Summer ‘09

It’s no surprise how often denialists focus on regions with cooler-than-average temperatures to imply that the globe itself is cooling. The latest spate of such posts is about this summer in the U.S.; maybe the “best” is this one:

Reply to Lucy Skywalker

You ask if I’m being fair. I doubt that you’ve been honest — not even with yourself.

Conservative Republican

John Warner is a conservative republican. He’s also a former senator from Virginia, former Navy secretary, and former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He was recently interviewed for Politics Daily, and talked about his efforts to support climate legislation.

Arctic Analysis

The very first sentence of Lucy Skywalker’s post (reproduced on WUWT) about the arctic is:

What sudden recent warming?

I’ll answer that question.

Arctic Stations

I almost didn’t think it was possible. Anthony Watts has yet another post attempting to support the totally false claim that the arctic isn’t warming. This claim definitely fits into the “bag of hammers” category; the post is courtesy “Lucy Skywalker Green World Trust,” at whose site you can find the thrust of the post, this map. It links to graphs of temperature from northern stations.

Arctic Sunlight

Roger Pielke Sr. has joined Anthony Watts in la-la-land with a post which was also posted on WUWT, Pielke Senior: Arctic Temperature Reporting In The News Needs A Reality Check; it’s Pielke’s attempt to throw dirt at the recent Kaufman et al. research. Pielke refers to modern arctic temperatures thus:

Arctic non-analysis

Anthony Watts has yet another post suggesting the ludicrous idea that the arctic isn’t really warming. He seems upset about the recent research on arctic temperature, and is all too eager to discredit it.

Urgent

Most people labor under the misconception that if we stop greenhouse gas emissions, levels will soon return to their previous values. Global warming will stop, sea level rise will be averted, things will generally return to “normal” in reasonably short order. In fact this may be at the root of the idea that we’re not facing an urgent situation, that “a choice can always be made to quickly reduce emissions and thereby reverse any harm within a few years or decades.” Only then, so the thinking goes, should we make any real sacrifices, because by stopping emissions those greenhouse-gas levels and global warming will promptly reverse.

Sea Level Rise

Stefan Rahmstorf and Martin Vermeer have an interesting post on RC about very simple models of sea level rise. The simple model is

Pants on Fire

Recent comments pointed to more outrageous false statements by Ian Plimer. This guy is beyond belief … in more ways than one.