Anchorage's record setting cold summer

Funny thing about this summer in Anchorage is that I remember the really nice days from May and June and quickly forget the cold wet days. So my anecdotal assessment of the summer is that it’s been pretty nice. Compare my anecdotal weather reporting to the data and guess which one comes up short?
It reminds me of the phrase “the plural of anecdote is not data!” 🙂
Anchorage reports official temperatures at the Ted Stevens International Airport. I haven’t taken the time to give it a surface station once over, but even if it comes up clean with respect to microsite effects it certainly is influenced by Anchorage’s UHI. The daily high temp could be biased high as a result. Rather than looking at the daily high temperaures it would be informative to look at the number of degree heating days.

As ever the retired engineer strikes a chord with me (h/t to you sir)
Let’s get real here folks:
1). The amount of money going into supporting the AGW debate vastly outweighs that going into the sceptic community
2). It is hugely politically incorrect to question the ‘consensus’ – just look at what went on with the “Great Global Warming Swindle” – any scientist who dares to put his head above the parapet or who dares to be associated with the sceptic community cannot expect to continue with life as normal
Sun Tzu also wrote:
i) Reckon before a battle; Know the Enemy and Know Yourself
ii) Find out the enemy situation first and then victory will be yours
iii) Win victory by modifying your tactics in accordance with changes in enemy conditions
iv) Move when it is to your advantage – act when success is certain
v) Concentrate your forces against the enemy and seize the right moment to act
I wonder, therfore, whether the time to start placing ads is now?
I am kind of with Stan’s post – Anthony is doing a great job with this as is Steve McIntyre at CA but I do feel there could be a use for a website that summarises the key findings to date from a sceptical point of view. I have some thoughts if people are interested.

Kornsnö (Snow Grain is the official English term, at least when it comes to aviation weather) is actually convective. Typically it occurs when you have low clouds with freezing temperatures near the cloud tops. When the sun heats the clouds convective movement starts and carries cloud drops up above the freezing level where they first supercool and then freeze. Swedish meteorologists call it “fikasnö” (Cofee-break snow) because it typically starts at 9-10 AM, traditional coffee-break time in Sweden. It also indicates very bad icing conditions aloft.

AGW is, as Algore says, the greatest crisis facing the world, not,of course for the reasons he proposes, but because it represents the ultimate example of the use of crisis hysteria and junk science to advance a political agenda. The danger lies in the success the AGW propagandizers have had in making this illusory climate crisis accepted conventional wisdom throughout the world. As a result, governments, businesses, educational institutions, and virtually all of world society is proceeding headlong to implement programs with virtually no possibility of positive effect and incredibly high probability of massively negative outcomes for human prosperity, human freedom and human life.
The AGW debate has never been driven by science, but by politics and I believe the only way that reason can prevail in this literally life or death debate is for the webs of collusion, both political and financial, which connect the leading purveyors this complex fraud to be brought to light and broadcast widely and repeatedly. Unfortunately almost all of the world’s institutions capable of performing such a task are firmly in the thrall of the AGW propagandists, although perhaps a series of well produced and documented videos on YouTube could get the ball rolling. The crowds there seem to have a predilection for conspiracy theories, though they seem to favor money grubbing capitalists as their preferred villains, which is interesting in itself, since almost all the successful conspiracies of history have been perpetrated by virulent anti-capitalists. Admittedly this approach has great peril for reducing the debate to competing ad hominems, a style of argument that I abhor, but twenty years of rational argument based on evidence has had little apparent effect on the Greyhound bus bearing down on the prospects for our future. I fear the the target audience lacks the intellectual sophistication to evaluate the scientific evidence given the easy acceptance of the “settled science” claim regarding climatology, a science so unsettled that, by comparison, psychology looks like plane geometry, which makes adapting the detested tactics of the adversary more acceptable, to me at least, since the consequences of the continuing precedence of the AGW illusion poses such an extreme threat to our and everyone else’s future.

I think an ad is an excellent idea. I’m good for $100.00. I would enjoy a sentence / paragraph /point competition.

So far, 22 days out of 28 days in July the average daily temperature has been below that of last year. That is, 79% of the time, we have been colder than last year. And 2007 was colder than 2006. We are going to have a cold, long, wet winter. By the way, my bats are abandoning their babies just like I thought they might. When they fledge, they don’t have the strength to fly from the roost and are instead falling onto the attic floor because they are underfed and small for their age. They never make it into the air again. Another farmer confirmed that the same thing is happening where his bats roost.

Perhaps money would be better spent on a TOMA (to of mind awareness) campaign of banner ads. These ads could have a grabber headline something like “The Truth is Out there” or such, something that many people might find familiar. Then the ad would direct them to this site and Climate Audit with the encouragement that the debate is not over and to judge for themselves. You could flood different markets and media with this campaign over a longer period of time. Every advertising exec knows that the average joe can be persuaded if he sees and hears something often and long enough. Keep telling them to go check the sites out for themselves and they eventually will. This approach also eliminates any rebuttal argument over the wording or content of a press release or article. Just get more people to these two sites and things will happen.

Interestingly, Yahoo news has a story today about the arctic having an unusually warm autumn (as predicted by this article) but I don’t recall them reporting on the cool Alaskan summer. How many people, do you think, realize they are only reporting half the story.
I’d be curious to know if Alaska also is having a warm autumn

“Al Gore said over the weekend that global warming is more serious than terrorism. Unless the terrorist is on your plane, then that extra half a degree doesn’t bother you so much.” –Jay Leno
“Governor Schwarzenegger spoke about the dangers of global warming. Schwarzenegger’s exact words were: fire, hot, bad.” –Conan O’Brien
“According to a new U.N. report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.” –Jay Leno