Real Climate Science

I started my first programming class at ASU 40 years ago this week. There were about 400 people in the class, competing for the one computer on campus with all the other computer users.

That was the hottest summer on record in Phoenix (19 straight days over 110 degrees) and was at the peak of the ice age scare, right after Nixon resigned and not long after the worst tornado outbreak in US history.

I played on the ASU soccer team (club sport at that time) and we held practice at 3PM, typically in 104-107 degree temperatures. At midnight it was still 100 degrees, and we usually waited to play basketball in the parking lot until after midnight.

Dinner at the frat house was at 5PM, and we all gathered in the chapter house to watch Star Trek at 4PM. Everyone wanted to see which color of alien Kirk was going to “get his boots off” with this episode.

Fraternity New Row at ASU was an amazing place at that time – the center of life on campus. Progressives have completely wrecked the place since then, and now it looks more like Dresden after WWII.

Antarctica has record sea ice. The Arctic has seen a record gain in sea ice, and just had its first or second coldest summer on record.

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

Meanwhile, NCDC and NASA are trying to claim that Earth is having one of its hottest years ever.

Most of the glaciers in Antarctica were shrinking 100 years ago, during NASA’s coldest years ever.  At the time, climate experts didn’t lie about it though. They explained that the shrinking glaciers were due to the cold.

Strange to say, meteorologists argue that the diminution of ice indicates that the climate was formerly milder than now. Ice and snow only accumulate where there is occasional warmth with moisture and variations of temperature. A continuous dry cold does not favour the accumulation of ice and snow.

Papers Past — Auckland Star — 13 March 1912 — FACTS ABOUT THE POLE.

Note that according to NASA, this was occurring during the coldest years on record.

The Whole Foods Market in Columbia, MD opens tomorrow morning at 9AM, Look for the old guy on a bicycle. It is right next to the lake.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2107453,-76.857632,16z

Within a week, a cyclone will be spreading Arctic sea ice, and extent will flat line or increase.

Arctic sea ice area is up 55% since the same date 2012

Green shows ice gain, red shows ice loss. 

As of 1974, climate experts showed a strong temperature spike around 1940, followed by plummeting temperatures until the 1970s, with 1970 actually cooler than 1900.

Once the climate scam changed from global cooling to global warming in the late 1970s, climate experts started removing the spike. The graph below is from Hansen, 1981

Figure 2-1. Global temperature trend for (a) past century, (b) millennium, and (c) 25,000 years. (a) is based on J. Hansen, D. Johnson, A. Lacis,
S. Lebedeff, P. Lee, D. Rind, and G. Russell, 1981

Originally located at : http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/downloads/Challenge_chapter2.pdf

Climate scientists later renamed the spike a “blip” and expressed their desire to get rid of it – without even knowing what caused it.

And that they did. The graph below plots current NASA global temperatures along with their 1981 version.

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The next graph shows the hockey stick of changes to published NASA global surface temperature since 1981

The hockey stick has nothing to do with the climate, and everything to do with altering the data.

In 2005, NASA showed that Antarctica had been strongly cooling for 20 years

SVS Animation 3188 – Antarctic Heating and Cooling Trends

Gavin Schmidt (current GISS head) reported that Antarctica temperatures “decreased significantly”

Shindell and Schmidt 2004
Shindell, D.T., and G.A. Schmidt 2004. Southern Hemisphere climate response to ozone changes and greenhouse gas increases. Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L18209, doi:10.1029/2004GL020724.

While most of the Earth warmed rapidly during recent decades, surface temperatures decreased significantly over most of Antarctica.

Pubs.GISS: Abstract of Shindell and Schmidt 2004

But that story wan’t going to scare anyone into giving up their money, so in 2007 they simply changed Antarctica’s history from cooling to warming.

Disintegration: Antarctic Warming Claims Another Ice Shelf : Feature Articles

Graphs which plot 15+% concentration ice show Arctic ice extent dropping precipitously, while 30+% concentration ice and ice area aren’t dropping at all.

30% ice is flat, and just below 2006.

Area is flat, and above 2006. 

The reason this is happening, is because the low concentration ice is compacting. This reduces its extent, but doesn’t affect the area, and actually increases the extent of higher concentration ice. Bottom line is that the ice isn’t melting much, and hasn’t been for about a week.

The colored maps I generate use approximately 30% concentration ice, because it is a better indication of ice melt/freeze than the 15% graphs used by NSIDC and others.

On July 4, President Obama gave permission for wind farms to kill the national bird.

Solar is just as bad, or worse

Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air – The Washington Post

Environmental organizations have permitted their mindless fear about CO2, to completely corrupt their core principles.