NOAA’s climate change science fiction

Hat tip Hardscrabble Farmer

Guest Post by Lamar Smith

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the nation’s leading collector of climate data. Every day, NOAA analyzes vast amounts of data to predict changes to our climate, weather, oceans and coasts. The agency also publishes monthly temperature averages across the nation and compares those numbers to historical temperature records.

As the nation’s self-proclaimed authority on “environmental intelligence,” NOAA should be held to the highest scientific standards. This means their conclusions should be objective, independent of political consideration and based on all available sources of information.

In testimony before the House Science Committee, NOAA’s deputy administrator, Manson Brown, made similar remarks, noting the importance of satellite data. He said that NOAA’s ability “to deliver environmental intelligence starts with keeping the pulse of the planet, especially the atmosphere and the ocean, and this is the central capability where space-based assets come into play.” So why does NOAA leave out satellite data when it releases climate projections?

NOAA often fails to consider all available data in its determinations and climate change reports to the public. A recent study by NOAA, published in the journal Science, made “adjustments” to historical temperature records and NOAA trumpeted the findings as refuting the nearly two-decade pause in global warming. The study’s authors claimed these adjustments were supposedly based on new data and new methodology. But the study failed to include satellite data.

Atmospheric satellite data, considered by many to be the most objective, has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades. This fact is well documented, but has been embarrassing for an administration determined to push through costly environmental regulations.

Instead, NOAA focused its study on surface temperature monitoring that is often flawed because these sites measure thousands of independent temperature readings and utilize a hodgepodge of different methods that have changed over time. For example, measurements from land-based stations can be skewed because of their location and proximity to surrounding heat-holding asphalt in urban areas.

Satellite data, on the other hand, is highly calibrated and provides complete global coverage. For decades, satellites have been used to monitor the earth and collect information. Satellites measure something extremely important — the deep atmosphere. The temperature readings collected by satellites often differ from ground monitoring stations and have consistently shown much smaller rates of warming. Yet NOAA refuses to incorporate satellite data into its monthly projections that are released to the public. Why?

NOAA appears to pick and choose only data that confirms their bias. NOAA then disseminates this incomplete data to the media who manufacture alarming headlines but ignore the uncertainty of the conclusions.

Earlier this year, NASA issued a news release stating that 2014 was the warmest year on record. Few media acknowledged the footnote: Scientists were only 38 percent sure this was actually correct. That is less than 50-50.

NOAA fully understands margins of error and works with them on a daily basis. But where are these details in their news releases? While NOAA’s monthly projections usually warn of increased warming, they ignore satellite data that refutes their alarmist statements.

The ability to remain independent of political consideration seems like a minimum requirement for an agency that should provide unbiased scientific information. But NOAA’s habit of picking and choosing data raises serious questions about the agency’s independence. In fact, it shreds NOAA’s credibility.

As a self-proclaimed “environmental intelligence agency,” NOAA’s reports should be based only on the best available science that takes into account all sources of data. Unfortunately, NOAA continues to rely upon biased science in pursuit of a predetermined outcome. That’s not good science, it’s science fiction.

This administration is pursuing an extreme political climate change agenda and has made NOAA its accomplice. These are not the actions of an objective agency. NOAA needs to come clean about why it cherry-picked and changed certain data, while ignoring satellite data, to get the results it wanted.

Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, is chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

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Westcoaster
Westcoaster

And if the satellite data WAS included and demonstrated warming, then you’d cherry-pick some other data point YOU say is missing and bash the hell out of it. You’re a TX Republican, Lamar, not a scientist.

One thing is not in dispute….the climate IS changing and many actual scientists ARE concerned, saying we’re beyond the tipping point.

What most people here are bitching about is possibly higher taxes while whales, dolphins, and other marine life in the Pacific is dead and washing up on shore, and coral reefs and bleached out and dying.

anarchyst
anarchyst

Global warming (aka “climate change”) has been shown to be a fraud (climate is always changing) and has attracted the snake charmers (al gore) and hustlers out of the woodwork. The so-called “hockey stick” model has been shown to be fraudulent. The attempts to foist “carbon credits” and other scams on the public was unsuccessful. Once again FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Fraud in science is not only limited to those who are providing the funding. There was a case in the Pacific northwest where so-called scientists “planted” lynx fur in certain forests to make them “off-limits” to logging. Fortunately, these government Fish and Wildlife Service scientists were caught. Of course, they received NO punishment for their behavior. The so-called “endangered species act” is actually more detrimental to humanity . . . species are always changing . . .

