Global Climate Change Science News

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 083254.htm

Could ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ happen?

A researcher has produced a scientific study of the climate scenario featured in the disaster movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'. In the 2004 film, climate warming caused an abrupt collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), leading to catastrophic events such as tornadoes destroying Los Angeles, New York being flooded and the northern hemisphere freezing. Although the scientific credibility of the film drew criticism from climate scientists, the scenario of an abrupt collapse of the AMOC, as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse warming, was never assessed with a state-of-the-art climate model.Now scientists have found that, for a period of 20 years, the earth will cool instead of warm if global warming and a collapse of the AMOC occur simultaneously.

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A graph so simple even a denialist can understand it - and then deny it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015- ... the-world/

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Someone's talking sense.

In a recent interview with The Atlantic, billionaire tech magnate Bill Gates announced his game plan to spend $2 billion of his own wealth on green energy investments, and called on his fellow private sector billionaires to help make the U.S. fossil-free by 2050. But in doing so, Gates admitted that the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to do the work on its own, and that mitigating climate change would be impossible without the help of government research and development.

“There’s no fortune to be made. Even if you have a new energy source that costs the same as today’s and emits no CO2, it will be uncertain compared with what’s tried-and-true and already operating at unbelievable scale and has gotten through all the regulatory problems,” Gates said. “Without a substantial carbon tax, there’s no incentive for innovators or plant buyers to switch.”

Gates even tacked to the left and uttered words that few other billionaire investors would dare to say: government R&D is far more effective and efficient than anything the private sector could do.

“Since World War II, U.S.-government R&D has defined the state of the art in almost every area,” Gates said. “The private sector is in general inept.”

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Awesome if true.

Saudi Arabia could be bankrupt within five years, IMF predicts
Saudi Arabia generates 90 per cent of its income from oil - a commodity which has recently plummeted in value
Adam Leyland Saturday 24 October

Saudi Arabia’s cash reserves are in free-fall and the country could have only five years of financial assets remaining due in large part to the fall in oil prices, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

In its World Economic and Financial Surveys, released every October, the IMF said that the kingdom will suffer a negative 21.6 per cent “General Government Overall Fiscal Balance” in 2015 and a 19.4 per cent negative balance in 2016, a massive increase from only -3.4 per cent in 2014.

Saudi Arabia currently has $654.5 billion in foreign reserves, but the cash is disappearing quickly.

The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency has withdrawn $70 billion in funds managed by overseas financial institutions, and has lost almost $73 billion since oil prices slumped, according to Al-Jazeera. Saudi Arabia generates 90 per cent of its income from oil.

Earlier this year the kingdom doled out a massive $32 billion spending spree distributed to the public, to celebrate the coronation of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

In 2015 Saudi Arabia also bypassed Russia to take over the world’s third spot in military spending, with a defence budget of $80.8 billion. Meanwhile the war in Yemen, being carried out mostly by the kingdom, shows no sign of abating.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 06821.html

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A graph so simple even a denialist can understand it - and then deny it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015- ... the-world/

Simple graphs for simple people.
What they don't mention, even though it screams at you from their own graphs, is that there have been dramatic rises in temperature, with hardly any rise in CO2.

Find a graph of recorded CO2 levels through history. It's not difficult. Now look at where CO2 levels take off. It's just after 1945, at the end of WW2. Before that, CO2 levels were hardly raised from the levels of the middle ages.

So why the fuck do they insist on starting their graphs from 1880? To tell you lies. That's why.
To insinuate that ALL of the warming from 1880 is due to CO2 levels, when that is, or should be, obviously untrue, even to the greatest idiot out there.

From their own graphs, the climate warmed at a very fast rate, from 1910 to 1945, even though CO2 levels were steady. The graph for that period matches the modern period going from 1970 to 2,000 for the rate at which the climate warmed. With no significant CO2 increase.

In other words, the climate warmed naturally. Nothing to do with human activity.
On a scale and rate identical to the modern warming.

If you could read a graph, you could see it.

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Before 1880 oil was not used. Heating and steam engines were the use of coal. Cars were not a player till 1900.

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Russia thinks global warming is a fraud, and it is not only Putin, unfortunately. How come, I wonder. They have all these splendid minds/scientist, they should know better!

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/10/ ... .html?_r=1

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This is like that time Russia rejected evolution as being "Western".

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They have a shitload of coal and oil they'd like to sell..

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They have a shitload of coal and oil they'd like to sell..

Corbyn would like to buy for his new trainset Interesting times.

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They have a shitload of coal and oil they'd like to sell..

Corbyn would like to buy for his new trainset Interesting times.

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They have a shitload of coal and oil they'd like to sell..

Ah, so they have the same reason for denialism as those in the West. I guess they're not so different after all.

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Russia thinks global warming is a fraud, and it is not only Putin, unfortunately. How come, I wonder. They have all these splendid minds/scientist, they should know better!

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/10/ ... .html?_r=1

There's no mystery. Read your own link :

Putin's scepticism dates from the early 2000s, when his staff "did very, very extensive work trying to understand all sides of the climate debate", said Andrey Illarionov, Putin's senior economic adviser at the time and now a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington.

"We found that, while climate change does exist, it is cyclical, and the anthropogenic role is very limited," he said. "It became clear that the climate is a complicated system and that, so far, the evidence presented for the need to 'fight' global warming was rather unfounded."


That opinion endures. During a trip to the Arctic in 2010, Putin acknowledged that "the climate is changing", but restated his doubt that human activity was the cause.

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Really cool graphical piece on Greenland ice-sheet melt and projected sea level rise. Lovely scenery, but for how much longer?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015 ... .html?_r=1

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A new study from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre has revealed that the Antarctic ice sheet is thickening enough to currently outweigh the losses of ice occurring due to global warming.

http://www.sciencealert.com/antarctica- ... tudy-finds