I’m proud to be a part of this second one hour long special report done by KUSI-TV and veteran TV meteorologist John Coleman. John is, in my opinion, the “Walter Cronkite of television weather”. His demeanor, humor, and delivery is reminiscent of that extraordinary television journalist.
I traveled to San Diego last week to tape my segment, and while I was there, I asked a few people I met at the TV station and at a restaurant what they thought about the first special last month. I was surprised to learn that the positive supporting comments far outnumbered the negative ones.
I also learned that the first special in January gave the station its highest rating ever for a one hour news report, so it is no surprise that they’d want to repeat that success. On a personal note, my entire taped presentation is not included here, and was edited for time. The end part where I refute NCDC didn’t make the final cut, perhaps the producer thought it too technical due to the graph of TOBS, FILNET, and RAW data that I used to show that NCDC’s claims about a cooling trend in poorly sited station doesn’t hold up. However, KUSI will make all the taped interviews available in their entirety, and I’ll post links to them when they are available for all to see. I should note that I don’t agree with the broad statement made in the video that “CO2 has no effect”. It does, but the magnitude of the direct effect and the feedback effects is disputed.
*The first KUSI program from January, “Global Warming: The Other Side”, can be viewed at:
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/81583352.html
Additional footage and unedited full length interviews from that program are available here:
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner
Here is all of the latest program, which aired Thursday Feb 18th, at 9PM PST:
Part one:
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
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Looks like the ball will get knocked out of the park, again!
I also made a page with all the video, text, links.
http://simonfiliatrault.blogspot.com/2010/02/global-warming-meltdown-video.html
Consider it devoured.
Thanks Anthony, you did a good job on KUSI (and on KFI).
Very well done Anthony, you may be the next “scientific superstar” 🙂
Any chance of putting this on some service that allows single segment one-hour programs? I have been using blip.tv, but there are others.
Thanks
JK
Great job, Anthony. Thank you. What a learning opportunity to use this site and in the process being equipped to spread the truth. I love..
Wish I could see it in China. Youtube has been officially blocked for some time and your Wattsupwiththat.com is also. Additionally, Climateaudit.org is similarly forbidden (blocked) and the “Great Firewall” here denies legitimate access to both blogs. Getting around it renders any video links or direct connection to Youtube too choppy as being useless due to the circuitous route it must travel. Curiously, over at Real Climate it is “wide open” (not blocked) so that is somewhat telling as to the message these folks want the minions to hear.
Great work, a devastating testimony!
The surface station findings are a real AGW killer.
Last Friday President Obama, who publicly stated that he will stop the rise of the oceans and control the earth’s thermostat by a margin of 2 degree Celsius, gave his views on the recent weather events.
Lubos Motl comments Obama’s profound knowledge of our climate system.
with this remark: “everything you say about the behavior of the climate is nonsense” Ouch!!!
http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/02/nas-cicerone-criticizes-ipcc.html
It would have been nice if John Coleman would have commented the President who is quickly becoming “President Liar”.
But maybe this is something to address in “Part Three” as Obama, despite all the fraud continues his quest against CO2:
http://www.heliogenic.net/2010/02/20/obama-to-use-nepa-as-well-as-epa-to-strangle-the-economy/
At the same time Alan Caruba is one step ahead of the developments and speaks of AGW as a scam from the past, time to make an inventory of the costs of the fraud:
Multi Billion Dollar Global Warming Fraud:
“As the massive global warming fraud implodes, the one aspect of it that has not been explored in depth is the equally massive waste of billions of dollars spent by the United States and nations around the world, we were told, to avoid global warming”.
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/02/multi-billion-dollar-global-warming.html
the first special in January gave the station its highest rating ever for a one hour news report
I wonder what the ratings would be for a Nation wide show like this in prime time?
At around 6 minutes in part 4 above, John Coleman says this:
The first statement is a claim but I doubt that it’s true.
Whether we understand our climate well enough is definitely up for question – with the many inter-related cause and effects. But I doubt that John Coleman understands the “greenhouse” theory.
First, every explanation of the “greenhouse” effect agrees that water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas. But Coleman implies that this somehow creates a problem for the theory. So he doesn’t understand what the theory claims. It’s very basic.
Second, the theory of absorption and re-emission of longwave radiation by the various trace gases is a very well understood theory. And yes, understood for more than a century. Check out CO2- An insignificant trace gas – Part One. Or maybe Part Five where you can see the detailed mathematical solutions to the physics equations going back many decades.
