Climategate: Obama’s National Climate Disservice
Under the pretext that “Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards,” and that they “increasingly are asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for information about climate change in order to make the best choices for their families, communities and businesses,” this week the Obama administration unveiled its National Climate Service (NCS).
Though we can’t rely on a weather forecast that extend more than a few days, the National Climate Service is going to help us plan for micro-changes in climate decades and more into the future.
Climate.gov features a “climate dashboard” with constantly updated graphs showing changes in global temperature, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), incoming sunlight, sea level, and Arctic ice. How any of this information will help anyone make any choice for any family, community, or business is not even suggested on the website. But rest assured, says NOAA:
People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decisionmaking about virtually all aspects of their lives.
Climate.gov is more self-lampooning than informative.
No one lives at the mean global temperature, so it’s of dubious relevance to anyone. Moreover, NOAA’s calculation is not very robust. Not only are there not enough surface and atmospheric temperature samplings — by a long shot — but the measurements from the Earth’s surface tend to be biased, generally towards warming by the urban heat island effect.
While the atmospheric CO2 level is slowly rising, NOAA omits that this is an utterly meaningless phenomenon for most of the planet. In tropical and temperate zones, the greenhouse effects of water vapor and clouds essentially block out those of CO2 at current levels. Moreover, each molecule of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere has exponentially less greenhouse warming potential than the preceding molecule. Given current atmospheric CO2 levels, this relationship is why alarmists cannot show that CO2 emissions measurably impact global climate.
Climate.gov shows a measurement of incoming sunlight — but NOAA itself dismisses the link between incoming sunlight and climate change.
That Obama and the other people mentioned in this piece have the unmitigated gall to continue trying to push the Global Warming scam this soon after Climate Gate broke, either shows their immeasurably huge arrogance, or that they are completely out of touch with the world outside of their hard left bubble.
Either way, this will soon become yet another of Obama’s many roundly-rejected screw ups.
If anyone has a simple and concise theory of the behavior of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere, I would really like to see it. Best as I can figure, climate scientists assume that CO2 molecules take in infra-red waves reflected from Earth and then emit infra-red waves in random directions. And the CO2 molecules are distributed randomly throughout the atmosphere. To me, those assumptions are not the work of empirical scientists but rather of “a priori” thinkers. In addition, these climate scientists seem to believe that the one CO2 monitoring station at Mauna Loa is all that is needed. According to these folk, at CO2 molecule at the elevation of one meter has exactly the same characteristics, regarding global warming, as a CO2 molecule at 50,000 meters. So, again, if anyone has an actual theory of their behavior I would greatly appreciate seeing it.
As I predicted, The One is “doubling down” his bad bet on AGW, just as he does on everything else.
What is especially worrisome here is that NOAA’s weather-prognostication computer runs will still be based on the AGW model. This means that if the data from actual field stations “conflicts” with the model, there’s at least a 50-50 chance that the computer will conclude the data is spurious, and run diagnostics on the stations, or on itself. That, is, go into “reset” mode.
Which means that if the field stations are showing the development of a potential tornado funnel in Kansas, while the AGW model states that it’s not possible at that place and time, the local populace’s first notification of a funnel cloud will be when someone actually sees it and dials 911. At which point it will be just a little late for all concerned.
Commoner’s Law states that “Actions have consequences”. The hallmark of this benighted administration seems to be, “As long as we don’t get hit with them ourselves, who cares?”
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The Climate.gov site is just one more attempt to use government funds to substitute warmista doom-shouting for real science. Fortunately, the East Anglia CRU document leak, the constantly increasing hysteria among warmista spokesmen, and the ongoing revelation of warmista willingness to bully, harass, intimidate, and slander serious opponents of their thesis have predisposed the public to reject them and their contentions.
Michael Bellesiles, call your office!
if there was an honest discussion about climate and the human involvement this would just be a foot note in a criminal prosecution trial for fraud.
I, for one, will be glad when adults finally hold the reins of government in Washington instead of intellectual adolescents. When we finally do, we can stop wasting our time, effort and tax dollars on this now-disproven “theory” and start reversing the laws and regulations that have strangled our productivity for far too long.
We need more energy as our population increases. We need more nuclear power plants and oil refineries. We need to tap our own natural resources and stop the insane policies of radical leftists whose true goal is the destruction of our economy and country. We need to start today.
Duke Energy has been on my radar since the fabricated California Energy Crisis. Call it Crony Capitalism or rent seeking, its all Fascism to me. Duke is a very sleazy organization. I am always amazed when the barking moonbats accuse every real climate scientist as being an energy company lackey, when the energy companies are in reality funneling money into propagating the AGW myth.
Conservatives need to be paying a lot more attention to what Duke and Reliant are doing, or else we will all end up slaves to the state.
Obama needs to come shovel the 2 feet of “global warming” out of my driveway
The blogal warming crews are a farce…
******and where in all this mess is GORE??
haven’t seen him or Biden lately.
I predict that in 10 years the climate will change. I predict that 400 years ago the climate changed. I predict that in 10 years there will be a new level of scientific instrumentation that will predict that the climate will change. That will be one billion dollars please and a new super computer please for future predictions and study.
