In response to the Rocky Mountain Goat editorial, March 31, 2016, “Mayor denies global warming, but inaction is our real flaw.” The statement “Mayor denies global warming” is not true. I made reference to the prevalent term “climate change.” I did NOT deny global warming.
I merely repeated a statement made on TV that NASA was unable to explain that no significant temperature increase had occurred since 1998. There is confirmation on the web that this is so, as well as negation.
Correspondence received from all senior levels of government regarding plans for adaptation or mitigation use the term “Climate Change;” Environment Canada reporter use “Climate Change.”
Climate Change is real.
Climate Change is here.
Time is better spent learning and sharing ways to reduce one’s carbon footprint.
Twisting statements to create controversy is a waste of time. That type of headline and writing might sell newspapers, but it is misleading and results in an overall negative effect within the community.
An example of this is my remark, taken out of context, that I had no more time to look further into the subject, giving the impression that I do not think that the issue is important enough to spend time on. My comment was made in reference to the fact that I had a full schedule of previously booked appointments that day, and I had to leave to meet them on time.
Climate Change is an important issue to me. That is why I signed the “British Columbia Climate Action Charter” on October 17, 20007.
Jeannette Townsend
Mayor of Valemount
Editor’s Note: NASA’s data shows there has been significant temperature increases around the planet since 1998, and that 2014 and 2015 were the two hottest years on record. Valemount is one of 182 local governments in BC that had signed the British Columbia Climate Action Charter by July 2013. Section 1(b) of the Charter says “The Parties share the common understanding that the evidence of global warming is unequivocal and the effects of climate change are evident across British Columbia.”
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The mayor’s statement (which you quote) is consistent and accurate in every way.
You do understand that investigation of the natural worlds is not always a precise affair? And that science bodies sometimes take on incompetent staff?
As an illustration, on a topic related to climate (Earth’s magnetic field is partly generated by the (conductive, saltwater) ocean currents, which are conductors in motion, and ocean currents are interwoven with climate). An abbreviated copy direct from GOOGLE.
Earth’s Magnetic Field Won’t Flip Soon : Discovery News
Don’t flip out: Earth’s magnetic poles aren’t about to switch …
https://www.sciencenews.org/…/don’t-flip-out-earth’s-magnetic-poles-are…
NASA: Earth’s magnetic poles are ‘switching’ – Daily Express
http://www.express.co.uk › News › Science
Consistency of Earth’s magnetic field history surprises …
phys.org › Earth › Earth Sciences
NASA Warns Earth’s Magnetic Field Weakening, Poles Shift …
http://www.inquisitr.com/…/nasa-warns-earths-magnetic-field-weakening-pole-...
Nov 8, 2015 – News & Politics …. There are growing fears that weakening of the Earth’s magnetic field and reversal of magnetic poles could have catastrophic …
Earth not due for a geomagnetic flip in the near … – MIT News
news.mit.edu/2015/earth-not-due-geomagnetic-flip-near-future-1123
Calm your nerves. That’s what mayors have to try to do.
You have copied receipts on “…hundreds of $millions per year on a misinformation campaign to undermine public confidence in science…”?
If you can dredge up proof of ten bucks, some people may be interested to see it.
“Statements made on TV” by non experts are a bad source for information about a complex technical issue. They are especially bad when investors in an industry spend hundreds of $millions per year on a misinformation campaign to undermine public confidence in science on that issue. You should get your science news from scientists, not from random political pundits or fossil fuel industry public relations men.
Quote: “Editor’s Note: NASA’s data shows there has been significant temperature increases around the planet ….. .”
Editor; ‘Phone up NASA and congratulate them on the data. a) Beavers are playing on Ellesmere Is., only several hundreds of miles from the Pole. b) Waves from a largely ice-free Arctic Ocean are throwing up piles of sediment known as beach ridges, northern Greenland; c) grassy north Africa has turned into a hot saharan wasteland …… .
a). Something like 2million(?) years ago with CO2 levels little higher than now (boron isotopy/ ocean acidity as a proxy for atmospheric CO2).
b). Something like 6,000(?) yrs ago, as estimated by the Geologic Survey Norway. (Wave formed beach ridges are readily distinguishable from pack-ice formed coastal deposits.)
c). And the human occupants now displaced by the warming/drying left archaeological proof of a once fertile region.
While on the ‘phone, tell them there is a science called geology/geophysics.
Then explain to the Mayor what she should have said without conflicting with science.
Jeannette Townsend’s assertion
“that NASA was unable to explain that no significant temperature increase had occurred since 1998. There is confirmation on the web that this is so, as well as negation.”
is a complete fabrication.
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Temperature anomalies at all 4 primary temperature databases, the Berkeley Earth Temperature Results, the UAH and RSS satellite interpretations, and Radiosondes (Weather Balloons) are all setting new warmth records.
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Graph: http://www.durangobill.com/TempPictures/NOAAanomalies.png
NOAA Graphics: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global
Data: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/anomalies.php
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Graph: http://www.durangobill.com/TempPictures/GISSanomalies.png
GISS Graphics: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/
Data: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
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Graph: http://www.durangobill.com/TempPictures/HadCrut4anomalies.png
HadCRUT4 Graphics: https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/
Data: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT4-gl.dat
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JMA Graph: http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/ann_wld.html
(Graph shows annual data)
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Graph: http://www.durangobill.com/TempPictures/UAHanomalies.png
Data source: http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt (“Globe” column)
Alternate Data Source: “UAH: Lower troposphere”
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/msu/overview
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Excel Graph: http://www.durangobill.com/TempPictures/RSSanomalies.png
RSS Graph: http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.html
Data source:
ftp://ftp.remss.com/msu/graphics/tlt/time_series/rss_ts_channel_tlt_global_land_and_sea_v03_3.txt
Alternate Data Source: “RSS: Lower troposphere”
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/msu/overview
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Berkeley Earth Temperature Results
2015 Unambiguously the Hottest Year on Record
http://berkeleyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2015-Hottest-Year-BE-Press-Release-v1.0.pdf
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Lower Tropospheric warming is also confirmed by weather balloon observations.
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850 mb level: http://www.durangobill.com/GwdLiars/GwdRATPAC850.jpg
700 mb level: http://www.durangobill.com/GwdLiars/GwdRATPAC700.jpg
500 mb level: http://www.durangobill.com/GwdLiars/GwdRATPAC500.jpg
(Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Accessing Climate (RATPAC))
Data source: Globe section at:
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ratpac/ratpac-a/RATPAC-A-annual-levels.txt