Posts Made By: Dave Snope

More than 17 times the claimed warming from CO2 doubling. Trenbeth and Dessler have to keep spinning like tops to keep this out of the public light.

From WUWT:

Oh dear, now we have three peer reviewed papers (Lindzen and Choi, Spencer and Braswell, and now Richard P. Allan) based on observations that show a net negative feedback for clouds, and a strong one at that. What will Trenberth and Dessler do next? Maybe the editor of Meteorological Applications can be persuaded to commit professional suicide and resign? The key paragraph from the new paper:


…the cloud radiative cooling effect through reflection of short wave radiation is found to dominate over the long wave heating effect, resulting in a net cooling of the climate system of −21 Wm−2.


After all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Spencer and Braswell paper in Remote Sensing, and the stunt pulled by its former editor who resigned saying the peer review process failed, another paper was published last week in the journal Meteorological Applications that agrees well with Spencer and Braswell.

This new paper by Richard P. Allan of the University of Reading discovers via a combination of satellite observations and models that the cooling effect of clouds far outweighs the long-wave or “greenhouse” warming effect. While Dessler and Trenberth (among others) claim clouds have an overall positive feedback warming effect upon climate due to the long-wave back-radiation, this new paper shows that clouds have a large net cooling effect by blocking incoming solar radiation and increasing radiative cooling outside the tropics. This is key, because since clouds offer a negative feedback as shown by this paper and Spencer and Braswell plus Lindzen and Choi, it throws a huge monkey wrench in climate model machinery that predict catastrophic levels of positive feedback enhanced global warming due to increased CO2.

The cooling effect is found to be -21 Watts per meter squared, more than 17 times the posited warming effect from a doubling of CO2 concentrations which is calculated to be ~ 1.2 Watts per meter squared. This -21 w/m2 figure from Richard P. Allan is in good agreement with Spencer and Braswell. Here’s the paper abstract, links to the full paper (which I located on the author’s website) follow.



http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/20/new-peer-reviewed-paper-clouds-have-large-negative-feedback-cooling-effect-on-earths-radiation-budget/#more-47761

Good gawd, has there ever been another president as clueless as Fresh Prince when it comes to diplomatic protocol? He's waving! You cannot make this stuff up. He's waving! What an idiot. He's blocking the face of another person! He's Mr. Bean.

NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 20: U.S. President Barack Obama waves while standing with other leaders during the Open Government Partnership event at the United Nations September 20, 2011 in New York City.

20,000 carbon sources (people) are made homeless and replaced by carbon sinks (trees). A vile example of carbon-cleansing in the name of corrupt profits generated from nothing for the global warmists. Does Al Gore own New Forests stock?

Armed troops acting on behalf of a British carbon trading company backed by the World Bank burned houses to the ground and killed children to evict Ugandans from their homes in the name of seizing land to protect against “global warming,” a shocking illustration of how the climate change con is a barbarian form of neo-colonialism.

The evictions were ordered by New Forests Company, an outfit that seizes land in Africa to grow trees then sells the “carbon credits” on to transnational corporations. The company is backed by the World Bank and HSBC. Its Board of Directors includes HSBC Managing Director Sajjad Sabur, as well as other former Goldman Sachs investment bankers.

The company claims residents of Kicucula left in a “peaceful” and “voluntary” manner, and yet the people tell a story of terror and bloodshed.

Villagers told of how armed “security forces” stormed their village and torched houses, burning an eight-year-child to death as they threatened to murder anyone who resisted while beating others.

“We were in church,” recalled Jean-Marie Tushabe, 26, a father of two. “I heard bullets being shot into the air.”

“Cars were coming with police,” Mr. Tushabe said, sitting among the ruins of his old home. “They headed straight to the houses. They took our plates, cups, mattresses, bed, pillows. Then we saw them getting a matchbox out of their pockets.”

“But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming,” reports the New York Times.

An Oxfam report documents how the British outfit has worked with the Ugandan government to forcibly expel over 20,000 people from their homes using terror and violence as part of a lucrative scramble for arable land that can be used to satisfy the multi-billion dollar carbon trading ponzi scheme, which is worth $1.8 million a year to the company.

“I no longer own any land. It’s impossible to feed my children – they have suffered so much. Some days all they eat is porridge from maize flour. When people can’t eat well their bodies become weak – there have been lots of cases of malaria and diarrhoea. Some days we don’t eat anything at all,” said former farmer Francis Longoli, whose land was stolen by New Forests.



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/world/africa/in-scramble-for-land-oxfam-says-ugandans-were-pushed-out.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/armed-troops-burn-down-homes-kill-children-to-evict-ugandans-in-name-of-global-warming.html

New paper finds solar energy at Earth's surface greatly increased between 1973 and 1998

A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research notes observations of the solar energy at the European earth surface significantly increased ~ 3.4 W/m2 per decade during the period 1973-1998. That would be a total of 8.5 W/m2 over the 25 year period. By way of contrast, the IPCC claims a doubling of CO2 levels results in 3.7 W/m2 additional forcing. CO2 increased from 330 to 366 ppm (11%) during that period, and 11% of 3.7 is 0.41 W/m2 in claimed CO2 forcing. Thus, the change in solar radiation impacting the Earth surface during that 25 year period of global warming is about 21 times greater than the alleged effect of CO2. Alarmists who constantly say they can't find any other possible explanation for global warming between the 1970's and 1998 besides the trace evil gas CO2 please take note. It's the Sun, stupid.


