Home/BlogA spectacular satellite view of the dust storm that hit portions of Oman yesterday. High winds coming off the deserts of southern Iran associated with a cold front are what causes this kind of event. The first image shows the front just north of Muscat City, the second a few hours later shows coastal Oman enveloped in dust, then the third image from today (March 8) shows a cyclonic pattern to the cloud of dust (click image for full-size):
Yay, more dust aerosols to explain the catastrophic failure of CAGW models !
Thanks, Dr. Spencer.
The photographs are very good, the local weather in the Gulf of Oman, is not.
wow! Great photos.
The Persian Gulf develops a Cape Cod. Nice time lapse.
The present guess seems to be that when sapiens left Africa, they came by this way (the gulf was shallower and narrower) to India where they branched east to China, west to Europe, southeast to Australia, north to the steps an forests of Asia, and northeast to America – probably picking up a few genes from earlier now extinct humans along the way.
Speaking of storms…
The latest in the Pachauri case is that the Delhi Court has allowed a week for the complainant to hand over some 6,000 emails etc to the Police. She intends to photograph screen-shots of each one, in front of witnesses, so that the powers-that-be can not conveniently lose some of them.
@dave ….when you combine this nonsense with the shenanigans in the Climategate emails, many from leading climate alarm (IPCC) figures, you can’t help form an image of them as being inordinately arrogant and full of misplaced piety with regard to promoting AGW.
Houghton, who preceded Pachauri, was equally arrogant and myopic.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/03/02/quote-of-the-week-former-ipcc-head-pachauris-emails-could-be-a-whole-new-potboiler-novel/
If what this young woman claims is true, Pachauri is guilty of major sexual harassment, if not sexual assault.
In one Climategate email, they cheered the death of skeptic John Daly who was a thorn in the side of AGW advocates.
Here’s a Daly email found in the Climategate collection, on tree ring proxies, aimed at Michael Mann’s hockey stick.
Brilliant!!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/23/john-l-dalys-message-to-mike-mann-and-the-team/
It begins: “A tree only grows on land. That excludes 70% of the earth covered by water. A tree does no grow on ice. A tree does not grow in a desert. A tree does not grow on grassland-savannahs. A tree does not grow in alpine areas. A tree does not grow in the tundra We are left with perhaps 15% of the planet upon which forests grow/grew. That does not make any studies from tree rings global, or even hemispheric”
A bit on John Daly, who died in 2004.
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2009/11/john-l-daly/
To add to John Daly’s complaints (I was not familiar with his work but those are all good points) — as any arborist knows, tree rings do NOT reflect temperature — if they did, northern pines wouldn’t have among the widest rings of any tree, even when growing in extremely cold climates (they can be very fast-growing trees; a young one can grow 10 feet of height and 3 inches of diameter in a single season). Nope, what tree rings reflect is WATER. In wet years trees grow more and develop bigger rings. In dry years they grow less and therefore have narrower rings.
And as desert regions around the world should inform us, temperature and water can be an INVERSE relationship. So WHERE the tree was growing can have a profound effect on ring width.
And that’s of course assuming that the few thousand years for which we have tree ring data aren’t just statistical noise in the greater scheme of millions of years of climate change.
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