Today NOAA officially announced www.climate.gov It didn’t take skeptics long to find a sin of omission. WUWT reader Dave N. pointed this one out to me.
Let’s start with the lecture to skeptics in the Dec 31st 2009 story “What the future may hold” which is an article about sea ice extent. The climate.gov website has been in “beta” for a couple of months. It was announced first on WUWT on December 2nd, 2009. There has been plenty of time to correct this story. The story states:
“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,”
It appears right below this graphic:
This NOAA.gov story for their new “ClimateWatch magazine”, is written by Michon Scott. It leaves out some important data that is obvious to everyone, skeptical or not.
The sea ice data, cited from NSIDC, stops in 2007. 2008 and 2009 sea ice data and imagery, available to even the simplest of curiosity seekers at the publicly available NSIDC or even Cryosphere Today websites, is not included in the graphic. Mr. Scott chooses the historical satellite record minimum of 2007 as the endpoint for comparison. This leaves a reader who is “not in the know”, with the false impression that sea ice has not recovered in any way.
Sometimes I wonder if these government types have any idea of just how blazingly stupid they look when they lecture skeptics, but purposely dig their own obvious data omission hole in the same article.
Here’s the 2008 and 2009 imagery. It took me all of about a minute of work to find it.
Above: Average, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Arctic sea ice extent. From NSIDC
Or how about Cryosphere Today, showing the 2008 and 2009 minimum days side by side?
You don’t need to work for NOAA to find this sea ice extent imagery.
There’s no excuse for NOAA not showing the 2008 and 2009 sea ice data or imagery in this story. None, zilch, zero, zip, nada.
Suffice it to say, this piece on www.climate.gov is propaganda with a lie of omission. It is not science because it omits a portion of the data that disagrees with the article’s premise.
So to Tom Karl, the new director of this machine, I use the again words written by your employee, Michon Scott with a single substitution.
“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 ‘warming’ have not been telling the whole truth,”
Rather than lecture us about “truth” while at the same time omitting data not in line with the premise of the article, I suggest that if NOAA is to have any credibility with this website, you should fix this omission and present the true and complete history of the sea ice record. The sooner the better.
For those that agree and wish to complain, a review of NOAA’s “Information Quality” policy might prove useful:
See it here: http://www.cio.noaa.gov/Policy_Programs/info_quality.html
For those who want to make the issue known to the newly appointed man in charge:
thomas.r.karl [at] noaa.gov
He might need a reminder that he works for us, not the other way around.
Don’t go all hard on him. In the GDR and the entire eastern bloc people had to read between the lines and give subtle signs so that the censors and snitches wouldn’t have a reason to arrest them. The sentences
“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,”
are just such a sign. It’s a red flag. Somebody inside NOAA uses the word TRUTH to point to glaring omissions and lies. It’s a code word. Why on earth would he otherwise place this preposterous exclamation right above a striking example of an al-gore-ianism?
In other words, look out for TRUTH, ROBUST, UNEQUIVOCAL EVIDENCE etc and you’ll find the weak spots.
@Henry-I want a President smarter than me, and I am pretty damn smart…
I want a president who has honesty and wisdom, who is a proven leader, who appreciates historic American values, and who has proven executive experience, which includes the ability to choose and listen to the advice of competent advisors. Demonstrating “smartness” while emoting in front of and audience might be useful if trying out for playing the role of President in a Hollywood move, but it doesn’t give much assurance of success in the actual job, as Mr. Obama seems to be proving.
J.Peden (20:05:58) :
So everyone just lie back and enjoy the Fantasyland with them, or else Karl might start threatening to commit suicide or something.
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Was that said with this in mind?
Phil Jones said…..he had thought about killing himself “several times”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7017922.ece
An Inconvenient Delay
Turns out the release was planned prepared ahead of the snowstorm, which shut federal agencies today (2/8/10) and forced its senders to hold a press conference by telephone instead of at the National Press Club.
And what release was that?
NOAA says, “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,” the release says.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/02/08/noaa-blizzard-rearranges-climate-change-announcement/
Henry,
Obama promised to “bankrupt” the coal industry and “make electricity prices skyrocket.” Is that centrist?
Obama said
“as the world’s largest economy … America bears our share of responsibility in addressing climate change.” Therefore, America must pay for the “financing that helps developing countries adapt, particularly the least-developed.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59345
OTOH
“REDDING, Calif.—Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called studies supporting global climate change a “bunch of snake oil science” Monday during a rare appearance in California, a state that has been at the forefront of environmental regulations. ”
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14361335
Who is the intelligent one?
D. Johnson-
You have that, get beyond Fox and Rush and you will be fine ,as will America. We are much better off with a smart centrist that a nonthinking Pres following delusional paranoids…
http://www.climate.gov/
Go to the main page and scroll down to the Global Climate Dashboard and you’ll see rising Sea Level and declining Arctic sea ice extent as if the two were somehow correlated (hello, Arctic *Ocean* sea ice??). All the others are also designed as if correlation equals causation. Red flags if you ask me. Certainly tried make it so between rising sea level and declining Arctic sea ice extent (which, btw, begs the question about the historical extent of Antarctica ice).
