Does Global Warming Stop when the Sun Goes Down?

So is the sun a bigger player in global warming than we think? We showed previously that when the maximum temperatures had increased (last 5 years), the increase appeared more so during the day only. Likewise when the yearly maximum temperature was less than that of norm, is was mainly during the heat of the day in which it occurred.

But lets look a little closer. Instead of summing up the data by looking at years, we decided to look at months. In fact a total of 83,000 of them. We decided to look at the months in particular which recorded a maximum temperature of say 5 degrees above the norm. For these months, what was the temperature like during the course of the day?

The graph to the left may look very confusing but let me explain. Basically, it shows the average deviation in temperature at certain times of the day, given that month showed a maximum temperature at a certain deviation from the average. Ouch, now that’s something to get your head around. Don’t stress, I shall explain. Lets look the top line, the bright red one. The legend on the right says that this is the average deviation from the norm at certain times of the day when the maximum for the month is 5 degrees above normal. In fact as we go down from 4 degrees above normal, to 3 to 2 and down to -5 we see a trend. The temperature is in fact becoming less. But this of course makes perfect sense.

A particularly hot month will of course have hotter times throughout the day. But what is interesting is that when looking at the graph, is that the greatest deviation occurs from between noon and 6pm when the maximum would occur. However, the deviation at say 3am-6am is nowhere as extreme when the sun goes down, especially for temperatures of negative monthly maximum deviations. Of course one could argue that the temperatures at night do not vary by as much, and hence it would be better looking at standard errors from the norm instead of temperature deviations and this is true, but this is just the first step in looking at time based data during the day.

This analysis alone proves that the current analysis being done by climate scientists based on purely maximum and minimum temperatures is hardly in depth enough – especially if we plan on spending billions of dollars on it. It still seems crazy to me, that the entire global warming science is based on analysis on simple statistics of which even this blog in a matter of several weeks has more than outdone the scientific literature on the matter.

What conclusion can we make to this research in this post? When analyzing a month that has an increased or decreased maximum temperature from the norm, the same deviation doesn’t occur throughout the day, and is significantly reduced when the sun is on the other side of the world.

Katrina Warming

As time blair points out,
Hours after the hammering of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, author Ross Gelbspan wrote this for the Boston Globe:

The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.

Gelbspan believes everything is caused by global warming, from two-foot snowfalls in LA to nuclear shutdowns in Scandinavia. The results of the 2006 hurricane season?

With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade.

Barring a last-second surprise from the tropics, the season will end Thursday with nine named storms, and only five of those hurricanes. This year is the first season since 1997 that only one storm nudged its way into the Gulf of Mexico.

Once again, an agreement with my analysis on Australian storms.

Southern hemisphere ignores global warming

Despite these results coming in about 2 months, ago they back up my research that suggests that the southern Hemisphere has not warmed to the degree that the northern hemisphere has.

My analysis of Australia and parts of antartica basically looks at 1/5th of the southern hemisphere, which isn't much admittedly, but contains about 1/3rd (an educated guess) of the land mass in the area.

Of course, I haven't dug into the analysis of the northern hemisphere as yet, and would love to. There seems to be an agreement that the northern hemisphere has increased significantly in temperature, however that was the general agreement with Australia as well.

So why hasn't the south increased at the same level as the north? There could be many reasons. Perhaps it's because of global currents, perhaps because of the urban living effect (more dense population in the north), perhaps because the north admit more CO2 into the atmosphere, or perhaps because the north has more land mass which has been changed by humans in the past and hence possibly altered the climite.

Either way, I don't know. I'm not a climate scientists but rather one who analyses the results. But if Australia is not warming up, along with perhaps the rest of the southern Hemisphere, should we really worry about spending billions of dollars (that could elsewhere be spent, for example, feeding/educating the sick in Africa) on cutting back our CO2 levels?

The White Barrier Reef

Whilst there has been a lot of talk about the bleaching of the great barrier reef, and whilst I could easily post many links in arguing for an against it, just thought I'd put the information up there about the temperature in the area, considering that this is specifically a temperature and associated data type blog.

