GHCN – Does “unadjusted” mean cooked? « Musings from the Chiefio

It looks to me like we will need to go all the way back to “first sources” to have any hope of finding out what is really going on in the temperature history of the planet. GHCN “Unadjusted” clearly is too adjusted to be suitable to the task.

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Anti-science blogger Anthony Watts keeps attacking Al Gore and IPCC head Pachauri for supposed conflicts of interest, but does he have his own conflict? « Climate Progress

I’m filing this post under humor — because I think the charge of conflict of interest against Watts is as nearly as unserious as his charges against Gore and Pachauri, because I think that Watts, like Morano, is mostly a performance artist, trying to see how many people he can sucker with posts whose transparent outlandishness grows exponentially with time

[As hundreds die from the cold in India]: Naked Naga Sadhus Campaign Against Global Warming at Kumbh Mela | NowPublic News Coverage

Thousands of naked and semi-clad Naga Sadhus or Indian Holy Men are using the Kumbh mela festival, the world's largest spiritual gathering, to campaign against global warming.
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“We are the first to realise the impact of global warming as it causes glaciers to melt in the Himalayan region. I am telling you from my personal experience, I felt the impact of global warming almost 25 years back. It’s not a very new phenomenon,” he said. The spiritual leader claimed in the Himalyas a few decades back, there were a variety of species of birds and flowers which are being lost [which species, specifically?] due to the effects of global warming."

[Revkin on periodic ice melt]

There is still pretty wide agreement that the big melt of 2007 betrays as much about gaps in understanding and modeling skill as it does about the Arctic’s fate in a warming world.(Joe may recall my description of the much-touted “death spiral” as more a series of loop-the-loops.. long-term trend clear, path murky.)

[But if the Arctic was melting in the 1920s, and if we were entering an Ice Age in the 1970s, is the long-term trend really "clear"?]

Many of the consequences of the recent warm mode were also observed 90 years ago, The Mail reported, citing a 1922 Washington Post report that described Greenland’s disappearing glaciers and Arctic seals that found ‘the water too hot’. Indeed, warm Gulf Stream water was still detectable just a few hundred miles of the North Pole at the time.

Global cooling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

While these discussions were ongoing in scientific circles, other accounts appeared in the popular media, notably an April 28, 1975 article in Newsweek magazine.[22] Titled "The Cooling World", it pointed to "ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change" and pointed to "a drop of half a degree [Fahrenheit] in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968." The article claimed "The evidence in support of these predictions [of global cooling] has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." The Newsweek article did not state the cause of cooling; it stated that "what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery" and cited the NAS conclusion that "not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."

The article mentioned the alternative solutions of "melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting Arctic rivers" but conceded these were not feasible. The Newsweek article concluded by criticizing government leaders: "But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies...The longer the planners (politicians) delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality." The article emphasized sensational and largely unsourced consequences - "resulting famines could be catastrophic", "drought and desolation," "the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded", "droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons," "impossible for starving peoples to migrate," "the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age."