PV Gap

Kurt Said:

How can the so called temperature data be trusted? Are we warming or what?

We Answered:

I know I keep saying this but:Read the below, the Lamb" referred to is the man who changed his mind from global cooling (his nick-name was The Ice Man!) to Global warming after ONE hot summer!
He founded the Climate Change department in guess where-- East Anglia University!!!

Lamb graduated in 1935 and, after working at the Meteorological Office, London, where he led the climatic variation research, he started the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He eventually became honorary professor in the School of Environmental Science at that university.

His main aim has been to build up a detailed picture of the climates of the past and to acquire sufficient understanding of them to be able to see how climate might develop. By examining such records as ships' logs he has been able to reconstruct much of the climate of the last two to three hundred years; for earlier periods he has used such evidence as the fluctuations in tree-ring width. The results of his researches were published in his two-volume Climate: Present, Past and Future (1972, 1977).

NOTE THE PART ABOUT SHIP'S LOGS AND NOW READ ON!!!!

What really bugs me is that these "Warmies" base in part temperature rises since 1850 in 1/100 of 1 degree Celsius.
Who are they kidding if they think that in 1850 or even today there were/are instruments capable of measuring this?

I was a seaman for many years, it was the apprentice's job to visit our little weather station, take the readings which were sent back to the Met Office as part of the official records.
Imagine, off he would toddle, get there, open the door, have a cigarette, during which time the sun is flooding into the weather station, looks into the weather station and realises he has let the wet bulb of the thermometer dry out. Off he toddles again to fetch fresh water to wet the bulb, leaving the door open again, wets the bulb, takes the reading from the Mercury thermometer and records it.
His next job would be to take the sea temperature to be collated ashore.
The method was: a small bucket would be swung over the side, seawater collected, the bucket hauled back up to the bridge wing ( a lengthy process during which time the bucket and contents were subject to the external forces prevailing, sun or cold), a thermometer inserted into the water, a reading taken and recorded.
Unfortunately at the moment the bucket arrives at the bridge his buddy turns up, time for another cigarette and a natter about last night's DVD. The bucket of sea water sits all this time in the blazing sun. He then takes the temperature and records it.
He then has to record, without the aid of a calibrated anemometer, the wind speed. He asks the officer of the watch, "What do you think the wind speed is?" "I dunno, put down what you want, I'm busy."

The records are then sent by radio to The UK Meteorological Office.
This is the way The UK Meteorological Office has obtained its data for decades, centuries before the advent of radio the ships had to mail in their findings and position, most of the time unless they were in port they didn’t even know precisely where they were!

And they base AGW on this? Grow up.

Not exactly a method on which to base a whole earth encompassing movement, is it really?

This is the way most weather readings are taken at sea,
by can't -really be-arsed seamen, how knowing this can I possibly believe any of this AGW bollox?