JAXA sea ice extent data from Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Finally got a chance to do a little programming to show Global JAXA.
US Senate Considering Albedo Modification Geoengineering Proposal
The US Senate is considering an “Albedo Modification Geoengineering Proposal”.
Budgetmakers in the U.S. Senate want the Department of Energy (DOE) to study the possibility of making Earth reflect more sunlight into space to fight global warming. Earth’s reflectivity is known as its albedo, and the request to study “albedo modification” comes in the details of a proposed spending bill passed by the Senate appropriations committee to fund DOE, the Army Corps of Engineers, and related agencies for fiscal year 2017, which begins 1 October. The bill does not specify how much money should be spent on the research.
In a surprise move, 200 companies in China decided to bid on the contract. Most of their plans involved reopening all the coal power plants President Obama has shut down.
Subsidy Sam’s Got Blood On His Hands
‘Subsidy Sam’ was written by Lyndsey Ward to counter the shameless pro-wind propaganda allowed in schools.
More here.
What Do Prince and Cars Have In Common? Al Gore Wants To Ban Them
In 1985, the future vice president and planet-saver and his wife were, as Tipper’s 1987 best-selling anti-rock, anti-Satanism, anti-sex manifesto put it,Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society. Tipper headed up the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), whose sacred document was a list of songs it called “The Filthy Fifteen.” These were songs that glorified sex, drugs, Satan, and masturbation and could pervert your kid—or even lead them to commit suicide. At number one on the list was Prince’s “Darling Nikki,” from his massive soundtrack record to Purple Rain (jeezus, wasn’t that movie a revelation? Of what exactly, I can’t remember, but finally, it seemed, a rock star had truly delivered on the genius we all wanted to see emerge from pop music into film).
On page 3 of Raising PG Kids, Tipper explained why that particular song had moved her to create an organization that would use the the threat of government action to clean up “sex and violence in the media”:
In December 1984, I purchased Prince’s best-selling album Purple Rain for my 11-year-old daughter….When we brought the album home, out it on our stereo, and listened to it together, we heard the words to…”Darling Nikki”: “I knew a girl named Nikki/guess [you] could say she was a sex fiend/I met her in a hotel lobby/Masturbating with a magazine.” The song went on and on, in a similar manner. I couldn’t believe my ears! The vulgar lyrics embarrassed both of us. At first, I was stunned—then I got mad!
Of course, when you’re the wife of a second-generation U.S. senator, your mad counts for more than most of the rest of us. In 1985, the Senate wasted its time and our money by holding a hearing on the dread menace of dirty lyrics and the whole bang-the-gong medley of backward masking, rock-induced suicide, and sexual promiscuity.
Former Vice President Al Gore and former Mexican President Felipe Calderon are pushing for $90 trillion in spending to ban cars from every major city in the world and make them more dense.
JAXA Sea Ice Extent (Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 112- 2016
JAXA sea ice extent data from Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Record Sea Ice Low Predicted (Short Memories)
They are predicting a record low sea ice for 2016 because ” Comparably little new ice formed during the past winter.”
Even though I am now using JAXA (because the NSIDC sensor problems) and Jaxa sea ice data only goes back to 2002, I’d like to point out two things.
- April 20th 2012 sea ice extent was highest ever (in history of Jaxa) as you can see below (the purple line) It wasn’t low ice in April that caused a record in 2012.
2. The Great Arctic Cyclone 2012 Caused the Record Low. You can read my blog post here.
The opening paragraph:
Great Arctic Cyclone 2012 Caused the Record Low
Update: Watch a NASA simulation of the cyclone breaking up the ice.
The Great Arctic Cyclone of 2012 hit on Aug 5 and passed over the North Pole on Aug 6.
“An unusually strong storm formed off the coast of Alaska on Aug. 5, then moved over the central Arctic. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took the images that make up the mosaic during various passes over the North Pole on Aug. 6, when the storm was swirling over the middle of the Arctic Ocean. According to a NASA statement,there have only been about eight storms of similar strength during the month of August in the last 34 years of satellite records.
Using Jaxa data, note that from July 20 all the way to Aug 5, Arctic Sea Ice area was higher than in 2007. The peak day was Aug 5th, when 2012 was 229,062 sq km more than 2007.
Once the Cyclone hit, the ice broke and melted. It isn’t the apocalypse in the Arctic. It was weather!
Electricity prices for UK Industry Will Soar
Economic suicide is stupid.
Electricity prices to UK industry will soar by the end of the decade, offering little comfort to those already concerned about the impact they’re currently having on sectors such as steel.
Depending on your news source or how you filter your personal prejudices, energy prices are either the cause of the UK steel crisis or peripheral to it.
One thing which is not in dispute, however, is that electricity costs to industry are set to rise sharply over the coming years.
New research by Tyneside firm Utilitywise highlights this stark reality – the consequence of measures to combat climate change such as the Renewables Obligation, Contracts for Difference and the Capacity Market levies.
The North Tyneside firm believes the wholesale electricity cost to industrial users will stay flat at around £40 Per MW/h between now and 2021.
However, taking into account climate change mitigation policy costs, network and transmission charges, the total charge for a MW/h of electricity will rise to more than £110 over the same period.
A UK Government compensation scheme will limit the rise to around £82 per MW/h for the most energy intensive industries, but this is still prompting further concerns about ‘carbon leakage’, while casting a shadow over hopes to attract further investment into the North East.
Stan Higgins, chief executive of NEPIC (North East Processing Industry Cluster), says high energy costs are damaging all British industry.
JAXA Sea Ice Extent (Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 111 – 2016
JAXA sea ice extent data from Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Mexico’s Popocatépetl Volcano Eruption Video
Popcatepetl eruption April 18th.
Polar Bears Are Morons (Maybe Not)
A study claims Polar Bears are swimming longer, tiring them out and that maybe cause them problems.
The Polar Bear Science Blog points out the obvious:
So, despite what may be implied during media moments, Beaufort Sea polar bears were not frantically trying to reach the sea ice from land so that they could attempt to keep feeding over the summer – most of their swimming was done during breakup in July and August from one bit of pack ice to another and they showed no evidence of harm from doing so.
What do you think? Do you think they swim like this (avoiding all ice floes):
Or like this (jumping on ice floes for a rest when they need it):
sunshine hours 