Climatologist: Obama peddling a non-issue in Alaska
Dr. Pat Michaels, director of the Center for The Study of Science at the Cato Institute, tells OneNewsNow the Alaskan temperature record is very instructive. Michaels: "If you'll look at the data at the University of Alaska climate center, you will see there was a sharp rise in temperature that occurred in ... one year [1976-77]," he states. "It's called the Great Pacific Climate Shift and [it shows] that there's no real change averaged over the state of Alaska since then."
"And the subtext is there is a lot of controversy and acrimony over NOAA changing the global temperature record in June," he explains. "They threw out 30 years of satellite data and substituted in data that was guaranteed to put warming in the recent decades that is not in any other temperature records."
And while Michaels doesn’t recommend citing the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as authoritative, for the sake of argument he offers: “The IPCC says that the temperature record that is the best one in the world comes from the University of East Anglia, and that’s the one that shows the pause in surface warming since about late 1997.”
According to Michaels, satellite and weather balloon records show the same thing. “They show no warming for about 20 years,” he notes
