From the “But, but, wait! Our algorithms can adjust for that!” department comes this tale of alarmist woe. Greenland’s all-time record temperature wasn’t a record at all, and it never got above freezing there.
First, the wailing from news media:
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/climate/european-heatwave-climate-change.html
Climate Progress: https://thinkprogress.org/greenland-hits-record-75-f-sets-melt-record-as-globe-aims-at-hottest-year-e34e534e533e/
Polar Portal: http://polarportal.dk/en/news/news/record-high-temperature-for-june-in-greenland/
Now from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), via the news website The Local, the cooler reality:
Danish climate body wrongly reported Greenland heat record
The Danish Meteorological Institute, which has a key role in monitoring Greenland’s climate, last week reported a shocking August temperature of between 2.7C and 4.7C at the Summit weather station, which is located 3,202m above sea level at the the centre of the Greenland ice sheet, generating a spate of global headlines.
But on Wednesday it posted a tweet saying that a closer look had shown that monitoring equipment had been giving erroneous results.
“Was there record-level warmth on the inland ice on Friday?” it said. “No! A quality check has confirmed out suspicion that the measurement was too high.”
…
By combining measurements with observations from other weather stations, the DMI has now estimated that the temperature was closer to -2C.
The record temperature ever recorded at Summit is 2.2C, which was reached in both 2012 and 2017. But -2C is still unusual at the station.
Shoot out the headlines first, ask questions later.
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You should have got NOAA to check that – they know how to adjust things in the right direction!!
The Climategate Charlatans and their students do adjustments like this::
It looks like the 1930’s were just as warm as today in this part of Greenland. No unprecedented warming. No CAGW.
Then the Charlatans got ahold of the data and made the 1930’s warming disappear. Conniving little climate scientists, aren’t they.
Here’s another unmodified chart of Greenland showing that the 1930’s were just as warm as today.
This means there has been no unprecedented warming (at least in Greenland:) in the 21st Century, and that means there is no CAGW (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming), and that means Greenland has nothing to worry about concerning CO2.
Pointless! ‘Today’ we are in the year 2019 not 2006 which is the date quoted on the linked graphic. The 1930’s were just as warm as today? Perhaps they were but the link doesn’t support that contention.
FYI, Akureyri is in Iceland, not Greenland. Nevertheless, your point about the conniving treatment of 1930s data is well-taken.
“FYI, Akureyri is in Iceland, not Greenland.”
Oopps! I guess I better relabel that one.
To make up for it, here is another Greenland chart showing it was just as warm in the past as it is today:
oh dear.
Climate is measured in 30 year lumps, just to iron out the wobbles.
Climate hysteria is measured in milliseconds, just to extract the most propaganda.
poor old climate does not stand a chance
Climate is not measured in 30 years lumps. Someone might have arbitrarily suggested 30 years as “climate”, despite the fact that there is no physical difference between climate and weather which just merge into each other.
Personally the only serious divide is caused by the annual cycle, so that climate is logically anything longer than ONE year and weather anything shorter.
Climate is not “average weather” as some claim. It is more accurately a pattern of weather: Cold, snowy winters, hot, humid summers for example. And it’s not just annual patterns but long term as well like: long droughts interrupted by years of heavy rainfall. These patterns can take centuries to recognize and aren’t much affected by a few degrees temperature difference.
Sorry, I like my definition best – climate is the SUM of all weather. I haven’t figured out yet just how to sum stuff with different units and basis’ but there it is. And it makes just a much sense as any other definition!
Anthropomorphic Climate Change is the Sum of All Fears.
Swamped by weather I’m afraid and doesn’t get a look in. Needs to lift its game or be resigned to the bench. A solid performer in the past but lacks that certain star quality to pull the punters nowadays. Age is the biggest problem.
30 years was chosen because of the period of relatively good within the US. This number worked relatively well east of the Mississippi where most of the weathermen lived and worked. 30 years is much too short for the Southwest where trends are more like long periods (30 to 100 years) of dry conditions interspersed with shorter periods (10 to 15 years) of wetter conditions. Weather is what impacts your plans for the day. Climate is what drives how you build your home and what plants can survive without human intervention.
And in the Pac NW it is a 60 year cycle (on top of the longer term cycles)
Climate does not exist – it is not real, only weather is real. Climate is an appearance arising from the consistency of weather.
