Meteorologist: ‘This is not a work of science but an embarrassing episode for the authors and NOAA’
Guest Post by Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo, the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman of the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. D’Aleo, who publishes www.IceCap.US, reacted to President Obama’s new climate report on June 16, 2009. (See: Obama issues global warming report — ‘Detailed picture of the worst case scenarios’ — ‘Poised for its most forceful confrontation with American public’ )
D’Aleo: The report issued was the Hollywood supported NOAA CCSP report which after two rounds of comments by many scientists citing peer review reasons to change, largely ignored the comments and delivered a document even more alarmist than the UN IPCC.
It starts out DAY ONE being wrong on many of its claims but goes much further to rely on climate models for 2050 and 2100 to make even more dire prognoses.
This is not a work of science but an embarrassing episode for the authors and NOAA. They gave the administration the cover to push the unwise cap-and-tax agenda.
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U.S. Government Scientist: ‘I disagree strongly with the hurricane-related conclusions of this report!’
U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA told Climate Depot his reaction to President Obama’s new climate report on June 16, 2009. (See: Obama issues global warming report — ‘Detailed picture of the worst case scenarios’ — ‘Poised for its most forceful confrontation with American public’ ) Goldenberg is expressing his personal views on the report, not those of any organization. (Full Goldenberg bio available here.)
Goldenberg: I saw the news story on this and looked up the report. I have a pretty good grasp of the hurricane and AGW issues. I have skimmed over the hurricane findings (by the way — I didn’t notice a single recognized hurricane climate expert in the list of authors) and they definitely ignore a large body of the published hurricane research. There are a number of hurricane climate experts (including myself) that would disagree strongly with the hurricane-related conclusions of this report!
The report states (among other things) that:
The power and frequency of Atlantic hurricanes have increased substantially in recent decades.
The number of North American mainland landfalling hurricanes does not appear to have increased over the past century.
Though it is nice that they admit landfall frequency has not increased (happens to be the most reliable long-term Atlantic hurricane statistic) they state as “fact” flawed results that the power and frequency of Atlantic hurricanes have increased.
I can only imagine how slanted the other portions of the report might be as well.
Regards,
Stan
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METEOROLOGIST: A TIE FOR LEAST TROPICAL ACTIVITY GLOBALLY IN JUNE
The below is guest post by AccuWeather ‘s Senior Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi. The original post is available (subscription) at AccuWeather.com’s Premium website.
THROUGH TODAY, AT LEAST A TIE FOR LEAST TROPICAL ACTIVITY GLOBALLY IN JUNE
By Joe Bastardi
Why? because there has been none in June so far anywhere. You can’t get any quieter. The Fact of OVERALL global tropical activity being down, down, down, continues. Heck of a way to run a global warming induced tropical apocalypse, eh?
Pretty interesting. I wonder if Al Gore is watching any of this.
I was thinking about this — with nine gross misstatements in his academy award winning movie, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ ( actually if one wants to be cynical we can say there were nine convenient lies, but I am not cynical) if it turns out that all this global warming was wrong ( see how I give the benefit of the doubt)
Will Gore’s movie be looked at as the environmental equal of the 1930’s German film ” Triumph of the Will”? I mean think about it. The movie obviously has whipped a whole generation of believers into a frenzy so they won’t even look at the other side of the issue, and really distorted the overall picture with an impressive array of cinematic skill. Before one runs off and goes wild smearing me for bringing it up, I want you to think about the interesting parallels here, especially since the target of both films was to motivate a certain audience with the presentation of “fact” where “fact” was I the eye of the beholder.
Let’s remember, the Wilsonian utopia of uniting the world in a common cause…other than war, something peaceful, like combating an environmental calamity. It doesn’t take Plato to see a possible link in the philosophy here. Let’s remember at the time “Triumph of the Will” was made it was hailed as a great movie and there was a very different mindset as to what was going on in Europe ( mid 1930’s, Mussolini was the darling of the American media) and what actually happened later on.
Just food for thought, so don’t get bent out of shape, okay?
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