Bush-era climate policy fiasco revisited.
Harry Hope
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20091128/ARTICLES/911279915?Title=Bush-era-climate-policy-fiasco-revisited
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Bush-era climate policy fiasco revisited
By Louis Clark
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In 2005 the Bush administration attempted to muzzle the world�s most
famous climate scientist, Dr. Jim Hansen.
As a top scientist at NASA, he publicly commented on data which
convinced him that 2005 was one of the hottest years on record.
At a climate science conference he also observed, �In my more than
three decades in the government, I have never seen anything
approaching the degree to which information flow from scientists to
the public has been screened and controlled as it is now.�
As Dr. Hansen accurately observed and courageously protested, the
public affairs offices at certain environmental science-oriented
government agencies were imposing strict rules on employees.
These included requiring that all press inquiries be referred to
public affairs offices, which would then determine which staff could
�most appropriately� answer the inquiries.
The public affairs offices went so far as to demand that any scientist
who did submit to interviews must allow public affairs officials to
sit in during taping.
Later, a 24-year old NASA public affairs employee, whose only
qualification for his position was that he had volunteered for the
2004 Bush reelection campaign, ordered the renowned Dr. Hansen to shut
up and follow the rules or suffer �dire consequences.�
However, the scientist refused to remain silent about the dire
consequences of climate change.
When the official was found to have lied on his resume about having a
college degree, the absurdity of such an under-qualified neophyte
ordering a courageous, world-famous public servant to suppress his
views became obvious even to the Bush administration.
NASA quickly backed down, largely reworking its policy and forcing the
public affairs employee to resign.
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Harry
Bret Cahill
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> Saturday, November 28, 2009
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> Bush-era climate policy fiasco revisited
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> By Louis Clark
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Good article but I can beat Hansen's censorship story.
euno...@yahoo.com.au
> >http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20091128/ARTICLES/911279915?Title=B...
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> > Saturday, November 28, 2009
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> > Bush-era climate policy fiasco revisited
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> > By Louis Clark
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> > Harry
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> Good article but I can beat Hansen's censorship story.
Steve McIntyre found that a Y2K clock reset the temperature sensors
calibration causing a small temperatue jump: thus making 1934 not 1998
or 2006 the hottest year.
Amazingly a climate kook just resurrected one of Hansens most
embarrasing of many premature ejaculations thinking it would help the
AGW cause. (Shows you how well informed they are)
In a stunning turn of events data (quietly) released by NASA shows
that the 4 warmest years ever recorded occurred in the 1930's, with
the warmest year on record being 1934 (not 1998).
- Global Warming is actually a Y2K bug!
Data discovered on NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
website revises recorded temperatures for the United States. It is
expected that similar revisions will also be made for global
temperature recordings. This information was discovered by Steve
McIntyre of Climate Audit on Wednesday (8/8/2007). No NASA press
release, no James Hansen (head of GISS) announcement, nothing. Could
it be because they don't want anyone to see it? The data is certainly
devastating for the Al Gore camp which has based much of their Carbon
Credits sales pitch on recent temperatures (e.g. claiming that 1998
was the warmest on record).
Other aspects of the data are just as stunning.
•Only 4 of the top 10 warmest years occurred in the past 10 years
(1998, 1999, 2006)
•Out of the top 10 warmest years half occurred before 1940
•The years 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004 were cooler than the year 1900
•1996, just two years before what Al Gore called the hottest year in
the history of the planet, was actually cooler than average.
•1921 was the third warmest year in recorded history (behind 1934 and
1998).
Bret Cahill
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> > > Saturday, November 28, 2009
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> > > Bush-era climate policy fiasco revisited
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> > > By Louis Clark
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> > > _____________________________________________
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> > > Harry
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> > Good article but I can beat Hansen's censorship story.
>
> Steve McIntyre found that a Y2K clock reset the temperature sensors
> calibration causing a small temperatue jump: thus making 1934 not 1998
> or 2006 the hottest year.
We still get to drill for Arctic oil don't we?
Bret Cahill
Shrikeback
It figures that Harry Hopenchange would want to blather about
the irrelevant in the era of the tipping point we like to call
"Climategate."
Ouroboros Rex
Day 10, still zero fraud found - except that from denialists! lol
John Stafford
"Ouroboros Rex" <i...@casual.com> wrote:
> Day 10, still zero fraud found - except that from denialists! lol
Ten days means nothing. Besides, rather than calling it a fraud, they
will simply call it bad science.
