Quote from jem:
here are charts which put your charts in perspective.
I am sure you can find the 400000 year old one.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/2000-years-of-global-temperature.jpg
Spencer is a hack and a whore who garners no respect within the science community.
It bears repeating that Spencer committed one of the most egregious blunders in the history of remote sensing â committing multiple errors in analyzing the satellite data and creating one of the enduring denier myths, that the satellite data didnât show the global warming that the surface temperature data did.
It also bears repeating that Spencer wrote this month, âI view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government.â
That doesnât mean Spencerâs new paper on remote sensing is wrong, but it means his work on the subject does not deserve the benefit of the doubt, as most climate journals would know. And it means we should pay attention to serious climate scientists when they explain how Spencer is, once again, pushing denier bunk.
As the famous critique goes, âYour manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not goodâ:
âHeâs taken an incorrect model, heâs tweaked it to match observations, but the conclusions you get from that are not correct,â Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University.
âIt is not newsworthy,â Daniel Murphy, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cloud researcher, wrote in an email to LiveScience.
NCARâs Kevin Trenberth in an email: âI have read the paper. I can not believe it got published. Maybe it got through because it is not in a journal that deals with atmospheric science much?â
Trenberth and John Fasullo at RealClimate: âThe bottom line is that there is NO merit whatsoever in this paper.â
As for the second denier trick, well, they got Yahoo News to host a ânews storyâ on the article â written by James Taylor. Not the brilliant singer song-writer who wrote, âIâve seen fire and Iâve seen rain, Iâve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.â No, the uber-denier James Taylor whose Heartland Institute wants to bring to Americaâs heartland too much fire and too much rain â and heat waves that you thought would never end. Sorry, couldnât resist.
And so Yahoo enables this headline of denier bunk â âNew NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmismâ â to spread through the web like so much kudzu. LiveScience noted in its debunking post:
The paper was mostly unnoticed in the public sphere until the Forbes blogger declared it âextremely important.â
In fact, as Dessler emailed me, Spencerâs âpaper is not really intended for other scientists, since they do not take him seriously anymore (heâs been wrong too many times).â Here are his full comments:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/20...sts-debunk-latest-bunk-by-denier-roy-spencer/