“Dr. Richard Lindzen’s Heartland 2010 keynote address“. In a room full of balding libertarians, Dr. Richard Lindzen tells it like he wishes it was. No doubt his actual remarks will be discussed shortly.
“GISTEMP -vs- HadCRUT“. Steven Goddard continues his voyage of discovery. Gosh, the GISTEMP data-set uses a somewhat different Arctic data than HadCRUT3 and has a different interpolation process! Gosh, the GISTEMP trend is rising faster than the HadCRUT3 trend! Gosh, GISTEMP is a lying trick!
Gosh, maybe there has been an amplified response to Global Warming in the Arctic? More nit-picking idiocy from Steven, who can barely recognize his own hand in front of his face.
“Most idiotic global warming headline ever“. Anthony Watts should look in a mirror I think. He’s found a “what-if” newspaper article in a new-to-me paper called The Canadian about methane hydrates from 2007 to get steamed over. He recommends not reading. Instead, send an angry letter to the editors.
“GISTEMP is High“. Steven Goddard discovers that temperatures measured at ground-level are not the same as temperatures measured in the troposphere. Well, learning is a good thing I suppose.
He also discovers that different data-sets have a different geographic basis! The GISS data-set attempts to include high Arctic value, while the HadCRUT3 data-set (which Steven calls “Had-Crut”) excludes those values. Shocking.
The dastardly GISS data-set estimates 2010 to be the “warmest ever“, while HadCRUT3 expects 2010 to be the “fifth warmest ever“. It seems that Steven has been reduced to trying to cherry-pick the data-set that shows the least warming. Whatever happened to the claims of cooling? An inconvenient memory apparently.
“ICCC Conference day 1 – Chicken of the Sea and BBC“. Anthony Watts is sharing witticisms with his fellow Denialists at the Heartland Institute’s mock conference.
He does however have a complaint about a disorganized TV interview conducted by a BBC crew. He refused to sign their waiver when he noticed as clause affirming that his statements were made with “honesty and factual accuracy”.
Anthony’s not that stupid!
“Volcano Update“. Steven Goddard tells us that Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano is still erupting. He seems to have quietly stopped trying to argue that volcanic CO2 output is more important that human CO2 output.
“WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #5“. Steven Goddard tries to explain that “not much has changed during the last two weeks.” Well, other than the fact that Arctic Sea Ice Extent continues to track well below “normal”. But as we learned a few days ago, Steven has decided that the conventional climatologists were right and Sea Ice Extent doesn’t mean much. Mainly because the evidence isn’t proving useful to him. He’s also very quiet about Arctic Sea Ice Volume.
Still there’s always the Catlin Arctic Survey to mock. They’ve finally arrived at the North Pole, those wimps.
Steven tries to change the subject and talk about some cherry-picked trends from the first half of the 20th Century. Suddenly 1938 is the magical date. Good luck.
“Kerry Emanuel and Richard Lindzen: the climatic odd couple“. Anthony Watts says that Richard Lindzen is “easy to talk to and easy to like” (to me, he always looks painfully constipated). Anthony offers no direct opinion on Lindzen’s MIT colleague, fellow conservative and apparent ex-friend, Kerry Emanuel. Instead he pastes in a Boston Globe article.
Apparently Kerry Emanuel has abandoned climate change ‘skepticism’ and now says “I don’t see how a climate scientist can look at the evidence and not see risk“! He also says Lindzen’s recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece was”irresponsible and misleading”! Gosh.
I love the standard defeatist quote from Roger Pielke Jr.: “If these two guys can’t agree on the basic conclusions of the social significance of [climate change science], how can we expect 6.5 billion people to?” Always looking for the silver lining, eh Roger?
“Extraterrestrial Global Warming“. Anthony Watts hints at the idiotic denialist idea that other planets are warming too, so Earth’s Global Warming (which isn’t happening!) is natural too. This is deliberately ignorant and wrong.
“Hey dude, where’s my solar ramp up?” David Archibald pastes in some charts of solar activity. Thanks I guess.
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