News comes out on Federal Budget night – which we all know is a classic PR tactic to bury news that Govt preferred was not noticed. So when you want to go online and check your local forecast – that you have amply paid for with your taxes over the years – you might now be offered – who knows what desirable goods or services ? Time will tell.
Do we have any readers out there familiar with online adverising who could estimate some potential numbers for us and take a guess at the type of advertising we might be offered.
Note too that the BoM despite being the subject of at least two inquiries – garners another 40 staff at $120,000 each – $4.8million.
I have a letter from the Australian National Audit Office stating their – “…2011 Audit Work Program includes two potential audits on the Bureau of Meteorology.”
I see too that in Dec 1999 there was an audit of the BoM into Severe weather. Interesting to see no mention of “flash flooding” – yet flash flooding killed so many people near Toowoomba in early 2011. Despite flash flooding being noted around Toowoomba by various newspaper reports over the last 100 years.
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USA and European solar research groups differ over whether sunspots increased or decreased in April
Just noticed that the SWO sunspot number published by NOAA increased for April while the RI number published by the ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM decreased.
Just eyeballing the graph it looks to be a significant difference of opinion.
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Canberra Airport 55 year record for 5 consecutive frosts up to the 8th May
With the budget to be delivered tonight and the Carbon Tax about to slam into our hip pocket nerves – I thought that the assembling MP’s mostly from warmer climes might like knowing that the Canberra bleakness they had encountered was a 55 year old record. In 1957 there were 10 consecutive frosts from the 3rd to 12th May – and they were colder than this year – but the urban heat island was much less in 1957. May 2011 had a 54 year record for total frost days.
Data downloads for the Ed Thurstan CRUT4 analysis
The Ed Thurstan files are zipped and can be downloaded;
www.warwickhughes.com/papers/etdata.zip – approx 27Mb
www.warwickhughes.com/papers/etodds.zip – other 2 under 500Kb each
www.warwickhughes.com/papers/etprogrampack.zip
On 23 March I started comparing CRUT4 with CRUT3 over Australia – these grid box anomaly maps shows large differences in 2007.
The newly released CRUT4 shows many warmer tweaks over the Australian region
More later.
Scandal at ANU over claims of “death threats” in emails
We all remember the story that ran viral last June about death threats in emails to Australian National University staff. It even ran overseas – here is The Guardian masthead for 6 June last year.
Now it has taken near a year but Sydney blogger Simon Turnill has had a huge FOI win in discovering that the emails contained no such threats. Read his story.
Why are we sceptics not surprised at this eventual outcome – so basic facts got hopelessly exaggerated by IPCC supportive scientists at ANU – so!! – and what does it say about about the rigor of higher level management processes at ANU. What a shocker.
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I see nothing today in the Fairfax owned Canberra Times, home of ANU – not keen to rock any boats eh. Note to read the story at The Australian – Google – Climate scientists’ claims of email death threats go up in smoke – then read full version.
Historic maps of Arctic sea ice extent 1893-1961 – discovery reported by Anthony Watts
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And while you are at the Anthony Watts site – please have a laugh at the classic photo of a Govt advertisement warning of drought.
Data shows CO2 is good for health, wealth and happiness
Reader Peter Lang sent me this gem from Dr Benny Peiser at The Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Author Dr Indur Goklany: Global Warming Policies Might Be Bad For Your Health
Vote on the new “climate change” poll at the ABC Q & A site
I see the “dismissives” have quickly made their presence felt over the loaded questions – 1929 votes as at 8.45am 27 Apr 2012. Only takes a few minutes – go on – a little chance to strike back at the years of disgusting Govt propaganda on climate.
Coldest ANZAC Day in Canberra for 60 years
13.6 degrees C on 25 April 2012 – 1952 was 13.3, 1939 – 13.2 and 1944 – 11.6.
And this is in the face of constant growth of the Canberra urban heat island (UHI). No doubt this is what we can expect from global warming. Camooweal in NW Queensland is also having chilly times – is anybody aware of other record cold sites ?
Just saw this scenic shot in the Canberra Times – high alpine ridges near Perisher on ANZAC Day – another good pic in the article.
Earths climate throughout geological history
Reader Peter Lang kindly sent me these interesting links.
Here are links to three sites on past climate and one with plate tectonics animation:
1 Paleomap by Scotese:
Schematic chart of average global surface temperatures for the past 600 million years (since multicell animal life began)
Points to note:
The planet is in a ‘cold-house’ phase
There have been only three ‘cold-house’ phases since animal life began. We are in the third one now.
The planet’s normal temperature is about 8 C warmer than present
Life thrives when the planet is warmer, struggles when colder
Life loves warming, hates cooling
Warm is better for life. More food.
We acknowledge there are costs of change, but overall, warmer is better for life.
Continue reading Earths climate throughout geological history