Real Climate Science

Progressives like Barack Obama imagine that they have science on their side, because they actually don’t know anything about science.

Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species

Replying to Skeptics, NASA Defends Claims About Mars
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: August 8, 1996

WASHINGTON Aug. 7— Scientists and space agency officials today reaffirmed their claim of finding strong evidence for past life on Mars and asked skeptics among the world’s scientists to join them in conducting even more rigorous tests needed to confirm or disprove it.

Daniel S. Goldin, the NASA Administrator, said the possibility of Martian life, however primitive, would prompt a thorough review of the nation’s program of exploring the planet. Some of the currently planned 10 robotic missions to Mars might be re-evaluated, he said, and serious thought would be given to speeding up plans for returning a sample of Martian rocks on a robotic mission that had been scheduled for no earlier than 2005.

Replying to Skeptics, NASA Defends Claims About Mars – NYTimes.com

NASA Experts Defend Theory Of Life on Mars
Published: October 25, 1996

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 24— In their first appearance before a major audience of astronomers, NASA scientists have vigorously defended their theory that a meteorite from Mars shows evidence of ancient life on that planet.

Although they got respectful applause on Wednesday at a meeting of the planetary division of the American Astronomical Society, the team from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration also got blunt skepticism.

‘‘This is not bad for a new theory,” said Dr. Timothy Swindle of the University of Arizona. ”It is much better than cold fusion,” he added, referring to a widely advertised atomic energy theory that was denounced within days. ”Nobody has found such obvious flaws in this work.”

NASA Experts Defend Theory Of Life on Mars – NYTimes.com

One hundred years ago, scientists were hotly debating why Martians had built all those canals. It isn’t clear which side of the debate the consensus sided with.

MARS CANALS FOR DRAINAGE. – German Says They Are to Prevent Floods When Pole Caps Melt. – View Article – NYTimes.com

The first six months of 2014 were the second coldest on record in Illinois.

Changing station composition (loss of rural stations) likely skews recent temperatures too high. NOAA adjusts for these spuriously high temperatures, by making them even higher through the use of infilling and gridding – thus transforming rural stations into urban ones.

Anthony Watts wrote over on his site that I said

Goddard initially claimed 40% of the STATIONS were missing

This is the line Anthony is referring to, from his original E-mail

This claim: “More than 40% of USHCN final station data is now generated from stations which have no thermometer data.”

Is utterly bogus.

I didn’t say the stations were missing. I said they had no thermometer data, which is exactly what is happening. Every month in 2014, about 40% of the stations have no thermometer data. Basic grammar tells us that you can’t “have” something if you don’t exist. And I had actually altered the text to make it less ambiguous before Anthony sent over the E-mail. Then Anthony went on a rampage attacking me all over the Internet, over something which there was never any question I was correct about.

Anthony frequently thinks I am “making mistakes”, because he reads into my words concepts which I didn’t say (confirmation bias.) It is important to read people’s words carefully, rather than shooting from the hip. Anthony finished that E-Mail with the words.

YOU NEED TO DO BETTER.

I couldn’t have said it better. I do very much appreciate Anthony’s post from yesterday to clarify the situation. It shows that he is an honorable man.

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A national tax on anything that produces carbon emissions — gasoline, airplanes and coal-burning power plants — is the goal of the new Kentucky chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, an international nonprofit group seeking to curb global warming.

Carbon tax sought to curb global warming

Humans exhale a terrifying 40,000 PPM CO2 – enough to raise current atmospheric CO2 levels by 100X. In order to rescue mankind from global warming, breathing must be stopped through taxation or whatever other means is necessary.

 Obama lambastes climate change deniers as ‘radical fringe’ in California speech

ANAHEIM, Calif.: Obama lambastes climate change deniers as ‘radical fringe’ in California speech | White House | McClatchy DC

According to the latest Pew Poll, only 40% of Americans believe that global warming is caused by human activity, meaning that the president considers 60% of Americans to be a “radical fringe”

Public Opinion on Global Warming, Environment and Energy | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

With the borders open for terrorists to walk across, government paramilitary units are invading 124 American homes per night

Nestled awkwardly among the usual guff, the outrage website Salon this week took a welcome flyer and accorded space to something genuinely alarming. “A SWAT team,” the headline screamed, “blew a hole in my 2-year-old son.” For once, this wasn’t hyperbole.

Paramilitary operations, the ACLU concluded, are “happening in about 124 homes every day — or more likely every night” — and four in five of those are performed in order that authorities might “search homes, usually for drugs.” Such raids routinely involve “armored personnel carriers,” “military equipment like battering rams,” and “flashbang grenades.”

Barney Fife Meets Delta Force | National Review Online

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Last year, temperatures north of 80N were below normal every single day, and so far a repeat in 2014. It is difficult to make the Arctic ice free with a melt season of four weeks at 1ºC.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut