I’ve watched part 4, which had an early release. The video is cheering, and supported with a multitude of graphics and interviews. “Chiefio” aka E.M. Smith and Joe D’Aleo make strong appearances.
Here is the KUSI introduction:
A computer programmer named E. Michael Smith and a Certified Consulting Meteorologist named Joseph D’Aleo join the program to tell us about their breakthrough investigation into the manipulations of data at the NASA Goddard Science and Space Institute at Columbia University in New York and the NOAA National Climate Data Center in Ashville, North Carolina.
E. Michael Smith kept a blog of his findings. See his site by clicking here.
Joe D’Aleo has written a detailed report on the findings. It is available here .
I have written a blog about this important climate news development. It is available by clicking here.
D’Aleo wrote an outstanding article on Climategate. It is available here.
You can read about the English Climategate leaked or hacked files at the Anglia University Climate Center at this newspaper site.
And, there is a US connection with the original Climategate, as well. Professor Michael Mann, of Penn State University, is in the middle of it. Here is the latest on it.
All five parts of the video are now online.
Click below to watch each segment of the KUSI Special Report, Global Warming: The Other Side
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E. Michael Smith is one of the brightest, most communicative persons I have ever interviewed. (I have been doing TV for 55 years and done thousands of interviews)
I wish I could put him on Tv for a hour so he could really help us undestand the real interworkings of Gistemp and the NASA/GISS and NOAA/NCDC inner-related layers of programs. He has spent a thousand hours or more finding his way through the layers and getting into the detailed systems. I want to know more.
Meanwhile, I apologize for the honorary Ph.D. for Lord Monckton. It was an error by the Producer that I failed to notice before the program aired. It was not the only error.
I accept the critical remarks of the writers on this website. I am simply an old school, TV Meteorologist, 75 years old with failing eye sight that makes reading the prompter tough. I wrote the entire script and accept blame for contemp errors.
On the other hand the program was a huge success as measured by the rules of my world. The 4.6 rating beat 30 Rock and was the highest rating of the ENTIRE WEEEK for KUSI. Our website has had over a million hits by people viewing the video. Numerous stations in other markets have asked re-transmission rights which is being granted.
After all these years my skin is hypo thick. Let me have it. I appreciate the points of complaint and will use them to guide me next time and am not offended by the cuts.
[Reply: Many thanks for all your hard work on creating the program John. Congratulations on its success from all at wattsupwiththat]
John Coleman (23:03:08) :
Many thanks for the courageous effort, and want to urge even more. I sincerely hope KUSI agrees.
John Coleman (23:03:08) :
Thank you John for putting the documentary together, it does a good job explaing the subject for the layman. I agree with you on E. Michael Smith, he was very informative and was able to explain the material clear and concise.
John, some of the best parts included interviews on the street. In the future consider doing more of these and then have experts respond to them (or take Lord Monckton along with you). The myths on the street are the ones that need the most attention. We can talk for days about all of the details and people will still believe that recycling and using less energy will solve “global warming”.
A great segment would be asking people if they are reducing their carbon footprint by using less electricity in an area that uses nuclear power, such as the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in your area.
John Coleman: Your doc. was perfect for the audience you spoke to—the man/woman on the street. A brave effort by an independent station not bound by the diktats from New York/Los Angeles.
John Coleman (23:03:08) : E. Michael Smith is one of the brightest, most communicative persons I have ever interviewed.
BLUSH! I just do what I can to share what I know. But thank you for the kind words.
I wish I could put him on Tv for a hour so he could really help us understand
Any time you have a use for me, you know where I can be reached.
I wrote the entire script and accept blame for contemp errors.
Well, the script was very good. I’ve had a couple of folks sit up and take notice after seeing it. I was pleasantly surprised to see that you had the political and social connections in it as well (i.e. Maurice Strong et. al.)
Just a nicely balanced package of all the issues in an accessable form.
And while we, here, have had a few years to ‘come up to speed’ on the technical trivia, you had the gap between two deadlines! Frankly, you caught on to a lot of the complexity faster than most folks.
I must absolve you of one error, though. I stated “no thermometers” were in some N. Canada provences when I ought to have said “no thermometers NORTH of 65 Degrees”. I ‘self edited’ too sharply during taping. So if folks call up saying “But there IS a thermometer in Yukon!” they are right, and it was my error. (It is at the southern edge of Yukon near 60 ish degrees. My web page has the detail right and the effect is still the same.)
