Saturday, January 09, 2010

'I can hear you' named top catchphrase [of the decade] - UPI.com
Bush's catchphrase beat out global warming/climate change, which came in second and war on terror, which earned third.
Climate Observations: South Pacific SST Patterns
I started this post off by saying it really would not prove anything; it would simply illustrate very basic facts about Sea Surface Temperature (SST) reconstructions. And it did illustrate something well known to many: that the SST sampling is poor in decades past and, putting aside satellite measurement which is excluded purposely in some datasets, SST sampling really didn’t get any better until recently.
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What should also be apparent is that when studying SST data outside of the shipping lanes, one is relying on infilled data and on the assumptions made by the researchers to infill the missing data.
Obama Announces $2.3B In Awards For Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs | TPM LiveWire
[Why can't I find any mention of global warming or climate change here?]
Brendan Demelle | BBC Trots Out Skeptic Benny Peiser To Question Global Warming In A Snow Storm
So why does the BBC think it necessary to include Peiser’s views in a piece on climate when he clearly has no credible expertise in the science of climate change?   [So Al Gore is qualified to expound endlessly on global warming, while Benny Peiser should keep all comments to himself?]

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