In fact, I was a little confused because on the one hand Coleman implies the theory is in some way in doubt, but on the other hand followed it up with “water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas”. So is the “greenhouse” effect not really true, or in doubt? Or is it true and water vapor is more significant than CO2? (Everyone in climate science would agree).
Many studies have identified the ratio between CO2 and water vapor as around 25% for CO2 and 60% for water vapor. That still makes CO2 not insignificant.
And who are these expert reviewers for the IPCC who think that the greenhouse theory is in doubt?
Lindzen, Spencer, Christy – all believe the theory. But they also believe that the climate is very complex. That’s the source of their “disagreements” with IPCC science. Who is he talking about?
Well, we all agree it’s important for the IPCC to be accurate.
I think it’s important for an influential presentation like this to be accurate. But on this point, it’s not.
I had already seen this today Sir Anthony in tape #7 if I recall.
Bravo Anthony, but I thought Christy had the best line.
An interesting winter report from Joseph D’Aleo:
Record Setting AO and SOI combo creates a wild winter
Download the PDF here
http://www.icecap.us (first column)
Good work John Coleman and Anthony Watts! Great show. I enjoyed this one much more than the last global warming special. Coleman was able to successfully integrate a wide array of diverse viewpoints and opinions which is really difficult to do on such a complex topic. There was never a dull moment.
The only part that confused me was during the segment when the protester shouted that Coleman was going to sue Al Gore but then Coleman commented that it wasn’t the case. Coleman should have explained why he no longer plans to sue Al Gore because it was widely reported in the mainstream news media a couple of years ago:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337710,00.html
scienceofdoom (17:29:14)
If the greenhouse theory implemented in computer model fail to predict the current climate conditions already after only a few short years.
That means for me the greenhouse theory is not well understood no matter how old it is and how many scientists think they know.
love the planet earth clips – that’s 4 million well-pissed away, for sure. if the green movement was more of that kind of stuff i’d be much more supportive. (nuclear power.)
Slightly off topic Anthony, but you might want to check out a lecture by Gary Taubes who wrote “Good Calories, Bad Calories”:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=21216
It’s very interesting to see the similarities between the AGW hypothesis and the low-fat hypothesis put out for the past 30 years by government sources. We’ve managed to so far avoid the threat of civilization stumping carbon restriction, but as a society we’ve suffered greatly from the admonition to eat high-fiber, low-fat, low-calorie, lots of bread and grains. I’d be very interested in your take on Gary Taubes’ work.
Anthony,
I watched it last night, and have one question – did you shave the moustache off for this one ? Otherwise great presentation by John Coleman and saved me the time of working out what the current state of play is. Incidentally our Australian Greeny organisations are having a talkfest to plan strategy on how to deal with us – apparently ignoring us hasn’t worked. Andrew Bolt has it all on his blog.
Thumbs up from us down in OZ
off topic:
Note that the Atlanta Progressive News now officially admits it ignores objective reality. You have to admire their frankness about the state of modern media. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2010/02/15/atlanta-progressive-news-fires-reporter-for-trying-to-be-objective/
John Coleman is convinced.
The primary climate driver is our sun, not CO2
This article I found on Joe Bastari’s Blog supports his vision:
http://errortheory.blogspot.com/2008/04/ocean-oscillations-are-not-masking.html
20 Feb: EU Referendum: Richard North: How green is my golf course?
The ownership is reported today by the Indian newspaper the Mail Today which tells us that R K Pachauri’s “not-for-profit” TERI – imbued with a mission to “work towards global sustainable development, creating innovative solutions for a better tomorrow” – is the proud owner of a water-guzzling nine hole golf course in Gual Pahari on the outskirts of Gurgaon a satellite town to the southwest of New Delhi…
But with the golf course and environs requiring up to 300,000 gallons a day during the summer to keep the lush greenery in condition (pictured above), questions are being asked about the sustainability of the facility, which would have difficulty in meeting the volume required solely from harvested water.
This is especially an issue in Delhi, where water shortage is a major a problem, and more so in Gurgaon…
And for those who are not too keen on golf, there is the world class “TERI Oval” cricket green for gentle recreation. Failing that, there is always the badminton green.
