Warning Signs: Hot Lies Disputed by Cold Facts
I have always found a stark contrast in the way the forecasts of meteorologists on television and radio are limited in accuracy to about a week and beyond that become more speculative while the claims about global warming are always stated in decades. For example, the polar ice caps were supposed to have all melted by now.The daily forecasts are formulated based on sophisticated meteorological satellites. The global warming claims are all based on computer models, not empirical observation and data.
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The time is overdue for the American Meteorological Society to abandon any role in advancing a hoax that Mother Nature herself has exposed.
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/08/hot-lies-disputed-by-cold-facts.html
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More Than Two Thirds Of The US Below Normal Temperature In 2013
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Will global warming lead to more war? It’s not that simple.
“…the 2000s were the warmest decade on record, but they also managed to be “the least conflict-ridden decade since the 1970s.”
So clearly there are other things at work here”
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Growing Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Breaking All Records
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Breaking All Records
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From Nature Climate Change
UCSB study finds climate change is causing modifications to marine life behavior
Oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, yet our knowledge of the impact of climate change on marine habitats is a mere drop in the proverbial ocean compared to terrestrial systems. An international team of scientists set out to change that by conducting a global meta-analysis of climate change impacts on marine systems.
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Mann whines about a letter to the editor, then pushes his book:
Climate change letter was personal attack
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
Charlie Battig did a grave disservice to your readers by spreading falsehoods about me personally and about climate science in general in his recent letter, “McAuliffe sways left and right on coal.” Battig parroted discredited denialist talking points, e.g., “the globe hasn’t warmed over the past 16 years” (the past decade, in fact, was the warmest recorded).
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It is precisely these sorts of attacks by climate-change deniers that led me to write my recent book, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” where I discuss my experiences as a reluctant figure in the climate-change debate.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-for-august/article_833393bb-0d7e-5389-b90d-9edb451c2ddd.html
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Warmist Retreat: Water shortage alarm from Himalayan melt called off
E&E reports:
One of the big unknowns of climate change predictions — and one that has led to considerable contention — lies in knowing the future of water runoff from the Himalayas. The snow- and ice-rich region supplies water for billions of people in Asia and is sometimes referred to as the Earth’s “Third Pole.”
For years, scientists struggled to understand how precipitation will change in these mountains (ClimateWire, Oct. 24, 2011). They have also had difficulty determining how much glacier melt from the mountains contributes to water supply.
Scientists climbing up the ice cliffs of the debris-covered tongue of the Lirung Glacier in the Himalayas. Photo courtesy of Evan Miles.
A study out yesterday in Nature Geoscience by Walter Immerzeel, a physical geographer at Utrecht University, suggests that, in at least two major Himalayan watersheds, river flows and runoff should rise until 2100.
More: http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059985593
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Damn denialists and their talking points! Stop bringing up facts please, it distorts our fantasy.
I am glad to see that Mann still says such idiotic things like warmest decade ever tells us the world is still warming. Hello… The last decade of my life is the tallest decade ever, does the idiot Mann still believe I am growing taller?
I am now 32, so in essence Mann claims the planet is still warming and that I am still growing taller. Heck, he still believes he is growing taller. How did such a man ever get a phd?
Izen , Mann sets himself up by putting his name in the public arena and stating the planet is still warming because its the hottest decade ever. Only a true idiot says something like that in public and this man is supposedly well educated. He honestly believes I guess that every adult on this planet is still growing
because they are at their tallest decade ever. And we are all going to grow catastrophically right?
If he did not say stupid things skeptics would probably just ignore him. But he opens his mouth and gives us a chuckle. Blame him for uttering dumb things while promoting his book.
A new green kingdom?
http://www.straight.com/news/407156/why-nascent-vancouver-island-separatist-movement-matters
Its king? IPCC Andrew Weaver…
CodeTech says: @ur momisugly August 5, 2013 at 10:26 pm
Mann:
Is anyone really that dim?
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They are aiming for the 50% with IQ 100 and below. Of course in Detroit we don’t have to worry because the much of the population there can’t even read….
That is why they need ‘Community Organizers’ to get out the vote to keep the welfare payments rolling and the Political Machine in office. /snark
Huh? What a ridiculous statement.
Weather forecasting is done with the help of models. The empirical basis for AGW is the absorptive properties of CO2, and there are mountains of data for temperature, CO2 and a gazillion other indices. Is this author a Slayer?
Citing daftness of this magnitude does no credit to WUWT.
REPLY: Barry sorry, you are wrong – for example see last year’s countdown to a previous ice free arctic claim, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/12/the-arctic-ocean-could-be-nearly-ice-free-at-the-end-of-summer-by-2012/ and yes satellites are used in daily forecasts in addition to models. For example, here on the west coast of USA, we primarily rely on GOES WEST and persistence timeline because models have less data to work with over the Pacific. You are out of your league here. Your statement is the one that’s daft – Anthony
Anthony,
the author siad “ice caps” – plural. No one said Antarctica would melt out, and citing a single source for saying the Arctic “could be nearly ice free” by a certain date hardly amounts to what is “supposed” to happen. AR4 estimated ice free Arctic by the end of the century. Inferring that weather forecasting is done without any modeling at all – isolating modelng to climate projections – is also wrong, as you well know. Models are used for weather forecasting where I live, for example.
Critical commentary is important, and should eschew misleading rhetoric.
I’ve sent you an email.
REPLY: meh, semantics. Not interested in your double standard there. Weather satellites are used globally for forecasting- Anthony
Excuse me? I was not the one who falsely inferred modeling is not used in weather forecasting.
“Weather satellites are used globally for forecasting”
Of course, but surely you don’t mean to bolster the inference that modeling is not used also. You’ve posted articles based on weather models on this site.
REPLY: I’m done with this conversation. Weather satellites are used for weather forecasting, get over yourself. Weather models are not exclusive to making forecasts. Forecasts issued to the public are done by a forecaster with SKILL, who evaluates data, observations, radiosondes, sat, radar, model output, and combines with experience to produce a best educated guess. You’ve never produced weather forecasts so haven’t a freaking clue what you are talking about. – Anthony