From the James Hansen said the oceans would boil and the Tabloid Climatology™ department…
As a long-suffering member of the television news media, some-days, I just want to find the reporter and slap him upside the head and tell him to do some basic science research before making wild claims on national TV. This is one of those days. The graphic below says it all.
From the Business and Media Institute comes this howler from CBS News about the latest IPCC report.
“[CBS] Evening News” took a different tack, airing a story about oyster farming and complaints that climate change is ruining a man’s business. But in Ben Tracy’s story, which mentioned the IPCC’s latest report, he said that oceans have absorbed much of the heat caused by CO2 and that ocean temperatures have risen only slightly. Then he made a claim that Principal Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville called “totally misleading and irresponsible.”
Here’s what the reporter said, after telling us most of the heat went into the oceans:
“Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees [showed 212 degrees onscreen],” Tracy warned.
Watch the video here, be sure to leave a comment for CBS News.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57605102/oyster-is-a-canary-in-a-coal-mine-as-oceans-warm/
Spencer told the MRC’s Business and Media Institute,
“The oceans have warmed by an average of less than 0.1 deg. C (only the SURFACE by about 0.5 deg.) since the 1950s, and since that is so much water mass, the absorbed heat equivalent to 0.1 deg. IF RELEASED ALL AT ONCE IN THE ATMOSPHERE [it] would, indeed, be hundreds of degrees. But this is physically impossible. It is a meaningless statistic. The heat actually had to go through the atmosphere before it reached the ocean.”
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I’m familiar with the term “jumped the shark”. But “boiling the oyster” is a new one for me. It may not quite be 212 degrees, but the stupid still burns.
Hopefully “news” clips like this can be permanently preserved so that future generations can learn how propaganda works. (And also they can learn how hard WUWT had to fight to counter all the nonsense!)
What would happen if the sun was to release all of the energy it will release over the next 4 billion years but over the next 3 seconds?
I wonder…..
I don’t know, sounds legit to me. I think Bill Nye said the jet stream will stop and the earth will stop spinning and he had a Bowie that made him look real smart too.
The tide has turned in public opinion. People are bored of this foolish chatter. The media has not gotten the memo yet.
I think anyone stupid enough to make that claim is too dumb to understand Dr Spencer’s rebuke. This is the problem we face: the news is propagated by morons, in every country. Nobody does his /her own research because they lack the education or the brains to understand the science
They also lack the will to try
““Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees [showed 212 degrees onscreen],” Tracy warned.”
The business of the CIA is to scare the population, and Tracy did a good job there. My question is, if the government has shut down, why is CBS News on air?
The oyster meme is a deliberate attempt by Feely at NOAA PMEL to shift the (hiatus) failed temperature meme to ocean acidification. See my previous post Shell Game at Climate Etc., courtesy Dr. Judith Curry of Georgia Tech. Already has been exposed for what it is, and even complemented for accuracy by none other than fisherman Willis Eschenbach of WUWT. Good grief. This really is a wack-a-mole game.
Unless it warms up gradually, won’t the lobsters jump out of the ocean? Mmmmm, boiled lobsters.
Who needs thermodynamics when you have CBS!
How did that sneaky heat get in there without anyone noticing?
Volcanoes? I mean, that was the IPCC excuse for the pause.
I prefer oysters to be grilled on the half shell, over a smoky hardwood fire….. then slurped from the shell with a splash of chipotle tobasco. I would never do THAT to a canary…..
This quote seems to apply yet again:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ” H.L. Mencken
“Canary in the coal mine”? More like Idiot in the newsroom.
If all the worlds ice melted…………………………….
If all the trees died……………………………………….
If all the oxygen was…………………………………….
If all the climate scientists died, I would attend both their funerals
Awesome, pre-cooked Oysters!!!
Hey, it’s tough to compete with The Onion. Got to really hype it to get attention.
I saw that the other night – and started screaming at the TV . After all , if the oceans are warming they would be releasing CO2 therefore becoming more alkaline . Also , I suspect that a large percentage of seed oysters don’t make it to adulthood even in a controlled environment although I couldn’t find much about it online .
My momma always said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Did anyone else notice that the propaganda following the CBS story indicated that the Obamacare computers crashed because so may people were signing up for the healthcare?
These folks know how to cover up a royal screw up by the Administration.
OT Update:
Second tranche of the CME’s geomagnetic storm is in progress
http://flux.phys.uit.no/cgi-bin/plotgeodata.cgi?Last24&site=tro2a&
most likely caused by a short double CME blast from the sun http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2013/c2/20130929/20130929_2336_c2_512.jpg
As a matter of interest it is comparable in strength to the one prior to Japanese earthquake (11/3/2011, reported at the time ) but currently in much shorter bursts.
(Due to a lapse in Federal funding, the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program has suspended most of its operations. While the USGS will continue to monitor and report on earthquake activity, the accuracy or timeliness of some earthquake information products, as well as the availability or functionality of some web pages, could be affected by our reduced level of operation.)
This seems to be a recurring theme these days. The heat is all going into the ocean followed by the panicky question, “what if it all comes back out at once?”
To anyone with even a basic grounding in physics, this is beyond absurd. I’m looking for a half decent analogy suitable for someone who doesn’t even have the basics, and I’ve got nothing. Looking for suggestions. Also need suggestions on how to deliver the line without intense and insulting sarcasm.
That is quite possibly the stupidest story on global warming ever done. Although Al Gore claiming that the Earth’s core is millions of degrees hot is pretty close
http://youtu.be/kGV7Dr2iDvU
Along the lines of:
If my aunt had testicles, she’d be my uncle. ☺
Rud Istvan ,
I read your post over at Climate Etc . Thanks .
sunshinehours1 says: “Volcanoes? I mean, that was the IPCC excuse for the pause.”
Actually, it wasn’t according to the SPM. They wrote:
“However, there is low confidence in quantifying the role of changes in radiative forcing in causing the reduced warming trend.”
They’re trying to blame it on natural variability:
“There is medium confidence that internal decadal variability causes to a substantial degree the difference between observations and the simulations; the latter are not expected to reproduce the timing of internal variability. ”
Regards