posted 10-29-2015 09:34 PM                  

Instead of building solar panels and wind generators maybe you should take all those raw materials and inject them ( oil field style) into that dreaded San Andreas fault , that was caused by the man made Golden Gate Bridge , which would firm up your " waffling" ground out there!

Just an idea ...but by no means ....science! Thomas Dolby style!!

posted 10-30-2015 08:48 AM                  

Scientists questioning the accuracy of IPCC climate projections

David Bellamy, botanist

Lennart Bengtsson, meteorologist, Reading University

Judith Curry, Professor and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus of the School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study; Fellow of the Royal Society

Steven E. Koonin, theoretical physicist and director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University

Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan emeritus professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences

Craig Loehle, ecologist and chief scientist at the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement

Patrick Moore, former president of Greenpeace Canada

Nils-Axel Mörner, retired head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University, former chairman of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999–2003)

Garth Paltridge, retired chief research scientist, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research and retired director of the Institute of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, visiting fellow Australian National University

Denis Rancourt, former professor of physics at University of Ottawa, research scientist in condensed matter physics, and in environmental and soil science

Harrison Schmitt, geologist, Apollo 17 Astronaut, former U.S. Senator.

Peter Stilbs, professor of physical chemistry at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London

Hendrik Tennekes, retired director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Anastasios Tsonis, distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

posted 10-30-2015 08:53 AM                  

Khabibullo Abdusamatov, astrophysicist at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Sallie Baliunas, retired astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Timothy Ball, historical climatologist, and retired professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg

Robert M. Carter, former head of the school of earth sciences at James Cook University

Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
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Chris de Freitas, associate professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland

David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University

William M. Gray, professor emeritus and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

William Happer, physicist specializing in optics and spectroscopy; emeritus professor, Princeton University

Ole Humlum, professor of geology at the University of Oslo

Wibjörn Karlén, professor emeritus of geography and geology at the University of Stockholm.

William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology

David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware

Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Missouri

Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa

Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and professor of geology at Carleton University in Canada.

Ian Plimer, professor emeritus of mining geology, the University of Adelaide.
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Arthur B. Robinson, American politician, biochemist and former faculty member at the University of California, San Diego

Murry Salby, atmospheric scientist, former professor at Macquarie University and University of Colorado
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Nicola Scafetta, research scientist in the physics department at Duke University

Tom Segalstad, geologist; associate professor at University of Oslo

Nir Shaviv, professor of physics focusing on astrophysics and climate science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia
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Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Roy Spencer, meteorologist; principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Henrik Svensmark, physicist, Danish National Space Center

George H. Taylor, retired director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University[

posted 10-30-2015 08:57 AM                  

Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Claude Allègre, French politician; geochemist, emeritus professor at Institute of Geophysics (Paris).

Robert Balling, a professor of geography at Arizona State University.

Pål Brekke, solar astrophycisist, senior advisor Norwegian Space Centre.

John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to several IPCC reports

Petr Chylek, space and remote sensing sciences researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma.

Ivar Giaever, professor emeritus of physics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Nobel laureate.

Vincent R. Gray, New Zealand physical chemist with expertise in coal ashes
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Keith E. Idso, botanist, former adjunct professor of biology at Maricopa County Community College District and the vice president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

posted 10-30-2015 09:08 AM                  

Conservatives Don't Hate Climate Change, They Hate The Proposed Solutions: Study

Kate Sheppard Become a fan kate.sheppard@huffingtonpost.com

Conservatives who reject the science of climate change aren't necessarily reacting to the science, according to a new study from researchers at Duke University. They're reacting to the fact that they don't like proposed solutions more strongly identified with liberals.

The paper, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, looks at the relationship between political ideology and rejection of scientific evidence. The researchers look most closely at climate change and other environmental challenges, an area where those who identify as liberals or Democrats mostly accept scientific conclusions while conservatives or Republicans largely reject them. The researchers conclude that on climate and other important societal issues, this denial is "rooted not in a fear of the general problem, per se, but rather in fear of the specific solutions associated with that problem."

The authors blame this denial of climate science on what they deem "solution aversion," i.e., the proposed solutions are "more aversive and more threatening to individuals who hold an ideology that is incompatible with or even challenged by the solution."

In the case of climate change, the most discussed solutions include regulatory actions like limits on greenhouse gas emissions or additional taxes on carbon pollution. And for the most part, conservatives aren’t really into regulations and taxes.

“Our research joins past research in showing that people in general tend to deny the problem when the cure to that problem is scary," Troy Campbell, lead author of the paper and a doctoral candidate at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. "For conservatives, the cure to the climate change problem, at least the one everyone talks about, is particularly scary to them, so it makes sense that we see more skepticism on their part."

Their research also found that this tendency isn't limited to conservatives; they found that some liberals, too, "will deny facts and science too, when the popular solutions and implications are undesirable to them," said Campbell, pointing to other research that has found that trend as well. Another area of their study looked at how survey respondents interpreted data about violence related to home break-ins based on their personal positions on gun control, and also found that respondents rejected data if it did not support their pre-existing position on guns.

On climate change, this tendency toward "solution aversion" brings us to somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophesy. If conservative politicians cast doubt on whether climate change is even happening, they're not inclined to offer their own solutions to the problem. And without conservative solutions, the ideological divide on the issue seems likely to continue.

That is, unless people who care about the climate can find new ways of talking about it.

Right now, said Campbell, "the narratives and solutions around climate change are anti-conservative."

"It's not a narrative they can see themselves participating in, and that is to some degree climate change communicators' fault," he said. But an alternative narrative, one that depicts climate change as consistent with conservative values like "innovation" or "protecting America," could be more effective, he said.

He also warned that this tendency isn't necessarily something that's easy to change. "These things are linked to people's ideologies, and ideologies are incredibly core aspects of people's self. Those core aspects do not change easily," he said. "One thing that is important for anyone in climate change communication is to understand they are playing a long game."

posted 10-30-2015 10:31 AM                  

1. I am in the gasoline, heating oil and propane distribution business. In the industry we use what is called the Degree Day System for purchase and automatic delivery of heating oil/propane. The last three heating seasons our degree days have been far above average with the 2013-14 season being the highest recorded since the degree system was put in place. Our same acct sales are up each year, meaning each individual acct has purchase more gallons each year.

2. Our sales of kerosene to truck stops increases each year. Truck stops blend kero into diesel to prevent "gelling" of diesel fuel due to low temperatures.

3. Most school systems in VA and the Carolinas added one or two additional "snow days" to their calendars this year.

4. I waterfowl hunt. Birds are flying earlier in the season and further south. Trunda swans were spotted as far south as Pawleys Island, SC the last two seasons. Humans will lie about the weather according to their ideologies, wildlife don't.

It may be far different where others live, but these are my experiences. But if I remember correctly, didn't the Buffalo area get some snow last winter?