No snow in Vancouver. Record heat in Rio, the worst in 50 years, kills 32 in Brazil. A new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists finds the past year was tied for the second warmest since 1880. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year on record. The latest decade was the warmest ever.
Sean Hannity: “But now those that buy this hoax always use the phrase “climate change,” and that way, they can claim they were right, even as global temperatures continue to plummet year after year.”
See how it works . . . on you?
Let him double down; he’ll lose even bigger. The higher they climb, the harder they fall. That over-inflated balloon’s gonna make one hell of a pop. Insert metaphor here.
Didn’t the leftard media go ape$hit when they found out that W was setting up a unit to “sell the Iraq War to the people”, now we will have a brand new (and doubtless needlessly expensive) Federal Agency to sell us global warming.
These people make my head hurt.
One thing we should all be able to agree about is that we are living in a “Warm Period”.
I would argue that it is still not warm enough. In Europe our climate remains cooler than it was during the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods.
Why would any sane person advocate a colder climate?
Do we seriously want to revert to the well documented Little Ice Age that only 350 years ago brought expanding glaciers, numerous famines and the Black Death?
At the end of the day, I do not think this will matter with regard to the alarmists claims. Anything produced by them will be subject to open scrutiny because of their lack of credibility. 2009 was a watershed year for the public regarding this issue.
It still amazes me that the devotees of the cult of Al Gore will still blather on about global warming even as they are freezing. The Al Gore cult is pervasive among the educators and yuppie classes in the New American State of Obama. These people cannot think clearly and need to demonize other people; videlicet, Sarah Palin etc. They are so anti intellectual that they refuse to even listen to a bona fide scientist who disagrees with Baptist seminary drop out Gore. Apparently Gore the non scientist knows all there needs to know about global warming; end of discussion.
It is becoming sadly predictable. The Obama administration will go to great lengths to institutionalize ignorance and failure. We don’t have a government we have a circus populated by thousands of clowns.
The issue isn’t whether the planet is warming, the issue is whether it is warming or “climate changing”…and we can do anything about it, or are a primary source of global weather.
The problem with the alarmists, who have this “disaster tic” that produces periodic spasms of catastrophobia, which devolves into a manic, panic and Satanic ritual dance of the End of the Worlders.
The latest, this Weather Y2k, is but the latest in a long line of Fad Fatalisms, which…by the way…always seem to wind up in the same place…with their hands in our pockets.
The tipping point is not whether sun flares or earth’s orbiting patterns are influencing climate, or whether water vapor is more dangerous than clean coal. It’s the tyranny of arrogance that allows some of these people to believe that they can “announce” that the matter is “settled”, because they…and only they…have weighed in on it.
And…that they can bury the story with the complicit media, at their whim. That’s where the battleground is…and should be.
Hold on! We all know that legislation has only one frontier that it has not conquered!
Acts of Nature!
So, let’s give Obama credit. He has hoped and changed to achieve the impossible so let’s not deny him this one last frontier.
Steve Miloy and JunkScience rule!
skeeziks.. ‘thanks’ for the ‘NOAA data by ‘NASA scientists’.. hahahaha. No biased/interpreted information there whatsoever. Department of Commerce and NASA’s floundering budget have no ‘political clout’ in their ‘findings’.
‘In the Southern Hemisphere 2009 is the warmest year on record’.
Uhm, considering the flow of air is East-West, as well as their being in the middle of their Summer, where do you suppose this upstream warm air is coming from? No, you can’t. For your cherry picking information. Much like an ignorant person armed with the internet, not intelligence, espouses.
‘The latest decade was the warmest ever’.
Yeah, going all the way back to ’1880′. Why don’t you mention the ‘warmest year ever’? Ahh, for you’d say ’1998′, right? Look further back, into the 1930′s.. a couple decades after the industrial age. I’d encourage you to read up on the Black Plague and why it incubated/lasted for so long though that’s beyond your reality.
Yep, I recall Chicago having a hellish hot Summer 10 or so years ago. This past Summer? The coolest in 45 years. Record snowfalls this season as well. Largest daily snowfall total yesterday in Chicago breaking a 110 year record. You know what that’s called? WEATHER!
That ClimateWatch magazine, which is an official NOAA publication is ludicrous. Check out the article on sea levels in Rhode Island, where they managed to go from 6″/century to a policy recommendation of 3-5 feet, phony photoshopped pictures a la AIT and all.
It’s nothing short of disgraceful.
For what it is worth dept.As one who has done a lot of sailing from L.I.Sound to the Canadian Border I can attest to the value of NOAA marine forecasts.We always check NOAA and then check the forecasts from local radio stations.Usually the local stations are much more accurate.NOAA`s forecasts have such a wide range of wind speeds as to be almost useless.I believe they are protecting themselves from litigation by forecasting the most dire conditions.NOAA has very little credibility with me and most of the people I have sailed with.
another possible victory for the warmerbaggers. former president obama-kennedy never saw a blue-ribbon task force he didn’t like.
