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Public Disclosure - Govenment Agency Says "no Global Warming Problem" |
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by Pat Neuman
Email: npat1 (nospam) juno.com (verified)
Address: Chanhassen, MN |
15 Nov 2003
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Public Disclosure - National Weather Service(NWS), report by Senior Hydrologist with NWS shows clear trends for earlier snowmelt runoff, increasing average dewpoints & air temperatures... 100 years of high quality streamflow runoff and temperature records. |
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NOAA-National Weather Service (NWS) has a staff exceeding 5000 federal employees within the United States, most having direct contact to media, other agencies, and the public.
On Nov 7 (evening) at the NWS collocated Twin Cities Weather Forecast Office(WFO)/North Central River Forecast Center(NCRFC) located in Chanhassen, Minnesota, the Senior Meteorologist on duty for the WFO said:
"The NWS is telling people that there is no global warming problem".
The statement was made in reply to my question regarding what is NWS telling people about global warming. I am a Senior Hydrologist with the NCRFC (area of responsibility includes all or parts of nine states in the Midwest and Northern Great Plains).
The Senior Meteorologist and I had been discussing my recent paper that shows regional climate warming trends for earlier snowmelt runoff and increasing dewpoints in the Upper Midwest and Northern Great Plains, based on 100 years of streamflow runoff records (high quality United States Geological Survey (USGS) mean daily flow data).
I prepared a paper & presented it at the NWS-Climate Prediction Center and Desert Research Institute Workshop (20-23 Oct 2003 in Sparks, Nevada). Links to my paper (final draft: 11 September 2003) which is kept on the Minnesotan's For Sustainability website can be found at message number 264 of ClimateArchive, at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateArchive/message/264
Pat Neuman
Chanhassen, MN |
See also:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateArchive
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Re: Public Disclosure - Govenment Agency Says "no Global Warming Problem" |
by pat neuman
npat1 (nospam) juno.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
25 Feb 2006
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Blowing the whistle on climate change: Interview with Rick Piltz
June 22, 2005, Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T), by Paul D. Thacker
Excerpts
For 10 years, Rick Piltz worked for the U.S. federal program that coordinates global climate change research for NASA, the U.S. EPA, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies. ...
But earlier this year, Piltz—tired of climate change science being misused and abused—quit his job and started talking to the press. ...
In this interview with ES&T, Piltz talks about the White House’s suppression of science and the National Assessment, the failure of journalists to cover the science of climate change, ...
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Rick Piltz: The most recent edition of the Our Changing Planet report to Congress had content pulled out solely because it could cause embarrassment for the White House during last year’s election.
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Rick Piltz: People don’t want to have problems with their bosses; people don’t want to have problems with their budgets. It’s something that almost works by
osmosis. Everybody knows it but doesn’t talk about it.
Paul Thacker: What could happen to people for speaking up or talking to the press?
Rick Piltz: ... They’re concerned that if they are seen as a dissident . . . it’s career-limiting. And people who are like that never even make it into these positions; they get weeded out earlier in their careers. ...
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/jun/policy/pt_piltz.html
Also see:
Update - Plotted temperature averages (1888-2005: monthly, annual) for public view at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/patneuman2000/my_photos
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