While every snow flurry or cool snap is often cited as evidence of the folly of “global warming” by critics, scientists at the NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies have released data showing that 2010 now ranks as the hottest climate year on record.
The combined land-ocean temperature readings from NASA’s Goddard Institute indicate that 2010 has surpassed what it identified as the previous warmest climate year, 2005.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data shows that 1998 was the warmest year on record with 2005 close behind. The findings have been released after another failure to reach a significant reductions in emissions in the Cancun summit.
Nations again refused to make the cuts necessary to prevent global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
This report comes with the disclosure that a top FOX executive ordered correspondents not to cite global warming statistics and to question the basis for climate change claims.
Source: Washington Post
25 degrees; 8 degree wind chill here in New York. Where’s this Global Warming I’m hearing about?
Brrr.
Nal:
I dont think the science is settled on vaccines and autism.
Also autism is a very broad spectrum. I bet many very bright people suffer from some form of autism. think Asperger Syndrome. It is also my understanding that many high tech companies look for these people because they can concentrate for hours on a particular problem.
That climate changes, no one, not even Bdaman disputes that fact. Climate changes all the time over short and long periods.
What we don’t believe is man being the initiator of the change.
Leave the science to real scientists with no political ax to grind.
Nal it’s there own lies and deception that has created the doubt.
Hansen like the IPCC has been caught fudging data several times.
Reprint from above
The IPCC’s claim that the Himalayan glaciers were melting was based off of a phone interview with a non-scientist. They were forced to retract the claim
The IPCC claim that global warming was led to increased natural disasters was based on an unpublished report that had not been subject to peer-review. They were forced to retract the claim
The IPCC’s claim that global warming was going to lead to deficiencies of up to 50% in African agriculture was based on a non-peer-reviewed and non-scientific paper. They were forced to retract the claim
The IPCC’s claim that “up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation” was based on a non-peer-reviewed and non-scientific paper. They were forced to retract the claim
The IPCC reported that 55% of the Netherlands was below sea level when just 26% of the country is below sea level. They were later forced to retract the claim
According to a leaked email in “climategate,” computer programmer Harry Harris called the CRU data set “hopeless,” and said “the rest of the databases seem to be in nearly as poor a state as Australia was. […]This whole project is SUCH A MESS. No wonder I needed therapy!!”
When looking at source code leaked in “climategate” used to “process” and “adjust” temperatures, software engineer John Graham-Cumming said he found at least five errors and “wouldn’t trust it”
The Hadley CRU, the institution at the center of the “climategate” scandal, threw out original temperature data because it claimed it did not have “storage space”
William Connolly, a Wikipedia administrator and co-founder of Realclimate.org, a website that supports the theory of anthropogenic global warming, “touched” over 5,400 Wikipedia articles, routinely omitting voices that were skeptical of global warming
In the court case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills, a British judge ruled that there were nine “inaccuracies” in An Inconvenient Truth, including Gore’s claim that sea level could rise by up to 20 ft. The IPCC’s own report predicted a maximum rise of 59cm in sea level over 100 years. The Science and Public Policy Institute has taken issue with thirty five of Gore’s claims in An Inconvenient Truth
Let’s also cast doubt on evolution, the germ theory of disease, that vaccines don’t cause autism, the age of the universe, …
Critics have called into question all the above scientific theories.
Fox news ordered staffers to cast doubt on climate change science.
One of Al Gores famous sayings
The science is settled there will be no more debate.
Cold-stunned turtles wash up on NC beaches
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The cold weather gripping the Carolinas has meant stunned sea turtles along the coast and the need for green turtles hatched from a South Carolina nest to hitch a ride to the Gulf Stream.
The StarNews of Wilmington reports that loggerhead sea turtles become paralyzed by abnormally low temperatures.
Thirty additional turtles were reported in trouble Tuesday near Cape Lookout. Twenty other turtles were discovered along the coast earlier, said Karen Beasley, the director of the Topsail Beach Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center.
More than 100 sea turtles have been brought into the New England Aquarium after they were found stunned on beaches in Cape Cod, Mass.
Read more: http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/12/08/1857522/cold-stunned-turtles-wash-up-on.html#storylink=mirelated#ixzz18BzucpkD
Swarthmore mom,
Thanks for the link.
What is it that you find wrong with the memo?
“…we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/fox-news-climate-change-email_n_796963.html Fox news ordered staffers to cast doubt on climate change science.
Who was it that said, sometimes less is more?
Elaine M.,
“Set(ting) my calendar back to zero” and “yep, there’s always one”…
Like my first post on this thread
Sometimes to see the truth you have to talk to the animals.
Shocked by the biting cold, dying turtles get new life
“In my 35 years here this is the first time I’ve seen something of this magnitude,” said Carmelo J. Duesler, a park service specialist with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, who supervised Tuesday’s rescue effort.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/01/12/1421974/shocked-by-the-biting-cold-dying.html#ixzz18BxTwhjA
Al Gore’s new book had a problem – no big hurricanes since Katrina to put in the book to look “threatening” to the USA. Any imagined link between hurricanes and global warming has evaporated.