I M @ good guy
wrote:
Coercion, threats, collusion, possible conspiracy,
destruction of government data?
If I were on the school board, they all would
be looking for jobs some place else.
The government should end all association
with the school as long as any of those involved
are there.
Bret Cahill
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> Ten days means nothing.
Rightard desperation becomes more obvious each day.
> Besides, rather than calling it a fraud, they
> will simply call it bad science.
95% of scientists don't want to have anything to do with the GOP.
Rightards are anti-science.
Bret Cahill
Shrikeback
It appears that the "hockey stick" graph was completely
bogus, an artificial construct created by massaging the data.
into the form of a hockey stick. As a result, Mann is under
investigation. In any case, nobody was defrauded out of
any money, except maybe voters, but that has never been
a crime. If it were, we'd have to throw most of our
politicians in prison.
Shrikeback
> > > Day 10, still zero fraud found - except that from denialists! lol
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> > Ten days means nothing.
>
> Rightard desperation becomes more obvious each day.
The projection of hysterical unabomber-esque luddite
greenola chicken littles becomes more obvious every
day. Yes, the sky is falling, if you just transform the
height of the sky with this time series, then throw away
all the data about the actual height of the sky. Yes,
indeed.
> > Besides, rather than calling it a fraud, they
> > will simply call it bad science.
>
> 95% of scientists don't want to have anything to do with the GOP.
>
> Rightards are anti-science.
How's that fluidization microwage perpetual motion
free speech on chinese labor camps beam weapon
coming along? Got any green stimulus grants yet?
T. Keating
wrote:
>On Nov 29, 5:21�am, Bret Cahill <BretCah...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>> >http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20091128/ARTICLES/911279915?Title=B...
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>> > Saturday, November 28, 2009
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>> > Bush-era climate policy fiasco revisited
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>> > By Louis Clark
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>
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>> > _____________________________________________
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>> > Harry
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>> Good article but I can beat Hansen's censorship story.
>
>Steve McIntyre found that a Y2K clock reset the temperature sensors
>calibration causing a small temperatue jump: thus making 1934 not 1998
>or 2006 the hottest year.
How would a w2k bug affect temp readings in 1998???
It wasn't a w2k bug..
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2007/20070810_LightUpstairs.pdf
As I recall Steve didn't find anything of significance..
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php?f=percentage
Skeptic Arguments
Line 18.. 2%... 1934 is the hottest year on record
http://www.skepticalscience.com/1934-hottest-year-on-record.htm
""In August 2007, Steve McIntyre noticed a strange discontinuity in US
temperature data, occurring around January 2000. McKintyre notified
NASA who acknowledged the problem as an 'oversight' that would be
fixed in the next data refresh. The warmest year on US record is now
1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to
second place." (Daily Tech)."
What the science says...
1934 is the hottest year on record in the USA which only comprises 2%
of the globe. According to NASA temperature records, the hottest year
on record globally is 2005.
Steve McIntyre's discovery of a glitch in the GISS temperature data is
an impressive achievement. Make no mistake, it's an embarrassing error
on the part of NASA. But what is the significance?
NASA's "Y2K" glitch
Contrary to many reports, the error wasn't a Y2K bug but a mixup over
data corrections with the NOAA. NASA GISS obtain much of their
temperature data from the NOAA who adjust the data to filter out
primarily time-of-observation bias (although their corrections also
include inhomogeneities and urban warming - more on NOAA adjustments).
From January 2000, NASA were mistakenly using unadjusted data.
USA temperature versus global temperature trends
What is often overlooked is the temperature adjustments only applied
to temperatures in 48 U.S. states. As the USA comprises only 2% of the
globe, this has had infinitesimal effect on global trends.
The graph below (courtesy of Open Mind) compares the global
temperature trend from before and after adjustments. Before the error
was discovered, the trend was 0.185�C/decade. After corrections were
made, the trend was still 0.185�C/decade. The change to the global
mean was less than one thousandth of a degree.
..meanwhile .. AGW continues..
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_869_en.html
"World Meteorological Organization press release"
"2000-2009, THE WARMEST DECADE"
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/images/NewImage.PNG
Pavor Nocturnus
That's because Science is lies. A big cabal led by Al Gore that is
out to undermine Conservative ideology and discredit it.
Lord Monckton says so, and he's far smarter than any commoner.