UPDATE: PBS Admits to a “mistake” on my point about Dr. Edward Teller’s signature see below…
Live chat on now – join in (ended, my two questions were ignored, as were many others.)
The producer and host of the “Climate of Doubt” Frontline program will be on a live chat at 1 p.m. ET. Good chance to challenge them on their omissions and misleading “reporting.”
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UPDATE: Here are two messages placed side by side from the live chat showing that PBS has reacted to my point about Dr. Edward Teller’s signature. Catherine Upin is a co-writer of the program:
No mention as to the rationale of the “late stage production decision” only that it was a mistake.
Glynn Mhor “I have to wonder why you believe that.” And JJ, Stephen Richards, catweazle666 and any others who asked about the Hiroshima figure.
Please excuse the typo, I meant 3 (three) Hiroshima bombs. This is based on data of ocean heat content from NODC. Here are the ARGO data for 0-2000 m, beforehand they used XBTs and other methods. The full data are available on the same website in netCDF.
http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/woa/DATA_ANALYSIS/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/DATA/basin/yearly_sl/a-mm-w0-2000m.dat
From the latest assessment of global heat by Nuccitelli et al, 2012, the radiative imbalance 2000-2008 (for which data are available) is equivalent to 0.5 W m^-2. Globally that’s about 255 TW or 3.35 Little Boys per second. I rounded down to 3.
In the period that Singer says ‘global warming stopped’, we have been gaining an enormous amount of energy, global warming clearly hasn’t ‘stopped’. Catweazle, I agree that there in the short term there are regions that will lose energy, but when talking about global warming we tend to look at global data.
MieScatter:
At October 27, 2012 at 7:28 am you say
No!
Others have tried that rhetorical trick here and have been refuted. Notably, Jan Perlw1tz has repeatedly tried it on. I will refute it again.
Warming consists of an increase in temperature.
Heating consists of an increase in heat.
Cooling consists of a decrease in temperature.
If temperature does not rise then there is no warming.
For example, the Arctic does not warm in Summer despite much heating because the heat melts ice with no resulting warming. The Arctic surface temperature reaches close to 0deg.C then stays at that temperature so no warming.
Global warming is an increase to the average temperature of the global surface.
About a third of monitoring sites show cooling over the last century, but nobody claims there was no global warming.
Starting from now one can reasonably ask how long a period one has to consider before global warming is seen to exist. The answer is 16 years ago. In other words the global temperature trend is such that there has been no global warming over the last 16 years.
So, global warming stopped 16 years ago whatever was the heat input since then.
Ricard