Climate Change Thread

[HopAlongBunny]

A little Arctic warmth for Christmas:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-above-normal/

[Gilrandir]

Not sure it belongs to the thread, but there's no reason to start a new one to post it. It is environment-connected anyway.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38388351

[Beskar]

Not sure it belongs to the thread, but there's no reason to start a new one to post it. It is environment-connected anyway.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38388351

Totally unrelated...

[Husar]

I'd say if someone dropped poo onto my house, the climate in my house would be very likely to get much worse...

[HopAlongBunny]

Not hotter than July, but still a record 3rd straight "hottest year":

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...ntists-declare

[Xiahou]

Whistleblower reveals that NOAA faked the data in it's "pause-buster" paper.
This is really shameful.

The report claimed that the ‘pause’ or ‘slowdown’ in global warming in the period since 1998 – revealed by UN scientists in 2013 – never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected. Launched by NOAA with a public relations fanfare, it was splashed across the world’s media, and cited repeatedly by politicians and policy makers.

But the whistleblower, Dr John Bates, a top NOAA scientist with an impeccable reputation, has shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data.

It was never subjected to NOAA’s rigorous internal evaluation process – which Dr Bates devised.

[Montmorency]

Whistleblower reveals that NOAA faked the data in it's "pause-buster" paper.
This is really shameful.

Contested.

On Sunday, the UK tabloid Mail on Sunday alleged a seemingly juicy (if unoriginal) climate science scandal. At its core, though, it’s not much more substantial than claiming the Apollo 11 astronauts failed to file some paperwork and pretending this casts doubt on the veracity of the Moon landing.

No evidence of "faked" data.