Another week of GW News, January 31, 2010

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Damn, how can you keep up with this??

after 2 articles my eyes start to glaze over and I just stop reading beyond the first paragraph of many of these.

are there no summaries of the summaries of the news?

I hear ya, Jerry! It is on my wish list to follow these posts with a "best of".

Any volunteers?

Are the peer reviewed? :-)

Speaking of which, it appears Jones has a lot of explaining to do:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-emails-climate…

There is also the question of scientific fraud, which should be investigated, unless truth is no longer the goal. What the climate change community in general has done is to ignore this crucial aspect of the scientific process.

The great IPCC scam continues to unravel, the latest piece of bull shit is this:

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch15s15-7-2.html

This scandalous piece of fabrication came from a tourist operator here:

http://climatequotes.com/2010/02/01/ipcc-cites-boot-cleaning-guide-for-…

Essentially the IPCC cut and paste what they said but added the words "climate change". When will this sudden fall from grace end?

crakar

Ha ha. I know you don't believe anything you say here. You are so clever!!!

Mandas,

Did the IPCC use an Antarctic tourism guide as a reference in AR4? Did the IPCC reword it to include the words "climate change".

Simply answer yes or no to both questions please.

Its going to get ugly watching the once complicent media start trying to back peddle out of the AGW quagmire they find themselves in. You know the tide has turned when the media start printing stories they have had kept under wraps for years.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/01/climategate-intensifies-jones-and…

My dear, my very dear Crakar . . . .

Once again you did even read your own links.

Again though, what is great about you is you keep us allâwith the possible exception of yourselfâhonest. I never would have gone out looking for this link so you are my shortcut.

How section 15.7.2 âEconomic activity and sustainability in the Antarcticâ of IPCC *really* reads:

The multiple stresses of climate change and increasing human activity on the Antarctic Peninsula represent a clear vulnerability **(see Section 15.6.3)**, [my emphasis] and have necessitated the implementation of stringent clothing decontamination guidelines for tourist landings on the Antarctic Peninsula (IAATO, 2005).

This in fact, is exactly the block quote your own link at âclimatequotesâ cited, but unlike the IPCC report, your source did *not* provide the hyperlink to Section 15.6.3, so people like you (who would never bother to look anyway once they found something that conformed to their narrative) or me (who in fact did) would be in minimal danger of finding the truth. Section 15.6.3 is the crucial evidence, not the clothing guide, because it is in 15.6.3 that all the scientific studies for the impact of global warming on the Anarctic *are* cited.

It is thus *utterly false*--repeat *utterly false* that the IPCC

cites a boot and clothing cleaning guide as evidence that the "multiple stresses of climate change...have necessitated the implementation of stringent clothing decontamination guidelines".

Your source blatantly ripped the crucial words â . . .and increasing human activity on the Antarctic Peninsula represent a clear vulnerability (see Section 15.6.3) . . .â. to twist the meaning of the paragraph.

He obviously had you fooled, Crakar. (Yawn . . . narratives . . . )

But stunts like that don't fool people who check their sources, mate.

But keep toiling; Iâve always said youâre at *least* as important to this blog as I am.

Skip

What is even more interesting about this latest bullshit from crakar and the denialist community is how much it represents the typical denialist strategy of quote mining. The section of the IPCC Report referred to is clearly entitled:

"15.7.2 Economic activity and sustainability in the Antarctic"

which to my obviously uneducated mind means they will be discussing the implications of climate change on economic activities in the Antarctic, of which tourism is an obvious topic.

The FULL quote (not the small section ripped by the denialists) says:

"...Fishing and tourism are the only significant economic activities in the Antarctic at present. Over 27,000 tourists visited Antarctica in the 2005/06 summer and the industry is growing rapidly (IAATO, 2006). The multiple stresses of climate change and increasing human activity on the Antarctic Peninsula represent a clear vulnerability...etc"

It then goes on to say:

"...Significant research since the TAR has focused on the impact of climate change on Arctic indigenous populations, and accordingly, this chapter has placed an emphasis on these segments of the population. However, the impacts on the wider population need also be considered, and in particular, the economic impacts, which are difficult to address at present due to the dearth of information...."

To address these problems, the IPCC recommends:

"Uncertainty: Impacts of multiple drivers (e.g., increasing human activities and ocean acidity) to modify or even magnify the effects of climate change at both poles.

Recommendation and Approach: Development of integrated bio-geophysical and socio-economic studies."

So, in a chapter on (inter alia) tourism in Antarctica, where the document states it will study some of the impacts on tourism operators and what issues they face, the Report provides information on exactly that. And they reference, not a boot cleaning guide as is asserted, but a paper presented by the peak tourism body (the IAATO) to a meeting of the inter-governmental treaty body. The aim of the paper was, as per the title, to discuss:

"The Introduction and Detection of Diseases in Antarctic Wildlife: IAATOâs Perspective"

and what steps the opeators had to undertake, including the decontamination of tourist's clothing.

