Climategate University’s ‘delayed response to climate emails caused by shock’
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Climate Depot’s full statement to USA Today on ‘Hottest’ Year And Arctic Ice: NOAA’s Jay Lawrimore ‘should be ashamed of himself’ ([email protected])
Below is the full text of the response Climate Depot Executive Editor Marc Morano sent to USA Today: A few of Morano’s comments did appear July 16, 2010 article. ‘World sizzles to record for the year’ by reporter Oren Dorell. Below are the full comments sent to USA Today.
Comments by Marc Morano – Publisher of Climate Depot:
Jay Lawrimore, (chief of climate analysis branch at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center) should be ashamed of himself. ([email protected]) Cherry picking one month out of the Arctic when Arctic ice rebounded significantly in 2009 from the low of 2007. (by an area more than one and half the size of Texas in 2009) Even the low point of Arctic sea ice extent in 2007 was not caused by CO2 driven warming. Multiple peer-review papers found it was due to high pressure days, ocean currents and “unusual winds.” (see links below)
The government is ignoring the record ice growth in the Antarctic and the fact that global sea ice recently hit a 30 year high.
As for the declaration that we are experiencing the “hottest” year — this is a purely political statement. Lawrimore knows that these statistics are merely tenths of a degree or less. (See: MIT’s Richard Lindzen: ‘For small changes in climate associated with tenths of a degree, there is no need for any external cause’ & MIT’s Richard Lindzen: ‘Lull in warming was unsurprising, given an earlier ‘obsessing about tenths of a degree in the 1980s and early 1990s’: ‘Global temperature just fluctuates. I think the best explanation is the ocean. The timescale for ocean circulations can be decades.’ & MIT’s Richard Lindzen: Earth is never in equilibrium: ‘Global warming enthusiasts are arguing that the past decade has been the warmest on record. We are still speaking of tenths of a degree, and the records themselves have come into question’)
The same people were shouting that we should not pay attention to global cooling of a few years ago because of the small variations. (Note: More ‘reliable’ satelite monitoring of temps does not agree with NOAA)
Lawrimore’s predictions of climate doom are including “more flood events, droughts and …
Hottest year so far? Meteorologist D’Aleo disputes: ‘Weather stations NOAA uses are in warmer urban areas’ — ‘The only reliable data set right now is satellite’
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USA Today Cites Climate Depot: Morano says the government ‘is playing the climate fear card by hyping predictions and cherry-picking data’
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