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Greenland glaciers – melt due to sea current change, not air temperature

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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?

It’s Like Drinking from a Fire Hose!

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Anthony’s had a busy weekend. I guess we’ll have to fall back on quick hits tonight.

Anthony starts by rooting through the personal life of someone he doesn’t like.

The National Oceanographic Data Center has corrected some data on Ocean Heat Content and if you look at a small enough time period (tunnel vision helps here) it proves once and forever that Climate Change is a lie!!! Uh oh, Anthony has deleted some of his conclusions.

The possibly rebounding water levels in one lake prove once and forever that Climate Change is a lie.

Anthony waxes once more about the Urban Heat Island effect that conspiratorial scientists all deny. Except he then provides cherry-picked papers and graphs that show that scientists actually talk about it all the time and discuss measuring it, correcting for it, etc. However this proves once and forever that Climate Change is a lie.

A new satellite will examine Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes. The subtext is to remind Anthony’s readers that gamma rays are the real and natural source of all Climate Change.

There’s some cold water off the Florida coast! This proves once and forever that Climate Change is a lie.

Dr. Roy Spencer says “it’s all, or at least mostly, natural!” in a new cross-posted blog entry. I guess blogging’s easier than pulling together all the proper data and references and trying to sneak into a refereed paper.

One of Anthony’s friends fiddles with some settings on an interactive GISS data page that he doesn’t understand and makes parts of a chart go red! RED!!!

Penn State’s investigation into indignant denialist accusations against Dr. Mann hasn’t solicited the opinions of denialist bloggers!

Anthony says “Climategate” again. Some problems with Chinese weather stations in a 20 year-old study by evil Dr. Phil Jones are proof of the vast conspiracy to trick everyone into thinking that the Urban Heat Island effect is really Climate Change. This one’s developing, but does Anthony really think that possible problems with a 20 year-old study make all the other independent data that show the same conclusion evaporate? [Feb 2, 2010 update: The University of East Anglia defends Dr. Jones quite ably.]

Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception?

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In yesterday’s installment of As the Watt Churns, Anthony Watts suddenly found his lost homework, and denialist carpetbagger Willis Eschenbach proved that visiting a tropical atoll isn’t insightful if you don’t open your eyes.

Anthony’s calling his latest un-scrutinized printout, helpfully photocopied by the Science and Public Policy front group, a “compendium paper“. Well, it’s on paper I guess. Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception? even has that patented question mark in place. [All these question marks Anthony uses suggest to me that he’s subliminally admitting that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about…] I’m just glancing though it and the chuckles are coming fast and furious.

  • Firstly, it really is a century-long global conspiracy and from now on we must ignore anything that NASA or the NOAA say. Got it…
  • Secondly, this is not Anthony’s much-anticipated “analysis” of the US surface temperature station record. That’s waiting for the photocopier to cool I guess. Maybe he hasn’t been able to gather a full basket of cherries yet.
  • Third, his first two “Case Studies in Data Manipulation” are very recent debunked denialist failures (Darwin Airport, Australia, Wellington, NZ).
  • Fourth, this whole exercise is just a copy and paste job of the current failed denialist “proofs” gathered together, conveniently separated from their fatal critiques.
  • Fifth, did I just hear the ice cream truck?

Willis’ idle remarks about sea-level rise as it concerns coral atolls is more of the same. The fact that sea-level rise happens to have recently slowed apparently means that it has actually stopped; the freshwater lens that inhabitants depend on will somehow always float above the underlying saltwater no matter how much sea-level rises (which it isn’t); Darwin says that coral atolls always follow sea-level anyway (which isn’t rising).

Willis, Darwin was talking about a gradual natural sea-level change, not an abrupt, man-made one. Which is what the Climate Change kerfuffle is all about, really. The whole thing about how Man’s recent impact on the climate is different in both scale and time-frame from that of the many natural processes that are also at work. You should look into it sometime.

2010-02-15 Update: Anthony’s statistical and numerical “truthiness” is completely shredded by “Tamino” here.