Real Climate Science

Successful technology firms hire people to find things wrong with their product. These individuals are rewarded for finding things that are wrong, and fired for not finding them. Verification people have completely different motivations and a different set of objectives from developers.

By contrast, academic research is a disaster, because they rely on pal-review. Everyone has basically the same objectives, and rely on the same sources of income. This guarantees that no serious problem will ever be found which could threaten the broad base of funding.

When I hear people using the terms “peer-review” and “climate science” in the same sentence, I feel like busting out laughing.  It is a joke.

As of 1995, neither NOAA radiosonde nor NASA satellites showed any post 1958 warming. Graph below is from the 1995 IPCC report.

 Since 1996, there has also been no global warming.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

Apparently all global warming occurred during 1995.

In 1922, the poles and glaciers were rapidly melting – and people were happy about it.

The ice fringes of both poles are retreating. Even during the comparatively short space of time that the Antarctic has been visited by man the, ice has retired some 40 miles. So let us cheer up.

07 Oct 1922 – The Mail – p7

2014 : Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

2012 : Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

Another animation from the resident “illegitimate” skeptic.

Since the end of October,  Arctic sea ice extent has been at a 10 year high almost every day.

 COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Those “illegitimate skeptics” who predicted this, were called “breathtakingly ignorant” by Mark Serreze.

It is about time a legitimate skeptic showed up here.

Twilight Zone music playing in the background.

December 16, 2014 at 1:33 pm

You really can’t make up stupid like this.

Flashes between GISS 1999, and GISS 2014

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NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country

– James Hansen, 1999

If the present refuses to get warmer, the past must become cooler, and government scientists must ramp up the cheating.

President Obama made an illegal “historic deal” which allows China to increase their CO2 emissions until 2030. At that time, their CO2 emissions will be double their current value, and more than five times higher than the US.

 2013 Global Carbon Project

Jonathon Amos at the BBC is telling a slightly different story  than he did seven years ago