For my pals at J- Source - Front Page of the NYT
U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege
Four months (well four years actually) late, it dawns on the Times that there may be a tiny problem with this “climate change stuff”.
Of course the Times could not be bothered doing the digging itself…instead it reports stories from the Telegraph and the London times….Perhaps the New York Times has become a blog.
But the good new is that it is reporting the wobbles in climate science only a day after the Globe and Mail. Right on the news…good work NYT!
February 9th, 2010 at 10:07 am
“Perhaps the New York Times has become a blog.”
Astute observation Jay. And a very left-wing blog at that.
This…uh, reporting on other’s reporting, had to be very painful for them. Sorta like passing a kidney stone. Let’s hope they ‘feel’ better for it.
My advice to NYT, stop all the cool-aid drinking. It is not effective for your kind of stone.
February 9th, 2010 at 11:09 am
“The general consensus among mainstream scientists is that the errors are in any case minor and do not undermine the report’s conclusions.”
Sheesh.
The report stated that the Himalyan glaciers would melt away in the next twenty-five years, even though there was no science supporting this conclusion. Furthermore, the statement was made in the report for the express purpose of placing pressure on political bodies. The stated threat to the water supply was intended to pressure them to take political action.
Mainstream scientists, forsoothe.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
As to your friends at j-source, they really are not interested in the timeliness of the reporting, or the accuracy of the reporting, or even the completeness of the reporting.
They’re interested in journalism.
February 12th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
As you may have heard, various stations in the eastern US have broken all-time seasonal snowfall records (well all-time since the 1880s).
The return period of these snowfalls has been cited at about 400-500 years. But that’s only if it does not snow at all from now to May 31st.
I discussed this on a weather forum with somebody tracking the stats, and he told me this:
“”If BWI measures 100 inches (currently near 70) ...its winter/s season-total snowfall will have a return-period of 5,250 years.””
“”Looking at PHL…too. Their 100” return-period is 7,760 years.”
(end quote)
That would take us back almost to the end of the Wisconsin glacial period, the Younger Dryas.
Incredible anomaly, whether you believe in climate change of any sort or not.
In my estimation, the chance that a warming climate would produce such a winter in this location is about 100 times less likely than a cooling climate producing it, and ten times less likely than if it happened at random in a steady-state climate.
In other words, the official coat of climate change has come off right where the emperor lives, and everyone would be able to see his nuts, except for the snow covering them up.
February 12th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
So these really are thousand year storms…
Now, weather naif that I am, I would think that a cooling overall temp plus El Nino for moisture and an Arctic Oscillation pushing the jet stream South would be sufficient to explain the dumps. But that’s natural variability and can’t possibly be right because Al Gore tells us so.
February 12th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Well, luckily, someone has already compiled short list of things that are caused by global warming:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
Just the A list:
Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, poppies more potent, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer frost, aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air pressure changes, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), anaphylactic reactions to bee stings, ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, animals shrink, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk, anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra lost, Arctic warming (not), asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased…