People Living in Glass Planets

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“People Living in Glass Planets“. Anthony Watts and crew have given up seriously pretending that the “greenhouse effect” doesn’t exist. Willis Eschenbach posts a guest article explaining to the WUWT readers why it is sort-of theoretically true. Don’t worry though, Willis assures the WUWT readers that there are still plenty of nit-picks that they can shout about.

Of course Anthony’s quite happy to let their readers deny the greenhouse effect in website comments. This is really about creating “plausible deniability” for Anthony himself.

Dr. Roy Spencer & Lord Christopher Monckton to Challenge Climate Orthodoxy at Cancun UN Conference

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“Dr. Roy Spencer & Lord Christopher Monckton to Challenge Climate Orthodoxy at Cancun UN Conference“. Surprise, surprise. The industry lobby group with the Orwellian name of “Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow” is sending prominent experts Dr. Roy Spencer (real but obstructionist climate scientist) and Lord Christopher Monckton (loudmouth climate buffoon) to the UN Climate Conference in Cancun next month. They’ll be “available to answer questions”! *

First question: why do you like the sound of your own voices so much?

* Integrity of answers not guaranteed.

California’s giant redwoods inconveniently respond to increased carbon dioxide

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“California’s giant redwoods inconveniently respond to increased carbon dioxide“. Anthony Watts does his usual backflips to misinterpret research, in this case triggered by an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about giant redwoods in Northern California. He misrepresents recent increased giant redwood growth rates as being evidence that increasing CO2 really is good for everyone. Clearly there is no way there could be any other contributing factors. And there’s no chance that a continued increase in an environmental factor that is currently having a positive impact on growth could become detrimental, is there. We all know, by the way and of course, that Global Warming isn’t happening.

Anthony also throws in a bit of anti-science by trying to give the appearance of contradictory research findings. Are the studies that he says draw opposite conclusions really studying the same processes in the same way? Take a wild guess. But his readers always love a chance to laugh at them stupid scientists.

Pielke Jr. on Trenberth’s Book Review

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“Pielke Jr. on Trenberth’s Book Review“. Thin-skinned economics professor Roger Pielke Jr. is annoyed that his book about climate change, The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming, has been poorly reviewed by a real climatologist (Dr. Kevin Trenberth). Anthony Watts, like dozens of denialist websites, encouragingly reposts Roger’s complaints. It’s kind of creepy reading Roger talk about himself in the third person.

Roger Pielke Jr., who likes to style himself an “Honest Broker” is the kind of opponent of action on Global Warming that claims to “accept the evidence” but never seems to run out of reasons why we shouldn’t do anything about… yet.

Dr. Trenberth’s review, which incidentally also discusses Hack the Planet Science’s Best Hope – or Worst Nightmare – for Averting Climate Catastrophe, is in the November 2010 issue of Science.

Does Hadley Centre Sea Surface Temperature Data (HADSST2) Underestimate Recent Warming?

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“Does Hadley Centre Sea Surface Temperature Data (HADSST2) Underestimate Recent Warming?“. Anthony Watts knows that the politicians meeting in Cancun next week to discuss climate issues need the best scientific advice, so he’s gonna make sure its available to them, protected by a mountain of bullshit.

Here’s a chart from Bob Tisdale that Anthony wants you to look at and see a villainous adjustment in 1998 to make temperatures look hotter. But its a difference plot between two temperature sets, and all it shows is that when the newer sea surface temperature measurement methods replaced the older ones they slightly underestimated sea surface temperature correction.

Bob Tisdale's plot of the difference between the HADSST2 sea surface temperature measurements and the HADISST satellite measurements. The step "up" represents an overcorrection and hence an underestimate of true SST.

Friday Funny: “Pay up, Suckas”

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Friday Funny: “Pay up, Suckas”. Anthony Watts takes the time to copy-and-paste, and prove his mad Photoshop skillz, a goofy AFP article about a Spanish woman claiming ownership of the sun.

Anthony clearly feels a duty to keep the climate change debate moving forward.

NYT’s sort-of-clarity on Norfolk sinking aka “sea level rise” and an inconvenient map

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NYT’s sort-of-clarity on Norfolk sinking aka “sea level rise” and an inconvenient map. Anthony Watts and friends complain about a newspaper article. Thus disproving Global Warming.

The New York Times article lays the rising sea-level part of the equation a bit too thickly, but Anthony wants his readers to think that climate scientists have only one biased explanation for sea-level changes. In fact, subsidence is just one of the well-known factors in local sea-level change.

Examination of CRU data suggests no statistically significant warming

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“Examination of CRU data suggests no statistically significant warming“. Anthony Watts’ ferociously qualified associate A.J. Strata says:

“Bottom Line – Using two back-of-the-envelope tests for significance against the CRU global temperature data I have discovered:”

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“let me explain how I derived (by eye – ugh!) the two primary pieces of data I used”

Back-of-the-envelope tests? Eye-balling? Does anyone need to read any further? A.J., who seems more like a Tea-Bagger than a climate expert, is apparently working backwards from various printed graphs! This is classic denialist bunk, even down to accusations of “deception off on a global scale”. It’s kind of pitiable watching these obsessions play out in public.

So how did A.J. pull the Global Warming edifice down? He’s taken sets of what he claims are raw country temperature data (well actually pretty much of his own invention as he’s pulling the numbers from printed graphs) and slapped a line on them so he can declare that there is no Global Warming. I think I’ll wait for the cover story in Nature before I join the parade. Although he has been “working on [this] for about a week now”.

For a laugh, here's a cherry-picked sample of the printed temp charts A.J. Strata used to prove that there's been no Global Warming. These are from Mozambique and South Africa.

In the comments we get more examples of Anthony threatening critical commenters when he asks “Onion” about the weather in England. Anthony likes to use information from his website logs to reveal private details of his critics so he can make them feel exposed.

Can cacti ‘escape’ underground in high temperatures?

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“Can cacti ‘escape’ underground in high temperatures?“. Anthony Watts discovers that a species of cactus that can handle higher temperatures. So Global Warming, which of course isn’t happening, will be no problem at all!

This post is just a placeholder to give his readers a fresh place to vent. Cue the ditto-head chorus of “scientists are so stupid” with a verse from “its cold where I am!”

GASP! Climate Change could ruin Thanksgiving

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“GASP! Climate Change could ruin Thanksgiving“. A Discovery Channel web post uses Thanksgiving to discuss climate change, and Anthony Watts is outraged? Did they somehow defiling the sacred essence of Thanksgiving?

Whatever. Keep the readers enflamed, I guess.