The world has never seen such freezing heat (1)
Posted on 16 November 2008 by Jack
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.
This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China’s official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its “worst snowstorm ever”. In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.
So what explained the anomaly? GISS’s computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
Update: 5:14 pm and I’m gone. Make certain you pick up on Joanne’s entry at the Daily Blogger and follow the link. “Apparently”, Sarah has a pet bear just now coming online.
Goodnight.
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November 16th, 2008 at 10:59 am
“it’s wise for the world’s government’s to embark on some of the most costly economic measures ever proposed, to remedy a problem which may actually not exist, is a question which should give us all pause for thought.”
Ok, I’ve thought about it.
Thank-you Stephen Harper!
Having said that, think of all of the money governments have sunk into the whole climate change charade, that could have been used elsewhere?
If I remember my Grade 5 elementary school science and geography teachers words correctly, he said that climate change is static, and sometimes cyclical. It’s also bigger than all of us and there’s very little one can do to change climate.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Someday the CPC is going to regret its decision to flip flop on global warming. Instead of staying the course for what they truly believed, they ‘caved’ to politica agenda. They blew an opportunity to be recognized as the ONLY political party wise enough to see through all the rhetoric and subsequently reap the benefits at the polls. Instead they chose to abandon the job as barnyard rooster and just join the rest of the flock of chicken littles. Pity.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Ah, but VOCA, when did you attend elementary school? I’m sure that what you were taught has been revised to reflect the current gospel according to Gore/Suzuki.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Thank god for Christopher Booker. He’s one of the few journos who takes a skeptical look at global warming.
November 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
beentheredonethat…
I do not believe Mr. Harper has made much effort to move on this file. It is become a far back burner issue. He is hardly going to be held accountable considering the stated positions of other parties. If anything he will be exonerated for being prudent and cautious.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Voca, I believe you mean “dynamic” (constantly changing) rather than “static” (unchanging) but you’re right… it is bigger than us and poorly understood. It is amazingly arrogant of us to believe we can have such wide-ranging effects.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
jt - you’re right. I’m an old fart, but you know the not too many of the scientific theories and/or formula have changed much, there seem to be more adults making money selling this stuff to a captive audience..the students in the classroom.
There are the exceptions who actually discuss both sides of an issue and let the student come to their own conclusions. Isn’t that what raising critical thinkers is all about?
November 16th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
My son is taking Economics in high school and his teacher is delighted to have a critical thinker in his class. My son tends to be the “spark plug” for their debates. In the past, my son has been criticized for doing exactly the same thing… but that was a socials class where the teacher was more interested in weeping for Darfur than following the course curriculum.
November 16th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
There is enough information out there to completely discredit the AGW alarmists, their theories on radiative forcing, and the models which they use to justify/promote their hypothesis.
The CPC should announce it is putting together an independent commission to study the accuracy of the data used to make the forcasts, where we are today vs those same forcasts, and how observable data stacks up against the theoretical models - before it commits to costly fixes that will hobble us economically.
They would not be denying anything, but would be putting a system in place that would shed lots of light on the failures of the IPCC and their AGW theories.
November 16th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Aside from the fact that I am a staunch Conservative and strong supporter of PMSH, but IMO a flip is a flop…..and I’m not okay with it.
“He was right in 2002, but his government has done an almost complete about-face in 2007 to bring in Kyoto Lite, an exercise that will cost Canadians about $8 billion a year and have, as Harper must know, no effect at all on global warming. We might as well be doing a Rain Dance.
http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=19
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday that Canada “must act” to curb global warming after a newly released report that warns humans are “very likely” the cause of the problem.”
http://tiny.cc/bUTDf
November 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Source: Canada Free Press
Reporting on the alleged financial connections/companies shared by Maurice Strong and Al Gore. Link below:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm
During our recent election it was reported that Dion’s campaign was purchasing carbon off-set credits but PMSH didn’t participate by any purchases.
The focus needs to shift to adaption to historically proven naturally occuring climate changes, while probing and applying the benefits, namely, longer growing seasons and their likely locations.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
BEENTHEREDODONETHAT: Sometimes in a fire the only person in the room not panicking is the one who gets trampled in the stampede for the wrong exit ! So, going in the same wrong direction as the crowd but letting the others get way ahead of you may create the space one needs to go in the right direction or find a right direction or escape route ! Trying to convince the ” lemmings ” to not jump off the cliff is futile.
Harper could have been stubborn and ” right ” and lost the previous to last election to Paul Martin when the Global Warming hysteria was at it’s peak ! At least he has been dragging his feet and facts may catch up with reality.
( Whatever that is? But a ” neutral ” re-evaluation of the validity of the scientific evidence should be done before ” TITANIC ” and futile efforts are put into effect …… to probably NO effect and worse making the Ice Age worse ! ).
November 16th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Jean……the legitimate other side was out there all along, a long list of scientists contradicting Gore’s AGW hysteria. PMSH could have refuted the alarmist’s propoganda, but because the ‘tide’ was coming in instead of going out he chose not to. On this issue PMSH forgot about Canada’s future and instead chose his own. I still support him and the CPC, but if he pisses me off he’s going to hear about it……and he has. That’s not lack of support, that’s called democracy.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
..actually, I guess I could have just said that leaders are expected to lead, not just go with the flow. No matter what……lead! That is all I expect from my Prime Minister. When it comes to AGW, he followed. I for one expect more.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Voca, you blame Harper yet he is the only one who seems to have a grasp on the costs of chasing clouds. So who do you believe has the answer? Dion (or Liberal policy in general), Layton or Suzuki? Having the Liberal or NDP in power would destroy our economy to no benefit but that seems to be what you want.
November 17th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Thanks for the link Anna. Carbon Credits was a new method to get access to cash when President Bush invaded Iraq with a coalition of the willing. That event put Saddam H. in a dugout in the ground without access to cheap oil to sell to the UN bigshots and their ‘friends’ for cash (instead of food for the people as in “Oil for Food”). The climate thingie was manufactured to supply Unca Mo and his Commie friends with money to arm ‘unfriendly to Democracy’ thugs.
My better half is pretty well informed and he has cited the “Progression of the Equinoxes” and Global Tilt (at the North Pole) as the culprit for “Climate change”. The way he explains this phenomena make it reasonable and, as you say Voca, beyond any human control. Try to stop Jupiter Algore!
I do agree with you Jean re GM and PMSH, the lunatics were running the asylum at the time - no rational voice would have had any effect on the ‘thundering herd’. The alarmists were hell bent for leather to blame ‘big oil’; PMSH ‘redistributed’ the blame to include some Puffin pocketbooks and the tune changed…
November 18th, 2008 at 4:02 am
That should be GW (Global Warming).