Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/01/2009 8:00:29 PM PST by Royal Wulff
As noted yesterday, the main enterprise of Steig et al is a re-interpretation of West Antarctica, saying that "no one really has paid much attention to" this area in the past and saying that their study improved over prior studies because previously:
"People were calculating with their heads instead of actually doing the math," said lead author of the study Eric Steig, of the University of Washington in Seattle. "What we did is interpolate carefully instead of just using the back of an envelope."
I observed yesterday that NASA GISS used the same source data for surface and AWS stations as Steig (READER) but were unable to calculate trends in West Antarctica (blank on the trend map -see yesterday's post), a "defect" that Steig attributed above to Hansen's group "calculating with their heads instead of actually doing the math" and "just using the back of an envelope". Hansen's bulldogs, Gavin and Tamino, who usually defend Hansen against the smallest slight or perceived slight, are strangely silent to Steig's damning accusations against Hansen.
Today I'm going to look at the station data to see whether Steig's accusations against Hansen are fair or not.
(Excerpt) Read more at climateaudit.org ...
Rips the latest warmist junk science to shreds. The recent Antarctic-is-warming scare shown to use incorrect locations for weather stations and possibly to have spliced records from two stations into a single artificially warming record.
See here.
High on my list of life ambitions is to visit Antarctica.
Don’t you think you should wait ‘til it warms up?
Hansen and Gore need to spend a year or two in Antarctica so that they can straighten their climate numbers out.
How do you tell the East Antartic from the West Antartic?
Teleki-li! Teleki-li!
Lovecraft still owns Antartica.
Freegards
When we fly on the continent of Antarctica we use what is called Grid navigation. It is an artificial overlay which we use to fly straight lines on the continent using “great Circle Routing” and with GPS its fairly easy to do. If you use Magnetic you will end up off the coast as the magnetic pole is not anywhere near the geographic South Pole. True headings are actually Magnetic headings corrected by declination. In other words, just as bad as you would be correcting all the time.
I tell you all this because when we lay this “Grid” over the continent we simply declare a north south east and west. This way were all on the same sheet of music.
They lie in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, respectively. ( And that's "AntarCtic". )
You sure it's spelled with a capital 'C'?
Follow the links
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