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From Prof Ole Humlum's Climate4You Aug 2013 |
David Suzuki has made a career out of
travelling the world pushing the alarmist view of climate change.
Surely then
he would be aware of these global temperature data sets. And yet on QandA
last night, when asked about them by Bill Koutalianos, he seemed to be unaware of
them.
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Last 12 years from above |
Bill: Since 1998 global temperatures have been relatively flat, yet many man-made global warming advocates refuse to acknowledge this simple fact. Has man-made global warming become a new religion in itself?
Suzuki: ...yeah well don’t know how, er where er why you’re saying that. The 10 hottest years on record as I understand it have been in this century. In fact the warming continues, it may have slowed down but the warning continuous and every body is considering some sort of revelation in the next IPCC reports that are saying we got it wrong - as far as I understand – we haven’t. So where are you getting your information? I’m not a climatologist. I wait for the climatologists to tell us what they're thinking.
Last three years temperature turning down
Bill: UAH; RSS, HadCruT, GISS- data that show a 17 year flat trend which suggests there may be something wrong with the CO2 warming theory.
Suzuki: What is the reference - I don’t er…..
Bill:Well, they’re the main data sets that IPCC uses…. Those Data sets show a 17 year flat trend which suggest there may be a problem with
At this point Suzuki interrupted
Suzuki: There may be a climate sceptic down in Huntsville Alabama who has taken the data and come to that conclusion.
It seems it first, Suzuki, this snake-oil
salesman, appears not to know about the datasets that all climate
scientists use, then, when he hears UAH he refers obliquely to John
Christy and denigrates him although
Christy has been a former IPCC author. Christy was a lead author of the 2001 report by the IPCC.
From Watts Up with That:
From Watts Up with That:
The details are below and are based on the SkS Temperature Trend Calculator:
For RSS the warming is not statistically significant for over 23 years.
For RSS: +0.120 +/-0.129 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1990
For UAH the warming is not statistically significant for over 19 years.
For UAH: 0.141 +/- 0.163 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994
For Hadcrut3 the warming is not statistically significant for over 19 years.
For Hadcrut3: 0.091 +/- 0.110 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994
For Hadcrut4 the warming is not statistically significant for over 18 years.
For Hadcrut4: 0.092 +/- 0.106 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995
For GISS the warming is not statistically significant for over 18 years.
For GISS: 0.104 +/- 0.106 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995
For NOAA the warming is not statistically significant for over 18 years.
For NOAA: 0.085 +/- 0.102 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995
For RSS: +0.120 +/-0.129 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1990
For UAH the warming is not statistically significant for over 19 years.
For UAH: 0.141 +/- 0.163 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994
For Hadcrut3 the warming is not statistically significant for over 19 years.
For Hadcrut3: 0.091 +/- 0.110 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994
For Hadcrut4 the warming is not statistically significant for over 18 years.
For Hadcrut4: 0.092 +/- 0.106 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995
For GISS the warming is not statistically significant for over 18 years.
For GISS: 0.104 +/- 0.106 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995
For NOAA the warming is not statistically significant for over 18 years.
For NOAA: 0.085 +/- 0.102 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995
If you want to know the times to the nearest month that the warming is not statistically significant for each set to their latest update, they are as follows:
RSS since August 1989;
UAH since June 1993;
Hadcrut3 since August 1993;
Hadcrut4 since July 1994;
GISS since January 1995 and
NOAA since June 1994.
RSS since August 1989;
UAH since June 1993;
Hadcrut3 since August 1993;
Hadcrut4 since July 1994;
GISS since January 1995 and
NOAA since June 1994.
Later, Suzuki
refers to the supposed consensus. Much has been written of the fraudulent studies of
the consensus. Just last week a new opinion piece came out:
Contrary
to reports, global warming studies don’t show 97% of scientists fear global
warming
Apart from a handful of eccentrics, everyone believes in the reality of manmade climate change. That’s the message of a recent paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the latest in a series of similar efforts that have been used as a stick with which to beat policymakers. But scratch at the surface of any of these publications and you find that there is considerably less to them than meets the eye.
Suzuki referred to the Naomi Oreskes piece
that appeared in Science in 2004. A curious choice considering the flaws in
that piece of science fiction.
From SPPI
From SPPI
What Oreskes got wrong:
Dr. Peiser used “global climate change” as a search term and found 1,117 documents using this term, of which 929 were articles and only 905 also had abstracts. Therefore it is not clear which were the 928 “abstracts” mentioned by Oreskes, and Science did not, as it would have done with a peer-reviewed scientific paper, list the references to each of the “abstracts”.
Is Suzuki that ignorant, or does he turn a blind eye to the science that doesn't fit?
Significantly, Oreskes’ essay does not state how many of the 928 papers explicitly endorsed her very limited definition of “consensus”. Dr. Peiser found that only 13 of the 1,117 documents – a mere 1% – explicitly endorse the consensus, even in her limited definition.
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See also: WUWTClimate campaigner David Suzuki doesn’t know what the climate temperature data sets are
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UPDATE:
See Also QandA from the viewpoint of Canada's Ezra Levant:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/2688616449001
See Also QandA from the viewpoint of Canada's Ezra Levant:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/2688616449001
My understanding is that avg temps (as shown above) have gone up. Yes, thoseu numbers seem small. Just what exactly is statistically insignificant anyway, and why? I have also heard that climate change has also been responsible for extremes of cold temps in places too. So we are seeing more extreme cold and more extreme heat along with associated weather etc. These temps above are just avgs. Yet they are going up. Could you show the highest and lowest temps and abundance of them taken by these stations and compare them to the previous decades we have records of?
ReplyDeleteIf you dare to chart temps in whole degrees - something we might actually feel, it's a straight line, starting from 1880:
ReplyDeletehttp://suyts.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/image266.png
We're only seeing "more extreme heat and cold" as you put it because we have more weather stations than decades ago, certain data sets are cherry-picked and upwardly adjusted to ensure the warming message is followed, such as NASA GISS for just one example.
10 years ago "warming" was the only direction the "science" suggested. Now the IPCC and grabbermint "scientists" are cherry picking every normal weather event as "unprecedented" and making the false claim that "climate change" (which has been happening for billions of years actually) is making every weather event more severe, if not creating more of them.
Tell me - if Mankind starts more hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, storms etc., what stops them?
Anon - you're just parroting false science and opinion.