Real Climate Science

Chris Landsea, chief scientist at the National Hurricane Center, resigned from the IPCC in 2005. He objected to the poor science and politics behind the IPCC hurricane claims.

I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound. As the IPCC leadership has seen no wrong in Dr. Trenberth’s actions and have retained him as a Lead Author for the AR4, I have decided to no longer participate in the IPCC AR4.

Continue reading →

Vicki Pope hinted she was going to push HadCRUT past 1998 before the year is over. This would be quite quite a challenge under present circumstances.

They already slipped one through under the radar in July. Are we going to see a December surprise?

http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp8.html

A cold snap under way this month in Britain and elsewhere in northern Europe was unusual, but it will do little to alter global average temperatures for the year, said James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “This regional cold spell has caused widespread commentary that global warming has ended,” Dr. Hansen said. “That is hardly the case.”

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/

Perhaps he lacks Internet access? Somehow he missed the entire southern hemisphere, Russia, Canada and the United States – including Pennsylvania where he lives.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/ANIM/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.29.gif

Looks like Portugal and Ireland are the only European countries not expecting snow.

http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/next3to6days/snow

Hansen : April 0.75, November 0.74

RSS shows a different story. April 0.546, November 0.312.

Tropical temperatures have dropped 2-4 degrees. How did Hansen miss the La Niña?

“My position is the mainstream one, backed up by decades of research,” Dessler wrote on the blog. “This mainstream theory is quite successful at simulating almost all of the aspects of ENSO.

http://www.nytimes.com/

Complete nonsense. Last year at this time, none of the models forecast a La Niña in 2010. Instead, we are having the strongest La Niña on record. They can’t forecast ENSO for six months, much less for 100 years.

http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/

The graph below overlays actual in black vs. forecasts.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/klaus.wolter/MEI/

As if Mother Nature could care less what these deluded morons talk about. Why are we having to pay for this?

Obama may well make this happen in the US through economic collapse. Evo will be proud, though I am sure he will complain it didn’t go far enough.

Elections have consequences.

“‘Cloud feedback’ will play major role in global warming: Study”

http://sify.com/news/cloud-feedback-will-play-major-role-in-global-warming

However ….

A small negative feedback is possible

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6010/1523.short

You can’t make this stuff up …..