Another display of monotonic Climate Science is the uproar over a proposed White House panel of scientists to review and advise on statements about climate change appearing in various and sundry Federal Executive Branch organizations. Witness the sanctimonious John Kerry: Disband Your Climate Denial Panel, Mr. President.
Like spoiled children thwarted, warmists are throwing a tantrum at the prospect of being held accountable for parroting climate nostrums. After all, before now they have had no challenges to anything they say. So they are outraged; Outraged, I say! Sen. Schumer says he pledges to defund the panel to silence them
Lost in the uproar over forming a red team to peer review climate science pronouncements on behalf of the WH is the existence of the Climate Blue Team operating uncontested for many years at NOAA Climate.gov. Having had the field to themselves for so long, the idea of another viewpoint seems unthinkable and wrong.
Introducing the Climate Blue Team (formed in 2010)
The Leaders
The Team General Manager is Thomas Karl, infamous for his hurried adjustment of the NOAA sea surface temperature dataset in order to erase the inconvenient "pause" this century. For the background on his actions prior to retiring see Bob Tisdale's Open Letter to Tom Karl of NOAA/NCEI Regarding "Hiatus Busting" Data
Karl is joined by Richard Rosen who pushed for a NOAA press release to challenge Chris Landsea's study on the issue of hurricane intensity and climate change, since it "takes a position that is supportive of the Bush administration's view on the issue." He also published a paper The economics of mitigating climate change: What can we know?, which concluded: "Because of these serious technical problems, policymakers should not base climate change mitigation policy on the estimated net economic impacts computed by integrated assessment models. Rather, mitigation policies must be forcefully implemented anyway given the actual physical climate change crisis, in spite of the many uncertainties involved in trying to predict the net economics of doing so."
Wayne Higgins heads up NOAA's Program Office and is on the record attributing extreme weather events to man-made global warming: "So where we've looked forward decades, even out to a century and using those climate models with scenarios in which we actually ramp up the levels of greenhouse gases, we are able to confirm that human-induced climate change is something that is occurring now and that is actually likely to continue in the future," he said.
Eileen Shea led NOAA's Climate Services program and sings from the same hymnbook:
"No scientist worth their salt will blame any individual event on climate change, but these storms are certainly being exacerbated by climate change, partly because hurricanes, especially, take their energy from the ocean, their energy and their moisture from the ocean, and the warm the water, the stronger the hurricane can grow. And the more expansive the warm water, the further the hurricane can go and stay strong." Shea is one of the many climate scientists working in Asheville, sometimes referred to as "climate city." For them, the debate over climate change has been long-settled.
Ko Barrett is Deputy Director of NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Office and also a Vice Chair of the IPCC. In the latter role, she led the effort to produce SR15, the call to prevent 1.5C of warming. "This is the first time the IPCC has undertaken a focused report on the processes that drive change and the resulting impacts to oceans and the frozen parts of our planet," said IPCC Vice-Chair Ko Barrett. "There is a huge volume of scientific information for us to assess, which can help policy makers to better understand the changes we are seeing and the risks to lives and livelihoods that may occur with future change."
Louisa Koch is NOAA Director of Education. "Not only does such coordination minimize duplication among these programs, but the overall effort is enhanced also because each agency brings a complementary mission-driven focus to this complex, large-scale issue," added Louisa Koch, director of education for NOAA. Why should the public care? Put simply, climate change affects everyone on Earth. Climate is "changing in ways that are going to impact society across the board," said Louisa Koch, the director of NOAA's Office of Education. "Communities need to understand what changes they are going to experience most intensely and how that's going to impact them."
The Blue Team Panel of Players
NOAA has a science panel comprising the players that review papers and articles, and ensure the warmist viewpoint is protected and reinforced. The Head Coach appears to be Wayne Higgins (above)
Jessica Blunden: Even though it was a relatively quiet hurricane year in the Atlantic, there were 36 major tropical cyclones worldwide – 15 more than average, said NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden, co-editor of the report published Tuesday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. And at the heart of the records is that all three major heat-trapping greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – hit record highs in 2015, Blunden said. "This impacts people. This is real life," Blunden said. 'Earth's fever rises': New report shows many symptoms of climate change
Tim Boyer: "From this [study] we can better understand the effects of natural and man-made variability to the climate system," said co-author Tim Boyer of NOAA's Ocean Climate Laboratory. "Decision-makers can gauge what needs to be done to ameliorate the situation, or, if not that, to plan for the consequences of the excess heat." The study was published in the journal Science Advances. The findings are important because the world's oceans provide one of the best records of the excess energy trapped on Earth by increased greenhouse gases, largely from the burning of fossil fuels. As the seas heat up from climate change, the water expands and rises, causing coastal flooding and, in Antarctica, ice shelves to disintegrate.
Christopher Burt is a lucky man. As with others fascinated by weather records, his once obscure passion has been thrust into one of the central conversations of our time. Burt's audience is surprisingly large. On average, 10,000 people a day read his postings on Weather Underground. Though he writes about all sorts of weather extremes, heat records are one of his greatest passions.
