Comments on: Chief Scientist Revises Global Warming Data http://www.joecobb.com/blog/2007/08/12/nasa-revises-global-warming-data/ Judge, Libertarian Party National Judicial Committee Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: blogger http://www.joecobb.com/blog/2007/08/12/nasa-revises-global-warming-data/#comment-2536 blogger Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:58:49 +0000 http://www.joecobb.com/blog/2007/08/12/nasa-revises-global-warming-data/#comment-2536 <p>When something happens that appears to confirm the warming theories of government funded scientists, press conferences are held and dire announcements are made. But as far as I can see no press conference was held regarding the recent downward revisions. If such a press statement was released, or comments were made public, the media has failed to report on them. Reporting only those events that substantiate one side in a debate is not journalism. It is is advocacy.</p> <p>Two years ago climate modelers in the UK and politicians gathered to hold another conference. The Independent on Sunday reported:</p> ____________________ <p>Drought menaces Britain’s breadbasket in the east of England, a special global warming summit of ministers and farmers’ leaders will learn tomorrow.</p> <p>The summit will hear that summer rainfall may drop by more than half in the south and east of the country, causing acute water shortages and seriously damaging farms.</p> <p>. . . The papers say that scorching summers will become increasingly frequent with global warming, with “very hot Augusts� - such as in 1995 - happening once every five years by 2050. Less rain will fall, and more moisture will evaporate from the soil, causing droughts.</p> <p>They say: “Hotter and drier summers are likely to result in a seasonal reduction in available water resources and the increased risk of drought. The areas currently under most pressure from agriculture will become further stressed as the regional effects of change are felt.� </p> ____________________ <p>Two years ago these models, which we are assured are accurate means of predicting climate change, said the UK would dry up as the result of warming. When the weather got wetter instead the same newspaper announced: “Exceptionally heavy rain is likely to occur more often in a warmer world because air holds more moisture when it warms up, which be released as a sudden downpour.� Dryer summers were the result of global warming but wetter summers are a ‘foretaste of things to come� with both flooding and drought.</p> <p>The old model was predicting steady rises in temperatures. The new model now says a few years of respite and then rising temperatures again. But the new model came out only after the UK Meteorological Office reported that summer temperatures in the UK have been “below average and around 2 °C below average across some south-western areas of the UK.� It appears temperatures in the UK make this summer one of the coolest in the last 25 years.</p> When something happens that appears to confirm the warming theories of government funded scientists, press conferences are held and dire announcements are made. But as far as I can see no press conference was held regarding the recent downward revisions. If such a press statement was released, or comments were made public, the media has failed to report on them. Reporting only those events that substantiate one side in a debate is not journalism. It is is advocacy.

Two years ago climate modelers in the UK and politicians gathered to hold another conference. The Independent on Sunday reported:

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Drought menaces Britain’s breadbasket in the east of England, a special global warming summit of ministers and farmers’ leaders will learn tomorrow.

The summit will hear that summer rainfall may drop by more than half in the south and east of the country, causing acute water shortages and seriously damaging farms.

. . . The papers say that scorching summers will become increasingly frequent with global warming, with “very hot Augusts� - such as in 1995 - happening once every five years by 2050. Less rain will fall, and more moisture will evaporate from the soil, causing droughts.

They say: “Hotter and drier summers are likely to result in a seasonal reduction in available water resources and the increased risk of drought. The areas currently under most pressure from agriculture will become further stressed as the regional effects of change are felt.�

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Two years ago these models, which we are assured are accurate means of predicting climate change, said the UK would dry up as the result of warming. When the weather got wetter instead the same newspaper announced: “Exceptionally heavy rain is likely to occur more often in a warmer world because air holds more moisture when it warms up, which be released as a sudden downpour.� Dryer summers were the result of global warming but wetter summers are a ‘foretaste of things to come� with both flooding and drought.

The old model was predicting steady rises in temperatures. The new model now says a few years of respite and then rising temperatures again. But the new model came out only after the UK Meteorological Office reported that summer temperatures in the UK have been “below average and around 2 °C below average across some south-western areas of the UK.� It appears temperatures in the UK make this summer one of the coolest in the last 25 years.

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