Category: Climate Cult

The Sound Of Settled Science

I’ll see your CBC Fruit Fly Guy and raise you….

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” – Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” – Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”
Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” – Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.
“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” – Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” – U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims.”

The Sound Of Settled Science

A scientific research station in Ely, Nevada, part of an “air quality and environmental monitoring program”.

It is an impressive station with multiple state of the art sensors, solar power, and a datalogger with a satellite uplink to DRI’s HQ.

And dual parking lots.
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Update and correction – this is not part of the USHCN climatology network as originally indicated, but a scientific research station run by the Department of Energy and Desert Research Institute.

Y2Kyoto: “September ‘08 is the hottest October on record. Oh, my God!”

Andrew Bolt;

The Goddard Institute of Space Studies of warming extremist James Hansen has released its latest surface temperature data – and, oh my god, the recent cooling has suddenly ended.

The culprit? A massive heat wave over Russia in October.

Yet, the satellites seem to have missed the memo.
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The whole, sordid story unravels in the comments here, (while the GISS begins to delete data in real time);

…we have learned that the Russian data in NOAA’s GHCN v2.mean dataset is corrupted. For most (if not all) stations in Russia, the September data has been replicated as October data, artificially raising the October temperature many degrees. The data from NOAA is used by GISS to calculate the global temperature. Thus the record-setting anomaly for October 2008 is invalid and we await the highly-publicised corrections from NOAA and GISS.”

More on the mess at Climate Audit.
Update – NASA acknowledges “some mishap might have occurred… ”
Update – In the comments, John Cross defends NASA’s quality control in response to my criticisms;

“Kate: There is always a trade off between how quickly you get the information out and how much quality control you can run.”

OK then, let’s make this simpler.
As in “Holy heat-seeking-map-missile, Batman! Look at the colour of Russia right next to Alaska there!”

The Sound Of Settled Science

Was someone glancing out the parliamentary windows?

2 Amendment of 2050 target or baseline year
(1) The Secretary of State may by order —

(a) amend the percentage specified in section 1(1);
(b) amend section 1 to provide for a different year to be the baseline year.

(2) The power in subsection (1)(a) may only be exercised —

(a) if it appears to the Secretary of State that there have been significant developments in —
(i) scientific knowledge about climate change…

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