Bloomberg News
June 2 (Bloomberg)—The global temperature this year reached its warmest on record based on a 12-month-rolling average, James Hansen, the top climate change scientist at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said today.
The rolling average surface temperature in April was about 0.65 of a degree Celsius (1.17 degree Fahrenheit) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to a graph in a 37-page draft paper on the website of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. That makes it a fraction warmer than the previous peak in 2005. Absolute temperatures weren’t published in the paper.
“Record high global temperature during the period with instrumental data was reached in 2010,” Hansen and three co- authors wrote in the paper. “As for the calendar year, it is likely that the 2010 global surface temperature in the GISS analysis also will be a record.”
The figures provide the clearest evidence yet of climate change. Critics of efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by industries that burn fossil fuels had pointed to another data series, compiled by the U.K. Met Office, which puts 1998 as the warmest year, as evidence that the Earth is cooling.
The document will be submitted to Reviews of Geophysics, a scientific journal, Hansen said today in an e-mail.
Climate Debate
Efforts to stem global warming have taken a knock in the past six months after a cold winter in parts of the U.S., China and Europe at the same time as errors were revealed in the United Nation’s biggest climate change report and scientists at the U.K.’s University of East Anglia were accused of suppressing dissent on the issue.
The latest findings may reinvigorate international talks on fighting global warming in Bonn this week. Those discussions stalled in Copenhagen in December. Skepticism about man-made global warming by senators including James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, has helped undermine efforts to pass U.S. laws to limit greenhouse gases.
NASA’s temperature series and another compiled by the U.S. National Climatic Data Center currently have 2005 as the warmest calendar year on record. Those two, along with the Met Office’s data set, are the three main gauges of global temperature used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to compile its assessments of global warming. Read more here.
ICECAP REALITY CHECK
There was indeed a global pop in temperatures despite the harsh (in places record) winter in the Northern Hemisphere. The El Nino was at least a moderate strength El Nino. It and the record negative arctic oscillation helped make the higher latitudes warmer and suppress clouds and winds in the subtropics and tropics, helping keep water temperatures in this the widest latitudinal belt above normal. The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation which went into its warm mode in 1995 rebounded from a slide with the helps of these effects. Drought in India and southeast Asia after two successive monsoon failures related to low solar, high latitude volcanoes and summer El Ninos also contributed to the pop.
As La Nina comes on and the PDO dives, and tropical activity and increasing winds in the Atlantic cool the waters, the global temperature will dive again like it did in the late 1990s and late 2000s. Note how every El Nino leads to a spike up and La Nina to a dip down. Prof. Chris Folland from the Met Office Hadley Centre said in 2008: “Phenomena such as El Nino and La Nina have a significant influence on global surface temperature”.
Hansen, NOAA NCDC, Hadley CRU/UKMO all have reason to find warmth and veriify their scary projections from their tinkertoy models despite the many shortcomings found in these models. Hansen has a proven history of manipulating data to come closer to verifying projections.
E-mail messages obtained by CEI in a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that NASA concluded that its own climate data was inferior to those of the CRU and NOAA. In 2007, a USA Today reporter asked if NASA’s data “was more accurate” than other climate-change data sets, NASA’s Dr. Reto A. Ruedy replied with an unequivocal NO! “My recommendation to you is to continue using NCDC’s data for the U.S… and [East Anglia] data for the global...”
NASA’s GIStemp program recalculates old temperatures with every new data run. Like CRU and NOAA, NASA has managed to cool off the prior warm period (like Michael mann did with the Medieval Warm Period. See below (enlarged here) how in 1980, Hansen had the 1960s 0.3C colder than the 1950s. By 1987, it was just 0.05C colder and by 2007 it had become 0.05C warmer.
This was also done with the 1930s and 1940s, a notoriously warm period where most of the nation (and North America) heat records were set. See below (enlarged here)
NASA makes frequent changes to the data as noted. John Goetz in a guest post on Watts Up With That noted how NASA changed 20% of the station data 16 times in the 2 1/2 years ending in 2007. Recall also in 2007, Steve McIntyre found a ‘millennium bug’ in the NASA software that caused excess warmth post 2000. NASA quickly adjusted the data down 0.12 to 0.15C. This also pushed 1934 back into the lead as the warmest year. that lasted all of one year (NASA kept the old data the same because the world was watching) before NASA returned all that warmth and then some. See below (enlarged here)
Hansen is a man on a mission to save the planet and this includes civil disobedience. As Michael Goldfarb described it “Recently, but presumably still in his capacity as a private citizen and defender of the Earth, Hansen wrote an op-ed for the Guardian in which he described coal-fired power plants as “factories of death.” This on the heels of testifying in a British court on behalf of six Greenpeace activists on trial for causing $60,000 in criminal damage to a coal-fired power station in England.” Could this civil disobedience carry over to the data?