Warwick Hughes argues, that the temperatures around the GBR have not increased at all in the past 75 years. This doesn't include water temperature of course, just air, but still a result that agrees with our analysis.

The Sun causes warming? no, surely not!

Recently we showed that when Australian maximum temperatures increased, the actual temperature only increased when the sun was out. Likwise, from 1947 to 1970 when temperatures decreased, the decrease only occured when the sun was out. Hence, when maximum temperatures are up or down, we are not seeing an increase/decrease throughout the day of temperatures but only at the heat of the day (around 3pm) when the sun is at it's hottest.

Maybe the sun has something to do with the discrepancies in maximum temperatures perhaps? Well Scafetta and West's (2006) research seems that it could agree with us saying that:

The sun might have contributed approximately 50% of the observed global warming since 1900

50% Wow! That's like....half. Maybe there is something in this. Which would you bet causes more warming....CO2 levels or the sun? Hmmm....

World Wide Storms are Down

We proved previously that Australia's storm rate has not increased signiifcantly in the last 25 years, and now we have evidence to prove that the worlds storm rate hasn't either.



And of course there is good proof of why this is too.

That sun is hot

It is amazing to me, that there is very limited analysis into temperatures at certain times of the day. Even the IPCC Climate Change 2001 report only looks at maximum and minimum temperatures. We concluded here that minimum temperatures have increased significantly from about the 1980’s, but have stayed around the same level since then. The increase in Australia has been 0.3 degrees since 1980. We also concluded also that there has recently, especially in the last 5 years been an increase in Australia’s maximum temperature, however the increase is statistically insignificant. The graph on this link clearly shows an increase in maximum temperatures since around 1960, but not quite to the level that they were in the 19th century.

So what is happening in these last few years of increase in maximum temperatures? It is strange that research has not decided to look into this, and has generally just accepted the fact that we are warming up.


The graph to the left shows the deviations from the norm at certain times of the day with reference to last 5 years, 15, 30, 60 and 100 years. Data for the last 100 years was only available for 9am, 3pm and 9pm.

Lets look at the last 5 years to start off with. At the heat of the day, at around 3pm, we see that temperatures in the last 5 years have increased by on average almost 0.6 degrees. But interestingly, at other times of the day, the decrease is less. In fact at 3am and 6am, when the sun does not shine, there is no increase at all in temperature. As the earth spins further away from the sun, the temperature deviation from the norm decreases. Between 1992 and 2001 we had less than normal temperatures with the exception of 3pm. The previous 15 years before that showed an increase in temperatures at around the 6pm to 9pm mark, and from 1947 to 1976, where it is well known that maximum temperatures were on the decrease, this graph shows this. With temperatures at what would normally be at the peak, 3pm, being around 0.2 degrees below the norm. Interestingly here, that when the sun is on the other side of the world, the temperature difference is minimal.

So why is it that in most recent times, we are heating up during the heat of the day and not at other times? Admittedly it is only a small sample size of 5 years, but it might well be worth some debate. This data clearly proves, that Australia is not uniformly heating up at all times, but only when the sun is at its peak. Hence the reason why we get increased maximum temperatures more recently.

It is interesting, that the increased maximum temperatures of late only occur because of an increasing temperature around 3pm (the heat of the day) and not at other times. Likewise the decreased maximum temperature from around 1947 to 1976 only occurred because of a decrease in temperatures around 3pm (the heat of the day) and largely not at other times.

If CO2 were the primary causer of increased temperatures in Australia, then wouldn’t we get a more consistent temperature increase throughout the day and night? Analysis at certain times of the year, and when there is/isn’t cloud cover might well be the key here.

Keep in mind however, that the increase in temperature over the past 5 years is not significant, but is still worth a look into, as it seems this is rarely done in the literature.

Random Patterns?

Let’s do a little test today. Ok below we have 2 graphs. One of them has been derived by random numbers and is purely random, the other is not. Can you guess which graph is purely random, the first graph or the second?





Basically this outlines one of the key notions in statistical analysis. It is very easy, especially for an untrained eye to find patterns in randomness. When we look at the first graph we see patterns, we see little stretches of cluttered dots, some areas where no dots actually appear. If we look hard enough, we can come to some conclusions about what is happening in this graph. If we look at the second graph, we see not a lot of clusters. The dots are very evenly spread and not many big gaps.

An untrained eye would immediately say that the second graph is random, when in fact the opposite is true. The first graph is random. It is very easy to find patterns in randomness. It occurs today in global warming. When we have one of the hottest days on record, or when we have severe storms. We might look at the last couple of years and say that there’s been a drought, or temperatures have increased, there isn’t much rainfall.

But statisticians prove whether this is due to outside causes, or whether this is purely random variation. The only way to do this, is to analyse the data and use statistical tests. This is the only way to prove why we are having changes that we are having now.

Sure we are going to get some hot days, some cold days, some blizzard snow days and some stinking hot days. But is this change in the weather due to global warming? The only way to find out, is not to hypothesise and simply say “it must be, I can’t remember such strange weather” as so many people seem to be doing, but rather analyse the data, see if this strange weather is any different from the norm or if it is purely just random variation.

Only a statistician can prove whether the weather is statistically significantly different now or whether it’s just natural variation. So when an article or scientists tells you that temperatures have significantly increased, or that cycles are more common now that previous, or that temperatures are so cold and warm and everywhere now, ask for a p value. If they don’t have one, or don’t know what you are talking about, then they simply have either not done the research to back up their claims or they, like it seems every other untrained number cruncher, are simply finding patterns in randomness.

Consistent Macquarie

Macquarie Island is an island half way between Australia and the Antarctic. It is officially according to the ABM part of the great ice continent. So why not do some analysis on that. We have luckily this time, temperature data at certain times of the day, and instead of littering a post with 10 graphs I shall merely put links there for them.

And here they are. Temperature deviations from the average for the times of midnight, 3am, 6am, 9am, noon, 3pm, 6pm and 9pm.

Whist the data only goes from the 1960’s, we do see a pattern amongst the data. It seems that in the years 1963 to 1973 we had a less than average mean monthly temperature. From the years 1977 to 1989 the temperature was on average 0.3 degrees greater than average. And since then it has been up and down.

What is more interesting is the extreme similarity amongst the graphs. I had to even check twice to make sure that the data was correct and that they were actually not graphing the same information. They weren’t, and what this means is that the temperature deviations year to year at different times at Macquarie Island stay relatively constant. In that, in a certain year if we were to experience an increase in 0.5 degrees at 3pm, then there is a reasonable chance that we would experience a similar increase at 3am and 9pm and noon etc.

This is very interesting, and we will dwell more on this in the future, by looking at season patterns. But what this means is that something is actually making the temperature change at a constant rate throughout the day and year. Of course, this something is not increasing the temperature however. All test on the data proved that there was no significant increase or decrease in temperature (midnight F = 0.87, p = 0.355; 3am F = 0.63, p = 0.43; 6am F= 0.47, p = 0.5; 9am F = 1.46, p = 0.23; noon F = 1.72, p = 0.09; 3pm F = 3.32, p = 0.75; 6pm F = 2.44, p = 0.13; 9pm F = 0.97, p = 0.33)

Hypocritical Channel 7

As pointed out by Tim Blair, the Sunrise show on channel 7 are running a global cooling campaign. However rather hypocritically, they have plenty of global warming prizes to give out which include:

A 4WD Nissan Murano, flights to the US to see Jerry Seinfeld perform,$6000 plasma televisions, New York family holidays, race laps at Bathurst, touring Australia with INXS, weekend flights to Melbourne, a flight to London to see Madonna in concert, a flight to Germany for the World Cup, family flights to New Zealand,flights to destinations around Australia, Queenstown and London.
I guess they don’t want to give up the good to get rid of the bad.

