Joe Bastardi Challenges Jeff Master’s Claims About Sunspots | Real Science

MY FORECAST IS OUT THERE DR MASTERS, THAT AS MEASURED BY OBJECTIVE SATELLITE TEMPS,   SOMETHING WE DID NOT HAVE TILL THE END OF THE LAST COLD CYCLE OF THE PDO IN 1978,THE EARTHS TEMP BY 2030  WILL RETURN TO THE LEVELS THEY WERE IN THE LATE 1970S. 

Temperatures Altered Yet Again In Alice Springs « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

In March, we discovered that GHCN’s new software, (written by a Google Summer Student, Daniel Rothenberg, and introduced last November), had made large temperature adjustments to many stations worldwide, including Alice Springs, where a hockey stick miraculously appeared. (Full story here).

Penguin Divination « the Air Vent

More recently, another article came out and captured substantially more press, unsurprisingly, the now half million Emperor penguins are in danger of complete extinction at captitalist hands. This paper is chock full of brilliant mushmatics including climate model projections in combination with models of how penguin colonies will respond. It is worth mentioning that famous names like Mark Serreze, an ever stable AGW advocate, is signed on as a coauthor of this beauty. I’ve taken the time to read through it once, and am certainly the dumber for it.

They came up with functions for the survivability of penguins based on sea ice concentrations that have very steep drop off in ranges for which no real observational long term data can exist. Then they project this dropoff in survival using 5 preferred climate models which have predicted Antarctic sea ice doom. The ability to draw conclusions a century out from this methodology is ridiculous on its face, but we know in enviroscience, unknowns are regularly waved away into magically sound conclusion. What makes this mush-science special, besides the fact that Antarctic sea ice isn’t declining, is the huge over the top press it is getting.