Real Climate Science

There was no MWP according to our top climate researchers. What were the Vikings thinking of?

http://votumsolvit.com/2008/07/31/viking-hunting-outpost-on-greenland/

h/t to Scarlet Pumpernickel

http://thesouthern.com/

http://www.minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/

Sen. James Inhofe and some other politicians are claiming climate change is a hoax. In doing so they exhibit a striking disconnect with the vast majority of climate scientists who have devoted their lives to the subject.

For decades now those scientists have been warning us of damaging environmental consequences due to unrestrained emissions of greenhouse gases. Prestigious scientific bodies like the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Sciences have issued public statements to this effect. On the other hand, how many established scientific bodies have issued statements backing up Sen. Inhofe’s side of this “controversy?” Zero.

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According to our most honorable scientists, this never happened.

http://residualanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/diy-very-simple-hockey-stick.html

Daylight Savings Time chopped one hour off the weekend in the US, and to make matters worse, the Japan quake lopped off another 1.8 microseconds.

The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday (March 11) has shortened the length Earth’s day by a fraction and shifted how the planet’s mass is distributed.
A new analysis of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan has found that the intense temblor has accelerated Earth’s spin, shortening the length of the 24-hour day by 1.8 microseconds, according to geophysicist Richard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

http://www.cbsnews.com/

Why would government funded scientists want to raise taxes to keep their grant money coming in?

http://www.thenational.ae/

I thought it was supposed to be apes.

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/climate-change_2011-03-13.html

Exit from the ice age now tied to soccer moms 15,000 years later.

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/

h/t to Marc Morano

Weird times when the Catholic Church is more honest about science than the scientists are.

CARDINAL GEORGE PELL has rebuffed the head of the Bureau of Meteorology, who had said Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic was ”misled” in his views on global warming.

Dr Greg Ayers told a Senate estimates hearing last month that the Archbishop of Sydney’s argument against human-induced climate change was based heavily on a book by Ian Plimer, Heaven and Earth – Global Warming: The Missing Science, which had been discredited by members of the scientific community.

”The contents of the book are simply not scientific. I am concerned that the cardinal has been misled [by its contents],” the bureau director said.

But Cardinal Pell told the Herald the statements by Dr Ayers, an atmospheric scientist, were themselves unscientific. ”Ayers, when he spoke to the house, was obviously a hot-air specialist. I’ve rarely heard such an unscientific contribution.”

The cleric, who has questioned global warming in his Sunday newspaper column, even likened himself to the federal government’s climate adviser Ross Garnaut when he last week expressed disappointment that the public debate on climate change was often divorced from scientific quality, rigour and authority.

”I regret when a discussion of these things is not based on scientific fact,” Cardinal Pell said. ”I spend a lot of time studying this stuff.”

But Professor Garnaut had also said he was more certain the mainstream science supporting global warming was sound, and there was no ”genuine” scientific dissent.

Cardinal Pell argued against human-induced global warming in a written submission to the hearing, claiming increases in carbon dioxide tended to follow rises in temperature, not cause them. He also stated, based on Professor Plimer’s book, that temperatures were higher in Roman times and the Middle Ages.

http://www.smh.com.au/