Cold Climate

Cold is the Enemy of Life

Earth's climate has been in a state of continuous change since the beginning of time. Ice ages have come and gone - our world has heated and cooled several times during the short period of human history - all caused perhaps by eccentricities in the planet's orbit and rotation, or perhaps the perambulations of the sun around its gravitational axis.

Whilst the tiny amount of CO2 in the atmosphere released as a result of human activities continues to rise, global temperatures have fallen since 2002, Arctic sea ice has recovered from last year's melt and Antarctic sea ice coverage is significantly greater than average. Satellite measurements of the oceans show they are cooling and sea levels are falling, whilst measurements at Mauna Loa observatory reveal a drop in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere during the last six months.

None of the computer models used to support the claims of the climate alarmists can account for any of the above - they cannot be relied upon.

The Moche people of South America once ripped out the beating hearts of thousands of victims as a sacrifice to their weather gods in a futile attempt to prevent drenching rains brought to their lands by extreme El Nino events.

The Rudd government warns of imminent economic recession but is still blindly determined to force us to make equally pointless sacrifices by ripping out the faltering heart of Australia's economy with its emissions trading scam.

Cabernet Sauvignon - the juice of life.

My favourite tipple - not a red flagon, but rich, peppery Cab Sav...

The Hockey Stick scam exposed...

Sadly for AGW seminarians the sacred hockey stick is now well proven to be a desperate fraud perpetrated by duplicitous ideologues franticly trying to shore up their shattered reputations.

As the ‘Bishop’ expounds, McIntyre et al have consummately consigned the hockey stick to the dustbin of  phony cult texts.

"There has been the most extraordinary series of postings at Climate Audit over the last week. As is usual at CA, there is a heavy mathematics burden for the casual reader, which, with a bit of research I think I can now just about follow. The story is a remarkable indictment of the corruption and cynicism that is rife among climate scientists, and I'm going to try to tell it in layman's language so that the average blog reader can understand it. As far as I know it's the first time the whole story has been set out in a single posting. It's a long tale - and the longest posting I think I've ever written and piecing it together from the individual CA postings has been a long, hard but fascinating struggle. You may want to get a long drink before starting, and those who suffer from heart disorders may wish to take their beta blockers first."

Pop over to Bishop Hill to read about this disgraceful story...

Lies, damn lies and (take your pick) enhancements/estimates/models/adjustments

Hansen's fiddling with GISS temperature records has been shown to artificially cool temperatures recorded in the past.

This 'reverse engineering' of climate records produces an artificial warming trend in modern times which a cynic could believe has been created in order to support the increasingly rickety tenets of the writ of the holy church of AGW.

Andrew Watt explains...

If the average temperature of the older record during the period of overlap is warmer than the MCDW record, the older record is “cooled” to match MCDW. The opposite is true if the older record is warmed to match the MCDW.

All things being equal, a cold estimate for December 1986 results in a colder 1987 to 1990 MCDW, as compared to the older record. Therefore, the older record is uniformly cooled to match the MCDW estimate. June 1906 is cooled just as much as February 1985. Across Europe, Greenland, Iceland, and all of Russia this happens more than twice as much as the warming does. And it is done to many records that go well back in time.

By cooling the older record and leaving the current record unchanged, an enhanced warming trend is introduced. This is completely artificial, of course, because the actual December 1986 temperatures are available.

Watts up with that has more...