I love it, specifically speaking I’m looking at climate.gov’s historic carbon dioxide ppm levels, and interestingly they start at 1959 and only show an upwards curve. But if you go searching for historic levels of CO2 you find higher levels before 1959. Which isn’t mentioned anywhere on NOAA site, it’s just the shocking upward curve. In fact looking at this chart (http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6855) it seems that 1959 was the lowest point before the gradual uptick in CO2 levels. Data is great but when it’s presented with no context or disclaimers it does the people a great disservice – and the governments actual agenda. Of course the sheeple and lemminzens will eat it up…
Jon, thank you for the http://www.canadafreepress.com site.
I’d read very little of Dr. Tim Ball. You’ve given me a ‘homework assignment’ tonight!
‘second warmest since 1880′~shriekziks
In other words, the Earth had a hotter year BEFORE idustrialization, the CAR, airplanes, coal-fired electric plants…
No, 25. Otter, that was overlooked by the climategate scientists. They will be issuing a new graph within weeks that shows the opposite. It’s just that their math nut was busy building a new chart to show that increased unemployment has led to a lower unemployment rate. Let’s not jump the gun on the “new math”.
8. Sallie:
Obama needs to come shovel the 2 feet of “global warming” out of my driveway.
Typical conservative, expecting a government to fix all their problems while they sit on the couch complaining about government officials.
Hey, keep government out of my Medicare! . . . Ah, the tea baggers’ lament.
Yep, just checked again, the sea levels in Hawaii haven’t changed since I moved here 30 years ago. If the ice is all melting, don’t you think our island state would be the first to know?
The basic law of computing and science is ‘rubbish in rubbish out’ and it seems that the Left wing moobats the Green NAZI’s,their handlers and the Political opportunists piggy backing on their prognostications are completely oblivious to this axiom. Maybe ‘oblivious’ is not the correct word lets call it ‘KNOWINGLY DECEITFUL’ which is more appropriate.
And Skeeziks just pops up to confirm the ‘KNOWINGLY DECEITFUL’ claim or is that ‘UNKNOWING AND UNCOMPREHENDING’ which I think fits him better.
trojan2,
NOAA/NWS has such over-the-top forecasts due to many of their employees receiving an online BS. Yep, from an online program provided by a Mississippi school.
I’m not dogging Mississippi. Though an online 4, not 2 year degree with no classroom interaction, discussions, experience et al. To having many people’s lives in your hands in some of these WFO’s.. YIKES!
We used to call it weather. I had to laugh today when someone reported 2″ of Global Warming an hour falling in Ft.Worth.
Someone mentioned Vancouver? Well, here’s what an El Nino- an event that has happened thousands of times since the Pacific Ocean formed up- does for Canada: http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/el_nino-winter-pattern.jpg
Let’s see what they have to shriek about that.
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Climategate.gov? How about just another website for liars? So people are going to go to this website to learn? To learn that the government is filled with liars, blind fools and affirmative action at work.
If somehow by Gods grace we escape these people and this administration; let’s make sure we never go down this road again.
We’ve gone from a democratic republic to an idiotic demagoguery.
Now you can log on to http://www.climate.gov and watch the climate change.
That is not the worst that could happen.
Worse, you could believe Man can stop the climate from changing.
As a conservative resident of the most liberal state west of the Mississippi, we know first hand how the land of Pelosi and Boxer are invested in this stupidity. So for those who believe in this myth, I have two words, NUCLEAR BOMBS. The planet survived multiple nuclear explosions over the years. If there EVER was a verifiable link to global warming, this would have been it. Not the fact that CO2, WHICH WE EXHALE, has anything to do with affecting climate.
Let’s see now………. Co2.
If excessive Co2 is the cause of global warming. ie: man-made global warming.. EXHALING human beings and automobile exhaust….
THEN CAP ALL THE VOLCANOES!!!!! THEY RELEASE MORE Co2 and been releasing ZILLIONS of Co2 since the formation of the planet itself…
Which brings me to another salient point… Co2 must be good for the environment since VOLCANOES have been releasing it since the dawn of creation!
skeeziks in post 27 said:
“Typical conservative, expecting a government to fix all their problems while they sit on the couch complaining about government officials.
Hey, keep government out of my Medicare! . . . Ah, the tea baggers’ lament.
Feb 11, 2010 – 6:35 pm”
Really??? What are you, nine years old? What Sallie used in post 8 is called sarcasm. Look it up.
And while you’re looking things up, Google the term “teabagger”, but disable your filtering. It’s disgusting. I’m sure you’ll find many more liberals are “teabaggers” than conservatives.
The proper term for conservatives who love our country and would like to see it run the way outlined in our Constitution is “Tea Partier” in reference to the patriots responsible for the Boston Tea Party. When you get to fifth grade, you may hear of it in history class. Then again, with the lib teachers, maybe not.
Fortunately in the November elections sane people who either refused to vote in the 2008 election will now do so and those that see that the choice they made in 2008 was indeed a very poor choice and will make the correct choice in choosing people with sane minds and put an end to the insane policies of this administration and congress (which has a 20% approval rating)!
Hope no more legislation is passed by this congress and senate until the elections are over and new members are in place to correct the bad mistake made in 2008!