a few years ago would have been killed off by winter…” – Mark Lynas2005 : Christopher Krull, Black Forest Tourism Association / Spiegel…Planning for a snowless future: “Our study is already showing that that there will be a much worse situation in 20 years.”2005 : George Monbiot on climate change and snow…Winter is no longer the great grey longing of my childhood. The freezes this country suffered in 1982 and 1963 are – unless the Gulf Stream stops – unlikely to recur. Our summers will be long and warm. Across most of the upper northern hemisphere, climate change, so far, has been kind to us…2006 : Daniela Jacob of Max Planck Institute for Meterology, Hamburg…“Yesterday’s snow… Because temperatures in the Alps are rising quickly, there will be more precipitation in many places. But because it will rain more often than it snows, this will be bad news for tourists. For many ski lifts this means the end of business.”Less Snow and Drier Summers in German Forecast | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 30.04.20062006 : The Independent‘s somber editorial admonished us that the lack of snow was evidence of a “dangerous seasonal disorder”…The countryside is looking rather peculiar this winter. It seems we have a number of unexpected guests for Christmas. Dragonflies, bumblebees and red admiral butterflies, which would normally be killed off by the frost, can still be seen in some parts of the country . . . Some might be tempted to welcome this late blossoming of the natural world as a delightful diversion from the bleakness of this time of year. But these fluctuations should be cause for concern because it is overwhelmingly likely that they are a consequence of global warming . . . all this is also evidence that global warming is occurring at a faster rate than many imagined…2007 : BBC “One Planet Special”…“It Seems the Winters of Our Youth are Unlikely to Return” presenter Richard Hollingham … speaks to climate scientists to get their views. Their conclusion? In the words of the BBC, they all give “predictions of warmer winters, for UK & the Northern Hemisphere”.2007 : Schleswig Holstein NABU…“Ice, snow, and frost will disappear, i.e. milder winters” … “Unusually warm winters without snow and ice are now being viewed by many as signs of climate change.”2007 : Western Mail (Wales Online) … article, entititled “Snowless Winters Forecast for Wales as World Warms Up” quotes one of the global warming movement’s key figures, Sir John Houghton, former head of the IPCC and former head of the UK Met Office…Former head of the Met Office Sir John Houghton, who is one of the UK’s leading authorities on climate change, said all the indicators suggest snowy winters will become increasingly rare He said, “Snowlines are going up in altitude all over the world. The idea that we will get less snow is absolutely in line with what we expect from global warming.”2007 : Die Zeit…“First the snow disappears, and then winter.”2008 : Another prediction…A study of snowfall spanning 60 years has indicated that the Alps’s entire winter sports industry could grind to a halt through lack of snow. It found a dramatic “step-like” drop in snowfall at the end of the 1980s which has never recovered, New Scientist magazine reported…. In some years the amount that fell was 60 per cent lower than was typical in the early 1980s, said Christoph Marty, from the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, who analysed the records. “I don’t believe we will see the kind of snow conditions we have experienced in past decades,” he said.2012 :Enjoy snow now . . . by 2020, it’ll be gone | The Australian2012 :Griffith associate professor Catherine Pickering says snow is rapidly disappearing because of global warming and by 2020 Australia may not have any left.“We’ve predicted by 2020 to lose something like 60 per cent of the snow cover of the Australian Alps,” Professor Pickering, from the Griffith School of Environment, said.“Unfortunately because our current emissions and our current rises in temperatures are at the high end of the predictions, it’s definitely coming to us sooner and faster.”2019 :A low-pressure system will bring snow during Friday through Saturday, mostly above 1400m, but possibly reaching 1200m, followed by another cold surge and more snow during Sunday into Monday. All up we can expect 20-40cm across all resorts…This season has already passed expectations… The latest reading from Spencer’s Creek a week ago was up at 228.8cm, which puts us well above average. But looking lower down at Deep Creek (1620m) and Three Mile Dam (1460m), snow depths are fairly average.2014 : the global warming theory-obsessed New York Times touted “The End of Snow?”…“The truth is, it is too late for all of that. Greening the ski industry is commendable, but it isn’t nearly enough. Nothing besides a national policy shift on how we create and consume energy will keep our mountains white in the winter — and slow global warming to a safe level.This is no longer a scientific debate. It is scientific fact. The greatest fear of most climate scientists is continued complacency that leads to a series of natural climatic feedbacks…”(Climatism bolds)The End of Snow? – The New York Times2017 : The Age’s resident global warming catastrophist Peter Hannam signalled the end of snow…Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope | The AGEAustralia’s ski resorts face the prospect of a long downhill run as a warming climate reduces snow depth, cover and duration. The industry’s ability to create artificial snow will also be challenged, scientists say.Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope | The AGE”BUT THE EXPERTS WERE DEAD WRONG AND RECORD COLD WINTERS WITH MASSIVE SNOWFALL ARE HAPPENING MORE OFTEN AROUND THE WORLD. SKI RESORTS ARE THRIVING.WHY? We are in an ice age and any warming is just recovery from earlier glaciers covering much of the globe including the US and Canada.Following are recent headline news stories documenting the record and early winter storms.UNITED STATESColorado ski resorts reporting record October snowfall for 2019-20 seasonArctic blast: SNOW and record-breaking cold temperatures across the U.S. today | CBS NewsA staggering 1,204 U.S. sites Recorded their Coldest-Ever October Temperatures last month – ElectroverseArctic Conditions Grip the United States – Rewrite the Record Books, this is Big – ElectroverseRochester shatters snowfall record on Veterans DayRochester shatters snowfall record on Veterans Day | RochesterFirst*ALGERIAMultiple Key Roads Blocked in Algeria Following Heavy Snowfall – Electroverse*FRANCEHeavy Early-Season Snowfall Paralyzes Southeast France – 330,000+ Homes left without Power – Electroverse*IRANMassive blizzard leaves Tehran a winter wonderland | The Times of Israel*MALLORCA, SPAINWhat?Snow in Mallorca?A premature onset of winter was troubling millions of Spaniards . In the northern half of the country, large parts of the country were covered with a thick and large white blanket early in the morning after heavy snowfall during the night. Snowfall fell to 700 meters in some regions. More than 80 roads, including major highways and highways, were closed or were nearly impassable for normal cars, the media said, citing the authorities.Was? Schnee auf Mallorca? | Euronews*SWITZERLANDNovember-Schnee-Rekord in Samedan | Wirtschaft | Bote der UrschweizSNOW ⋅ In Samedan in the Upper Engadine and in Santa Maria in the Münstertal, in November never so much snow has fallen as this year. The snow depth in the two Grisons municipalities was 77 and 71 centimetres respectively on Sunday afternoon.*GERMANYH/t @Havenaar64In Grisons, there was fresh snow up to 71 centimeters during the night on Sunday. That’s a record in November. It also snowed far into the lowlands.In Grisons, there was fresh snow up to 71 centimeters during the night on Sunday. That’s a record in November. It also snowed far into the lowlands – Saas-Fee mit Auto nicht erreichbar – News Panorama: Vermischtes – Nichts verpassen*AUSTRALIACLIMATE CRISIS AUSTRALIA : ‘2019 Is Officially Perisher’s Longest Ski Season In Memory’ | Climatism***NH SNOW COVER – OCTOBER, 2019Rapid NH Snow Cover Oct. 2019 | Science MattersThe image is an animation of IMS Snow and Ice charts for NH, starting October 1 to November 12, 2019 in weekly increments. Note how the white area was sparce to begin and then grew from a weekly area of 9M km2 to 23.5M km2 through the month of October. As shown in the graph from Rutgers Global Snow Lab (GSL), the October 2019 monthly average of 22.3 M km2 is the fifth highest in their record.nh-october2019-snow-coverOctober 2019 was 4.7M km2 above the mean October area of 17.5 M km2. That ranks fifth out of 52 years; along with 2014 and 2016 making three of the highest snow cover years out of the last six! (OMG.) As Dr. Judah Cohen has observed, Siberian October coverage is a significant factor in forecasting coming winter conditions.Rapid NH Snow Cover Oct. 2019 | Science MattersSNOWFALL Will Signal The Death Of The Global Warming MovementPosted: November 18, 2019 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: AlarmismBREAKING : ‘A Very Rare And Exciting Event’ To The Rescue | Climatism***“WE all associate snowstorms with cold weather. But, the effects of snow on our climate and weather last long after the storm has passed. Due to snows reflective properties, its presence or absence influences patterns of heating and cooling over Earth’s surface more than any other single land surface feature.CLIMATE models from the 1970s have consistently predicted that CO2-induced global warming climate change should be causing a significant decline in total snow cover. However, Global snow cover has actually increased since at least the start of the record (Connolly et al, 2019), leading to some scepticism within the scientific community about the validity of the climate models.”Ref. Jamie Spry.WRITTEN BY DONNA LAFRAMBOISE ON FEB 10, 2020. POSTED IN LATEST NEWSClimate Change Still Ranks As Low Priority In PollsRecently, I reported on a poll that Gallup has conducted in America every month of every year since 2001. Admirably, it makes no attempt to prompt or influence.It asks people to name the most important problem facing the country, then it records their answers.If one seeks honest, genuine insight into ordinary people’s lives, that’s a great approach.Pew Research Center, another American polling outfit, conducts a different kind of survey. For 25 years (from 1994 to 2019 inclusive), it has read members of the public a long list of pre-selected topics in random order. People have been asked to attach a label to each one.Should