“Why Is Winter Snow Extent Interesting?“. Steven Goddard tries one more time to defend his ignorance of climatology. According to Steven snow means cold, end of story. Just go back to Open Mind for Tamino’s utter demolition of Steve’s garbage.
“U.N. Climate Chief Resigns“. This is what Anthony Watts actually lives for. He knows in his heart of hearts that global warming is real and man-made. He just wants to delay action as long as possible for selfish partisan reasons.
In fact, Yvo de Boer is quitting to pursue the same climate goals by advising industrial clients directly.
This post is probably also an attempt to cement the false belief that the IPCC is part of the United Nations, a useful deception when trying to enlist isolationist Americans in your cause.
“John Coleman’s next TV special airs tonight“. Anthony Watts’ friend, “iconic weatherman” John Coleman, airs another special on local San Diego TV. “Global Warming: Meltdown” is apparently a rehash of the failed Climategate quote-mining operation, with our own Anthony Watts and Dr. John Christy (a scientist of the “there’s only a little global warming, and maybe it’s actually good. So let’s not rush into anything” school) as guests. Coleman has yet to follow through with his threatened fraud lawsuit against Al Gore.
This sounds so amusing that I’m almost tempted to track down the inevitable YouTube link…
“Blame it on Asia, yeah that’s the ticket“. Anthony posts a copy-and-paste of a news item in Nature, suggesting that air pollution in Asia has temporarily diminished global warming. This is usually a signal for his supporters to flood the article comments. Maybe he’s preparing the ground for the “we can fix global warming with a massive emission of pollutant that balances out the CO2 greenhouse effect” tactic.
After two years of stonewalling, NASA GISS FOIA files are now online. Anthony thanks the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a right-wing lobbying operation, for “obtaining” correspondence from NASA’s GISS about temperature data sets after a “two-year battle”. This will predictably be quote-mined for spinnable snippets just as the stolen CRU e-mails were.
Gore on the Arctic (again). Boy, there’s no one Anthony Watts obsesses over more that Al Gore. But he’s getting a bit self-conscious about revealing his right-wing biases, so he has buddies do the muttering for him. In this case they’re enraged that Gore is reporting the evidence and predictions of Canukistan scientist. A scientist who uses climate models to make predictions! That’s wrong! Those things can’t be trusted! (Please suggest another way to make a climate prediction then.)
Then Anthony pulls out the measuring tape and crows about his page rank compared to Al Gore’s.
Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent Second Highest on Record. Steven Goddard’s guest post gives us another lesson on how to misrepresent trends, fail statistics and how to look stupid shouting about weather as proof that there is no global warming. I’m tired, so I’ll just point you to Open Mind for Tamino’s utter demolition of Steve’s latest garbage.
IPCC gate Du Jour – Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50%. A copy-and-paste from denialist lobbying operation World Climate Report. They “reckon” that there has been a significant increase in Antarctic sea ice, but are a bit cagey about why… Could it be because the land ice is sliding into the sea faster? Could it be because Antarctic sea ice is almost entirely governed by fluctuations in ocean circulation patterns?
Maybe Anthony Watt just likes the unsubstantiated claim that the IPCC’s reports are riddled with errors.
Greenland glaciers – melt due to sea current change, not air temperature. So Greenland’s glaciers are melting because warmer seawater is reaching them and not warmer air? Isn’t a change in the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation patterns one of the expected destructive consequences of global warming? Are any of Anthony Watts’ fellow idiots going to think further than “see, it’s not because of surface temperatures“? Does Anthony ever explain anything usefully?
Jones may submit a correction to his 1990 paper – Keenan responds. One of Anthony Watts’ outraged blogging buddies demands recognition!
The Nature news item in question is primarily about the political assault Dr. Phil Jones is enduring from denialists… The possible “correction” refers to problems with the record keeping for some rural Chinese weather station records that used to assess possible temperature record biases due to the “Urban Heat Island” effect. The 1990 study concluded that there was there was no significant UHI bias, which undermines several popular denialist fairy-tales.
In 2007 “amateur climate-data analyst” Doug Keenan made a rambling accusation of fraud against Dr. Jones’ co-author Dr. Wei-Chyung Wang in the widely scorned journal Energy & Environment. Keenan stated that many of the Chinese weather stations had moved in contradiction to Dr. Wang’s assertion, and hence the conclusions were false. Thus ending global warming forever.
A scientific re-examination in 2008 with better data concluded that regardless of the original study’s record-keeping problems the conclusion was valid and in fact well-supported. Surprisingly, this part of the story is not mentioned on Anthony’s blog.
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