Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Greenland Temperatures Show No Correlation With CO2 | Real Science
The 1990 IPCC report included the graph below, which showed that Greenland warmed 2C from 1920 to 1935, and then cooled for the next fifty years back to the level of the 1920s.

CO2 rose much faster during the fifty year cooling period than it did during the fifteen year warming period.
The 1979 Satellite Disaster | Real Science
A number of key climate related satellites went into service in 1979, which coincidentally was the coldest year since the 1920s in the US (according to USHCN raw data) and also the year of peak Arctic ice. This has caused satellite temperature and Arctic ice trends to be unrepresentative of the long term patterns, and allowed them to be used as propaganda. It also occurred shortly before the eruptions of El Chichon and Mt. Pinatubo, which further dragged temperatures down.

Further aggravating the problem is that NSIDC chooses to not report satellite data prior to 1979, which inconveniently shows that there was a lot less Arctic ice in 1974 than there was in 1979.
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@RogerPielkeJr Dr. Field's resume extensive, sterling career, but he doesn't do meteorology/climate dynamics. Out of his depth a la Krugman
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@RyanMaue To do an accurate summary of IPCC SREX one does not need sterling credentials, a high school kid could do it.

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