1988 : Spectacular Fraud From The World’s Top Climate Scientist

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This week in 1988, with CO2 just below 350 PPM, the US blew away all records for heat, and NASA’s James Hansen told Congress that the heat was due to human emissions of CO2.

26 Jun 1988, Page 9 – Great Falls Tribune

June 21 temperatures have plummeted in the US over the past century, with 1988 and 1933 being the only years with an average temperature above 90F. The heat of 1988 was an outlier, was against the trend, and had nothing to do with CO2.

Almost the entire US was over 90F on June 21, 1988, and much was over 100F. It was completely unprecedented.

The heat during Hansen’s testimony shows zero correlation with CO2.

As is almost always the case with prominent climate scientists, there is zero science behind their claims, and they are simply committing fraud to obtain money and attention.

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June 21, 2017 at 09:50AM

Bacteria samples collected in Antarctica a century ago nearly identical to present day samples

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Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition ship Discovery alongside Antartica’s Great Ice Barrier.

A pair of researchers with the Natural History Museum of London and the University of Waikato have found that bacteria living in a part of Antarctica have not changed much over the past century.

In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Anne Jungblut and Ian Hawes describe how they compared the DNA of cyanobacterial mats collected during Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition from 1901 to 1904 with modern specimens and what they found.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott was an officer in the British Royal Navy with an inclination for exploration. He led two expeditions in the Antarctic: The first was called the Discovery Expedition, the second was the Terra Nova Expedition. Falcon died during his return from the second expedition, but his efforts led to the discovery that Antarctica was once covered by forest—they also provided plant specimens for study by scientists back in England. One specimen was the cyanobacterial mat—the main kind of vegetation covering the area where Falcon had based his camp.

Once studied, the mats were pressed between sheets of paper and stored at the Natural History Museum. In this new effort, the researchers conducted a DNA analysis of the bacteria in the mats. Then they arranged to have researchers currently carrying out science experiments in nearly the same area in Antarctica collect new samples for study. After conducting a DNA analysis of the new samples, the results were compared with those from over a century ago. The researchers report that they found very little difference between the two.

The sameness of the bacteria samples came as a surprise to the researchers because they believed that it was likely that bacteria in Antarctica evolved as temperatures rose, or new species would have invaded. That neither has happened has caused the researchers to suggest that some organisms in Antarctica might be more resilient than expected.

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June 21, 2017 at 09:44AM

Media Claims Global Warming Grounded Dozens Of Flights In Arizona

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As a heatwave grounded dozens of flights in the Phoenix area, media outlets took the opportunity to link the common, naturally-occurring summer weather event to man-made global warming.

Phoenix’s fourth-highest temperature on record of 119 degrees Fahrenheit Tuesday, grounded more than 40 flights. Other Southwestern cities, like Las Vegas, also saw record-high temperatures.

We often hear from climate warriors that weather is not the same as climate, but that didn’t seem to apply to this week’s heatwave.

The New York Times only took two paragraphs to mention global warming in an otherwise informative article about why airplanes can’t fly when it gets too hot (bold is my own).

As the global climate changes, disruptions like these are likely to become more frequent, researchers say, potentially making air travel costlier and less predictable with a greater risk of injury to travelers from increased turbulence.

“We tend to ignore the atmosphere and just think that the plane is flying through empty space, but of course, it’s not,” said Paul D. Williams, a professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading in Britain who studies climate change and its effect on aviation. “Airplanes do not fly through a vacuum. The atmosphere is being modified by climate change.”

The Atlantic’s Ian Bogost wrote: “Flight cancellations are a perfect foundation for climate-change panic.” Bogost also explains that Bombardier CRJ used for regional transport in the southwest can’t operate at temperatures above 118 degrees Fahrenheit.

“Travelers can’t help but worry that their mobility will be impacted by near- and long-term effects of climate change,” Bogost wrote. “Much of the coverage tracking the American Airlines cancellations pegs climate change as a direct or indirect cause of the disruption.”

To be fair, Bogost said the groundings were caused by more than “the reading on a thermometer.” He mentioned the economic and engineering constraints in the modern airline industry.

Climate Central reported that “[h]eat waves are intimately tied to climate change as rising background temperatures make them more intense and common.”

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June 21, 2017 at 09:44AM

Status update and sincere thanks

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June 21, 2017 at 09:40AM