Real Climate Science

During all those cold snowy springs we had in Colorado since 2006, when I was freezing my butt off coaching soccer in snowstorms and the rivers were flooding  every June – they told us that we were only 0.01% of the planet, and that the climate was determined by Moscow or Texas or somewhere else. It hurt being ignored like that by the climate experts.

But now that we are warm and dry, Colorado is finally getting the recognition we deserve. Now we get to define the global climate – at least until the monsoons start and the yellow spotted cherry pickers move on to someplace else.

The next two weeks are the hottest weeks of the year on the Greenland Ice Sheet, and temperatures are blazing at -17C. Experts at the National Academy of Sciences say that all this melting will cause a foot of sea level rise over the next 20 years, because they are completely incompetent.

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The National Park Service has placed a ban on shooting in Pawnee National Grasslands, based on the idea that bullets could start a fire. I have yet to see lead or steel shot spontaneously combust, but the Obama administration knows better.

In 1978, a catalytic converter started a grass fire at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Arcosanti Center in central Arizona – which burned up 125 cars. Proving once again that guns don’t kill, but pollution controls do.

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Today has been the hottest day of the year here in Fort Collins. The official high was 99.5

On June 23, 1954 the official high temperature was 102 degrees. It was 2.5 degrees hotter when CO2 was 320 PPM.

June, 1954 had eight days over 90 degrees. So far we have had six. Bill thinks that 350 PPM makes the world melt.

h/t to Marc Morano

BTW – I don’t have an air conditioner in the house. It is about 98 degrees at my computer and I love it. Most of the year it is too cold here, and when we actually get a real summer it is cause for celebration.

There is a match about to start in Miami which has Messi and Drogba on one team, and Suarez and Dempsey on the opposite team.

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I just watched an Obama ad criticizing Romney’s jobs record in Massachusetts, claiming that the number of jobs created was very small.

The graph below shows Massachusetts unemployment while Romney was governor (blue) and US unemployment while Obama was president (red) at the same scale. Unemployment in Massachusetts dropped under Romney to the second lowest level in the last twenty years, while US unemployment under Obama rose to the highest level in 20 years.

Obama’s ad also criticized Romney for increasing Massachusetts debt by $3 billion while he was governor. By contrast, Obama has increased the US debt by $3 billion – every 12 hours since he took office. Obama has increased the debt by 200,000% more than Romney.

We have a crook in the White House who makes Nixon look like a saint.

My favorite USHCN hack to bring temperatures up, is called the “time of observation bias.” It is based on the idea that all 50,000 or so USHCN station owners have been morons.

It is a misnomer. The correct name for it would be “time of reset bias.” It doesn’t make any difference what time you record the temperature, the concern is what time you reset the thermometer.

Suppose you are brain-damaged and reset your min/max thermometer at 3PM every day. On Tuesday the high is 60F, which occurred right at 3PM. At 6PM a cold front comes through and the temperature drops to 10F and stays there for 24 hours. On Wednesday, you put on your heavy jacket and mittens go outside and look at your min/max thermometer. It says that the high temperature was 60F, which is off by 5o degrees.

The opposite problem occurs if you reset your thermometer at 6AM. Only a complete imbecile would not recognize the problem, which is why almost everyone who operates a min/max thermometer understands that you need to reset the thermometer every night.

The TOBS adjustment assumes that there used to be a lot of stupid people who reset their thermometers in the afternoon, and now there are a lot of stupid people who reset their thermometers early in the morning.

What I find interesting is that Hansen’s adjustments have been getting exponentially larger, based on the assumption that people are getting exponentially more gullible.

The official temperature is 98 degrees. The highest I measured on my bike was 92 degrees. The Weather Underground map has a 15 degree spread over two miles, yet Phil Jones was able to determine the southern hemisphere temperature in 1850 to a precision of 0.001 degrees – from a single thermometer in New Zealand. Ain’t climate science grand?

BTW – The Google Chrome spell checker is unfamiliar with the word “Zealand”

I’m headed out for a 700 foot hill climb on my bicycle.

I’m guessing that the 107F reading is probably bogus.