Infrared astronomer doesn’t buy CO2

Comment left at Steve Goddard’s by Mike Sanicola

I’m a professional infrared astronomer who spent his life trying to observe space through the atmosphere’s back-radiation that the environmental activists claim is caused by CO2 and guess what? In all the bands that are responsible for back radiation in the brightness temperatures (color temperatures) related to earth’s surface temperature (between 9 microns and 13 microns for temps of 220K to 320 K) there is no absorption of radiation by CO2 at all. In all the bands between 9 and 9.5 there is mild absorption by H2O, from 9.5 to 10 microns (300 K) the atmosphere is perfectly clear except around 9.6 is a big ozone band that the warmists never mention for some reason.

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I’m retired so I don’t need to keep my mouth shut anymore. Kept my mouth shut for 40 years,

Yep. Lots of void, no evidence for the posit. I’m still waiting for the missing primary dataset, if it can be directly measured. Proxy is wiggle matching. Ozone, sure, been known for 100 years. Angstrom reported it from Sweden.

Met Office pet, Exeter University launches first online course. Meteorology? No. One guess.

Co-mod writes: Not long ago Tallbloke mentioned MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) as starting to gain traction.

So I am dismayed over be-spoiling of MOOC, usage as a propaganda tool.

Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions. A FREE online course from the University of Exeter

Our very first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) begins on 13th January 2014 on the Open University’s FutureLearn platform, and lasts for eight weeks.

Teaching, factual?

“Issues we will cover include:

We have reached a real tipping point in Earth climate systems. For example, the Greenland ice sheet is melting, raising sea levels, and there’s simply no going back.

Uh huh, speaking from a position of authority, “know or ought to know” better. Let’s see the full proof.

The leader is Mr Tim Lenton working “in partnership with the UK Met Office”. He is rather young. Got himself involved in The Team, Stefan Rahmstorf and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber[5].
Stoat pokes fun “Tim Lenton is silly” and “However, I’m inclined to think that he isn’t a tosser, just naive…”[2] , err.. Stoat, he is one of yours, oh well gave me a chuckle, still not sure what he did.

BA (Cambridge),
PhD (UEA)
[ coy on letting on the whole truth ]

Saga continues : halted, “captain of the Xue Long requested assistance when it became trapped.”

We might be starting to see answers. As I expected the person transfer can indeed only take place when both Xue Long and Aurora Australis are in clear water, transfer barges don’t do ice. (two on the foredeck of AA)
Floatless helicopter doesn’t do water or weak helipads.
Do they all have survival suits for 50+ and have had training?
It’s a mess.

Sydney Morning Herald dated January 2, 2014 – 1:02PM reports

Helicopter rescue delayed as second ship trapped in ice

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Both the Xue Long and the Aurora need to be in open water to conduct the barge operation.

On Wednesday, the Aurora spent most of the day and evening ploughing towards the Chinese vessel [as webcam shots showed], which has not moved under its own steam for more than a day [suspected], after it [Xue Long] requested assistance.

While the Aurora made good, slow progress, coming within 2.1 nautical miles of the Chinese ship, by 1.30am on Thursday the Australian ice-breaker reached thick pack ice that it could not penetrate [as suspected].

“Nature took over,” Aurora captain Murray Doyle said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/helicopter-rescue-delayed-as-second-ship-trapped-in-ice-20140102-306yj.html

Aurora Australis within sight of Russian ship

Looks like AA is ice ramming. Weather has improved, above freezing, slightly less wind, much better visibility.

Images coutesy http://www.antarctica.gov.au/webcams/aurora

I lost a previous image, slightly different heading, could see two ships on horizon, other is to right.

Scottish police helicopter crashes into Glasgow centre pub, Friday night

Breaking news helicopter heavily crashing into Glasgow pub on a Friday night.

I have heard sufficient to state this a police helicopter in fatal mechanical trouble, is embedded in the pub roof, with at least many injuries and probably fatalities. Thank goodness no fire.

