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Blasting the Post While Cooling the Warming Hype

By Quin Hillyer on 5.24.09 @ 12:14PM

The other Washington Times editorial today takes strong issue with a horribly biased WashPost "news" article on global warming. No, there isn't a consensus on it; and yes, there is plenty of evidence that man-made warming isn't occurring. Meanwhile, I should give credit where it's due, because space considerations did not allow public sourcing in the editorial. Frequent Spectator contributor Paul Chesser provided good material for the editorial, as did Marc Morano of Climate Depot. Please read the editorial. It's a case study against media bias and against eco-hysteria.

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JP| 5.24.09 @ 11:21PM

You know the game is fixed when NASA's Goddard Space Instutute relies mainly on surface based temperature readings ans essientially ignores both UAH and RSS sounding data. NOAA and Hadley also relies heavily on CRN data. All three use different homogenization adjustments, as well as Time of Observation (TOB) adjustments, and other extropolation and smoothing algorithims. Anthony Watts has recorded how poor and un-uniform surface based temperature readings really are.

One you question the surface stations, and one is only left with Michael Mann's famed MBH9X temp reconstructions (the Hockey Stick), which has been proven to not be robust, has serious statistical problems, not to mention its choice of proxies.

What we are left with is a 30 year general trend based mainly on postive anomalies from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. ENSO and the AMO generally have caused amplification in the subtropical Hadley Cell, and if you subtract the positive anomalies over East Asia and Europe, gone is most of the warming.

As a matter of fact, the Southern Hemisphere has actually cooled since 1979, and most of the warming has mainly occured in the mid-latitudes of the NH. The tropics have shown none of the AGW signature that the GCMs say must occur (the tropical, mid-tropispheric hot spot) during a period of greenhouse gas induced AGW.