The AGW Consensus Is Fake

BTW: Did You know the United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.  So what is this energy independence lie the Democrats are pushing on us about ? Lies, damn lies.

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Eminent Professors of Science have taken the extraordinary step of writing another open letter to Congress to warn them again that there is no consensus about AGW and that they are being deceived. The brand name ‘Science’ is being used for a power grab. Decades of good-will has been stolen by the hunters from big finance and wannabe autocrats.

Blame It On El Nino

Iguess the forecasts were wrong, again? So tell me, what makes El Nino run? why that would be heat from the sun, wouldn’t it? ACE is at a 30 year low.

With the peak of the season — late August to mid-October — now behind, the Atlantic-Caribbean basin has seen just two hurricanes and a total of eight tropical storms.

El Nino, the Pacific warm-water phenomenon that can produce destructive weather in other parts of the world, played a big role in suppressing Atlantic cyclones this year, experts said.

If the full season, which runs from June through November, ended today, it would be the lowest number of storms since 1997. The last time an Atlantic season produced only two hurricanes was 1982.

Here is the ACE plot through 2009 season:

ACE stands for Accumulated Cyclone Energy. The little wiggle at the end is because a few storms were tossed in that never even amounted to anything. They did not see to have tropical characteristics. hey, they got to do what they got to do, they get their funding from the same government sources as those perpetrating the hoax of AGW.

Nuclear Batteries

Remember the Apollo Missions? Mixed in along with the hoopla about sending men into space on huge, fire spewing rockets — There was some serious science done during the moon landing missions, little known is the batteries for the moon based experiments packages, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package(ALSEP).

Consider the engineering problem presented — The lunar night lasts for about 15 days; a solar panel with a battery back-up system would also be a bulky item. Sophisticated chemical storage batteries were considered, but quickly rejected based on their low energy density. A problem that still plagues battery designers today.

The chosen power source for ALSEP – the only one deemed capable of performing the required task – was a radioisotope thermal generator (RTG). The NASA designation for the devices that powered ALSEP for missions 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 was SNAP-27 (Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power model number 27).

SNAP-27 Characteristics

The SNAP-27 power supply weighed about 20 kilograms, was 46 cm long and 40.6 cm in diameter. It consisted of a central fuel capsule surrounded by concentric rings of thermocouples. Outside of the thermocouples was a set of fins to provide for heat rejection from the cold side of the thermocouple.

Each of the SNAP-27 devices produced approximately 75 W of electrical power at 30 VDC. The energy source for each device was a rod of plutonium-238 weighing approximately 2.5 kilograms and providing a thermal power of approximately 1250 W.

Above photo of Apollo-14 SNAP-27 deployed on the moon …

Plutonium-238 is a non-fissile isotope of plutonium that decays by alpha particle emission with essentially zero associated gamma emissions. This characteristic was very important for the ALSEP powering application, both because the instruments would have been negatively affected by interference from a gamma emitter and because the devices required close handling by lunar astronauts.

Even though the only radiation from Pu-238 is alpha particles which require little shielding, it is necessary to use thick gloves when handling a 2.5 kilogram rod of Pu-238. The surface temperature will reach about 500 degrees C because of the energy being released by radioactive decay. After ten years of continuous power output, a Pu-238 based RTG will still produce 92% of its initial power.

One measure of performance that is often used for chemical storage batteries is the amp-hour. A modern battery might have a capacity of 1.5 amp-hrs/kg. The SNAP-27 power supplies demonstrated the ability to provide more than 4380 amp-hrs/kg during the four years that their performance was monitored. Similar RTGs have produced 24,000 amp-hrs/kg during a 20 year operating life and are still going strong.

The purpose of this brief history lesson, Nuclear batteries are staging somewhat of a comeback.

NASA Bombs Moon

LCROSS – Direct hit. Stay tuned for more, they might know the ‘moon water content story’ shortly. If they find water, it could alter NASA plans for colonies on the moon. Water would be a key ingredient in the success of that mission.

NASA hopes it will be a first step in the return of people to the moon, and that first step arrived just before dawn with a flash of energy and a plume of debris that could reveal whether there is significant amounts of water there.

A Silicon Valley-directed spacecraft intended to provide a cheap, fast — and spectacular — insight into the moon hurtled into the moon at five times the speed of a bullet, searching for water that could help support astronauts living on the lunar surface.

Watched by hundreds who turned out to NASA’s Ames Research Center to — a crowd that ranged from grade school students to Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite hurtled into a crater near the moon’s south pole on schedule at 7:35 a.m. Eastern Time(11:30 UT), Friday.

UPDATE: NASA said the real-time video didn’t work, but pictures soon … So something went wrong.

Research Validates Key Role for Cosmic Rays in Climate Change

TEHRAN (FNA)- New research by the National Space Institute in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) validated 13 years of discoveries that point to a key role for cosmic rays in climate change.

Billions of tons of water droplets vanish from the atmosphere in events that reveal in detail how the Sun and the stars control our everyday clouds.

DTU Researchers have traced the consequences of eruptions on the Sun that screen the Earth from some of the cosmic rays – the energetic particles raining down on our planet from exploded stars.

