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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All:
I would be very, very reluctant to EVER use the “one drop of ink in a bathtub” analogy.
These are extreme environmentalists (accent on the mentalists!) and they DO think that one drop of oil in the ocean off of Santa Barbara CA IS an environmental catastrophe. (This despite the continual natural oil seeping from that oil field ever since the sabre-toothed tigers were eating ground sloths in the nearby LaBrea tar pits!)
Better to say, “That is as likely as all of the hot air that came from your furnace last winter would suddenly re-appear in your oven Thanksgiving morning and burn the turkey.”
I’m terribly sorry. In my last post, I suggested that AW compile these ludicrous stories in a book called Global Warming for Dummies. I have just discovered that this book exists!
Could the compilationation be called “GW – Idiot’s Guide written by Idiots” ………….
BTW, Jimbo, yes, great list of canaries…
CBS, like all the mainstream media outlets, has failed to understand that the ‘scientists” working for the IPCC are whores in the pay of stupendously wealthy elitists acting as self-appointed social engineers on a global scale. No person who understands how genuine science is conducted takes them seriously any more. The “news” has long since stopped being informative – it’s just more sordid entertainment on the level of Springer or “Ancient Aliens”.
In every one of the recent 17 “shutdowns,” the federal employees have always received their back pay, even the ones who didn’t work during that time.
Nice work if you can get it, huh? Those of us who work in the private sector don’t get paid when we’re furloughed. Yes, yes, they’re not getting paid right now, but this partial “shutdown” has been in the works for months and they had plenty of time to get prepared for it.
S. Meyer, my understanding is that the temperate climate of the UK and western Europe is caused by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, but I was taught that a long time ago. So the basic answer to your question would be yes. But ‘could’ is different from ‘does’. The unusally cool Arctic summer seems to argue that warmer water, if it exists, isn’t making its way there. I’m sure if you look at all the variables, Arctic climate is very complex. Regardless, remember we are still talking about a fraction of a degree of warming.
A preliminary report by Dr. Roy W. Spencer might explain some of the ocean heating.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/10/oceanic-cloud-decrease-since-1987-explains-13-of-ocean-heating/#comments
Oceanic Cloud Decrease since 1987 Explains 1/3 of Ocean Heating
October 3rd, 2013 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
I think it is additional evidence that natural cloud variations cause multi-decadal time scale climate change … The more logical explanation is that there are natural cycles in cloud cover which cause multi-decadal periods of global warming or global cooling
Thank you, Tom J, for that additional reason to rejoice. 93 POINT 4 percent, lol, you must be a scientist (and, clearly, I am not #(:)). Love the cave story. Disgustingly accurate depiction of ultimate goal of the Envirostalinists, too — I LAUGH at them, though, because they will NEVER succeed. Truth will win — even now, it is pushing back the Dark Ages Redux from Australia to Norway. Sure, a few cesspools like my beautiful-but-overrun-by-Envirostalinists state, but they have lost the war. Rejoice!
Thanks, Stephen Fox, for so kindly telling me that you would have spelled the origin of Hansen’s nickname (“Homer”) the same way.
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Re: all you guys who VERY NATURALLY yell at the hot air emanating from your TV’s whose wives don’t get it (foul language is a separate issue, of course), I don’t get your wives — why are THEY not yelling, too?! I would yell all the time as I read the news online if it weren’t for my baby, my German Shepherd, who takes it deeply personally.
BTW, you wonder how a dope like Al Gore could make so much money, lol, it’s all the commissions he earns from the TV manufacturers (he sub-contracts out guys like Mr. Tracy).
TV guys: Hey, Al! Get on TV again. Sales are down.
Al: Duh, sure guys. (to self, hm… what do I say…. every time I talk about science, that seems to work…. hm….) —- on CBS the next day: “Oh, yes, ma’am, a cute little thing like you wouldn’t understand {that’s to get more women to take a baseball bat to their TV’s}, (smirk), but (in super-patronizing voice) did you know that trillions and trillions of baby elephants are drowning as the grasslands of Africa succumb to VIOLENT, CATEGORY 90, hurricanes? {at her raised eyebrows} Oh, yes, honey, that’s all because of GLOBAL WARMING. The heat is coming back out of the oceans through the….. uh…… the……. the Mississippi, er, I mean the Nile River, mm, hm.
TV Guys (on phone with Al immediately after show): Hey, that was GREAT! We moved 2 million sets just in the last hour. What? Oh, you betcha, that check is on-the-way.
(at same time in local department store) Sales rep: Okay, Joe, yeah, put that sign up next to the TV sets. (sign reads: “You break it, you bought it.”) Now, turn on that DVD of Dopebama. …… (SMASH! – red blooded American heaves a floor jack into screen) Hey, buddy, you just bought yourself a new TV (heh, heh, heh).
