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“A Piada científica de 2009”

Top Ten Reasons why the Catlin Arctic Ice Survey data can’t be trusted
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High profile news and PR from the beginning, plus an unrealistic vision of self importance related to the mission. The entire venture was publicized well in advance of the actual expedition, and the mission was “too important to fail” according to the January 23rd interview with The Guardian Catlin team leader Pen Hadow said:

“During this mammoth expedition we will gather the essential data that scientists need to more accurately determine when the permanent floating sea ice will disappear altogether. We cannot afford to fail on this mission – there is too much at stake.”

With pronouncements like that, you also can’t afford not to bring home a result consistent with the theme of the expedition.
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Reality Show Science as reported here, “The trio will be sending in regular diary entries, videos and photographs to BBC News throughout their expedition.” When you tie science too closely to the media from the beginning, it predetermines some outcomes. That pressure is always there to produce the story rather than focus on the task. This is why most proper science is done well away from the media and the results are reported afterwards.
8.

Hadow, by his own admission, has an unrealistic and biased warmer view of the Arctic that doesn’t match the current data. In his Curriculum Vitae posted here, he writes:

“Twenty years ago, you could walk to the North Pole – now you have to swim part of the way there.”

Only problem is, the satellite data showed a completely different picture of solid ice, and Hadow’s expedition encountered temperatures of -44F (-42C) along the way, and the vast majority of the trip was below 32F (0C). He didn’t encounter vast leads of water along the way, and in fact encountered ice conditions far worse than he expected. This shows his bias for a warmer trip from the start.
7.

The Catlin team’s scientific advisor at the beginning of the trip seemed to already have a predetermined outcome for the Arctic. In this BBC article and interview they write of Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, a science advisor to the survey:

“Ultimately, Professor Maslowski hopes to finesse his forecast for when the first ice-free summer might arrive.

Currently, he has it down for 2013 – but with an uncertainty range between 2010 and 2016.”

So if they already had this figured out from the beginning, why make the trip at all? Is it so the BBC could recycle the headline again today saying Arctic to be ‘ice-free in summer’? Why do “science” at great personal risk when you already are sure of the end game? There’s also another nugget of predisposition wisdom by Catlin’s science advisor Professor Maslowski. Read on.
6.

They failed to advise of major equipment failure in a timely manner, inviting suspicion. The ice radar sounding equipment that was designed to do the thickness survey failed miserably, almost from day one, yet even though they were “sending in regular diary entries, videos and photographs to BBC News throughout their expedition,” the world didn’t learn of that failure until day 44 of the 73 day expedition. When Apollo 13 had a problem, the world knew about it almost immediately. When Catlin had a problem, it was covered up for well over a month, yet that didn’t stop the BBC from paraphrasing Apollo 13’s famous words for a headline ‘London, we have a problem’ as if there was some parallel in integrity and timeliness here.
5.

Hadow and his scientific advisor erroneously believed that their expedition was the only way ice thickness measurements could be done, and they seemed oblivious to other efforts and systems.

From this BBC article and interview:

“No other information on ice thickness like this is expected to be made available to the scientific community in 2009,” explained Arctic ice modeller Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, a science advisor to the survey.

While this was obviously a selling point to sponsors and an ego boost for the team, it was flat wrong. For example, there’s a bouy network that provides ice thickness data,. Then there’s ICEsat which provides mass and balance measurements, as well as ice thickness maps, shown below:

ICESat data for Fall 2008, source NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

As reported on WUWT, another data source of Arctic Ice thickness in 2009 came in the form of an aerial survey with a towed radar array from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. They didn’t have to risk lives, create drama, or bleat constant headlines to the BBC while doing the science. They simply flew the plane over the ice a few times.

Here’s some excerpts of what was reported on WUWT in the story Inconvenient Eisdicken – “surprising results” from the Arctic

At the North Pole ice sheet is thicker than expected

The “Polar 5″ in Bremerhaven

The research aircraft Polar 5 “ended today in Canada’s recent Arctic expedition. During the flight, researchers have measured the current Eisstärke measured at the North Pole, and in areas that have never before been overflown. Result: The sea-ice in the surveyed areas is apparently thicker than the researchers had suspected.

