Kesar Keeps you Growing: September 2013

Winds of By fred (vancouver)

on September 23rd, 2013

It is global warming that causes all things. Just ask scientists. If it is hotter, it is global warming. If it is colder, it is global warming. When global warming is proved to be false, the scientists will now call it climate change, which is a play on words for changing weather. Weather has always changed, and always will. And on September 27, 2013 the worlds scientists will publish a paper that now says that carbon emissions are not creating global warming or climate change. Wait for it.

By C Brown (Toronto Ontario)
on September 23rd, 2013

“So the sea will never dry up: for before that can happen the water that has gone up beforehand will return to it: for if you say that this happens once you must admit its recurrence. If you stop the sun’s course there is no drying agency. If you let it go on it will draw up the sweet water as we have said whenever it approaches, and let it descend again when it recedes. This notion about the sea is derived from the fact that many places are found to be drier now than they once were. Why this is so we have explained. The phenomenon is due to temporary excess of rain and not to any process of becoming in which the universe or its parts are involved. Some day the opposite will take place and after that the earth will grow dry once again. We must recognize that this process always goes on thus in a cycle, for that is more satisfactory than to suppose a change in the whole world in order to explain these facts. But we have dwelt longer on this point than it deserves.”

Meteorology By Aristotle
Written 350 B.C.E
Translated by E. W. Webster

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/meteorology.2.ii.html

By Chip Henry
on September 23rd, 2013

I’m so tired of their blanket explanations when they can’t predict. They know, but their predictions fail to show a pattern that matches, regardless of what start date they begin with. It’s clear they don’t have a climate theory that can explain, so let’s jump to, well, 20% might be this, but that’s different. Hogwash!

Google News seems to have much more of this than Bing News. I guess they’re based in CA, so that explains enough of it.

I read a theory that was based on chlorofluorocarbons and it matched history, meaning that it could predict from its start date at any point and get close to what happened forward. It got very little press, but the knowledge base was fascinating. Does anyone remember when they said the world was going into an Ice Age?? I do, and it wasn’t all that long ago.

Seeing they have Comment Moderation, I don’t expect this to get published. Let’s suppress comments like we suppress science.

By Jim Steele (Pacifica CA 94044)
on September 23rd, 2013

The winds have had a great role in temporarily reducing Arctic sea ice removing thick multi-year ice. The thinner replacement ice then melts as quickly as it does in the Antarctic. In the Antarctic, westerly winds that increase during the positive SSAM compress ice against the western Antarctic peninsula and reduce ice and increase temperatures via increased heat ventilation.

By Symbolset
on September 24th, 2013

When water changes phase from vapor to liquid water it gives up more thermal energy than it takes to nearly boil nearly frozen water. When it changes from ice to liquid it gives up as much energy again. Ice is like a thermal battery, and the reverse changes absorb as much energy.

When cubic miles of water change phase from water to ice that gives up enough energy to raise hundreds of cubic miles of water by 1 C. That is an obscene amount of energy. The entire Earth’s atmosphere only weighs as much as 6,000 cubic miles of water. That energy has to go somewhere even if it was caused by winds, or chop, or changes in deep ocean flow or polar vortex or whatever. Energy doesn’t just go away: that’s the Law of conservation of energy. Since we’re talking about more than enough energy to warm the entire Earth’s atmosphere by a measureable amount here, it would be helpful to know where that energy went. Was it spent melting the arctic cap?

By Jonathan Tooker (Dunwoody, GA 30338)
on September 24th, 2013

Actually that does contradict global warming. I think you meant to say it does not conclusively disprove global warming.

By Randall DeWitt (98629)
on September 24th, 2013

The reason that the ice probably declined faster in the northern hemisphere and is slower to stabilize, is simply because most of humanities massive aquatic thermal contribution is within the northern hemisphere. Also, just because there is ice forming or growing in any location right now, doesn’t expose the bigger picture, or the fact that the aquatic structure over all has warmed up dramatically. We must realize that the rapid decline in the planetary ice, that has taken place over the course of the past few decades, has indeed created large pockets of cooling, which has naturally included the cooling of warmer tropical waters, as they were being moved by the natural tidal flows. This cooling simply worked to our advantage in this instance, but we must realize that the cooling potential of that lost ice is now gone, and the trend in the very near future will be a spiking upwards in the overall aquatic temperatures. Naturally, there will always be new ice forming in the winter time in the Artic and Antarctic, but it will never replace the massive volumes of deep water ice that has been lost. Thus, we lost that level of cooling potential for good, and must compensate for it, if we ever hope to create stability in the colder regions once again. We can only do this by addressing mankind’s aquatic thermal contamination, while investing in cost effective methods of compensation for that which we cannot easily reduce from this contribution. Also, we must address the possibility that the extraction of oil from under the sea floor could potentially become a serious contributing factor to this condition, if we discover that the removal of the oil has increased the normal rate and volume in which thermal energy is being transferred from the hotter planet surface into the colder ocean waters. We should be taxing the oil industry to pay for the much needed investigation and research to answer this very important question. If the extraction of oil from under the ocean floor is indeed creating an increase in the rate and volume of thermal energy being transferred into the waters, we’ll need to stop such activities and develop compensation for the damage done. If we wait, we will never be able to reverse the damage done, and risk the very life of every species on the planet.

By Randall DeWitt (98629)
on September 24th, 2013

I don’t know where your getting your information. Because both the Artic and Anarchic have been substantially reduced over the past three decades. Whatever growth there has been, it has been a very small fraction of the ice being lost and just a temporary increase created by a temporary return of the healthy conduction values, probably due to the cooling created by the massive melt-off itself. But all that cooling created by the melt-off will soon be gone, and the increase in temperatures will again return, again eroding away that temporary return of the healthy conduction values created by those colder deep ocean waters. Mankind’s thermal contamination of the aquatic environment, will again become exposed, and will dominate. This time for good! We cannot contribute massive volumes of unnatural thermal energy into an aquatic environment that has a predominant inwards direction of conduction and not expect to create a thermal increase or an accumulation, even in waters as vast as the oceans.

By Jim Macdonald (South Windsor, CT 06074)
on September 24th, 2013

The IPCC’s pronouncements have caused the needless spending of countless billions of dollars.
After sixteen years with no warming, they continue to claim that they are more certain than ever that man is causing warming.. It’s about time to completely defund the IPCC.

By R. Medred (Hillsborough, NC 27278)
on September 24th, 2013

This is a typical main-stream media attempt to further the man-made global warming lie. They admit that we still don’t understand the physics, math, and science in general to explain what’s happening to sea ice or anything else about whether the climate is warming or cooling. The believers models are an utter disaster due to them making model modifications in an attempt to produce their desired result. However, they don’t hesitate to claim man-made global warming is an undisputed done deal. The following sentence is clear proof this author’s intent is not to report the facts but to report his agenda as a man-made global warming believer. “... It does serve as a reminder, however, that while the planet is warming overall, largely due to human emissions of greenhouse gases…Change: Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing | Climate Central