Eye witnesses directly mentioned the distinctive markings on the tail and on the rotor, few others operate at night and over a city. A serial number was given, if correct, police.  [Police Scotland confirmed early today that its aircraft was involved.  The police helicopter is staffed by a civilian pilot and two officers.]

Less certain the rotor was not turning (press reporter eye witness).

May be a Eurocopter, operated by Strathclyde police

http://www.eurocopter.co.uk/site/en/ref/home.html

Yarns, hackle and heckle

Open thread space

A Hackle [1] is a toothed tool used to straighten fibres.

A Heckle [2] is much the same, aka a heckling comb.

 Link to an image of an Hatchel 

Text left from a wonderful archive at Arizona Uni.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/

Yarn is as tangled.  And many other meanings.

Missing CRU 1000 year plot resurfaces

Surreal time.

I have a large archive here going back many years, been active via networks for longer than most. Some is online.

Trawling looking for useful content to do with a large CET article I am writing I noticed a postscript file (not PDF), open, is the above. (which is bitmap of the ps)

My immediate thought was Climategate followed by clang, not in that disk directory. Timestamp is 2000, plot ceases before 2000.

September 2013 Ken Wallis died age 97

http://www.youtube.com/embed/RQMImcbbI_Y?rel=0

This is how you do it. Video is dated 2011. [Upated at end of article]

Carry On Greenpeace, balaclava and assault weapon toting FSB drop in from chopper

Click for story

[UPDATE 6] 

Russian authorities on Thursday completed pressing piracy charges against all 30 people detained aboard a Greenpeace icebreaker that was used in a protest where activists attempted to climb up a Gazprom oil rig in the Arctic.

“The defendants pleaded not guilty and are currently refusing to give relevant testimony,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said on its website. Fourteen of the detainees were charged Wednesday and 16 on Thursday. They face up to 15 years in prison.

http://en.ria.ru/world/20131003/183927995/All-30-Aboard-Greenpeace-Ship-Charged-With-Piracy.html

I cannot find the claimed quote in English on the sledcom website.  (Russia’s Investigative Committee)
Perhaps it takes a few days for translations to be done.

[UPDATE 5]

Greenpeace are reported as telling “at least five of the detainees formally charged with piracy”
http://en.ria.ru/crime/20131002/183898415/Russia-Charges-Greenpeace-Activists-With-Piracy.html

Other news from the Russian outlet , may was well raise a smile, mentions Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
Huh? Never heard of it, real word. Although I once owned an ancient car carrying the number and yes it did disturb some people, never understood myself, just a random number. Neat though if you roll the car, help arrives.
Also an item on clowns everywhere, young biker riding through a Moscow metro station. Darwin invented photographs and video.

[UPDATE 4]

Court order granted, ship searched.
Some details of court sentences, seems to amount to holding for most and more serious for a few.
Putin reported stating didn’t thing was piracy but illegal.

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130928/183813401/Russian-Investigators-Start-Inspection-of-Seized-Greenpeace-Ship.html

[UPDATE 3]

Greenpeace Activists Face 2 Months in Russian Jail Pending Charges

Seems things drag slowly in Russia, pending charges.  Story.

Putin remarked it perhaps wasn’t piracy but seems to be keeping out of things.

Prof. Phil Jones and king Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

By chance I noticed Prof. Phil Jones giving his affiliation

Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

and

Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research, Department of Meteorology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

This stuck me as a new departure but I am often last to know.

Page left linked here.

“Vice President for Educational Affairs, Prof Abdurrahman Alyoubi, received at his office Prof Philip Jones, of the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK.

The meeting was attended by Dr Mansour Almazroui, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Climate Change Research, and Prof Ahmed Al-Sa’idi, Advisor to the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research.

Manhattan to Beaufort Sea, 43,000 horsepower marginal

In 1969 an icebreaking oil tanker broke through the North West passage but only with assistance.