The cooling with the recent two year La Nina has put pressure on NOAA and NASA to accelerate adjustments - NOAA removed urban heat island adjustments for the USHCN in 2007 and announced a new warmer version of GHCN (V3) coming soon. NASA’s cooling of the 1930s to 1950s and adjustment upward of this decade last year (shown in table above as much as 0.19C for a year) put them in a position to make the claim in the release. Should you believe the NASA and NOAA claims? No, no more than those from the Hadley Center/IPCC. (PDF) See David Whitehouse’s take on the NASA claims here.
By Alan Caruba
For anyone who has followed Al Gore’s Green Brick Road to the land of Global Warming, there has to be more than a bit of schadenfreude---taking pleasure in other’s misfortunes---on hearing the news that he and his wife of forty years, Tipper, have separated. However, that feeling is fleeting for reasons that have to do with lots and lots and lots of money.
There is always a moment when one gets an opportunity to peer into the mind of someone and discern that something is seriously amiss. For me it came when I read the 1993 softcover edition of his book, “Earth in the Balance.”
Deep into the text, Gore wrote, “Within the context of the Strategic Environment Initiative, it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five year period.”
There a special kind of crazy to propose eliminating the engine the powers automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, boats and most everything else that transports humans and goods across the face of the Earth.
There is a special kind of crazy that hates oil so much it actually thinks it should not be refined as gasoline, but there are people in government who, unable to accept the genius of the internal combustion engine, have mandated that gasoline be mixed with ethanol.
Ethanol is a chemical otherwise known as moonshine. Every gallon of gas costs more while producing less mileage. Ethanol is so corrosive it cannot be transmitted via pipelines. It requires that acres of corn be turned into a useless fuel instead of food.
I break out in a sweat when I think this loony ran for president of the United States and it took a Supreme Court decision to cede the election to George W. Bush, a Midland, Texas boy whose daddy was in the oil business.
While serving as vice president under Bill Clinton, Gore was a driving force for the United Nations Kyoto Protocols that we now know were based on the lies about global warming. Those same lies are the basis for the Cap-and-Trade legislation under consideration in the U.S. Senate.
Al Gore’s big, big problem these days is something dubbed “Climategate”, the revelation that the “science” of global warming is entirely fabricated and utterly false.
After his election defeat Al Gore put in a call to David Blood, an 18-year veteran of Goldman Sachs. As stated in a new book ‘Killing Wealth’, “Together they began talking about the potential for the largest swindle in history.” In 2003, “Mr. Gore and Mr. Blood had established Generation Investment Management and created a $1 billion fund to invest in the ‘green technologies’ that would save the planet.”
Thereafter, in collusion with a handful of climate scientists, Gore led the most sophisticated and diabolical campaign to convince people and entire governments that “the Earth has a fever” due to too much carbon dioxide. It would require, he said, green technologies to save the Earth from global warming.
These are, by the way, the same technologies that have reaped millions in subsidies and grants from the U.S. government for those desperate to convince everyone that a zillion wind turbines or acres of solar collectors were a better source of energy that a few coal-fired or nuclear plants.
This is the same global warming scheme that enriched a number of university scientists like Michael Mann of the University of Virginia and government hacks like James Hansen who, as director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, started the hoax with his 1988 testimony about global warming before Congress. Their data has since been debunked.
There was, Gore told everyone, a climate crisis and, in the process he grew rich, hailed the first “carbon billionaire” for his various investments.
The problem was that, beginning around a decade ago, the Earth began to cool in a perfectly natural way. In November 2009, the Climategate revelations put the skids to the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen and nations that had bought into green technology began to realize it was an idiotic idea that killed jobs and undermined their economies.
As bad as the bursting of the housing “bubble” has been, the next bubble will be a very green one. And, at the heart of it will be the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore and his partner in crime, the UN climate change program. People will wonder why his famed documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, filled with inaccuracies, won an Oscar and was force-fed to children in schools around the world.