The best way to spend godzillions

Paul Driessen, author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power, Black Death, rages against what he rightly calls the “the real climate catastrophe”:

Over 2 billion of the Earth’s citizens—including 95 percent of Africans—still do not have electricity. That means no lights, refrigerators, stoves, radios, televisions or computers; no modern homes, hospitals, schools, offices or factories. Instead, people breathe polluted smoke from wood and dung fires, and die by the millions from lung diseases.
The world should be rushing to their aid. Instead, in the name of preventing hypothetical climate change, environmentalists and rich countries oppose fossil fuel power plants in poor countries. To “protect wild rivers,” they obstruct hydroelectric projects. They resist nuclear power, on the ground that it is “inherently dangerous.” In short, they are telling a third of the world’s people:

“You cannot have modern, healthy, industrialized societies. Your only option is piddling amounts of expensive, unreliable electricity from wind and solar. To safeguard the world from speculative risks that we are concerned about, you must endure life-threatening dangers that perpetuate poverty, disease and childhood death in your destitute nations.”

I totally agree. How the Stern report can recommend spending godzillions of fixing global warming, which may/may not exist (it doesn't in Australia and parts of Antarctica), humans may not be the cause, and if they are might not be able to make a difference - whilst there are millions of starving, uneducated, malnourished people in Africa, is criminal.

How the Sterm report suggests to spend billions to stop global warming so that more people don't die in Africa is a joke. Moreso, it's beyond a joke.

Getting rich by spreading doom

Maybe I'm on the wrong side of the debate, but climate scientist and large doomsday preacher Tim Flannery, made a cool $150k from selling his book about how we are all going to die.

Cold Antarctica is still very cold

A new British research team has concluded that

Mass gains from accumulating snow, particularly on the Antarctic Peninsula and within East Antarctica, exceed the ice dynamic mass loss from West Antarctica. The result exacerbates the difficulty of explaining twentieth century sea-level rise.

This of course is very interesting to me, and we do have some data from some Australian stations out on the cold continent. So lets see analyse the data from there. Mawson is a place named after Australian explorer Sir Douglas Mawson. Unfortunately they only have max and min data down there, and whilst I hate analysing data where the time isn’t kept constant, we shall give it a go anyway.

The graph on the left shows deviations from the average minimum temperature at Mawson from 1954. Tests prove no significant increase or decrease (F = 2.22, p = 0.14). And the graph below shows deviations from the average monthly maximum temperature, of which tests again show no significant increase or decrease (F = 0.07, p = 0.79).


So there is little wonder why the ice is increasing at Antarctica. Admittedly, this is only one station on the whole continent, so we can probably only conclude that around the Mawson side of Antarctica, it’s not heating up, which backs up the British survey’s results.

So don’t worry too much peoples, looks like there will still be a few more march of the penguins documentaries to come out in the future.

The punchline

Sorry, just incase you didn't understand my conclusion to my other post, I thought I'd summarise:

Australia is not warmer now than it was in the past at 3am, or 6am or 9am or noon or 3pm or 6pm or 9pm or midnight. The stats prove that at all of these times, Australia has not got significantly warmer.

Hence it would seem therefore, that global warming is not a problem in Australia. Thankyou

Antarctica's getting bigger, even

New research has found that Antartica's ice is getting even thicker. So much for rising sea levels. And what we'll find soon is my analysis of Antartica's temperatures. Who says my analyis is only Australia Based!

Australia just aint warming up....at all!

Well the graph on the left shows the deviation from the norm for temperatures at 6am, and surprise surprise, there was no significant increase (F=1.25, p=0.22). In fact we might as well show all the other times now, because there seems to be a pattern amongst all of Australia’s times in that the temperature is not changing.

The graph on the left shows temperatures at 6pm. No significant increase in temperature found (F=0.47, p = 0.5).

This next graph shows temperatures at midnight, where no significant increase was found (F=1.3, p = 0.26), and the graph below shows the temperatures at noon where, once again no significant difference was found (F=2.44, p = 0.12). One can observe the last few years in the noon graph that are above normal, (although not significantly above normal). This matches what we found at 3pm as well. And so it seems, although insignificantly, that we have had a few years of late with increased temperatures around the noon to 3pm mark – basically the heat of the day. This would also indicate why we have had increased maximum temperatures during this time.