I’m heartened to see that posters here can still have a sense of humor in the midst of all the offense given by the AGW crowd. But as you say, Colin, it’s hard to keep quiet sometimes when these annelids come out with such outrageous statements. There really aren’t any words in the English language foul enough to describe these people. I guess we just have to hope that the general public will begin to get the idea as to what psychos and just plain mean bastards the AGW crowd are.
I’m glad you are heartened, Chad. And I hope all is well. You never say… .
“Sense of humor,” LAUGH–OUT–LOUD, how can one not? Those Fantasy Science Club people are hilarious.
“Heat hiding in the deep oceans… .”
“93… er, 97, er, no, 95 percent of all scientists agree… .”
“wind ‘power’ is very, very, economically viable, that’s why the government is ‘investing’ in it”
“Konrad says blah blah blah” — Stan W. (wasn’t he great? where is that little troll, anyway)
Q: What do our media celebrities (AKA talking heads), politicians, and movie stars have in common?
A; Paid performers all.
Any oyster culturalists out there? The Pacific oyster farms I have seen are all in cool water environments, such as Humboldt Bay, Tomales Bay, and Puget Sound. Are warm water oysters (i.e. San Diego) mushy rather than firm and clean tasting? Also, wouldn’t the availability of seed oysters dependent on a lot more than hypothetical acidification? Try demand for the seed oysters and cyclic production in the brood oysters?
Michael Anderson says: @ur momisugly October 3, 2013 at 10:14 am
CBS, like all the mainstream media outlets, has failed to understand that the ‘scientists” working for the IPCC are whores in the pay of stupendously wealthy elitists…
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NO! NO! you have it wrong. The media are also prostitutes (With an apology to the real ladies)
See: link for details.
Gail, I LOVE your enthusiastic, forthright, style (and the content, too). You go, girl!
Hope all was well with you while you were “off the air” (here at WUWT) recently. Take care.
jones says:
October 2, 2013 at 2:38 pm
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…..
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One word: BOOM!
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A well dressed man walks into a bar.
He walks up to a gorgeous lady.
He says, “Will you sleep with me for $1,000,000?”
She says, “Sure!”
He says, “How about for $10?”
She slaps him and shouts, “What kind of a girl do you think I am!?!?”
He says, “We just established that. Now we’re haggling over price.”
One’s integrity should be priceless.
Gunga Din, you are so right.
You cannot have two masters. They have clearly chosen Money.
Jimbo says:
October 2, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Jimbo,
After reading your list, we should open up a bird store.
Jack
I’ve just returned home from a week away and haven’t managed to read all the comments here. However, after reading about half of them I can’t help humming Flanders and Swann singing ‘The first law of thermodynamics’!
Jim Brock says:
October 2, 2013 at 5:49 pm
Jim,
Several years ago a petroleum engineer by the name of Pickle developed a process much cheaper, quicker, less damaging to the environment right here in Colorado. Basically he emulated nature’s way of slowing heating up kerogen in place, where upon the kerogen is converted into the sweetest crude oil you can imagine.
How was this done? Drilling several holes in a circle, inserting heating elements into the holes, and gradually heating the marl (the proper geological term for oil shale). At the center of the circle was a collection hole. Into this hole Pickle would lower a can tied to some fishing line with a fishing rig, very similar to the type of rig used for ice fishing. As the kerogen in the areas adjacent to the heating elements converted into petroleum, the petroleum would flow towards the collection hole.
Apparently the rock was permeable enough to allow the oil to flow relatively freely.
What you described is the old mining method of extracting oil from oil shale. Very destructive and expensive. What was developed in Western Colorado is referred to as in-situ coversion. Pickle is now over in Israel helping them develop their oil shale. If successful, Israel will be self sufficient in petroleum; bringing to an end the old saw about Moses leading the Israelites to the only place in the Middle East lacking petroleum reserves.
Nice introduction here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_in_situ_conversion_process
Of course the estimated one trillion barrels of oil in oil shale will be untouched until Obama is retired.
Jack
IF – Pink Floyd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT-nS_ESpbM&rel=0
Jack Simmons says:
October 3, 2013 at 4:08 pm
“Of course the estimated one trillion barrels of oil
in oil shale will be untouched until Obama is retired.”
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Obama is already retired, as far as I see.
He was humiliated by Congress & Vladimir Putin over Syria.
He cannot get his Budget through Congress.
Nobody is even listening to what he says anymore.
Obama is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
The Emperor has no clothes.
Annie says:
October 3, 2013 at 3:44 pm
“Flanders & Swann – ‘First And Second Law of Thermodynamics’
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Yes Spot-on well remembered !!!
If all the methane I put into my couch released at once I could heat my house for a decade!
@ur momisugly Jonathon: October 3, 2013 at 7:20pm
That depends wether you have a very ‘deep’ couch for all that gas to hide.
For info: Typical human flatulence contains approxamately 30% Nitrogen, 20% Hydrogen (inflammable), 20% Methane (inflammable), 20% CO2, 9% Oxygen & 1% Odour. Perhaps this is why couches have to be made of flame retardant material.