Written by PSI staff
Governments have been lying to us about sea level rises. So says Professor Albert Parker, a long term critic of fellow academics who try to link natural sea level rises to man-made global warming narrative. Professor Parker provides a telling analysis of United States government data, focusing on official numbers from New Hampshire, which demonstrates that sea levels are rising today no faster than they were during pre-industrial times.
Written by Alex Newman
PHOENIX — Call off the doomsday bunkers and carbon taxes! The “climate” scare is officially over. The time for hysteria over alleged man-made global warming and CO2 has passed. The theory is toast — it is totally and completely debunked. At least it will be, once a soon-to-be-released “Weapon of Mass Instruction” exposing the climate fraudsters and their fraud is dropped on the world.
In early December, various prestigious scientists and a wide range of experts in various disciplines converged here, in Phoenix, Arizona, to forever demolish the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) alarmism and the deadly policies the alarmism underpins. After seeing the evidence, it will be impossible for the intellectually honest to go on believing the CAGW fantasy — or “cult,” as some top scientists have referred to the alarmist movement. But of course, it is not the first time that top scientists have debunked the climate hysteria.
Written by Nathan Rao
Heavy and persistent wintry showers are now a near certainty across the UK on Christmas Day with multiple feet-deep snowdrifts lasting into the New Year amid sub-zero conditions. Britons are warned to expect “major chaos” on the roads and transport networks with extreme weather threatening railway services and airports.
Councils, health and transport officials have been warned to expect the unexpected with this year shaping up to rival the historic chiller of 1963 – the coldest winter on record. Government officials have sought to allay public fears insisting grit and salt supplies will be enough to keep the roads moving.
Written by Thomas Richard
With Christmas only a few weeks away, a new study says the Svalbard reindeer are getting weaker and asks if Santa will need more muscle to pull his sleigh [1]. So if your child hears about this so-called calamity from News reports, remind them it doesn’t matter: Santa Claus uses the species ‘saintnicolas magicalus’, or flying reindeer.
With ostensibly warmer winters, the study notes rain is falling on snow and freezing into ice. That makes it difficult for the animals to get at plant food, leading some to go hungry and some females birthing undersized calves. The adults they tracked in the survey have lost 12 percent of their weight when compared to those born in 1994.
The ecologists behind the survey are from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, and the James Hutton Institute. And their pointing the finger at Climate Change.
Written by Doyle Rice
There’s cold, and then there’s Antarctica cold. How does a frosty reading of 135.8 degrees below zero sound?A reading of 135.8 degrees below zero was measured in Antarctica, using remote sensing from satellites.
Based on remote satellite measurements, scientists recently recorded that temperature at a desolate ice plateau in East Antarctica. It was the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth, though it may not get that recognition in the official record book.
A NASA satellite measured that temperature in August 2010; on July 31 of this year, another bone-chilling temperature of -135.3 degrees was recorded.
Written by Carl Brehmer
To frame:
Verb, informal
“produce false evidence against an innocent person [or an odorless, tasteless, invisible atmospheric gas that is essential for plant growth] so that they appear guilty: ‘he claims he was framed’”
In 2007 Carbon dioxide (CO2) was given a show trial and found to be “guilty” even though the litigants had no standing and the evidence was, in the words of Chief Justice Roberts in his dissenting opinion, “pure conjecture”.
Guilty of what you ask? “Massachusetts had lost some of its coastal land, an injury that is expected to worsen over the course of the next century,” Mass. v EPA (2007). That’s it. That is the totality of the actual, hard “evidence” that was presented at trial that the CO2 emitted by the burning of hydrocarbons is causing an “injury” to “public health and welfare” and can therefore be classified as a “pollutant” under the Clean Air Act.
Written by Anthony Bright-Paul
The Warmists are very fond of saying ‘The Science is settled’ and in point of fact they are largely right. Between the Warmists and the Skeptics there is a great deal of agreement on the science. The disagreements mostly come over the use or abuse of the English language. Just as one small example, many of the Warmists are unable apparently to distinguish between ‘causation’ and ‘correlation’. That is a matter of linguistics and not of science per se.
