Free-for-all Topics and Discussion: Sept. 7, 2012
What a crazy week it's been! My apologies for the light posting this past week, but my über-vigilant readers are always on top of the latest blame-it-on-global-warming news and events. So please go ahead and share your tids and bits or anything you found of climatic importance on the inter-webs.
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The data and the chart appear to be derived from Friis‐Christensen and Lassen, 1991. This particular work has issues noted in multiple publications:
Laut & Gundermann (2000) (adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000ESASP.463..189L): “Our conclusion is that the impression, created by the articles of Friss-Christensen and Lassen, that the recent global warming has been caused predominantly by changes in solar activity, is not supported by the physical data they have used.”
Damon & Laut (2004) (www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1999/1999GL900578.shtml): “Using the pre‐industrial record as a boundary condition, the SCL (solar cycle length) temperature correlation corresponds to an estimated 25% of global warming to 1980 and 15% to 1997.”
Laut (2003) (www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2004/2004EO390005.shtml): “Analysis of a number of published graphs that have played a major role in these debates and that have been claimed to support solar hypotheses [...] shows that the apparent strong correlations displayed on these graphs have been obtained by incorrect handling of the physical data.”
Soon and Briggs should be aware of these works, which really invalidate Friss-Christensen 1991 – and the article they have just published. They have certainly not addressed the criticisms of the FC&L data handling.
Soon and Briggs. One of the best comedy teams of the past 20 years.
Provide proof that any of your quotes mean a damn thing regarding the matter being discussed. All it demonstrates is there are some people who took issue with someone's work that didn't support their beliefs.
There have been a number of criticisms of some of your warmist heroes, all valid, yet the issues were never corrected. Therefore, by your logic, there must be a lot of comedians in warmist land as well.
Until you have something intelligent to say how about you just stay silent?
"Claus Frohlich, constructed a composite time series from satellite observations of total solar irradiance (TSI) made since the late 1970's. His composite, the so-called 'PMOD' model, modifies the published results of the Numbus7/ERB and ACRIM1 science teams to provide better agreement with the predictions of a statistical model by Judith Lean based on linear regressions against solar emission and absorption line proxies for TSI." The graph tampering done by Judith [Lean] and Claus [Frohlich}was scientifically unjustified. hockeyschtick.blogspot.ca/2010/06/judithgate-update.html
Seeing as he brought up the "fish in a barrel" analogy he should have planned ahead for when the fish shoot back.
Not that any return fire was really necessary seeing as he gave himself a head shot from point blank range...
The infamous "Hot Spot" is the one point all the AGW models predicted. The failure of this prediction invalidated AGW theory.
notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/an-age-of-technological-innovation-is-now-over/
The CET shows this summer as being cooler than the full 1659-2012 average!
notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/uk-summers-back-to-normal/
U.N. elevation called 'callous, dangerous, and tragic'
Published: 16 hours ago
An African warlord once sought as an international criminal on genocide allegations will soon be contributing his judgments on human rights issues worldwide as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a development that is sparking outrage in Congress.
Sudan, led by Omar al-Bashir, has been awarded a seat on the international tribunal starting in 2013, and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said it’s just gone too far.
“Allowing this genocidal dictatorship, which has killed thousands of its citizens, to serve on such a body is beyond hypocrisy, it is callous, dangerous, and tragic,” she said in a statement issued as the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
www.wnd.com/2012/09/accused-genocidal-warlord-named-to-human-rights-council/
NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest."
Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women," according to its website.
Buried 2,000 words deep in a U.N. press release distributed Wednesday on the filling of "vacancies in subsidiary bodies," was the stark announcement: Iran, along with representatives from 10 other nations, was "elected by acclamation," meaning that no open vote was requested or required by any member states — including the United States.
www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/29/elects-iran-commission-womens-rights/
It's becoming a question of when not if Canada should leave the failed and corrupted UN.
It's Friday. As the USA election looms I had to watch the Ray Stevens vid-
Always makes me smile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6TcpfBHlbs
have a great weekend