Reading the publications of Romm/Guardian/Hansen and elsewhere, it is clear that there is a certain segment of the population who believe that any form of weather is a sign of human effects on the climate.
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The professor realized that the people were right but could not admit to that. He though it better to continue the procession under the illusion that anyone who couldn’t see the imaginary climate crisis was either stupid or incompetent.
China has just passed the US as the world’s #1 producer of CO2.
Under Hansen’s definition, a country is valued based on their CO2 rhetoric.
According to the new results, the annual world average sea level rise is about 1 millimeter, or about 0.04 of an inch.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-satellites-reveal-differences-sea.html
These new numbers are in line with NOAA tide gauge data.
The low end of IPCC forecasts is about double that at 1.9 mm/year. Hansen has been talking about 30+ mm/year. Once again the experts demonstrate that they have no clue what they are talking about.
This data and tide gauge data also blow away any credibility to claims of ice sheet meltdown. Is there anything left for the scamsters to cling to?
h/t to reader Green Sand
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HadCRUT just released their October numbers, and show eight out of ten months this year below 1998. Only January and March were a little warmer than 1998.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AO21Q20101125
NOAA tide gauges located on islands show an average rise rate of 1.22 mm per year, or less than five inches per century.
In the early 1980s I was working on the Safety Analysis Report for the DOE’s nuclear waste site near Carlsbad, New Mexico (WIPP.)
One day my bosses’ boss came in to my office and said “You guys are doing great work. Keep it up. Just make sure that you don’t report anything that hurts the project.”
I quit the next day and instead spent the summer working as a wilderness ranger for the USFS.
Climate scientists have been quoted in the press saying that sea level rise rates have doubled, and that sea level rise rates are occurring near the high end of IPCC forecasts.
Yet NOAA tide gauge data shows little or no statistically significant change in the rate of sea level rise. It is nearly identical to what it was one hundred years ago.
Is there any reason to believe that tide gauges (like tree rings) are no longer producing accurate information?
