GISS has invented some new corrections to heat the Arctic. Until a few weeks ago, Reykjavik, Iceland looked like the graph below, with the 1930s and 1940s warmer than the present :
Now it looks like this, with the 1930s and 1940s much cooler than the present.
The new technique is called “removing suspicious records” – i.e any record which doesn’t support his theory.
Hansen seems to have adopted a general strategy of warming the present by cooling the 1930s and 1940s.
There is nothing suspicious about records which show a lot of Arctic warming prior to 1940. It is well documented.
The Courier-Mail Monday 6 May 1940
By far the largest number of local glaciers in north-east Greenland had receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers were nearing a catastrophe.
In Alaska glaciers had been retreating from 100 to 200 years, the average rate of recession being about 50 feet a year. The Antarctic ice- sheet also showed signs of recent retreat.
“In fact,” said Professor Speight, “no case is recorded of a region of the world in which there are present signs of an advance.
OLD FARMS EXPOSED : Greenland’s Ice is melting and the ruins of mediaeval farm-houses hidden by ice for centuries have already been exposed. In Spitsbergen the mean annual temperature has risen by four degrees since 1912. Ships ply the White Sea and The Gulf of Bothnia three or four weeks longer than they used to. In Iceland and the higher latitudes of Norway farmers are growing barley in soil that was once frozen for seven months each year. But the coming of the new climate is more noticeable, above the world’s snow lines. Glaciers present the most striking evidence . The American geographer, F. E. Matthes, has reported that ‘glaciers in nearly all parts of the world receded regularly during the last 60 years, but especially rapidly during the 1930-40 decade.’
GLACIERS SHRINKING : All glaciers examined from Green land through Scandinavia to Europe are shrinking. And the shrinkage is not limited to high latitudes. Some glaciers in the European Alps have vanished completely. In East Africa, the glaciers on three high volcanoes— Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kenya and Ruwenzori — have been diminishing since they were first observed in 1880. The vast Muir Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay has retreated a full 14 miles’ since 1902.
Atmospheric CO2 measurements GISS, nasa arctic 1930s
And yet somehow, the Kevins of this world will have no issue with this.
Nasa is not the only group that uses this method of finding the BEST approach to surface temperature histories. The originator of the data sets NOAA NCDC with their GHCN that uses fluid records that are the output of computer models rather than recorded measurements.
GISS gets their Garbage data from NOAA and applies their own secret sauce before “Cooking” their books.
GIGO! ALL THE WAY!
This is getting weirder and weirder. If the data does not suit the theory the data must be wrong …
If he was a doctor of medicine making dodgy claims to sell a new procedure or drug he would be in jail now. Can’t someone have him investigated for fiddling the books?
I’m way over the investigating. Time to get a rope.
Not necessarily. Remember when they used to give mental patients lobotomies? The practice was widespread and it took many to be able to get away from it and back to sensible medicine (or at least, more sensible; they still do some crazy things in psychiatry, such as prescribing drugs at the drop of a hat for relatively minor conditions).
And that didn’t have nearly the popularity that APOCALYPTIC ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE does in the media and with the political class. It will take time to prove these imbeciles wrong, but at least economic problems in the West have led to a populace less inclined to acquiesce to all sorts of new taxes and regulations. (Who knew economic mismanagement and recession had a bright spot?)
meant to say, it took many YEARS to be able to get away from it
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/30/how-one-man-got-away-with-mass-fraud-by-saying-trust-me-its-science/
GISS better call Icelandic Met Office and tell them that their measurements is wrong !
Temperature in Stykkishólmur (Western Iceland) 1798- 2007:
http://en.vedur.is/climatology/clim/nr/1213
Do you believe in miracles? Yeessss! – The hockey team
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”
George Orwell…1984
Thanks for that quote- it’s a keeper.
I wonder if an FDA auditor would find the approach used to deal with “suspicious records” appropriate (valid).
why do you reckon they wanna shut down the net as much as they can?
so people can’t expose their LIES!
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/greenland/vintheretal2006.pdf :
“the warmest year in the extended Greenland temperature
record is 1941, while the 1930s and 1940s are the warmest decades.”
see also: http://www.joelschwartz.com/pdfs/Chylek.pdf
And what do the official Greenland/Icelandic temperature records show?
We have heard earlier that the Russians disputed some of the GISS/Hansen’s claims. If we were to place the regional or official national records side-by-side with the Hansen records, what would we see?
GISTemp cannot be fought with prior versions, as Hansen et al simply claim that, over time, they are getting a better understanding of what is going on. A growing divergence between national records and GISTemp could be an effective as well as legitimate argument, however, as now there are national positions in conflict with Al Gore-Hansen positions. Our scientists vs the Climate Profiteers.
This assumes, of course, that the national records ARE different from the GISTemp records. In the case of New Zealand, we know that – despite the huge contradiction between the original data and the adjusted data – the Salingerists and the Hansenists have maintained solidarity. Same with Australia (including the bizarre sea-level claims). But Iceland, Greenland, Scotland etc. etc.?
Are the national records/positions available for comparison?
Sir: The best site to see the “real” stuff is CO2science.com
It will be noted that an increase in CO2 has always been helpful:
Forests and serial crops are now growing faster, than in say 1940, by some
50%, maybe 60%… There are lots of articles… Take a look.
It will be noted that an increase in world temperature has always been helpful.:
Look at the most recent, about the year 1000ad. The Nordics occupied
Greenland and then disappeared when the Little Ice Age came, say 1400-1850
It will be noted that the current warming started 200 years ago, to follow the LIA.
It will be noted the NO-ONE has proven that CO2 increase PRECEEDs a temperature increase…whitch the IPCC assmues…
SO…let’s put a lot of CO2 up there…it is beneficial…
Vern Cornell
Indeed so. In fact, no one has ever proven that the “greenhouse effect” exists. In fact, it doesn’t exist thanks to the second law of thermodynamics. Cold molecules in the atmosphere are simply incapable of back-radiating heat to a warmer surface. Therefore, there is no “greenhouse effect” except in the fevered minds of James Hansen and the warmists. Now, think about that. If there is no “greenhouse effect”, then there is no possibility that AGW is happening.
Also the holocaust. Noone ever proved any jews died
Hey Bob! The only fantasies we make fun of here are those made up by people silly enough to think the laws of nature have changeed after 4.5 billion years. Invoking the holocaust on this thread just shows you are one sick dude. Get better soon.
The most striking change is the peak temperature in the early part of this century (2002 or 2003). That measurement was not removed, it was “improved,” increasing by about 1 degree. The alogorithm that identifies “suspicious” records would be interesting to study.
Hansen is applying the Inverse Urban Warming adjustment. This is how it works:
As time passes on, Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects bias the temperature upwards. Now, obviously, this means that earlier temperatures lack this UHI effect, and therefore must be adjusted downwards. It’s proven science! You can’t argue with science!
Murphy has a Law – “If it can go wrong it will!”, a best proof of Murphy’s Law is Hansen.
Beware of all Climechemists bearing a German Gift, they’re really poison, if you swallow you’ll die.