On the other hand the program was a huge success as measured by the rules of my world. The 4.6 rating beat 30 Rock and was the highest rating of the ENTIRE WEEEK for KUSI. Our website has had over a million hits by people viewing the video. Numerous stations in other markets have asked re-transmission rights which is being granted.
WOW. In media terms, that’s a home run!
For what it’s worth, If I’d been doing the editing, I’d have likely left in the New Zealand example. It is striking. Campbell Island (again, from memory) was the most southern and coldest island location. It is deleted from the recent temperatures but left in the baseline. Take it out of the baseline, too, and the “warming” of New Zealand goes away.
I think a very effective story could be made just showcasing the places where the local temperature record shows no warming. And contrasting with those that do. (Such as the New Mexico Rockies are taken out of the recent record, while Albaquerque is left in. Which is warmer? Yet the mountains to not get warmer over time…)
At any rate, given the “news” venue with the fast cycle times, I was very impressed at how much you managed to pack into one hour, while keeping it entertaining.
And I’d love to know where one goes to get that Walter Cronkite voice… 😉
Eric Smith – “Monckton seems to have a number of honours fom the Roman Catholic church, not the most freedom loving or democratic organisation in human history. ”
But the Catholic Church also believes in AGW. Are we now to throw out AGW because their belief in it? Your insinuation is that we must.
theenvirokid (20:21:30) :
@Theo Goodwin
Thanks for posting that, I dunno if it’s true, but why would I want to find out?
To many of us on WUWT, this response says it all about you ability to critically think.
Well done Mr. Coleman and Michael Smith! I’m glad the Chiefio is finally getting well-deserved publicity for his extremely important work.
Tucci (17:40:18) :
The issue lies not between Eric Smith’s “left” and “right” (both of which exhibit authoritarian characteristics), but rather between authoritarianism and individual liberty.
Those are some deep blog posts! I had to look a few wrds up. At my age I’m losing more words than I’m finding.
However, simplistically in my view of the battle raging across the global governments, the crux of the differences lies in individual ownership vs corporate and/or governments.
There are scores of aspects to this controversy. Why not tape episodes on a few of them, like the two above, even in advance of any commitment by the TV station to show them? Costs would be low if no fancy production values were included — i.e., if it were just a pair of talking heads, without any little quizzes at the end of each segment. Even if not broadcast, these episodes could serve as teasers or pilots or demos to tempt network executives to create a fuller production.
Forgive me if this has been talked about already and I’ve missed it but how are the computer models at NASA, NOAA, CRU et. al. handling the urban heat island effects? Has the algorithm or methodology been posted somewhere? A reasonable person would expect some kind of systematic reduction in the recorded temperatures to offset the artificially induced “warming” in the raw recorded temperature data.
BTW: Great work E.M. Smith and John Coleman
Has an analysis been made just using the cherry picked stations data over all time that this data is available? If so, where can I find this analysis?
I watched the first three films but all five will no longer play. I don’t think the failure to play is at my end. I would like to see the remaining two.
They are on YouTube now. Just search for John Coleman Global Warming The other side.
ExxonMobil, Shell and BPOil continue to this day to officially state on their official web sites that they agree with the science of the IPCC. ExxonMobil’s two lead scientists, Brian Flannery and Haroon Kheshgi, shared in the 2007 joint Nobel Peace Prize for their contributions to the IPCC science. Visit these corporate web sites and read it for yourself. You report, you decide.
This was taken from James Hansen’s website…”As a college student in Iowa, I was attracted to science and research by James Van Allen’s space science program in the physics and astronomy department. Since then, it only took me a decade or so to realize that the most exciting planetary research involves trying to understand the climate change on earth that will result from anthropogenic changes of the atmospheric composition.
“One of my research interests is radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres, especially interpreting remote sounding of the earth’s atmosphere and surface from satellites. Such data, appropriately analyzed, may provide one of our most effective ways to monitor and study global change on the earth. The hardest part is trying to influence the nature of the measurements obtained, so that the key information can be obtained.”
“changes that will result”, “influence the nature of the measurements obtained” Sounds like NASA’s Goddard Institute fellow James Hansen has his mind made up and is twisting data to match his BOGUS hypothesis…