“First, the wailing from news media:”
None of those media seem to mention the reading at Summit Camp, which doesn’t seem to be part of a weather network, and which was reported in error. I see no retraction of any of the Greenland temperatures they did report, which were well above freezing.
including a day in June that set an early-season record — it is less than the record 2012 melt season, when warm temperatures persisted for much of the summer and at one point nearly 100 percent of the ice sheet was melting.
UNREPRESENTED!
Oh no it’s climate UNREPRESENTED which is normal peoples hom hum that and has about the same interest of what celebrity has broken up with another.
There was a major SME event in July of 2012. We didn’t take a direct hit, but the radiation was still partly channeled down to earth. I appreciate your answer! There are many parts to the issue.
I see the ENSO meter has taken another drop.
but, but, but, swimming dog sled teams!
Unusaual in which direction ?
unusually high ? What do imagine unusually low might look like in the middle of the world’s second largest ice sheet?
Actually I don’t see where the -2 is supposed to come from: the snip of Danish quoted says “ikke over 0 grader ” which in case you can’t work it out with your personal babel fish it translates to :
The temperature at Summit was not above 0 degrees neither Thursday, August 1st. or Friday, Aug. 2.
I don’t see any mention of -2, if that comes from somewhere else our host forget to include the source of that info.
Mind you the Guardian are now trying to spin this into a mental health crisis for Inuit pop. in Greenland.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/greenland-residents-traumatised-by-climate-emergency
Most mental health problems are provoked by the inane alarmist of claims of the Guardian and their co-conspirators
Summer is unusual – for 3/4 of the year it’s not summer.
This winter may be another kick in the a$$ for alarmists… 😉
The next 3 (maybe more) winters will put the alarmists on a defensive.
Mother Sun is showing us who is boss.
For sure, you are right. July, in Portland OR (metro), was 2.55°F below yhe 82°F average – @ur momisugly 79.45°F. August is showing the same signs.
July: Hottest month ever?
Not in the Pacific NW.
Also, not for August.
& you? 🤔
Again, NOT out here in the NW (Hillsboro OR), where we’ve had a recent 2.55°F (Avg.) below the normal 82°F average-high (based on 1985 – 2015), for July – @ur momisugly 79.45°F.
Compare these links (be sure to scroll):
Link #1.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/hillsboro/climate
Link #2
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/hillsboro-or/97124/july-weather/335258
For the traditionally cold spot in the metro area yes, the highs were significantly cooler. I don’t consider the 0.3º below normal at PDX and TTD (Troutdale airport) significant. KUVO (Vancouver airport) whose official recording site is almost exactly three miles from PDX (and both less than a half mile from the Columbia River) was another cold spot with the mean high 1.1℉ below normal. All in all it has been a wonderfully boring average summer in Portland.
The damage or should I say propaganda victory orgasmed over by the nincompoops of the PC BBC among others who orgasmed over this news will stand. No errata will be issued. The climate charlatans will clam a quitep
victory in their subversion of Western society otherwise known as the majority of the output from continuously dumbed down and indoctrinated output of out deliberately failing education system.
Even if they do acknowledge the error, future articles and opinions will ignore it and report the original article as factual. The NYT has done this for years on all kinds of topics and it’s my #2 way of identifying “fake” news. (#1 is personal experience).
Odds the fake news will issue breathless front-page corrections and apologies…
Difficult to imagine, impossible to calculate.
Almost doesn’t matter anymore. None of those sited will print a retraction. Heck Greta probably already did a TED talk explaining why she never puts ice cubes in her drinks because when they melt it should remind everyone what is happening to Greenland, sniff, sniff.
“None of those sited will print a retraction.”
Those cited didn’t print a claim about Summit camp, 2 August, 2019 that might require retraction. In fact, two (WaPo and TP) are from 2016. The Polar Portal was about June temperatures. And the NYT article was actually dated 2 August, and didn’t mention the Summit Camp reading, which probably happened after the report was written anyway.
So here’s the real WaPo article https://beta-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/01/greenland-ice-sheet-poured-billion-tons-water-into-north-atlantic-july-alone/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&outputType=amp&usqp=mq331AQA#aoh=15656614882524&_ct=1565661508700&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s.
