Satellite data indicates a large fall in the temperature of the lower Troposphere back to pre-El Nino levels. This decrease has reinstated the so-called “pause” in lower atmosphere temperature.

The decrease is seen in the land only data. Data from the sea shows a decline but not as much. This is expected given the ocean’s thermal lag. Data from the RSS group that provides satellite temperature services show that late-2016 temperatures have returned to the level it was at post-1998, Fig 1. Click on the image to enlarge.

Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said.

Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century.

The media spin on President Elect Donald J. Trump’s sit down with the New York Times on November 22, can only be described as dishonest. Trump appears to soften stance on climate change and  Donald Trump backflips on climate change …

The ‘fake news’ that Trump had somehow moderated or changed his “global warming” views was not supported by the full transcript of the meeting.

Heartland Institute President Joe Bast had this to say about the full transcript of Trump’s meeting:

 This is reassuring. The Left wants to drive wedges between Trump and his base by spinning anything he says as “retreating from campaign promises.” But expressing nuance and avoiding confrontation with determined foes who buy ink by the barrel is not retreating.”

Trump’s climate science view that there is “some connectivity” between humans and climate is squarely a skeptical climate view. Trump explained, “There is some, something. It depends on how much.”

New satellite data shows temperatures are plunging downwards, despite NOAA and NASA using heavily jiggered data to show a global warming trend this century. Maintained by the RSS group from the University of Alabama/Huntsville and partially funded by NASA, it shows temperatures are heading toward pre-El Nino temperatures.

The previous El Nino began in 2015 and ended in 2016 and elevated worldwide temperatures for about 15 months. The satellite temperature record is important because it’s not affected by land and sea biases, such as concrete, the Urban Heat Island effect, missing data stations, and hotter cityscapes.

41,000 years ago, a complete and rapid reversal of the geomagnetic field occured. Magnetic studies of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences on sediment cores from the Black Sea show that during this period, during the last ice age, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed to the south instead of north. Moreover, data obtained by the research team formed around GFZ researchers Dr. Norbert Nowaczyk and Prof. Helge Arz, together with additional data from other studies in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific and Hawaii, prove that this polarity reversal was a global event. Their results are published in the scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters [October 16, 2012]

Two former NASA scientific ‘heavyweights’ go toe-to-toe in online debate over whether the science of man-made global warming is a “hoax,” as President-elect Donald Trump has claimed.

Trump’s ridicule of this hot topic is causing a huge stir among world leaders. So herein we reprise key points in an epic debate waged online and in private emails. The two opposing are well-respected ex-NASA scientists, Dr Roy Spencer and Dr Pierre R Latour.

Defending the supposed “greenhouse gas theory” (GHE) of climate change is “lukewarmist” Roy Spencer. His powerful advocacy of this cornerstone of mainstream climate science nonetheless requires us to believe that trace amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide (less than 0.04 percent of total) with added human emissions (even smaller still) significantly warms earth’s climate.  

It seems that everywhere you look someone talking about “carbon pollution” by which is meant “carbon dioxide pollution”.

“Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas pollutant . . .” EPA

“Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is the main pollutant that is warming Earth.” National Geographic

“Carbon pollution is the main contributor to climate disruption, making extreme weather worse — including more severe floods, widespread wildfires and record drought.” The Sierra Club

“In the United States, power plants represent the single-largest source of carbon pollution, spewing two billion tons into the air each year.” Natural Resources Defense Council

Paper Reviewed
Reef, R., Slot, M., Motro, U., Motro, M., Motro, Y., Adame, M.F., Garcia, M., Aranda, J., Lovelock, C.E. and Winter, K. 2016. The effects of CO2 and nutrient fertilization on the growth and temperature response of the mangrove Avicennia germinans. Photosynthesis Research 129: 159-170.

Introducing their significant study, Reef et al. (2016) describe how they collected Avicennia germinans propagules in July of 2014 at Galeta Point, Panama, and transferred them to the Santa Cruz Experimental Field Facility of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, where they were planted in individual 1.6-L tree pots filled with a mixture of local clay-textured topsoil and sand, after which the plants “were randomly assigned to one of two well-ventilated, naturally-illuminated glasshouses receiving full sunlight, one with similar to ambient (ca. 400 ppm) CO2 concentrations and one with an elevated (800 ppm) CO2 concentration.”

Satellites are far more accurate at measuring global temperatures than the severely flawed surface temperature record. NASA claims global warming is rapidly occurring, but satellites show very little warming this century. What could possibly motivate the US Space Agency to ignore their own satellites?

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

The answer is obvious.  Much of NASA’s funding depends on keeping the global warming scam alive, so NASA generates scientifically unsupportable graphs and distributes them hysterical politicians and journalists.

