Earth Changes

New IPCC report discovers the importance of Solar Surface Radiation Intensity as natural climate driver - but then ignores it!

D. E. Koelle
No Tricks Zone
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:13 UTC

According to its own statutes, the IPCC is mainly responsible for anthropogenic climate change - and much less so for natural climate change, which has been around since the Earth first appeared. That could very well be the reason why the sun gets mentioned only with respect to its solar irradiance intensity at the edge of the atmosphere. There the irradiance is 1361 W/sqm and is relatively constant, and so the role of the sun on mid-term climate change is not taken into account.

However, for the first time in the history of the IPCC reports, the 2013 AR5 report discusses the Surface Solar Radiation (SSR) as a decisively important factor (chapter 2.3.3.). Decisive for the climate and temperature changes is not the solar irradiance at the edge of the atmosphere, rather it is the amount of solar energy that makes it to the Earth's surface.

Between the Earth's surface and the outer edge of the atmosphere we have the atmosphere with its clouds and aerosols, which determine how much solar radiation eventually reaches the surface of the Earth. Since 1983 the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program (ISCCP) has been measuring global cloud coverage. One spectacular result was the decrease in global cloud cover between 1987 - 2000, from 69% to 64%, i.e. precisely during the period of warming that triggered the CO2 hypothesis.

© ISCCP
Figure 1: Mid-term variation of mean global cloud coverage according to data from the ISCCP for the period 1983 to 2010.

Tornado appears in Australia, filmed in New South Wales, 23 November 2013

Jason Paterson
YouTube
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:27 UTC

Michael Bath and I witnessed a tornado near the town of Ben Lomond, NSW, Australia. The footage above was filmed from a location just north of the village of Glencoe. Our initial intention was to film some powerful CGs from this supercell, but our attention was soon drawn to the formation of funnel clouds which eventually transitioned to a full blown tornado.

The wall cloud exhibited rapid rotation, easily the most rapid I've seen in this country, prior to putting down the tornado. This is a day that will go down in history as one of our most memorable chases in this country. Australian tornadoes are rarely documented so we are thrilled to be able to share our vision with you.

Father and daughter capture moment monster Washington, Illinois tornado demolishes their neighborhood

buzzrightnow5
YouTube
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:14 UTC

The scarred landscape after a devastating EF4 tornado tore through Washington, Illinois on November 23, 2013.

Marc Wells and his daughter lived through a nightmare, and recorded the terrifying ordeal.

Washington, Illinois was slammed by killer tornadoes on November 17, 2013, and one of them directly hit Marc and his daughter Josie's home.

Thankfully, they were not injured as they hid in a central room, but their home was badly hit.

Sinkhole swallows up truck in Chicago on Thanksgiving

Daily Mail
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:08 UTC

A pickup fell into a sinkhole in Chicago's South Side area about 8pm on Thursday night
One person was trapped inside the vehicle
Officials believe a broken water main cause the hole to form
It is the second sinkhole to form in the area in two weeks

A broken water main is the suspected cause of a sinkhole that formed in Chicago on Thanksgiving, swallowing a truck and trapping one person inside.

Firefighters had to work to extricate the person after the pickup fell into the hole in the 9500 block of South Commercial Avenue.Police say they received a call for help at 8.06pm.

South Dakota farmers describe 'worst storm in 150 years'

Sybil Ruscoe
BBC News
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:13 UTC

Nearly two months after devastating blizzards hit parts of South Dakota and Wyoming, farmers are still recovering from the loss of cattle and the effect on their businesses.

The week before the storm, it had been wet and mild and the prairies of the Great Plains were deep in mud.

Then, the first winter snow came early and unexpectedly in an icy blast from the north-west.

Trapped in the mud, 30,000 cattle suffocated and froze to death. They were buried in 20ft (6m) snow drifts, entombed in ice in what ranchers call the "breaks and draws" - the slopes and valleys - of the rolling prairie hills.

Larry Stomprud is a tall, thin cowboy wearing a black leather waistcoat and slim-cut blue jeans. Grey hair peeps from beneath his brown cowboy hat.

He is a tough rancher who has spent half a century herding cattle. But his voice falters and there are tears in his eyes as he describes the devastation on his ranch.

"I looked at my grandfather's records," he says quietly. "It was the worst storm for 150 years." His throat is strangled with anguish and with sadness as he says: "God entrusted us with the care of these animals and we failed them."