It’s an outrage that Obama has cut NASA’s space exploration budget in order to fund more of these crap climate change projects. Anthony, please make it stop. We’re all counting on you. Thanks 😉
Henry (21:52:06) :
This has nothing to do with political pegging, and everything to do with a sloppy effort at maintaining a policy rooted in a shell game of statistical mumbo jumbo.
They aren’t fooling anyone except those who want to believe in AGW.
In addition to a snow shovel, one now needs a PolyScience shovel to keep the driveway clear.
REPLY: Not intended to be cute. Like I said, anybody can get his email address in a few seconds of Googling. – A
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I don’t see a problem in knowing how to contact him. he doesn’t hide his email address. I can’t see why anyone would raise an objection to it being in this post, I can’t see why at all.
Also, my boss knows how to get in touch with me, he is supposed to be able to get in touch with me. The public is Tom Karl’s, and the NOAA’s boss. The public should be able to get in touch with them.
Steve Goddard (22:40:52) :
They will be carrying an audio tape of her in our nightly news. After that State of the Union speech, lots of folks want to hear what she has to say.
Climate Chat at 1 pm EST at
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/online-discussion-margaret-wente-on-climate-change/article1460602/#
The comment section is already being bombarded by “Thumb” skewers….
1, 2, 3, 4… The warmists have declared a Thumbs War…
Steve Goddard (22:40:52) :
What Obama is saying has the ring of Marxism to it.
NOAA says, “More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including…..longer growing seasons….”
They must have never talked to farmers.
rbateman (22:47:21) :
In addition to a snow shovel,
Is that for the ‘shovel ready’ snow in Washington? 20 more inches might be coming the next 2 days.
@SteveGoddard-
Obama just made clean coal one of his primary goals for next year, and he had $1 billion for the first clean coal plant in Southern Illinois in the stimulus package, but Repubs nixed it. Find some facts, please.
NASA wasted billions on Constellation and it was billions over budget with no end in sight, it missed replacing the shuttle the YEARS. We can’t go anywhere beyond the moon with humans until we fix the shielding problem anyway.
All you guys really want to be dependent on foreign oil? We do not have enough oil to do shit, but we are the Saudi Arabia of coal as Obama said at his town hall in NH last week. You guys really do need to get off the right wing websites and get the facts…
[snip]!!!!! Do you guys no anything? You are no better than Pachuri! Obama has REMOVED the carbon tax and the green stuff from the Energy bill, he knows it has zero chance of passage on its own. Obama killed climate change for this year, and likely next, last month. Do you guys even follow politics?
Folks, you need a little more of the old “Trust noone, question everything” mentality. No party is right, all news is spin. Go watch the real apeeches, listen to the real debates and get the facts. NEVER trust a website like this one without looking at the source material, and never trust anyone who send anything on the internet unless you have listened to the whole speech, in context.
It really is easy to do, just listen to the source, not the news about the source or statement, but the statement, itself, in context.
Marcia-
Actually, farmers in northern climes in the U.S. have been buying seeds meant for more southern growers, if they get lucky it is an easy way for them to increase yield. If they dont get lucky they get screwed and lose alot, unless of course they are insured by the Government who pays them as if they had a fine crop (farmers are one of the biggest beneficiaries of gov handouts, BTW) .
Noone has released the sales data yet, but I bet not many take the bet this year…
CRS, Dr. P.H.
If you look closely you’ll notice some differences the NSIDC graphic
you’re citing:
http://nsidc.org/images/arcticseaicenews/20100203_Figure1_thumb.png
and the one NASA has up right now:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/326193main_sup1seaicemax_full.jpg
You’ll notice a variance at the western coast of Greenland, around
New Foundland and northeast of Main, and the Bering Sea.
Sadly, neither shows the extra sea ice clogging up some of the
Chinese harbors and shipping lanes. It’s supposed to be a
once-in-30-years phenonmena.
[bridge too far ~ ctm]
[posting as multiple identities is prohibited ~ ctm]
Henry (21:21:34) :
J. Peden-
Go ask yourself, would any knowledgeable and well versed politician need a three line note to remember an answer to a question, a question that she she knew in ADVANCE?
Your claim is so extreme that it disproves itself, and it also shows a rather uncontrollable need to diss Palin, who is didn’t win and isn’t even the Governor of Alaska any more. So what’s the problem? Why is she such a threat to you?
I want a President smarter than me, and I am pretty damn smart…
Well, Obama backs Climate Science and Cap and Tax, while Palin and I don’t. Do you?
Henry (23:22:47) :
“Obama just made clean coal one of his primary goals for next year, and he had $1 billion for the first clean coal plant in Southern Illinois in the stimulus package, but Repubs nixed it. Find some facts, please.”
Henry, I found me some facts about FutureGen, the “clean coal” plant in S. Illinois otherwise known as “the biggest earmark in history.”
It’s not dead, but waiting on a decision by the DOE. Meanwhile, even the hopey-changey Illinois contingent appears to have at least some reservations about the spiraling cost and effectiveness of the project, the success of which apparently depends on how effectively the federal government can decimate the existing coal industry.
http://progressillinois.com/posts/content/2010/02/04/future-futuregen
Anyhow, Henry, you really should heed your own advice — about finding facts.
Facts can be found on
Data of Sea Ice Extent IARC-JAXA Information System
Yesterdays figure (8th february 2010) 13,498,906 km2
Please observe that 1th february 2010 The ice extant were 13,332,656 km2
24th december 11,894,531 km2