it be a ‘top priority’ for the President and Congress this year? Should it be a lower priority? Is it unimportant? Does it deserve no attention at all?In 2007, Pew added ‘global warming’ to this list of potential top priorities. In 2016, it started calling it ‘climate change’ instead.Last year, 44% of respondents told Pew that ‘Dealing with global climate change’ should be a top priority.That sounds significant until you notice that every single item on the list received at least 39% support.In such cases, raw percentages are meaningless. What matters is how a topic ranks compared to its fellows. Those results couldn’t be clearer.In 2019, climate change ended up in 17th place out of 18.70% of people said strengthening the economy should be a top priority.69% said reducing healthcare costs should be.68% said the education system needs attention.Those are very strong numbers, involving more than two-thirds of the population. What came next?4. ‘Defending the country from future terrorist attacks’ – 67%5. ‘Taking steps to make the Social Security system financially sound’ – 67%6. ‘Taking steps to make the Medicare system financially sound’ – 67%7. ‘Dealing with the problems of poor and needy people’ – 60%8. ‘Protecting the environment’ – 56%9. ‘Dealing with the issue of immigration’ – 51%10. ‘Improving the job situation’ – 50%11. ‘Reducing crime’ – 50%12. ‘Dealing with drug addiction’ – 49%13. ‘Reducing the budget deficit’ – 48%14. ‘Addressing race relations in this country’ – 46%15. ‘Strengthening the US military’ – 45%16. ‘Improving the country’s roads, bridges and public transportation systems’ – 45%17. ‘Dealing with global climate change’ – 44%18. ‘Dealing with global trade issues’ – 39%In other words, another long-running US poll tells us the public’s climate concerns are weak. Ask people if they care about it, and many will say ‘yes.’But they feel more urgency about a long list of other issues.‘Dealing with global warming’ ended up in second last place in 2007. Between 2008 and 2013, it ranked last (select a year and then ‘Overall’ here). Here’s what happened after that:2014: second last2015 second last2016 third last (the first year Pew began calling it ‘global climate change’)2017: second last (see bottom of the page)2018: second last2019 second lastMoral of the story: There has never been any evidence that climate change is a top concern for most Americans. This is not a crowd-pleaser or a vote-getter.GmailThe false claims of human induced global warming are contradicted by evidence that temperatures are not rising more than natural and many glaciers are expanding particularly the largest at the Antarctica. NASA reluctantly publishes this research about Greenland.Major Greenland Glacier Is GrowingJune 6, 2019JPEGJakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland is notorious for being the world’s fastest-moving glacier. It is also one of the most active, discharging a tremendous amount of ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet into Ilulissat Icefjord and adjacent Disko Bay—with implications for sea level rise. The image above, acquired on June 6, 2019, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows a natural-color view of the glacier.Jakobshavn has spent decades in retreat—that is, until scientists observed an unexpected advance between 2016 and 2017. In addition to growing toward the ocean, the glacier was found to be slowing and thickening. New data collected in March 2019 confirm that the glacier has grown for the third year in a row, and scientists attribute the change to cool ocean waters.“The third straight year of thickening of Greenland’s biggest glacier supports our conclusion that the ocean is the culprit,” said Josh Willis, an ocean scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and principal investigator of the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission.Major Greenland Glacier Is GrowingTHERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS FROM UNFOUNDED GLOBAL WARMINGThe recent petition this year from 90 Italian scientists with insightful reasons includes this view -“Finally, the media release the message according to which, with regard to the human cause of current climate change, there would be an almost unanimous consensus among scientists that the scientific debate would be closed.However, first of all we must be aware that the scientific method dictates that the facts, and not the number of adherents, make a conjecture a consolidated scientific theory .In any case, the same alleged consensus DOES NOT EXIST. In fact, there is a remarkable variability of opinions among specialists – climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, geophysicists, astrophysicists – many of whom recognize an important natural contribution to global warming observed from the pre-industrial period and even from the post-war period to today.There have also been petitions signed by thousands of scientists who have expressed dissent with the conjecture of anthropogenic global warming.”The full terms of the Italian petition follows -90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”By P Gosselin on4. July 2019NOTE: The English version of the petition that follows below is an unpolished translation of the original Italian version. The English version still needs to be polished