NASA is faking climate data? The article you're sharing is based on this guy's personal blog: http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/noaanasa-dramatically-altered-... He's neither a climate scientist, nor a credible science reporter, nor is his name "Steve Goddard." (He's actually Tony Heller.) http://climatecrocks.com/2011/09/14/new-lows-sea-ice-and-steven-goddard-cred... http://reallysciency.blogspot.com/p/who-is-steven-goddard.html http://www.desmogblog.com/steven-goddard https://uknowispeaksense.wordpress.com/tag/steve-goddard/ I can see from the article he posted that he's created a GIF animation of a combination of graphs of US temps + global temps but trying to pass them off as evidence that US temps have been faked. Moreover, nothing in this article squares with the observed accelerating loss of arctic sea ice, the retreat of glaciers worldwide or the rapid shifts in climate zones within global ecosystems. It simply doesn't make any sense that some kind of far-reaching conspiracy is working to deliberately fake climate science data in a world where information is so freely available and where a scientist's career and prestige is enhanced by exposing errors in previously accepted paradigms, not by how well they preserve dogma. No one is saying this is a simple subject - but the fact that climate science is complex doesn't mean we cannot declare what is known beyond any reasonable doubt: Is CO2 a greenhouse gas? Yes. Is the human combustion of fossil fuels responsible for significantly increasing the atmospheric content of CO2? Yes. Are temperatures (land, ocean and air) showing a significant, accelerating, decade-to-decade increase? Yes. Is this temperature rise causing the climate to change much faster than any previous natural climate change? Yes. Have natural explanations of climate change been investigated and found not to be responsible for this change? Yes. A more useful conversation would be what we do with the information presented to us by climate scientists, rather than whether or not climate science is real. Seth -----Original Message----- From: Utah-Astronomy [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Brent Watson via Utah-Astronomy Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:25 PM To: Brent Watson; Richard Tenney; Utah-Astronomy; Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] OT: latest climate news Here is a contrary viewpoint. http://www.naturalnews.com/045695_global_warming_fabricated_data_scientific_... On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 9:16 AM, Brent Watson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: Thanks, Rich. The news stories continue to beat both sides of the drum. There are also recent charges that the temperature data has been artificially inflated. Unfortunately, its a bit difficult to trace the exact source of those charges. On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 9:02 AM, Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, experts say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday said May's average temperature on Earth of 15.54 C beat the old record set four years ago. In April, the globe tied the 2010 record for that month. Records go back to 1880. Experts say there's a good chance global heat records will keep falling, especially next year because an El Nino weather event is brewing on top of man-made global warming. An El Nino is a warming of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that alters climate worldwide and usually spikes global temperatures. http://news-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/06/23/2217233/noaa-earth-smashed-a-re... _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. 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