Comments on: NOAA: August 2008 is 39th warmest on record

By: Neo

Neo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:54:38 +0000

This is a company [Lehman Brothers] which had on its board, or so we are told, the ultimate snake oil salesman, James Hansen, the self-same company having ambitions of becoming "the primary brokerage for emission permits". Somehow, it is entirely fitting that a company which was looking to exploit the smoke and mirrors business of carbon trading should crash and burn.

Lehman Brothers .. died because of AGW .. who knew ? Are government employees allowed to sit on private sector boards ?

By: evanjones

evanjones — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:35:04 +0000

NASA has lost its climate credibility. The fact that they (mostly) don’t rely on satellite data always struck me as a little funny. Those unfamiliar with NASA/GISS seem unaware that they are just using heated-up NOAA surface data, which in turn, as we well know, has been called into serious question.

By: J. Peden

J. Peden — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:21:14 +0000

I sincerely hope this is just in the climate section and hasn’t filtered over to the space organization again. We don’t need to lose more space pioneers to human foolishness.

I literally wouldn’t trust NASA to change my oil, or even to check my tire pressures – and, fwiw, I just don’t need their diapers. What a bunch of abject losers NASA is, imo. Give me my money back. If I had practiced ER medicine like NASA/Hansen now thinks, many would have died and/or I wouldn’t have been in business for more than a few months. NASA, what a bunch of very especially despicable losers it has become: now Hansen and NASA, and NOAA, even want to kill off billions of people, in order to “save” them – naturally.

Imo, they should start with themselves.

By: FatBigot

FatBigot — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:02:17 +0000

“New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island had their eighth warmest summers”

Didn’t make it to New Jersey this year but when I passed through Rhode Island on my way from Boston to Mystic, CT, it was definitely the hottest, coldest and most average August day I have experienced in RI since 2004. Connecticut was very pleasant except when that rather rude Hanna lady came to call one Saturday evening and extinguished the ciggy I was enjoying on my friend’s patio.

By: evanjones

evanjones — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:38:22 +0000

Cold Goeth Before the Fall [This Cold, Sad August]

The climate this Fall [This August]
I don’t like at all, [I do not like]
My main squeeze [My girlfriend]
Is in a deep freeze. [Is so cold]
At the risk of being rude [And the humidity]
She just ain’t in the mood. [Is below average]
I complain a lot [I lament]
When she ain’t hot . . . [Without heat]
So I can get lusted [Where can I]
Where can I get her adjusted? [Get her adjusted]

By: Mike Bryant

Mike Bryant — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:32:31 +0000

Fernando,
Did you see the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”? When everything flash freezes, global warming will be the culprit. I heard there will be a sequel, “The Day After The Day After Tomorrow”.
It does not matter what happens, global warming is causing everything. Especially if it is hurting cute animals. Of course it helps mean and evil animals like snakes, spiders, crabs and sharks.

By: Fernando Mafili

Fernando Mafili — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:12:31 +0000

Mike Bryant:

Lord Voldemort….. Attacks Again

….The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming, experts say…..

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14724-antarctic-sea-ice-increases-despite-warming.html

By: Mike Bryant

Mike Bryant — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:43:00 +0000

George Mink III,
Take a deep breath, everyone here knows what is going on. This website is concerned with “Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts”. I am sure you agree that NCDCs announcement is puzzling. If he doesn’t post it, how can we comment on it?

By: George Bruce

George Bruce — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:30:31 +0000

I am in Houston. My okra crop was pathetic. It was the same seed, same soil, plenty of water and nutrients. Okra loves hot weather and production slows if it is not hot. This year I got maybe 10% of last years yield.

By: George Mink III

George Mink III — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:05:59 +0000

Bull **** this was not all that warm.Only on land observations contaminated by heat-island warming at most airports as well as sprawling exburbs whose heat islands have grown big time all over the country in the last decade or two. Satelite observations tell a different story with near to slightly below for the whole summer as well as August.STOP posting such junk data by tainted land data on this site! This is not NCDC”S
website

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:54:45 +0000

Forgot the reference:
http://www.doas-bremen.de/

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:54:17 +0000

“The average August temperature was 73.2 degrees F, which is 0.4 degree above average.”
That, with the sulfate aerosols and ash above, evidences that we are all going to boil in a few months.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:29:10 +0000

peerreviewer: You must be rich to live in three states …

Anyway, further to my previous post, I was in Floriday in August, and was fallowing the weather before I went. It was cloudy and warm all month, rather than the usual Hot.

I think that this 74th coolest August must be based on the faulty surfase stations.

By: Bob B

Bob B — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:21:55 +0000

Anthony, the Science dude next door to you isn’t buying the surface stations could be in error. He thinks Dot Earth is just great.

http://sciencedude.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/12/has-santa-ana-been-reporting-wrong-temperatures-for-years/#comment-4710

By: peerreviewer

peerreviewer — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:58:43 +0000

something is very wrong

New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island had their eighth warmest summers

I live in those states. For the first in 20 years I did not turn on the air conditioner once. Something is very very wrong with the records