It seems strange that only in the last 5 years or so, this is the only time that we have seen an increase. Although I stress once again, that the increase is insignificant, but still might be worth talking about. If global warming were true, then surely we would see a general increase over the full 24 hours. Please tell me if I’m wrong here.

However a recent increase from noon to 3pm – the heat of the day, when the sun is shining at it’s best, suggests to me that there could be more into this than what we first thought. Could the sun possibly be hotter? Is solar radiation related to these increased temperatures? What happens when we have cloud cover? Do we see these increases in temperatures between noon and 3pm when there are clouds? All this will be looked at in detail.

Stable 3am temperature

3am, where you experience this time only when you've had a very big night.
But has it got colder or warmer at this time?

Well the graph on the left proves that it, err, hasn’t changed. Our statistical tests prove no significant increase or decrease either (F = 0.20, p = 0.65).

So no increase at 3am, 9am, 3pm and 9pm. Hmm, I sense a trend. Maybe tomorrow we will find an increase when we look at 6am

No rise in temperature when the sun goes down

Ok going to the race that stops the nation, the Melbourne cup tomorrow, so I thought I’d give tomorrow’s update a little early.

9pm. Ok the graph on the left has all the deviations from the norm of temperatures recorded at 9pm. What we can obviously see at the start is big negative deviations up until abut 1915 and then big positive deviations till about 1930, then smaller negative, smaller positive. Hmm. We will talk about accuracy of data later on, but it seems there is a lot more variability in the earlier recordings.

Therefore the graph now on the left has deviations from temperatures at 9pm from 1960 onwards. Can you see a pattern? I can’t. Couple of cold years, couple of warm. In the end we have to conclude that there is no statistical evidence that Australia is warmer or colder than it was 60 years ago at 9pm (F = 1.50, p = 0.227).

So therefore is Australia hotter now at 9am than it was in the past? No. Is Australia hotter now at 3pm than it was at the past? Hmm…No. Is Australia hotter now at 9pm than it was in the past? Hmm…still no. So when, if any was Australia actually hotter? We’ll have a look at 3am on Wednesday.

Perfect Beach Weather on a Sunday Afternoon

So how was your weekend? Was a bit chili down in Melbourne, but that’s what it’s famous for – the cold and a large variability of weather, not just long term, but also in the one day.

But what about at 3pm?
The graph on the left shows Australia’s deviations from the average for temperatures taken at 3pm. It shows some interesting things. We had a big hot spell from 1875 to 1890 and have also had a recent increase in temperature in the last 5 yeas. All the time in between suggests no increase or decrease in temperature. This is confirmed with statistical analysis that there has been no significant increase or decrease (F = 3.41, p = 0.067). Interesting, that is wasn’t far off proving a long term decrease in temperature. Even if we have just the data from 1910 we still see no significant increase. (F = 0.81, p = 0.42). So at 3pm temperatures are not increasing. In fact the early and recent increases matches our analysis of Australian wide maximum temperatures which would occur at about the 3pm time in some parts of Australia.

Hey but what about the recent increases, doesn’t that prove that we are warming up? Indeed, it looks as though we have warmed at 3pm Australian wide by on average about 0.5 of a degree. But this can be attributed simple to random variation. Co2 levels were not what they are now in the 1880s, and even should we choose to ignore such old data, we still proved with a statistical test, that there is no evidence that temperature has increased significantly.

So lets recap. Have Australia’s temperatures significantly increased at 9am? No. Have Australia’s temperatures significantly increased at 3pm? No. So so far we conclude that Australia just isn’t heating up at all. 9pm data tomorrow

Walk Against Warming

Australia are officially walking against warming on Saturday.

I argue that a bit of research might actually do them better. Maybe for instance....reading this blog perhaps....

The Evil Australia

The Age reports that:

AUSTRALIA'S emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest per capita in the Western world — apart from tiny Luxembourg — and have grown by 1.5 tonnes a head since 1990

Well as the article below proves, lucky this has no effect on Australian temperatures. Phew!