In 2010, two climate-change researchers using computer modeling and calculations of human cooling capacities predicted that large parts of the earth may become uninhabitable during heat waves in future centuries. The study was based on a scenario of rapid global warming and was probably a bit shrill in its view of the consequences—mass migrations and war—but the science was solid and easy to believe. After all, large parts of the planet are already uninhabitable, at least for some percentage of the population some percentage of the time. And the heat waves are hitting harder, and coming more frequently than ever before.
Leo Donner: Donner has also served as a reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose reports help world leaders make decisions on dealing with the issue. The research scientist will discuss some IPCC conclusions, such as how humans have increased greenhouse gases through agricultural activity, burning fossil fuels and decimating forests in the Amazon. "One conclusion of the IPCC is that most of the observed change in global temperature is the result of human activity," Donner said.
NOAA Scientist David Fahey in Boulder: a Lead Author of National Climate Assessment: The government's National Climate Assessment cited human influence as the "dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century." The report affirms that climate change is driven almost entirely by human action, warns of a worst-case scenario where seas could rise as high as eight feet by the year 2100, and details climate-related damage across the United States that is already unfolding as a result of an average global temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since 1900. When it comes to rapidly escalating levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the report states, "there is no climate analog for this century at any time in at least the last 50 million years."
Alarmist All Star Katharine Hayhoe is a professor in the department of political science at Texas Tech University and director of its Climate Science Center. She was a lead author on the Climate Science Special Report, part of the fourth US National Climate Assessment. She writes books, produces videos, documentaries and gives interviews to raise awareness of climate change concerns. Katherine Hayhoe: "The most important thing is to accelerate the realization that we have to act. This means connecting the dots to show that the impacts are not distant any more. They are here and they affect our lives. It means weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, which is challenged by the fact that the majority of the world's richest companies have made their money from the fossil fuel economy, so the majority of the wealth and power remains in their hands." "Climate change is a long term trend superimposed over natural variability. There will be good and bad years, just like there are for a patient with a long term illness, but it isn't going away. To stabilize climate change, we have to eliminate our carbon emissions. And we're still a long way away from that."
Sarah Kapnick is a scientists at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
Global warming is going to steal away some of those postcard-perfect weather days in the future, according to a first-of-its-kind projection of nice weather. "The changes are more dramatic in parts of the developing world, where you have high concentrations of populations," said NOAA climate scientist and co-author Sarah Kapnick.
Rick Lumpkin, director of NOAA's Global Drifter Program: "Because the drifters provide a ground-truth of currents, they are great for combining with satellite observations to study climate-scale problems." The oceans, the true keepers of climate change, may meet our grimmest estimates.
High Scoring Meteorologist Jeff Masters co-founded Weather Underground: "The Climate Has Shifted to a New State Capable of Delivering Rare & Unprecedented Weather Events." Stronger hurricanes, bigger floods, more intense heat waves, and sea level rise have been getting many of the headlines with regards to potential climate change impacts, but drought should be our main concern. Drought is capable of crashing a civilization. We've set in motion a dangerous boulder of climate change that is rolling downhill, and it is too late to avoid major damage when it hits full-force several decades from now. However, we can reduce the ultimate severity of the damage with strong and rapid action.
Richard Rood is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan where he teaches atmospheric science and climate dynamics.
"If we stop our emissions today, we won't go back to the past. The Earth will warm. And since the response to warming is more warming through feedbacks associated with melting ice and increased atmospheric water vapor, our job becomes one of limiting the warming. If greenhouse gas emissions are eliminated quickly enough, within a small number of decades, it will keep the warming manageable and the Paris Agreement goals could be met. It will slow the change – and allow us to adapt. Rather than trying to recover the past, we need to be thinking about best possible futures."
Scott Weaver is a Research Meteorologist at NOAA.s Climate Prediction Center and member of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). "Today's Climate Science Special Report is our most comprehensive and definitive look yet at the massive amount of sound scientific research on climate change, and it's conclusions are inescapable – climate change is happening right now, it's hurting American families, and it will get worse unless we act," said EDF Senior Climate Scientist Scott Weaver. "This report should put any doubts about the existence or the severity of climate change to rest. We cannot afford to ignore this threat."
Kandis Wyatt, Designated Federal Officer for US Climate Change Impact Reports, eg. 2014:
"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present. Corn producers in Iowa, oyster growers in Washington State, and maple syrup producers in Vermont are all observing climate-related changes that are outside of recent experience. So, too, are coastal planners in Florida, water managers in the arid Southwest, city dwellers from Phoenix to New York, and Native Peoples on tribal lands from Louisiana to Alaska. This National Climate Assessment concludes that the evidence of human-induced climate change continues to strengthen and that impacts are increasing across the country."
Summary
What hypocrisy to criticize skeptics for finally attempting to organize and claim a bit of airtime to tell the other side of the story. Apparently the case for man-made global warming is so weak, no objections can be allowed.
See Also Kelly Craft Vs. Monotonic Climate Science
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