Many climate experts are scientifically illiterate, and get confused by this graph showing the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global temperature

The graph shows us two important facts.

1. CO2 lags temperature, and responds to changes in solubility as the oceans warm or cool. This is one of the first things which freshman geology students learn, as it explains the formation of limestones.
2. The recent rise in CO2 due to burning fossil fuels has had no impact on temperature.

Al Gore’s associate Laurie David didn’t like this relationship, so she simply reversed it in her children’s book – in a blatant attempt to defraud schoolchildren.

Lying to schoolchildren has made her a hero of the left and the White House.

The graph below shows the shocking rise of atmospheric CO2 since 1832.

The rise is comparable to packing almost one tenth of an extra person on to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

The increase in CO2 is like packing two extra people into Madison Square Gardens

And most frightening, look what CO2 has done to the environment of Detroit. 

A post by Alec Rawls at WUWT Taking Keating’s $30,000 skeptic challenge seriously, part 1 has renewed some interest in a challenge to disprove the theory of human-induced global warming.  This post is not about Alec’s post; it provides my general comments about Keating’s challenge to skeptics.

Ever since Al Gore was vice-president, the expectations for receiving government climate grants have been clear.

Bill Gray got his long-time hurricane research money cut off in 1993 by Al Gore, for refusing to tow the global warming line.

The Secretary of The Interior recently said : “I hope there are no climate deniers working for me”

The President of the US recently said : “I don’t have time for a debate of the Flat Earth Society” and skeptics are like “people who believe the moon is made of cheese”

The expectations for receiving government climate grants are crystal clear. If you want government money, you will tow the global warming line. Everyone in the profession understands this.

This isn’t a conspiracy – it is Business as Usual corruption by the US Government.

Not only is satellite sea level rise much faster than tide gauges, but it is also much faster than older satellite sea level.

Look how the University of Colorado has altered their data since 10 years ago.

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University of Colorado Global mean sea level

They achieve their bloated rise rates through the use of  fake hot spot near the Philippines, where the error is as large or larger than the trend.

Global mean sea level results

Sea level fraud in academia is just as big a problem as temperature fraud. Academics are rewarded for producing large numbers, not for being accurate.

h/t to Steve Case

Sorry this update is late.  I got sidetracked with the post about Risbey et al. (2014), and the post about the new climate model, now with knobs.

This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS and NCDC through June 2014 and HADCRUT4 through May 2014—and of the two suppliers of satellite-based lower troposphere temperature data (RSS and UAH) through June 2014.

NASA and NOAA say that Earth is having record heat, while the polar ice caps tell a completely different story. Apparently the fundamental AGW principles of polar amplification and albedo feedback no longer apply.

The only remaining principles are data tampering, new ad hoc fraudulent theories, and spreading propaganda.

July 22 global sea ice area is above the mean and highest since 2004.

 arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008