Katharine’s Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment–Part II « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

We have already seen how Katharine Hayhoe’s Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment made exaggerated claims about a rapidly warming climate in the Northeast that do not stand up to scrutiny. Let’s take a look at some other claims it makes that are claimed to be “Changes consistent with global warming”.

“shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods” | Real Science

Nature has played a mean joke on James Hansen. The PDO shift in 1977-1978 was exactly coincident with the launch of satellites monitoring temperatures  and sea ice. The rising temperatures since the 1970s fooled Hansen into believing that his CO2 theory was correct.

Sadly though for the CO2 team, ENSO and PDO went south this decade and warming has stopped. Hansen blathers on mindlessly about volcanoes from 20 years ago affecting current temperature. There is really no place left for him to hide. Hansen should admit that he was wrong – and retire.

Hansen Peering Into The ENSO Abyss | Real Science

These forecasts have been every bit as wrong as the rest of his gigantic portfolio of failed predictions.

Taking the pulse of a shrinking glacier : Nature News & Comment

Earlier this year, glaciologist Neil Glasser of Aberystwyth University, UK, and colleagues estimated that since 1870 the Northern Patagonian Icefield has lost more than 100 cubic kilometres of ice, and that the Southern Patagonian Icefield had lost more than 500 cubic kilometres since 1650. In both case, the melt rate had speeded up considerably in recent decades