Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science
Another ‘settled science’ topic is not so settled after all – Big Bang theory questioned
…NYT’s Justin Gillis on ‘phony skeptics’ who are guilty of ‘cherry-picking studies, manipulating data, and refusing to weigh the evidence as a whole’
…‘The Snow Beat the Snow-Deniers’
…Claim: ‘Climate change may have affected Boston snowstorm — may have made it more likely, may have made it worse than it would have been’
…Media on climate change: We’ll deny there’s any denial by denying the ‘deniers’
…Shock News: Colder Winters In Boston Have More Snow
Shock News : Colder Winters In Boston Have More Snow
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/shock-news-colder-winters-in-boston-have-more-snow/
Climate experts say that global warming causes heavy snow in Boston, because they have the combined IQ of a turnip. As any pre-schooler could tell you, colder winters in Boston have more snow, and warmer winters have less snow. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00190736.dly
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Climatologist: Thanks To IPCC Public Doesn’t Know Water Vapor Is Most Important Greenhouse Gas
Thanks To IPCC Public Doesn’t Know Water Vapor Is Most Important Greenhouse Gas
It is not surprising that Roe and Baker explained in a 2007 Science paper that, “The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed appreciably over the past 30 years, despite tremendous increases in computing power, in observations, and in the number of scientists studying the problem.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]
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How Temperature Adjustments Have Transformed Arctic Climate History
How Temperature Adjustments Have Transformed Arctic Climate History
By Paul Homewood There seems to have been a campaign of misinformation, to downplay the significance of the Arctic temperature adjustments we have been looking at. The claim is that they make little difference to temperature trends there, so let’s test this out with the example of Akureyri. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v3/products/stnplots/6/62004063000.gif Note that the temperatures were cooled from 1922 to 1965, effectively in the middle of the record, which started in 1882. As a result the overall trend since 1882 has remained virtually the same. But, of course, this is not the point, as it is the trend since the 1920’s that is significant. We can see the effect on trends, using 5-year running averages in the chart below. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/tmp/gistemp/STATIONS/tmp_620040630003_1_0/station.txt http://data.giss.nasa.gov/tmp/gistemp/STATIONS/tmp_620040630000_12_0/station.txt The original data shows that the period from 1930 to about 1950 was every bit as warm as the last decade. (Raw and adjusted data has been the same since 1990). There is also a clearly evident cycle. After adjustments, there is just a steadily increasing trend, albeit with a flattish interval in the middle. Although there were some adjustments made in 1948, an adjustment of 1.08C was made in 1966, effectively reducing previous temperatures. This was in reaction to a sharp fall in temperatures over the previous two years, from 4.70C to 2.18C, which the algorithm assumed was due to changes in observation practices. When we check around the region, however, we find that there were similar temperature drops all over the place. I offer a few examples below, but, as we have seen, similar adjustments were made at nearly every station in that part of the Arctic at around that time. 1964 1966 Diff Angmassalik, Greenland -0.28 -2.29 -2.01 Stykkisholmur, Iceland 5.05 3.10 -1.95 Reykjavik, Iceland 6.04 4.24 -1.80 Jan Mayen, Norway -1.29 -2.48 -1.19 Archangel, Russia 1.07 -1.07 -2.14 Murmansk, Russia 0.58 -2.47 -3.05 It is worth noting what the Iceland Met Office have to say about the sea ice years: A comparison of annual temperatures at three stations, Stykkishólmur in the west, Akureyri in the north and Reykjavík in the southwest reveals some inter-station differences. The first cold interval, the “ice years”, was the coldest of the three in the north and east, but the 1979 to 1986 was the coldest in southwestern Iceland. This would explain why the temperature drop at Akureyri was greater than the other …
