Wrong again, Kenneth...
Your article doesn't cite a source for the study done in the Antarctic. Let me enlighten you...it was a study published in Nature Magazine. Here is an interesting critique of that very article:
However, the entire analysis in the “warming Antarctic” paper depends not on actual temperature measurements, nor on other observations from the real world, which unequivocally show that Antarctica has been cooling for half a century, but on statistical “interpolation” of made-up data between the rather sparse observations from Antarctic research stations, so as to invent a temperature record across the vast majority of the Antarctic continent that does not exist in reality, and is inconsistent with it.
A very similar technique, by which real-world observations were suppressed in favor of estimates (on that occasion secretly deployed) that produced the desired result was deployed by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues in the same journal in 1998-9, when they purported to abolish the medieval warm period, during which global temperatures are known to have
been considerably warmer than they are today.
In attempting to abolish the medieval warm period1, Mann
et al. had hidden the real-world data for the Middle Ages in a file labeled “CENSORED_DATA”. They had declared that they had used the real-world data and had not disclosed that they had replaced the “CENSORED_DATA” by made-up estimates of their own.
An examination of the list of authors of the Antarctica paper reveals that, sure enough, Michael E. Mann is among them. As with his now-discredited paper on the medieval warm period, it does not appear that most of the authors of the “warming Antarctic” paper have any qualification in statistics.
Whether or not any of the authors was in any way qualified to write the paper, it is remarkable for its failure to address one or two obvious real-world events that demonstrate the results of their statistical prestidigitation to be questionable, because they are so startlingly at odds with observed reality. Not the least among these real-world events is that the rapid cooling in East Antarctica in recent decades – amounting to as much as 2 °C over the period in some places – has led to environmental damage from the intense cold. The authors cannot have been unaware of this, because they cite the very thorough survey paper (Doran et al., 2002) in which it is described.
But surely the most obvious demonstration that the results of the authors’ statistical manipulations are inconsistent with reality is the well-established fact that the extent of the
sea ice surrounding the Antarctic continent has been growing slightly in recent decades, reaching a record extent late in 2007
You should really read the entire article: scienceandpublicpolicy.org
As to Al Gore's sock puppet, Dr. James Hansen, I believe I gave you this to read:
Message 25324072
You really do need to keep up Kenneth. You are such a DNC parrot.
LOL!
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