The American Spectator

sdcougar| 3.2.10 @ 1:01PM

Guess this is what you need when global warming produces too much heat.

Jon B| 3.8.10 @ 10:48AM

Even if CO2 is not as significant of a factor as MMGW promoters think it is, it's still bad. And this is the problem I have with GW deniers. They overlook the overall impact to politicize it instead.

http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....ceans.html

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saleboter| 3.2.10 @ 8:33AM

The EPA will never be able to implement anything on AGW because first they will have to PROVE that it is harming humans right now. With all this fake data that will be real chore.

BTW Miami just had its second coldest December to March winter ever. Thanks Algore.

Jason Calley| 3.2.10 @ 12:49PM

Saleboter says: "The EPA will never be able to implement anything on AGW because first they will have to PROVE that it is harming humans right now."

I wish you were correct, but the truth is that the EPA and other governmental agencies will do whatever they think they can get away with, regardless of what ethics or regulations may say. The TRUTH is not going to derail these people pushing to micromanage, control and tax every aspect of your life. Remember that the 800 billion dollar TARP fund was rejected by 99% of the US population but was passed anyway. A mere lack of proof will not disuade the EPA.

Barre| 3.2.10 @ 1:45PM

And Houston had the 5th coldest Dec. 1 - Feb 28th in its recorded history (which goes back to the late 1800's) according to a local news weather report this morning.

ApplegateRanch| 3.2.10 @ 2:07PM

BTW Miami just had its second coldest December to March winter ever.
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And Houston had the 5th coldest Dec. 1 - Feb 28th
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And Rapid City, SD had its 10th coldest winter season, as measured down town; meanwhile, the R.C. AIRPORT had its 5th coldest.

Heat Island Effect in action?

Real American| 3.2.10 @ 6:18PM

Like most big government programs, the EPA doesn't need actual evidence or facts, just the will to enact its disastrous agenda.

Richard Baker| 3.2.10 @ 9:13AM

NASA has become a scientific joke. After the Moon program, Viking, and many other endeavors, NASA has become just another realm for the "Political Scientists." I wonder what the reaction within NACA would have been at this sort of fraud and deceit?

heidi D. Kline| 3.2.10 @ 11:25AM

Aha! Finally. FINALLY someone is questioning what these "scientists" has been up to. They cant even plot some data in an excel sheet without a fudge-factor here and there. You just cant thrust these people, can you?

Pete| 3.2.10 @ 12:38PM

What can be done to stop/slow down the AGW propaganda machine? There are billboards and flatscreens at DIA (Denver airport) about AGW, and how it "isn't a partisan issue" and how everything is melting, blah blah blah. It is maddening to see these lies being pushed on the public, but then, Obama is on TV every other day lying so I guess this is the new norm.

Philosopher| 3.2.10 @ 12:41PM

Here's one unbelievably blatant example I discovered of the issues (like the CRU) that we have with our own shoddy US data and the Orwellian government manipulation of it:

http://pracphilosblog.wordpres.....e-decline/

Michael Snow| 3.2.10 @ 12:52PM

People concerned about these issues and their lack of exposure in the MSM should send articles like this to the PBS Ombudsman, noting that the PBS NewsHour has routinely censored all such news.
http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/feedback.html

[In the run-up to Copenhagen, the PBS NewsHour reproted that “this huge team of scientists from all over the globe issued these unanimous warnings about the really extreme danger to the planet.”]

Bob Freeman| 3.2.10 @ 12:55PM

I think this article got the wrong end of the stick in the middle.

This article tries to make out that Hansen (NASA) was issuing scary headlines (e.g. 2002 2nd warmest etc) while privately saying that the statistics were noisy and not robust, and that this was spotted and pointed out by McIntyre.

This was not the case at all.

The headlines issued by (2002, 2005 etc) were regarding GLOBAL mean temperatures.

Steve McIntyre then tried to confuse the public by saying that actually 1934 was the warmest year, but this was only *in the US* -not globally.

Hansen then pointed out in his email to Anderson that while a global statistic is reasonably robust, a statistic for a single year over just 2% of the Earth's surface (i.e. USA) is very noisy and not robust. Steve McIntyre, as a scientist, should know and understand this point very well.

So, the NASA headlines were valid. The statements by McIntyre were deliberately misleading and Hansen was discussed this point in an email to a colleague. Where is the scandal?

woodNfish| 3.2.10 @ 6:01PM

Hansen was lying when he said the global average temperature was robust. There is nothing robust about any of their research or data. If you haven't figured that out by now you must have your head in the sand.

iggi| 3.3.10 @ 11:55PM

The US might represent only 2% of Earth's surface, but has a much tighter and more homogenous network of measuring stations than the other 98%. Hence the record is not just a negligible 2% sample because temperature of the rest of the world is modeled and interpolated to a much larger extent.

Darrell| 3.2.10 @ 12:58PM

Only a complete idiot would take seriously any reporting that comes from a website which advertises:

"The Largest Selection of Liberal-baiting Merchandise on the Net!"

