Posted on November 30th, 2009 by admin
It appears that Michael Mann, the Associate Professor of Meteorology from Penn State, will be investigated regarding concerns that were brought up after the release of the East Anglia CRU emails and documents.
When I first saw the release for this investigation, it seemed a bit suspicious. It did not contain any formatting, contact information, or logos. However, I have confirmed that, as of this writing, the link to the announcement is live on the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences website (see Climate Change issue in the right column).
I am a bit skeptical that this investigation will be fair and complete but at least it is a first step to getting to the bottom of the issue. Read more... (306 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)
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Posted on November 30th, 2009 by admin
Dr. Eduardo Zorita has called for the barring of several of the people who recently had their emails released to the public. Dr. Zorita is not a typical “denier” but rather a paleoclimatologist from GKSS who has published many works within the field. Because I value how Dr. Zorita explains his position I re-publish it here without edit or further editorial comment. I sincerely hope that his fears that “my future studies will, again, not see the light of publication” but I fear that folks that sympathize with people like Mann, Jones and Rahmstorf could, very likely, be very cruel to those that question members of their club. Read more... (721 words, estimated 2:53 mins reading time)
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Posted on November 27th, 2009 by admin
More interviews on the current discussion regarding the stolen emails from East Anglia. You can read more here.
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Posted on November 26th, 2009 by admin
Climate change sceptic Professor Fred Singer, and Professor Bob Watson, the chief scientific advisor at the department of the environment debate the issues over the stolen emails from the East Anglia server.
Thank you to Daily Politics for initially showing this video. You can go there for a more complete interview.
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Posted on November 25th, 2009 by admin
This is an excellent analysis of the inherent problems that have been exposed by the stolen emails from CRU. While the stealing of the emails is a crime that must be punished, the conclusion from these emails is very disturbing. It does not automatically follow that global warming is real or false but it does make one wonder about the validity of the work done.
Climate Change Bombshell: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by admin
Most people that read this site have likely heard of the emails that were stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU). I would like to offer a few of my thoughts on the subject.
First, catch the people responsible for breaking into the property of the University of East Anglia. Prosecute the offenders to the fullest extent of the law. I am not versed in the laws of the UK but I would assume that each document and email that was illegally stolen from those servers would be an individual count of theft, so the parties involved would be liable for several thousand counts of theft. No one should ever break the law to further their political interest (and remember there was nothing purely scientific in these emails – they are simply emails with opinions and, as such, are not facts). Breaking the law is simply not a way to discuss the scientific relevance of information. So just as I condemn Mr. Al Gore, former Vice President of the US, for suggesting civil disobedience, I condemn the stealing of information from the University. Read more... (2189 words, estimated 8:45 mins reading time)
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Posted on September 6th, 2009 by admin
I first saw this on Net-Cool which is a great site to subscribe to for finding really interesting things on the web.
This movie explains some of the reasons of concern for monitoring the increase in temperatures that we have felt since the 1960s. It is very well done and enjoyable to watch. Unlike An Inconvenient Truth, it admits that this is not pure imagery but some CGI has been done.
If you can handle the bandwidth, you will see better graphics here rather than watching the embedded YouTube video below.
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Posted on August 12th, 2009 by admin
I am often asked if the reduction of the size of glaciers is the fault of global warming. My standard answer is that I don’t know as the evidence is far from conclusive.
A case in point is a graph from the USGS fact sheet:
Two conclusions are fairly obvious from the above graph. First, the size of glacier recession has been occurring almost since the time when we started measuring the size back in the late 50s. The second is that the reduction seemed to increase rather rapidly in the late 80s and early 90s. If we draw a straight line to average the reduction from 1960 to 1975, we will see a totally different rate as compared to the line that averages 1980 to 2005. Read more... (380 words, 2 images, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by admin
I had earlier mentioned the review of the “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” report that Climate Skeptic was doing. In that review, Climate Skeptic called the following graph and the stated conclusions from it BS.
Evidently the original author didn’t like his review and challenged him publicly. This is fantastic as it allows for the open sharing and discussing of the ideas, thoughts and conclusions. There needs to be more of this type of exchange on critical issues such as climate change.
Climate Skeptics basic charge is that the increase in disruptions is more a result in differences in data collection over time than it is a change in climate disruptions. Such a rapid increase in events is almost surely not solely due to weather. Read more... (265 words, 1 image, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by admin
If you read this site often, you will know that I am an engineer by training (even though I don’t currently practice). I tend to respect this profession a great deal as being fairly straight-forward and hard working. As a group, they also tend to be a pretty smart bunch.
One of the major trade rags in engineering is C&EN (Chemical and Engineering News). It is edited by Mr. Rudy Baum. If you aren’t in that trade, you would probably never pick up an issue so you may not be familiar with it. I haven’t read the publication in a long time but was recently made aware of a bit of controversy by Climate Depot. While the readers of C&EN are likely not climatologists, the science of CO2 and its affect on the atmosphere is very steeped in chemistry which their target market knows a bit about. Read more... (1165 words, estimated 4:40 mins reading time)
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