Real Climate Science

RealClimate: Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated by Half

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In 1975, the National Academy Of Sciences published the graph below of the Northern Hemisphere, showing about 0.5ºC cooling from the 1930’s to the 1960’s.

But NASA has kindly reduced that cooling to less than 0.2ºC

The next graph overlays the NASA graph on the National Academy of Sciences graph. NASA cleverly erased the entire inconvenient warm period from 1910 to 1940.

I say, hats off to the Ministry of Truth.

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

? George Orwell, 1984

Public Information – NOAA’s National Weather Service

Snow is falling earlier than during the 1970’s global cooling scare.

h/t to Andy DC

Comparisons of satellite cyclone measurements vs. historical records is a nonsensical exercise. Satellites have a very high sampling rate and coverage, and will always find the peak wind speeds and minimum pressures. But older hurricanes have either very sparse data, or no data at all – in which case their intensity is based on damage.

Ryan Maue tells me that “very sharp gradients in wind exist” near the eyewall, which means that older observations are almost guaranteed to not locate the peak wind speeds.

The only way to compare recent hurricanes with ones from the past are by surface measurements or damage. Using either of those criteria, Typhoon Yolanda was nowhere near what Jeff Masters claims it was. Just more junk science from the team.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism – Christopher C. Horner – Google Books

12 Jan 1898 – TYPHOON AND TIDAL WAVE IN THE PHILLIPINES. 7000 …

CO2 was below 300 PPM at the time.

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A brilliant plan to tackle a non-existent problem by simply killing off the economy. Temperatures have been flat since 1997.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

There were 42,538 wild fires in the US this year – the lowest total since 1984.

National Interagency Fire Center

National Interagency Fire Center

In 1938, there were 185,000 wild fires in the US

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

The number of fires is down 77% since 1938.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 11/12/13 — Today, Paul Calandra, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, issued the following statement on behalf of the Government of Canada on Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s introduction of legislation to repeal the carbon tax:

“Canada applauds the decision by Prime Minister Abbott to introduce legislation to repeal Australia’s carbon tax. The Australian Prime Minister’s decision will be noticed around the world and sends an important message.

“Our government knows that carbon taxes raise the price of everything, including gas, groceries, and electricity. Prime Minister Abbott has said that, in Australia, the repeal of the carbon tax will reduce the average household’s cost of living by (in Australian dollars) $550 a year, take $200 off household power bills and $70 off gas bills.

“Our government has reduced greenhouse gas emissions while protecting and creating Canadians jobs – greenhouse gas emissions are down since 2006, and we’ve created 1 million net new jobs since the recession – and we have done this without penalising Canadian families with a carbon tax.”

Statement by Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra on Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Introduction of Legislation to Repeal the Carbon Tax

Proud to say that all my work is in Canada these days.

h/t to Ivan