Re: Global Warming Update
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 6:42 amJust to handle one mischaracterization (I’ll be kind and not call it a lie) in David’s post above before work this morning.
David gave a link entitled " of a lie found in AIT” referring to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) released on Jan 24, 2006. The plot and main point given in that link is:
showing a low point in Feb 2012 and drawing a line from Jan 2006 until Feb 2012 therefore claiming a “lie". Al Gore in AIT had said (given this data and other longer term data - e.g GISS) that air temperatures will continue to increase unless ghg’s are controlled. Aside from the fact I don’t think prognostication can be a “lie” (it can be wrong) and the fact that the ghg’s emissions have diminished since 2006 (in the US at least),
Al Gore’s global prognostication is correct looking at the more recent data.
I wonder why David didn't show Roy Spencer's latest data which I gave in my post yesterday and repeat here:
which I got directly from as of August 5, 2014. It is the same data except extended beyond Feb 2012 until July 2014. It shows a rise of 0.1C from Jan 2006 until July 2014.
No excuses David, I had provided that data just yesterday! This is typical of the personal vedanta crapola coming from those that David trusts and apparently never checks or updates.
I note that the first half of David’s post is all personal vendetta vs scientists (and Al Gore). The second half of David’s post is the PR war about who takes funding from who and how much. That is another area that the RW mischaracterizes. It is no more honest than the scientific data mishandling described above. I focus on the science.
David gave a link entitled " of a lie found in AIT” referring to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) released on Jan 24, 2006. The plot and main point given in that link is:
showing a low point in Feb 2012 and drawing a line from Jan 2006 until Feb 2012 therefore claiming a “lie". Al Gore in AIT had said (given this data and other longer term data - e.g GISS) that air temperatures will continue to increase unless ghg’s are controlled. Aside from the fact I don’t think prognostication can be a “lie” (it can be wrong) and the fact that the ghg’s emissions have diminished since 2006 (in the US at least),
Al Gore’s global prognostication is correct looking at the more recent data.
I wonder why David didn't show Roy Spencer's latest data which I gave in my post yesterday and repeat here:
which I got directly from as of August 5, 2014. It is the same data except extended beyond Feb 2012 until July 2014. It shows a rise of 0.1C from Jan 2006 until July 2014.
No excuses David, I had provided that data just yesterday! This is typical of the personal vedanta crapola coming from those that David trusts and apparently never checks or updates.
I note that the first half of David’s post is all personal vendetta vs scientists (and Al Gore). The second half of David’s post is the PR war about who takes funding from who and how much. That is another area that the RW mischaracterizes. It is no more honest than the scientific data mishandling described above. I focus on the science.