Four inconvenient facts about global warming at #COP21 display

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CFACT has participated in the UN climate process going back to the original Rio Earth summit. We are an officially recognized NGO observer at COP 21. CFACT’s display is in the NGO pavilion at booth 37c. We used our space to inject four “inconvenient facts” into the COP. They are the kind of rock solid, 100% scientifically valid points that leave the warming-indoctrinated spluttering.


Here they are:




INCONVENIENT FACTS: TEMPERATURE


“Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.11 C per decade” – University of Alabama, Huntsville

“The troposphere has not warmed as fast as almost all climate models predict.” “After 1998, the observations are likely to be below the simulated values, indicating that the simulation as a whole are predicting too much warming.” – Remote Sensing Systems

“Satellite analysis of the upper atmosphere is more accurate, and should be adopted as the standard way to monitor global temperature change.” – NASA, April, 1990
There is a “robust” cosmic ray-global temperature relationship… and thus provide further corroboration of the solar/cosmic ray theory of climate of Svensmark et al. – National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Aug 2015

“Assuming the proposed cuts are extended through 2100 but not deepened further, they result in about 0.2°C less warming by the end of the century compared with our estimates. – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy and Climate Outlook, 2015

“Using the peer-reviewed climate model MAGICC, I estimate the marginal impact of carbon reduction promises called INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) from the EU, USA, China and the rest of the world, along with the likely global policy output. My major finding is that the total effect is very small: less than 0.05°C difference by the end of the century.” – Global Policy, Nov. 2015

All countries’ commitments from Paris = less than 0.05°C difference by the end of the century.





“Absolute global sea level rise is believed to be 1.7-1.8 millimeters/year.” – NOAA

“Tide gauge records along coastlines provide evidence that mean sea levels (MSLs) have risen since the late nineteenth century with globally averaged rates of 1.33–1.98 mm per year… There has been “underestimation of possible natural trends of up to ~1 mm per year erroneously enhancing the significance of anthropogenic footprints.”
– University of Siegen, Nature Communications, July, 2015

“According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.”
“Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,”
NASA

“Global sea level is less sensitive to high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations than previously thought.”
Stanford, Geology, August, 2015

Island nations not sinking.
“No islands have been lost, the majority have enlarged, and there has been a 7.3% increase in net island area over the past century (A.D. 1897–2013). There is no evidence of heightened erosion over the past half-century as sea-level rise accelerated. Reef islands in Funafuti continually adjust their size, shape, and position in response to variations in boundary conditions, including storms, sediment supply, as well as sea level. Results suggest a more optimistic prognosis for the habitability of atoll nations.”
Geology, March, 2015


“The global population of polar bears is about 26,000 bears. This is up 1,000 bears from 2014. Estimations are between 25,000- 30,000 bears globally.” – International Union for Conservation of Nature

“Arctic sea ice is increasing, with the extent of ice at the highest it has been since 2004.
Denmark Ocean and Ice Services

“Arctic sea ice persisted in the James and Hudson bays well into August of 2015. it was reported that the worst mid-summer ice conditions in 20 years was preventing the routine delivery of supplies by ship.” – NASA

“Sea ice in at least three Eastern Canadian polar bear subpopulations was well above normal for 2015.” – Canadian Ice Services
Arctic sea ice is up by at least a third after a cool summer in 2013. “It would suggest that sea ice is more resilient perhaps,” says Rachel Tilling, University College London.” – The Guardian, July 2015



“We have identified considerable inter-annual variability in the frequency of global hurricane landfalls,” the authors state, “but within the resolution of the available data, our evidence does not support the presence of significant long-period global or individual basin linear trends for minor, major, or total hurricanes within the period(s) covered by the available quality data.”
Journal of the American Meteorological Society, July 2012

“There is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.
IPCC 5th Assessment Report

“There is low confidence in any long term increases in tropical cyclone activity … and low confidence in attributing global changes to any particular cause.” Any increased hurricane damages “have not been conclusively attributed to anthropogenic climate change; most such claims are not based on scientific attribution methods.” There is “low confidence” for trends on tornadoes, and “the evidence for climate driven changes in river floods is not compelling.”