[along with amplification of variability in solar radiation due to clouds/aerosols]


JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, D18205, 13 PP., 2011
doi:10.1029/2010JD015396
Simulation of dimming and brightening in Europe from 1958 to 2001 using a regional climate model...

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-paper-finds-solar-energy-at-earths.html

This 100-year old stage trick is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DbVxyurHFhI

Uganda is not an isolated incident.

It's highly questionable that palm oil plantations have anything to do with offsetting carbon, let alone climate. But where there is public-money-for-nothing, there is corruption, and where there is corruption, little people are trampled. And starved. And killed. Because carbon credits are more important than local people's food supply.

Protests erupted in July when six international human rights advocacy groups presented a report to the EP detailing what they called murders and forced evictions of peasants in El Bajo Aguán Valley of northern Honduras. The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) report accuses UN-sanctioned palm oil mills of stealing farmland from Honduran natives and killing or wounding them when they attempt to defend their property. It says the companies, acting with government impunity, regularly target members of local land-rights movements who end up murdered in feigned car accidents or hunted down and shot by private security guards.

Examples of the violence are gruesome. Security guards ambushed 15-year-old Rodving Omar Villegas near his village and shot him to death with an AK-47. A car ran down and killed 60-year-old Juan Ramon Mejia. And José Leonel Guerra Álvarez was murdered inside his home in front of his wife and children by armed assailants firing from outside the house.


Listen to this Eurocrat deflect responsibility for the crimes so he can continue the scam and pocket-lining business:
"We are not investigators of crimes," a board member told EurActiv. "We had to take judgements within our rules – however regretful that may be – and there was not much scope for us to refuse the project. All the consultation procedures precisely had been obeyed."

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/9243-honduran-deaths-trigger-eu-carbon-credit-clash

FoxNews is reporting that Holder was personally identified as being informed of the plan at least twice. One report, from 2010, states that Holder was informed of the plan. This new information premiered just minutes ago on Fox's Special Report with Bret Baier.

If true, this would show that the Department of Justice was far more involved in the operation than it previously admitted. With more revelations spilling out regarding the case, Holder's duplicity could either point to gross incompetence or a cover-up.

http://www.punditpress.com/2011/10/breaking-holder-was-aware-of-fast-and.html

Should be Omar Hammami, military commander of Al-Qaeda affiliated Al Shabaab in Somalia.


At least 70 people have been killed by a huge suicide blast near a government compound in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, say officials.

A spokesman for the Islamist militant group al-Shabab told the BBC it had carried out the attack.

One aid worker said the force of the blast had thrown body parts hundreds of metres away.

Among those killed were soldiers guarding the offices and students who had been queuing for exam results at the education ministry, hoping to gain a scholarship to study in Turkey.

Ali Abdullahi, a nurse at Medina hospital in the city, said victims were being brought in with horrific wounds, including burns and lost limbs. Some had been blinded, he said.

"It is the most awful tragedy I have ever seen," he told AP.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15166107


Lest we forget, amid all the debate about due process, that these guys WANT TO BE KILLED. And they want to kill U.S. citizens, topple our government, and they want to kill Jews wherever they lie. Here are Hammami's own words:

Send me a cruise like Maa'lam Adam al Ansari
And send me a couple of tons like Zarqawi
And send me a drone like Abu Laith al Libi
And Special Forces like Saleh Ali Nabhani

Send me all four and send me much much more
I pray for that on my way to heavens door
Send me four and send me more, that what I implore
An amazing martyrdom I strive for and adore


Hammami is a US citizen (from Alabama) who converted to Islam and then traveled to Somalia in 2006. Once in Somalia, he quickly rose through the ranks, and now serves as a military commander. He is one of the many foreign commanders who hold senior leadership positions in Shabaab, which is al Qaeda's affiliate in East Africa. Hammami is one of 14 people indicted by the US Justice Department in August 2010 for providing material support to Shabaab.

Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/04/american_shabaab_com.php#ixzz1ZvwmnnmH

So, should we wait for his arrest and trial in Alabama, while watching more innocent children slaughtered and maimed for the crime of trying to get an education? Or should we hit him with a smart bomb as soon as we can? (Hint: we've already tried to kill him with drones).

We still have a lot to overcome. First, we have house democrats investigating Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas because his uppity wife had a job. Now the latest presidential race poll indicates clearly that racist American voters are against our black president. In spite of all he's done to create jobs for the middle-class American, Obama is now down 2 points to the top Republican contender. Racist America is not ready to let a black man be president for a 2nd term. Read it and weep:

http://pollposition.com/2011/10/10/cain-edging-obama/

With his new mortgage bailout proposal, The Annointed One says he will unilaterally install the mortgage bailout plan to refinance people who have no equity in their homes. He says that there is no time to wait to run this through congress.

The President does not have this power to spend without congress.

And apparently he will do it through Fanny Mae and/or Freddie Mac (I'm not clear on that), which are both already in receivership. Brilliant.

Not to mention that he plan is utterly stupid and will create an even greater economic disaster. More of what caused the housing crisis in the first place, which catalyzed our deep recession. This is just more bad Stage 1 thinking that doesn't care about the consequences. Or as Lou Dobbs just said, it's a hundreds-of-billions dollar bribe to get reelected.