Solution: the artists airbrush.
Ryan Maue, hurricane expert from Florida State University writes:
The cover opens and closes half and half — so you only see one hurricane…as in the press release photo or the one on Amazon.
But this is the real picture sequence from the book which I looked at Borders today and took cell-phone pictures, original (before the retouching by some “artist”) Note all of the Arctic ice and the size of the Florida Peninsula…
A midget Southern Hemisphere cyclone is off the coast of Florida, another hurricane is sitting on the equator off the coast of Peru — and the Arctic Ice is gone (perhaps it is summer) and the Florida Peninsula is half gone
There are other differences I am sure you can find — but the hurricanes are just nonsense? Nonsense? No more like scaremongering, especially when it has been shown time and again that there is no hurricane to global warming linkage, and we are at a 30 year low.
With 2010 [possibly but not probably] being the hottest year ever, we will likely see the fewest number of global tropical cyclones observed in at least three-decades…
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/15/global-tropical-cyclone-activity-still-in-the-tank/#more-29418
I would rather stand on the side of truth than to side with deception.
Al Gore: Votes, not science, led me to back corn ethanol
Earlier support of ‘first generation ethanol’ was about his presidential bid
Al Baby, Mr. Eco friendly said he made a mistake in supporting corn-based ethanol while he was in office, admitting he was more interested in farm votes for his presidential run than what was best for the environment.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40317079/ns/us_news-environment/
I would rather stand on the side of truth than to side with deception.
Bdaman:
well said, truth over profit. We know where Al Gore and others of his ilk stands on this issue.
I always figured you for a straight up guy.
2010 Antarctica Peer-Reviewed Research: Ice Core Data Confirms Medieval Period Warmer Than Present
Scientists using the latest analysis techniques, conducted a high resolution analysis of the ice core retrieved from Antarctica’s Dome C station. The Dome C is located on the eastern half of Antarctica, on the polar plateau with an elevation of 10,607 feet. (The more well-known Vostok polar station is located on the same plateau at a similar elevation, ~ 3,200 meters.)
What did this new high resolution analysis determine?
1. The Medieval Warming period had temperatures that approached 1°C higher than current temperatures, in spite of lower CO2 levels.
2. The Minoan Warming period had temperatures that possibly exceeded current temperatures by 1°C, in spite of lower CO2 levels.
3. The previous interglacial period, approximately 130,000 years ago, had temperatures in excess of 4°C versus current temperatures, in spite of lower CO2 levels.
Clearly, the new ice core data indicates that natural climate variations caused huge temperature variations in the past. Based on this empirical climate science, it would be safe to conclude that current climate changes are predominantly driven by natural forces not human CO2 trace gas emissions.
http://www.c3headlines.com/2010/06/2010-antarctica-peerreviewed-research-ice-core-data-confirms-medieval-period-warmer-than-present.html
I would rather stand on the side of truth than to side with deception.
Michael Mann author of the famous hockey stick graph left out the Medieval Warming period. Hide the Decline
lottakatz,
Could you tell us how you gave away your house, moved to another area, and bought a new house to live in; without spending a dime?
That is what took place in your analogy, isn’t it? Or did you just forget that the only way for you to make the move was to get your child to take out a significant high-risk loan that their child will have to finish paying back? (a more accurate analogy)
I’m not against “going green”, but when those trying to sell others on the idea completely forget to acknowledge any associated cost, I have to wonder if they understand the complete picture.
“I figure that with some climate change or global warming is simply a matter of belief, not science.”
What is the extent of your background in climate science? Do you fully understand the science involved, or is it “simply a matter of belief” for you?
Reasonable, honorable people can disagree.
Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri all stand to make a vast amount of money off the natural variability of the climate.
No matter big oil or the ones mentioned above greed and profit all play into it no matter whose side your on. I would rather stand on the side of truth than to side with deception.
http://www.opensecrets.org/earmarks/index.php
many people think lobbying is only for big oil or big coal or big pharma. Quite a few earmarks are returned to lawmakers via the people and organizations that receive this money. For example if a University receives a $500,000 grant for studying the mating habits of Formosan Termites, a portion of that grant money is returned to the lawmaker who provided the earmark.
Man, I wish I could take someone elses money, give it to an orginization and receive a 5 to 10 percent of the “contribution”.
What a racket and the funny thing? about 65% of them are democrats.
Mike Appleton:
The issue wasnt ocean garbage it was climate change.
I am not opposed to doing something about garbage, it should be burned for fuel. And human waste should be processed and turned into something useful like fertilizer.
Why aren’t you and others up in arms about something we can actually do to help the planet? Instead of focusing on a problem that isn’t caused by man but most likely by sun cycles and location of earth in regards the sun.
p.s. the medievel warming period was local to europe. it wasn’t a world wide event.
Published: December 14, 2010
Portions of the Southwest have suffered prolonged drought since 2001. But the medieval drought, which peaked along the Colorado River between 1146 and 1155, stands as the worst drought in the region for at least 1,200 years, according to the tree ring records.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/14/14climatewire-scientists-see-the-southwest-as-first-major-78170.html