Sure, AGW is a fraud. But so is The "American Spectator."

woodNfish| 3.2.10 @ 6:02PM

Pay no attention to the moonbat who posted the comment above. He has nothing to add to the conversation.

layne| 3.2.10 @ 1:40PM

Iain,

We've got to STOP allowing Hansen to get away with this 2% BS claim. They're taking this 2%, and extrapolating across oceans with it. So IT ISN'T limited to the lower 48.

Charles Higley| 3.2.10 @ 1:48PM

I believe that even the GHCN data suffers some adjustments and then GISS and CRU make further adjustments. How far from reality are we by the time a paper or IPCC report contains the summary of the interpretation of the adjustments of the adjustments - all adjustments, purportedly to make the data more robust, effectively and consistently making the results warmer based no documented reasoning.

This is just really bad "telephone," where whispered gossip becomes grossly distorted, only everybody in the telephone chain has the same goal - to show warming.

Do worry about the EPA. They have a track record of not caring if their decisions are based on any real or imagined data.

The banning of DDT was a unilateral decision about which Ruckelshaus refused to proved any basis. Indeed, his decision followed 2-weeks of hearings on DDT, which produced the judgement that DDT was not a danger to man or environment.

Lisa Jackson indicated the other day that the decision on CO2 was based on the world's science and not the IPCC's - trying to vague-out the decision process. They might eventually cave to public pressure, but they sure will not cave based on not having any science behind them!

The EPA (snort), "We don't care!"

xiaobo| 3.2.10 @ 1:53PM

The more gas EPA can regulate, the more secure their jobs. How can carbon dioxide, a gas we breath in and out every, be bad to our health ? These bloodsuckers at EPA are just bloodsuckers.

Mike Allen| 3.2.10 @ 2:26PM

Hi there, first I's like to say 'Get rid of those flashing advertisements, they ruin the page!'. I have a theory on why the US of A is not heating as much as the rest of the world: Industrial Pollution. So keep that atmosphere nice and shady! It won't protect you from climate change but it will keep those pesky thermometers under control! I'm in Australia with less pollution and more heating.

Bob| 3.2.10 @ 2:53PM

This article continues to show the lack of intellectual heft here at AmSpec. Conflating U.S. temperatures with global temperatures and then having most of the AmSpec audience agreeing, is proof the right wing extremist lemmings continue to go off of the cliff. I encourage those of you who have a minimal education to actually look at the data from several sources. For those of you that want to look at the U.S. and then extrapolate that anecdote to the world, consider yourselves "flat earth" people who assume the world is flat because that is the way it looks to you on your street.

Why not go to Vancouver where they've had one of the warmest winters in their history (and snow problems for the Olympics)?

That said, I still have not seen any "proof" that humans have caused the bulk of these temperature increases. Just because we've seen a dramatic increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations (a certain fact), there is no proof that this isn't a coincidence rather than causal given the low overall concentrations of CO2. After looking at the data, I remain unconvinced that there is a strong causality there meaning. The outgrowth of that concern is that the environmental whackos shouldn't be allowed to ruin our economy without significant proof of causality.

Blackwatch| 3.2.10 @ 5:15PM

Uh bob, they fudged the data. they have been fudging the data for years. they have been hiring and training their replacements to fudge the data as well. the site temperature readings are suspect over time because of (a) the well documented heat island effect (b) the fact that equipment is placed incorrectly and is not maintained at hundreds of temperature installations in the us, russia, etc.

so asking anyone to "look at the data" is a self-serving argument for persons who have bought into the whole global warming scam.

c. j. acworth| 3.2.10 @ 6:14PM

What we are seeing this year is a typical El Nino pattern. Global warming/cooling/stasis has nothing to do with it.

Philosopher| 3.2.10 @ 6:48PM

Welcome to the realm of the shifting argument! All we heard in the past was how single years in the US in the late 90's and after 2000 were critical and significant proof of climate doom! Now that reality isn't playing ball, our cooling US temps are only 2% of the world's surface.
I mean, next you will have people saying 'global warming' will cause droughts until it suddenly causes super-saturated air...

Marc Jeric| 3.2.10 @ 2:55PM

First, let us not confuse climate with weather; second, this conspiracy is of long standing and went through successive stages:
1) Global cooling scam in the 1970's;
2) Global warming hoax of the 1990's;
3) Climate change flimflam of the 2000's; and
4) Cap & trade power grab now.
All acts of this long-term far-left conspiracy have one aim: world government with taxing power; nationalization of private industries; ultimate power in eco-nazi hands.

Fascist| 3.2.10 @ 3:01PM

Some words from Hitler:

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the *Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

* You may replace it with: leftist thoughts.

Conservative| 3.2.10 @ 8:53PM

Some words from God:

"For God so loved the *world He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." Jn. 3:16.

*You may replace it with: Jew
*You may replace it with: Gentile
*You may replace it with: Fascist.

Anthony| 3.2.10 @ 5:04PM

Al Gore, James Hansen and Phil Jones need to be placed on an ice floe along with a few hungry non-vegan polar bears. The elimination of these bloated carbon footprints will immediately re-freeze the oceans, hence the polar bears will not suffer the fate of drowning, as we are told daily by the MSM. Severe indigestion however, is a definite possibility.