up a bit, but it fully and accurately conveys the overall thrust of the original Italian version.In 1517, a 33-year-old theology professor at Wittenberg University walked over to the Castle Church in Wittenberg and nailed a paper of 95 theses to the door, hoping to spark an academic discussion about their contents. Source. The same is happening today in Italy concerning climate science as dogma.90 Italian scientists sign petition addressed to Italian leadersTo the President of the RepublicTo the President of the SenateTo the President of the Chamber of DeputiesTo the President of the CouncilPETITION ON GLOBAL ANTHROPGENIC HEATING (Anthropogenic Global Warming, human-caused global warming)The undersigned, citizens and scientists, send a warm invitation to political leaders to adopt environmental protection policies consistent with scientific knowledge.In particular, it is urgent to combat pollution where it occurs, according to the indications of the best science. In this regard, the delay with which the wealth of knowledge made available by the world of research is used to reduce the anthropogenic pollutant emissions widely present in both continental and marine environmental systems is deplorable.But we must be aware that CARBON DIOXIDE IS ITSELF NOT A POLLUTANT. On the contrary, it is indispensable for life on our planet.In recent decades, a thesis has spread that the heating of the Earth’s surface of around 0.9°C observed from 1850 onwards would be anomalous and caused exclusively by human activities, in particular by the emission of CO2 from the use of fossil fuels in the atmosphere.This is the thesis of anthropogenic global warming [Anthropogenic Global Warming] promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations, whose consequences would be environmental changes so serious as to fear enormous damage in an imminent future, unless drastic and costly mitigation measures are immediately adopted.In this regard, many nations of the world have joined programs to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and are pressured by a intense propaganda to adopt increasingly burdensome programs whose implementation involves heavy burdens on the economies of the individual member states and depend on climate control and, therefore, the “rescue” of the planet.However, the anthropogenic origin of global warming IS AN UNPROVEN HYPOTHESIS, deduced only from some climate models, that is complex computer programs, called General Circulation Models .On the contrary, the scientific literature has increasingly highlighted the existence of a natural climatic variability that the models are not able to reproduce.This natural variability explains a substantial part of global warming observed since 1850.The anthropogenic responsibility for climate change observed in the last century is therefore UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED and catastrophic predictions ARE NOT REALISTIC.The climate is the most complex system on our planet, so it needs to be addressed with methods that are adequate and consistent with its level of complexity.Climate simulation models do not reproduce the observed natural variability of the climate and, in particular, do not reconstruct the warm periods of the last 10,000 years. These were repeated about every thousand years and include the well-known Medieval Warm Period , the Hot Roman Period, and generally warm periods during the Optimal Holocene period.These PERIODS OF THE PAST HAVE ALSO BEEN WARMER THAN THE PRESENT PERIOD, despite the CO2 concentration being lower than the current, while they are related to the millennial cycles of solar activity. These effects are not reproduced by the models.It should be remembered that the heating observed since 1900 has actually started in the 1700s, i.e. at the minimum of the Little Ice Age , the coldest period of the last 10,000 years (corresponding to the millennial minimum of solar activity that astrophysicists call Maunder Minimal Solar ). Since then, solar activity, following its millennial cycle, has increased by heating the earth’s surface.Furthermore, the models fail to reproduce the known climatic oscillations of about 60 years.These were responsible, for example, for a warming period (1850-1880) followed by a cooling period (1880-1910), a heating (1910-40), a cooling (1940-70) and a a new warming period (1970-2000) similar to that observed 60 years earlier.The following years (2000-2019) saw the increase not predicted by the models of about 0.2 ° C [two one-hundredths of a degree]per decade, but a substantial climatic stability that was sporadically interrupted by the rapid natural oscillations of the equatorial Pacific ocean, known as the El Nino Southern Oscillations , like the one that led to temporary warming between 2015 and 2016.The media also claim that extreme events, such as hurricanes and cyclones, have increased alarmingly. Conversely, these events, like many climate systems, have been modulated since the aforementioned 60-year cycle.For example, if we consider the official data from 1880 on tropical Atlantic cyclones that hit North America, they appear to have a strong 60-year oscillation, correlated with the Atlantic Ocean’s thermal oscillation called Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation .The peaks observed per decade are compatible