Category Archives: cap and trade

If you are a skeptic, you have been or will be accused of being in the pocket of some energy company.  Often it is a blanket accusation.  The mainstream media often report these accusations without any investigation of the truth of the charge.  So, one has to wonder why the US media does not report the worldwide business interests of Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the UN’s IPCC .  Can you conceive of anyone that would have more influence on the science or political direction of the  IPCC’s Report on Climate Change than the Chairman.  It would seem that the media would see this a major input for those trying to decide what to believe.

We need to give a hat tip to UK Telegraph because they have been trying to inform the people in the UK about Pachauri.   They have had some success in getting attention in other parts of the world:

“But nowhere did it provoke a greater storm than in India, where Dr Pachauri is director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), based in New Delhi, the country’s most influential private body involved in climate-change issues and renewable energy. In addition, as we reported, Dr Pachauri also holds more than a score of positions with banks, universities and other institutions that benefit from the vast worldwide industry now based on measures to halt climate change.”

To get more detail regarding his business interests,  the following are sources.  The initial report in the Telegraph can be read here. Follow-up in the Telegraph can be read here.

The EU Referendum has additional coverage that will interest you.   Read here, here, here and here.

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The predicate for the theory of man-made global warming (AGW) is that temperatures are rising, and at an accelerated rate due to man-made greenhouse gases, most particularly, CO2.   The most infamous proof of that predicate was the Mann Hockey Stick chart which extended back a thousand years to the present time.  The chart,  shows a nearly flat temperature line for the first 900 or so years after which time it begins to head North,  indicating  an unprecedented increase in global temperatures that coincided with a measured increase in atmospheric CO2.

MANN HOCKEY STICK CHART

While the proponents of this chart still are peer reviewing each other’s work and pronouncing it valid research,  even the IPCC, which featured it in earlier reports, dropped it from the most recent (2007) report.

Climategate (released CRU email) has shown that leading suppliers of ground station temperature reports, have been manipulating the data to support their contention that these days are really unusual times.  This is not news to the Skeptics.  But it is nice to have it confirmed by the emails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU).

My contention is that the only global temperature record that can legitimately be used to conclude whether global temperatures are rising, falling, or holding steady is the satellite data produced by UAHuntsville. The satellite data has been available since late 1978.  The data collected is from most of the globe (oceans included, of course) which is vastly superior to the data assembled for the ground stations.  But my guess is that, perhaps 50 or more years are needed to get a real understanding of the data global temperature trends.

At one time there were some issues with the UAH data as the satellites tended to drift in orbit and the data derived needed some corrections. But the UAH  now uses new satellites.  Jeff Id, wrote as follows on the new accuracy of the UAH measurement:

The new AQUA satellite used in UAH has a station keeping thruster which keeps the measurement time of each gridcell constant for years at a time. The thing I think some miss about this is that the huge massive corrections which must be implemented over a day are suddenly the same correction value from day to day – no change. Therefore errors in corrections no longer create artificial trends. We’ve got our first high accuracy global trend measurement –ever.

Jeff Id also presented these charts of the data provided by UAH:

The temperature according to UAH over the  period of their satellite measurements -1978 to 2010 yields an global temperature increase of 0.1258degrees C which equates to 0.0562 degrees C  per decade.

Recently the global temperature has taken a turn downward.   The UAH chart since 2002 is shown below- the time since UAH began using the Aqua Satellites.

Looking at this short interval,  since June 2002, the global temperature has declined by 0.1677degrees C which would work out to be 0.2292 degrees C decrease over a decade.

To read Jeff Id’s complete report, click here.

What can we say about UAH temperature data?

• It is very accurate,
• It is global in a real sense,
• It is not subject to manipulation,
• Its history is not yet long enough to derive real trends.

And that is more than we can say about the CRU  and GISS data.

I strongly recommend that on UAH temperature data be used for global warming legislative decisions.   I will talk more about why CRU and GISS should not be used in future postings.

Cbdakota

It is hard to separate anti-Americanism and anti-Capitalism,  and indeed America and capitalism are probably synonymous.  The UN, AGW and Socialism are probably equally as synonymous.   Consider how the delegates to the UN sponsored Copenhagen Climate Conference reacted to speeches by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and Zimbabean strongman Robert Mugabe.    They cheered these two thugs every time they criticized America or Capitalism.  The AGW have often been called “watermellons”—green on the outside but red on the inside.

Yes, they all want our dollars as reparations for the “harm” we have inflicted on them.  While rational people know that  money  given to these heads of state will be pocketed and little if any will ever see its way down to the people that may have the need.

To look at what some of the other bloggers are thinking about regarding our “responsibility” to reward these thugs, click  here, here, here and here

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