"Never let a good crisis go to waste by not using it to raid and rob all the villages."
Posted on 01/26/2010 9:16:18 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ugh...I had to put this down for a second. I’ve been reading so many papers by the WWF lately my head is about to explode. Just a minute...going for more coffee...
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Ahh... that "could" word again.
It seem to have a different meaniing when used in an IPCC/AWG report....:^)
Two important pieces of scientific evidence are emerging which should revolutionise the forest fire debate and move it from being seen as a peripheral environmental, social and economic issue into a central issue of concern for the international community.
Firstly, there is mounting evidence that forest fires will increase in number and size due to a link between climate change and the climate phenomenon called El Niño, which caused the drought that affected much of the forests which caught fire in 1997 and 98. The frequency and intensity of El Niño could be increasing1, which means the world faces warmer more violent weather, and more forest fires.
Second, while some experts believe that it is too early to say when the next El Niño will occur, others say it might be within eighteen months, it will likely be before the forests that burnt last time have had a chance to recover. New evidence from the Amazon has concluded that fire causes a positive feedback cycle in which the more tropical forests burn the more susceptible to future burning they become. This raises the possibility of large wildfire episodes happening more frequently and on such a scale that tropical forest ecosystems will not endure. The scientists believe the whole Amazon itself is threatened, which has global consequences for biodiversity and climate change2
1 K. E. Trenberth & T. J. Hoar, The 1990-1995 El Niño-Southern Oscillation Event: Longest on Record, Geophysical Research Letters, 1996, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp57-60; K. E. Trenberth, and T. J. Hoar. El Niño and Climate Change, Geophysics Research Letters, 1997, Vol. 24, no.23, pp.3057-3060
2 D. C. Nepstad, A. G. Moreira, & A. A. A l e n c a r, Flames in the Rain Forest: Origins, Impacts and Alternatives to Amazonian Fire, Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest. Ministry of Environment, Secretariat for the Co-ordination of the Amazon, 1999
Let's look up these two references. I already know that Trenberth is implicated in the climategate email scandal.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
#2 WAS WRITTEN BY WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER!!!!
John Holdren...Obama’s Science Advisor used to run this group.
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/iffn/pub/pub_8.htm
ping to this one
"Never let a good crisis go to waste by not using it to raid and rob all the villages."
I would say all the criminals should be tried at the ICC, but that would take too long. We’re talking curriculum changed in schoolbooks, brainwashed kids, cars, lightbulbs, construction, huge money scammed on a global scale.
They should be shot, after they’re in jail for thirty years.
All of them.
Yet no one does nothing.
I bookmarked this post for closer readings as time permits.
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Tropical savannas:
http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/savanna/savanna.html
Plus, at least 18 more items that were not peer reviewed (as was required for all used research), yet quoted and attributed to extreme AGW advocates (WWF) or from the highly-esteemed journals, “Leisure” and “Event Management.”
Available here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/24/the-scandal-deepens-ipcc-ar4-riddled-with-non-peer-reviewed-wwf-papers/
Thanks Dr. J.P. Costella: the climate floodgates are opening
and this is an absolute must read:
This is just outstanding....chronological analysis and commentary on the emails ...and an excellent overview as to why this is so troubling to scientists....
Thanks Dr. J.P. Costella: the climate floodgates are opening
Nice post.
Reading part of it gave me an eery feeling.
Mann et al. whether intended or not were un-inventing
the use of energy to drive us backwards
into the dark ages.
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