with each other in the years 1880-90, 1940-50 and 1995-2005. From 2005 to 2015 the number of cyclones decreased precisely following the aforementioned cycle. Thus, in the period 1880-2015, between number of cyclones (which oscillates) and CO2 (which increases monotonically) there is no correlation.The climate system is not yet sufficiently understood. Although it is true that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, according to the IPCC itself the climate sensitivity to its increase in the atmosphere is still extremely uncertain.It is estimated that a doubling of the concentration of atmospheric CO2, from around 300 ppm pre-industrial to 600 ppm, can raise the average temperature of the planet from a minimum of 1° C to a maximum of 5° C.This uncertainty is enormous.In any case, many recent studies based on experimental data estimate that the climate sensitivity to CO2 is CONSIDERABLY LOWER than that estimated by the IPCC models.Then, it is scientifically unrealistic to attribute to humans the responsibility for warming observed from the past century to today. The advanced alarmist forecasts, therefore, are not credible, since they are based on models whose results contradict the experimental data.All the evidence suggests that these MODELS OVERESTIMATE the anthropogenic contribution and underestimate the natural climatic variability, especially that induced by the sun, the moon, and ocean oscillations.Finally, the media release the message according to which, with regard to the human cause of current climate change, there would be an almost unanimous consensus among scientists that the scientific debate would be closed.However, first of all we must be aware that the scientific method dictates that the facts, and not the number of adherents, make a conjecture a consolidated scientific theory .In any case, the same alleged consensus DOES NOT EXIST. In fact, there is a remarkable variability of opinions among specialists – climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, geophysicists, astrophysicists – many of whom recognize an important natural contribution to global warming observed from the pre-industrial period and even from the post-war period to today.There have also been petitions signed by thousands of scientists who have expressed dissent with the conjecture of anthropogenic global warming.These include the one promoted in 2007 by the physicist F. Seitz, former president of the American National Academy of Sciences, and the one promoted by the Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), whose 2009 report concludes that “Nature, not the activity of Man governs the climate”.In conclusion, given the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE THAT FOSSIL FUELS have for the energy supply of humanity, we suggest that they should not adhere to policies of uncritically reducing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere with THE ILLUSORY PRETENSE OF CONTROLLING THE CLIMATE.http://www.opinione.it/…/redazione_riscaldamento-globale-…/…PROMOTING COMMITTEE:Uberto Crescenti, Emeritus Professor of Applied Geology, University G. D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, formerly Rector and President of the Italian Geological Society.Giuliano Panza, Professor of Seismology, University of Trieste, Academician of the Lincei and of the National Academy of Sciences, called of the XL, 2018 International Award of the American Geophysical Union.Alberto Prestininzi, Professor of Applied Geology, La Sapienza University, Rome, formerly Scientific Editor in Chief of the magazine International IJEGE and Director of the Geological Risk Forecasting and Control Research Center.Franco Prodi, Professor of Atmospheric Physics, University of Ferrara.Franco Battaglia, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Modena; Galileo Movement 2001.Mario Giaccio, Professor of Technology and Economics of Energy Sources, University G. D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, former Dean of the Faculty of Economics.Enrico Miccadei, Professor of Physical Geography and Geomorphology, University G. D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara.Nicola Scafetta, Professor of Atmospheric Physics and Oceanography, Federico II University, Naples.SIGNATORIES@MedBennett· Dec 15Imagine a world where people are stupid and brainwashed enough to believe that the planetary temperature can be controlled by sending more money to the governmentNEWLY PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC PAPER TEARS GLOBAL WARMING AND THE IPCC TO SHREDSDECEMBER 11, 2019 CAP ALLONA scientific paper entitled “An Overview of Scientific Debate of Global Warming and Climate Change” has recently come out of the University of Karachi, Pakistan. The paper’s author, Prof. Shamshad Akhtar delves into earth’s natural temperature variations of the past 1000 years, and concludes that any modern warming trend has been hijacked by political & environmental agendas, and that the science (tackled below) has been long-ignored and at times deliberately manipulated.The published paper –available in full HERE— sets out its intent:Climate change is NOT a new phenomenon. The palaeo-climatic studies reveal that during the Pleistocene and Holocene periods several warm and cold periods occurred, resulting in changes of sea level and in climatic processes like the rise and fall of global average temperature and rainfall.The United Nation’s politicizing of global warming/climate change (via the media and summits) has made it difficult to take another look at the subject’s scientific and academic status. But in this paper an attempt has been made to examine the complexity of the problem in the light of available facts related to the atmosphere and climate system:ENERGY SOURCES FOR THE HEATING OF THE ATMOSPHEREThe ultimate source of energy for the heating of earth’s surface and atmosphere is the Sun.Out of the total solar radiation that reaches the top of atmosphere, about 49% reaches the earth’s surface (insolation). 