Climate FAIL: Governor 'Moonbeam' Brown's 'denier page' can't even get the temperature graph right
08/19/2012 10 Comments
Reblogged from Watts Up With That?:
UPDATE: 8/20/12 3:50 PM PDT The Governor's office changes the page - see below.
I've been sitting on this one quietly for almost a week now, and nobody seems to have caught this glaring error in California Governor Jerry Brown's new climate "denier slamming page" put together by the Governor's Office of Planning and Research.
Like some government work I've seen, they didn't seem to worry about quality control.
The irony of this post, a "denier" pointing to the failure of the Governors Planning and Research staff to do some fact checking on their own "slap stick" work. When you click down to the references, you will find them way out of date. One has to wonder if this is the level of competence of the Governor's staff, no wonder we are in deep economic trouble in California.
About Russ
Speaking of climate and the fantasy of the Maunder Minimum, have you checked your sunspots lately?
Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 0 days
2012 total: 0 days (0%)
2011 total: 2 days (<1%)
2010 total: 51 days (14%)
2009 total: 260 days (71%)
Since 2004: 821 days
Typical Solar Min: 486 days
Update 18 Aug 2012
That is what comes of being blind *and* willfully ignorant.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif
Keach, the tragectory is still on path for a grand minimum, with the current cycle failing even to match the last set of dimisnished expectations. An energetic sun has less than an 11 year cycle (we’re well past that) and perhaps only half of the cycle 23 maximum.
In anycase, the activist state climate site is in support of the only massive tax hike that the voters can’t turn down in November. Without carbon taxes the house of cards that is the state budget will fall, and fooling some of the people all of the time beats trying to throttle the out of control state employee salary and benefits train.
Much as you have listed all the intellectual accomplishments that can be done by a sixth grader and above, so you don’t need much more than a cupcake brain to know that when as much ice has melted as has melted this year, the planet is getting warmer. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/17/us-china-environment-idUSBRE87G0P820120817
Douglas,
Did you check the Antarctic ice increases? If we are having global warming, can you explain why the ice is growing in the Antarctic?
Considering the chunk that floated away recently, I would guess there might be an apparent uptick this year, but in terms of a ten year average, how is it doing? Not the growth rate, the total amount of ice and snow. There is a difference.
“Antarctic ice shelves not melting at all, new field data show”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/antarctic_ice_not_melting/
I see new recruits for the North Carolina legislature. Good luck!
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/07/06/usgs-reports-sea-level-rise-accelerating-atlantic-coast-north-america/
The current one, and the previous Wilkens, won’t raise sea levels, as they are already 90% i the water, but the West Coast of Antarctica cracks me up>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094849/The-worlds-biggest-iceberg-19-mile-crack-continues-break-away-Antarctica.html
Ice shelves are anchored by land, and stretch out over ocean. They break off with some regularity in a process that is not at all unlike a heavy branch of a tree breaking.
Regarding ocean levels, the worldwide sea level increases as measured by satellite radiosonde, not the tides on eastern US sandbars, are certainly not accelerating and have been rising fairly steadily since the end of the Little Ice Age. Maybe less than average the last six years:
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/2012rel3-global-mean-sea-level-time-series-seasonal-signals-retained
Keach, to make a rational argument you need to put your factioids in some sort of real and rational context, not just fling them into the fan.
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
It’s probably no coincidence that Gov. Jerry Brown recently launched a website to scare Californians into embracing his global-warming hype. The state is about to launch a cap-and-trade scheme that potentially will raise billions of dollars for the government, ostensibly to fight global warming.
In reality, the money is likely to be diverted to more mundane political uses – like backfilling the huge budget hole perpetuated by Mr. Brown and the Democratic-controlled Legislature.
If Mr. Brown were more honest, he would acknowledge that his intention isn’t to curb global warming, which we and many scientists maintain is a highly disputable threat. If he were straightforward, Mr. Brown would explain to Californians that his cap-and-trade penalties on large industrial emitters of greenhouse gases are nothing but a disguised tax to raise billions to finance already overblown government operations.’