IEEE: A Critical Perspective on Climagate

We find this interview on Climategate with Atmosphere Scientist Professor, Dr.John Christy refreshing out of the scientific community whose honest voices are finally being heard. They have been drowned out for years by the Al Gore Global Warming crowd and now a well respected organization like IEEE, he world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, has conducted an interview with Christy.

With new information coming out weekly, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has been proven right over and over again has he has railed against the 'junk science' that has been put out as facts for years. No one has ever denied that changes occur in warming and cooling in the world, but to predict such dire consequences caused by manmade global warming was a fraud. It fraud/scam worked as it made Al Gore and his cronies wealthy people.

The whole Climategate scam has left people asking why would normally honest scientiests be part of this scam to use fake numbers to push a political agenda? Was their agenda more important then the facts? It is looking more and more like the liberal mindset everyday -- fake but accurate. Honesty seems to mean nothing to the Al Gore Global Warming crowd.

After all this time, the real scientists with the real numbers are now coming forward and we are discovering how much of a scam this all was. Doesn't say a whole lot for all those people who made millions and millions of dollars off this scam headed by Al Gore. Seems Dr. Christy was a thorn in the side of the East Anglican Scientists for years as he was a skeptic. Now he has been proven right.

A Critical Perspective on Climategate
Atmospheric scientist John Christy on the East Anglia e-mails


Photo: Phillip Gentry/The University of Alabama in Huntsville

BY William Sweet // January 2010

John R. Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and Alabama's state climatologist, is an expert on Earth's recent temperature history, as derived from microwave sensors on polar-orbiting satellites. Though he has contributed since the early 1990s to reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the large collaboration of scientists that regularly assesses global warming for the United Nations—Christy considers the expert consensus overstated and unduly alarmist.

IEEE Spectrum: Tell us please about your work on the world's temperature and its significance.

John Christy: Since 1978, we've been able to monitor the bulk atmospheric temperature, which tells you whether heat has been accumulating or not. What we've found is an upward trend over 31 years of about 13/100 of a degree Celsius per decade. But you also see typical ups and downs: During the first two decades, temperatures were fairly flat, and increases were below the three-decade average. But with the big 1997 El Niño, there was a shift upward, and after that, temperatures were flat again but above average.

Spectrum: How does this record from microwave satellite observations differ from the temperature record compiled from other sources?

JC: Readings taken at the surface show 0.16 or 0.17 degrees of warming per decade—a bit more than the microwave readings. That may not seem such a great difference, but climate models indicate that if greenhouse gases are causing this warming, the upper atmosphere ought to be warming by about 1.2 times that of the surface, not less.

Spectrum: Is this discrepancy at the heart of your issues with what's often described as the "consensus temperature record"? Professors at the University of East Anglia, in the UK, have played a big role in establishing that record, and I see that in their hacked e-mail, you are one of the individuals who was mentioned most frequently in a negative way.

JC: They rely on readings from surface thermometers, but those have often been affected by developments like urbanization and deforestation, so they are not a precise proxy for what's going on in the atmosphere, where greenhouse gases are supposed to have their largest effect.

Spectrum: What has been the relationship between the East Anglia researchers and Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research? (Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher set up Hadley two decades ago, locating it with Britain's prestigious Meteorological Office, to be a world authority on all matters having to do with climate change.)

JC: I was a visiting scientist at Hadley for two summers and got to see firsthand how they work together with East Anglia. At the end of the month, East Anglia's Phil Jones would send the land data to Hadley, which would take a critical look and combine that with their sea-surface data, and then the two teams would release what would be known as the HadCRU (for East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit) temperature data set.

Spectrum: So what's described as the "consensus temperature history" is, in effect, the Hadley-East Anglia history?

JC: Right.

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Our thanks to Dr. John Christy for agreeing to do this interview with IEEE to get the facts out in public. We need a lot more Dr. John Christy's in this Country who know the facts to speak out and make their voices heard.