Real Climate Science

I have no interest in people who come here to waste time discussing conspiracy theory. That is one thing that will quickly get you banned.

We discuss facts and what we observe here. Conspiracy talk is a device to avoid intelligent conversation. Either things are happening or they aren’t happening. Existential discussions about human motive are for idiots.

It is crazy conspiracy talk to think that millions of Germans would have kept quiet about the atrocities going on in their country.

Shit happens. People engage in bad behavior. Deal with it.

The Argus-Press – Jun 24, 2008

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The press got hysterical four years ago when an iceberg calved off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland

Since then, nothing has changed. This is how the glacier looked last week.

Glaciers flow to the sea and calve. That is what they do. That is what they have to do. It has nothing to do with warming or climate change. They are a river of ice. Rivers flow to the sea. Only a complete moron or a climate alarmist would see this as a problem.

But I repeat myself.

Reggie has his work cut out for him to reach the 2012 Arctic minimum. He needs to melt 700 miles of ice in the next few weeks.

There has been almost no ice extent loss in the Arctic Basin over the last two weeks. COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Anthony Watts did a story about a long time weather observer :

When Richard G. Hendrickson (seen at right) logged his first weather observation for the U.S. Weather Bureau, the precursor to NOAA’s National Weather Service, Herbert Hoover occupied the White House. Since then the Bridgehampton, New York, farmer has filed twice daily reports, tallying more than 150,000 individual weather observations – playing a critical role in building our nation’s climate history.

I wonder how this dedicated weather observer feels about having his readings adjusted by NCDC? | Watts Up With That?

Here is some more detail about the bizarro adjustments being done by USHCN.

The station has daily data going back to August 1930, yet USHCN has adjusted data going back to 1893. They have fabricated non-existent data for 37 years.

Anthony shows this GISS graph, and wonders why Gavin hasn’t updated the data for two years.

Anthony is right to be concerned –  the temperature has plummeted to close to the mean since NASA quit updating. After the 2014 data is registered, it will show one of the coldest years on record.

But it gets much worse – USHCN is massively cooling the past, and warming the present in Bridgehampton, NY – by  a total of 2 degrees.

Richard G. Hendrickson has been taking twice daily readings, yet USHCN is doing a TOBS adjustment of 0.4-0.8 degrees cooling the past. This adjustment is nonsensical given that he was reading the thermometer twice a day – which eliminates any chance of TOBS issues.

Anthony is right to wonder about the adjustments on this station. They are complete garbage and just one example of how NOAA and NASA massively corrupt the US temperature record to create the appearance of non-existent warming.

Bridgehampton is currently having their eighth coldest year on record, and coldest in 22 years.

The data looks nothing like the GISS graph. Other than a temporary spike after the mid-1990s – there has been very little warming in Bridgehampton.

Climate Crock says I am deranged, and Mark Serreze says I am breathtakingly ignorant. Reggie says I am the second stupidest man on the Internet.

But what does the Arctic say?

It turns out that the growth in Antarctic ice was just an algorithm error.  This is excellent news for professor Chris Turney who now knows that his multi-million dollar entrapment was a simple software bug.

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Experts say now that Antarctic sea ice growth is an algorithm error.

The map below shows ice gain since July, 1986 in green, and loss in red. There has been a 7% increase since 1986.

At the peak of the melt sea season, the Arctic Basin is stone cold and very little melting is occurring. Green shows increased extent since Sunday, red shows loss.