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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

February 26, 2010 03:42 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

New Paper Calls NCDC Temperature Data "Accentuated"

Posted By Dave Snope
And this is how they "adjust" the data, because, I guess, they think that NASA GISS's city location has the right temperature it is too cool in the suburbs.


February 28, 2010 05:58 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

IPCC To Be Reviewed By UN Panel

Posted By Dave Snope
Pachauri told Reuters on Wednesday that the IPCC stood by its main 2007 finding -- that it was more than 90 percent certain that human activities were the main cause of global warming in the past 50 years.

OMG! Shocka! The UN's IPCC pulp smut novelist stands by the org that funds his private carbon credit stock ventures and private golf course.

March 5, 2010 06:30 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Case Strengthens

Posted By Dave Snope
This advance announcement of a forthcoming study is an integral part of the Met Office's new publicity program to "restore public trust in climate scientists".

This is a public relations piece, aimed at you.

There doesn't seem to be a paper that can be found, or any new science, just a reference that they reviewed 110 research papers that other people did. Then they make some very thin claims about humidity and localized ocean salinity, that are consistent with the fingerprints that they set out to find.

If you look hard enough in 110 papers, you will find what you are looking for. Which isn't science.

March 6, 2010 07:13 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

This Guy Must Read Our Forum

Posted By Dave Snope
May be so, Rod. I try to stay as far away from LA Times columnists as possible, but here we go again. The hapless James Rainey can't even write a column about a two-sided debate without utterly biasing it and belittling the side he doesn't like. He makes it seem like it is a debate between conservative activist pundits and well-meaning but flawed scientists. It would take 15-minutes to rewrite the piece, but make it about a debate between liberal activist politicians and ethical climate scientist skeptics. But nobody expects journalistic ethics from the man who acted as an advocate to spread ACORN's lies without fact checking; the man who writes hit pieces based on tips from anonymous sources; slams Fox News as a bunch of shills while using supporting opinions from the insane Keith Olbermann; or, hitting to all fields, complains that there is way too much media coverage of Miss America, in his article about Miss America, with sexy pictures of Miss America. He helps keep the LA Times' reputation in line with TMZ's.

March 7, 2010 08:20 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Highest in Over 5 Years

Posted By Dave Snope
The long term, gradual increase continues and the current anomaly is above the 30-year mean by 186,000 sq kilometers.


March 8, 2010 08:18 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Ex-President's Observations on Global Warming

Posted By Dave Snope

Here's the link, see page 487
http://www.amazon.com/Writings-Thomas-Jefferson/dp/1143622022/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268080242&sr=1-3#reader_1143622022

Interestingly, the current average annual snowfall (before this winter) in Washington, D.C. is 14.7 inches: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.#Climate, similar to Jefferson's measurements during his warming period. Not sure what he thought caused it, because he didn't have oil-companies and SUVs.

March 10, 2010 06:07 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Interesting Article on CO2 in Scientific American

Posted By Dave Snope
BTW, it's already been experimentally shown that identical plants grow faster in the city than in the country, due to the increased CO2 and temperature in the city (eg Urban CO2 Dome and Urban Heat Island effects). I'll see if I can find the papers again, it was quite a few years ago.

March 16, 2010 04:49 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Shrinking Birds

Posted By Dave Snope
As they stated "there is little evidence that the change is harmful to the birds. ".

Maybe it's even helpful. Could they fly a little faster, hide a little better, survive on less food?

The first question that I asked when reading the article is "how many birds were killed by these scienti .... errr, I mean, their "slave labor" grad students, while capturing 480,000 birds?".

PLEASE DON'T SQUEEZE ME HARD!



Of course they treat it as a fact that it has gotten warmer in the last 48 years. After all, there is consensus.
Just for kicks, I found the nearest NASA GISS's own temperature monitoring station to the bird collection site at Carnegie's Powdermill station. Uniontown. It makes one ask what if they started the study in 1930? Would it mean a darn thing?
http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_itemId=41628


March 17, 2010 05:47 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Killing Birds

Posted By Dave Snope

Listen to what civilization has done to the lyrebird:
http://www.break.com/index/lyrebird-imitating-constuction-work.html

March 20, 2010 04:04 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

You've Heard of Light Domes

Posted By Dave Snope
That's an extremely strange article. That they pretend like the urban CO2 dome is a new discovery is beyond comprehension. They seem to be the last ones to discover it, like Columbus was the last man to discover America. The CO2 dome has been studied for a good 15 years. At the same time they are saying "everybody knows" that CO2 gas is driving climate change.

Science Daily: is it written by high school students???

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