Tag-arkiv: Climategate

Hvorfor har man ikke anvendt temperaturmålinger dækkende 40% af Rusland?

Der kommer hele tiden nye dimensioner til i climategate, der vel efterhånden har miskrediteret de involverede videnskabsfolk i en sådan grad at de rettelig bør udelukkes for al fremtidig forskning indenfor klima. Det seneste i den fortsatte føljeton om forsøgene på at fremme et helt bestemt billede af temperaturudviklingen er, at man kun har brugt udvalgte russiske vejrstationer, hvis resultater understøttede tesen om global opvarmning, og har fravalgt målinger fra 40% af Rusland. Læs resten

Ups II: Al Gores ubekvemme “sandhed”

Dette er jo–på godt og ondt–næsten ved at udarte sig til en ren klima-debat blog.  Så lad os blive ved sporet med pinlige afsløringer m.v. og her tage fat i den stor CO2-forbrugende, Gulfstream-dommedagsprofet Al Gore, som i går talte her ved COP15 her i København og ved den lejlighed kunne forudse–hvad lokale medier, der havde investeret (meget) dyrt i Gore, bestemt ikke lod passere upåagtet–at Nordpolen ville være isfri indenfor få år.  Her er så, hvad The Times kunne fortælle dags dato:

“There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore. …

Perhaps Mr Gore had felt the need to gild the lily to buttress resolve. But his speech was roundly criticised by members of the climate science community. “This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics,” Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

Klimaktisk hedetur i København?

Klimaktisk hedetur i København?

“You really don’t need to exaggerate the changes in the Arctic.”

Others said that, even if quoted correctly, Dr Maslowski’s six-year projection for near-ice-free conditions is at the extreme end of the scale. Most climate scientists agree that a 20 to 30-year timescale is more likely for the near-disappearance of sea ice.

“Maslowski’s work is very well respected, but he’s a bit out on a limb,” said Professor Peter Wadhams, a specialist in ocean physics at the University of Cambridge.

Dr Maslowki, who works at the US Naval Postgraduate School in California, said that his latest results give a six-year projection for the melting of 80 per cent of the ice, but he said he expects some ice to remain beyond 2020.”

Vi er chokerede!  Skulle det virkeligt kunne være rigtigt, at Nobelfredspris-vinderen, Oscar-vinderen m.v., der efter eget udsagn “tog initiativ til at skabe internettet”, omgås “sandheden” så lemfældigt?

Jon Stewart om Climate Gate

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Den var selvfølgelig for god til at lade ligge – også selv om den ikke lige passer ind i The Daily Shows normale syn på verden. Som det fremgår.