Anthony Watts recently appeared on Hannity's America discussing his Surface Station Project, which shows the surface station data to be very unreliable due to poor siting of a majority of the surface stations, i.e. next to parking lots, next to air conditioning exhausts, or on roofs. Since the temperature data is biased towards higher temperatures, that's what makes the information so useful to Al Gore, James Hansen, et al.

For example click here, then look at the "Random Image" at the left side of the screen, and keep clicking your refresh button to bring up a new random image.

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CCF Note: When looking at the glacier in this photograph, also note the dates and the location of each marked retreat.

Those famous yellow, rubber ducks that we played in the tub as young children (We have 2 of them in the tub for our infant daughter) are now being put to work by NASA of all places, according to an article from The Telegraph.

This is unusual. A live media teleconference on the sun. Even more unusual is this statement:

The sun’s current state could result in changing conditions in the solar system.

As you may recall, I posted an entry about the Ulysses mission back on June 16th and the findings of a lowered magnetic field in the sun, from the JPL press release then:

Ulysses ends its career after revealing that the magnetic field emanating from the sun’s poles is much weaker than previously observed.  This could mean the upcoming solar maximum period will be less intense than in recent history.

We live in interesting times.

You'll probably never hear this from the main stream media but the Arctic is not experiencing record high temperatures. Yet CO2 levels continue to climb. Since "record ice loss" only looks back to 1979 its highly likely that the ice loss we're seeing now has occurred many times before.

Climate is defined as weather over time. When you're talking about the climate of the earth you have to include all of the "weather" over a period of time that includes all of its natural weather cycles. Some of the known cycles are measured in 10's of thousands of years. There are many important cycles that affect the planet some as short as 10 years and many that span 50 to 1,000 years. We don't even know about all of them. So when you're talking about "climate temperature records" (remember "climate" is weather over time) you would think the "record" would at least span a period of time that included all of the cycles at least once. When you're looking at the affects of "record temperatures" on something like the Arctic ice you would again have to consider at least one period of all the cycles.

Many scary stories have been written about the dangers of catastrophic global warming, allegedly due to increased atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the combustion of fossil fuels. But is the world really catastrophically warming? NO. And is the warming primarily caused by humans? NO.

Since just January 2007, the world has cooled so much that ALL the global warming over the past three decades has disappeared! This is confirmed by a plot of actual global average temperatures from the best available source, weather satellite data that shows there has been NO net global warming since the satellites were first launched in 1979.

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