MTB| 3.2.10 @ 10:10PM

In the great words of the immortal Buford T. Justice: "Sumbitches!"

Sentient| 3.2.10 @ 10:38PM

This report, and a large number of the comments, suggest that many may not understand the true science behind global warming. Al Gore actually got this right, but in a way I think few really appreciate. Beginning with his initial associations with climate science (from someone who later retracted their CO2 beliefs to a large degree) former VP Gore "got it" and I think we all owe him the credit that he is truly due. He is actually responsible for the evolution of the algorithm into what it is today, the ALGOREithm. The ALGOREithm represents a revolutionary leap forward in the calculus of polemics. Prior to the invention of the ALGOREithm, subterfuge and skullduggery were often found to be fraudulent and socially unnaceptable as a result (we cite recent rulings in SEC vs. Madoff, US DOL vs. Enron etc.). Also in the 1990's Dr. Michael Mann expanded on this new field with the elevation of the field of mathematics to a new level now defined as matheMANNics. MatheMANNics afforded a unique and previously unknown means of quantitatively integrating indeterminate quantities, ambiguous social constants, tunneling low energy IQ neurons, lost and deleted data, fashionable mixing and matching of incompatible data, pretzel peer(review)ing, plausible and reversible deniability and single variable gaseous processing with the constants of misprision and fraud that when matheMANNicly factored results in a complete and natural replacement for rational thought. The remarkable thing about ALGOREithms and matheMANNics is that they are quite difficult to deny even when disproved. Which means, of course, that instead of theory we now have a new paradigm called the pachauri.

AESj| 3.2.10 @ 11:11PM

You are soooooo wrong. The proof of the ALGOREithm method lies in the obvious fact that he had children by this method

Curly Howard| 3.3.10 @ 12:00AM

Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk.

FTM| 3.3.10 @ 4:35AM

ALGOREithm...

MathMANNetics...

Good, good. Please don't forget to hold the MANN made Global Warming theory up for public derision and ridicule as well.

NW Dude| 3.2.10 @ 11:22PM

Thanks for keeping us updated as the hoax continues to unravel. But for all the outrage of scientists suppressing raw data and discouraging debate, it seems that not enough focus has been put on their claims that human activity causes "climate change." We can accept that there have been and will be colder and warmer ages, but there is hardly a convincing case that we're at fault. Yet there are already countries and industries diverting significant resources to reduce, suppress, prevent, and bury an apparently harmless gas. Shall we have a "no exhale" Monday?

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Ziiex Zeburz| 3.3.10 @ 5:04AM

Global Warming , the REAL REASON !
Dr Richard North at 'eureferendum' has posted the reason for global warming ( at least in the UK )
EPSRC ( Engineering and Physical Science Research Council ) has given grants for 63,245,372 pounds sterling for climate change.
( \Google EPSRC grants )
NERC (Natural Environment Research Council )
has given
166,500 221 pounds sterling for research into climate change,
the British tax payer has payed $334,631,889 in 2009 to 'scientists' to prove that we are all going to fry/freeze to death !

Joe Geshel| 3.3.10 @ 6:12AM

Once again the real deniers are the global warming alarmists. As more and more facts about the manipulation of, and the sloppiness of gathering data is revealed, the warmists are in freefall to the ash heap of history. It is the internet, invented by Al Gore by the way, and the subsequent blogs, that hav brought Al Gore and his foolhardy minions to their knees. There is a God after all. Now you know.

Doc| 3.3.10 @ 6:51AM

Has chuckle head Hansen ever heard of the Hatch Act?

archer52| 3.3.10 @ 7:34AM

You also should mention the process they used where they switched to weather station readings that supported their theories. I read either here or in another magazine that the scientists stopped using stations that showed decreases in temperature instead opting for those in urban and developing locations so they could "prove" the temperature was increasing. If I am not mistaken they even used one gauge that sat next to an air conditioning external compressor (heat exchange) on top of a roof in a city. Another location was on the side of a building in the middle of an airfield. (What could go wrong there?)

Senator Inhofe is looking to hang someone. As I said in my post, the question will be is there anyone on the globe willing to tell the truth with all of the governments basically in on the scam?

http://truthandcommonsense.com.....e-in-jail/

Good luck on that happening. Like I said, this will be an very interesting moment in history when the public is very much aware of the crime and the politicians are desiring to cover it up. They'll actually have to commit the offense in broad daylight. If they do, that is their way of saying they no longer fear or respect the people.

That's a bad thing.

John Roberts| 3.3.10 @ 1:02PM

James Hansen has fraudently used taxpayer dollars to promulgate a hoax.

Let's put him in a cell with a 300 lb guy named Bubba.

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jiminmpls| 3.5.10 @ 7:40PM

Uhh....there's a difference between record global temp and record US temp. 1934 was the hottest year in the continental USA. 2005 was the hottest year globally.

Anyone with an IQ over 80 should understand that - unless of course you're a paid propagandist for the fossil fuel industry.

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