“…At Summit Station, which at 10,551 feet is located at the highest point in Greenland and rarely sees temperatures above freezing, the thermometer exceeded this mark for about 11 hours Tuesday, according to Christopher Shuman, a glaciologist at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center…”
Plenty more articles where that came from. Now go shut up.
“the thermometer exceeded this mark for about 11 hours Tuesday, according to Christopher Shuman”
Well, first that is a different day – the DMI reading retracted was on Friday 2 August. And he is quoting a US glaciologist, not the DMI. In fact there are two stations at Summit Camp, one US and one Danish. It was the Danish reading of 2 August that disagreed with the US one, and was deemed to be wrong.
“Plenty more articles where that came from.”
Then how is it so difficult to cite one that actually headlines (or even mentions) this Summit Camp temperature reading of Friday 2 August, which was deemed to be wrong?
As even Nick might be aware of, there is a world of media outlets that use other languages than English. The faulty record was widely published e.g. in the Scandinavian countries, here’s a Danish example:
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/anden-varmerekord-paa-en-uge-aldrig-er-der-maalt-hoejere-temperaturer-i-groenland
where a Norwegian climate change professor from the Nansen Center in Bergen calls the temperature extreme
“there is a world of media outlets that use other languages than English”
Well, it’s getting a long way from “Shoot out the headlines first”. Yes, that Danish website did mention the Aug 2 reading, saying “However, these are preliminary measurements, as they must only be finally verified after the weekend.”. And when it was not verified, they put an update at the head of the article.
Nick Stokes used to work for Pol Pot’s PR team, defending his regime… 😉
Good luck Michael, Nick will redefine everything just let it go and don’t feed the troll
Sophistry is Nick’s middle name.
What Nick is ignoring here is the reporting of unverified temperature readings that ALWAYS confirm a climate crisis view. Instead he starts “Nick picking”.
Well, you said “None of those sited will print a retraction.” Pointing out that they didn’t say anything about the event at all, and so there is nothing to retract, is not nit-picking.
I see where you went wrong Nick.
You made the mistake of thinking that the facts and details matter.
That’s just nitpicking.
What you are suppose to do is ignore that and go with the “vibe” of the situation, and be outraged and stuff.
At this point what difference does it make? We have 11 years to destroy capitalism.
…or only 18 months according to Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to quite a lot more than the ~$100M he already purportedly has.
Workers of the world harrumph! (extends pinky, sips) unite, dontchew know? Rather.
The monarchy won’t survive Charlie.
Skip him. Straight to Wills and Kate.
You can’t. It breaches the various Acts of Succession which are part of our constitution.
There are only two ways William can be King. If a) Charles dies either before or after being crowned OR by abdicating.
I assure you, it is the Price of Wales, & he alone, who will ensure the bringing about of the Constitutional Monarchy of the UK, that many fought to create, protect, & die for! After all, to Charlie-Boy, life is cheap, especially when it’s not his!
But…but…but… (LOL)
I think a closer look would reveal MOST record temperatures are in fact bogus, due to equipment failure or just UHI pollution. It’s funny how rarely a new record is high is set at a well situated site.
A similar thing happened in the Netherlands during the heat wave in the end of July. A record high of 41.7 was measures in the town of Deelen, but the KNMI (Dutch weather service) later declared this record invalid because of a malfunction of the measurement station.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtlnieuws.nl%2Fnieuws%2Fnederland%2Fartikel%2F4792866%2Fknmi-hitterecord-deelen-warmte-temperatuur-graden-graad-veertig
How can we trust the measurement system? If these malfunctions appear duringrecord high temperature, I am sure that they will also happen when the temperature is in a “normal” range. However, then no-one notices.
The data is likely wrong, or at least has substantially higher error margins than they imagine, all the time. It is only noticed when an extraordinary figure is recorded.
Their response is to discount the one extraordinary figure as some sort of transient malfunction. However, it is probable that the malfunction is systematic and effects the other readings as well. But, looking at them might come up with answers that they would rather not see, so they don’t, and if YOU do, you’re a SCIENCE DENIER! [sarc]
In this particular case there is little doubt that the error is systematic since it was due to insufficient ventilation of the sensor because of snow accumulation. That did not happen overnight, particularly not in summer.
Moreover, comparing temperatures measured on different locations, without taking into account the air pressure and relative humidity makes no sense at all.