31% is reflected back to space, while 20% is absorbed by atmosphere.This shows atmosphere absorbs only 20% of solar radiation directly while earth’s surface is the major source of energy for the heating of atmosphere.WATER VAPOUR IS THE SINGLE LARGEST ATMOSPHERIC GAS RATHER THAN CARBON DIOXIDEPro human induced global warming scientists exaggerate the contribution of carbon dioxide as a major greenhouse gas in absorbing long wave earth’s radiation. The fact is water vapor is the single largest atmospheric greenhouse gas (2% by volume), Carbon dioxide is second (0.0385% by volume).Water vapor contributes 95% to the greenhouse effect, all other greenhouse gases combined contribute only 5%. Furthermore, the man-made portion of carbon dioxide contributes only 0.117% to the greenhouse effect.The IPCC does not consider water vapor a greenhouse gas in its reports.In addition, water vapor absorbs in a much wider band of long wave radiation (4-8 micrometer and 12-70 micrometer bands), whereas Carbon dioxide absorbs in narrow bands (13-16 micrometer) and ozone absorbs in a much smaller narrow band (9-10 micrometer). Thus, water vapor absorbs in a much wider wave length band, it has the single largest greenhouse effect among all the greenhouse gases.EARTH’S TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS DURING LAST 1000 YEARSEarth’s temperature was never constant.Instead, its past temperatures varied in cyclical patterns. Earth’s temperatures for the past 1000 years have been constructed on the basis of historical records, measured temperature data and several proxy data (ice core data, tree ring analysis, pollen analysis).Earth’s temperature pattern in the past 1000 years shows two relatively long cycles:The Medieval warm period from 950 AD to 1350 AD, followed by:The Little Ice Age from 1400 to 1900 ADAccording to Dr. Steffensen of Neil Bohr Institute of Geophysist, university of Copenhagen —who conducted 3km deep ice core study in Greenland— the Little Ice Age marked the lowest temperature in the last 8000 years of earth’s history, while the Medieval Warm period was about 1.5C warmer than the present day (needless to say, without the extensive burning of fossil fuels).SCIENTIFIC FACTS CONTRADICTING IPCC’S CLAIMS OF GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGEThere is a large group of scientists who strongly oppose IPCC’s claims of global warming caused by human activity.Some of the contradictions and neglecting factors are discussed further in Prof. S. Akhtar’s full paper, which can be downloaded HERE, but I’ve created a succinct snapshot of the topics below:COMPLEXITY OF THE EARTH’S CLIMATE SYSTEMEarth’s climate system consists of several interactive components — lithosphere (rocks), hydrosphere (water), cryosphere (sphere of ice), biosphere (living organism) and atmosphere (sphere of air). There are several subsystems of these spheres which interact and develop a complex system of climate system of the earth. Therefore, any forecast of climate system based upon selected parameters of stimulated computer model as used by IPCC for future projection and estimation can never give a real and correct picture of global warming/climate change.RECENT GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE IS BECAUSE OF NATURAL FACTORSIPCC reports were not allowed to consider natural factors of climate change — even though evidences on the basis of ice cores, tree rings and historical data confirm the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age which were caused by natural processes, like these:Change in Earth-Sun orbit shape and angle of earth’s axisVariations in solar radiation and activities, such as flares or sunspotsEFFECT OF URBANIZATION AND URBAN HEAT ISLANDUrban areas are much warmer than the surrounding open/rural areas because of the building materials, high density of buildings, high rise buildings, large number of vehicles and heat emissions. Since the 1970s, urban areas have grown rapidly in number and size all over the world. Very importantly, almost all the weather stations are located in cities. So rapid growth in urbanization has created a bias toward warmer temperature. This factor was also not considered by the IPCC.Even more telling, Prof. John Christi, an astrophysics of the university of Albama, studied ground recorded temperature and found temperature is rising while the weather satellite temperature data and air balloon recorded temperature show little change.GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF CLIMATIC STATIONS AND DATA BIASOnly 100 weather stations existed in 1875, all of which were located in Europe and