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The First Step in Revoking Obama’s Land Grab

The First Step in Revoking Obama’s Land Grab

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What is done by executive power can be undone by executive power. Former President Barack Obama began to learn that lesson this Wednesday when President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to conduct a review of all Antiquities Act designations larger than 100,000 acres over the past 30 years. Specifically, […]

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May 4, 2017 at 01:36AM

There Has Been No Man-Made ‘Global’ Warming In The Southern Hemisphere, Equatorial Regions

There Has Been No Man-Made ‘Global’ Warming In The Southern Hemisphere, Equatorial Regions

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Half The Planet Has Not Cooperated 

With The ‘Global’ Warming Narrative


According to the overseers of the long-term (19th century to present) instrumental data, the Southern Hemisphere’s temperature record is “mostly made up”.  There is an extremely limited number of available measurements both historically and even presently from the south pole to the equatorial regions extending up through India and South China.

Below is an actual e-mail conversation between the Climate Research Unit’s Phil Jones and Tom Wigley.  Phil Jones is the one who is largely responsible for making up the temperature data for the Met Office in the UK (HadCRUT)….extending back to 1850.



According to this NOAA graph from Peterson and Vose (1997), in 1901 there was a negligible representation of maximum/minimum instrumental temperature stations in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) up through the equatorial regions (southern Asia, north Africa).  Effectively, coastal Australia had substantial instrumental representation in the early 20th century — but that was about it.   The rest of the temperature data for the SH and equatorial regions needed to be made up to extend “global” instrumental temperature data back to 1850.

 

To measure the historical temperature record for the bottom half of the planet, then, scientists use proxy evidence from such sources as ice cores or alkenones to reconstruct past climates.  When they do that, a common theme emerges: the proxy evidence used in temperature reconstructions suggests that there has been no significant changes in temperature from Antarctica to the regions near or just above the equator in the last few centuries.  In other words, half the globe has not been following along with the anthropogenic “global” warming dictates.


Delong et al., 2012


Ault et al., 2013

 


Wei et al., 2015


Rosenthal et al., 2017




Fischel et al., 2017


Shevenell et al., 2011


South America


de Jong et al., 2013


von Gunten et al., 2009


De Jong et al., 2016

“[T]he reconstruction…shows that recent warming (until AD 2009) is not exceptional in the context of the past century. For example, the periods around AD 1940 and from AD 1950–1955 were warmer. … [B]ased on tree ring analyses from the upper tree limit in northern Patagonia, Villalba et al. (2003) found that the period just before AD 1950 was substantially warmer than more recent decades.”


Silveira and Pezzi, 2014



Sepúlveda et al., 2009 


Shevenell et al., 2011


South Africa


Tyson et al., 2000

“The climate of the interior of South Africa was around 1°C cooler in Little Ice Age [AD 1300 to 1800] and may have been over 3°C higher than at present during the extremes of the medieval warm period [AD 1000 to 1300].”

“It was variable throughout the millennium, but considerably more so during the warming of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries.  The lowest temperature events recorded during the Little Ice Age in South Africa are coeval with the Maunder and Sporer Minima in solar irradiance.  The medieval warming is shown to have coincided with … the Medieval Maximum in solar radiation.”


Sánchez-Sesma, 2015


Zinke et al., 2014



Dupont et al., 2004


Weldeab et al, 2005


Australia, New Zealand


O’Donnell et al., 2016


Tyson et al., 2000


de Frietas et al., 2015

 


South Asia


Sunkara and Tiwari, 2016


Yan et al., 2015


Fan et al., 2009 


Munz et al., 2015


Zinke et al., 2016


Thapa et al., 2015

“[T]emperature in Central Asia and northern Hemisphere revert back towards cooling trends in the late twentieth century.”


Southern Ocean


Jones et al., 2016



Markle et al., 2017


Bostock et al., 2013


Foster et al., 2016


Antarctica


Stenni et al., 2017


Schneider et al., 2006


Miles et al., 2013


Mayewski et al., 2017


Turner et al., 2016


Fudge et al., 2016

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May 4, 2017 at 01:28AM

Why the 13-Month Moving Average on Satellite Data?

Why the 13-Month Moving Average on Satellite Data?

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Explanation of the Satellite Data Moving Average: Global area-averaged lower tropospheric temperature anomalies (departures from 30-year calendar monthly means, 1981-2010). The 13-month centered average is meant to give an indication of the lower frequency variations in the data; the choice of 13 months is somewhat arbitrary… an odd number of months allows centered plotting on […]

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May 4, 2017 at 12:36AM

Evolution Of Arctic Sea Ice In The Pre- And Post-Satellite Era

Evolution Of Arctic Sea Ice In The Pre- And Post-Satellite Era

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Re-calibration of Arctic sea ice extent datasets using Arctic surface air temperature records

pre&post-satellite

Abstract: A new seasonal and annual dataset describing Arctic sea ice extents for 1901-2015 was constructed by individually re-calibrating sea ice data sources from the three Arctic regions (North American, Nordic and Siberian) using the corresponding surface air temperature trends for the pre-satellite era (1901-1978), so that the strong relationship between seasonal sea ice extent and surface air temperature which has been observed for the satellite era (1979-present) also applies to the pre-satellite era. According to this new dataset, the recent period of Arctic sea ice retreat since the 1970s followed a period of sea ice growth since the mid-1940s, which in turn followed a period of sea ice retreat since the 1910s. Arctic sea ice is a key component of the Arctic hydrological cycle both through its freshwater storage role, and its influence on oceanic and atmospheric circulation. Therefore, these new insights have significance for our understanding of Arctic hydrology.

Full paper available from the lead author

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May 4, 2017 at 12:17AM