Catlin Artic Ice Survey bio telemetry status: “demonstrational”

14 04 2009

After being called out by WUWT on the fake biotelemtery readings presented as “live” but were actually from March 8th looping repeatedly, Team Catlin had changed the website to say:

“Biometrics – Data for March 8th 2009
Status: Operational”

This is what it originally showed:

catlin_bio_status

Now it says: Read the rest of this entry »





Gore’s “WE” campaign cap n’ trade call to action

14 04 2009

Repower America

I was recently forwarded this email from Al Gore’s WE Repower America website. They have a call to action based on their belief that a majority of Americans support carbon “cap and trade”, even though recent Gallup polls suggest Americans are otherwise preoccupied with things like their own economic survival.

WE suggests writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper to counter what they say: “misleading statements were repeated on TV and in newspapers across the country.”

Gosh.

Read the letter below. Read the rest of this entry »





GISS Global temperature anomaly – coldest March since 2000

14 04 2009

While I have reservations about the GISS dataset due to the many adjustments it endures, the GISS global temperature anomaly data for March 2009 has been published.

The March 2009 global anomaly is 0.47 °C,  making it the coldest March since the year 2000.

As Luboš Motl points out:

That is also colder than March 1990 and 1998, That puts March 2009 out of the “top ten”. Also, the March 2009 global mean temperature differed by 0.03 °C only from the March 1981 figure – from a month when the ENSO/ONI index was pretty much equal to the current value. This cherry-picked monthly comparison would suggest that there may have been 0.03 °C of warming in 30 years.

Another blogger, Lucia plotted long term GISS trends and got some interesting results.

  • 20 year (240 month) trends with end points going back in time and
  • Trends starting on Jan 1979 and ending “N” months ago. So, N=0 ends in March 09, N=1 ends in February 09 and so on.

Here they are: Read the rest of this entry »





Catlin Arctic Survey gives up on ice radar – “much less likely to reach pole”

14 04 2009
Arctic team gives up on ice radar

By David Shukman
Science and environment correspondent, BBC News

Arctic ice (Martin Hartley)

Use of the yellow Sprite radar has now been abandoned

Half-way through their expedition to survey the Arctic sea-ice, British explorers have been jinxed by yet more technical problems and are resorting to old-fashioned techniques to carry out research.

On Day 44 of the trek, both a radar device meant to measure the ice thickness and a satellite communications unit to relay the data are still not working – despite being brought back to the UK for repairs and then delivered to the team last week.

As a result, the explorers are now drilling more sampling holes than planned, which means they are progressing more slowly than hoped.

It now looks much less likely that the team will reach its destination of the North Pole. Read the rest of this entry »