Real Climate Science

Last year around this time, Hansen was excitedly writing about the “record high temperatures.”

As an objective scientist in an important position of responsibility, there can be little doubt he shares the same enthusiasm this year about the cold.

This graph of outgoing longwave radiation shows that since April of 2009, space aliens have been stealing the Earth’s heat. Now we know where Trenberth’s missing heat is hiding.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/mjo/graphics/region.ts.dateline.gif

Fortunately, we have windmills in Ireland producing almost no electricity to compensate.

http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/windgeneration/

h/t to Baa Humbug

http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/data/amsu_daily_85N85S_ch05.r002.txt

Something interesting is happening with UAH satellite temperatures. Not only is March, 2011 the coldest since at least 2003 – but this is the only year where temperatures have been declining during March.

The blink comparator below shows changes in sea surface temperatures over the last two months. Two things which stand out are that La Nina is not as strong as it was, and that temperatures around Greenland have dropped considerably.

http://weather.unisys.com/archive/sst/sst_anom-110109.gif
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

h/t to Marc Morano

Too bad it was at the wrong end of the pitch.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110306/climate-change-impact-110306/

Geez – Why didn’t one of us deniers think of that? I just parrot whatever Rush Limbaugh says.

Maxwell Hughes, Vero Beach

Letter: A few questions for global warming deniers

The predicted effects of unchecked global warming are unpleasant, not the least of which are stronger hurricanes impacting my home. Although my mortgage is far from underwater, my physical home may become so.

What worries me is the increasing frequency with which otherwise rational people reject global warming. They reply with some sarcastic comment about how cold it is.

Thomas Friedman has identified three groups of global warming deniers: enterprises with a financial stake, such as oil and coal companies; the few scientists who say black is white on any issue; and those unwilling to deal with the consequences of acceptances (such as believing that controlling carbon dioxide emission will create significant economic hardship).

But my sense is that I am encountering denial based solely on political grounds. Ultimately, the source of the opinion is the likes of Rush Limbaugh, who knows nothing about science. This seems to then be coupled to the horrendous fallacy that if Al Gore promulgated the concern, it must be wrong.

So I want the deniers to ask themselves: Do you think the measurements that say the planet is warming up much faster than any prior long-term cyclical warming and cooling are wrong? Do you believe that atmospheric CO2 is not higher than in the past and that the readings of the data in ice cores are wrong? Or do you believe that atmospheric CO2 does not trap heat, leading to the “green house” effect?

If you believe any of these, are you willing to state that you disagree with the opinions of science academies the world over, and point out their errors? To help you, the web is replete with the opinions of the “white is black” scientists. The web also contains the consensus scientific opinion, but you can ignore that.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/mar/06/letter-a-few-questions-for-global-warming/

Like the Guardian, The LA Times appears unable to distinguish between a wave and rising sea level.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/

Sea level in LA hasn’t risen for 70 years, but I’m sure it is a very serious problem.

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9410660

h/t to Marc Morano

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