Written by Joseph A Olsen PE
The Green House Gas Gang began in 1896 when Svante Arrhenius of Sweden discovered heat storage increases with increased carbon dioxide levels. This father of the gang was a child prodigy, Nobel Committee member, Nobel Laureate and founding member of the Eugenics movement. In 1900 he became involved in the creation of the Nobel Prize, in 1901 he was a member of the Nobel Committee and in 1903 he helped give himself a Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
He served on the Nobel Committee until 1927 where he exerted enormous influence on the selection of all prize winners. In 1922 he helped father the State Institute for Racial Biology, which was to have been a Nobel Institute. The principles for this had been in discussion by the literati for decades and were incorporated in the US Progressive Movement of the 1900’s and fully implemented by the Nazi eugenics programs.
Written by Anthony Bright-Paul
Is it not strange that the whole climate argument of man-made Global Warming rests upon the least immediate mode of heat transfer, namely long wave Radiation from the Earth, to a trace gas – Carbon Dioxide – that is only 0.04{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the atmosphere? This is to ignore completely the warming effect of Conduction upon the 99{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the atmosphere, – Nitrogen and Oxygen – when Conduction is immediate and pertains everywhere.
Every single element is in contact with the atmosphere; that is, the oceans, the land, the lakes, rivers, mountains, the buildings, the forests, the animals in fact everything on the whole wide earth is forever in contact with 99{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the atmosphere. Yet the Warmists have fabricated a message of doom all round a slow form of radiation, which is inhibited by distance and by the inverse square law, and is concerned with the warming of a gas that is in toto but a trace.
Written by Judson Jones & Azadeh Ansari
(CNN) Record-breaking wintry temperatures are gripping the eastern two-thirds of the country, signaling that this could be one of the coldest seasons in years.
“This week’s dangerous cold will sweep the country from Bismarck to Boston with -10 to -35 degree wind chills expected,” CNN meteorologist Rachel Aissen said. “At -35 degrees, wind chills takes only 10 minutes for frostbite to occur.”
This storm moving through the Great Lakes region led to the cancellation of thousands of flights over the weekend.
Written by Frank Gardner
Image copyright: THINKSTOCKEver heard of the BSU (behavioural science unit)? No, neither had I, until recently. But it turns out that this secretive, specialised unit, embedded within the UK security service, MI5, is absolutely integral to every single terrorist investigation.
These are not spooks with a smattering of science, it’s the other way round. Every BSU member is a qualified scientist, trained up to master’s-degree level or beyond, sometimes with a PhD.
Their job is to search for signs of behaviour in an individual that indicates they may be considering or preparing a terrorist attack. Their field, not surprisingly, centres around the social sciences, with specialisations in areas such as psychology and criminology.
How many of them work at MI5 is not disclosed, but the BSU is either at the centre of an investigation or is being called on for expertise by desk officers. They are a pre-arrest unit, with access to court records.
Written by Dr Tim Ball
The Trump administration is well aware of the political use and scientific abuse of climate for a political agenda. I learned how aware while attending the Heritage Foundation Climate Conference on Thursday December 8 in Washington D.C.
The majority of the public sense there is something wrong as reflected in their lack of concern measured in all polls. They will be very angry when the extent of the deception is explained to them, as will happen as the new administration lays out the foundation for their policies. The question is what happens going forward. We know those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Similarly, you cannot prevent all misuses of any system and trying to do so only makes it inefficient and even unworkable. Science must be central to whatever direction taken.
Written by Ke Yang, Zhikun Cai et al
In contradicting a theory that’s been the standard for over eighty years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have made a discovery holding major promise for the petroleum industry. The research has revealed that in the foreseeable future products such as crude oil and gasoline could be transported across country 30 times faster, and the several minutes it takes to fill a tank of gas could be reduced to mere seconds.