IPCC 5th Assessment Report
“When closely examined there appears to be no increase in extreme weather events in recent years compared to the period 1945–77, when the Earth’s mean temperature was declining. The global warming/extreme weather link is more a perception than reality (Khandekar et al. 2005). The purported warming/extreme weather link has been fostered by increased and uncritical media attention to recent extreme weather events. The latest IPCC documents appear to de-emphasize the warming/extreme weather link by suggesting ‘low confidence’ in linking some of the events to recent warming of the climate.”<

The Global Warming Extreme Weather Link, GWPF, 2013

– See more at: http://www.cfact.org/2015/12/04/cfa...b56-856b5262e4-269639569#sthash.KXIatACj.dpuf
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More than 70 flood warnings and more than 70 flood alerts are in place in northern England while in Scotland more than 90 flood warnings and alerts are in place, and some main roads closed due to landslides and flooding.

Flood waters are expected to reach their peak later as Storm Desmond continues to cause severe disruption across northern England.

More than 60,000 residents are without power, while eight rescue centers have been opened in as emergency services battle against rising flood waters.

Adrian Holme, from Fire and Rescue Service, said flooding was "unprecedented" as the rivers burst their banks and water levels were rising close to the top of flood defense barriers.

John Curtin, executive director of flood management at the Environment Agency said provisional figures from a rain gauge showed 352mm of rain had fallen in 24 hours.

If verified this would be a new UK record.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron was caught in the floods.



http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35019021
 
Funny how when big business depends on climate for their bottom line they demand action to stop global warming.
Ski industry takes climate change head on



In September, as world leaders began preparing for the Paris climate change negotiations this week, the ski industry sent a letter of stern words to President Barack Obama. But it also mentioned a silver lining.

“Failure to act now on climate is unacceptable, and will result in damage to the environment, tourism and the economy,” said the letter, which was endorsed by 13 trade groups and associations, including the National Ski Area Association. “This is the greatest opportunity of our time.”

The letter was indicative of a new, unified approach by the ski industry and its partners, one that emphasizes solutions, not the worrisome climate-change science.

“We aren’t calling people who don’t believe in climate change stupid,” says David Ingemie, president of the SnowSports Industries America, a trade association representing retailers and manufacturers. “More people are listening and it’s less confrontation.”

Individuals point to a myriad of reasons for this new tone. Some cite Protect Our Winters, a group of athletes, with moderating its approach. Other say they have been persuaded by the market-based approach advocated by Bob Inglis, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina. But few talk about the science.

“When you talk doom-and-gloom, that turns more people into deniers. They think things are hopeless,” says Geraldine Link director of public policy for the National Ski Areas Association, a trade association for ski area operators, operators and suppliers in the United States.

“That has been a huge shift in the dialogue within the ski industry, that recognition that all of that doom-and-gloom is not having any effect on Washington decision-makers or on everyday people.”

Solutions, she says, draw interests from conservative lawmakers. “When you’re in Washington, the most productive conversation is about solutions, and that occurs more frequently than you would expect,” she explains. “Even the most conservative offices in Washington like to talk about solutions. They like to talk about efficiency. And so if we talk about U.S. independence and better energy security for the future, many, many offices in Washington are willing to engage in that conversation.”

Unmistakable warming trends, however, have also given resort operators an incentive to speak up.

“Fifteen years ago, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort was called too high, too cold and too far,” says Jerry Blann, president of the resort company. “I like to say that climate change is working on that middle one.”

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort had 20 record warm days last winter; records go back 40 years. In the nearby town of Jackson, the annual snowmobile hill climb in March was canceled for the first time ever, because of warm temperatures.

Blann says the ski industry always has had skeptics of climate change science. “But it’s less and less so,” he reports. “It’s somewhat the result of younger people getting into our industry, and it’s also a recognition that we’re getting a lot more warmer days.”

“A reasonable person has to wake up,” he adds. “We have to lean in and do our part.”

Multiple resorts—including Aspen Skiing and Vail Resorts—have also agreed to put their names on a full-page advertisement scheduled that ran Tuesday, Dec. 1, in the Wall Street Journal, mid-way through the Paris negotiations. Also signatories in the effect called lowcarbonUSA.org are Coca-Cola Company, QualComm, Hilton WorldWide and several dozen others.

The advertisement calls for an agreement that “provides long-term direction and periodic strengthening to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Centigrade. Climate scientists say that a 2 degree increases is almost certain, because of existing emissions. Much of the heat seems to be in the ocean, although there’s no guarantee it will stay there.”

Aspen and Vail in the past have approached climate change very differently.