I hate cold mornings

Well the last few days we’ve concluded that Australia’s mean monthly maximum temperatures are increasing of late, but nothing significantly different from the norm. The mean monthly temperatures more than 100 years ago were greater than now. On the counter side we also showed that mean monthly minimum temperatures have increased of late. We have seen an increase of 0.27 degrees C in the last 30 years. However it looks as though this increase has not continued to increase in the last 30 years and has remained relatively constant. The reason for this increase in 0.27 degrees at around the mid 1970s mark, is undetermined.

However it makes a lot of sense to take measurements at a certain time and compare them. By keeping the time constant we can see if 6pm 50 years ago was colder than 6pm now, or whether 9am 100 years ago was hotter or colder than it is today. If global warming is happening in Australia, and the place is hotting up, then we would expect, especially in the last 20-50 years a significant increase in this variable.

So shall we test it out? The next 8 days, yep the next 8, will be an article each day looking at the variation in temperatures at certain times of the day. These times are: Midnight, 3am, 6am, 9am, noon, 3pm, 6pm and 9pm. A fairly broad range obviously.

ABMs data has taken measurements at these times from ages back. 9am and 3pm temperatures were recorded from when temperature recordings first started (mid 1800s), 9pm recordings started from about 1890 and all other temperatures were unfortunately only recorded from as late as 1940. Nevertheless, we shall analyse them all.

And what better way to start, than the times with the most data: 9am and 3pm. Lets check the earlier time to start off with.


On the left is a graph of Australia’s deviation from the average of temperatures recorded from all over Australia at 9am in the morning. Times are obviously adjusted for day light savings. And what can we conclude from this? It seems that the times between 1860 all the way up to 1940 recorded on average greater than normal temperatures. Then we had 25 years of really cold start work times, followed by a period of 25 years of slightly warmer wake up calls, another 25 years of chilling turn the electric blanket on temperatures, and apart from last year, we had 4 years in a row of temperatures about 0.2 degrees greater than norm at 9am in the morning.

Now I’m pretty sure that I don’t have to do a statistical test of this analysis to prove scientifically if there has been a statistically significant increase or decrease in temperature. I won’t bother. We all know the result from looking at the graph. We’ve had a bit of cold, a bit of warmth, a bit of cold, a bit of warmth. The pattern seems even cyclic if anything. But either way, what we are witnessing here, is proof that Australia’s temperatures, at least at 9am in the morning, have not increased at all. Global warming, and human induced CO2 levels, have no influence whatsoever on the temperature at this stage of the morning.

Which to be honest, is a little upsetting. I hate cold mornings.

Global warming causes Fiji instability

Here's the proof

I love a barmy night

Whilst there is insufficient evidence to prove that we are warming up during the day, there is good evidence to prove that our nights are getting warmer.


Given on the left is the average monthly Minimum temperature deviations from the norm. We had some pretty freezing nights from 1870 to 1910 and some pretty average nights up until the mid 1970s. After that the minimum time shot up about 0.27 degrees until now.

Global Warming advocates will prove this as evidence for global warming, and indeed it does look as though Australia’s minimum temperatures are in fact warming up. What is interesting (despite the moving average), of the sudden increase in temperature at the mid 1970s. From 1970 to current, there has been no statistically significant increase in temperature (F = 0.87, p = 0.357). This might well be because the data set of 30 years is pretty small, but it also might be because the average monthly minimum temperature in Australia is not increasing from when it shot up in the mid 1970s. Whether or not increased night temperatures will have any influence on crops and all the problems that global warming alarmists say, I’m not sure. But personally I welcome a warmer night, well as long as I don’t live near the equator!

We will go more in depth, looking at states, and individual stations with regards to the mean monthly maximum and minimum graphs given here. But firstly I want to ask you, despite these two graphs, and the fact that these are the same and only types of graphs that the ABM use to prove an increase in temperature, are these the correct way to see if Australia is warming up?

