Some Light Reading For Those Snowed In This Weekend -- January 22, 2016

I know Washington, DC, is being pummeled by global warming this weekend; I wonder how the Maldives are doing? Back to the Maldives later, but first this: 2015 was not the hottest year on record, regardless of what you may have read or heard. From the linked article:

The claim is meaningless anyway:

Here’s how Dr. Richard Lindzen, an emeritus Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, puts it:

“I urge you when looking at a graph, check the scales! The uncertainty here is tenths of a degree.”

“When someone points to this and says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? It’s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period. And they are arguing over hundredths of a degree when it is uncertain in tenths of a degree.”

“And the proof that the uncertainty is tenths of a degree are the adjustments that are being made. If you can adjust temperatures to 2/10ths of a degree, it means it wasn’t certain to 2/10ths of a degree.

Yes, I had noticed that before. The lowest point on the graph is 8.25 degrees; the high point is 8.5 degrees, over 15 years.  0.25 degrees/15 years = 0. 0167 degrees/year. Is that even measurable? Repeatable? Significant? And that's the worst case scenario. Using the other line, the difference is even less. I find it amazing what "flat earthers" notice.

Ah, yes, Science. Math. Graphs. Arithmetic. Lines.

I find the subject interesting. For others, I guess, the science is settled. LOL.

By the way, is there an app to track sea level / beach erosion in the Maldives?

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Now that we got that out of the way, for those snowed in Washington, DC, snowed in over the weekend, Ice Age Now (linked at the sidebar at the right) recaps current winter weather worldwide. It's not just Washington that's getting hammered this weekend; it's happening all over the world. Moscow? As of January 19, Moscow has already received double its "normal" amount of snow.

I was tempted to go through the list and highlight most of them here, but I decided on linking just one article, mostly for all the comments. The windmills in Sweden are frozen and helicopters, using fossil energy, are de-icing the windmills. Click on the photo at this link to see the de-icing. Be sure to read the comments. I particularly enjoyed the first one:

I live near a couple hundred + of these dumb things. In the hot dog days of summer when everyone has their air conditioners on, the windmills don’t turn much, because there is no wind. Then they kick up the co-gens-gas fired plants.

In winter after the cold blows in and everyone needs max heat the wind dies down, and again, they kick up the co-gens-gas fired plants.

I guess when they do work we throw our nuclear power away, but don’t worry it’s not much, I was told that these 270 windmills can’t even supply one small town in my county. If that’s not going ass backwards I don’t know what is.

Many people get $$$ because these things turn the sun into a slow strobe light at sunrise & sunset. I think all the people from town who come out and oooo & aahh at their stupid windmills should have their morning coffee with that damn light blinking in their eyes.

LOL.