You knew it was coming from shameless people like him. Unfortunately, Mr. Johnson doesn’t know the difference between what the Gulf Stream pattern looks like and the rest of the sea surface temperature. I had to laugh when he tweeted this tonight:
Ummm, that’s the Gulf Stream Brad. It looks like that on a regular basis, for example, this one from October 2012:
Its also a model reanalysis of anomaly, not the actual sea surface temperatures.
Bill McKibben also got into the act:
Citing this anomaly image, McKibben only apparently saw the red:
![anomwnc[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/anomwnc1.gif)
Problem is that when you look at a proper SST plot of actual temperature, his hot thinking all falls apart:
![2013_038_33E[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/2013_038_33e1.png?quality=75)
Source: http://coastwatch.noaa.gov/data_drive/products/goes/browse/2013_038_33E.png
And this is verified by the WeatherBell SST map showing temperature of 7C to 11C off the coast. That’s not warm at all.
To his credit, McKibben backed down after seeing the NOAA plot:
Paid propagandist Brad Johnson, instead of admitting his error, doubles down with more industrial strength propaganda:
Somebody take this fool’s Twitter account away please.
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To steal a phrase. I would be hard to parady this bunch. They are as sciencey as this bunch:
According to Mr. Joe Bastardi, this storm is a close analog to the 1969 “Lindsay Storm”. Conditions very similar.
Bill McKibben, convinced before he was unconvinced. Brad convinced then even more convinced. It’s okay, guys. We know the drill by now.
I’m guessing that the Eastern US must have had a bunch of hot water offshore to produce the Great Blizzard of 1888. Brrr. Imagine if they’d had climate change and extreme weather back then. Sydney, recently in the news for an “extreme”, was so dry in 1888 that the low rainfall record still stands to this day.
But at least they didn’t have climate change and extreme weather back in 1888, right? Stupid great-grandparents didn’t know how easy they had it!
So what was the water temperature and co2 concentration when this blizzard hit the northeast?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1888
I live in Ct. and I have yet to hear a single mention of this blizzard in the media. Probably because they would have to moderate some of the hype.
Every storm, big or small, can now be magically transformed into “…the biggest paycheck, EVAH!
All it takes is a firm grip on P.T. Barnum.
Why do you listen to this drivel?
He should just admit he was recently turned into a Newt….
God I love Monty Python, between them South Park & the Simpsons you have some of the greatest quotes of mankind….
“Somebody take this fool’s Twitter account away please.”
Only twits tweet.
We have two generations unaccustomed to weather that was common 30-40 years ago. From Sandy through this winter we see earlier weather patterns common in the 60s and 70s.
Not convinced that taking away his Twitter account is the best route…that’d be censorship. I vote for him to have several, help spread the inane word. Nothing like good advertising to torpedo a bad product.
Intelligence. One might presume. In 140 characters or, well, you know, less…….
Hi Guys, a little off topic, but wondering if some of the scientific minds on here can clear this up for me.
Along with many other apects of CAGW I am skeptical about, I find the references to the 160yr instrumental temperature records as empirical data erroneous.
Apart form the obvious issues with station siting brought up by Anthony et al and the fact that these records were never meant to be highly accurate I fail to see how a tube full of mercury with a tape measure stuck to the side can be considered anything but a proxy for any changes in the total energy mass stored in our planet and it’s atmosphere?
After all, isn’t that what we are looking at? An energy imbalance as some put it? Where the temperature we feel as humans is simply a byproduct of total energy in verses total energy out?
My understanding of temperature is that it is simply a measure of potential for heat energy to travel from one object to another?
Isn’t this somewhat like trying to calculate the enery in a moving object without knowing it’s speed or mass?
Maybe we can arrange for all the “Warming Children” to go visit old folks homes and let the old people tell them about real weather from the past…. They clearly think “climate” began 20 years ago and nothing ever changed before… someone needs to educate them about reality… might as well be a Granny…
I watched the initial rottion for this system start as it crossed Mobile Bay today…. no gullf “stream” involved. Just a cold core low.
[snip – Mr. Mosher – I’m growing tired of your hit and run snark, if you have a direct question ask it. This issue is anomaly vs absolute temperature. One is a model of anomalies, the other is absolute temperatures. -Anthony]
BB says @ur momisugly 9:36 pm ??? temperature; temperature records
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I’d like to help out but I’m not sure what BB did ask. My suggestion would be for BB to find the search box on this and several other sites and read for a few days. I recall numerous temperature/thermometer/records posts.
Did you have to butcher it after stealing it? It’s “parody”. :p
Three cheers for the Golf Stream, that makes St. Andrews playable. Barely.
I know it is only a tenuous connection to the above, but perhaps more worrying as this comes from a ‘serious’ source, namely the British Met Office Issued at: 0837 on Mon 4 Feb 2013
There is a 70% probability of cold temperatures/icy conditions/ snow between 1600 on Monday and 0800 on Friday in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Please refer to the national Cold Weather Plan and your Trust’s emergency plan for appropriate preventive action.
Cold weather during the winter – Mummy I’m scared!!!!
The weather is the new boogey man for these folks. They can’t sleep at night because he’s hiding under the bed or in the closet. Every squeek of the old flood boards or rafters is proof of his existence. Cry for mommy to turn on the lights and make him go away.
Every storm is proof of AGW and the sins of man. Cry for the politicians to make it go away!
They really ought to get themselves some therapy.
Your charts are of anomalies not the absolute SSTs themselves. The Gulf stream looks like this:
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/metoc/nogaps/gif_files/global_sfc_sst_0.gif
or this (at its start):
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/islands01/background/islands/media/bump_deflection.html
Like it or no, there has been a persistent warm anomaly in the NE Atlantic along the coast of New England and Labrador for the past few months. Your basis for a claim that the warm anomaly falls apart? A map of the absolute SSTs. Of course it is cold in the NE Atlantic, it is winter. The point is it is actually relatively warm, as an anomaly chart shows.
Monty Python, eh? I watched ‘The Holy Grail’ the other night and the ‘Black Knight’ is a perfect analogue for the whole foundering CAGW edifice.
Weren’t we heading for an ice age in 1978
http://climaterealists.com/?id=11103
“Is North Eastern USA heading for another record snow blizzard similar or even worse then 1978? “
Ocean SST globally is on the low side.
However for Brad Johnson, “very warm ocean waters” locally of the NE USA means the same as “very warm ocean waters”.
I’m reminded of the song “what’s good for me is good, there’s only self and void…”
Sorry, I could have been clearer. When I said: “Your charts are of anomalies”, I was referring to the chart with the caption “Ummm, that’s the Gulf Stream Brad. It looks like that on a regular basis, for example, this one from October 2012:”.
Your final two charts don’t show anything other than it is cold in winter in the NE Atlantic, and speaks nothing of the anomalies and the anomalous warmth in that region at the moment.
While Brad Johnson is obviously wrong to claim that the waters off the east coast are ‘very warm’, aren’t you also in error?
Ummm, that’s the Gulf Stream Brad. It looks like that on a regular basis, for example, this one from October 2012: If it normally looks like that, it wouldn’t be an anomaly.