Comments on: NewsWEAK’s weak attack on Global Warming doubters

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:08:43 +0000

Juker, I have been there since the site opened up. Been reading Steves stuff since before he had a blog. There IS a y2k calculation problem in his adjustments. It usually comes in when people only use the last two digits of the year. There were a LOT of y2k bugs in a LOT of programs. Most got fixed before y2k so it wasn't an issue. Bit if you are at year 00 and your adjustment depends on previous years it can blow up rather easily. New article here on the subject.

By: Juker

Juker — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:47:13 +0000

crosspatch, the Hansen corrections are not affected by the “Y2K Bug” – largely mythical. It is just a regular old programming error, maybe. That 2000 was involved is funny but coincidental.

If you are a CA fan then great, me too. Just be careful with this stuff. CA is serious science but sometimes it is just exploring data and such, not ready for time prime even if I happen to believe a lot of it.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:18:38 +0000

uh, oh. looks like my post got eaten by the spam filter. Macranger, can you kick that loose?

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:17:46 +0000

I have no doubt that the temperature monitoring networks are showing man made global warming. Look at this picture and you can see how they make it. That is the Tuscon Arizona station if the the USHCN. USHCN is a network of "high quality" sites designed to monitor climate change. So what do they do? They site a station in Arizona right on top of an asphalt parking lot. The problem is that this site isn't atypical. Many sites are on building roofs, near parking lots, have air conditioner exhaust blowing on them, sited next to garbage incinerators, etc. In fact, properly sited locations show NO global warming in the past decade or so. And to add insult to injury, it looks like the process they use to "adjust" the temperatures of some sites has a Y2K bug that causes the adjustment to go haywire starting in January of 2000 resulting in a skewing of the temperatures by an amount larger than the claimed amount of global warming of the entire previous century. Yeah, it is man made global warming, alright. Bad location of monitoring stations and bad adjustments to the data are resulting in "warming" being seen in the data that might not really be there. Check out these posts at Climate Audit. Those are postings having to do with the auditing of the USHCN network (tag=surface stations). It is just incredible.