Real Climate Science

From April

The results show that while temperature increases around Antarctica appear to have led increases in atmospheric CO2, the picture globally was the opposite – CO2 increases paved the way for temperature increases.

Ice age study delivers blow to global-warming skeptics – CSMonitor.com

No this was not an April Fool’s Joke – just spectacular stupidity from climate science and the Christian Science Monitor.

Here is the sequence of events which Shakun laid out

1. Temperatures rise or fall in Antarctica
2. Hundreds of years later – CO2 rises or falls
3. Hundreds of years later – temperatures rise or fall  globally

Let’s assume for a minute that this sequence is correct. The implication is that Antarctica controls the world’s temperature. Whatever Antarctica does, the rest of the world does several hundred years later. This is particularly scary, because the wind chill in Antarctica is -156F

How did climate scientists react to this brilliant work?

The new work is a significant advance” in the study of the climate conditions surrounding Earth’s cycle of ice ages, notes Richard Alley, a Penn State University geologist who specializes in studying glaciers and the climate records encoded in the ice.

Joe has declared war on Andy Revkin, and science. Joe is apparently also really pissed off at the author of the NASA Greenland melt  study – who said that this has happened every 150 years for the last 10,000 years.

Suppose for a minute that Joe is right, and everyone else is wrong. Look at his graph below – had it not been for evil humans interfering in the climate system, we would be having an ice age.  Sometime around the war of 1812 humans started doing something really bad to warm the climate up – and saved us all from freezing to death.

What a maroon

I sent the E-mail below to Jeremy Kaplan at Fox News this afternoon. Jeremy responded right away, and told me that he was looking in to it.

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Hi Jeremy,

I saw that you quoted Jay Zwally in your article today.  Here is some background information about him which you might find useful

In 2007, Zwally forecast an ice-free Arctic in 2012 for National Geographic Magazine

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

Australia is of course not as big as Washington DC, and definitely not part of the globe.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

According to NASA, Greenland melt events happen every 153 years, which means they have no correlation to  CO2. It also means that alarmists trying to blame the event on CO2 are being as stupid as they always are.

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There is clearly a much bigger story with James Holmes. He was under the guidance of the University of Colorado studying “temporal illusion” – and the judge has issued a gag order on anyone discussing the case.

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There was a time when the US was different from the Soviet Union, though it is difficult to remember now.

06 May 1940 – Greenland’s Climate Becoming Milder

Jay Zwally (of ice-free Arctic in 2012 fame) is back at it. Look at what he told Fox News :

NASA chief cryospheric scientist H. Jay Zwally told FoxNews.com that the melting has been increasing as the temperatures in Greenland have been increasing.

“Climate in the Arctic has been warming about three to four times more than the global average, and Greenland surface temperatures (observed by satellite and surface instruments) have been increasing about 2 degrees Celsius per decade during about the last 20 years,” he said.

Skeptics put the freeze on NASA ‘hot air’ about Greenland ice 

Why did he pick the last 20 years?  Because twenty years ago was the coldest period on record in Greenland.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

Top scientist Zwally forgot to mention that current temperatures are cooler than the 1930s and that the long term trend since the 1920s is downward.

In 2007 he predicted an ice-free Arctic in 2012

This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

According to USHCN raw daily data, January 1930 to December 1939 was the hottest decade in US history, and averaged 54.02 degrees F.

By contrast, the 120 months from March 1976 to February 1985 was the coldest ten year period on record in the US, and averaged  52.59 degrees.

From the graph below, it becomes abundantly clear why, Hayhoe, Hansen, Dessler at al normally cherry pick the 1970s as their start date for climate data, and why Hansen has worked so hard to beat down the 1930s.

There has been very little change in the number of hurricanes over the last 50 years, but the number of named storms has doubled.
 

Also the ratio of named storms to hurricanes has increased by nearly 50%. By naming more clouds, NOAA can declare a record hurricane season every year – even if there weren’t any hurricanes.