Forecasts on Guardian 21Dec18 – Christmas Eve ABC warnings – Let’s run some checks. BTW – The 30 day SOI is near +10 so we are not in an El Nino.
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Reprising satellite images of urban heat islands UHI from USA
Geoff Sherrington has a long blog on UHI and Australian temperature data “The Climate Sciences Use Of The Urban Heat Island Effect Is Pathetic And Misleading” over at Wattsupwiththat.com
A late comment by Ron Long December 21, 2018 at 3:21 am mentions “…I am totally confidant a UHI signal can be identified from satellite data.”
All done two decades ago in the 1990’s. But I think the “climate wars” have caused most of this work to be shelved and often links are dead. A 2005 blog of mine shows the famous NASA Hotlanta image – a ~2000 page of mine – Hotlanta from 2001 – Florida UHI’s – 
– a few surviving NASA pages – 3 NASA UHI pages under “Land Surface” now dead links – 2015 NASA pages with full USA image – Recent looking pages – many various subjects but I found no UHI – I have never seen satellite UHI images from Australia or anywhere but the USA.
David Archibald on replying to Green Zealotry
Some ideas from David from attending AGM’s marred by Green Extremists.
JFK Warren Commission greatest evidence/witness tampering in US since WWII
With some holiday reading time coming up I dug out my copy of “Rush to Judgment” the 1966 book by Lawyer Mark Lane (RIP) recording his patient re-examination of JFK assassination witnesses encouraging them to truthfully tell what they witnessed and to pass on their experiences of the Warren process and being questioned by Govt agents. Lane took the view that Oswald deserved a defence attorney and he sought to record the truth in that role. Well it is all easier now to access “Rush to Judgment” because there is a text searchable and copy n pasteable 440 page pdf of the entire 1966 book for download which is only 1.7MB – so you could read it on a mobile phone. My book is from 1992 and includes a section on the Oliver Stone Hollywood movie “JFK” in which ML nicely explains sections from “JFK” that are complete fabrications and other sections where the setting might have been altered but the dialogue and impression conveyed relates OK to what witnesses saw & said in 1963/64.
The Warren Commission guided by Govt agencies fairly quickly settled on the following basic storyline and did not vary much from that.
12.30pm 22 Nov 1963 “Lone Nut” Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK three times from the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza Dallas.
1.15pm 22 Nov 1963 “Lone Nut” Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Officer Tippit of the Dallas PD at Oak Cliff a suburb ~6 miles miles from Dealey Plaza.
11.21am 24 Nov 1963 “Lone Nut” Lee Harvey Oswald was shot on TV News by another “Lone Nut”, Jack Ruby a local strip joint owner; as LHO was being transferred from the Dallas PD to the County Jail. Ruby was a well known police and Govt Agency informant with decades of mob background and had been known to run guns to Cuba.
Oswald was thought to be transferred around 10am but Ruby was at a Western Union office at 11.17am then walked to and down the sloping driveway to the guarded Dallas PD basement where he was quickly able to shoot the tethered Oswald who was being held for few seconds while police waited on a car to back into place.
1964 Ruby wanted the Warren Commission to take him to DC where he said he would feel safer singing but Warren left him in Dallas and he died on 3 Jan 1967 in the Dallas Jail.
More later – feel free to start discussions on your pet subjects.
ABC confirms Tuvalu is growing not sinking
Staggering admission by ABC FactCheck.
Failure @ Katowice UN COP24 to complete their warmista agenda
Even the GreenLeft ABC reports [To the frustration of environmental activists and some countries who were urging more ambitious climate goals, negotiators delayed decisions on two key issues until next year in an effort to get a deal on the table.
That included a decision on the mechanics of an emissions trading system and the issue of raising ambitions on climate change.]
UN’s COP24 climate talks reach global consensus on the rulebook to cap global warming 16Dec18
After 23 COP badgerings and bullying, megatonnes of newsprint wasted over decades on their exaggerated elitist fairy stories we can only imagine what a failure this really is.
Southern Ocean clouds aerosols cooling global warming
ABC again reporting atmospheric research carried out on the Aurora Australis. Quote – [Dr Scholfield said they will measure aerosols in the atmosphere, which includes dust, gases, sea salt and pollution. “We’re doing that because aerosols go on to form clouds and clouds are important because they’re the cooling part of the story when our planet is warming,” she said.] US people were here doing airborne research early this year.
Gotta explain why the Southern Ocean atmosphere is not warming as CO2 says it should.
Greenpeace spruiks “Great Southern Reef” to oppose oil exploration
The ABC reports Great Australian Bight the site of nation’s other great reef, where oil companies want to drill. I am suggesting that there is no such feature as the “Great Southern Reef” which is simply a GreenLeft invention to boost the campaign against oil exploration in the Great Australian Bight.
The ABC article starts [Anchored in calm blue waters off Wedge Island Nature Reserve in the Great Australian Bight]. Facts are Wedge island is firmly at the entrance to Spencer Gulf but I guess it is more glam for the ABC/Greenpeace anti-oil drilling campaign to claim they are in the Great Australian Bight.
IMHO Australia should permit petroleum exploration by well qualified participants pretty much anywhere in our economic zone under our normally stringent conditions.
BoM claim hottest December night for Darwin – forget 1890
Lance called to say he heard BoM lady on TV claim that the 30.0 degrees registered on Wed. 12 Dec at Darwin Airport was the hottest night evah (since 1941) beating 29.7 in 2014. The BoM has short memories when their own data shows Darwin Post Office registered a minimum of 30.2 degrees on 26th Dec 1890.
ScoMo about to throw $Bns @ Adelaide desalination so more fresh water can waste to sea
Is there no limit to Commonwealth $Bn’s that get thrown into South Australia? Water ministers on cusp of ‘momentous’ Murray-Darling Basin Plan decision