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WUWT-TV Schedule November 14th & 15th
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Schedule:
| Senator James Inhofe (recorded intro) | 5:00 PST Nov 14 | Intro – whats next? | |
| Dr. Pat Michaels (live) | 5:10 PST Nov 14 | Lukewarmers, Hotheads & Flatliners | |
| Bob Tisdale (video) | 6PM PST Nov 14 | Sea Surface Temperatures/ENSO | |
| Chris Horner (live) | 7PM PST Nov 14 | Political angle, FOIA | |
| Dr. Ryan Maue (live) | 8PM PST Nov 14 | Hurricanes | |
| Steve Mosher & Tom Fuller (live) | 9PM PST Nov 14 | Climategate | |
| Dr. David Evans (live) | 10PM PST Nov 14 | The Skeptics Case | |
| Burt Rutan (recorded) | 11PM PST Nov 14 | Engineer’s perspective | |
| Pete Garcia (movie intro, recorded) | 12AM PST Nov 15 | Feature movie | |
| The Boy who Cried Warming (movie) | … | … | |
| The Boy who Cried Warming (movie) | … | … | |
| John Coleman, KUSI-TV (intro, recorded) | 1:30AM PST Nov 15 | ||
| John Coleman Special Pt1 (recorded) | … | TV special on AGW Pt1 | |
| John Coleman Special Pt2 (recorded) | 2:30AM PST Nov 15 | TV special on AGW Pt2 | |
| Dr. Sebastian Lüning (recorded) | 3:30AM PST Nov15 | The Sun as Climate Driver | |
| Mike Smith, CCM (recorded) | 4:30AM PST Nov15 | Extreme Weather events | |
| Marc Morano (recorded) | 5:00AM PST Nov15 | The Politics of Alarmism | |
| Dr. Ross McKittrick (recorded) | 6AM PST Nov15 | Energy. Pollution, Economics | |
| Dr. Richard Lindzen (live) | 7AM PST Nov15 | Bait and Switch Aspects of the Global Warming Issue | |
| Christopher Monckton (live) | 8AM PST Nov15 | Climate Sensitivity | |
| Andrew Montford (live) | 9AM PST Nov15 | The Hockey Stick/28Gate | |
| Dr. Roy Spencer (live) | 10AM PST Nov15 | What Causes Climate Change? | |
| Steve McIntyre (live) | 11AM PST Nov15 | The Climate Year in Review: a new focus on extremes | |
| Dr. Tim Ball (live) | 12PM PST Nov15 | Warming – A deception? | |
| Joe Bastardi (live) | 1PM PST Nov15 | Forecasting extremes | |
| Joe D’Aleo (live) | 1:30PM PST Nov15 | Extreme weather & Sandy | |
| John Kehr (live) | 2PM PST Nov15 | The Inconvenient Skeptic | |
| Harold Ambler (live) | 3PM PST Nov15 | Ignoring Weather History | |
| Maurizo Morabito (live) | 3:30PM PST Nov15 | BBC’s Twenty Eight Gate | |
| Donna Laframboise (live) | 4PM PST Nov15 | The IPCC – Unreliable & Untrustworthy | |
| Anthony Watts & Evan Jones (live) | 5PM PST Nov15 | Update on the surfacestations project and Watts et al paper. |
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Thanks again, Anthony!
What an enlightening 24 hrs.
Anthony, much thanks on behalf of many who will not say it on both sides of the discussion!
I see a brighter future for us all with the sharing that has taken place.
There has never, in recorded history, been a culmination of such knowledge on public display in one place, period!
I am thankful to have viewed the birth of enlightenment with respect to truth in climate science.
That means much to many…………
Go ahead and take the rest of the week off 🙂
Anthony, one point concerning your paper.
Have you looked at separating Rural into natural habitat and agricultural area. The reason I ask is there have been a number of widespread changes in agricultural practices over your study period, such as no till farming (affects surface albedo and humidity), which potentially affect the local climate.
D. B. Lobell, G. Bala and P. B. Duffy (2006-03-23). Biogeophysical impacts of cropland management changes on climate
BTW, your paper should lead to a substantial downward revision to the USA temperature trend. As well as NOAA eating a large helping of humble pie. Unfortunately, what I expect is the usual evasion and excuses.
