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Correcting Global Cooling (Part 2)

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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)

Correcting Ocean Cooling: NASAChanges Data to Fit the Models Adjusts Data from Buoys

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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

Bob Carter and Bill Kininmonth on YouTube

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Hi Jen, 

 

For your info & to pass on to others.

 

1) The presentations on climate change by Bob Carter & Bill Kininmonth made at the recent AEF conference in Canberra are on the youtube.com/bushvision web site as detailed below. 

 

Cheers

Leon Ashby

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOFoFx7S6M Bob Carter AEF 2008 Pt 1

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=6RaVUFXZ1E8 Bob Carter AEF 2008 PT 2

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4N25xIDDI    Bob Carter AEF 2008 Pt 3

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-EQ1H87hA  Bob Carter AEF 2008 PT 4

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPZNk5ozig  Bill Kininmonth Pt 1

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0mW8uaj8Evg Bill Kinimonth Pt 2

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=JNRYacFgIqI   Bill Kininmonth Pt 3

 

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=i-5PCN6wVVE Bill Kininmonth Pt 4