“How can we trust the measurement system?” We can’t, we shouldn’t, and I won’t. The most serious failures of “modern” methods is to “trust” things that are untrustworthy from the outset. The work of Demming has been lost for these blithering idiots, which is a description I use with great precision. The Red Bead Experiment came to mind as I was reading this account.
They always start with the headline first.
How many people read the corrections and retractions? 1% of readers? less?
They trot out the alarming story, then (maybe) issue a correction later. Probably keeping the same headline with a small print correction along the lines of…. “a previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the temperature recorded was the highestest everer!”
Their goal is to cause alarm and panic in the population. People in fear are less able to think clearly and easier to herd. They are also more dangerous, but that appears a risk they are willing to take.
“Their goal is to cause alarm and panic in the population.”
Which seems to be working.
“People in fear are less able to think clearly and easier to herd.”
Check.
“They are also more dangerous, but that appears a risk they are willing to take.”
The word is “manage”; That appears a risk they are willing to manage.
For the traditionally cold spot in the metro area yes, the highs were significantly cooler. I don’t consider the 0.3º below normal at PDX and TTD (Troutdale airport) significant. KUVO (Vancouver airport) whose official recording site is almost exactly three miles from PDX (and both less than a half mile from the Columbia River) was another cold spot with the mean high 1.1℉ below normal. All in all it has been a wonderfully boring average summer in Portland.
I’ve never seen a retraction in my local newspaper. Technically, the article below is true, because it reports a local girl’s trip to Greenland, where she claims to have observed a “record” melting event in June. However, the newspaper itself does not comment on the validity of her claim. https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/lucy-shepherd-witnesses-a-historic-melt-event-in-greenland-1-6213540
Newspapers always have had a problem with retractions. A retraction/correction is always buried in a small paragraph on the inside, if the corrections are minor enough to put there. Major corrections don’t happen. This isn’t just recently, I have been noticing this since I was able to read (over 60 years ago)
The data is wrong all the time. I know it’ll take awhile, but any chance of a compiling a list? 🙂
Is there a way to use satellite data to confirm ground based temperature measurements?
During melt season, the temperature sticks very close to the long term average. link Announcements of big temperature records in the arctic in the summer should be taken with a whole sack of salt, never mind just a pinch.
Careful with that salt. You might melt the ice and get another round of wailing news.
The chinese can but no other nation can, the best NASA can do is probably AIRS but you get into a lot of discussion and argument over it’s accuracy. The problem is from space you can only get specific frequencies to ground and clouds and ocean areas don’t help. Classical temperature is a mixture of all the frequencies and so you have to try and model and blend data together.
China with it’s quantum radar can do what you are asking. There are test results for ground target sites around Tibet and mainland china. Lots of the work the became heavily classified as it has become part of the China Quantum Radar plan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_radar)
First real world tests were in 2016, in 2018 the first plane mounted system was reported and in April this year a release from China Military seems to confirm they have a test system in space.
Surface (“skin”) temperatures are easy to measure from satellites in clear weather. But they are always very close to zero during melt season.
They can also measure temperatures right through the atmosphere, though only as averages in rather thick layers.
What satellites can’t do is measure the temperature 1.5 m above the ground, which is the traditional definition of “surface temperature”
Get used to it. It will get warmer and it will all melt, with or without humans.
A quick check of geology since the Cambrian explosion (of species) 600 million years ago will reveal:
1. The global average temp has been over 10 C hotter than it is today, for more than 50% of that time.
2. On some definitions of “ice age” (simultaneous sea ice at the poles) the ice age of the holocene hasn’t yet ended.
3. Ice ages have occurred for approximately 10% of that time.
How can we not expect warming of 10 C at least?
The scam of our life time is the “2 C warming = catastrophe” BS. it’s normal and expected.
Have you ever thought that if we hadn’t invented thermometers, the world would not have to now be obsessing over a poofteenth change in whether we were experiencing just freezing / cold / cool / nice / warm / hot conditions?
But then a again what would the media have to obsess about every day?
What a fuss to make over a little six degree error. So it was -2, for how long? What’s the night time reading? Is there even any night at this time of year?
I hope the entire ice sheet melts. It will add far more land than will be lost to sea level rise, as the whole of northern Canada and Siberia will be a moderate instead of an Arctic clime.
I don’t see any benefit in “rooting for the place to freeze” (sorry Aussies – I know the expression means something else down there). That ice sheet isn’t all that old in the first place.