Anthony,
That was fantastic! Thank you for your efforts in pulling all of this together. My wife was ready to kill me dragging you and your guests all over the place playing on my iPad. But it was well worth it! Like others, I’m looking forward to the archives being posted.
Thank you again, and congratulations!
Wow, the last video, on the surface stations project, knocked my socks off. As challenged as I am by the science, the point came home loud and clear. If the US surface temp anomaly from 1979 to 2008 is actually around twice too large, isn’t that a major blow for CAGW?
I’ve watched most of the videos in your Watts-a-thon and I must say that it has helped me understand appreciably better by hanging things together more coherently. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of hit rate you get on YouTube. If I were to pick the single most comprehensive and articulate video, it would be David Evans’. I’d suggest that it be made a permanent feature, with a prominent link to it on the home page labelled something like: “Beginners–start by looking at this video.”
Thanks for all your hard work, enthusiasm and dedication, Anthony. One day when the house of cards has finally come crashing down, I hope you get the full recognition you deserve.
Anthony, I have watched as much as I can during the daylight hours from New Zealand. Have been a long-time visitor, and applaud every breakthrough that validates the authenticity and search for truth that WUWT displays. As a Christian minister that is important to me too. Climategate clinched what I had earlier discerned about the scam. Today there was lots of very good stuff. Steve M was very fast, but profoundly insightful. Maurizio was a superb David against the blustering BBC Goliath. And I admire the geniality, professionalism, and endurance of your coordination, as well as your sheer capacity. I was deeply moved by all that you do, and your sign-off mention of Bob Phelan. Barry
I tried watching yesterday evening during Chris Horner’s time period (about 7:15 pm PST). The audio cut out too frequently to be useful, video was generally the same way. Frame rate for me was maybe .001 fps. I was watching from Western Washington.
Guess I’ll have to wait for the Youtube videos *sigh* But, kudos for an excellent effort.
Thanks Anthony. Good show!
I specially enjoyed watching Donna Laframboise making the two principal points of her book, “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert”.
Blockbuster at the end of the show. Good to hear you have completed a major stage on revising the 2012 paper. Very clearly showing the NOAA homogenization process may be making things worse.
One of the reasons for NOAA’s inflated temperature trend may be found in their “Quality Control, Homogeneity Testing, and Adjustment Procedures”. I think the following error is substantial and has not been investigated yet:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ushcn/ushcn.html#QUAL
In their adjustment procedure of the link above under point 1, “suspects (> 3.5 standard deviations away from the mean) and outliers (> 5.0 standard deviations)” are identified after “validation” removed from the temperature data.
In point 2, the temperature data are adjusted for the time-of-observation bias (Karl, et al. 1986)
The issue is, that different times of observation with a Min-Max thermometer may cause substantially different temperature data, because there is only partial overlap of their the 24 hour measurement period. Such cases occur, if there is a substantial weather change during the combined time span of the thermometers and a maximum or minmum does not fall in the overlap.
I checked this with hourly data from Jamestown ND (Karl used nearby Bismarck for illustration), and even differences of 10 deg Celsius are not uncommon during a year. Such cases deliver a significant contribution to the required TOBS adjustment.
That means, however, that typical and signifcant TOBS errors may already be accounted for by step 1, and then again by step 2, that means 2 times. As TOBS lowers older temperature data, an inflated warming trend results from the double adjustment.
Excellent broadcast! I was able to view or listen to more than half and enjoyed every minute!
Anthony-
As we said when I was in the Navy- “Well Done!” It was really great to put a face and voice to people whose writing I have followed. What a great job you did putting it all together. Thanks to you and all who contributed.
PS, Anthony, will the YouTube videos when available have their own channel? I’d think that’d be a great idea–having one place for them and any future videos.
Thank you Anthony and Presenters! I was impressed, and I hope that I will soon see the ones I missed due to real life pulling me off the net.
Bravo, Anthony. A nerve-racking job well done.
A well done effort by Anthony and I look forward to these being up on YouTube if possible.
davidmhoffer, I do not know why anyone worries what Mosher has to say as he has a BA in English Literature and Philosophy. He is neither an engineer or a scientist – http://berkeleyearth.org/steven-mosher/
Poptech, interesting. Steve Mosher is a very likeable guy in person. But how could someone with such atrocious spelling, grammar and punctuation have possibly matriculated from any course with ‘English’ in the title?? If I had written like that, the gestapo-trained nuns would have rapped the back of my hand with their 3 foot wooden pointers. About twenty times! So no wonder I can spell and write correctly. Maybe Steve is the product of government schools. ☺
I did 20 hours of it live and loved it, thank you.
