Real Climate Science

11:09 AM · Oct 20, 2022

Another discussion of how academic climate scientists don’t seem to understand the fundamentals of science.

Dutch limit Groningen gas production despite energy crisis | Reuters

They are shutting it down because the government blames earth tremors on gas production. The largest tremor was a 3.6 magnitude in 2012.

California had several earthquakes of similar magnitude in the last twelve hours.

The surface mass balance of Greenland is above average for the fifth year out of the last seven.

Surface Conditions: Polar Portal

But DMI has this fake graph showing Greenland losing mass, based on gravity measurements.

They state that the gravity measurements measure changes in ice mass, which is not true.

“The GRACE satellites measure the total changes in ice mass”

The gravity measurements measure changes in gravity, not changes in ice. Changes in gravity are much more likely caused by changes in the crust and mantle underneath the ice than by the ice itself. No attempt is made to account for changes in the rocks below the ice.

“It should be noted that the changes in mass illustrated here have not been corrected for the changes in mass due to Glacial Isostatic Adjustment.”

Mass and Height Change: Polar Portal

During the last ice age, Canada was buried under miles of ice.  This pushed the crust down into the mantle under Canada and forced the crust upwards in surrounding regions like Greenland and the eastern US coast. Now that the glaciers are gone from Canada, the land is rebounding – causing Canada to rise and causing surrounding regions to sink. This 2010 paper hinted at why gravity measurements are useless for measuring ice.

“The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted”

“these results were not properly corrected for glacial isostatic adjustment, the phenomenon that the Earth’s crust rebounds as a result of the melting of the massive ice caps from the last major Ice Age around 20,000 years ago. These movements of the Earth’s crust have to be incorporated in the calculations, since these vertical movements change the Earth’s mass distribution and therefore also have an influence on the gravitational field.”

TU Delft – Melting rate icecaps Greenland and Western Antarctica lower than expected

Al Gore has been widely dismissed as a buffoon, but he has been at the center of the global warming scam for the past 30 years.

Fifteen years ago, snake oil salesman Tim Flannery said Australian reservoirs would never fill again due to the burning of fossil fuels.

“even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems,”

“Carbon trading represents one of the great opportunities for farmers in Australia”

Landline – 11/02/2007: Interview with Professor Tim Flannery . Australian Broadcasting Corp

“The Victorian government has ruled out new dams, saying climate change means not enough water would flow into them to make them worthwhile.”

No point in new empty dams, says Victorian government | Australian Water and Energy Exchanges research initiative

Now the reservoirs are full.

Australia: A lake has filled up for the first time in 28 years | Metro News

According to Congressional climate expert AOC, the world will end in 2,651 days

The latest from down the climate rabbit hole.

A common technique used by climate alarmists is to make authoritative sounding but incorrect statements about climate data.