Benny Peiser: Shock Horror – Media Hype and Climate Alarmism
Women’s Institute – Science Day, 21 November, 1:40pm http://www.wi-cheshire.org.uk/diary.html
Benny Peiser: Space Technology for Planetary Defence Chester Astronomical Society, 26 November, 7:30pm http://www.manastro.co.uk/nwgas/chester/2008.htm
Ian Plimer did a great job on Australian ABC Television last night explaining climate in a geological context.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/200811/s2416977.htm
On the same program the Treasury fantasy modelling had a rune alongside highly critical interventions from two industry leaders.
THERE has been some anecdotal evidence suggesting that last month, October 2008, was unusually cold. The sophisticated weather-watcher, of course, waits for some official global temperature data to be published before concluding very much.
Al Gore’s scientific advisor, James Hansen from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), publishes a monthly mean global surface temperature.
Some dispute the methodology Dr Hansen uses to arrive at his monthly mean values, but nevertheless I have observed that his GISS data is usually somewhere in the vicinity of the data from the Hadley Centre at the UK Meteorology Bureau and the Satellite data compiled at the University of Alabama, Huntsville – though yes Dr Hansen’s data is usually on the warm side. [Read more…] about Correcting Global Cooling (Part 2)
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NASA scientist, Josh Willis, was so concerned that his data, showing ocean cooling, did not fit the official consensus on climate change that he searched for a solution. Eventually he “applied a correction” so the historical ocean temperature record showed a relatively steady increase in line with the climate models.
Perhaps Dr Willis really did get it wrong between 2003 and 2005 when his data showed a large decrease in the heat content of the ocean. But after reading his justification for the correction, I am not convinced. Indeed and I am left wondering how to ever trust the official temperature record again.
This is Dr Willis’ story:
On a Thursday evening in February 2007, Josh Willis stood in front of his laptop, his wife cajoling him to get ready to go out to dinner. He looked with a sinking feeling at the map he had just made. Willis, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, specializes in making estimates of how much heat the ocean stores from year to year. [Read more…] about Correcting Ocean Cooling: NASAChanges Data to Fit the Models Adjusts Data from Buoys
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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