“The Sun makes fantastic natural experiments that allow us to test our ideas about its effects on the climate,” lead author of a report newly published in Geophysical Research Letters Prof. Henrik Svensmark said.

When solar explosions interfere with the cosmic rays there is a temporary shortage of small aerosols, chemical specks in the air that normally grow until water vapor can condense on them, so seeding the liquid water droplets of low-level clouds.

Because of the shortage, clouds over the ocean can lose as much as 7 per cent of their liquid water within seven or eight days of the cosmic-ray minimum.

“A link between the Sun, cosmic rays, aerosols, and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale,” the report concludes.

This research, to which Torsten Bondo and Jacob Svensmark contributed, validates 13 years of discoveries that point to a key role for cosmic rays in climate change.

In particular, it connects observable variations in the world’s cloudiness to laboratory experiments in Copenhagen showing how cosmic rays help to make the all-important aerosols.

Other investigators have reported difficulty in finding significant effects of the solar eruptions on clouds, and Henrik Svensmark understands their problem.

“It’s like trying to see tigers hidden in the jungle, because clouds change a lot from day to day whatever the cosmic rays are doing,” he says.

The first task for a successful hunt was to work out when “tigers” were most likely to show themselves, by identifying the most promising instances of sudden drops in the count of cosmic rays, called Forbush decreases.

Previous research in Copenhagen predicted that the effects should be most notice-able in the lowest 3000 meters of the atmosphere. The team identified 26 Forbush decreases since 1987 that caused the biggest reductions in cosmic rays at low altitudes, and set about looking for the consequences.

The first global impact of the shortage of cosmic rays is a subtle change in the color of sunlight, as seen by ground stations of the aerosol robotic network AERONET.

By analyzing its records during and after the reductions in cosmic rays, the DTU team found that violet light from the Sun looked brighter than usual. A shortage of small aerosols, which normally scatter violet light as it passes through the air, was the most likely reason. The color change was greatest about five days after the minimum counts of cosmic rays.

Henrik Svensmark and his team were not surprised by it, because the immediate action of cosmic rays, seen in laboratory experiments, creates micro-clusters of sulphuric acid and water molecules that are too small to affect the AERONET observations.

Only when they have spent a few days growing in size should they begin to show up, or else be noticeable by their absence. The evidence from the aftermath of the Forbush decreases, as scrutinized by the Danish team, gives aerosol experts valuable information about the formation and fate of small aerosols in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Although capable of affecting sunlight after five days, the growing aerosols would not yet be large enough to collect water droplets. The full impact on clouds only becomes evident two or three days later.

It takes the form of a loss of low-altitude clouds, because of the earlier loss of small aerosols that would normally have grown into “cloud condensation nuclei” capable of seeding the clouds.

“Then it’s like noticing bare patches in a field, where a farmer forgot to sow the seeds,” Svensmark explains. “Three independent sets of satellite observations all tell a similar story of clouds disappearing, about a week after the minimum of cosmic rays.”

Averaging satellite data on the liquid-water content of clouds over the oceans, for the five strongest Forbush decreases from 2001 to 2005, the DTU team found a 7 per cent decrease, as mentioned earlier.

That translates into 3 billion tons of liquid water vanishing from the sky. The water remains the-re in vapor form, but unlike cloud droplets it does not get in the way of sunlight trying to warm the ocean. After the same five Forbush decreases, satellites measuring the extent of liquid-water clouds revealed an average reduction of 4 per cent. Other satellites showed a similar 5 per cent reduction in clouds below 3200 meters over the ocean.

“The effect of the solar explosions on the Earth’s cloudiness is huge,” Henrik Svensmark comments.

“A loss of clouds of 4 or 5 per cent may not sound very much, but it briefly increases the sunlight reaching the oceans by about 2 watt per square meter, and that’s equivalent to all the global warming during the 20th Century.”

The Forbush decreases are too short-lived to have a lasting effect on the climate, but they dramatize the mechanism that works more patiently during the 11-year solar cycle.

When the Sun becomes more active, the decline in low-altitude cosmic radiation is greater than that seen in most Forbush events and the loss of low cloud cover persists for long enough to warm the world.

That explains, according to the DTU team, the alternations of warming and cooling seen in the lower atmosphere and in the oceans during solar cycles.

The director of the Danish National Space Institute, DTU, Eigil Friis-Christensen, was co-author with Svensmark of an early report on the effect of cosmic rays on cloud cover, back in 1996.

Commenting on the latest paper he said, “The evidence has piled up, first for the link between cosmic rays and low-level clouds and then, by experiment and observation, for the mechanism involving aerosols. All these consistent scientific results illustrate that the current climate models used to predict future climate are lacking important parts of the physics”.

Translated from Far News:

Galactic Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High

Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA’s ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high.

“In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years,” says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech.

Source ACE/NASA:

The Hoax Beats On

CO2 an atmospheric trace gas, does not cause any such thing as warming, but it is the very substance for all life on earth. Without atmospheric CO2 there would be no life on earth.

How do we know that the current CO2 level (about 350 parts per million) in the atmosphere isn’t enough, instead of too much? How would we know?

