Tuesday, February 9, 2010

How much global warming has fallen on your house?

Record snow storm hits Washington DC 6-Feb-2010
Even the post office closed... NYTimes said biggest snow fall since 1922...
Anthony Watts (from WattsUpwithThat.com) and Joseph D'Aleo co-authored a recent paper posted at SPPI called "Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception"?
The summary for policymakers:
  1. Instrumental temperature data for the pre-satellite era (1850-1980) have been so widely, systematically, and unidirectionally tampered with that it cannot be credibly asserted there has been any significant “global warming” in the 20th century.

  2. All terrestrial surface-temperature databases exhibit very serious problems that render them useless for determining accurate long-term temperature trends.

  3. All of the problems have skewed the data so as greatly to overstate observed warming both regionally and globally.

  4. Global terrestrial temperature data are gravely compromised because more than three-quarters of the 6,000 stations that once existed are no longer reporting.

  5. There has been a severe bias towards removing higher-altitude, higher-latitude, and rural stations, leading to a further serious overstatement of warming.

  6. Contamination by urbanization, changes in land use, improper siting, and inadequately-calibrated instrument upgrades further overstates warming.

  7. Numerous peer-reviewed papers in recent years have shown the overstatement of observed longer term warming is 30-50% from heat-island contamination alone.

  8. Cherry-picking of observing sites combined with interpolation to vacant data grids may make heat-island bias greater than 50% of 20th-century warming.

  9. In the oceans, data are missing and uncertainties are substantial. Comprehensive coverage has only been available since 2003, and shows no warming.

  10. Satellite temperature monitoring has provided an alternative to terrestrial stations in compiling the global lower-troposphere temperature record. Their findings are increasingly diverging from the station-based constructions in a manner consistent with evidence of a warm bias in the surface temperature record.

  11. NOAA and NASA, along with CRU, were the driving forces behind the systematic hyping of 20th-century “global warming”.

  12. Changes have been made to alter the historical record to mask cyclical changes that could be readily explained by natural factors like multidecadal ocean and solar changes.

  13. Global terrestrial data bases are seriously flawed and can no longer be trusted to assess climate trends or VALIDATE model forecasts.

  14. An inclusive external assessment is essential of the surface temperature record of CRU, GISS and NCDC “chaired and paneled by mutually agreed to climate scientists who do not have a vested interest in the outcome of the evaluations.”15. Reliance on the global data by both the UNIPCC and the US GCRP/CCSP also requires a full investigation and audit

Also, check out another site skeptical of AGW theories:

The Sun, not a harmless essential trace gas, drives climate change

...the sun? Now there's a thought!

2 comments:

  1. I love the Al-Gate name! Besides the (honest) comparison to Watergate and the rest of the -gate coverups, it also sounds vaguely arabic. And for us non-PC people that brings up the things that islam has given us- you know, beheadings, honor killings, FGM, and so on.

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