The Realists Take on Climate Change

I have selected this News story from Italy as it's bound to be a lot worse then forecast as it falls within this "Solar Climate Change" period and therefore will be enhanced. It was of interest also that the First Atlantic Tropical Storm also fits inside this period...GR

After the earthquake alert for bad weather: Strong storms coming to the center / north, landslides and flooding risk by Peppe Caridi - Meteoweb.eu

In northern Italy rocked by strong earthquake last night is also coming on strong storm, as expected for days.

Italy is literally stalked by a violent storm clouds from the south / west threaten the peninsular area, located between Sardinia, Corsica and the Tyrrhenian Sea.

So far we have TWO Erupting Volcano's for the current "Solar Climate Change" period:

belfasttelegraph.co.uk The Fuego volcano in central Guatemala has begun shooting lava and columns of ash into the air, and authorities have raised the alert level in the area.

The volcano overlooks the tourist city of Antigua and is one of Central America's most-active volcanoes.

Guatemala's National Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology Institute said in a statement that Fuego shot ash 16,400 feet into the air. Lava flows reached up to 3,280 feet in length.

David de Leon, spokesman for the national disaster agency, said authorities have raised the alert level because Fuego is in an effusive stage...Click belfasttelegraph.co.uk link to read FULL report

Mount Marapi Volcano Erupts Again -frenchtribune.com...A report, published in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, has unveiled recently that a volcano, namely Indonesia's Mount Marapi, erupted early Friday at 7:15 a. m. local time, lasting for nearly ten minutes.

The following Earthquake report is lower then the M6.5 R4 criteria, but is still news worthy

Three killed in northern Italy earthquake - BBC News

See below for Latest USGS Earthquakes Map and more News on the Italian Earthquake

Heretical thoughts about the EU and about climate change, long-suppressed, are becoming the received wisdom.

Two adjacent items in last Monday’s Daily Telegraph highlighted what has become one of the more prominent features of British life. In one, Cristina Odone described how she was asked to speak in favour of marriage at a conference arranged by the World Congress of Families, at the Law Society. At the last minute, the Society cancelled the debate on the grounds that it was “contrary to our diversity policy” – “espousing as it does an ethos which is opposed to same-sex marriage”. (Though the society happily hosted a meeting recently to promote assisted suicide which, unlike marriage, is still against the law.)

Adjoining this was a fine rant by Boris Johnson against the BBC: “statist, corporatist, anti-business, Europhile and, above all, overwhelmingly biased to the Left”. He called for its next director-general to be a Tory.

The Met Office has reported that the wet weather will continue right through until June, with only a few dry spells.

The weather is set to continue for the rest of the month, possibly dampening Jubilee celebrations (PA)

If you're dreaming of summer, keep dreaming – the leaden skies and thundery showers will be sticking around for the rest of the month.

Temperatures will rise slightly above the May average, however, with some parts of the south reaching highs of 19C (66F).

Met Office forecaster Sarah Holland said: ‘The beginning of next week will be mainly dry but there’s going to be a lot of cloud around. Towards the end of the week, there will be quite a few outbreaks of sunshine – especially in the south-east.

'But cloud and rain is likely to spread north-easterly and these unsettled conditions could persist for the rest of the month.’

The Met Office also warned that the weather conditions over the Queen's Diamond Jubilee will also be poor, with 'no strong signal for a period of warm, dry weather.'

Gore touts science groups' governing board statements to prove man-made global warming -- Science groups turn to advocacy as $6 million NAS study used to lobby for climate bill

The New York Times is promoting a billboard sponsored by Al Gore's Climate Reality Project. The billboard asks: “Who to believe on climate? Heartland ... or EVERY National Scientific Academy in the world?”

The billboard is timed to counter Heartland Institute's 7th International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago from May 21-23. (Note: CFACT's Climate Depot is a co-sponsor of the conference and Climate Depot's Morano is a featured speaker.) Maggie L. Fox, chief executive of the Climate Reality Project, said the Gore billboard touting the National Scientific Academies was “a small reminder of who is really on the fringe.”

Climate Depot Response:

This claim that the alleged “consensus” is true because the governing boards of politically savvy National Academy of Sciences endorse UN IPCC like statements -- is pure politics.

Only two dozen or so governing board members of the academies of sciences votes on bland UN IPCC like statements. The governing boards are steeped in funding and the state sponsored science of the day. The full membership, ie., the rank and file scientists, do not get to vote on this statement and in many cases are completely unaware any such warmist statement has been released to the public by the governing board.

Many science organizations have been under munity by their skeptical rank-and-file member scientists for such warmist statements. See: Climate Revolt: World's Largest Science Group 'Startled' By Outpouring of Scientists Rejecting Man-Made Climate Fears! Clamor for Editor to Be Removed!

The governing boards of these organizations reflect the politically correct view of UN and Gore-inspired science and they refuse to allow a direct vote on the statemetns by their member scientists.

