The White House has announced that the President Obama no longer wants to be a hypocrite. Effective immediately :
The three switches control three light bulbs in another room. You are allowed one (and only one) trip to the other room, at which time you have to determine which switch controls which bulb.
Punishment for failure to solve this, is having to listen to Obama speak for an hour.
This is a simple problem, but if you think like a computer geek you will never solve it.
The graph below organizes US HCN stations into two groups. Those that took morning readings (i.e. reset the thermometer in the morning or night) on July 15, 1936 and those which took afternoon readings (reset in the afternoon) on that date.
Both groups show identical downward trends in US maximum summer temperatures since 1910. If TOBS were real, the 1936 morning reset temperatures would be warming much faster than the 1936 afternoon reset temperatures. In actuality, the morning temperatures are cooling slightly faster than the afternoon temperatures.
This shows that TOBS has little or no effect on the temperature, and is simply another excuse to cool the past and turn a long term cooling trend into a warming trend.
The graph below is another TOBS killer. It shows the difference in summer temperature between US HCN stations which took morning readings on July 15, 1936 and those which took afternoon readings on that date. The trend is down, indicating that the TOBS upwards adjustments are backwards.
If TOBS were correct, the 1936 afternoon stations would be getting cooler over time relative to the morning stations, but we see the exact opposite – the 1936 morning stations are getting cooler relative to the 1936 afternoon stations.
One of the funnier claims about TOBS is that the frequency of 100 degree temperatures in the 1930’s was due to double counting at stations which reset their thermometers in the afternoon.
I put that to the test by identifying all of the stations which reset their thermometers at times other than between 2PM and 8PM on July 15, 1936, and calculating the frequency of 100 degree temperatures at those 329 stations. The result is essential identical as I get for all stations. There is no evidence of double counting. The 1930s were much hotter.
Same is true for 90 degree days. The 1930s were much hotter. No one can claim that these stations reported maximum temperatures too high due to TOBS.
Summer maximum temperatures at those same stations were much hotter in the 1930s, and have been declining for over 100 years, showing once again that the claims about TOBS strongly affecting maximum temperatures are nonsense.
At some point it will become obvious to everyone that the USHCN temperature adjustments which reverse the long term cooling trend in the US, are bogus and junk science.
Here is the station list :
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
You may recall that someone predicted a week ago that it was about to take a sharp turn towards the median.
There are various different clans of idiots out there busy trying to discredit me among their fellow idiots. Here are some of them.
etc., etc. etc.
Quite entertaining I might add.
The Arctic melt season will be starting to wind down in the next three weeks, and there is very little going on.
Red shows ice extent loss over the past five days, and green shows gain.
Here is the same map for 2007, showing ice loss from July 10 through July 15.
Satellite temperatures should be warming faster than surface temperatures, but they aren’t according to Berserkley Earth. Quite the opposite.
There were various theories floating around today about land only, RSS/UAH etc. The graph below should clear them up.
Berkeley Earth is diverging from UAH land temperatures at 1.8C/century, and from RSS land at 3.0C/century. Their data does not correlate with more accurate satellite data, and needs to be tossed in the dust bin of junk science.
www.woodfortrees.org/data/uah-land/from:1995.5/plot/rss-land/from:1995.5/plot/best/from:1995.5