Breathing down his neck is Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) who has called for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate possible fraud by the perpetrators of the “global warming hoax.” Inhofe is Gore’s nemesis. “Every assertion that he made in his science fiction movie has now been disproven...” Should political power in Congress pass to Republicans and when President Obama has left the White House, Gore will have no protection against an investigation that will rival Watergate.
The investigation will involve agencies of the federal government, NOAA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and others as co-conspirators along with the scientists that participated in the global warming fraud. It will likely put a number of people in jail and among them is likely to be Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
If Al Gore and Tipper are legally separated, it will likely provide a measure of protection for the millions he has secured through a fraud that dwarf’s Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
This, I suggest, is probably the real reason for the separation. It is as coldly calculated as his global warming lies. Even their forty-year marriage must be sacrificed.
The global warming fraud has been undermined by Climategate and by the forces of Nature that are determined by the Sun, the oceans, and the clouds that circle the Earth and remain a mystery to the greatest climatologists of our times. See post here.
Caruba blogs daily here. An author, science and business writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about “scare campaigns” designed to influence public opinion and policy.
See also this Washington Examiner story on the Gore’s.
By Paul Chesser, American Spectator
Southern California’s public radio station, KPCC, and its syndicated program “Marketplace” will host a daylong townhall Webcast next Wednesday to salve the wounded psyches of global warming paranoiacs everywhere. The symposium is entitled “Climate and Sustainability: Moving By Degrees,” and is “aimed at bringing together journalists and the public online and at Southern California Public Radio’s (SCPR) Crawford Family Forum to decipher fact from fiction, to learn how our scientific understanding has evolved, and to understand where politics, science and business agree and diverge on how to create a sustainable future.”
That’s right: this public radio station has its own venue where it can stage its own version of news, which it will do by inviting only those scientists, activists and journalists who are sympathetic to The Inconvenient Cause. Those attending:
Dr. Michael E. Mann, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Review
Andrew Revkin, award-winning New York Times Dot Earth blogger
Joe Romm, Center for American Progress and ClimateProgress.org blogger
Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres
Naomi Oreskes, author of “Merchant of Doubt”
Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford University
Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker
According to the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media:
Program managers say the Marketplace workshop, in concert with the Gary Comer Global Agenda, is designed to address “the need for public understanding and tough reporting around energy, climate, and the economy. “They say the disappointing Copenhagen international talks last December and “high-profile scandals and corrections” involving leaked e-mails and IPCC’s mistaken Himalayan glaciers report have left the public “confused and bewildered,” with public opinion largely out of sync with scientific understanding.
Who’s bewildered? It’s the climate realists who’ve historically received the “tough reporting” from this bunch while the Society of Environmental Journalists have carried the alarmists’ water. But despite all the media’s efforts to frame the narrative, Copenhagen failed, Climategate clarified, and the public is in sync with reasonable doubt. When they promote their questionable agenda to call for massive increases in energy costs (cap and trade), that’s not confusion; that’s discernment. Read more here.
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IMPORTANT:Hearings Planned On Mass. Greenhouse Gas Limits
BOSTON (AP) - A series of public hearings are being planned for the public to weigh in on the state’s goal of setting a greenhouse gas limit by 2010. Massachusetts’ 2007 Global Warming Solutions Act requires state Environmental Secretary Ian Bowles to set a 2020 greenhouse gas emissions target of between 10 and 25 percent below the state’s 1990 greenhouse gas emission level. The 2007 law also requires Bowles to come up with a plan to meet that goal. Bowles wants an even more ambitious goal of no less than 18 percent lower than the state’s 1990s greenhouse gas emissions.
The first public hearing is set for Tuesday at the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield. Other hearings are planned for Worcester, Lowell, Lakeville, Springfield, Boston and Woods Hole. See more here.
Hearings on Massachusetts’ proposed range for the 2020 greenhouse gas emissions limit and draft implementing plan will be conducted under the provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 30A on:
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Berkshire Athenaeum
One Wendell Avenue
Pittsfield, MA
Thursday, June 3, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
MassDEP Central Regional Office
627 Main Street
Worcester, MA
Monday, June 7, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Pollard Memorial Library
401 Merrimack Street
Lowell, MA
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Lakeville Public Library
4 Precinct Street
Lakeville, MA
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Springfield Public Library
220 State Street
Springfield, MA
Monday, June 14, 2010
1:30-3:30 p.m.
McCormack Building
21st Floor, Rooms 1 & 2
One Ashburton Place
Boston, MA
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Clark Building, 5th Floor Conference Area
Quisset Campus
Woods Hole, MA
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
6:00-8:00 pm
Tobin Community Center
1481 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
Testimony may be presented orally or in writing at the public hearing. Written comments also will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on July 15, 2010. Written testimony may be submitted by e-mail or mail to: climate.strategies@state.ma.us, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Waste Prevention, One Winter Street 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108, Attn: Lee Dillard Adams.
A copy of the 2020 Framework Implementation Plan is posted on the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s (MassDEP’s) web site .
For special accommodations for these events or hearing information in an alternate format, please contact Donald Gomes, MassDEP’s ADA Coordinator at 617-556-1057, BAS/HR, 3rd Floor, One Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108.
By Order of the Office
Ian A. Bowles, Secretary
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Al Gore to Launch The Climate Project in China
PRNewswire - USNewswire
Chinese government endorses the establishment of a diverse volunteer grassroots force to deliver slideshow presentations based on Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
WASHINGTON and NASHVILLE—Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Project, and the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development will host a training session in Beijing, China June 9-11, 2010. The event, held with the support of the Chinese government, led by the Ministry of Science and Technology, will see Vice President Gore personally train a cross-section of 300 Chinese citizens who share a commitment to reduce the harmful effects of climate change.
“I am so honored that I will be returning to China to deliver my slideshow and present the latest updated information about the climate crisis and how we can solve it. China has rapidly emerged as a leader in renewable energy and it is very encouraging to see the Chinese people take a direct role in beginning to help solve global warming,” said former Vice President Al Gore.
The Beijing event will focus on the science of climate change and provide tools for effective communication about the issue. Those trained will become Presenters for The Climate Project. Presenters deliver an updated version of the slide show featured in the Academy-Award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The upcoming training will also be the first to incorporate slides and material from Vice President Gore’s latest book, Our Choice, A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.
The Climate Project (TCP), a program of the Alliance for Climate Protection, supports the work of more than 3,000 volunteers in 55 countries around the world. The Climate Project has eight official branches - Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Spain, the U.K. and the United States and with the new training will now add China.
“The Alliance for Climate Protection is excited about the opportunity for The Climate Project to work in partnership with citizen volunteers and the Chinese government in an educational campaign about the urgency and solvability of the climate crisis,” said Maggie L. Fox, President and CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection.
“The training and establishment of an official branch of Al Gore’s The Climate Project in China represents a historic and landmark opportunity to build international collaboration between volunteers who can educate their local communities on the urgency of taking action on climate change,” added Jenny Clad, Director of The Climate Project.
The vision for TCP China goes well beyond the initial training event. TCP will also establish a secretariat to provide post-training support to TCP-China Presenters and coordinate future TCP-China initiatives.
Global climate change is recognized as the defining agenda for the 21st century - impacting every natural resource and human habitat. Immediate action on multiple fronts is necessary to more deeply understand the significance of climate change and to identify actions that can responsibly address the global climate crisis. These actions are critically important in both the U.S. and China - the world’s leading producers of greenhouse gases.
About The Alliance for Climate Protection:
The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. With more than five million members and supporters worldwide, the Alliance is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis.
About The Climate Project
The Climate Project, Al Gore’s climate change leadership program, is an initiative of the Alliance for Climate Protection. TCP’s mission is to educate the public about the harmful effects of climate change and to work toward solutions at a grassroots level worldwide. Official TCP branches are located in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and Mexico.
The China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development
The China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development (CUCSD) is a public-private collaboration that aims to accelerate adoption of sustainable practices and technologies by connecting stakeholders and forging mutually beneficial environmental, social, and economic partnerships. The Center is guided by a Board of Councilors from China, the U.S. and internationally. Management of initiatives is coordinated through joint secretariats - in China, the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, a government agency, and in the U.S. by the International Sustainable Development Foundation, a 501c (3) non profit organization. For more information, please visit www.chinauscenter.org.
Press inquiries: Carrie Criado, 615-327-7577, press@theclimateproject.org
Kalee Kreider, 615–327-2227, press@carthagegroup.com
Giselle Barry, 202-567-6800, press@climateprotect.org
Read more here.
Be sure and contact them and tell them what you think of their project.