Peter Morecambe: Institutional Climate Science, Prospects for Independent Researchers and Some Results

Guest post from Peter Morecambe aka ‘Galloping Camel’

CLIMATE SCIENCE

The Kyoto Protocol

Elites around the world tend to believe that rising levels of CO2 in our atmosphere will cause catastrophic climate changes. Collectively they wield enough power to shape energy policies in many nations according to commitments laid down in the “Kyoto Protocol” and subsequent accords. It is interesting to compare the fate of the Kyoto Protocol based on the work of “Climate Scientists” such as Michael Mann with that of the Montreal Protocol based on the work of people like McElroy.

The Montreal Protocol essentially banned the production of Freon and similar compounds based on the prediction that this would reduce the size of the polar “Ozone Holes”. After the ban went into effect the size of the ozone holes diminished. This may mean that the science presented by McElroy and his cohorts was “Robust” or it may be dumb luck. Either way, McElroy has credibility and “Skeptics” are ridiculed. The Kyoto Protocol did not fare so well.

Roger Andrews: How NASA GISS Manufactures Warming in the Antarctic

My thanks to Roger Andrews for his continuing efforts to uncover some of the bigger egregious errors and mannipulations in the historical temperature record. Here he examines the long term Antarctic record as published by Jim Hansen’s NASA-GISS.

HOW GISS MANUFACTURES WARMING (LOTS OF IT) IN THE ANTARCTIC
by Roger Andrews

Those pagod things of sabre-sway
With fronts of brass and feet of clay

These lines from Byron’s “Ode to Bonaparte” provide a fitting introduction to this short post, which I’m submitting as a filler while I delve ever more deeply into the regional, hemispheric and global atrocities committed by GISS’s homogeneity adjustments.

One of the more significant unknowns in climate science is what temperatures did in the Antarctic during the first half of the 20^th century, and the reason it’s an unknown, of course, is that there are no temperature records in the Antarctic in the first half of the 20^th century. There are records in the Antarctic Peninsula that date back to the 1940s, but the Antarctic Peninsula covers only a tiny fraction of the continent and temperature trends there aren’t representative of trends on the Antarctic mainland, and there are no records on the Antarctic mainland before the mid-1950s. So the mid-1950s is as far back as we can make meaningful estimates of Antarctic mean surface air temperatures, and here are mine, estimated as always using unadjusted GHCN v2 data: