A reanalysis of U.S. surface station temperatures has been performed using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System devised by METEO-France’s Michel Leroy. The new siting classification more accurately characterizes the quality of the location in terms of monitoring long-term spatially representative surface temperature trends. The new analysis demonstrates that reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited stations upward. --Anthony Watts et al., 29 July 2012
Anthony Watts’s paper is a game changer, in my view, with respect to the use of the land surface temperature anomalies as part of the diagnosis of global warming. In direct contradiction to Richard Muller’s BEST study, the new Watts et al 2012 paper has very effectively shown that a substantive warm bias exists even in the mean temperature trends. The new paper shows that a major correction is needed in Muller’s BEST study. Anthony also has shown what dedicated scientists can do with even limited financial support. Despite the large quantities of funds spent on the BEST study, it is Anthony Watts and his team who have actually significantly advanced our understanding of this aspect of the climate system. Well done Anthony! --Roger Piele Sr., Climate Science, 29 July 2012
The global warming movement is losing steam. The state of anxiety that was once present among the electorate has ratcheted down. This is why Richard Muller is “striking” now. The professionally outraged will remain outraged that “nothing” is being done. But the man-in-the-street won’t be able to sustain his worry — even to the point of some saying, “Yeah, this guy Muller is probably right. But so what? I can live with a little heat. Winter’s are too damn cold anyway.” The majority would just as soon forget about it. --William M Briggs, 29 July 2012
Over the last 15 years, we've been told that human CO2 emissions would cause global warming to accelerate to new dangerous levels, and this "unequivocal" warming would generate fantastic, catastrophic climate change disasters - the IPCC's climate models told us this, and truth be told, they were absolutely and spectacularly wrong. As the U.S. has baked during the hot summer of 2012, the rest of the globe has been treading water, so to speak. As the adjacent HadCRUT global temperature chart shows, the large growth in atmospheric CO2 levels continues, ad nauseam. Yet the 15-year trend of stable to a slight global cooling remains. This extended 180-month period of non-warming was not predicted by a single global climate model - nada, zilch, zero. --3C Headlines, 28 July 2012
Politicians know a country needs an educated work force, but know educated people ask probing informed questions. Information is power, which, until the internet, was limited and controlled by few people. As technology changed from writing to printing, to radio and then television the message changed. However, it also expanded access to information and the ability for more people to participate – a gradual expansion of democracy. Now Internet technology combines all previous mediums and as a result the message is very different. It continues to expose IPCC climate science corruption to more people with more perspectives and expertise than ever before. --Tim Ball, 27 July 2012
