Tampering With Climate Data Is Not A New Problem


But it’s OK if NOAA does it!

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

In 1907, the US Weather Bureau discussed tampering with meteorological data.

They described it as a crime, and said that it was up to the “independent press” (i.e. bloggers) to repress all “cheats and hoaxes” and  “defend the truth and the best interests of the whole nation as against the self-interest of a few”

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Certain Facts About The Scientific Incompetence Of NASA Are Not In Dispute


What else can you say … 😦

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

From The NASA web site

Certain facts about Earth’s climate are not in dispute:

The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century.2Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by NASA. Increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in response.

This is complete nonsense. If the absorption of relevant wavelengths is already saturated, there is no mechanism for the Earth to warm in response to “increased levels of greenhouse gases”

Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the Earth’s climate responds to changes in solar output, in the Earth’s orbit, and in greenhouse gas levels. They also show that in the past, large changes in climate have happened very quickly, geologically-speaking: in tens of years, not in millions or…

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Understanding The Scientific View Of Climate Sensitivity


The horse seems confused he just doesn’t understand the new math!

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

Global temperature shows no correlation with CO2, so scientists make up some crap about heat hiding in the Pacific Atlantic Ocean

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What is completely clear in paleo data, is that the cart is pulling the horse – and the horse closely follows the movement of the cart about 800 years later.

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‘Missing heat’ in the Atlantic – It doesn’t work like that


The problem the believes have is not only that temperatures have not gone up but if the heat was to go deep it would first have to be hotter at the surface; otherwise the heat would have to jump over the surface to get to the deeper layers.

Icelandic Bárðarbunga volcanic eruption begins


If it erupts it will be because of climate change and that will be the reason the year 2014 will be colder than it should have been.

More Harsh Winters Could Spell Disaster For The Electrical Grid


And with reduced generation capacity thanks to the EPA there is less reserve capacity in the GRID now. After all with global warming we don’t need heat in the winter any more!

Parasitic Power: Solar Energy’s Five Fatal Flaws


A good read and true! There is no way that you can make enough “grid” level power to replace carbon based fuels! Like most things there are applications for solar and wind but they are a best niche markets. If run the numbers myself its not all that hard and i would defy any competent engineer to show how say 25 Quad of grid power (meaning up and running 24/7) can be produces with wind or solar without government subsidies and be competitive with a carbon based fuel today — not in some mythical distant future!

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The sun is the most important energy source on Earth. It provides our daily warmth and light and the rotation and orbit of the earth turn its steady output into fluctuating day and night, summer and winter. Solar energy powers the growth of all trees, grasses, herbs, crops and algae; it creates the clouds and powers the storms; it is the source of all hydro, photo-voltaic (PV), solar-thermal, bio-mass and wind energy; and, over geological time, it also creates coal.

PV solar panels can directly harvest solar energy. They are useful in remote locations, for some portable applications and, with enough panels and batteries, stand-alone solar can even power homes.

But solar energy has five fatal flaws for supplying 24/7 grid power.

Firstly, sunshine at any spot is always intermittent and often unreliable. Solar panels can…

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Shock News : BOM Is Tampering With Climate Data


Why do any real science when you can make up anything you want with graphics and spreadsheets.

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

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THE Bureau of Meteorology has been accused of manipulating historic temperature records to fit a predetermined view of global warming.
Researcher Jennifer Marohasy claims the adjusted records resemble “propaganda” rather than science.

Dr Marohasy has analysed the raw data from dozens of locations across Australia and matched it against the new data used by BOM showing that temperatures were progressively warming.

In many cases, Dr Marohasy said, temperature trends had changed from slight cooling to dramatic warming over 100 years.

Bureau of Meteorology ‘altering climate figures’ | The Australian

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Another Great Triumph For Climate Science


The whales are moving the heat around so it can’t be found

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

Scientists have very carefully measured billions of atom bombs of missing heat in the deep Pacific Ocean, but have just discovered it is actually in the Atlantic Ocean, not the Pacific.

ScreenHunter_2205 Aug. 22 22.54 Global warming slowdown answer lies in depths of Atlantic, study finds | Environment | The Guardian

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Thoughts on Hansen et al 1988


This is an old post from 2008 but just as valid today if not more so. We really can forget how damaging to all science this 1988 Hansen presentation to congress was!

Stephen McIntyre's avatarClimate Audit

Update (Jul 28, 2008): On Jan 18, 2008, two days after this article was posted, RSS issued a revised version of their data set. The graphics below are based on RSS versions as of Jan 16, 2008, the date of this article, and, contrary to some allegations on the internet, I did not “erroneously” use an obsolete data set. I used a then current data set, which was later adjusted, slightly reducing the downtick in observations. On Jan 23, 2008, I updated the graphic comparing Hansen projections using the revised RSS version. Today I re-visited this data, posting a further update of this data including the most recent months. While some commentators have criticized this post because the RSS adjustment reduced the downtick slightly, the downtick based on the most recent data as of July 28, 2008 is larger than the RSS adjustment as of Jan 2008.)

In 1988…

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