Tamino’s website “Open Mind” published a post “Arctic Sunlight”on September 8 2009 which criticizes a observational finding which I presented in my post .
The text on his website reads
“Roger Pielke Sr. has joined Anthony Watts in la-la-land with a post which was also posted on WUWT, Pielke Senior: Arctic Temperature Reporting In The News Needs A Reality Check; it’s Pielke’s attempt to throw dirt at the recent Kaufman et al. research.
Pielke refers to modern arctic temperatures thus:
“The documentation of their biased reporting is easy to show. For example, they do not report on observational data which does not show this rapid recent warming; e.g. see that the current high latitude temperatures are close to the longer term average since 1958. The Danish Meteorological Institute Daily Mean Temperatures in the Arctic 1958 – 2008 [and thanks to the excellent weblog Watts Up With That for making this easily available to us!]”
As for current high-latitude temperatures being close to the longer term average since 1958, no they’re not. Pielke and Watts need a sanity check.”
Well, despite the title of Tamino’s weblog as Open Mind, it is anything but that. He conveniently left off the rest of the text in my post on September 4 2009. I will repeat it here for readers who believe in balanced scientific debate:
From Arctic Temperature Reporting In The News Needs A Reality Check, the text left off by Tamino reads
There are also peer reviewed papers which show that the Schmid and Revkin articles are biased; e. g. see
i) the areal coverage of the coldest middle tropospheric temperatures (below -40C) have not changed radically as shown in the Revkin figure; see
Herman, B., M. Barlage, T.N. Chase, and R.A. Pielke Sr., 2008: Update on a proposed mechanism for the regulation of minimum mid-tropospheric and surface temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 113, D24101, doi:10.1029/2008JD009799.
and
ii) there is a warm bias in the Arctic surface temperature measurements when they are used to characterize deeper atmospheric warming; see
Klotzbach, P.J., R.A. Pielke Sr., R.A. Pielke Jr., J.R. Christy, and R.T. McNider, 2009: An alternative explanation for differential temperature trends at the surface and in the lower troposphere. J. Geophys. Res., accepted.”
Tamino’s weblog is clearly not an Open Minded source of information on climate science. Tamino’s post just reaffirms that there needs to be a reality check in media reporting.
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. 