So once again crakar, if you had done your research instead of just cutting and pasting crap from the flat-earth society, you might actually know what you are talking about. Alas, all our advice to you to this effect have been wasted. You sir, are a fool. But worse than that, you are not just a naive fool, you are a deliberate fool, because you have been shown where you are wrong, you just refuse to accept it.

I put a long winded post up here for you Skip but it never made it through so will have another go this time i will include the deluded Mandas.

Have you ever heard of desease control? here are two examples i have encountered in my life time. Firstly if i drive a few hundred k's up the road i will drive into the fruit fly exclusion zone where i will be stopped and my car inspected for fruit that could harbour the fruit fly larvae. This ensures the fruit fly cannot migrate into a fruit growing area.

Secondly a few years ago i was working in NZ (and no Skip i did not bang a sheep so put it away)at times i had to trudge through farmers paddocks or maybe fields for you Skip to get to remote equipment. At the same time there was an outbreak of foot and mouth desease in the UK so the Aust Gov. activated quarintine measures at airports etc. Upon my arrival home customs checked my BOOTS and CLOTHING for any foreign material.

I am sure both of you have experienced a similar thing, or maybe not.

Now onto Antarctica, Antarctica is a remote continent as we all know and it would be a good idea not to introduce any foreign deseases/insects etc so the tourism company have a policy to ensure this does not happen, i suspect it would be enforced by some gov regulation.

Now we have the IPCC who in their wisdom now claim the Antarctic in under stress from foreign invaders based on a tourism companies policy of clean boots and clothing a policy which as i said before is more than likely enforced, is their a peer reviewed scientific study that claims the Antarctic is in fact under any stress from such a thing?

Then the IPCC throw in the scary "climate change" to somehow show that in fact the Antarctic is really under stress and it will all be melted by 2035 or was that 2013....sorry got a little carried away and got my booga booga stories mixed up.

Oh by the way you know how all these morons keep banging on about "all the reefs will dissappear i tells ya" stories based on acidification and warming of the oceans, well it appears that the shallow reefs near Florida are in fact dying but not from warming but from the COLD. I am sure that you will now tell me that in the bizzaro world of AGW, AGW will in fact make the oceans colder and kill all the reefs.

Another week of GW News, January 31, 2010

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Information overload is pattern recognition

January 31, 2010

Laugh. I dare ya:

Copenhagen post mortems continue:

Speculation on the usefulness and fate of the Copenhagen Accord came with the end of the month deadline:

A handy scorecard for Copenhagen Accord pledges:

The BASIC block meeting last weekend gave rise to statements and comments:

Don't you just love these contradictory headlines? Agenda? What agenda?

COP-16 positioning has begun:

A somewhat surprising paper on stratospheric water vapour caused a stir:

The 2010 Environmental Performance Index, implicitly ranking nations, came out this week:

The WGMS released its latest mass balance report this week:

Oh joy! Usama chimes in. I can just see the right wing deniers twisting this:

The campaign to discredit Pachauri, the IPCC and climate scientists in general continues:

And on the Bottom Line:

Cold snap commentary:

Frank et al. have provided another angle on estimating climate sensitivity:

The World Economic Forum in Davos gave rise to several climate articles:

And on the other side of the world, the World Social Forum was largely ignored by the MSM:

For a while this week, it looked like China was taking a natural variation tack:

640k Gates posted a roundly critisized essay this week:

Meetings coming up:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Tropical Storm Olga plagued the north coast of Australia, while Nisha blew around the mid Pacific and numbered storms formed in the Indian Ocean:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

India inadvertently demonstrated the uselessness of intensity reductions:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Yes we have feedbacks:

Aerosols are making their presence felt:

As for ozone:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Corals are dying:

Acidification is changing the oceans:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

While in the endless quest for zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

Before we get into politics, there was some science done:

More DIY science:

Hansen, again:

Schwartz et al.:

And on the carbon trading front:

The Tobin tax is back:

As for GW & security:

The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world as nations scramble to deal with climate change:

Polls! We have polls!

And on the American political front:

In a little noted ruling, the SCOTUS put the kibosh on a federally directed grid:

In a regulation liable to have major repercussions, the Securities Exchange Commission has ruled all companies listed on the stock exchange must publish a climate risk statistics:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The State of the Union [SOTU] speech came in for a lot of comment:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

After pledging to lower the country's emissions by 17% [from 2005 levels by 2020], the administration pledged to lower the government's emissions by 17% [from 2005 levels by 2020], causing some confusion among the unwary:

Obama's embraces nuclear power?

As for what is going on in Congress:

Kerry-Boxer, Waxman-Markey or whatever -- the future climate bill -- defines a battleline:

What are the lobbyists pushing?

While in the UK:

CRU broke the British FOI law in ignoring the skeptics' data requests: