Here’s a chance to tell your congressperson not to waste more taxpayer money on repetitive services already handled by NCDC. This looks to be nothing more than a fast track press release service. Given how badly Tom Karl has handled PR in the past, such as the disastrous NCDC Climate Change Synthesis report with photoshopped images of floods that didn’t happen.
Image above taken directly from the CCSP report. Read more here
They had to hold the report to fix errors. I don’t expect this agency to be much better. – Anthony
From NOAA NEWS: Commerce Department Proposes Establishment of NOAA Climate Service
New office would target nation’s fast-accelerating climate information needs
NOAA launches www.climate.gov as portal for climate science and services
February 8, 2010
Individuals and decision-makers across widely diverse sectors – from agriculture to energy to transportation – increasingly are asking NOAA for information about climate change in order to make the best choices for their families, communities and businesses. To meet the rising tide of these requests, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the intent to create a NOAA Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together the agency’s strong climate science and service delivery capabilities.
NOAA responds to millions of annual requests for climate data vital to planning and operations. In vulnerable areas, infrastructure can be designed with a better understanding of projected sea-level rise, flooding and/or changes in hurricane frequency and intensity.
High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters. People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives.
“By providing critical planning information that our businesses and our communities need, NOAA Climate Service will help tackle head-on the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change,” said Secretary Locke. “In the process, we’ll discover new technologies, build new businesses and create new jobs.”
“Working closely with federal, regional, academic and other state and local government and private sector partners, the new NOAA Climate Service will build on our success transforming science into useable climate services,” said Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. “NOAA is committed to scientific integrity and transparency; we seek to advance science and strengthen product development and delivery through user engagement.”
Leaders from numerous public and private sector entities support the creation of NOAA Climate Service:
NOAA researchers collect climate data throughout the world. This data yields important clues about long-term global changes, improving predictions of climate variations in the shorter term, such as during cold spells and periods of drought, and over centuries.
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“Addressing climate change is one of our most pressing environmental challenges. Making climate science more easily accessible to all Americans will help us gain the consensus we need to move forward,” said Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy. “The new NOAA Climate Service is a welcome addition. It will help bring people together so we can also bring about an economic recovery by more rapidly modernizing our nation’s energy infrastructure.”
“NOAA has consistently led the world in climate research and observation,” said Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change. “Businesses, communities and governments will rely even more on its expertise and the critical information it provides to make informed decisions based on the best science available. Through NOAA’s improved climate services we will be better able to confront climate change, and the many challenges it presents for our environment, security, and economy.”
“The establishment of NOAA Climate Service will be an important step forward in helping the nation better understand and forecast the changing climate. The Navy’s Task Force Climate Change looks forward to working closely with NOAA Climate Service to ensure that both the nation and the Navy are best prepared for the future challenges posed by climate change,” said RADM Dave Titley, oceanographer of the Navy and director of the Navy’s Task Force Climate Change.
“NOAA’s reorganization to consolidate its formidable capabilities relating to climate science and services in a single office is an important step forward in the larger effort of harnessing relevant capabilities across all the executive branch agencies to help citizens and businesses plan for and cope with climate change,” said Shere Abbott, associate director for environment and energy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
To see what other leaders from government, business, science and environment are saying about NOAA Climate Service, and to get additional information, visit http://www.noaa.gov/climate.
Unifying NOAA’s climate capabilities under a single climate office will integrate the agency’s climate science and services and make them more accessible to NOAA partners and other users. Planning has been, and continues to be, shaped by input from NOAA employees and stakeholders across the country, with close consideration given to the recommendations of the NOAA Science Advisory Board, National Academies and National Academy of Public Administration.
NOAA Climate Service will encompass a core set of longstanding NOAA capabilities with proven success. The climate research, observations, modeling, predictions and assessments generated by NOAA’s top scientists – including Nobel Peace Prize award-winners – will continue to provide the scientific foundation for extensive on-the-ground climate services that respond to millions of requests annually for data and other critical information.
Thomas R. Karl, director of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, will serve as transitional director of NOAA Climate Service. New positions for six NOAA Regional Climate Services Directors will be announced soon and will provide regional leadership for integrating user engagement and on-the-ground service delivery within the Climate Service.
NOAA Launches Landmark Climate.gov Portal
NOAA is also unveiling today a new Web site – http://www.climate.gov – that serves as a single point-of-entry for NOAA’s extensive climate information, data, products and services. Known as the NOAA Climate Portal, the site addresses the needs of five broadly-defined user groups: decision makers and policy leaders, scientists and applications-oriented data users, educators, business users and the public.
Highlights of the portal include an interactive “climate dashboard” that shows a range of constantly updating climate datasets (e.g., temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and sea level) over adjustable time scales; the new climate science magazine ClimateWatch, featuring videos and articles of scientists discussing recent climate research and findings; and an array of data products and educational resources.
NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.
Ok I’m not American – so do US readers think this smacks of implementing an existing plan A – because ‘they’ never thought they would need a plan B? or, is this the Climategate response plan B? – to bolster the collapsing walls? We have a fully fledged Department for Energy and Climate Change here in old England, whose primary function seems to be to indoctrinate our children about the dangers of CO2 and shut down our reliable coal fired power stations (we have lots of coal here, like you do). Short of an armed revolution, I despair of our politicians admitting the thinness of the consensus AGW ‘science’ and allowing a realistic reassessment of our energy supply needs (when the wind doesn’t blow). Sorry to be down but the war isn’t won yet.
Add “robust” to the list.
plenty of graphs in here…excerpt at end of piece:
GISS manipulates climate data in Mackay, (Queensland Australia)
By kenskingdom
Another Smoking Gun from Australia? How GISS adjusts temperature records in two adjacent sites
They are allowed this manipulation simply because GHCN has declared at some stage “Mackay Sugar Mill Station” (Te Kowai) to be a “small town”, with a population of 35,000. Exactly the same population as Mackay.
Well, actually it’s surrounded by cane fields which have not changed much for the last 130 years, is about 7 km from Mackay and 2.5km from the nearest suburb (Ooralea).
There are 2 or 3 buildings around it for the manager, greenhouses, and laboratories, and its population on a good day might be… 10.
This has allowed them to adjust its data, when other rural sites are not adjusted. It also allows them to NOT include the pre-1950 data from Te Kowai with the other rural stations, when adjusting Mackay’s data.
Why do I suspect this is deliberate? Because the Te Kowai GHCN data ends in 1992, just like all the other rural stations in this area. It was once classified as rural.
What would be the reason for this adjustment? Who knows, but the effects are obvious:
» Early warmer temperatures are artificially cooled.
» These two stations now have an extra warming trend and now do their bit to support the warming trend at the other 2,300 stations worldwide.
And it’s happening in my own backyard! I’m furious!
http://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/giss-manipulates-climate-data-in-mackay/
In the near future, it will be renamed; THE GREEN POLICE.
“NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment…”
Would that that were the case. If there weren’t so many recent incidents showing that they know how to play the funding system as “independent” groups then there wouldn’t have been much of a case for their combination. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Keep guarding us M&M&W (had to add the Watts on the end, of course).
So when I get a puddle in my backyard, should I be reporting this to the NOAA ? It could very well indicate sea level rise seeping through my sod.
Come to think of it, there’s seems to be more birds than usual eating from my bird feeder these days too. Surely it has some relation to AGW ?
NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.
Come on guys, stop being so bashful. You’re infallible, why pretend otherwise? You’ve settled the Science. Job done. No further studies required.
Any concrete plans for your second careers yet?
NOAA blink gif, raw vs adjusted data: click
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The warming over the last century is surely exaggerated. It might not even exist.
Who really knows?
Legislation may not be needed to create this bureaucratic mess, but it certain will require budget and appropriations language. We should not look a gift horse in the mouth — once the Republicans take back the House — having all of the alarmists in one agency will make it much easier to zero fund and then RIF them. Digging them out of the larger agencies would have taken a generation.
Mosh was credited with naming it the
Piltdown Mansion.
It was photoshooped and used to sell flood insurance.
More like climate disservices.
Dr Robert:
Here:
http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/2009/articles/short-term-cooling-on-a-warming-planet/4
Interesting that the quote:
‘“When you’re in a court of law, you have to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The people who have been focusing on the ‘cooling’ have not been telling the whole truth,”’
Should appear right below the picture of sea-ice extent. Wonder why they didn’t include 2008 or 2009? (the article was written late Dec 2009) “Whole truth”?
If I hadn’t changed my political party registration before now, this announcement would have surely sent me over the edge. If they are getting requests up the yingyang for information on climate change, send a FOI their way and ask for those requests. I wanna see ’em.
In the mean time, I can only hope that the impending Democratic Party doom of midterm elections will keep our legislatures out of our pockets!
Publication of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce.
“U.S. Department of Commerce”
How convenient.
Our nation is running trillion dollar deficits – we simply can not afford this massive boondoggle! .
What is it about the words “STOP SPENDING” that our government doesn’t understand!!
O/T but great to see ex-IPCC chairman Rob Watson taking an absolute pasting on the BBC’s Daily Politics show today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8504300.stm
The interviewer Andrew Neil had clearly been reading WUWT and other sceptical blogs. Great stuff.
“And for the inauguration of this new Agency, which will go a long way toward helping us to Protect our Climate – please welcome – former Vice President Al Gore!”
Some of the wind turbines freeze-up…
“Minnesota wind turbines won’t work in cold weather”
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/30/minnesota-wind-turbines-wont-work-in-cold-weather/
There were some that froze in the UK, but I can’t find that link again…
re: short term cooling on a warming planet.
Good gawd. Climate scientists should be required to earn their meteorology degree (MA, not BS) before earning anything related to climate credentials. The stuff they attribute to climate and not rightly to natural short and long term weather pattern variation leaves me dumbstruck.
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Ok I’m not American – so do US readers think this smacks of implementing an existing plan A – because ‘they’ never thought they would need a plan B? or, is this the Climategate response plan B? – to bolster the collapsing walls?
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It’s plan B. Plan A was COP15. COP15 wasn’t a compete failure. It prevented the Cap and Trade business from falling apart completely. But COP15 really didn’t reach the goals the greens had wanted from it.
Anyway, this is what Obama means when he says he needs to “Better educate the public”.
What Mr. Obama may not realize is the public will be educating him and his friends in the near future.
I’m sure Lisa Jackson over at EPA is just tickled pink over this. She will be able to point to NOAA for justification of more taxes and regulations instead of that nasty old guy Pachauri. They are on the same team right? NOAA, EPA, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Sierra Club, GreenPeace. A real dream team. Yessir, those pia skeptics are toast, alrighty.
“Making climate science more easily accessible to all Americans will help us gain the consensus we need to move forward.”
Translation: Increasing the coverage of climate change propaganda will result in almost all Americans believing in man-made climate change and its catastrophic consequences, and will result in a consensus that we need to cripple our economy by drastically reducing or eliminating the use of fossil fuels and transfer much of our wealth to developing countries so that they can develop without fossil fuels. Pay no attention if the developing countries continue to ramp up use of fossil fuels.
I really think NOAA did this to give Sue Solomon her own agency to head up
This will be another organization that will have a built in negative incentive against objectivity. Any facts that point to natural climate change or no climate change will jeopardize the organization’s existence.
And to replace the “The New Colossus” plaque at the Statue of Liberty, a short snippet from an earlier work:
“Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here”