A prominent program during this time was CRREL ’s participation in the two test voyages of the icebreaking oil tanker Manhattan. Five CRREL researchers journeyed aboard the Manhattan for the “Arctic Tanker Project,” which was financed mainly by Humble Oil, with some assistance from Atlantic Richfield and British Petroleum. The expedition began in September 1969 with two Canadian icebreakers and one U.S. icebreaker trailing the Manhattan. The arrangements were for the icebreakers to carry out search and rescue operations if needed, but the main icebreaking effort was the task of the supertanker. The objective was to have the Manhattan, the largest U.S. commercial vessel then in service, ram itself into the thickest ice that could be found.

The Manhattan eventually succumbed to the ice of McClure Strait, where ice ridges at that time towered up to 40 ft above the water.

Anchor ice and the heat flux through water

In recent days I have been chasing information in old archives.

Many strange things have turned up. Here is one of them, a page as PDF as found by a search engine but alas the wonder of hashing, discovering the document from whence it came is a tangle of mystery.

Here are a few words copy typed from image

Anchor ice never forms under a cloudy sky either by day or night, no matter how severe the weather, but it forms very rapidly under a clear sky at night. Anchor ice is readily melted off under a bright sun.

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Thus the loosening of the anchor ice under bright sun is simple enough from the fact that water is transparent to heat-waves up to 1u.

It then goes on to point out that water is “exceedingly opaque” to longer heat rays and therefore a bit of a problem arises over how long wave gets out to space to freeze the bottom water in the first place.

Water being what it is, ice floats. Wonder how long before Rog goes, hang on a minute.

Spring 2013 is arriving

Photographed 15th April 2013, Camellia “Mars”, colour rendition is reasonable, reds are always difficult to capture, is a little richer. To do this I had to click and creak down to lying on a mat, camera is looking slightly upwards. Windy day, camera on aperture priority, and this is hand held, hence not quite sharp. Lens is 28mm equivalent.

Post is an update on https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/i-hope-this-gcm-is-wrong-yet-more-cold-weather/

Where the same shrub is shown in flower 2nd March 2012.

Shodh ganga, a resource.

The Shodhganga INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.

Note from Tim: the content is marked copyright, please respect this and I doubt hammering the server would be welcome.

The data format seems to be PDF as separate chapters.

Living on the Indian subcontinent brings great awareness of the Monsoon leading to many papers on all associated subjects.

Interesting thoughts at Klimaforskning

Talkshop contributor Jostemikk linked in Suggestions to Klimaforskning (a Simple Machines based Forum) where astute work is being done on climate problems.

Several of the recent threads there very properly look at the complex regime of climate data, cause and effect with their lead/lag, the way to sort out chicken or egg.

Real-world climatic significance of ’the enhanced greenhouse effect’ – a straightforward test toward potential falsification.

There is more there in a similar vein.

Mannington Hall thing

Okay folks, what the xxx is this pink thing? (or white)

Bing or Google can show the same aerial image.

52.84185430,1.17863789753

Earlier images show there are two pits/tanks without the top part. Might be small livestock close by.

WUWT suspend about US temperature data

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/press-release-2/

“A reanalysis of U.S. surface station temperatures has been performed using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System devised by METEO-France’s Michel Leroy. The new siting classification more accurately characterizes the quality of the location in terms of monitoring long-term spatially representative surface temperature trends. The new analysis demonstrates that reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited stations upward. The paper is the first to use the updated siting system which addresses USHCN siting issues and data adjustments.”

It’s a US issue, not terribly important to the rest of us.

I might comment later.

[update 31st] What I wrote above has produced an unintended reaction in comments. This was perplexing but I think I now realise my mistake, which was giving a  quick one liner without a reason or context, perhaps treading on international feelings as well. This was not intended.

