Climate Scientists Vs. Actual Scientists


The truth doesn’t matter when you have a cause — or a way to make a lot of money!

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

Many climate experts are scientifically illiterate, and get confused by this graph showing the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global temperatureScreenHunter_1314 Jul. 26 07.06

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.

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CO2 Facts Which Will Terrify Any Climate Denier


Puts it all in prospective and since Mr.Hansen used his work on Venus to develop his theories that are the basis of the IPCC models it is important to understand where they came from.

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

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

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

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

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

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On Keating’s Challenge


A good analysis of the change and the problem! The believers should worry about what they believe in …

Bob Tisdale's avatarBob Tisdale - Climate Observations

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.

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Conspiracy For Dummies


You can detect some of this process in many of the reports when the authors couch what that have to say with qualifiers after they say it.

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

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.

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Data Tampering With Sea Level


Hey give these guys a break maybe they are just following orders! The little guy always gets the blame; i.e. IRS scandal, fast and furious etc.

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

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.

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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

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June 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update


I follow this series as well and my model of the series that I have been using since ’09 actually shows a long term downward trend; at least until the mid ’30!

Bob Tisdale's avatarBob Tisdale - Climate Observations

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.

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July 22 Global Sea Ice Area Above Normal


The inconvenient truth doesn’t mater to radicals!

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

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.

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NASA’s Finest Are Climate Skeptics


There is hope …

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

Unlike the pathetic little weasels at GISS, NASA’s finest are climate skeptics.

To the long list of right-wing, knuckle-dragging know nothings who dare question so-called “global warming,” environmentalists now can add six Apollo astronauts, two rocket men who flew aboard Skylab, and a pair of former directors of the Johnson Space Center (JSC).

These veterans of America’s space program are among the 49 retired NASA employees who recently asked the space agency to halt what they consider its unscientific advocacy of climate alarmism.

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin told the Daily Telegraph that he believes the climate has been changing for billions of years.

In a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden Jr., these rocket scientists, space explorers, and other men and women of reason requested, “NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites.”

They added: “We believe the claims by…

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Union of Concerned ‘Scientists’ frackivists taken to task for willful misrepresentation of facts in Erie, Colorado


They have no legitimate case so deceit and lying are all they have …

Analysis of Global Temperature Trends, June 2014


What really going on with the Climate?

The analysis and plots shown here are based on the following: first NASA-GISS temperature anomalies (converted to degrees Celsius) as shown in their table LOTI, second James E. Hansen’s Scenario B data, which is the very core of the IPCC Global Climate models which was based on a CO2 sensitivity value of 3.0O Celsius, lastly, a plot based on an alternative climate model designated ‘PCM’ and based on a sensitively value of .65O Celsius. To smooth monthly variations a 12 month running average is used in all the plots. This information will be shown in four tables and updated each month as the new data comes in about the middle of the month. Since no model or simulation that cannot reasonably predict that which it was design to do is worth anything the information presented here definitively proves that the IPCC just doesn’t have a clue.

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The first plot, UL is a plot of the NASA temperature anomaly converted to degrees Celsius shown in red with a black trend line added. There has been a very clear reversal in the upward movement of global temperatures since about 2001 and neither the UN IPCC nor anyone else has an explanation for this. Since CO2 has continued to increase at what could be argued an increasing rate this raises serious doubts about the logic programmed into all the IPCC global climate models.

The next plot UR, also in red, shows the IPCC estimates of what the Global temperature should be, based on Hansen’s Scenario B, with the NASA actual temperatures’ subtracted from them. Therefore this plot represents a deviation from what the Climate “believers” KNOW what the temperature should be; with a positive value indicating the IPCC values are higher than actual and a negative value indicating the IPCC values are lower than actual. A black trend line is added and we can clearly see that the deviation from expected is increasing at an increasing rate. This makes sense since the IPCC models project increased temperatures based primarily on the increasing level of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere. Unfortunately, for them, the actual temperatures from NASA are trending down (even as they try to hide the down ward movement with data manipulation) since other factors are in play, therefore each year the gap between them widens. Since we have 12 years of observations’ showing this pattern it becomes hard to justify a continuing belief in the IPCC climate models, there is obviously something very wrong.

The next plot LL shown in blue is based on the equations in the PCM climate model described in previous papers and posts here and since it is generated by “equations” a trend line is not needed. As can be seen the PCM, LL, and the NASA, UL, trend plots are very similar the reason being that in the PCM model there is a 68.2 year cycle that moves the trend line up and then down a total of .30O Celsius (currently negative .0070O Celsius per year); and we are now in the downward portion of that trend which will continue until around 2035. This short cycle is clearly observed in the raw NASA data in the LOTI table going back to 1880. Then there is the a long trend, 1052.6 years with an up and down of 1.36O Celsius (currently plus .0029O Celsius per year) also observed in the NASA data. Lastly there is CO2 adding about .005O Celsius per year so they messily wash out which matches the current holding pattern we are in. However with a few years the increasing downward trend of the short cycle will overpower the other tow and we will see drop of about .002O Celsius per year and that will be increasing until till around 2025. After about 2035 the short cycle will turn up and all three will be on the upswing again. These are all round numbers shown here are representative values.

The last plot LR in blue uses the same logic as used in the UR plot, here we use the PCM estimates of what the Global temperature should be with the NASA actual temperatures’ subtracted from them. A positive value indicates the PCM values are higher than actual and a negative value indicates the PCM values are lower than expected. A black trend line was added and it clearly shows that the PCM model is tracking the NASA actual values very closely. In, fact since 1970 the PCM model has rarely been off by more than +/- .1 degrees Celsius and has an average trend of almost zero error, while the IPCC models are erratic and are now approaching an error rate of +.5O above expected.

The IPCC models were designed before a true picture of the world’s climate was understood. During the 1980’s and 1990’s CO2 levels were going up and the world temperature was also going up so there appeared to be correlation and causation. The mistake that was made was looking at only a 20 year period when the real variations in climate move in much longer cycles. Those other cycles can be observed in the NASA data but they were ignored for some reason. By ignoring those trends and focusing only on CO2 the models will be unable to correctly plot global temperatures until they are fixed.

The purpose of this post is to make people aware of the errors inherent in the IPCC models so that they can be corrected.

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is considered one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and he also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. The following quotes of his apply to this subject.
If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories.
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
… (S)cience is one of the very few human activities — perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected