Climate Skeptic: Another Climate Report Written Backwards

I simply do not have the time to plow through the entire NOAA/NASA CCSP climate change report, so I focused on the 28-page section labeled Global Climate Change.

I will post my comments when they are done, but suffice it to say that this is yet another report written backwards, with the guts of the report written by politicians trying to push an agenda. This is an incredibly shallow document, more shallow even than the IPCC report and possibly even than the IPCC summary for policy makers. Call it the NASA summary for the mentally retarded.

The report is a full-force sales piece for catastrophic global warming. Not once in the entire chapter I read was there a hint of doubt or uncertainty. Topics for which scientists have but the flimsiest of understandings, for example feedback effects, are treated with the certainty of Newtonian mechanics. Any bit of conflicting evidence -- whether it be the fact that oceans were rising before the industrial era, or that tropospheric temperatures are not higher than surface temperatures as predicted, or that large parts of Antarctica are gaining ice -- are blissfully omitted.