Environmentalists have been some of the most dishonest people in their misguided attempts to “save the planet”. Our earth is much more resilient than they would have you believe. Environmentalists see humans as a “pestilence”. They would like to see the human population reduced (by any means necessary) by around 90%. The survivors would be walled-off in soviet-style high-rise apartments, riding bicycles, taking trains and buses while the wilderness areas would be available only to the “anointed” environmentalists.

I, for one, have no use for these limp-wristed, birkenstock-wearing, prius-driving, tofu-eating poor excuses for human beings. I would suggest that environmentalists take their own advice and eliminate themselves first.
Environmentalists are like watermelons–green on the outside and red (communist) on the inside. It’s always been about control.
I CHEER when I hear a of a “greenpeace” ship getting blown out of the water. . .

kokoda
kokoda

The WHY = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

kokoda
kokoda

Coast – too bad you can’t back up your religious Global Warming beliefs with objective data. I could give you info that destroys any specific belief you have, but why waste my time – I would be butting against a mind that contains cement rather than grey matter.

BTW, no if this and that; deal with the Fact that NOAA does NOT include satellite data because it would destroy their catastrophic warming myth.

Sierra skier
Sierra skier

Westcoast;

If they want to promote an issue they will use whatever data they can find that supports their conclusion regardless of what truth is available.

The weather on our planet has been changing for 4.5 Billion years and continues to change. Any human caused changes should be looked at as caused by those attempting to control weather patterns for military use and ‘other’ uses.

Lamar may be a Tx. Republican but at least he sees the truth and doesn’t sidestep the reality of what is truly going on instead of offering an emotional rant about whales and dolphins.

hardscrabble farmer

http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/adp2/eng/8infnot.pdf

The above referenced document is the Durban Plan- the working draft for the UN Global Climate Agreement- I suggest you read it, particularly article 6- the call for a starting point of 100 billion dollars to be increased annually in order to fix everything.

Of course there is climate change, there has always been climate change, there will always be climate change, the only difference is that this time someone has found a way to extract maximum financial gain from it and the complete and total enslavement of the peoples of the planet for the one sin that they cannot help but commit- the production of CO2.

It took me years to put all the pieces of this together- Global Governance and the elimination of the concept of Nations, races, stable families and traditions, even gender. The specter of Climate Change, Agenda 21, Terrorism waged by shadowy groups with ominous names and ideologies, the endless wars in the most destitute and far flung corners of the Earth followed by the swarms of refugees back into the very lands that were responsible for the destruction of their loved ones and their histories looking to even the scores. It was as if it were all planned, all by design…

What a story.

suzanna

yes, Kokoda………$

NOAS budget depends on their lies. The climate change tax
is coming.

Westcoaster…….the oceans are a giant garbage dumb
for foreign “manufacturers.” Big box/lumber people will tell
you all the scrap goes into the water/manufacturing while at sea.
That is just one example. We know of many other floating garbage
dumps. Then, we also have the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear waste flow.
Then we have military “bomb tests” aimed at the water. Etc.

People actually believe Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant. Maybe because it
sounds like Carbon Monoxide…which is a bad thing. Especially if one
is in a closed garage, with all the cars warming up.

Please remember 20%+ can’t read, and another 30-40% don’t read.
I am very sorry the West Coast is being manipulated/mismanaged.

suzanna

HSF…100 billion, yikes, that will line a few pockets

(NOAA’s) Non-paper = the rough

hardscrabble farmer

And it’s on…

Latin America will demand that the richest and most polluting countries foot the bill for reducing harmful emissions at the world climate summit starting Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/latam-hands-climate-bill-rich-world-summit-050003973.html

Fabius vowed in an interview to forge an agreement that would be “universal, legally binding, durable and dynamic”.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/28/paris-climate-summit-world-leaders-talks-france

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Some of you fuckers sure are complacent. Do you realize that from 1897 to 2014 the oceans rose by 7.56 inches? http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9414290 Do you realize that if things continue at that pace, in only 117 years, the ocean will have risen by ANOTHER 7.56″? Ocean-level rise of that magnitude could threaten the primary social phenomenon of that day: Muslims lopping off the heads of the last remaining infidels.

gm
gm

I agree HSF , incredible story being played out that was written long ago .

