Real Climate Science

26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

? Albert Einstein

“Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue, according to a recent investigation from InsideClimate News.”

Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago – Scientific American

But NOAA and the CIA didn’t.

10 May 1979, 7 – Calgary Herald at Newspapers.com

07 Dec 1989, 44 – The Tyler Courier-Times at Newspapers.com

THE ROLE OF NOAA’S CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLIMATE SERVICES

March 1, 1975 | Science News

Science News, March 1, 1975

The National Geographic Archive | November 1976 | page 1

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere – The New York Times

25 Nov 1981, 13 – Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com

Now that they don’t have censorship to protect them, climate scamsters are fleeing Twitter.

#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried | Twitter | The Guardian

7:40 PM · Nov 29, 2022

“There are three kinds of lies : lies, damned lies and statistics”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Analysis of warming since 1881 shows most of the increase in global temperature happened before 1919 — before the more recent sharp rise in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, said Thomas Karl, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climate Data Center in Asheville, N. C.

While global climate warmed overall since 1881, it actually cooled from 1921 to 1979, Karl said.

“In spite of all the well-publicized concern about global warming, you must understand that there is still considerable uncertainty among scientific experts about a number of critical factors which determine global warming,” NOAA administrator John Knauss said in a statement issued for the geophysics meeting.”

07 Dec 1989, 44 – The Tyler Courier-Times at Newspapers.com

Now NOAA shows almost 0.4C warming from 1921 to 1979

Climate Change: Global Temperature | NOAA Climate.gov

Western governments are developing energy policy based on the misguided rantings of children, instead of listening to the people who have been providing the energy for well over 100 years.

osisaf_nh_sie_monthly-09.png (1255×954)

Drawing a straight line through cyclical data is one way to mislead.

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p1/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt

Hiding the inconvenient data before 1979 is another way to mislead.

“The American Navy Joint Ice Center has produced weekly charts which have been digitised by NOAA …..  Since about 1976 the areal extent of sea-ice in the Northern Hemisphere has varied about a constant climatological level but in 1972-1975 sea-ice extent was significantly less.

1990 IPCC Report

Between 1990 and 2001, the IPCC rewrote the Arctic sea ice satellite record, and changed a trend of ice increasing to ice decreasing.

1995 IPCC Report

ipcc_sar_wg_I_full_report.pdf

2001 IPCC Report

https://archive.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/062.htm

In the 1985 DOE Report ice increased from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Projecting the climatic effects of increasing carbon dioxide 

 in 1958, the USS Skate surfaced at the North Pole. Arctic sea ice averaged two meters thick.

The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times

“At 9:47 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Aug. 11, 1958, the 265-foot-long Skate the third nuclear-powered submarine in the American fleet poked through a break in the ice near the North Pole. Soon after, Admiral Calvert, then a commander, radioed the news to headquarters in New London, Conn.”

James F. Calvert, 88, Sub Captain Who Surfaced at North Pole, Dies – The New York Times

Now the ice is two meters thick.

https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/anim/plots_uk/CICE_combine_thick_SM_EN_20221130.png

When Stonehenge was built, there was less ice in the Arctic and trees grew all the way to the edge of the Arctic Ocean.

Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago — ScienceDaily

Holocene Treeline History and Climate Change Across Northern Eurasia – ScienceDirect

The current IPCC report says snow cover is declining due to human influence.

“Over recent decades, widespread loss of snow and ice has been observed, and several elements of the cryosphere are now in states unseen in centuries (high confidence). Human influence was very likely the main driver of observed reductions in Arctic sea ice since the late 1970s”

IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf

NH Fall

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Snow cover is at a record high.

Global Cryosphere Watch

Snow cover in South America reached an all-time record high earlier this year.

Snow cover in Australia and New Zealand has also been far above normal this year

Global Cryosphere Watch

“French president’s harsh words come as he begins state visit to Washington where he will meet Joe Biden”

Macron says US climate law risks ‘fragmenting the west’ | Financial Times