“NWS to adopt new snow forecasting techniques“. Anthony Watts talks about something that his background is relevant to! The National Weather Service is adopting an improved and simplified technique for calculating snowfall density. This is useful for avalanche prediction and skiing forecasts, and might end global warming forever.
“The most slimy essay ever from the Guardian and Columbia University“. Anthony Watts is somehow surprised to find himself connected to lobbyists that have also fought for a variety of profitable but destructive industries in the Guardian (other newspapers too!) article Climate sceptics are recycled critics of controls on tobacco and acid rain. The ever-helpful Watts gives his readers some useful ways to harass the Guardian author.
I would have thought that losing his hearing and both parents to tobacco-related diseases would have given Anthony some insight into the consequences of the denialist machinery. When you spend so much time singing the denialist praises of Fred Singer the erstwhile tobacco industry spin artist you’ve got to nurse a pretty massive case of tunnel vision not to connect the dots.
As for Anthony’s assertion that the denialists are simply a “growing revolution of like minded people”, I think that right-wing groups like the Heritage Foundation are cultivating the passions of libertarians for their own benefit through flattery and not cash. As the Tea Party movement shows, there’s a pretty big undercurrent of easily exploited right-wing anxiety out there. But the goofy “CO2 is good!” television commercials and those Washington foundation staffs only come from the cold hard stuff.
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.]
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