Can We Trust This Climate Data?
onb o
9 Dec 2009
On Day two of the Copenhagen climate conference, the UN announced that the
current decade is the warmest on record.
Please allow us to unravel this web of deception.
The UN's World Meteorological Organization released Tuesday a preliminary
report that claims the 10-year period from 2000 to 2009 is the warmest since
records began in 1850.
We find the claim to be, well, a bit silly.
How, for instance, can serious scientists compare data from record keeping
in 1850 to modern record-keeping?
The report says the data are culled "from networks of land-based weather and
climate stations, ships and buoys, as well as satellites."
It might be rude to challenge the leaders of the faith, but we have to ask:
How many satellites, ships and buoys were used in 1850?
Whatever the answer is, the WMO needs to explain to the public how adding
data sources in later years skews the overall picture.
Furthermore, how do the land-based weather stations match up?
Are they the same set of stations used since 1850, or have stations been
added and dropped through the decades?
Have there always been enough stations to adequately represent the global
temperature?
A global map of weather stations shows they are highly concentrated in the
US and Europe.
Their presence in Asia, Africa and South America is almost nonexistent. How
can their readings from only a portion of the globe be indicative of the
entire planet?
And what about the placement of weather stations?
Developed areas create heat islands that register higher temperatures, which
aren't relevant to climate or global temperatures.
How many stations located in undeveloped areas 150 years ago are now
surrounded by growth and are recording distorted temperatures?
There is, as well, a cherry-picking problem.
The record-keeping period the UN is using is 159 years. But a look at
temperatures over the last 10,000 years as determined by ice cores, not
weather stations, shows that the planet has gone through much warmer eras
than it is now experiencing.
Also inconvenient to the UN's report is the scandal at the Climatic Research
Unit at the University of East Anglia, one of three climate data analysis
centers.
E-mails between researchers recently made public reveal: a pattern of
manipulation of the data; an effort to crush scientists who dissented from
the "consensus" that man is warming the planet; and the possible defrauding
of the taxpayers who have funded their research.
The global warming alarmists won't admit it publicly, but their campaign is
in trouble.
The truth is catching up to them.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=514684
Warmest Regards
B0n oz
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
Peter Terry
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I'd rather trust reputable scientists on global warming than the wacko
redneck right and religious crusades against FACT!!
PeterT
Surfer
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>9 Dec 2009
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>On Day two of the Copenhagen climate conference, the UN announced that the
>current decade is the warmest on record.
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That is probably right. It is consistent with the following,
Sea level rise is accelerating:
http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/
Sea level rise is associated with the thermal expansion of sea water
due to climate warming and widespread melting of land ice.
The average rate of sea level rise has increased as follows:
1870 - 1990 1.7 mm/year
1990 - 2009 3.3 mm/year
Arctic sea ice extent is decreasing:
(See graph at right)
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
Larger image here
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/n_plot_hires.pn
The global lower troposphere temperature anomaly is heading upward.
(The fluctuations now lie almost entirely ABOVE the zero axis, whereas
several decades ago they were evenly balanced above and below the
axis.)
http://climatesci.org/wp-content/uploads/0709tlt_bar.jpg
Morton Davis
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> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:49:31 +1100, " onb o" <y...@y.com> wrote:
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>>9 Dec 2009
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>>On Day two of the Copenhagen climate conference, the UN announced that the
>>current decade is the warmest on record.
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> That is probably right. It is consistent with the following,
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