And now watch this post’s video for the summary.

Global Warming Hoax

Let’s just put this on the table straight up, the AGW hoax is all about guilt-tripping you into being willing to pay extremely high taxes with no real gain — Save the earth and all that crap. I like to describe it as such — Pay higher taxes to the government, so government scientist can pretend to control the weather. We have enough evidence of government scientists, and scientists operating on grant money from the government, shall we say shading the truth? Or in many cases outright falsifying study results or the data.

It’s simply not true that man generated CO2 causes climate change. But if it did, you could easily check to see what was going on. How, simple actually and it;s already been done. All the computer models say there should be a ‘hot band’ around the earth between 15 degrees south and 15 degrees north, caused by CO2 in the atmosphere and trapping the heat from the sun.

Simple answer the Al Gore blanket is not there. Joe Bastardi has this short film to describe the results:

Earth’s climate always changes. Been doing so for eons.

Energy Deadline Approaching

Of course abiogenic petroleum doesn’t exist, just ask any liberal. So what is that ’stuff’ on Titan?

The nation has been consumed with health care reform, politicians not listening to the people’s concerns, the ACORN scandals, and rampant racism among critics of the new president, but the world continues to move on around all that chaos.

One of those other things is the extended deadline for commenting on the Draft Proposed Program on Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy development, which expires September 21, 2009, after which time the Minerals Management Service (MMS) will analyze comments and make recommendations regarding offshore energy development.

Some very good information about this process and the possible effects, either positive or negative, to the nation’s domestic energy program can be found at Energy Tomorrow.

I wonder how much longer the scam of energy independence can last in America. Eventually everyone will figure out it’s a Democrat scam to raise energy prices and ration energy. In fact, it has now become scientific fact that old plants and dinosaurs are not necessary to form methane, the basis for all hydrocarbons, the earth can do it all by itself in the deep crust of the planet. It all runs on tectonic forces, the result is called abiogenic petroleum. The fact that Titan, a moon of Saturn, has surface methane is proof of the processes existence. Saturn is to far from the sun to have had life as we know it, meaning that what we understand as fossil petroleum could not exist there.

Abiogenic petroleum is understood to be petroleum that is produced deep within the earth through a series of non-biological means. From this perspective, abiogenic petroleum would be different from petroleum that is produced from what is called fossil fuels, which are found within the earth in a number of places around the world. At the same time, abiogenic petroleum would still be considered a form of natural petroleum, as the product would be created using natural components and a series of naturally occurring events.

The Sun Influences Earth’s Climate ?

You wonder who would ever dream up such a notion that the Sun may indeed Influence Earth’s climate. Didn’t Al Gore find that you could get rich combining a power point presentation with a scissors trolley? Who would have ever thought you could do that?

Now they are saying — Small fluctuations in solar activity, large influence on the climate. Further, Sun spot frequency has an unexpectedly strong influence on cloud formation and precipitation, rain like it is doing world wide these days in the total absence of Sun activity of any consequence.

Our sun does not radiate evenly. The best known example of radiation fluctuations is the famous 11-year cycle of sun spots. Nobody denies its influence on the natural climate variability, but climate models have, to-date, not been able to satisfactorily reconstruct its impact on climate activity.

Researchers from the USA and from Germany have now, for the first time, successfully simulated, in detail, the complex interaction between solar radiation, atmosphere, and the ocean. As the scientific journal Science reports in its latest issue, Gerald Meehl of the US-National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and his team have been able to calculate how the extremely small variations in radiation brings about a comparatively significant change in the System “Atmosphere-Ocean”.

Katja Matthes of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, and co-author of the study, states: „Taking into consideration the complete radiation spectrum of the sun, the radiation intensity within one sun spot cycle varies by just 0.1 per cent. Complex interplay mechanisms in the stratosphere and the troposphere, however, create measurable changes in the water temperature of the Pacific and in precipitation”.

Top Down – Bottom up

In order for such reinforcement to take place many small wheels have to interdigitate. The initial process runs from the top downwards: increased solar radiation leads to more ozone and higher temperatures in the stratosphere. “The ultraviolet radiation share varies much more strongly than the other shares in the spectrum, i.e. by five to eight per cent, and that forms more ozone” explains Katja Matthes. As a result, especially the tropical stratosphere becomes warmer, which in turn leads to changed atmospheric circulation. Thus, the interrelated typical precipitation patterns in the tropics are also displaced.

The second process takes place in the opposite way: the higher solar activity leads to more evaporation in the cloud free areas. With the trade winds the increased amounts of moisture are transported to the equator, where they lead to stronger precipitation, lower water temperatures in the East Pacific and reduced cloud formation, which in turn allows for increased evaporation. Katja Matthes: “It is this positive back coupling that strengthens the process”. With this it is possible to explain the respective measurements and observations on the Earth’s surface.

From EurekAlert.

When you add in the probable effect of the Sun’s quiescence and reduced maganetic filed strength caused by same, allowing increases in cosmic rays, which add to increased cloud formation, you wonder, do the cosmos actually control the Earth’s weather?