Since our Sun burst into life on the 17th May and found it's Mojo I have been looking for signs of any Erupting Volcano's and larger then average Earthquakes that fall into the Piers Corbyn "Red Warning" period for the 18th - 21st May.

So far I have come across the following News reports...I stress they are not significant....more to follow

Mount Marapi Volcano Erupts Again -frenchtribune.com...A report, published in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, has unveiled recently that a volcano, namely Indonesia's Mount Marapi, erupted early Friday at 7:15 a. m. local time, lasting for nearly ten minutes.

It has been found that the volcano has had several such eruptions since when its alert status was updated last August. Also, the same has erupted for a total of around 454 times since the late eighteenth century till 2008.

Three strong earthquakes with the same epicenter 11 March 2011: Fear in Japan Meteoweb.eu - Google Translate Italian - English...Between 18 and 19 May, over three hours, three earthquakes of magnitude 4.7 to 4.8 and 5.0, have affected the area that caused the great Japanese earthquake of magnitude 9.0 in the previous 11 March 2011.

Also: Chile Rules Out Tsunami Following 6.2-Magnitude Earthquake - bloomberg.com

From the moment it became such an enthusiastic early adopter of the wind-farm blight, I knew that there was no hope left for Cornwall. And now Richard Madeley has confirmed it: whatever attraction the county may once have had in the days of Rebecca or Demelza Poldark has now long since been buried in a morass of green worthiness.

Madeley's particular beef is with all the different-coloured bin bags into which the local district council now demands he wastes precious time each day sifting his rubbish:

The television presenter is one of 250,000 households forced to laboriously separate paper into blue bags, cardboard into orange sacks, glass into a black plastic box, plastics and tin into a red bag and garden waste into a brown wheelie bin – not forgetting the black bag for ‘non-recyclable’ waste.

It is accepted that the ancient Sun was considerably cooler than our local star is today, so much so that Earth a few billion years ago should have been a lifeless frozen ball. But scientists have also shown that the planet was not frozen—shallow seas warmer than any modern ocean abounded with microbial life. A recent study, detailed in the journal Nature, is a good example of the sometimes convoluted, even improbable reasoning is used to get a handle on earthly climates during eons long vanished. Using the fossilized impact dimples from rain drops that fell 2.7 billion years ago, researchers have calculated new limits on the density of Earth's atmosphere. This, in turn, has implications on the development of the ancient atmosphere and what role greenhouse gases may have played in warming the young Earth.

The paradox of the Faint Young Sun has vexed scientists for decades, having first been raised by astronomers Carl Sagan and George Mullen in 1972. Applying the observation made by astrophysicists, that main sequence starts like the Sun grow steadily warmer as they age, and working back in time from current day conditions they posed an awkward question: why did the ancient Earth not freeze solid billions of years ago? In their new paper, “Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints,” the problem is framed this way by Sanjay M. Som et al.:

According to the ‘Faint Young Sun’ paradox, during the late Archaean eon a Sun approximately 20% dimmer warmed the early Earth such that it had liquid water and a clement climate1. Explanations for this phenomenon have invoked a denser atmosphere that provided warmth by nitrogen pressure broadening or enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations. Such solutions are allowed by geochemical studies and numerical investigations that place approximate concentration limits on Archaean atmospheric gases, including methane, carbon dioxide and oxygen. But no field data constraining ground-level air density and barometric pressure have been reported, leaving the plausibility of these various hypotheses in doubt.

Click source to read FULL report from Doug L. Hoffman

After rain for the South and North and downpours for the Midlands on Friday the Met Office said heavy weekend showers will hit the South.

Weather Channel forecaster Leon Brown said: “It’s cold in the North due to a plunge of Arctic air.”

Beaches will be empty again as rain disrupts England’s first cricket Test against the West Indies at Lord’s and soaks fans at football’s Championship play-off-final at Wembley and rugby’s Heineken Cup final at Twickenham.

Brighter weekend spells will see 16C in the South - but just 10-11C in the Midlands, with the drier North at 8-9C.

Up to three inches’ snow fell over the Highlands on Thursday after -5C overnight lows on Cairngorm, with lunchtime temperatures of 4C in parts of Scotland and 6-8C in the North.

MeteoGroup forecaster Nick Prebble said: “Umbrellas have been needed through an unsettled week, with below-average temperatures in the North.”

The North will be colder on Friday at 5-7C, with two inches more snow due in Scotland’s Highlands.

Carefully plucked like dew-covered orchids from the garden of YouTube, I hereby present the ten funniest videos about climate change which have ever been made, ever, by anyone, anywhere, ever – or at least of those I’ve seen. Which isn’t many.

But anyway, I should say there’s swearing and stuff, so best turn the sound down. I think the phrase is “Not Suitable For Work” which generally means it’s suitable for sharing at work.

1. Worrying research from the coal lobby. Wind turbines could blow the earth off its orbit. The Onion discusses.

Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit...lmao YouTube link