From July 13th 2013 in Houston. I was invited to give a presentation, and I adapted Dr. Matt Ridley’s excellent essay: A Lukewarmer’s Ten Tests and added supporting graphs and commentary along with my own work and findings. The video follows.
The video is 53 minutes long including Q&A.
I’m sure some people won’t like what I have to say, and/or will take issue with it. For those that will immediately pounce on the location, Houston, to suggest “big oil” was involved, I’ll provide full disclosure. There was mostly an aerospace interest due to Houston’s role in the space program, there was not a hint of the oil industry there.
I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.
I welcome suggestions readers might have for improvements to the presentation.
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Speaking to the ten points of doubt about global warming – specifically the urban heat island, I think its effects are way underestimated. In my case, I live on the edge of a MN city of 100,000 population. Often at 10 pm at night, the temperature in the middle of the city is a full 8 degrees warmer than it is is on either side of the city , just a couple miles out of town and away from the bricks and blacktop. FYI, our rural airport shows no increase in temperature comparing the most recent 25 years to the 25 years starting in 1900, (obviously not an airport in 1900). In fact it was 2 tenths of a degree colder in the most recent 25 years. WHERE IS THE PROBLEM!!!!???!!! Ain’t one. John late Daly found the same – rural weather stations see no warming.
In your graph of absolute global surface temperature ( as apposed to anomaly) you start the graph at the bottom at zero, however there are an additional 273 degrees below that that you did not show ( or 460 if it was Fahrenheit ). Showing those extra degrees would be more dramatic as well as more scientific, as 0 is an arbitrary selection to use, unless it was 0 K.
Re: (When is BEST going to pony up and do the statistics on your five-fold classification of weather stations? What is their problem? Why do they show a total lack of attention to empirical matters?)
What if they already did that work, and decided the results would only confuse people?
KevinM says:
August 18, 2013 at 4:17 pm
“What if they already did that work, and decided the results would only confuse people?”
That would make them typical Alarmists; that is, they would demonstrate a degree of elitism and arrogance that can only be described as paternalistic. No paternalist can honestly engage in scientific method, open debate, or democracy.
“I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.”
If he gets paid so much more than you, doesn’t that prove he’s right?
@Janice Moore –
I would second some of your comments on specifics, Janice, but withal Anthony’s presentation is terrific, and I would rather feel that I was speaking from a position of weakness if I were to offer any more criticisms.
They key, once again, is to get this presentation into mass circulation. We skeptics can sit here and pat ourselves and Anthony on the back ad infinitum, but the word has to be gotten out to all the uninformed sheeple that hear only the MSM and BloodyMess versions of events.
We should also relentlessly bombard the MSM and the administration’s functionaries, from Obersturmfuehrer Gina McCarthy and Torquemada-off-with-all-those-heretics-at-Interior Sally Jewell, all the way up to der Fuehrer himself – and to those two gauleiters, Boxer and Feinstein who are so eager to shove carbon taxes down our throats.
Great presentation.
A MUST see for ALL polititians!!
Great presentation, great style.
About Thorium, just for the record: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160131-thorium-nuclear-reactor-trial-begins-could-provide-cleaner-safer-almost-waste-free-energy
Anthony,
Why not make this into a CD and send it to all US Congressmen.
REPLY: Congressmen and women don’t generally open or even read mail from their constituents. They leave that to staffers. Mail from people outside their district generally gets the circular file. – Anthony
Youtube, anyone?
A media blitz is again just like the AGWers bag of tricks and that got old didn’t it. If the data is worth a damn, it will speak for itself. And should. A calm approach that speaks of unanswered questions rises above the snake oil sales by leaps and bounds and in the end will be heard after the snake oil sales people get run out of town under their own unfullfilled promises. I wouldn’t change a thing.
Roger A. Pielke Sr. says:
August 17, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Hi Anthony- A very valuable and informative presentation. I hope you do more of these!
Roger Sr
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If he does, I hope he gets paid more !!
RoHa says:
August 18, 2013 at 6:33 pm
Truth is free–You’ll note Anthony hasn’t charged anybody here a single cent to watch this.
Compare THAT to the cost of what Al Gore demands.
I’d have to be paid about what Gore makes per speech to sit through one of his “dissastertations”.
Same goes for an Obama speech.
I’m a victim of PTSD–from lofty yet demonic purveyors of “Inconvenient Truths” and “Affordable Care Acts”.
Anthony Congratulations. Excellent presentation.Surely there must be some way to get it before Obama’s minions,the congress and the general public via at least one of the MSM outlets.
Calm well spoken with not one ad hominem or sarcastic attack. Well – maybe at the end where “we are using chemo to attack a cold. ” The warmists are unable to give a presentation such as this as they do not have any science behind them. Thanks
“Taking chemotherapy for a cold.” That says it all.
However, since the government and those it subsidizes are all in the profit from chemotherapy business, it is going to be a long, hard fight.
4TimesAYear says:
August 17, 2013 at 11:51 am
Could that soot also be from volcanic ash?
No. Volcanic ash is principally very fine glass fragments, with some powdered rock, and occasionally a small amount of soot from burned vegetation. It might have a similar affect on snow though.
RE: Temperature Station siting. I can’t help but think some of the poor siting is by design.
REPLY: never attribute malice to what can be explained by simple incompetence – Anthony
Fabulous presentation, Anthony. Any chance you could post somewhere the collection of charts / graphs used for your talk? They are excellent. Keep up the good work.
A very interesting question at the end regarding how to counterattack whatever the latest iteration of the latest “disaster” heading – Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Disruption/Carbon Pollution/Extreme Weather/Whatever Next. Its like those whack-a-mole games at the carnival. I guess we should all equip ourselves with a NERF bat and swat the latest mole whenever it pops up. I doubt it will fix the problem but it will feel good to whack the mole.
Yes I agree with all of the above positive comments Anthony. I disagree with the person who says not to read the slide text. Its difficult to listen and read at the same time. Reading reinforces the point. Well done. It needs even wider distribution. Cheers.
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A caveat in the discussion of declining CO2 emissions and energy use in the U.S. in recent years is the rise in U.S. coal exports. Just as ice gain/loss should be viewed globally for global warming context, so should coal burning.
Quarter/ Exports million st. tons/ Year Ago % Change
Jan-13 31.835 11%
Oct-12 28.006 1%
Jul-12 31.563 22%
Apr-12 37.534 39%
Jan-12 28.642 8%
Oct-11 27.679 33%
Jul-11 25.976 23%
Apr-11 26.987 23%
Jan-11 26.617 49%
Oct-10 20.87 18%
Jul-10 21.074 39%
Apr-10 21.965 70%
Jan-10 17.807 34%
Oct-09 17.653 -21%
Jul-09 15.159 -25%
Apr-09 12.951 -44%
Jan-09 13.335 -16%
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration: “Quarterly Coal Report.”
I just wanted to echo the compliments of others, and also say Go Boilers!
BSEE 1979