Review of National Geographic “Cool It” Issue

The NGS has jumped the shark in preparing the Cool It issue in support of a new treaty at the Paris Conference in December. They prepared the issue based on a rise in temperature that exceeds 10F in 2100, even higher than the upper limits projected by the IPCC in its latest report. There is no science in the issue but they project a utopian solution to the problems.

They state the West Antarctic Glacier is near collapse and will raise the oceans by more than 4 feet in the next several centuries. They don’t indicate if CO2 ceases whether it will continue.

They show dramatic increases in weather events in the past 20 years. They say floods have increased by a factor of 3 and that local and regional storms have increased 5 time since 1980 in 2014. Looking at IPCC data, they seem to be from another planet.

There is a proposal for solar and wind by 2050 in US with 78 million roof top systems, 49,000 solar plants, 156,000 off shore wind turbines, and 328,000 land base turbines. This would need land equal to North Carolina. The cost is estimated at $47,000 for each American.   Fossil fuels would not be used after 2035 and gasoline cars would no longer be made. And the electric cost will be reduced by 5%.

They further propose a house that has 89 ft2 and recommend its wide use in urban areas. They propose transportation be walking or by bicycle and to use trains for long distances.

 

Winter Weather Forecast for Connecticut

After having a bitter cold winter last year and with a strong El Nino in play in the Pacific, the long term forecast for the winter this year is to have slightly warmer than normal temperatures. There was a very warm September that generally is followed by less than average snowfall. This will result in snowfall that is below normal. Statistically, this translates to about 30-35 inches of snow at Bradley International Airport.  Obviously, one major storm could completely bust the forecast.

Book Review: The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Change by Tim Ball

The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Change by Tim Ball is a book that reviews the history of the takeover of the climate science by scientists either driven by funding or politics starting in the 1980s. He asserts that the climatological science has been set back 30 years and that scientists in the future will lose credibility. The book is a history of the people and groups who used unwarranted fear of human-caused climate change to undermine science.  Vast sums of money are spent on scientists who agreed to climb aboard the global warming gravy train. This book is easy to read and may be conducive to possibly changing the minds of policymakers that have an open mind.   It is a more general book than Climate Change..The Facts.

 

Book Review of Climate Change..The facts

I recently read the book Climate Change..The Facts  (available from Amazon) that was edited by Alan Moran from essays written by numerous scientists that argue against the AGW. There is little continuity among the various essays, which are generally written on a single topic. Many of the essays are entirely factual and the general reader would find it difficult to understand without a background in meteorology.

The book seems to be designed to state what is wrong from an historical view and to present the facts for future readers rather than to try to convince the reader that something can be done to stop the government from plowing forward with their agendas. A summary of each of the essays can be found in the Amazon listing by looking inside at the introduction and each essay is 5 to 10 pages. There are more than 50 pages of references to scientific journals which makes it a good reference book.