From: isw on
In article <slrnhh6p1l.pd3.tuka(a)bill.heins.net>,
TUKA <tuka(a)tuka.valuemedia.com> wrote:

> On 2009-11-30, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote:
> > In article <slrnhh450i.t29.tuka(a)bill.heins.net>,
> > TUKA <tuka(a)tuka.valuemedia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2009-11-29, Sam Wormley <swormley1(a)mchsi.com> wrote:
> >> > TUKA wrote:
> >> >> On 2009-11-29, Sam Wormley <swormley1(a)mchsi.com> wrote:
> >> >>> Marvin the Martian wrote:
> >> >>>> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:30:36 +0000, Sam Wormley wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> Hey Marvin--You need to start taking global climate change
> >> >>>>> seriously.
> >> >>>> I do. I want to see criminal penalties for the frauds lied and said
> >> >>>> that
> >> >>>> it was warming when the earth was cooling. This is a trillion dollar
> >> >>>> scam. Perhaps put them on trial for high treason.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> You don't give a rip about scientific integrity nor about your
> >> >>>> country.
> >> >>> For some reason, you seem to believe that all climate data has
> >> >>> been doctored. In reality very little, if any has been "doctored".
> >> >>> You have yet to show a before and after "doctored" data set.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The global data CLEARLY shows:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Human contributed increase in green house gas CO2
> >> >>> http://edu-observatory.org/olli/800000yrs_CO2.png
> >> >>> http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/16/0907094106
> >> >>> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091023163513.htm
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Global surface (land and sea) temperature increase
> >> >>> http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/images/global-surface-temp-tr
> >> >>> end
> >> >>> s.gif
> >> >>>
> >> >>> And accompanying Sea Level Rise
> >> >>> http://www.wildwildweather.com/forecastblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/
> >> >>> 700
> >> >>> px-recent_sea_level_rise.png
> >> >>>
> >> >>> There are many sources of good data, Marvin
> >> >>> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/
> >> >>> http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring/index.php
> >> >>
> >> >> Lies. They won't show the raw data.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > As any fool can see, you are wrong.
> >>
> >> Oh yeah? Just give the URL where it can be found.
> >>
> >> No, cooked data from NOAA doesn't count. Raw data only. All of it.
> >> Including the station listings that supposedly provide the final data.
> >> They won't provide it, and are being sued for it.
> >>
> >> And HADCRU? Oh yeah, they just in the past few hours admitted they
> >> destroyed it all. All raw data from 1988 and before, gone.
> >
> > It's merely *their copies* they destroyed; the originals are still where
> > they've always been, at the facilities that actually made the
> > measurements.
>
> You don't understand either. Without the mapping of station data to adjusted
> data, the adjusted data is meaningless. Sure, the original data is (or may)
> be
> there, but you don't know how it was employed.
>
> So it will require re-compiling all the original data again, and rebuilding
> the database and redoing all the calculations. Big task, but that is what is
> going to have to be done.

Of course I understand. No *competent* researcher would start "in the
middle" using half-digested data left over from some other group's
effort. The *only way* to properly confirm or refute their conclusions
is to start with the raw data and do all the work totally independently.

Or to put it another way: If you refuse to trust their conclusions, why
in the world would you trust their data reduction process?

Isaac
From: Sam Wormley on
Robert Higgins wrote:

>
> Big deal - glaciers have been retreating since the last ice age.
>

CO2 stayed below 300 ppm for 800,000 years of ice ages. Now in the
last 150 years human have contributed to the increase CO2 like have
not been seen for 15 million years. Look at the graph
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/800000yrs_CO2.png


PRESS RELEASE SUMMARY OF ARTICLE:
Public release date: 8-Oct-2009
University of California - Los Angeles
Contact: Stuart Wolpert
<mailto:swolpert(a)support.ucla.edu>swolpert(a)support.ucla.edu
310-206-0511

Last time carbon dioxide levels were this high: 15 million years ago, scientists report

You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth
as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online
edition of the journal Science.

"The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and were
sustained at those levels — global temperatures were 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher
than they are today, the sea level was approximately 75 to 120 feet higher than today,
there was no permanent sea ice cap in the Arctic and very little ice on Antarctica and
Greenland," said the paper's lead author, Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor in
the department of Earth and space sciences and the department of atmospheric and oceanic
sciences.

"Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas, and geological observations that we now have
for the last 20 million years lend strong support to the idea that carbon dioxide is an
important agent for driving climate change throughout Earth's history," she said.

By analyzing the chemistry of bubbles of ancient air trapped in Antarctic ice, scientists
have been able to determine the composition of Earth's atmosphere going back as far as
800,000 years, and they have developed a good understanding of how carbon dioxide levels
have varied in the atmosphere since that time. But there has been little agreement before
this study on how to reconstruct carbon dioxide levels prior to 800,000 years ago.

