Environmentalists Win Battle Over Keystone XL – Environment Loses War

Environmentalists have kept the Keystone XL pipeline from being finished. Pipelines are the safest way to move oil to oil terminals on various costs of the USA and Canada. They are not perfect. There is some risk. But there is risk in every project.

Now oil companies are bypassing the Keystone.  They are going to move the oil (in fact they are already moving the oil) via rail. Moving oil by rail is not as safe. But it is easier to add rail cars and more rail terminals than it is to get a pipeline approved.

Way to go environmental morons. (Warning. Link is to NY Times)

“Since July, plans have been announced for three large loading terminals in western Canada with the combined capacity of 350,000 barrels a day — equivalent to roughly 40 percent of the capacity of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that is designed to bring oil from western Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast.  Over all, Canada is poised to quadruple its rail-loading capacity over the next few years to as much as 900,000 barrels a day, up from 180,000 today.”

“The Canadians remain a few years behind producers in North Dakota, where the paucity of pipelines encouraged early oil explorers like EOG Resources to form a partnership with Burlington Northern Santa Fe to build terminals for the shipment of oil by rail to refineries across the country.  Today more than three-quarters of North Dakota’s production, which also was to move on the Keystone XL pipeline, is transported by rail. The Canadian oil producers took notice.”

HADCET – Top 60 Year Warming Trends By Month

The other day I did a post about HADCET data by month showing how some of the months have a 350 year flat trend.

The next day I did a post about the  top 18 year warming trends at anytime in the 350 year history of HADCET.

How about 60 years? Surely the key period in global warming propaganda is 1950 on. You might expect them all to be around 1950 to 2000 or so wouldn’t you? Well, if you believe in global warming you might. But if you haven’t been taken in, you might not.

Well, only two months (July and August) were from the modern era.  October was close, but 1912 to 1971 doesn’t fit the AGW cult criteria.

Eight of  the months  started the trend in the 1600s. One in the 1700s.

So much for CO2 as the cause of “unprecedented warming”. The warming was for the most part very precedented.

Click for a bigger graph.

HADCET Top 60 Year Warming Trends By Month 1663 to 2013

Antarctic Sea Ice Update Oct 28, 2013

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent data has been unavailable for a few days. I emailed NSIDC and today they replied and said:

“Occasional short-term delays and data outages do occur and are usually resolved in a few days. We are currently experiencing such a short-term delay and we will get the issue resolved as quickly as possible.”

Commenter Gary also posted a link to this page that says:

“October 25, 2013: Daily updates to the graph and image are temporarily suspended due to technical difficulties with the data provider.”

HADCET – Top 18 Year Warming Trends By Month

Yesterday I did post about HADCET data by month showing how some of the months have a 350 year flat trend.

Today I thought I would look at the top 18 year warming trends at anytime in the 350 year history of HADCET. Why 18 years? Well, 1980 to 1998 was 18 years.

You might expect them all to be around 1980 to 1998 wouldn’t you? Well, if believe in global warming you might. But if you haven’t been taken in, you might not.

Only one recent month made it in the top. February 1983 to 2000. 2.53C per decade. Helped by the 5th coldest February in 1986 and the 3rd warmest February in 1998. That was an 8C rise.

But the next closest was January 1959 to 1976.  And five of the trends start in the 1600s! One in the 1700s. And four in the 1800s.

There is nothing unusual about the warm in the 1980s to 1990s.

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HADCET Top 18 Year Warming Trends By Month 1663 to 2013

 

HADCET – How Far Can You Go Back? June 1663 to June 2013 has a flat trend

I was looking at the HADCET data by month out of curiousity and I noticed that the month of June had a pretty flat trend for a long, long time.

So I thought to myself, how far can I go back with HADCET and get a flat or just slightly flat trend for individual months?

The graph below (click for full size) has a graph for each month. The months are grouped by season. And the data for each month is the the furthest back you can go with a trend of 0C/decade or lower.

The grand champion is June. The trend is 0C/decade from 1663 to 2013.

Wow.  Not much of a “Global Warming Signal” in a 350 year flat trend is there?

2nd longest is February with 0C/Decade trend from 1846 to 2013.

3rd longest is December with a -0.003C/Decade trend from 1907 to 2012.

4th is July from 1981. 5th is March from 1986. 6th and 7th is January and August from 1987.  May from 1988. October and November from 1994, September from 1995, And April from 2001,

I always wonder why CO2 is such a selective month.

HADCET How Far Can You Go Back 1663 to September 2013  Less Than or Equal to 0C. per Dec.

40 Years of Rising CO2 compared to Temperature

40 Years of Rising CO2 … 1940 to 1979. Officially CO2 measurements only started in the 50s, but I think one can extrapolate backwards.

CO2 didn’t have much effect. The Temperature trend over those 40 years was -0.026C per decade. About -0.1C for the 40 years.

40 Years of rising CO2 a

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1979/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1979/trend/plot/esrl-co2/from:1940/to:1979/offset:-300/plot/esrl-co2/from:1940/to:1979/offset:-300/trend

Lets take a look at the same graph without the CO2 part.

40 Years of rising CO2 b

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1979/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1979/trend

HADCET By Month Last 10 Years

 HADCET (Central England Temperature)  over the last 10 years has been cooling at a rate of -1.2C per decade.

I thought I would graph each month with the seasons grouped together.

I find it fascinating to see some months (such as October’s -.012C/Decade) are barely cooling  while Janruary is cooling at -2.6C per decade.

Click to see full size.

HADCET  2003 to 2012