What are they? Rumblings, 'booms' heard anew in parts of Washington

Jeremy Schwartz
Peninsula Daily News
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:42 UTC

The rumbling of stomachs eager to take in a Thanksgiving meal last week didn't seem to be the only such noises heard across the central part of the North Olympic Peninsula.

Residents between Port Angeles and Sequim reported hearing low, sustained rumblings and in some instances loud booms from Tuesday to Thursday last week.

At least 15 people posted comments to the Peninsula Daily News' Facebook page describing the sounds, which some say have been heard up and down the Strait of Juan de Fuca for months, if not longer.

"Yeah, it's kind of strange,"said John Robinson, who lives off Finn Hall Road along the Strait between Port Angeles and Sequim.

"Everybody around here hears it. It rattles windows."

Robinson said Friday neither he nor his family members ever see any ships in the Strait nor planes overhead accompanying the rumbling sounds, which he described as being heard "just about every day" last week.

"If you've never heard it before, it almost sounds like a big ship maybe reversing propeller," Robinson said.

Others living in the Graysmarsh area of Sequim and up on Black Diamond Road also reported the rumblings Tuesday and Wednesday night.

"It's just another peculiarity of the North Olympic Peninsula," one person wrote on the PDN's Facebook page.

A Diamond Point resident said that people in that area hear "this all the time."

Mike Welding, public affairs officer at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, said Navy jets were practicing all last week, except on Thanksgiving, and for most of November at the station's Ault Field, just north of Oak Harbor and about 60 miles east of Port Angeles.

45 sinkholes open up in Kaski, Nepal - 50 families displaced so far

Disaster-report.com
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:58 UTC

At least 45 sinkholes have been reported in Armala in Kaski District of Nepal.

Sinkholes in Armala VDC of Kaski district have displaced more than 50 families in a week.

Sinkholes have swallowed several houses including household belongings like tables, chairs, kitchen utensils, and gas cylinders.

Nearby Riverdel School has also been closed due to the threat of sinkholes, Ujyaalo Online reported.

Geologists have concluded that Kaski, Nepal sinkholes have been caused as a result of haphazard construction of buildings.

2013 is Strange! Part 23, November

Last Messages
YouTube
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:38 UTC

Submarine eruption of the volcano Nishinoshima created a new volcanic island.

Roll clouds, crepuscular rays, strange-as-yet-to-be-named clouds, extreme storms, volcanoes erupting everywhere, meteor fireballs turning night into day, a child in the U.S. hit by a meteorite, massive hail pelting parts of Australia, more strange lights in the sky, flooding in southern Italy, major storms in the U.S. bringing 'unseasonal' and devastating tornadoes to the Midwest, more strange 'sky sounds', more mass animal deaths, UFOs, unseasonal and heavy snowfall, more massive sinkholes swallowing everything in the vicinity... the following video is a sample of just some of the weird, wonderful and scary environmental and celestial events that took place across, above and below the planet in the latter half of November 2013.

Another round of Arctic air forecast to deep freeze the U.S.

Marc Marcano
ClimateDepot.com
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 14:54 UTC

From Steven Goddard:
Arctic Air Forecast To Deep Freeze The US

Almost 1,000 record low max. temps versus 17 record high temps for last week of November in U.S.

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 14:47 UTC

Let's face it. The idea of human-caused global warming is a con job.

Records in the last 7 days:
205 snowfall records.
969 Low Max. 203 Low temps.
17 High Temp.
61 High minimum.

Yes, those are snowfall records in Texas. And yes, it is still Fall.

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Earth Changes

New IPCC report discovers the importance of Solar Surface Radiation Intensity as natural climate driver - but then ignores it!

Tornado appears in Australia, filmed in New South Wales, 23 November 2013

Father and daughter capture moment monster Washington, Illinois tornado demolishes their neighborhood

Sinkhole swallows up truck in Chicago on Thanksgiving

South Dakota farmers describe 'worst storm in 150 years'

What are they? Rumblings, 'booms' heard anew in parts of Washington

45 sinkholes open up in Kaski, Nepal - 50 families displaced so far

2013 is Strange! Part 23, November

Another round of Arctic air forecast to deep freeze the U.S.

Almost 1,000 record low max. temps versus 17 record high temps for last week of November in U.S.

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