By jennifer
Jim wrote “It is interesting to note the tents in the pro-AGW camp ….
Margaret Thatcher, Enron, big insurance, creationists, religious fundamentalists, financial markets, Greens, Rio Tinto, social democrats, Scientologists, Rupert Murdoch etcetera.
If nothing else, finding a common cause amongst that lot is a major achievement!”
I will add Madonna and Cameron Diaz.
Let’s see who are skeptical. There is Paul Biggs, Bob Carter …who else?
By jennifer
“God created the world and appointed people as its guardians, telling them to make it fruitful,” said Cardinal Poupard from the Vatican.
“When man forgets that he is the servant of the earth and becomes its master, the earth itself seems to rebel against man, and the place of welcome becomes a desert that threatens the survival of creation.”
To deal specifically with the problem of climate change for the Vatican, the US-based Planktos and its Hungarian partner KlimaFa, have donated part of a reforestation project in Hungry to offset Vatican carbon emissions making the Vatican the “the world’s first carbon-neutral sovereign state.”
Read more at the Catholic News Service: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0704015.htm?source=cmailer
By Paul
Well, possibly a more interesting title than ‘Is the near surface temperature record robust?’ All of the above, plus more besides, can affect the readings at temperature stations. Anthony Watts has been collecting photographs of the USHCN climate stations. He is now up to ‘How not to measure temperature, part 22.’ He has two websites Watts up with that? and surfacestations.org
Obviously, in order for surface temperature measurements to accurately reflect temperature trends, all non-climatic influences must be removed. Initially, Anthony examined the fact that Stevenson screens that house the temperature sensor used to be painted with whitewash, but have been painted with latex paint since 1979. He has purchased 3 Stevenson screens, one has bare wood, one is painted with whitewash, and the other with latex. The initial results were posted here. The latest results will be available in about a week’s time.
Anthony’s work has also caused a ‘blog war’ between Hockey Stick/Big Man-Made Warming defenders Real Climate and Roger Pielke Sr’s Climate Science blog.
Moving on to the peer reviewed science cited by IPCC WG1 in order to support the robustness of near-surface air temperature trends, Roger Pielke Sr claims on his blog, “The IPCC WG1 Chapter 3 Report clearly cherrypicked information on the robustness of the land near-surface air temperature to bolster their advocacy of a particular perspective on the role of humans within the climate system. As a result, policymakers and the public have been given a false (or at best an incomplete) assessment of the multi-decadal global average near-surface air temperature trends.“ Pielke Sr has listed the papers cited by the IPCC, and those that weren’t. Additional evidence has been posted here.
You might agree that life is never dull in climate science. The good news is that Australia’s Reference Climate Station Network seems to be a model for how temperature should be measured.
I now have a list of UK stations used by Phil Jones et al. Maybe I’ll try and obtain photographs of each site. There again, maybe not!
Regards,
Paul Biggs
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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