Tripati, before joining UCLA's faculty, was part of a research team at England's
University of Cambridge that developed a new technique to assess carbon dioxide levels in
the much more distant past — by studying the ratio of the chemical element boron to
calcium in the shells of ancient single-celled marine algae. Tripati has now used this
method to determine the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere as far back as 20
million years ago.

"We are able, for the first time, to accurately reproduce the ice-core record for the last
800,000 years — the record of atmospheric C02 based on measurements of carbon dioxide in
gas bubbles in ice," Tripati said. "This suggests that the technique we are using is valid.

"We then applied this technique to study the history of carbon dioxide from 800,000 years
ago to 20 million years ago," she said. "We report evidence for a very close coupling
between carbon dioxide levels and climate. When there is evidence for the growth of a
large ice sheet on Antarctica or on Greenland or the growth of sea ice in the Arctic
Ocean, we see evidence for a dramatic change in carbon dioxide levels over the last 20
million years.

"A slightly shocking finding," Tripati said, "is that the only time in the last 20 million
years that we find evidence for carbon dioxide levels similar to the modern level of 387
parts per million was 15 to 20 million years ago, when the planet was dramatically different."

Levels of carbon dioxide have varied only between 180 and 300 parts per million over the
last 800,000 years — until recent decades, said Tripati, who is also a member of UCLA's
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. It has been known that modern-day levels of
carbon dioxide are unprecedented over the last 800,000 years, but the finding that modern
levels have not been reached in the last 15 million years is new.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the carbon
dioxide level was about 280 parts per million, Tripati said. That figure had changed very
little over the previous 1,000 years. But since the Industrial Revolution, the carbon
dioxide level has been rising and is likely to soar unless action is taken to reverse the
trend, Tripati said.

"During the Middle Miocene (the time period approximately 14 to 20 million years ago),
carbon dioxide levels were sustained at about 400 parts per million, which is about where
we are today," Tripati said. "Globally, temperatures were 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit
warmer, a huge amount."

Tripati's new chemical technique has an average uncertainty rate of only 14 parts per million.

"We can now have confidence in making statements about how carbon dioxide has varied
throughout history," Tripati said.

In the last 20 million years, key features of the climate record include the sudden
appearance of ice on Antarctica about 14 million years ago and a rise in sea level of
approximately 75 to 120 feet.

"We have shown that this dramatic rise in sea level is associated with an increase in
carbon dioxide levels of about 100 parts per million, a huge change," Tripati said. "This
record is the first evidence that carbon dioxide may be linked with environmental changes,
such as changes in the terrestrial ecosystem, distribution of ice, sea level and monsoon
intensity."

Today, the Arctic Ocean is covered with frozen ice all year long, an ice cap that has been
there for about 14 million years.

"Prior to that, there was no permanent sea ice cap in the Arctic," Tripati said.

Some projections show carbon dioxide levels rising as high as 600 or even 900 parts per
million in the next century if no action is taken to reduce carbon dioxide, Tripati said.
Such levels may have been reached on Earth 50 million years ago or earlier, said Tripati,
who is working to push her data back much farther than 20 million years and to study the
last 20 million years in detail.

More than 50 million years ago, there were no ice sheets on Earth, and there were expanded
deserts in the subtropics, Tripati noted. The planet was radically different.

Co-authors on the Science paper are Christopher Roberts, a Ph.D. student in the department
of Earth sciences at the University of Cambridge, and Robert Eagle, a postdoctoral scholar
in the division of geological and planetary sciences at the California Institute of
Technology.

The research was funded by UCLA's Division of Physical Sciences and the United Kingdom's
National Environmental Research Council.

Tripati's research focuses on the development and application of chemical tools to study
climate change throughout history. She studies the evolution of climate and seawater
chemistry through time.

"I'm interested in understanding how the carbon cycle and climate have been coupled, and
why they have been coupled, over a range of time-scales, from hundreds of years to tens of
millions of years," Tripati said.

###

In addition to being published on the Science Express website, the paper will be published
in the print edition of Science at a later date.

UCLA is California's largest university, with an enrollment of nearly 38,000 undergraduate
and graduate students. The UCLA College of Letters and Science and the university's 11
professional schools feature renowned faculty and offer more than 323 degree programs and
majors. UCLA is a national and international leader in the breadth and quality of its
academic, research, health care, cultural, continuing education and athletic programs.
Four alumni and five faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Also, Bill...

Recent changes in a remote Arctic lake are unique within the past 200,000 years
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/16/0907094106


Yarrow Axforda,1, Jason P. Brinerb, Colin A. Cookec, Donna R. Francisd, Neal Micheluttie,
Gifford H. Millera,f, John P. Smole, Elizabeth K. Thomasb, Cheryl R. Wilsone and Alexander
P. Wolfec

Abstract

The Arctic is currently undergoing dramatic environmental transformations, but it remains
largely unknown how these changes compare with long-term natural variability. Here we
present a lake sediment sequence from the Canadian Arctic that records warm periods of the
past 200,000 years, including the 20th century. This record provides a perspective on
recent changes in the Arctic and predates by approximately 80,000 years the oldest
stratigraphically intact ice core recovered from the Greenland Ice Sheet. The early
Holocene and the warmest part of the Last Interglacial (Marine Isotope Stage or MIS 5e)
were the only periods of the past 200,000 years with summer temperatures comparable to or
exceeding today's at this site. Paleoecological and geochemical data indicate that the
past three interglacial periods were characterized by similar trajectories in temperature,
lake biology, and lakewater pH, all of which tracked orbitally-driven solar insolation. In
recent decades, however, the study site has deviated from this recurring natural pattern
and has entered an environmental regime that is unique within the past 200 millennia.


Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091023163513.htm

"There are periods of time reflected in this sediment core that demonstrate that the
climate was as warm as today," said Briner, "but that was due to natural causes, having to
do with well-understood patterns of the Earth's orbit around the sun. The whole ecosystem
has now shifted and the ecosystem we see during just the last few decades is different
from those seen during any of the past warm intervals."




From: TUKA on
On 2009-12-01, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote:
> In article <slrnhh6p1l.pd3.tuka(a)bill.heins.net>,
> TUKA <tuka(a)tuka.valuemedia.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2009-11-30, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote:
>> > In article <slrnhh450i.t29.tuka(a)bill.heins.net>,
>> > It's merely *their copies* they destroyed; the originals are still where
>> > they've always been, at the facilities that actually made the
>> > measurements.
>>
>> You don't understand either. Without the mapping of station data to adjusted
>> data, the adjusted data is meaningless. Sure, the original data is (or may)
>> be
>> there, but you don't know how it was employed.
>>
>> So it will require re-compiling all the original data again, and rebuilding
>> the database and redoing all the calculations. Big task, but that is what is
>> going to have to be done.
>
> Of course I understand. No *competent* researcher would start "in the
> middle" using half-digested data left over from some other group's
> effort. The *only way* to properly confirm or refute their conclusions
> is to start with the raw data and do all the work totally independently.
>
> Or to put it another way: If you refuse to trust their conclusions, why
> in the world would you trust their data reduction process?

Precisely. Which is why this is so huge.

And the reason it isn't their "copies" that are destroyed, is that
without the station selection information no one knows which raw data
points to reconstruct so they can reproduce. So the work is completely
worthless now. $22.5 million dollars in funding, plus a bunch of
government matching funds, pretty much up in smoke.

--
Getting old is tough. It's frustrating when you know all the
answers and nobody bothers to ask the questions. -- unknown
From: eunometic on
On Nov 29, 5:15 pm, TUKA <t...(a)tuka.valuemedia.com> wrote:
> On 2009-11-29, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> > Marvin the Martian wrote:
> >> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:27:25 +0000, Sam Wormley wrote:
>
> >>> Climate Data
> >>>  http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/
>
> >> You're not grasping the concept.
>
> >> The e-mails show that the data's been doctored to show warming where
> >> there is cooling.
>
> >    For some reason, you seem to believe that all climate data has
> >    been doctored. In reality very little, if any has been "doctored".
> >    You have yet to show a before and after "doctored" data set.
>
> You can't -- they destroyed the raw data.
>
>
>
> > The global data CLEARLY shows:
>
> >    Human contributed increase in green house gas CO2
> >      http://edu-observatory.org/olli/800000yrs_CO2.png
> >      http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/16/0907094106
> >      http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091023163513.htm
>
> >    Global surface (land and sea) temperature increase
> >      http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/images/global-surface-temp-trend...
>
> Nope. Data destroyed.

Also NOAA ignore the ARGO data which shows a FALL in globals ocean
temperatures.
These are 3000 floating probes that have since 2004 repeatedly dived
to 1000m
resurfaced and satelite relayed their data and GPS position.

Its the best system we have.

Why did NOAA ignore the best data on deep and sea surface temperature
we have?

Answer: it shows a cooling trend if only 0.02 degree/year.

From: Sam Wormley on
Robert Higgins wrote:
>
>
> OK, then why is the temperature NOW 5 - 10 degrees cooler now, why is
> the sea level 75 - 120 feet too low, if the CO2 levels are the SAME?

You professorship in chemistry is not impressing me. If CO2 levels were
to stay right where they are right now... roughly 390 ppm, the earth
will continue to warm and the sea will continue to rise.

All the fossil fuel burning and related activities, including deforestation
has its consequences. Why you want to deny that or claim that is warming
event is "typical" is beyond me.

I was hoping you would be interested in the science of what is going on,
the detail of how this warming trend is similar and different than other
climate changes the earth has undergone. Don't you have that curiosity?