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Friday October 19, 2007 - 09:46pm (ICT) Permanent Link | 36 Comments
Inconvenient Truth About The Nobel Prize: WTF OVER! I JUST GOT BACK FROM A TOUGH JOB AND FIND THAT THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT, JUST GOT WEIRDER.

A few days before Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. and the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Prize the British Supreme Court came to a verdict that stated that Al Gore’s film can be shown in schools only along with the warning that it contains nine factual errors and ruled that some of the claims in the film are made in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration".

What’s next? Are James Hansen and Michael Mann going to share the Nobel Prize in physics for dishonesty, bad science, assumptions and fear tactics? Why not farther prove that incompetence is driven by intellectual sloth and give Michael Moore the Nobel Literature Prize.

The Nobel Foundation has now lost significant credibility for placing politics before science. This means the Nobel Peace Prize no longer stands for peace, it stands for propaganda, fear and political agendas. Some conservatives consider that the Nobel Peace Prize has confirmed itself this time as an “anti-bush trophy”. However, I see it as a funding scheme. Governments, Foundations and the Mass Media are not going to back scientific investigations that don’t predict dire consequences. They need meaty, apocalyptic problems in order to justify Governmental Bureaucrats who exist in order to lavish money on looming disasters. They need large, global problems to solve via committee hearings, and study groups who whip up fear via scare-mongering

In this whole mini drama, I think Mr. Justice Barton is the only person that got it right!

Tags: gore, ipcc,

Tuesday October 16, 2007 - 07:00pm (ICT) Permanent Link | 44 Comments
URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT: If you said that is has never been this hot before and you live in a metropolitan area, you would be correct. The reason for this is the Urban Heat Island Effect (”UHIE”).

An Urban Heat Island is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surroundings. As population centers grow in size, they tend to have a corresponding increase in average temperature.

There is little controversy in the existence of the UHIE. What is more controversial is whether, and if so how much, this additional warmth affects the (global) temperature record
When I was a young man (1977 – 78), I was station on isolated island called Marcus Island (Minami-Tori-Shima). The island was very small and supported very little vegetation. These factors created a localized high pressure system. The effect was very pronounced. We could watch rain clouds approaching the island but the “Heat Island Effect” would split the rain clouds like a knife and the island would not receive any rain. In addition to the USCG Loran station, The Japanese ran a weather station that did not reflect the actual weather because the island changed the local weather conditions. (More, later in this blog)
Bangkok is a good example that as population centers grow (and engulf and corrupt weather stations) they tend to modify a greater area of land and have a corresponding increase in average temperature. UHI effects have been documented in city environments worldwide and show that heat islands form as vegetation is replaced by asphalt and concrete for roads, buildings, and other structures necessary to accommodate growing populations. These surfaces absorb - rather than reflect - the sun's heat, causing surface temperatures and overall ambient temperatures to rise.
Coastal cites in the “Transition Zone” are not immune to the effects of the Urban Heat Island Effect.Los Angeles, is a striking example of how a city was transformed into an urban heat island. In the 1930s, Los Angeles was an area covered with irrigated orchards. The high temperature in the summer of 1934 was 97°F. Then, as pavement, commercial buildings, and homes replaced trees, Los Angeles warmed steadily, reaching 105°F and higher in the 1990s.
On the flip side of the coin, if you said that there is increase in rain fall and you live “down wind” of a metropolitan area, there is a good chance that you could be right. In the last few years there has been some studies that suggest that the Urban Heat Island Effect (”UHIE”) high pressure systems create a weather front that causes increase rain fall. The data/studies from Spain, Atlanta (Georgia), and a string of cities in Texas support the concept that increase surface water (rain) could be reducing the temperatures in some rural areas.

The folks at IPCC try to trivialize the effects of urban heat in their The Fourth Assessment Report (2007: p.244). According to the report “Urban heat island effects were determined to have negligible influence”. They came by this conclusion by indirect science and by using software (gridding and garbage in/gospel out) to correct bad data. It amazes me that they would go to such lengths to blame greenhouse gases for Global Warming/Climate Change and rule out all other data.

DO YOU THINK THAT THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT IS CHANGING OUR CLIMATE TO SOME DEGREE?

Tags: urbanheatislandeffect, climatechange, gobalwarming

Tuesday August 28, 2007 - 06:49pm (ICT) Permanent Link | 45 Comments
CHICKEN LITTLE: Tags: chickenlittle, ipcc, globalwarming.climatechange

Friday August 24, 2007 - 10:41pm (ICT) Permanent Link | 21 Comments
International Space Station, ISS: I just woke up from a hangover induced nap. I dreamed that I stood in front of a huge room fill with people and declared

“Hi my name is GOODSTUFF and I support the International Space Station!”

There are gasps of horror and disbelief; heads shake in disapproval and pity. Some look at me with tolerant sympathy, others turn away as if ashamed of me. I know why. In space advocacy and enthusiast circles, on the internet’s space forums and in astronomy clubs around the world it’s not fashionable or trendy to even like let alone speak up in support of the ISS.

Things didn’t quite work out as planned. It was going to revolutionize science, and it hasn’t. It was going to lead to incredible medical breakthroughs, but it hasn’t. It was going to be “Mankind’s gateway to the solar system, and beyond”. It isn’t. The ultimate fate of ISS is, as far as I know, unclear. Some want to abandon it as soon as it’s finished, let it “do a MIR” and have done with it. Personally I think this is a stupid idea, to not use it as a research platform. Perhaps less practically but more romantically, it could really be a gateway to the rest of the solar system. Okay, so it’s never going to rival one of the mushroom-shaped “space docks” seen in Star Trek movies, but ISS could be a harbor on the shore of the great ocean of space, a port for the Moon and Mars voyagers and settlers of the future to depart from and come home to. A naive vision? Perhaps. A romantic one? Hey, absolutely. Guilty as charged I am convinced that we need to harness the power of private sector. The unlimited opportunities, coupled with NASA's commitment to use the private sector whenever possible, such as the COTS program will result in an affordable and sustained expansion into the solar system. It is now our obligation to seize this opportunity to explore world beyond our own. We will shape the destiny of our planet and humanity as a whole for centuries to come. The human imperative to explore and expand will surely be satisfied. This is our destiny!

Tags: internationalspacestation, iss, explore, exploration, space

Thursday August 23, 2007 - 07:26pm (ICT) Permanent Link | 11 Comments