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Will 2014 be the hottest year ever? : Comments

By Don Aitkin, published 16/12/2014

Why would the WMO not wait until January 1st, when it could say whatever it wanted to say with at least 365 days of data?

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All one has to do to get 365 days of data is to pick a date in 2014 and take the data for that date along with the data for the previous 364 days. There is no reason that the data has to go from Jan 1 to Dec 31.
Posted by david f, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 10:50:15 AM
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if it is the hottest year its gw, if its the coldest year its climate change, if its average its stalled climate change, if they don't know they will make it up, if its cooling the heat is hidden in the sea bla bla bla bla
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 10:58:38 AM
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If Don was half as good as he thinks he is (not a uncommon thing in retirement) then he should put his efforts into cancer research. people are dying every day.

Curmudgeon my opinion on this is not worth the time to type it...just like yours and Don's for that matter. So I'm not going to get into the copy and paste wars.I'll Leave it to Climate scientist not arm chair expert's to work out what is going on and what we should do about it. 99.9 % of what Don and the the far left/ right think thanks put out is complete cr*p.

Don is well over his head, lord knows what is motivating him and citing right wing think tank staff writers as experts is just plan funny. Don would get laughed out of the room of any gather of people in the field, but his scratching are lapped up here...maybe that what is his motivation?
Posted by Cobber the hound, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 11:27:50 AM
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For years NASA has tracked changes in the massive Greenland Ice Sheet. This week scientists using NASA data released the most detailed picture ever of how the ice sheet moves toward the sea and new insights into the hidden plumbing of melt water flowing under the snowy surface.
The results of these studies are expected to improve predictions of the future of the entire Greenland ice sheet and its contribution to sea level rise as researchers revamp their computer models of how the ice sheet reacts to a warming climate.
“With the help of NASA satellite and airborne remote sensing instruments, the Greenland Ice Sheet is finally yielding its secrets,” said Tom Wagner, program scientist for NASA’s cryosphere program in Washington. “These studies represent new leaps in our knowledge of how the ice sheet is losing ice. It turns out the ice sheet is a lot more complex than we ever thought.”
This animation (from March 2014) portrays the changes occurring in the surface elevation of the Greenland Ice Sheet since 2003 in three drainage areas: the southeast, the northeast and the Jakobshavn regions. In each region, the time advances to show the accumulated change in elevation, 2003-2012.
University at Buffalo geophysicist Beata Csatho led an international team that produced the first comprehensive study of how the ice sheet is losing mass based on NASA satellite and airborne data at nearly 100,000 locations across Greenland. The study found that the ice sheet shed about 243 gigatons of ice per year from 2003-09, which agrees with other studies using different techniques. The study was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Posted by 579, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 12:53:14 PM
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Cobber,

I seem to have missed something. Who is/are the right-wing think-tank writer(s) I am citing in this essay?
Posted by Don Aitkin, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 3:09:54 PM
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David,

That's almost the stupidest thing I've heard in a long while. Any day of the year, maxima and minima are all over the place. You have to have all 365 days, otherwise you are indeed just cherry-picking, and anyone can do that.

Tonight on SBS, an expert will seriously tell us that sea-level rise in Bangla Desh is due to climate change, AGW. He will probably not mention the tilting of the tectonic plate across the Ganges Delta, with the eastern edge in Bangla Desh subsiding and the western edge rising. We learnt that thirty or more years ago in geomorphology. I'm sure they teach it in Geology 100.

Will he also mention the Nile Delta ? Which has been suffering from a loss of silt due to the construction of the Aswan Dam which traps silt from the Upper Niles, therefore intrusion from the Mediterranean along the Alexandrian coastline ? If he mentions either as 'evidence' of AGW, then he's a charlatan, and AGW is a crock.

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 3:51:17 PM
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