Real Climate Science

There are various different clans of idiots out there busy trying to discredit me among their fellow idiots. Here are some of them.

1. People who believe the triple point of water is not a triple point
2. People who believe substances don’t freeze below their freezing point
3. People who don’t believe in the Ideal Gas Law
4. People who believe that averaging the entire temperature data set is tampering.
5. People who believe that Antarctica is melting at -50C.
6. People who believe that glacial melt causes mounds of water to form near Indonesia
7. People who believe that the 2 trillion tons of snow which falls on Greenland every year should never melt.
8. People who think that it is unfair to take the air temperature of Greenland’s two mile thick ice sheet at 10,000 feet elevation.
9. People who believe they can calculate mass balance from gravity data – without knowing what the land is doing under the ice sheet.
10. People who believe that a small handful of quacks is a 97% consensus.

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

When confronted with the major issues I have presented, the Berkeley Earth, NASA and NOAA people demonstrate that their only interest is producing graphs showing warming while maintaining some appearance of plausible deniability.

Actual scientists would want to understand why their data radically diverges from satellite data and a host of other proxies.

Alaskan Bears are having to wade through several feet of shallow puddles to get to the ice, causing thousands of premature drownings.

Barrow Sea Ice Webcam

You can’t make up stupid and arrogant like Democratic politicians.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters last week that the rare deadly tornado that struck Madison County on July 8 was part of a “new normal” of extreme weather.

“We don’t get tornadoes in New York, right? Anyone will tell you that,” Cuomo said at a news conference July 8 in Smithfield, where the tornado struck. “Well, we do now.”

In fact, we always have.

Since the federal government started keeping a tally in 1950, New York has had at least 417 tornadoes. That’s an average of seven per year.

“For him to say we don’t get tornadoes in New York was incorrect,” said Scott Steiger, a SUNY Oswego meteorology professor. “He didn’t do his homework. Severe weather has happened in New York for a long time.”

Cuomo says ‘we don’t get tornadoes’ in NY, but we’ve had at least 417 | syracuse.com

h/t to Dave G

On WTOP this morning and they said that someone spray painted “No undocumented Democrats” on a building where Obama wanted to house future illegal Democratic voters, and it was being investigated by DOJ as a hate crime.

Richard Muller mis-represented himself to the Koch Brothers, took money from them to create a temperature record, and hired a non-scientist to be his chief scientist. (Update : Zeke says Mosher is not the chief scientist.)

Since the global warming pause started, Berserkley Earth has been diverging from satellite data at 3.3C/century.

www.woodfortrees.org/data/best-upper/from:1995.5/plot/rss/from:1995.5

Update : Zeke wants land only vs. Best, not Best Upper.  Same story.

www.woodfortrees.org/data/rss-land/from:1995.5/plot/best/from:1995.5

Muller was always a wild-eyed alarmist.

By Richard Muller on December 17, 2003

Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate. I would love to believe that the results of Mann et al. are correct, and that the last few years have been the warmest in a millennium.

Medieval Global Warming – Page 2 | MIT Technology Review

11/03/11

“It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic“

Richard Muller, Climate Researcher, Navigates The Volatile Line Between Science And Skepticism

Less than a year after announcing that he was never a skeptic, he announced that he was a converted skeptic.

The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic
By RICHARD A. MULLER
Published: July 28, 2012

CALL me a converted skeptic.

The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic – NYTimes.com

Arctic sea ice is following a very similar track as 2006, which had the highest summer minimum of the past decade. Note that there has been almost no change in extent over the last three days.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut