The professional profile for Dr. Mark Schoeberl is available under NASA’s “Who’s who” section, so I suspect he still works there;

Dr. Mark Schoeberl is an atmospheric scientist who specializes in stratospheric processes including wave dynamics, ozone depletion and trace gas transport. He has over 152 refereed publications and over 4200 citations in atmospheric science journals. Since the early 1980’s he has worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and is currently the Chief Scientist for the Earth Sciences Directorate and the Aura Project Scientist.
Dr. Schoeberl is past President of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He is the former Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) Project Scientist. He was the Co-Project Scientist for the airborne VOTE/TOTE mission (1996) and was Co-Project Scientist for the airborne SOLVE I and II missions (2000). He is also a past member of the National Academy’s Board of Atmospheric Sciences.
Dr. Schoeberl is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1996), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1996), and the American Meteorological Society (1996). He was awarded Goddard’s William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences (1998), NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1991), NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal (1996) and Distinguished Service Award (2000), the latter being NASA’s highest award of this type. Dr. Schoeberl grew up in Iowa, and received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Illinois in 1976

On the other hand, they haven’t updated the page to include his felony conflict of interest conviction, so who knows?
h/t Phillip G. Shaw

Never miss an opportunity to create a crisis;

[…]once you realize that swine flu isn’t some sort of alien from outer space as we’ve been led to believe, but rather “the same subtype as seasonal A/H1N1 that has been circulating since 1977,” as the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) observes. It’s “something our immune systems have seen before,” echoes Peter Palese of New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The older you are, the more you’ve been exposed and the higher your immunity level–hence the need to give two swine flu vaccinations to those under age 10.
Nevertheless, because WHO dubbed this a “pandemic,” vaccination plans, emergency response measures and frightening predictions have been based on comparisons with true pandemics that by definition were especially severe. That includes the August report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology with its “plausible scenario” of “30,000 – 90,000 deaths” peaking in “mid-October.”

Via
Update – one of our resident doctors weighs in.

1. You speculate there “some trees” are temperature proxies, but “other trees aren’t. (So far, you’re actually ok.)
2. Then, instead of trying to do a real calibration study to discover what sorts of trees are temperature proxies and which aren’t, you just take a bunch of cores and find which correlate “best” with the recent temperature record. You throw away all the rest of the cores as “not temperature proxies”.

Continue reading Method of creating hockey stick reconstructions out of nothing….

“Hey dude, I think I figured out a way we can score a Porsche for the weekend….”

Testosterone is what drives men’s desire to own fast cars, according to a study published in the journal Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes.

Former science adviser to Margaret Thatcher and critic of global warming theories (on Youtube).

The ups and downs of methane.

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Even the BBC has noticed.

Via WUWT
h/t jcl

Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era

UCLA Newsroom;

UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth’s magnetosphere. The research, federally funded by the National Science Foundation, could improve the safety and reliability of spacecraft that operate in the upper atmosphere.
[…]
Lyons and Kim were planning to study something unrelated when they made the discovery.
“We were looking to do something else, when we saw life is not the way we expected it to be,” Lyons said. “The most exciting discoveries in science sometimes just drop in your lap. In our field, this finding is pretty earth-shaking. It’s an entire new mode of energy transfer, which is step one. The next step is to understand how it works. It must be a completely different process.”

h/t Tech1

BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr Ban Ki-moon…

…standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, “100 billion tons” of polar ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be “ice-free”. This was supported by a WWF claim that the ice is melting so fast that, by 2100, sea-levels could rise by 1.2 metres (four feet), which would lead to “floods affecting a quarter of the world”.
Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind. Standing 700 miles from the Pole, as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go, Mr Ban seemed unaware that, although some 10 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of sea-ice melts each summer, each September the Arctic starts to freeze again. And the extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq m) greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more than in September 2007, the lowest point recently recorded (see the Cryosphere Today website). By April, after months of darkness, it will be back up to 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq m) or more.
[…]
Why are they all going off their heads like this, in emulation of the “projector” that Gulliver met on his travels, in the Academy of Lagado, who had designed a scheme for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers? It is because they are desperately trying to whip up alarm over global warming before December’s planned “climate treaty” in Copenhagen, when all evidence suggests that they are not going to get the successor to the Kyoto Protocol they want.

Anthony Watts gets internal memos he’s not expected to see:

“Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently approved a plan to prohibit the expansion of commercial fishing in U.S. Arctic waters to enable researchers time to gather the ecosystem data essential to managing a sustainable fishery.”