North America. This number increased to 1,700 in 1975, and since then the number of stations has increased dramatically to 10,000 at present. Therefore, most of the stations did not exist prior to mid -1970s.Also, the majority of the stations are located on the continents of the northern hemisphere, in the mid-latitudes and in urban areas — meaning our climate data set is biased towards landmass.CREDIBILITY OF IPCC IS QUESTIONEDA major blow to IPCC credibility came on October 19, 2009 when thousands of documents and emails were leaked out by some computer hackers from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of UK’s East Anglia University. This leak came to be unimaginatively known as Climate Gate.The documents reveal misconduct of the top IPCC climate scientists in the UK and USA in creating manufactured data about the release of carbon dioxide through burning of fossil fuels and industries causing global warming. Some of the US governmental agencies like US National Climate Data Centre and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies were also involved in data manipulation.THE HOCKEY STICK GRAPHMichael Mann’s infamous ‘Hockey Stick’ graph has two major flaws.First, it shows that earth’s temperatures were below normal for a long period –1000AD to 1970s– then temperatures increasing dramatically since 1980s. And secondly, it also alters the long-accepted Medieval Warm Period (950 AD to 1350AD) so as to seem as colder than originally thought.It was found out that Mann’s graph was drawn on the basis of a very small ring samples (10 out of 85 samples) and by data manipulation and statistical exaggeration.Despite these shocking revelations, the ‘Hockey Stick’ is still used in all IPCC reports. Since the IPCC’s third report in the 2007, Mann’s graph has replaced the original one (which clearly identified the MWP) used in first and second reports — a change strongly criticized by many climate scientists.IPCC fraud revealed in two graphs.ASSESSMENTS OF IPCC ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING IMPACTS ON SEA LEVEL RISE AND GLACIER MELTING ARE INCORRECT AND OVERSTATEDAccording to IPCC reports issued 2007, global mean surface air temp has increased by 0.3C to 0.6C since the late 19th century. As a result of melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets, global sea level has risen by 15 to 20 cm over the past 100 years, and if this trend continues sea level will rise up to 50 to 80 meters by the end of 2100. Low land areas and islands like Maldives will submerge into sea water…Professor Nelis Axil of Stockholm University, and president of International Organization of Sea level change and coastal evolution, conducted several studies on the beaches of Maldives. He concluded that during last 50 years there has no permanent rise of sea level in the area…For a read of Prof. Akhtar‘s full —and published!— paper, click HERE.Akhtar gained a http://B.Sc. (Hons) in 1989, http://M.Sc (Geography) in 1990, and a Ph.D (Urban Geography) in 2004.Social Media channels are restricting Electroverse’s reach — be sure to subscribe to receive new post notifications by email (the box is located in the sidebar >>> or scroll down if on mobile).And/or become a Patron by clicking here: patreon.com/join/electroverseThe site receives ZERO funding, and never has.So any way you can, help us spread the message so others can survive and thrive in the coming times.Grand Solar Minimum + Pole ShiftNewly Published Scientific Paper tears Global Warming and the IPCC to Shreds - ElectroverseExposing the Global Warming ScamDecember 11, 2019 by Robert“Some very irresponsible folks are hyping and exaggerating the impacts of the minor global warming we have had so far, sending vulnerable folks into a panic…. it is just wrong, and the harm they are doing to members of our community is substantial and unconscionable…. it is unethical, ungrounded in science.”– Long-time professor of Atmospheric Sciences Cliff Maas_____________Here are excepts from an eye-opening exposé by long-time professor of Atmospheric Sciences Cliff Maas:Promoters of Climate AnxietyCliff MaasThere is a special place in the underworld for those who promote anxiety, desperation, and terror in the most vulnerable. A place where the infernal warmth is particularly torrid.And one does not have to spend much time looking for candidates for this netherworld–the front page of the Seattle Times will do fine.On Sunday, our local tabloid featured a story about fearful/desperate folks dealing with their apocalyptic fears about climate change, (with) a forest burning behind them. (See photos on Cliff’s blog.)Among certain vulnerable people in our region, talk of eco-grief and anxiety has become signs of psychological crises. The UW Bothell has entire class given over to eco-grief, and non-profits like Climate Action Families have sessions for folks that are paralyzed with fear and grief over climate change. Some local Seattle therapists are specializing in climate grief therapy, and even the UW has sessions for students: (See photo on Cliff’s blog.)But why stop at the borders of Seattle? Major media from the Guardian to the NY Times are covering climate anxiety, with anxiety-racked climate stars like Greta Thunberg are tearfully describing how their dreams and their childhood have been stolen by