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Aging and failed satellites jeopardize efforts to collect data on climate change
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Five Reasons the Planet May Not Be Its Hottest Ever
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Geologist Dr. Bob Carter on ‘hottest’ year claims: ‘Over those same 12 years we have a 5% increase in CO2…The data tells you that human CO2 emissions are not causing dangerous global warming…’
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No one is paying attention: ‘2010 warmest ever year, says UN weather agency’ — ‘Last year ‘ranked as the warmest year on record, together with 2005 and 1998’
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Inconvenient Temps: Global Temperatures Have Dropped 0.5C In The Last 12 Months — 150 years of global warming (0.7C) going down the drain!
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AccuWeather Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: ‘You wanna say 2010 was the warmest year ever… will get ready for 2011 — being the biggest drop ever’
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Weather Underground Forecasting All Time Record Cold For The Northern Hemisphere Tonight at -92F — Previous coldest temp ever recorded in N. Hemisphere was -90F
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Oh My! 2010 tied for ‘hottest’ year?! Relax, it is ‘purely a political statement’ — Even NASA’s Hansen admits it is ‘not particularly important’ — Prof. mocks ‘hottest decade’ claim as ‘a joke’
Climate Depot Editorial
There they go again. The global warming establishment and the media are crowing about 2010 being in a tie for the “hottest year” ever. Everyone from Senator John Kerry to Joe Romm are screaming that this is “proof” the planet is burning up in a Co2 induced hell — and it’s your fault!
It is time for Climate Depot to do a point-by-point rebuttal to the latest round of temperature data nonsense. Let’s begin:
Below are excerpts from the January 13, 2011 UK Telegraph’s coverage of the warmists’ claim of the “hottest year” ever.
UK Telegraph Headline Claim: “Flood warnings: hottest year confirms global warming say experts — Last year was the joint warmest on record, according to new figures from NASA, that experts say confirm the case for man-made climate change.”
Climate Depot Response: This is pure politics, not science. The “hottest year” claims confirm the case for political science overtaking climate science. The “hottest year” claim depends on minute fractions of a degree difference between years. Even NASA’s James Hansen, the leading proponent of man-made global warming in the U.S., conceded the “hottest year” rankings are essentially meaningless. Hansen explained that 2010 differed from 2005 by less than 2 hundredths of a degree F (that’s 0.018F). “It’s not particularly important whether 2010, 2005, or 1998 was the hottest year on record,” Hansen admitted on January 13. According to NASA, none of agencies tasked with keeping the global temperature data agree with each other. “Rankings of individual years often differ in the most closely watched temperature analyses — from GISS, NCDC, and the UK Met Office — a situation that can generate confusion.”
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue of Florida State University ridiculed the “hottest year” rankings and Hansen’s admission that it “was not particularly important” which year was declared the “hottest.” “Well, then stop issuing press releases which tout the rankings, which are subject to change ex post facto,” Maue demanded in a January 14 commentary at WattsUpWithThat.com.
The “warmest year” claim falls apart even further when you look at even slightly longer time scales. Climatologist Patrick Michaels explained to USA Today on January 12: “If you draw a trend line from the data, it’s pretty flat from the 1990s. We don’t see much of a warming trend over the past 12 years.” Also note that the planet has warmed since …
German Climate Professor Slams ‘Climate Religion’: Refutes claims of ‘hottest decade’ as ‘a joke’ — ‘Determining a global avg. is a tricky business and in the end is only a theoretical value’
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