RC Comments on impact of AWS changes

I compiled the RC comments on how much impact the harry data has.

[Response: No-one should be against better data. It would have been nice had SM actually notified the holders of the data that there was a problem (he didn’t, preferring to play games instead). If he hadn’t left it for others to work out, he might even have got some credit . As for the Steig et al paper, the typo in Table S2 is just a typo, as could be seen from examining the location files on Eric’s website or noting that the figure S4b has the correct location for Harry. As for the implications of the errors in the BAS Harry file on the study, that too is visible in figure S4b - removing Harry (and a bunch of other AWS stations) doesn’t change the answer in any meaningful respect. Correction it has no impact on any of the reconstructions made with the AVHRR data. Thus the answers to the ‘questions that are being raised’ were obvious all along. We might post some more on this later. - gavin] (Id’s emphasis)

Steig’s Code

I have sent several requests to Real Climate requesting when the code would be released for the paper — Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year paper AKA Steig et. al.

I wonder if you know when the data and code for this will be released. If it has, where can I find it?

It doesn’t matter to me if the antarctic is warming or not, but I would like to know the details of this study. I’ve read the paper and SI and it isn’t exactly chock full of detail.

Check Out What Gavin Did at CA

This should make your day. It did mine.

Gavin’s “Mystery Man” Revealed

Oceanic Cycles

A Closer Look At Oceanic Oscillation Cycles

Everyone has their favorite blogs, Diatribe guy wrote an interesting article on oceanic oscillations focusing on the arctic index. I don’t have much expertise in this area yet but since it is likely the primary driver in our current weather cycles it can’t be ignored. (link above)

Arctic Sea Ice Increases at Record Rate

Something I’ve been interested in for the last several months is sea ice data. What makes it interesting is that as I understand it, models demonstrate the poles should be most sensitive to global warming leading the planet temp, especially in the Arctic. Recently I have been able to process the monthly and daily gridded arctic data as provided by NSIDC. The daily values allow a better analysis of trend than can be provided by the monthly data.

If you’re like me you recall the claims of fastest melt rate ever were made about 2007 , I fully believed them, because the graphs showed a much more negative value than in the previous 30 years as shown in Figure 1 below.

AGW Stupid Factory

One thing about leftist global warming extremists, is they provide an apparently unlimited supply of bad and expensive ideas for solving it. From my previous posts on Algae, biofuel, solar and others we learned that the total energy from the sun as captured by plants cannot replace our current fossil fuel usage simply because of the area of sunlight we would need to capture. The second thing we learned is that the cost of these installations would at least double our current fuel costs, placing enormous load on our economies.

Well here’s another idea, one which supposedly will help curb global warming. Of course it suffers the same failings as so many plans, a ten minute jaunt with a calculator proves the impossibility of the solution.

Seawater project aims to combat global warming

Antarctic Peninsula Temperature Record – The Beginning

I’m going to do my best to understand the RegEm Antarctic paper when the data is released.  At this point, I’m pissed at Steig and Mann and I want to see if they pulled some of the shenanigans I now fully expect to find.   It’s time to start looking at the data.

David Smith provided an interesting graph on a thread at Climate Audit link HERE).  This plot is the dates corresponding to the actual record as collected from individual temperature stations on the antarctic peninsula.  These are a substantial portion of the data they used to establish trend in the antarctic.

Eric Steig Wears no Clothes

Eric Steig, the author of the recent Antarctic is now warming paper, put this in his comment thread over at real climate. I love how he pretends to not have an opinion on the politics.