Lying with Statistics: The National Climate Assessment Falsely Hypes Ice Loss ...

wattsupwiththat.com ^ | July 6, 2014 | by Guest Blogger

[chajin]

ice, ice baby (word to your mother)

[Blood of Tyrants]

The liberals can’t control you if you are informed about the truth.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[SkyDancer]

And then too, maybe globul warming will take out these scientist as well. And also for your perusal and enjoyment:

The Washington Post

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by mountains of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

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P. S. - I apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post; 93+ years ago.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Also... what is going on ELSEWHERE with ice? As these areas lose ice, is something else gaining?

[Fred Nerks]

August 2013. I've probably got something a little more up to date squirrelled away somewhere, but this'll do for now.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

GReat thanks for posting this.,

[QT3.14]

Other historic gems:

• January 10, 1871: Pall Mall Gazette – “Imaginary Change of Climate”
  “…a plentiful crop of speculation from weather prophets and projectors, and half-
  instructed meteorologists…We have often noticed…every season is sure to be
  ‘extraordinary,’ almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest
  or hottest ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to
  exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.”

• 1902: Los Angeles Times
  Glaciers are undergoing ‘their final annihilation’ due to warming.

• 1923: Chicago Tribune (Front page)
  “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada”

• May 15, 1932: New York Times (Special supplement May)
  Continuing end of the last ice age, not human activity cause of warming trend.
  Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents

• May 23, 1969: New York Times
  “Worrying About a New Ice Age.”

• April 22, 1970 (Lenin’s birthday): First Earth Day event presentation
  George Wald, Harvard Biologist –
  “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against
  problems facing mankind.”

• 1970’s: Science, Science Digest, Newsweek, etc.
  Global cooling – ice age.

• June 24, 1974: Time
  “Another Ice Age?”

• June 30, 1989: San Jose Mercury News
  Noel Brown, senior UN environment official –
  Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if
  global warming is not reversed by 2000.

• 1997:
  U.S. Senate voted 95-0 that the U.S. should not sign on to the Kyoto protocols.

• 2006:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] –
  10 years to solve the global-warming problem.

• 2007:
  Chief of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) –
  “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late.”

• December 2008:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] tells German audience –
  “…the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”

• January 19, 2009:
  James Hansen, [alleged] climate expert and past head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies –
  President Obama has only four years to save the Earth.

• December 2009:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] @ Copenhagen UN climate summit –
  75% chance Arctic Ocean ice-free in several years.

• November 10, 2013: Mother Jones article –
  “Climate deniers like to point to the so-called global warming ‘hiatus’ [17 years without warming].”
  Note: In the article below, the IPCC omits this fact!

• April 13, 2014:USA Today
  (IPCC states), “…global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have accelerated to unprecedented levels…”

But, here is reality!!

Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year

Government Data Show U.S. in Decade-Long Cooling

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks----

that is Hugely useful.

[SkyDancer]

Cooling warming cooling warming cooling warming ... seems like a cycle, huh.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ahhh!!

Good stuff!

920,000 sq miles in one year...wow

[dalereed]

In statistics I was taught it was a course in how to lie with figures and how to make figures lie.

If you want to tell a big lie, use a graph!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL!

[dalereed]

that's the statement that was on the black board the first day of the class.

There was also one that followed, “anyone using the word statistics in this class will receive an F”

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun

[BitWielder1]

"Lies, damned lies and statistics"

- Attributed to former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
The phrase is commonly used to doubt statistics given to support government positions.

[silverleaf]

source?

[Fred Nerks]

BE MY GUEST:

DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

And now it’s global COOLING! Return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 29% in a year
533,000 more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012
BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013
Publication of UN climate change report suggesting global warming caused by humans pushed back to later this month

By David Rose

Published: 09:37 AEST, 8 September 2013 | Updated: 04:45 AEST, 29 September 2013

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/And-global-COOLING-Return-Arctic-ice-cap-grows-29-year.html#ixzz36mYPK7Cv

HOW NSIDC GOT ITS FIGURES WRONG AND THEN KEPT QUIET

Since publication of the original version of this article, the US source of the figures – the NASA-funded National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) - was discovered to have made a huge error and then quietly corrected the figure without mentioning it.

On September 4, NSIDC, based at the University of Colorado, stated on its website that in August 2013 the Arctic ice cover recovered by a record 2.38 million sq km – 919,000 sq miles – from its 2012 low.

News of this figure was widely reported – including by Mailonline - on September 8. But on September 10, the NSIDC quietly changed it to 1.38 million sq km (533,000 sq miles) – and replaced the original document so the old figure no longer shows up on a main Google search. It can now only be found on an old ‘cached’ page.

The figures in this article have now been corrected.

Prompted by an inquiry from ‘green’ blogger Bob Ward, the NSIDC’s spokeswoman Natasha Vizcarra said the mistake was a ‘typographical error’, telling him: ‘There are no plans to make a statement on the change because it was not an error in the data.’
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[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3176766/posts?page=19#19

MAKE THAT 533,000 SQUARE MILES...