Real Climate Science

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The New York Times says that he “misspoke.”

On August 4, 2011 – The European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite showed less than one mm/year sea level rise, comparable to tide gauges.

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A few months later the same data set showed almost triple that rate.

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A few weeks later they killed the uncooperative satellite.

Twitter / EricHolthaus: Sea levels in the Philippines …

The sea level map shows 10 mm/year sea level rise east of the Philippines, which is exactly the amount of error in the map. A signal to noise ratio of zero – i.e. completely useless data.

Global mean sea level results

geological evidence stretching back tens of thousands of years, obtained by drilling into the Vostok ice core in Antarctica, is now available. And that temperature record makes alarmingly clear how extraordinary would be a 6° increase in global temperature by 2100.

Hotting up in The Hague | The Economist

This is a classic from the year 2000. The ice core data (turquoise line) shows recent temperatures cooling. They threw in a fake hockey stick in red at top of the graph without explanation, and used the same color for CO2 in the bottom graph. The graph is designed to confuse the reader into believing the opposite of what it shows.

The large increase in ice core CO2, corresponds with a decline in ice core temperatures.

The CIA was worried in 1974 that plummeting temperatures over the past 4,000 years were going to lead to a security threat for the US. I’m having a tough time seeing Mikey in that graph.

www.climatemonitor.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1974.pdf

h/t to Omnologos

There have been 35 cyclones in the last 800 years which killed more than 10,000 people. Thirty-three of them occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. The deadliest one in 1970 was blamed on global cooling at the time.

Deadliest World Tropical Cyclones | Weather Underground

Most of the multi-year sea ice in the Arctic blew out into the Fram Strait during the winter of 2007-2008.

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Published: November 13, 1898

THE WEST INDIAN STORM
Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported.

WHOLE COUNTRY SWEPT BARE
Distress of the People Described as • Exceeding That Caused by the Great Famine in India.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 2.—The results of calm investigation have proved conclusively that so far from being exaggerated the first reports of the destruction wrought by the cyclone at St. Vincent were rather short of the actual facts. The island was literally swept absolutely bare of vegetation, the experience of 1780 being repeated, but the full extent of the devastation was not at first realized, owing to the difficulty of communication through the destruction of the roads and the coastal shipping.

The Governor of the Windward Islands has now sent out an appeal to the neighboring islands stating the facts, and asking that roots, slips, and seeds of potatoes, cassava, yams, peas, and ‘other economic plants be forwarded as soon as possible to enable cultivation to be restored. His Excellency declares in a brief but significant descriptive paragraph that the whole aspect of the landscape has been changed. Instead of the pervading green common to all tropical prospects, it is now a uniform dirty brown color, only relieved by long white poles—the decapitated columns of palm and cocoanut trees. Nothing in the way of vegetation escaped the sweep of the wind and the subsequent scouring out by the deluge of water, and the island is practically a desert.

Perhaps the most Impressive feature, the Governor adds, is the absolute stillness that prevails not only through the absence of the familiar rustle of vegetation as the trade wind sweeps over it, but-also because of the absence of animal and even insect life. Birds, lizards, beetles, snakes, and, in fact, every form of animal life, seems to have been blown away or drowned out.

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THE WEST INDIAN STORM – Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported. WHOLE COUNTRY SWEPT BARE Distress of the People Described as Exceeding That Caused by the Great Famine in India. – View Article – NYTimes.com

Photographs of the Philippines storm show nothing resembling that level of damage, indicating once again that Jeff Masters is lying through his teeth.