BEA LEVER
BEA LEVER

hardscrabble farmer

Any thoughts on what can be done to combat the “climate change” enslavement? I too have put the pieces of the puzzle together and the end result was a picture not to my liking.

kokoda
kokoda

Iska….didn’t do my own research to confirm or deny your rising sea level assertion, But since the unwinding of the Pleistocene Ice Age, which lasted for 2 1/2 million years and ended about 11,500 years ago, the seas have been rising for 20,000 years – 99.9% of that time without the ‘burning’ of fossil fuels.

In the last 4,000 years, earth has gone thru 4 significant cooling periods, each followed by warm periods – we are currently in a warming period since the end of the Little Ice Age. In a very brief geologic time, another cooling period will surface. Humanity flourishes during Warm periods and suffers greatly during Cooling Periods.

hardscrabble farmer

Iska,

Did you catch my post the other day regarding the Rialto Bridge in Venice? Venice is at sea level. The bridge was built almost five hundred years ago. I’ve stood on the bottom step without getting my shoes wet. If you need proof google Canaletto’s painting of it and then look for current photos to compare. Stairs are generally 7 inches in rise. If your contention is correct, the base step should be completely submerged.

Can you explain why the sea level rise that you were speaking about hasn’t affected coastal Italy?

hardscrabble farmer

1) The official narrative is always put forth by the Government/globalists/International banking cartels.

2) It cannot be challenged.

3) It always involves an increase in taxation/repeal of liberties.

4) The same people who were in control during the advent of the crisis are the same ones who claim to be able to mitigate it.

5) The problems never abate, but grow exponentially larger, always requiring additional funding, repeal of further liberties, refusal of debate or contradictory opinions.

6) None of the elites who prescribe mitigation of the crisis ever abandon the behaviors outlined as part of the cause.

These are repeated observations. There is never a variation. The problems never abate.

So what exactly is the point of continuing to allow them to dictate the narrative and it’s mitigation?

I’m all ears.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

I challenge any of you to explain any of this:

http://enenews.com/disturbing-giant-whales-found-piled-dead-west-coast-beach-official-never-happened-before-extremely-unusual-very-rare-odd-govt-scientists-testing-fukushima-radiation-photos

http://enenews.com/worst-alarm-shocking-collapse-salmon-population-pacific-northwest-existent-pathetic-grim-disturbing-grave-danger-official-calls-immediate-government-action-majorly-wrong-happening-oceans-vide

This is what’s happening in the real world folks…while we argue of whether it’s “happening”! Wake the fuck up.

P.S. Dumping all our waste into the oceans is all part of this and if you agree then it’s not a stretch to see we “dump” a helluva lot into the air.

kokoda
kokoda

Coast….WTF has Fukushima got to do with Climate (Global Warming) Science. You are confusing basic pollution (which I agree with you) vs the absolutely ridiculous, absolutely unproven science, of CO2 induced catastrophic warming of earth. Please get your shit together – your examples don’t even apply.

If you think CO2 is destroying the planet, then stop breathing.
If you want CO2 to go below 150 ppm, then watch all life on this planet die.

hardscrabble farmer

The quote from the article you linked to regarding the whales (3) stated that “this has never happened before”. False, It does happen and is usually the result of illness, or sonar disturbances, caused by earthquakes and even Naval sonar testing. Is it tragic? Sure, does it demand that the government get involved? Only if you can convince them to quit it with the sonar testing. The salmon problem has to do with over fishing. I’d be willing to put Fukashima in there as a possible source of contamination, but again, what is taxation going to do to fix the results of a Tsunami?

The issue is whether or not the restriction of liberties and the levying of taxes on populations who frequently have nothing to do with any of these problems by elites who routinely engage in the most flagrant violations of the very policies they propose is going to do anything except impoverish those who can least afford it.

