Physicist Offers $10,000 to Anyone Who Can Disprove Global Warming

Deepening drought threatens Nevada's very way of life

June 22, 2014

In Nevada, drought tightens its grip daily.

Three years of dismal winters and hot summers are taking their toll across a normally arid but now exceedingly dry landscape, with western Nevada rated by experts as being in extreme or exceptional drought.

Water supplies are diminishing. For the first time in 20 years, Truckee River flows are expected by early August to drop to such levels that the major water provider serving the Truckee Meadows will need to tap reserve supplies. Lake Tahoe should drop below its natural rim sometime in September, the first time in a decade that's happened so early in the year.

Farmers and ranchers struggle to maintain a livelihood. Wild animals wander in a stressful search for food and water. Boat ramps go dry and the danger of destructive wildfires — which now exists year-round — increases with each passing day of summer.

Droughts have happened before, of course, and many are comparing the current situation to the lengthy one experienced across the region from 1987 to 1994. Others say this particular drought stands out as especially severe.

"It's horrible," said Bennie Hodges of the Pershing County Water Conservation District. Farmers in the Lovelock area are receiving zero irrigation water from a dry Humboldt River this year.

"I can't see on records where we've had a year this bad," Hodges said. "Some of the old timers are talking to other old timers and say they've had years this bad but I can't find one."

Drought has forced Gardnerville rancher David Hussman to cut the size of his cattle herd by 10 percent, a move he was loath to make considering today's soaring beef prices. He just didn't have a choice. Hussman is making his first alfalfa cut of the year and doubts there will be another. Buying the stuff to feed his cattle is too expensive.

To him, this drought seems similar to the one that withered the region in 1976-77 but still seems distinct in its severity.

"I don't think we've had any three years as severe as this," Hussman said. "I hesitate to say it's historic but it sure is severe, there's no question."

http://www.rgj.com/story/tech/environment/2014/06/22/deepening-drought-threatens-nevadas-way-life/11195261/

 

You missed the point.

Most people agree that changes to climate are currently (and have always) taken place.

What is being denied is the involvement of humans as the reason for that change.

 

The next 20 to 30 years will settle the debate whether CO2 or natural cycles cause the warming we have seen.

A good read on natural cycles and the fact that the CO2 climate models cannot hindcast.

The Greatest Climate Myths of All – Part 2.

 

Humans are contributing to the size and speed of the change. Undoubtedly. Prove otherwise and win the prize(s).

 

You would have to prove that first. It hasn't been proven.

 

let's say agw is a theory, do you think theories are not capable of being disproven?

because dumping billions of tons of pollutants into the atmosphere couldn't have any consequences

who cares what the laws of physics say?

 

Some are in such deep denial that no amount of evidence is sufficient.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-emissions.htm

 

LOL, relying on a cartoonists CAGW advocacy blog? You should widen your horizons a little.

 

Actual scientific method is a complete mystery to the junk science warmist deluded.

 

The silly old coot needs to prove it before anyone needs to "dis"prove it.

What a waste of skin.

 

do you think it's impossible to disprove theories? it isn't

google: falsifiability




of course deniers can't disprove this


Yes, the Temperature Readings Are Reliable


by Andrew Dessler- Professor of atmospheric sciences, Texas A&M University

“The thing to remember here is that scientists aren’t idiots,” says Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University and winner of this year’s Louis J. Battan Author’s Award from the American Meteorological Society.

Dessler was responding to a study conducted by Anthony Watts, a former TV weatherman and prominent climate denier, for the Heartland Institute, which has received funding from the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil.

In 2009, Watts claimed that 90 percent of the stations used to monitor the earth’s surface temperature were positioned in places where they were prone to artificially inflated readings — near heat sources, for example.

“This was a big issue maybe four or five years ago,” says Dessler. “In fact, this was the issue the skeptics were touting. But if you look at the peer-reviewed literature, this was stuff that was answered years ago.

“It is true there are issues [with some surface monitoring stations], but you can make adjustments for them. For example, you can look at a station in a city, and say, ‘Okay, maybe there’s an urban effect,’ and then you compare the trend with a rural station nearby.” What matters most is the trend of rising temperatures measured at many different locations.

More to the point, says Dessler, “the surface temperature record is only one of eight or ten different data sets that we look at — and the others agree very well with the surface temperature record.” Scientists have compiled independent temperature data using weather balloons, satellite measurements and sea and ocean readings, and they all show the same thing: a warming planet.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/16/eight-pseudo-scientific-climate-claims-debunked-by-real-scientists/

 

Waa, waa, waa.

The silly old coot is jumping up and down about something that exists in his demented mind. If he's so convinced, let him prove it.

And if it's so real, why do people insist on jumping on forums and posting nonsense whilst using computers/keyboards made from the very things that supposedly cause this nonsense?

 

Global Warning deniers have evidence - they found it by sticking their head in the sand and/or heads up their butts.

 

Ah, brilliant. That is the epitome of alarmists proof of global warming. LOL

 

you must be projecting, keating is a respected scientist

 

thank you

 

Aren't you always the one pointing out that someone is not a climate scientist no matter their credentials? Can we say hypocrisy?

 

no, i'm not

 

We're still in droughts here in Texas too. But we also have had recents years with lots of rain. I remember droughts decades ago. So, what's your point? Weather changes......continues to change back and forth. Always has; always will. What you have yet to PROVE is that ANY of it is actually caused by MAN.

 

Oh, so now all the scientists that doubt the alarmist meme are credible. Got it.

 

what a joke, the few scientist that are paid by big oil to deny science, aren't credible

 

Another alarmist meme with no proof. Keep them coming.

 

you haven't been keeping up

 

No less so than those seeking government funding.

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You don't disprove science you prove it. Why didn't he offer the reward to incontrovertibly prove man is cause global climate disruption?

 

there are many scientists that don't seek government funding and agree on agw