This gut is like a bad penny, it just won’t go away.
Vice President Watermelon, doing his best to pitch propaganda for extending goobermint control into EVERY aspect of our lives.
The scumbag KNOWS he’s lying.
This is exactly why the science is suspect.
A full foot of snow has fallen on the ground outside my window since yesterday. It will be march in a little over a week.
The 2008 weblog awards winner for Best Science Blog
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
NSIDC: satellite sea ice sensor has “catastrophic failure” - data faulty for the last 45 or more days (”Although we believe that data prior to early January are reliable, we will conduct a full quality check in the coming days. ...it became clear that there was a significant problem - sea-ice-covered regions were showing up as open ocean. ...”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/02/18/nsidc-satellite-sea-ice-sensor-has-catastrophic-failure-data-faulty-for-the-last-45-days/#comments
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Today NSIDC announced they had discovered the reason why. The sensor on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite they use had degraded and now apparently failed to the point of being unusable. Compounding the bad news they discovered it had been in slow decline for almost two months, which caused a bias in the arctic sea ice data that underestimated the total sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers. This will likely affect the January NSIDC sea ice totals. .... [snip]
John Egan (22:29:11) asks :
Will NSIDC issue a correction to the media?
“Arctic sea ice coverage was at its sixth lowest January extent since satellite records began in 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Average ice extent during January was 5.43 million square miles.”
This was released in a number of news outlets -
http://www.examiner.com/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m2d18-January-was-seventh-warmest-for-globe
And was also part of the larger NOAA January report -
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090218_globalstats.html
Al Gore needs to be put into a straight-jacket. He’s a danger to himself and to ‘the entirety of civilization’. He’s a foaming-at-the-mouth fear monger of the first order.