Scientists unmask ‘Ghost Mountains’ of Antarctica at last

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“Scientists unmask ‘Ghost Mountains’ of Antarctica at last“. Steven Mosher copy and pastes a report titled Scientists unmask ‘Ghost Mountains’ of Antarctica at last from Newsdesk.org. They’ve created a detailed map of the Gamburtsev Mountain Range of Antarctica, buried under kilometers of ice, using radar techniques.

To Anthony Watts’ readers this interesting development is ignorantly interpreted as “we don’t know so much about this planet we live on after all”. The comments, predictably, devolve into a series of complaints about government-sponsored “scientists” and phony scientists that leech off the taxpayers via the government. Another day, another pavlovian response.

Third Climategate report ‘imminent’ – expect a shortage of whitewash in stores this weekend

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“Third Climategate report ‘imminent’ – expect a shortage of whitewash in stores this weekend“. Steve Mosher prepares the ground for more bad news. This is a re-posting of a denialist Telegraph article about Sir Muir Russell’s inquiry into the infamous but insignificant “Climategate” scandal. So far it’s two denialist strike-outs.

Let the disgruntled muttering begin!

Global warming’s impact on Asia’s rivers overblown

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“Global warming’s impact on Asia’s rivers overblown“. A Nature news report says that in the Indus and Ganges basins, glacial ice contributes only about 40% of the total meltwater . Hah! Take that, glacier worriers. Nothing to worry about. Well, 40% less.

So if “Freshwater flow [is] dominated by monsoon rains rather than glacier run-off”, what happens if the monsoons shift or diminish? Oops. We weren’t supposed to read that far into the news report.

La Niña Is Not The Opposite Of El Niño – The Videos

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“La Niña Is Not The Opposite Of El Niño – The Videos“. WUWT re=posts Bob Tisdale’s blog entry about El Niño and La Niña in 1997-99. Yes, the Pacific Ocean circulates? Bob’s theory is buried in the embedded YouTube videos; “both El Niño and La Niña result in warming of the East Indian/West Pacific Ocean”.

This seems to be laying the groundwork for a revision of the denialist claim that the La Niña circulation pattern will produce global cooling any day now. That will be an unfortunate claim to have to defend when it doesn’t happen…

Concentration vs. Extent

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“Concentration vs. Extent“. Steven Goddard plays word games to try to slip out of his unsupported Arctic Sea Ice claims. He’s nothing if not intransigent!

Steven used to argue about ice extent (surface area) but the ice volume facts completely undercut his position. Now he’s talking about ice “concentration”. This is pretty much just a variation on volume, but it lets him slip away from his claims about extent.

To do this though Steven has to baldly claim that his chosen model, PIPS 2.0, is the proper one to use because it’s the only one that he can use to claim that “concentration” is not collapsing too. The better model is PIOMAS, but unfortunately it doesn’t support his claims.

Funny how quickly the outrage over using “models” disappears when denialists like Steven find one that they think they can exploit.

How ’bout the numbers? Arctic sea ice extent is currently about 270,000 km² lower than the “record low” of 2007. Arctic sea ice volume is also down since then, by about 300 km³.

Quote of the Week: Sen. Lindsey Graham’s 180° view of climate science

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“Quote of the Week: Sen. Lindsey Graham’s 180° view of climate science“. Senator Graham’s political flipping on environmental issues is suddenly A-OK with Anthony Watts because, a few days after the recent primary elections, Graham’s jumped on the denialist bandwagon to shore up his right-wing/denialist voting base.

In fact, Anthony even tries to convince us that “This one is really something.” Sell it Anthony, sell it.

Climate Craziness of the Week – cool (E)motional Icebergs

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“Climate Craziness of the Week – cool (E)motional Icebergs“. These “climate craziness” posts are simply an excuse for some lazy snide remarks from Anthony Watts. It seems that cool(E)motion™ Project got an art grant from the World Wildlife Federation to put a sculpture on an iceberg and track it by GPS. The GPS signal has been lost, and the iceberg can no longer be located. “What happened we never will know.”

An iceberg with sculptures on it!

Tipped over, or gone? That seems to be the gist of Anthony’s griping, after a brief demonstration of Anthony’s ability to Google videos of icebergs. I think he should have stuck to the traditional “my kid can do better than that!”

That solar sinking feeling

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“That solar sinking feeling“. Anthony Watts tries to imply that the beginning of the end of the current, and somewhat unusual, solar minimum is going to lead to global cooling.

The denialists like to ignore the fact that these cycles are of sunspot activity, not energy output. They have no significance for Earth’s climate except in the wild theories of goof-ball amateurs.

But all those charts sure look “sciencey”.

NOAA GOES weather satellite communications at risk due to proposed FCC spectrum auction

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“NOAA GOES weather satellite communications at risk due to proposed FCC spectrum auction“. Anthony Watts is up in arms over a plan by the FAA to redistribute (lease) frequencies used by several weather satellite systems. Ominous conspiracy theories abound in the comments.

IPCC review: friend or foe?

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“IPCC review: friend or foe?” Steven Mosher sends the troops over to a BBC article about the committee that will be adjusting the procedures for compiling the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, due in 2013. Gotta make sure the comments are filled with vitriol.

Steven seems to imply that the denialist howling has forced the IPCC to admit dissenting views:

This is a fine opportunity for WUWT readers to make comments to the committee reviewing the IPCC. My suggestion: be polite; be constructive.

Um, any idiot (see ‘Lord Monckton’) can make comments to the IPCC and always has been able to.