From the comments there – Oooguruk Island June 23rd 2009

“This is at an oil development (Oooguruk – Inupiat for “Bearded Seal”) which my company found in the shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea (yes, I work for an oil company – but it’s not big oil – it’s small oil – only 15 employees : Geologist (with a meteorological background) -Skeptical & damn proud of it! ) “

The science settles.

I was sitting around a large table of dog show friends and competitors from across the United States when the topic of global warming came up. Someone argued that the point-zero-whatever degree the earth is said to have warmed over the past few decades was bringing about the collapse of polar ice caps.
I asked how many present had personally experienced -40C temperatures ?
It turned out that I was the only one.
“Well then,” I said, “I can tell you something you probably didn’t know. When the temperature rises from -40C to -35C, nothing melts.”
No, this isn’t exactly the same thing, but it gave me an excuse to tell my little story.

More whacky researchers are suggesting that the big glowing ball of fire in the sky somehow affects the earth. (Technical note for those following along at home: when it’s the sun, it’s “weather”, when it’s CO2, it’s “climate”)…

A new study in the journal Science by a team of international of researchers led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research have found that the sunspot cycle has a big effect on the earth’s weather. The puzzle has been how fluctuations in the sun’s energy of about 0.1 percent over the course of the 11-year sunspot cycle could affect the weather?

I know, it’s just crazy enough to be true.

There has been the most extraordinary series of postings at Climate Audit over the last week. As is usual at CA, there is a heavy mathematics burden for the casual reader, which, with a bit of research I think I can now just about follow. The story is a remarkable indictment of the corruption and cyncism that is rife among climate scientists, and I’m going to try to tell it in layman’s language so that the average blog reader can understand it. As far as I know it’s the first time the whole story has been set out in a single posting. It’s a long tale – and the longest posting I think I’ve ever written and piecing it together from the individual CA postings has been a long, hard but fascinating struggle. You may want to get a long drink before starting, and those who suffer from heart disorders may wish to take their beta blockers first.

Caspar and the Jesus paper. (August 2008)
h/t Maz2

They counted all the trees, put up a Kyoto museum;

The amount of carbon emissions caused by world forest destruction is likely far less than the 20 percent figure being widely used before global climate talks in December, said the head of the Brazilian institute that measures Amazon deforestation.
Gilberto Camara, the director of Brazil’s respected National Institute for Space Research, said the 20 percent tally was based on poor science but that rich countries had no interest in questioning it because the number put more pressure on developing countries to stem greenhouse gases.
“I’m not in favor of conspiracy theories,” Camara told Reuters in a telephone interview on Friday.
“But I should only state that the two people who like these figures are developed nations, who would like to overstress the contribution of developing nations to global carbon, and of course environmentalists.”

h/t Rich

h/t Rich
More here….

“The world’s source for global temperature record admits it’s lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record.”

Andrew Orlowski (Register, UK)

The destruction (or loss) of the data comes at a convenient time for the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia — permitting it to snub FoIA requests to see the data.
The CRU has refused to release the raw weather station data and its processing methods for inspection — except to hand-picked academics — for several years. Instead, it releases a processed version, in gridded form. NASA maintains its own (GISSTEMP), but the CRU Global Climate Dataset, is the most cited surface temperature record by the UN IPCC. So any errors in CRU cascade around the world, and become part of “the science”.
Professor Phil Jones, the activist-scientist who maintains the data set, has cited various reasons for refusing to release the raw data. Most famously, Jones told an Australian climate scientist in 2004:

Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.

[…]
Canadian statistician and blogger Steve McIntyre, who has been asking for the data set for years, says he isn’t impressed by the excuses. McIntyre obtained raw data when it was accidentally left on an FTP server last month. Since then, CRU has battened down the hatches, and purged its FTP directories lest any more raw data escapes and falls into the wrong hands.

More from Steve McIntyre, at Climate Audit.
Via Planet Gore

Lagging just two years behind the blogosphere, the Washington Examiner reports:

Researchers who have inspected climate monitoring stations across the U.S. have found that almost 90 percent of the weather monitoring stations have failed to meet National Weather Service requirements.
Anthony Watts, a retired meteorologist, and a team of over 650 volunteers, photographically documented 1003 out of 1,221 of the climate monitoring stations managed by the U.S. Weather Service. The results of this survey show that the temperature cited as proof of man-made global warming is laced with false biases in favor of alarmism.
“We found stations located next to exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat,” Watts said. “We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.”
The research team also determined that 89 percent did not measure up to the National Weather Service’s requirement that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) or more away from an artificial heating source. This means almost 9 out of every 10 stations are reporting higher temperatures because they are badly sited.
“The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperatures of 0.7 degrees C (about 1.2 degrees F) during the twentieth century,” Watts said.

See for yourself at Surfacestations.org