Comments on: Steve interviewed on BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme

By: Will C.

Will C. — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:29:43 +0000

Steve, can you provide a permalink to the BBC interview on your website. I think it should be archived in ClimateAudit.

Thanks

By: BarryW

BarryW — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:33:03 +0000

Re #37

With respect to the first graph. What do the climatologist have to say about the divergence of the land record from the ocean sometime in the 1980′s? To me that would appear to be something seriously wrong. What event, cosmic or otherwise cause a change like that? Maybe the fall of the Soviet Union? Third world industrialization (India, China)? Someone have plots of the temps by continent?

By: Louis Hissink

Louis Hissink — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:45:35 +0000

The one fact which I find interesting is that the small correction so made by Steve actually shows that the temperature plot versus time is hardly robust when small changes can lead to signficant changes in results and thus interpretation. This strongly suggests the temperature anomalies are random in nature rather than having any causal relationship vs time which is what AGW is based on.

By: paul graham

paul graham — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:43:23 +0000

PHE# The reason for the jump is tempeture are filter/smoother over a certian period most likly five years. The technique though valid has pronounced effects of the last years graph, where it can exagerate any tempeture increase, or even produce increase that don't exist. for instance this graph gives the impression that tempetures are still rising, due to a 35 year filtering. When in fact tempetures have stagnaged since 2000; click here If fact severial of Steves posting have been on this; have alook at the 'hockey stick graph' entries, and you'll see this is a very complex science.

By: Steve Moore

Steve Moore — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:05:09 +0000

Good interview, Steve!

I’ll second the knighthood.

PS: RP can be installed quickly and configured so as to not interfere with WMP.

PPSS: I played the entire clip. I especially enjoyed the report about Robert Mugabe — that’s a fellow who should be dragged down a gravel road with his ears nailed to a truck bumper.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:05:27 +0000

PHE : Because they decided the correct way to remove the jump was to adjust the data before 2000 to match the data after, rather than the other way around. Don’t ask me if that’s the correct thing to do, but it is what I remember our esteemed host explaining that they did.

So, it makes sense that 1990s values would have changed, then.

By: STAFFAN LINDSTRÖM

STAFFAN LINDSTRÖM — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:55:04 +0000

#16 PHE DLed the DT article, both the Guardian
and the DT calls Steve an “amateur meteorologist”
I’m pretty sure that that is meant to be at least somewhat
derogative for them but have they ever known the
meaning of “amateur” ie somebody who loves what she
or he does…??? The download took 30 seconds(!)(240 kb) I
have 8 MB/S broadband, well sort of …WDR3 AND PR P2
downstreaming =96kbps Usually 1200-1400 kbps is the
normal bandwidth capacity down …So I would say every
one is googling Steve M by now…Could anyone provide

us with similar experiences UK time 2007 Aug 17 23:33 pm …

By: Roger Dueck

Roger Dueck — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:21:30 +0000

Adrian
We have the priviledge of having CBC, and now, BBC news coverage. I concur with your assessment of bias and add the CBC to that.

By: Adrian Starks

Adrian Starks — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:58:07 +0000

RE29
The BBC are very one sided when it comes to Climate Change, and were critised in a recent high level report for this. Jeremy Paxman their “Hard Man” of newsnight has also confirmed this. Personally I feel their presentation of the issues are disgusting, frequently making casual links and spewing out green propoganda.
The problem is the BBC will hype what it thinks is important, for example when we had the nice weather here in the UK, they were only to pleased to hint at Global Warming causing this, and this would be the hottest year on record etc, and any one in the UK knows the rest, mother nature didnt sing to the BBC hymm sheet and we’ve had one of the coolest summers for years. Mind you this didnt stop them saying that this to could be a sign.
Well done Steve your hard worki is paying off

By: Chris D

Chris D — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:17:52 +0000

A bit OT, but an interesting aside re: BBC:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/17/nbbc217.xml