Nick Stokes, like all climate alarmists, spews mindless gibberish without doing any fact checking.
The NCAR graph is not from Newsweek, 1975. It was widely published in 1974. Here are a few examples. There are lots more out there.
Click on the images to zoom.
22 Jul 1974, Page 6 – The Times Herald at Newspapers.com
21 Jul 1974, Page 13 – The Des Moines Register at Newspapers.com
14 Jul 1974, Page 1 – Lincoln Evening Journal at Newspapers.com
The 1974 NCAR graph was completely consistent with what Steven Schneider and Walter Orr Roberts of NCAR were saying at the time. They were pushing global cooling – which was going to kill us all.
12 Jun 1974, Page 20 – at Newspapers.com
I will deal with Nick’s other idiotic claim in a different post.
Steven Goddard produces these plots, and they seem to circulate endlessly, with no attempt at fact-checking, or even sourcing. I try, but it’s wearing. The first GISS plot is not the usual land/ocean data; it’s a little used Met Stations only
The amount of misinformation in that claim is breathtaking. Nobody attempted to do land/ocean plots in 1974, because they weren’t willing to make up fake temperature data like modern climate fraudsters. GISS graphs were land only until about 2003.
date: Wed Apr 15 14:29:03 2009
from: Phil Jones <[email protected]> subject: Re: Fwd: Re: contribution to RealClimate.org
to: Thomas Crowley <[email protected]>Tom,
The issue Ray alludes to is that in addition to the issue
of many more drifters providing measurements over the last
5-10 years, the measurements are coming in from places where
we didn’t have much ship data in the past. For much of the SH between 40 and 60S the normals are mostly made up as there is very little ship data there.Cheers
Phil
