Gavin has jumped into his new job at GISS of generating fake global warming data for the White House, and has made May the warmest on record globally. Never mind that May, 2014 was an average month, much cooler than 1998 and 2010 – and May temperatures have actually been in decline for 16 years. That isn’t what the boss wants to see.
data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
rss_monthly_msu_amsu_channel_tlt_anomalies_land_and_ocean_v03_3.txt
GISS May temperatures are diverging from RSS at a phenomenal 2.1ºC per century.
Nice work Gavin! Well done.
Since science is not getting the message through, perhaps Gavin might take a leaf from Queensland experts (home of John Kook) who are calling on divine help.
http://m.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/its-the-season-for-reason-in-a-climate-of-discontent-20140619-zsf91.html
I thought I would check out the “In southern Queensland, more than 45,000 flying foxes dropped dead on one mega hot day this year.” reference and it turns out it was in January. the hottest month of the year in Queensland, so not really an unusual seasonal event, although it was unusually hot.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/thousands-of-bats-killed-by-hot-weather-in-queensland
Also most of the “flying foxes” seem to be infected with lyssavirus so I wonder how much that contributed to their demise.
Next Guardian headline: “Global Warming Causes Increased Frequency of Lyssavirus in Flying Foxes!”
Panic and raise taxes.
The Guardian headline I want to see is “Climate Apocalypse!! Global Warming Inducing Hysteria in Journalists!!”
OT, but there’s an interesting story in NextBigFuture about iron seeding of the ocean off of Canada. An excerpt:
Those at nextbigfuture are looking at this iron seeding as a possible panacea type geo-engineering solution that could start reducing CO2 ppm levels, and lead to a dramatic increases in ocean productivity, all with no side effects. …. Except, I don’t know, I left this comment:
PROTIP (for our Troll du jour): generally speaking, arbitrary adjustment of raw data to the extent that the overall data trend is reversed is something that will get you kicked out of a 100-level engineering course.
In a federally regulated industry it could get you a nice cushy jail cell especially if linked to human deaths.
Chris Booker has an article on your work, Steve, in the UK Telegraph today.
The scandal of fiddled global warming data
Of course its not only the US. We here too in Australia have it being done with our temperature data, as does New Zealand.
Only by explicitly comparing raw and adjusted data, and explaining it openly and honestly, can the IPCC linked people give themselves a chance of being believed. Since they try to dissemble and hide endlessly it suggests they are not doing it honestly.
Its their choice – be open or be damned.