Beam me to Planet Gore !
This is big and breaking.
Apparently, NOAA’s global temperature-monitoring satellites are seriously degraded and have been giving bum readings for years. They’ve been trying to cover it up for a long time and now the fraud is revealed and just about every temperature trend database is totally corrupted.
Go to www.climatechangefraud.com for the best story.
The hits just keep coming...
That whole map is effed up...no conspiracy here just bad technology. But given “Climategate” that data will probably make it into the stats...
Fish soup for everybody! Bring your spoon! Pass the seafood sauce! Y’all come!
Gee, Lake Michigan is nothing but steam underneath. Who knew?
Bush’s Fault!!!!!
Damn Asian carp....
Oh, yeah, that’s Lake Michigan - just one big old boiling cauldron.
Seriously, how much hotter can water get if the boiling point is 212F?
Maybe they meant Celsius....
At first, I was wondering if it was minor error, like a decimal point was dropped somewhere. 60.4 is probably a bit cold for August, though.
I just know never to sail on the Great Lakes when the Witch of November comes early. (learned that from the Chippewa on down.)
BFLR
Just imagine how that one errant reading would affect a temperature data set by skewing the average temperature ridiculously upward.
Temperature readings of 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85 provide an average temperature of 67.5 degrees.
Insert that 604 degree reading and the average temperature becomes 127.1 degrees. It’s no wonder they think the average temperature of Lake Michigan has risen by 10-15 degrees.
Now imagine how bad the data really is with multiple bad readings included in their calculations.
For the benefit of those who didn’t look at the map (or can’t, for example because they are here via smart phone):
The 604 is just the highest temperature (lower left corner if you want to find it). There are temps from the 120’s to the 400’s all over the map.
I think there are errors in the story we are reading. Let’s hold off before we get too excited.
Software problem. :’) Thanks tje. This is a nice capability to have access to for those of us who like to swim in the inland sea that is Lake Michigan, and don’t want to miss the annual five-day window of opportunity. ;’)
http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/michigan/m41.html
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So if NOAA satellite maps were to see or record something like a large pool of oil at any depth in the Gulf of Mexico its the fault of obsolete equipment?
Interesting.
While it’s obvious to the most casual, non-AGW person, that this is probably nothing more than a misplaced decimal point, or an instrument with serious need of calibration, I can see the AGW drones going ballistic over this.
But it’s a wet heat.