Real Climate Science

Three Cheers for the Nanny State – NYTimes.com

“Why do you resist? We only wish to raise quality of life for all species.”

Locutus Of Borg

The average March 2013 US temperature has actually been declining over the past week due to very cold weather, and is now just a whisker above being the coldest March since 1969. The warmest March occurred in 1910.

Cherry blossoms are running late this year at the Tidal Basin due to cold weather, but the first white has appeared on the trees – in the form of snow.

National Park Service Webcam

Climate experts have been telling us for years that global warming brings an early spring and declining snow cover. Now they say that a late spring and heavy spring snow cover is consistent with global warming.

National Snow Analyses – NOHRSC – The ultimate source for snow information

As far as I can tell, there is no possible weather event which they would say is inconsistent with global warming. That is the nature of ad hoc politically driven junk science.

NASA’s James Hansen wrote this last year

We conclude that extreme heat waves, such as that in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010, were “caused” by global warming, because their likelihood was negligible prior to the recent rapid global warming.

US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Quarter to half of species on earth may die from global warming

This claim is not supported by the historical record, which shows that the 1930s were much hotter.

The EPA says the exact opposite of Hansen.

Heat waves occurred with high frequency in the 1930s, and these remain the most severe heat waves in the U.S. historical record  (see Figure 1). Many years of intense drought (the “Dust Bowl”) contributed to these heat waves by depleting soil moisture and reducing the moderating effects of evaporation.

• There is no clear trend over the entire period tracked by the index. Although it is hard to see in Figure 1 (because of the extreme events of the 1930s), heat wave frequency decreased in the 1960s and 1970s but has risen since then (see Figure 1).

www.epa.gov/climate/climatechange/pdfs/print_heat-waves.pdf

The US had four times as many 40C readings in 1936 as it did in 2012. The summer of 2012 would have been considered a fairly normal summer prior to 1960.

Michael Bloomberg has big plans and big money devoted to destroying the Bill of Rights, and he admitted it yesterday.

“I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom,” Mr. Bloomberg said, during an appearance on NBC.

NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Government has right to ‘infringe on your freedom’ – Washington Times

h/t to Dave G

I’m not sure what is going on, but this blog is getting a huge number of page views today – the most since August 27, 2011 when it had 320,514 views.

Until about ten years ago, NASA showed the US on an 80 year long cooling trend, with the three hottest years being in the 1920s and 1930s. They have deleted the raw data from their website and blocked archiving, but John Daly captured it. It was originally located at this link :

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/graphs/FigD.txt

and can now be seen here :

http://web.archive.org/web/20120124014257/http://www.john-daly.com/usatemps.006

NASA has since rewritten US history and shows the same period warming – with 1998 as the hottest year.

data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.D.txt

James Hansen wrote this in 1999, before he decided to alter US history :

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

This sort of honest assessment was no use for obtaining funding, so Hansen created a hockey stick of adjustments to cool the past and warm the present.

A reader has been saving GISS temperature data every month since 2005, and sent it over to me.

In 2005, Hansen showed about 0.55C warming from 1910 to 2005. Now he shows almost 0.75C warming over that same time interval.

2005 version   2013 version

The next graph shows alterations to the data since 2005 – almost 0.2C.

Hansen is trying to create the impression of warming by progressively cooling the past, and progressively warming the present. The graph below shows how he used to adjust June 1915 upwards by 0.07C, but now he adjusts it downwards by 0.19C. Since 2005, he has progressively altered the June 1915 temperature by more than 0.25 degrees.

The next graph shows how Hansen has progressively warmed October 2002 in successive versions of the GISS data. In 2005 he showed the anomaly at 0.46C, and now he shows it at 0.6C. There have been five upwards data tampering events since 2005.

It seems safe to assume that there was additional data tampering going on prior to 2005, but we can see that about 30% of current warming is due to post 2005 data tampering by NASA’s James Hansen.

Much of the the Northern Hemisphere has been getting pummeled with near record cold during March. It seems likely that satellite temperatures for the month will take another huge plunge, like they did last month.