As Trump Heads to Washington, Global Warming Nears Tipping Point

As Trump Heads to Washington, Global Warming Nears Tipping Point – Bloomberg

Read more at realclimatescience.com

Over the last eight months, global temperatures over land have cooled a record 1.2 C. November is seeing record cold in Russia and South Australia, so we should see the record cooling trend continue.

www.woodfortrees.org/data/rss-land/

As temperatures cool at a record pace, experts say global warming is now unstoppable.

Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be ‘game over’, scientists warn | The Independent

People in Russia might tend to disagree with this assessment.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

Read more at realclimatescience.com

Book Review:

Title: Human Caused Global Warming – The biggest deception in history

Author: Dr. Tim Ball

Genre: Non-fiction/Science/Climate

Rating: ****

Review: In his preface of Human Caused Global Warming Dr. Tim Ball sets out what he is going to explain throughout the book. This is the “who, what, when, why and how” of the Global Warming deception and how it came to be.

Dr. Ball – also in this preface-  talks briefly about the harrowing repercussions he has personally faced – including law suits and death threats. One of the very first things I noticed while flicking through the book is Dr. Ball uses many images and diagrams to illustrate points. This is a huge help as many “ordinary” people like myself will find images or diagrams easier to understand than scientific jargon.  As such, this handy book is made more generally accessible rather than just being for those in the scientific community –  like so many other books on this complex and debated topic.

New research published over the weekend by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that plants are significantly slowing global warming far more than previously suspected.

Scientists found as carbon dioxide (CO2) levels increased worldwide, plants responded by sucking more CO2 out of the air than before. Researchers used satellite measurements of vegetation cover to determine that global rates of photosynthesis and respiration had sharply increased, largely due to the extra CO2.

“The scientists attribute the stalled CO2 growth rate to an uptick in land-based photosynthetic activity, fueled by rising CO2 levels from fossil fuel emissions,” states a summary of the research. “It’s a snowball effect: as CO2 levels rise in the atmosphere, photosynthetic activity flourishes and plants take in more carbon, sparking more plant growth, more photosynthesis, and more carbon uptake.”

The once professional societies continued their slide into unprecedented advocacy in recent years as they boarded the politically-driven grant gravy train and recruited to their memberships a whole generation of eco fanatics indoctrinated in our failing schools at all levels. Their advocacy with congress is not at all scientific.

They claim ‘consensus’ in their letter. The late great Michael Crichton, author of State of Fear on this topic, said “Historically, the claim of consensus is the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming the matter is already settled.” “Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. 

After reviewing Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory, two book reviewers targeting a curious millennial readership took time out to speak to the book’s authors and glean further insight into an extraordinary and prescient debunk of the cornerstone of the science of  man-made global warming.

‘Emma’ and ‘Jodie’ write:

We are glad to be hosting an interview with John O’Sullivan, Hans Schreuder and Derek Alker. John and Hans are key authors in the Slaying the Sky Dragon book and Derek is a closely associated member of the scientific team.

Emma: What are your backgrounds? How did you get interested in this topic?

John: I am a teacher and lecturer by training becoming a part-time professional online science writer around eight years ago. I covered any and all subjects of interest to general readers. I saw, first-hand, how environmentalism was becoming a religion. Over time I gradually got to know many experts from around the world (many with PhD’s) in diverse disciplines from meteorology to metallurgy, climate science to Chemistry, plus Physics, Mathematics, Thermodynamics, Astrophysics, Biology, etc.

Book Review

Title: Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory

Authors: Dr Tim Ball, Dr Claes Johnson, Dr Martin Hertzberg, Joseph A. Olsen, Alan Siddons, Dr Charles Anderson, Hans Schreuder, John O’Sullivan.

Genre: Non-fiction/Science/Environmental

Rating: * * *

Review: ‘Slaying the Sky Dragon’: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory’ may be a book aimed at a particular audience, but even people like myself, who have no interest in climate science can enjoy it. Slaying the Sky Dragon in its rawest form, without going into complicated details, is about the supposed errors in the science behind man-made global warming. The 8 authors contend that the backbone of climate science known as “the greenhouse gas theory” is fatally flawed in its Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. In their diverse characters, each author states their findings and facts about why the theory is false.

When American government representatives asked NASA head Charles Boden what the best response to a large asteroid headed for New York City would be, his answer was simple: ‘Pray.’

But what would happen if a smaller asteroid hit Los Angeles? Describing the scenario as a ‘not if – but when,’ NASA recently simulated what would happen if a 300 to 800ft asteroid approached Los Angeles with an 100% chance of impact.

‘It’s not a matter of if – but when – we will deal with such a situation,’ said Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

‘But unlike any other time in our history, we now have the ability to respond to an impact threat through continued observations, predictions, response planning and mitigation.’