Vail has focused on cleaning its own house. Chief executive Rob Katz in 2008 announced a goal of achieving a 10 percent across-the-board reduction in energy use. The company succeeded in just three years. He then set a goal of another 10 percent reduction by 2020. The company has already achieved a 7 percent reduction, reports Kelly Ladyga, vice president of corporate communications.

But Katz disavowed using skiing as the axis for making a climate change argument.

“You can count me out of the group that says we need to address climate change to save skiing,” he wrote in a December 2012 op/ed published in The Denver Post, then added: “But to the folks trying to alarm people with images of melting snow, here is the dirty little secret: When the effects of climate change really show up, no one will care about skiing at Aspen and Vail.”

Aspen, while reducing its carbon footprint, has robustly embraced advocacy. This winter, for example, cards are being given out to customers of the company’s hotels and four ski areas. The card describes the shifting climate in Aspen, 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the last 25 years, and correlates the shift to accumulating greenhouse gases. Aspen’s card also urges customers to contact elected officials about climate change.

Company representatives, including chief executive Mike Kaplan, have lobbied and testified in Washington D.C. Aspen Skiing also filed an amicus brief in a major lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. Massachusetts and other states and cities argued that the Environmental Protection Agency was obligated under the Clear Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The court agreed in 2007, leading to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electrical production 30 percent by 2030 as compared to 2005 levels.

The Clean Power Plan has been a fulcrum for ski industry advocacy in Utah and in New Hampshire.

Protect Our Winters has been active in coalescing support for the Clean Power Plan. The organization was formed in 2007 by pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones and grew to include other winter athletes. “Though we can dress up for meetings, in the end we are pro athletes, dirtbags and diehards; for us, winter is not just a passion, but a way of life,” the organization’s website explains.

Nathan Rafferty, chief executive of Ski Utah, a trade group, credits POW as the catalyst of change in his trade group. “I remember thinking it was the right fit,” he says. “They are one of us.” He says POW’s message resonated with the directors of Ski Utah.

“They really focused on the good things, what can be done, as opposed to the sky is falling, which really doesn’t leave a very good taste in our mouth,” he says.

Ski Utah then began investing its political capital. “We have some serious political clout in this state,” says Rafferty. “We are $1.2 billion industry in the state, and in a state of 3 million people, that’s a big deal. We feel the time is right to use that influence to make us a better place.”

Rafferty credits – as do others – the skills of Chris Steinkamp, the director of POW. “He has a real reasonable tone about him, and with him at the helm, it gave us a comfort level that this was a group we could engage in. Our goal is just to amplify POW’s voice and craft it in a way to use it locally, different than in California or in Colorado.”

A former marketer, Steinkamp says POW has been downplaying the gloomy science of climate change.

“Everything that was being predicted was coming true. There wasn’t any real upside to talk about the dire consequences any more. I think everybody had kind of understood that, and it was basically shutting people down,” says Steinkamp.

At the same time, renewable energy has become cheaper and more effective. “We had solutions,” says Steinkamp. Instead of the gloom changes, POW could talk about solutions.

In Lake Tahoe, Squaw Valley chief executive Andy Wirth has been cited both economic and environmental reason to support the Clean Power Plan in a September op-ed in the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Wirth detected a shift in the ski industry about five years ago, but before that, the strongest voice came from the Aspen Skiing Co.’s Auden Schendler. His alarm-bell message wasn’t particularly popular.

“Ten years ago Auden Schendler was considered a bit of a pariah,” says Wirth. “There were folks in the industry who didn’t think highly of him. He’s now regarded as a pioneer, and he has the bumps and bruises and scars to prove that.”

Schendler, now vice president of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Co., acknowledges change. “I think I have evolved,” he says. But the industry has also shifted toward his stance. NSAA’s SustainableSlopes Program now requires advocacy, not just in-house energy reductions.

http://www.summitdaily.com/news/19442453-113/ski-industry-takes-climate-change-head-on
 
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Progress at Paris talks as world leaders agree cardboard to go out on Tuesday night
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An agreement that cardboard for recycling will be put out on a Tuesday night has been reached at the UN climate summit in Paris. The historic deal will see cardboard across the developed world kerbside and ready for collection on a Wednesday morning, though it is acknowledged that some less developed countries may not manage until after lunchtime.


http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2015/12/5/climate-talks-progress.html
 
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