Most people would say yes, what are the other options? Well let me give you an example. Suppose we wanted to compare two days and see which one was hotter. We take temperature readings every hour. We could compare the two smallest minimum temperatures readings and the two maximum temperature readings to see which is hotter. Or we could compare what the temperature was at the same time of the day between the two. Eg, which day was hotter at 3pm, and at 9am, and at 1pm?

If we keep the variable constant as to the time that we take the measurements, then we will get a lot better understanding as to which day was actually hotter. Can we do this with Australian temperature data? You bet.

A challenge to Journalists

Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe gave a speech on the Senate floor taking to task global-warming alarmists and their enablers in the media.

Stopping Global Warming Will Save Millions

The Stern report outlines what the Earth's goals are for the future. These include amongst others: Halve extreme poverty and hunger, Reduce under five mortality, Reduce maternal mortality and Reduce aids.

What better way to do this then spend godzillions on the theory of global warming which has not yet been scientifically proven beyond doubt. And that

there could be an additional 165,000 to 250,000 child deaths per year in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by 2100.

Wow that's huge. I'm not sure where he got his numbers from but here are mine. Well lets consider that when sponsoring a child in Africa, it costs us about a dollar a day to give the child food, education and medicine. Not much hey, $400 a year only. Given that Junk Science claim that global warming has cost at this stage about $256 billion, this equates to clothing, educating and feeding 640 million kids for a year, or 7 million people every year from the age of 1 up to 94.

So would you rather spend godzilions on a possibility of global warming that may or may not be advantageous, or feed, cloth, educate and strip of disease the poor of Africa and Asia?

Niagra Falls Mist Due to Global Warming

Wikipedia, the source of 100% factual scientific theory...hmmm....says that a possible cause for the increased mist surrounding the Niagra Falls is global warming. What the?

Australia's Maximum Temperatures are not at Maximum

Ok so here is the first piece of analysis on Australian temperatures that I have done. There is plenty more to come, but this I am sure will spark a reasonable about of debate:



Given on the left is Australia’s Deviation form the mean of Average Monthly Maximum Temperatures. The pattern in it is startling and obvious. Since 1868 we have had a decreasing maximum temperature in Australia. This trend continued to decrease until about 1960, and from then until about the year 2000 the temperature remained relatively constant. It is quite clear from this graph why scientists in the 60s and 70s were warning of the earth possibly going into another ice age. If temperatures kept decreasing then who knows what might happen.

Fortunately it didn’t, and the next 30 years so an evening out process where maximum temperatures were scattered around the mean. What is certain, is that the past 5 years have seen a higher maximum temperature than normal, around 0.7 degrees higher. But this is of course only 5 years. The heatwaves of 1875 to 1886 recorded 0.9 degrees above normal over 12 years. 8 years of heat from 1895 to 1907 produced 0.6 degrees above normal on average. Just after the second world war we had 12 years in a row of lower than average maximum temperatures.

Such departures from the mean are in fact normal and occur largely due to random variation. If the increase in temperatures in the past 5 years is due to human CO2 activity, then how were the temperatures pre 1900 just as hot if not hotter? The cyclic nature of this graph seems to be obvious, although it must be noted that there is not enough data to prove that statistically.

It is quite true, that from around 1950 temperatures have been increasing. So much so, that if one only had the data in the last 60 years there would be ample evidence that we are in a hotting up Australia. But with more data, comes more evidence.

What is interesting is the graphs that the ABM give. They for starters don’t show a decreasing temperature trend from 1910 to 1960. There is a lot of scientific evidence out there that the decrease in temperature was pretty global and there were a lot of fears that we were entering a stage of global cooling. Why doesn’t the ABM graph show this? Mine does!

There are two reasons why I can guess that the ABM have only data from 1910, when their records go as far back as the mid 1800s. The first is obvious. I’ve proven that the mean maximum temperatures at this time were even hotter than today. Why would the ABM want to show this? This would prove that humans are not the cause of global warming and it is just a normal natural variation. The other reason might be that they conclude that the earlier data was not very reliable.

My analysis suggest that as well, that the years from 1858 to 1868 is very unreliable data, but from then on, it is very comparable with today’s (more on that later). So given it’s reliability I have to go back to my original claim that the ABM don’t want to show the world that Australia was once hotter than it is today.

My opinions and analysis is totally unbiased. So much so that I will in fact give evidence for a warming up Australia tomorrow when we look at average minimum temperatures. But one thing is for sure form this analysis, that humans are not the cause of increased average maximum temperatures in Australia. Period.

The Analysis

Ok I know, this article will be really boring, but potentially it is one of the most important. Basically all I’m writing here is how I got the data, and how I did my analysis. It’s important because I want to tell people about the unbiasedness of my work. It is also important so that should someone want to replicate what I did to prove that I was honest/dishonest, then they can do so and I encourage people to do so. This is the best part of science. So if you are interested in how the analysis was done, then read on, otherwise the next post will have the first stage of some of the results.

Data is taken from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM). The ABM divide Australia into a number of rainfall districts as shown here

For our analysis we took one weather station from each district. The chosen weather station was one that had weather predictions up to the current date and also had results that went back the furthest in time. This resulted in 102 weather stations in total. On occasions, where a certain long lasting weather stations stopped and another one took its place on the previous stations ending, both stations were taken in the sample. The analysis however in this instance still treats these two stations as two independent weather stations, and analysis is done separately on both.

Following this, weather stations on islands and the 2 stations on Antarctica were removed from the sample as it was estimated that they might not represent Australia as accurately as possible. Due to information regarding urban heating, stations that had approx. 100,000 people or more were removed from the sample as well, and we were left with 82 weather stations around Australia to use.

From each these stations the average monthly temperature (or rainfall etc.) was calculated from the time the measurements started until current. Hence we have different average temperatures per month per station (eg. The average temperature in KALUMBURU in January, the average temperature in KALUMBURU in February etc.).

From these averages we calculated the deviations from the mean for every month of every year for each station. These were then summed to get the average deviation from the mean for every station for every year. The average deviation for all stations was then recorded and this is shown in the graphs and analysis. Variables at this stage included in the analysis are Average Maximum and Minimum Temperature, Aver Temperature at 9am and 3pm, and Average Rainfall per month.

ANZ: Poor Money Management

John McFarlane is a typical community member. A member who wants to do their part in society. To help the world as we know it today and to make to make it ideal for the generations of people he will never see in the future. But he makes one critical mistake in his write-up, something which makes his entire article completely irrelevant, and that is his first sentence:

While the debate among scientists about climate change continues

In other words, he admits (there are few that do so), that scientists are unsure if humans are the cause of global warming, that scientists are unsure if a warming of the planet might be good for us or bad, that scientists are unsure if our greenhouse gasses are warming the planet or if it’s due to natural causes, or even if the globe is warming at all.

But that still doesn’t deter John McFarlane. With no scientific proof whatsoever that our actions will make any difference (either good or bad), he suggests that we should not wait till “conclusive proof” to act. That’s right, we should spend billions of dollars on a hunch. Something that might not be right, might not have an effect, and even if it did, the effect might be even advantageous.

Given that the debate could swing either side due to lack of evidence, there is a significant chance that global warming is not hyped up to what some say it to be. If so, are you, John McFarlane, going to take the blame for the thousands of starving dead in Africa, for example, who’s billions of dollars wasted on global warming could have saved? I agree with you that we should act now, but I also think that we should act on the now. We should focus on today’s problems where our money can be spent rather than spending every penny of it on a scientifically unproven, debatable phenomenon that not even our children’s children will likely see any effects. Does it make sense to spend billions of dollars on the off chance that our offspring 250 years down the track might live a better life, when at the moment thousands are dying from malnutrition?

Whilst I admire John McFarlane’s leadership and commitment to help the planet and make it a better place for countless generations to come, his decision to be part of the movement to spend billions of dollars (which could be better spent elsewhere) on something that has limited scientific justification is what every ANZ financial risk advisor would classify as poor money management.