Over the past year, using high flux neutron sources at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), an Illinois group led by Yang Zhang, assistant professor of nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering (NPRE) and Beckman Institute at Illinois, has been able to videotape the molecular movement of alkanes, the major component of petroleum and natural gas. The group has learned that the thickness of liquid alkanes can be significantly reduced, allowing for a marked increase in the substance’s rate of flow.
“Alkane is basically a chain of carbon atoms,” Zhang said. “By changing one carbon atom in the backbone of an alkane molecule, we can make it flow 30 times faster.”
The group’s discovery disproves a well-known theory that Princeton University professors Walter Kauzmann and Henry Eyring formed in the late 1940s. They had predicted that all alkanes have a universal viscosity near their melting points. Zhang said the theory had been cited over 3,000 times.
However, a rather distinct odd-even effect of the liquid alkane dynamics was discovered. The odd-even effect in solid alkanes is taught in almost every introductory organic chemistry textbook, i.e., the difference in the periodic packing of odd- and even-numbered alkane solids results in odd-even variation of their densities and melting points. However, the same effect was not expected in liquid alkanes because of the lack of periodic structures in liquids.
“The classical Kauzmann-Eyring theory of molecular viscous flow is over simplified,” Zhang said. “It seems some chemistry textbooks may need revisions.”
The Illinois scientists had the technological advantage of super high-speed (at the pico-second, 1 trillionth of a second) and super high-resolution (at the nano-meter, 1 billionth of a meter) “video cameras” making use of neutrons to take movies of the molecules. “A neutron ‘microscope’ is the major breakthrough in materials research and we use it to look at everything. There are things we’ve never seen before,” Zhang said.
The research, “Dynamic Odd-Even Effect in Liquid n-Alkanes near Their Melting Points,” has been published in the German publication Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The reported research discovery is fundamental to understand and improve a wide spectrum of chemical processes, such as lubrication, diffusion through porous media, and heat transfer.
Written by Anthony Bright-Paul
Everybody knows Physics, everybody without exception. We learn Physics from the day we are born, and we go on learning Physics every day thereafter – not in a classroom, mind, but in the University of Life.
Heat is defined as the transfer of kinetic energy. Yesterday my wife brought her oil-filled radiator into our breakfast room. Quite idly, I stretched my right hand out to touch it, little realising it had been on for half an hour. Wow! I experienced an immediate transfer of kinetic energy. I guess most husbands have also had the experience of being handed a hot plate by their partners right out of the oven. The experience of the transfer of kinetic energy can be alarmingly immediate and painful.
There are thousands of ways we experience the transfer or kinetic energy by contact, which the Physicist calls Conduction. I well remember as a young man walking on the hot sands of the Riviera without sandals. It was like walking on hot coals. I had to rush into the sea to cool my feet.
Written by Tony Heller
Christian Science Monitor is up to their usual ambulance chasing climate lies – now blaming fires in the southeast on global warming.
Could this be the new normal for the South?
Forest fires blaze across Southeast: What is feeding the flames? – CSMonitor.com
As always, this is based on no facts or science. Forest fires have been declining in Tennessee since the 1970s.
forest fires in tennessee___3.pdf
In fact, there is a good correlation with declining sea ice. The less ice, the fewer fires.
Tennessee has been getting wetter as the fires have decreased.
Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Every time there is a drought, government experts declare it to be the new normal.
This drought may never break – Environment – smh.com.au
Drought may be new norm for UK, says environment secretary | Environment | The Guardian
There isn’t one bit of truth in the Christian Science Monitor thesis. But that is the new normal.
Read more at realclimatescience.com
Written by Kenneth Richard
According to the most highly-cited estimate of recent (1992 – 2011) polar ice sheet melt rates, the land ice on Greenland and Antarctica has been contributing to sea level rise at a rate of 0.59 mm/year in the modern era, which means the equivalent of 5.9 centimeters (2.3 inches) per century of sea level rise might eventually accrue if the polar ice sheets continue melting at current rates for the next 10 decades.