Send the tree line to the north end of Ellesmere Island. Imagine the endless (literally) summer nights sitting by the pool as the birds pick off the last of the mosquitoes amid the Alpine forest shimmering in the breeze.
In one hundred thousand years they will still be laughing at the catastrophists of the 21st Century.
The data WERE wrong.
I wonder what happens now. Will BEST adjust other Greenland temperatures to accommodate the wrong measurement, or will it guess a correct temperature there? Waiting for official August data …
For nearly 500 years, the Vikings lived and thrived in Greenland. Taking advantage of the Medieval Warm Period, they established outposts in the North Atlantic where they farmed and ranched. But quite suddenly, at the mid-point of the 15th century, they abandoned their settlements
Almost everyone knows the Vikings lived in Greenland from about 1000 to 1500. Why do the alarmist shrills ignore this universally accepted fact when the post their rubbish about fossil fuels are melting Greenland? Biden, recently summed it up. They’re more interested in (their version of) the truth then the facts. You have to get your arms around that statement before you can understand a liberal. (I struggled with it for 40 years). Thanks Joe….but I’m still not going to vote for you.
For nearly 500 years, the Vikings lived and thrived in Greenland. Taking advantage of the Medieval Warm Period, they established outposts in the North Atlantic where they farmed and ranched. But quite suddenly, at the mid-point of the 15th century, they abandoned their settlements
Almost everyone knows the Vikings lived in Greenland from about 1000 to 1500. Why do the alarmist shrills ignore this universally accepted fact when they post their rubbish about fossil fuels are melting Greenland? Biden, recently summed it up. They’re more interested in (their version of) the truth then the facts. You have to get your arms around that statement before you can understand a liberal. (I struggled with it for 40 years). Thanks Joe….but I’m still not going to vote for you.
It is OK, there will never be a reprint…..you only get to see what fits the narrative……
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is renowned for homogenising weather temperature data, or getting their predictions just plainly wrong, It is hoped that they weren’t involved in Greenland’s erroneous temp readings.
Or using the most appalling sites, while not directly using their measurements they are used to correct official sites. Jo Nova has been showing some of these.
BOM predicted a dry and warm winter but we have had one of the coldest I can remember.
They are indeed masters of temperature homogenization and a recently started survey of temperature measuring stations are turning out to be as bad the many I the US. Would love to have Anthony come down and audit BOM.
The tortured data fights back!
Slightly OT.
But maybe not.
Did you see the recent mpegs of kangaroos bouncing around in the Australian snow?
Several sequences at the usual sites. Not the Beeb.
I mention it because it is an amusing couple of minutes.
I don’t think it has much to do with climate.
But no doubt Nick Stokes will explain that it is all caused by human CO2, anyway.
“But no doubt Nick Stokes will explain that it is all caused by human CO2”
No, it is caused by winter. We have ski resorts here, you know. There are parts of the country (with kangaroos) where snow is frequent.
But it has to be UNREPRESENTED you are letting the side down Nick.
I say we need a ski resort Climate Emergency officer and I am applying for the job as it sounds like a good jig.
Gosh!
Thanks for enlightening me! Be difficult skiing where this troop of kangaroos was filmed.
But, actually, I do have a fair understanding of Australian fauna and of Australian weather.
Note, I didn’t claim this event was ‘unprecedented’ or even unusual. I even doubted that it was much to do with climate. I said it was amusing. Which it is.
But I must take issue with your outlandish claim that it was caused by win-ter.
Sooo C.20th, Nick.
Didn’t you even get the memo about the “Climate Emergency”?
Why, even here in the UK, we have one unusually warm day (as confirmed by a reading from a very poorly sited thermometer in Cambridge) and it is certainly stated to be ‘Unprecedented’. Your mate Bob ‘fast fingers’ Ward, (the failed paleopiezometrist and stooge for Jeremy Grantham’s Carbon Trading Hedge Fund operation) was quick to demand names for future ‘hot weather events’.
It was suggested that “Sum-mer” might be a good idea, but the BBC & the rest of the Climate Cult didn’t think that would be scary enough.
Meanwhile, the politically motivated and venal Climate Psyentists keep remarkably shtum.
“I said it was amusing”
You should watch them at the ski jump!
LOL. Thanks Nick. Brought a smile to my face