Real Climate Science

James Hansen will likely go down as the most laughable scientist in history

That 1940’s blip, just has to go way.

The global warming hiatus is easy to understand.

It is much harder for NOAA to tamper with post 1979 global data, because we now have satellite data – which restricts the amount of cheating which they can do.

Through my entire life, every time a president got in serious trouble – he started a war.

Only exception was Nixon – and look where it got him.

Like in the US, temperatures have been falling in Greenland for over 80 years.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

NASA knew about this until a couple of years ago, when they turned the cooling trend into a warming trend.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

They accomplished this reversal, by cooling pre-1980 temperatures by about a degree.

TimesMachine: June 29, 1976 – NYTimes.com

There are two very important concepts here:

1. Colder weather is more extreme
2. The well documented US cooling trend from 1930 to the present, is not compatible with the hockey stick.

Hansen wrote this in 1999

Yet 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 (Figure 2). We caution that linear trends, as in Figure 2, can mask temporal detail. Indeed, Figure 1(b) indicates that the last 20 years have seen a slight warming in the U.S. Nevertheless, our analysis (Hansen et al., 1999a), summarized in Figures 1 and 2, makes clear that climate trends have been fundamentally different in the U.S. than in the world as a whole.

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

In 1950, everyone knew about the massive warming in the Arctic

18 Feb 1952 – Melting Icecaps Mystery

06 May 1940 – Greenland’s Climate Becoming Milder

31 Oct 1950 – THINGS WARMING UP IN GREENLAND

Even NASA/NOAA knew about it until a few years ago, when they decided to erase it.

GHCN V3 : Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
GHCN V2 : Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

In order to get rid of the 1940’s blip, NASA/NOAA cooled temperatures by more than 2C

A few years ago, Mark Serreze announced that the death spiral Arctic is screaming and had become as “ice island.”

The North Pole becomes an ‘island’ for the first time in history as ice melts

By FIONA MACRAE
UPDATED: 18:32 EST, 1 September 2008

The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history.

Startling satellite pictures taken three days ago show that melting ice has opened up the fabled North-West and North-East Passages – making it possible to sail around the Arctic ice cap.

The opening of the passages has been eagerly awaited by shipping companies which hope they will be able to cut thousands of miles off their routes.

But to climate change scientists it is yet another sign of the damage global warming is inflicting on the planet.

Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist, described the images as an ‘historic event’ – but warned they added to fears that the Arctic icecap has entered a ‘death spiral’.

The pictures, produced by Nasa, mark the first time in at least 125,000 years that the two shortcuts linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have been ice-free at the same time.

Amazing. Walt Meier from NSIDC/NASA said that the Arctic was ice free sometime in the last 7,000 years.

The North Pole becomes an ‘island’ for the first time in history as ice melts | Mail Online

Sow how is Serreze’ screaming death spiral looking today? Both passages are closed.

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Our green friends are killing about a quarter of a million birds per year at just one solar plant, and report it as “about a thousand”

California’s massive Ivanpah solar power plant can produce enough electricity for 140,000 households — but the environmental cost is nothing less than an avian slaughter.

The plant’s 350,000 mirrors bounce sizzling sunlight to the tops of three 40-story boiler towers, heating steam for turbine electricity generators. Temperatures near the towers can reach up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, heat certainly sufficient to fry a fowl.

I’m sure that 1,000 degree air doesn’t affect the climate.

“Workers at the state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — ‘streamers,’ for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair,” the Associated Pressreports this week.

That’s a common occurrence, the AP continues; federal investigators saw a bird burn roughly every two minutes. Ivanpah owner BrightSource estimates that “about a thousand” die each year, and one environmental group says the plant kills up to 28,000 birds each year. 

One bird every two minutes would be more than 250,000 per year.

As the plant prepared to begin operations, workers found the winged corpses of “a peregrine falcon, a grebe, two hawks, four nighthawks, and a variety of warblers and sparrows,” the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.

Dead-Bird ‘Steamers’ at a California Solar Plant | National Review Online

h/t to top Dave G