I omitted to say what I took as a given: the work presented by Watts et al is very welcome and very likely excellent. I support any actions to move towards reality and truth. If you see this as not gushing please take as a combination of an unknown new work and a personal tendency to deadpan.

I also omitted to say why I think it is a US issue and will change nothing over here, meaning UK and Europe. Explaining poses a problem of length and completeness, so this is very incomplete.

A primary difference between the USA and Europe is the concept of free. With information this is nicely illustrated by UK data only available from overseas, often from the USA.

The US has wide public access to their meteorological data. In Europe the public have little if any access other than what is pushed by government. In the UK a lot more data is available commercially from government, they want money for goods we paid to collect. There is also availability to government itself and formal academia, often notionally charged using notional accounting. The US authorities do change for some data, primarily it seems when there is a significant delivery cost (example, very high resolution tidal data)

As a consequence of the above the US public have a far more accessible met. system where it is practical to see and address problems.

Also keep in mind that Europe and the USA are roughly the same size and population. This is where the federal Europe idea appears, where at the moment there are many countries but without a common federal overgoverment, where the EU gets accused of trying to take overall control. The EU apparatchik is extremely inaccessible and secretive. Those in the US need to note the small size of the UK:  “Area – comparative:  slightly smaller than Oregon” (CIA worldbook)

Finally, I see the whole “climate” problem as political and nothing to do with climate but about power and control by a secretive core which is cloaked inside the visible politicians. There a huge difference between the US States and much of the rest of the world, perhaps the US viewed as more genuinely of the people. Contrast with where the central state considers it owns, it controls with the people an annoying resource to be milked.

If I have upset anyone, sorry.

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Answers this

https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/wuwt-does-a-crazy-flip-shuts-down/

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Radio Jackie, early London pirate radio, a sad tale?

An unusual Talkshop article, we have readers around the world. There is a twist at the end, get bored of me, skip to the end.

“Radio Jackie is South West London’s original pirate radio station. The first broadcast was in March 1969 from a studio in Sutton and lasted for just 30 minutes. Within a short while Radio Jackie was on the air every Sunday giving a growing band of listeners their first taste of truly local radio. On 7 March 1972 a cassette recording of Radio Jackie was played in Parliament, during the committee stage of the Sound Broadcasting Bill, as an example of what local radio could be like.”

The end: Studio after radio regulatory authorities raid in 1985.

“Sadly, Radio Jackie was forced to close in February 1985 following a series of much publicised raids by the radio regulatory authorities. Hundreds of people filled the Radio Jackie studios and offices in Worcester Park for the emotional final programme. The station vowed then to continue campaigning for a local radio licence for South West London. However, the opportunity to return legally didn’t arise until 1996 when a new FM licence for South West London on 107.8MHz was advertised. Radio Jackie’s hopes of a return to the airwaves of South West London were dashed though, when the licence was awarded to another applicant: Thames Radio. So, it looked as though Radio Jackie would become simply a piece of British broadcasting history.”

A sad story.

LoD linked to solar radiation proxy, polar ice

Figure 1

Linkage of LoD to annual earth mass redistribution by global sea ice extent as a proxy.

Author: Tim Channon

LoD (Length of Day) contains a strong annual signal which is good shape match (r2=0.91 at a time lag of just over 5 months) with global sea ice extent as a proxy for annual mass redistribution, ultimately driven by variation in insolation and earth movement.

This suggests no lunar involvement, a disconnected between this part of the dataset and the rest.

Strange things in the polar ice

Figure 1

The post a few days ago on the Talkshop Could Instrumentation Drift Account for Arctic Sea Ice Decline? has led to a little discussion but also pushed me to take a brief look at sea ice, a subject where I spent some time, although before I started posting here. My loss of interest, was partly having found out as much as I was likely to and partly the parlous state of the data providers, a mess which continues. On top of that there aren’t many people interesting in the information side, is mostly armchair politics.

What I am now showing is all based on dataset d02135, monthly.