climate change.I have gotten so many calls and emails from desperate folks I can’t list them here. One woman tearfully told me her mother was desperately ill in California, but she couldn’t move to be with her because she was afraid of the effects of climate change in that state. Another woman called, terribly worried about fires in western Washington from global warming. A few others asked about where they should move to escape our local apocalyptical conditions.Global warming is a very serious issue, but most of the impacts are in the future. (I disagree with this part. I don’t think global warming is a serious issue at all.) There is much we can do to address global warming, both in terms of adaptation and mitigation. There is, in fact, much reason for optimism.So why are all these people so anxiety-ridden and desperate? I believe it is the unconscionable exaggeration, hype, and fear-mongering of our media, special interest groups, some activist scientists, and a number of politicians. And it is unethical, ungrounded in science, and hurting the most vulnerable among us.The Seattle Times is one of the worst offenders. I can provide a few dozen example of fear-mongering headlines, completely adrift from the truth. Like the June story claiming heat waves will claim hundreds of lives (actually 725) for each heat wave later in century (See photo on Cliff’s blog.) It was complete nonsense, with extreme assumptions about warming rates and assuming no one would buy an air conditioner.By the way, the stories in the Seattle Times are so confused, they can’t event get the key facts right, with one claiming carbon monoxide, not carbon dioxide is the problem (I kid you not – See photo on Cliff’s blog.)So the Seattle Times is both producing exaggerated, fear-inducing stories and covering the psychological damage those stories are creating. Is there something wrong here?Stories in a number of media outlets, amplified by special interest groups, talk about “tipping points”, and that it will be too late in 1, 10 or 12 years. No hope after that. Unfounded in the science. And enough to push some emotionally sensitive people over the edge.Here in the Washington State there are claims that recent fires are the result of climate change, and that it is about to get even worse. The truth is very different– there used to be MANY more wildfires in our region and the relationship of our fires with climate variations is very weak. But that hasn’t stopped irresponsible politicians from claiming just the opposite.The truth is that some very irresponsible folks are hyping and exaggerating the impacts of the minor (emphasis added) global warming we have had so far, sending vulnerable folks into a panic. And these irresponsible folks and individuals are painting an apocalyptic view of the future that is completely at odds with the best science. Some do it for more money (advertising clicks), some do it for political reasons, and others like the attention.But it is just wrong, and the harm they are doing to members of our community is substantial and unconscionable.Excerpts from the Cliff Mass Weather and Climate BlogPromoters of Climate AnxietyClifford F. “Cliff” Mass is an American professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. His research focuses on numerical weather modeling and prediction, the role of topography in the evolution of weather systems, regional climate modeling, and the weather of the Pacific Northwest. WikipediaThanks to Steven W. Little for these links“This article really highlights the disservice to society that AGW histrionics creates coming from those trying to profit from the AGW meme,” says Steven. “This will send the vulnerable people preparing for exactly the wrong climate outcome.”CategoriesArchives, Global Warming HoaxPost navigationGeorge Orwell would be astonishedStop the Madness19 thoughts on “Exposing the Global Warming Scam”tom0masonDecember 11, 2019 at 4:59 pm | ReplySo, people, while you freeze in your dark, intermittently powered homes and farmers go bankrupt as they struggle to feed the nations, the UN elites, their advocates and their Big Bank backers travel from around the world by jets, then fancy limousines, to stay in luxury hotels and eat some of the finest food in a warm exotic location.And from these exotic locations they can lecture you about how you are burning too much fossil fuels and blame you for increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere. They blame you for ice melting quite naturally. They blame you for the fictitious global temperature rises. They blame you for all the ills of the world. They (the UN) try to force your country’s, and every Westernized developed country’s governments, to restrict the use of fossil fuel to the detriment of you and you children.China and India (the biggest CO2 generating countries on the planet) do not have to abide by the Paris Accord, just Western developed democracies have to sign-up to it.These UN elites are phony, confidence tricksters, and liars pushing their ‘One World Order’ agenda.Stop the madness, say no to the UN and their ‘Paris Accord’.Bill BradskyDecember 11, 2019 at 5:53 pm | ReplySugar production in the US way down due to wet and cold weather this season. America will import more sugar this year than it has in 4 decadesExposing the Global Warming Scam