Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/18/2008 8:03:46 PM PST by CedarDave
Though it doesn’t rank with the Bernie Madhoff’s Ponzi scheme, it is nonetheless criminal at a time when important decisions are about to be made that will affect our way of living and economic well-being.
According to a NOAA Press Release yesterday, NCDC’s ranking of 2008 as ninth warmest if expected trends continue compares to a similar ranking of ninth warmest based on an analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The NASA analysis indicates that the January-November global temperature was 0.76 degree F (0.42 degree C) above the 20th century mean. The NOAA and NASA analyses differ slightly in methodology, but both use data from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center - the federal government’s official source for climate data.
Don’t believe a word of it. UAH MSU satellite data suggest 2008 will end up about the 15th warmest (16th coldest) in their 30 years of lower tropospheric data. The NASA, NOAA and Hadley data bases are seriously contaminated and the agencies are intentionally ignoring the issues as they are agenda driven with inflated budgets because of the alleged global warming.
NOAA has actually gone as far as to pull out the urbanization (urban heat island or UHI) adjustment from the US data and there is very little to no urban adjustment made to the global data based on the flawed papers by Peterson and Parker which suggest UHI has little effect on global trends. Ignored are the many other papers from some of the worlds best climatologists worldwide that suggest it produces significant contamination.
Add to that the fact that more than 2/3rds of the world’s stations (most rural) have dropped out and or are often missing monthly data, 69% of the first nearly 600 US stations evaluated by Anthony Watts surface stations.org are poor or very poorly sited with only 4% meeting official standards and no changes were made for the known biases of new instrumentation.
Not less than half a dozen peer reviewed papers have suggested the warming is exaggerated by up to 50%. This would put 2008 somewhere nearer the middle of the pack of the 114+ years in the global data bases not near the top. It also belies the claim that the 10 warmest years have occurred in the last dozen years. Read more here on the important data integrity issue.
Well, it is the 9th warmest of the 21st century....
They don’t know the weather for next week.
Global warming/global climate change PING!
The only reason he's been saved is we have 30 years of satellite data, so he and his cronies at the public trough can continue to say "10th warmest" or "15th warmest", or whatever, without seeming to be too out of line.
Hansen makes government employees look slimey.
Lots of good articles and discussion on all climate-related topics at http://icecap.us/
2008 isn’t even over yet. Did they not include November and will not include December?
The correct URL for the link in the last sentence is:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/DataIntegrity.doc
It is a lengthy MS word document.
He won an award.. WWF 2006
Dr. James Hansen, left, is presemted with theDuke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal by Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh at St. James's Palace, London. (Photo by George Bodnar courtesy WWF)
Outspoken American Climate Scientist Honored By WWF
LONDON, UK, November 22, 2006 (ENS) - American climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, who declined to be silenced by the Bush administration, is this year's recipient of the Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal, awarded annually by the global conservation organization WWF for outstanding service to the environment.
Won a World Wrestling Federation award?? ;>))
For your reading pleasure, take a look at the report on this web site. It has some real data analysis.
http://www.petitionproject.org/gwdatabase/GWPP/Review_Article.html
“Did they not include November and will not include December?”
Oh, they will include them, only with July and August data inserted for November and December. They already tried to do that for October using September data. This whole thing is a fraud.
I guarantee you they knew December was going to be a big time wintry month, so that's why they've rushed these reports out to the press before the year is over.
Bump, for later reading.
"Flawed papers by Peterson and Parker..." Oh really.
"Not less than half a dozen peer-reviewed papers!" Name 'em. Name the august journals they were published in, too. Let me guess -- is Energy and Environment one of them?
Good luck with that, Joe. I'm so impressed.
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