Gator
Gator

Westcoaster, if you are such a looks of drinker why the fuck do you come here? People like you crack me up. You think the government is completely full of shit regarding it’s endless wars, it’s economic data, pretty much everything, but then trust them completely when it comes to this global warming nonsense. They may lie about EVERYTHING ELSE but they are totally telling the truth here. They wouldn’t just concoct a heaping pile of bullshit like this just to trick us into giving up more of our money and liberties, no way. You can totally trust them on this one.

And even if you were right, name ONE FUCKING TIME giving these people more money and power has ever worked out well, meaning they have accomplished their goals and fixed a problem. I’ll wait….

Joey
Joey

Other than shooting wars, the AGW hypothesis, or man caused climate change fraud is the next most powerful concept being used by the MASTER CLASS to herd the sheep SUBJECT CLASS. into their pen.
And I believe it was V.I. Lenin who said that it is so easy to deceive people, because people (sheep) want to be deceived.
Correct me, please, if this is scientifically wrong, but I do believe that in the last major Ice Age, parts of North America were covered by an ice sheet one mile in thickness. Don’t see that here now. Must somehow have melted-all melted. And, how?? Better ask Master Class Preacher Man Al Gore. But, you can guess. And, I suppose when all that ice melted, that is what caused sea levels to rise by multiples of tens of feet.. Now, with only a few comparitively puny land glaciers left to melt, not to worry, sheep, about your wool getting badly soaked.
And, imagine, I managed to say all that without once using the expletive, “fucker.” Oh, I just said it. Sorry.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I should have added the “/sarc” notation. I’ll check out the Rialto bridge stuff, HSF. To me, 7.5″ rise in sea level in 117 years (even if true) is no big deal – especially compared to real issues like Europe being re-invaded by the Saracens. I actually stumbled across some website that showed the contour of the SF Bay Area if the ocean were to rise by as much as 60 meters. Sixty meters! That’s 200 feet. The UNIPCC guesses a rise of 4-8″ by the year 2,100. Who fucking cares?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Here in MN some people posit that the reduction in moose is due to an imperceptible rise in temperatures. This despite the fact that northern New England is slightly warmer than MN and has more moose. It never occurs to the warmists that the moose are getting eaten by the ever-growing number of wolves.

gm
gm

@westcoaster the stupid it burns don’t it sir? Why would every planet in the solar system be having higher temps? The SUN? YA think ? Or does every planet in the solar system have some contributing factor from anthromorphic globull warming ? That’s right fuckhead im breathing on this earth and causing warming on Pluto ? Give me a fucking break .

It appears from the historical record that warming from the SUN precedes cooling from the SUN !

Or it is an admitted U.N taxing scheme .
I am terribly sorry for attacking your preconceived notions of how the solar system works .

Not really , you liberal fucks want to put your hands into everyone’s wallet to ease your own conscience ? As far as the whales etc, Does fukishima enter into your equations ? Your a fucking statist troll who is following the statist line without looking at the real evidence . What ? You need more funding? Fuck off . You need to look up the term cognitive dissonance . You are textbook .
Sometimes you post some good stuff. The other 99% of the time ? not so much

ZombieDawg
ZombieDawg

Ditto Kokoda’s sentiment.
I used to try and wake the ignorant up, but can’t be fucked anymore.
Reap what you sow. Look after # 1, for educating the masses will ONLY come when SHTF and by then it’s too late.
I do wish people would use the correct terminology too.
Climate change is REAL. It is a universe-wide dynamic that has existed since the birth of the universe some 14 billion years ago.
It exists on Earth as we are part of the universe.
Anthropomorphic global warming on the other hand is total BS and demonstrated so by REAL scientists who engage in REAL science rather than doctoring data to reflect government desired figures.
ie these scientists either have some balls or grew some and chosen to show integrity and scientific honesty instead of just thinking about their job security and funding.
The satellite data proves global cooling, 3000 years of ice core records PROVES global cooling, NASA’s figures have been PROVEN to have been fudged, some 40,000 scientists DON’T AGREE with the global warming lie.
Hell, even the global warming camp’s TOP people have just now come out and said it’s all BULLSHIT.
YOUR own “warming” wankers that you follow have now jumped ship.
How much fucking proof do you “warmers” want?

ZombieDawg
ZombieDawg

Hell, almost forgot:…

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
The_Craven

Joseph Goebbels

Anonymous
Anonymous

Iska,

Maybe the Moose are just moving from MN to northern New England because it’s warmer there?

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