Hummm, I wonder what we see right in front of us with respect to climate science………
Is it once again greed in the end? Ya think?
Excellent show Anthony. Looking forward to the next one.
Great job Anthony and thanks to all the outstanding speakers as well. That was truly amazing and equally informative. Thanks for all the hard work!
The last presentation on station quality was spectacular. Several things there where “I had a worry feeling ” are now concrete science. A heck of a lot of work, but I thank you for it!
I’ve many times complained that at about 1987 – 1992 “something changed” and we get a big warming step function on “mod flag change”. I think I know know what it was, thanks to the program.
In the KUSI videos, there’s a point where Peterson (sp?) says that with the MMTS conversion they detected a ‘cooling bias’ and had to correct for it. (i.e. warm the record). Then in your presentation you show that the MMTS was, in fact, more accurate and that the older Stevenson Screens when poorly maintained had a ‘warming bias’. A lightbulb went on!
So you have artificial warming from the paint pealing and color changes on the Stevenson Screens. Along comes the MMTS that shows “things are too warm”. THAT is interpreted as a “cooling bias”, so needs “warming” to “fix” it…. Viola! You add “warming” to the already biased warm Stevenson Screen historical record. (likely via a downward adjustment of the past).
As the FIRST measurements from those Stevenson Screens were likely correct (paint not faded yet…) moving the whole record down to adjust for the “MMTS cooling bias” is really hiding the splice error in the earliest data via changing it. Perpetually locking in a ‘splice artifact’ warming trend forever. Any testing / calibration of the MMTS can now never find that problem.
It will happen AT the splice, that is the same point as the MMTS rollout and is same as the “mod flag change” point.
What OUGHT to have been done was just accept the MMTS data as correct, ignore the error in the Steven Screen last data (it would show up as a step discontinuity, but since you don’t know when to remove that from the data, when the paint faded and flaked, it’s better to just admit that that step exists and is removing an error term). In that case, no “adjustment” of the MMTS “cooling bias” would be needed AND no need to make the past data cooler.
So I think we know know why that date range has that ‘issue’. It’s the MMTS splice being handled exactly wrong.
Very well-done, Anthony and presenters! I missed most of it and could only watch the first and final couple of hours. I am looking forward to viewing the other 21 hours as archives.
Re reception quality, I had good video and audio in Marina del Rey, CA, using a Sprint broadband wireless card at 3G speeds on my laptop. Browser is Chrome.
one for Morano to add to his list:
16 Nov: Bloomberg: Stefan Nicola: Munich’s Biggest Power Outage in Two Decades Brings City to Halt
Munich is recovering from its biggest power failure in two decades, a blackout that affected at least 450,000 customers in Germany’s third-biggest city, halting underground trains and trapping people in elevators…
Power supply has moved to the center of the political agenda in Germany ever since Chancellor Angela Merkel decided in March 2011 to replace nuclear reactors with clean fossil-fired plants and a growing share of renewable-energy sources. Her government has backed plans to prevent utilities including EON SE and RWE AG (RWE) from closing unprofitable power plants as the nation seeks to safeguard supply…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-15/munich-s-biggest-power-outage-in-two-decades-brings-city-to-halt.html
As I posted at Bishop Hill:
It was an awesome achievement. Considering the whole thing was done on a shoestring, with begged, borrowed (but I’m sure not stolen) equipment and assistance, a 24 hour broadcast with almost zero fluff content – except for fluffy Kenji – is a massive undertaking. Anyone who has ever put any kind of production together will know just how complicated and nerve-racking it is.
Anthony Watts is a remarkable polymath and visionary. The final presentation, about the surface stations paper, was the icing on the cake. Does the man ever sleep?
The Bish’s presentation was on at an uncongenial hour for Australians, but I look forward to seeing it and several others I missed when the recorded versions become available.
Agree with Michael Larkin that David Evans’ primer was outstanding for clarity and interest, and perfect for newbies. This non-newbie learned one or two things as well, and was never bored. Jo Nova’s coda topped it off nicely.
Having taken science blogging to a new level, it looks like Anthony Watts has just done the same for science webcasting.