But this is not what most people had in mind when they describe Dr Pachauri and his institute as “green”.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-green-is-my-golf-course.html
20 Feb: UK Tele: £60m bill for the CO2 of our political class
We pay billions of dollars to Asian countries for the right to continue emitting CO2 here in the West , says Christopher Booker.
The Government has contracted to buy these credits, mainly available from China and India, through 10 British and foreign companies, including Barclays Bank and a branch of J P Morgan rather oddly situated in a back street in Oxford. ..
The story then becomes even more bizarre. The contracts with Barclays, J P Morgan and co – who will retain up to £9 million in commissions – will be used to buy Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) credits under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) set up under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. ..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7280348/60m-bill-for-the-CO2-of-our-political-class.html
UK Times: Ben Webster: Drax suspends plan to replace coal with greener fuel
Britain’s biggest power station has suspended its plan to replace coal with greener fuel, leaving the Government little chance of meeting its target for renewable energy…
Drax is also one of dozens of companies delaying investments in new biomass power stations because of uncertainty over the Government’s policy on long-term subsidies. Hundreds of farmers growing biomass crops may now struggle to sell their produce…
Drax has bought two million tonnes of biomass, but Ms Thompson said that it was considering selling it overseas because it no longer made economic sense to burn it in its six boilers…
Each megawatt hour of electricity costs Drax £31 to produce from coal and £40 from biomass….
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7032738.ece
18 Feb: Tulsa Today: Oklahoma Climatological Survey Strangely Mum
by David Deming (a geologist, an associate professor of arts and sciences at the University of Oklahoma)
When I testified before the United States Senate on December 6, 2006, I stated that the public was “vastly misinformed” on global warming and that “there is no sound scientific basis for predicting future climate change with any degree of certainty.”
Looks like I was right. Since the Climategate scandal broke, the global warming hoax has collapsed like a house of rotten cards…
But the 2007 OCS proclamation explicitly predicted “warmer winters” and “fewer cold-air outbreaks and extremes.” The authors of the OCS report were wrong. The second half of 2009 was “exceptionally cool,” and last October was the coldest October in Oklahoma since recordkeeping began in the year 1895.
As a result of the misinformation provided by the OCS, Oklahoma was ill-prepared for the severe winter weather we are currently experiencing. Ironically, Ken Crawford (then state climatologist) was one of the people who publicly accused me of deliberately misinforming people.
Subsequently, there has been no apparent retraction or modification of the OCS’s misleading statement on climate change.
Why was Professor Deming, a geologist, able to get it right, while the professional climatologists got it wrong? The OCS report relied upon junk science produced by the IPCC. Political ideology was substituted for science. And intolerance produces bad science. If the meteorologists had listened to skeptics, they might have learned something. Instead, they closed their minds and asserted their pedantic authority. Now they are left with a shameful and embarrassing debacle. The people and State of Oklahoma would have been better served by constructive engagement and collaboration.
http://www.tulsatoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1601:oklahoma-climatological-survey-strangely-mum&catid=54:tulsa-speaks&Itemid=147
Christian Bultmann:
Lots of computer models have problems in lots of physics and engineering fields. It doesn’t mean that every individual equation in that model is wrong.
For example, the GCMs also include the momentum and heat balances in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the energy and water exchange between the two.
They don’t do a great job of modeling some of the ocean currents – like the “MOC” – meridional overturning circulation – which is the warmer water driven from the tropics to northern Europe due to density effects from temperature and salinty – a little on that subject at Predictability – With a pinch of Salt please..”
We could look at that GCM challenge and say:
Of course, everyone expects density and momentum to be accurately calculated so no one draws that conclusion.
If you see my point?
Well, it’s a surprise to many people, but CO2 is in a similar category of “well-understood science”.
Modeling the whole climate, well that’s another story.
I tried posting this on tips and notes thread but my internet keeps shutting down when I try to view it. So here it is.
I found an old document created for the UK’s DEFRA, which asks the UEA to create a climate ‘headline’. They consider food poisoning, even though they mention it likely isn’t due to climate change. They mention that grape yields aren’t related to climate change, but they should be used as an indicator because of a strong ‘public resonance’. They also mention another issue’s public resonance is “Low unless hyped up”. Full story here:
http://climatequotes.com/2010/02/20/uk-government-asked-uea-to-create-climate-%e2%80%98headline%e2%80%99/
“the 2000’s were the warmest temperatures in the history of earth!”
LoL
come on man…that’s pushin’ it