Normally, ice is newly formed after two years, over two meters thick. “Here were Eisdicken up to four meters,” said a spokesman of Bremerhaven’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. For scientists, this result is still in contradiction to the warming of the seawater.

Gosh. Where’s the polar death defying drama in that?
4.

Due to the extreme cold conditions they were not fully prepared for, they completed less than half of the planned trip. Originally it was to be a 1000 kilometer trip to the North Pole which according to early interviews given by Hadow was easily done, yet they failed. The original start point was to be at 81N 130W but they actually started closer to the pole by about 100 kilometers.

Click here to explore the Catlin Arctic Survey in Google Earth (right click and save as)

According to the Google Earth KML file provided by Catlin, they started at 81.7N 129.7W and ended at 85.5N 125.6W for a total distance of approximately 435 kilometers over 73 days. Hardly a broad survey of the Arctic Ice when put into perspective on the Google Earth and ICEsat maps shown below:

Catlin Route Map from GPS data with planned and actual start/end points

Here’s the Catlin Arctic Ice Survey Route overlaid on the ICEsat map. You can see just how little of the ice was actually surveyed.

Catlin Arctic Survey Path over ICEsat map – click for larger image

Note that the ICEsat image is from Fall 2008, while the Catlin trip was in the Spring of 2009. Since we all know sea ice moves, often connected to the Beaufort Gyre, it is likely that the path depicted does not represent the ice Catlin actually traveled over. The sea ice may have moved so that the Catlin path traversed some of the thinner ice to the west, though some thickening of the ice would also be expected during the winter of 2009. The point of this map was to put the route in perspective.
3.

There’s very little actual data return for 73 days on the ice, only 39 datapoints. See the dataset they provide in the Excel file here:

CAS Snow Ice Measurements – Final 2009
Final surveying results from the 2009 expedition.

The actual number of holes drilled and measured for ice thickness by Pen Hadow is said to be in the hundreds, and what we see in the Excel file is the average of those many holes at each drilling session. While I commend them for providing the raw hole data, problems with potential measurement bias don’t appear to be well addressed in the methodology paper they provide here (PDF) while it is mentioned in the preliminary June report:

“One further consideration, when interpreting the ice thickness measurements made by the Catlin Arctic Survey team, may be navigational bias. Typically, the surface of First Year Ice floes are flatterthan that of multi‐year ice floes and because the team systematically seeks out flatter ice which is easier to travel over and camp on, there is a risk that the ice surveyed will not be representative.”

Since they make no mention of the potential measurement bias in the final report, it appears that there wasn’t anything but lip service consideration given to it in the early report, possibly to appease critics.
2.

One of the most prominent sea ice researchers in the world, Dr. Walt Meier of NSIDC said he would not use the Catlin data saying in a post here on WUWT:

“I don’t anticipate using the Catlin data.”

That begs the question then, beyond the use of the data for generating news stories like we’ve seen in the BBC and other media outlets, who will? Even the media outlets have ignored the actual data Catlin made available, preferring sound bites over data bytes.
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The Catlin Arctic Ice Survey knowingly presented false data to the public and to the media in their web presentation.

As many WUWT readers recall, it was here that it was discovered that Catlin’s website had bogus telemetry data on it, giving the impression of “live data from the ice” when in fact the data repeated in an endless loop from a short period.

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http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Imagens e apresentação no Link.

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Mais pelo menos a Al Jazeera, e a Euronews.Embora estes tenham noticiado que a calote desaparecerá apenas no Verão.

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“Há mesmo sérias dúvidas se terá feito o percurso que indicou…”

http://noticias.pt.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=150240796

Ui, danado este Gabriel.
Que foi lá ver, fotografou, à socapa, qual detective, e só não viu que o dito autor não fez o tal percurso, não senhor, por já não existir, se ter sumido, privado do sólido gelo que lá havia, entretanto liquefeito num mar de gélidas águas.

E o Gabriel não entende isso.
Pois não entendeu.

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Este tipo é que tem toda a razão:

http://ecologia-clima-aquecimento.blogspot.com/

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As origens da luta contra o aquecimento global.

Durante a segunda guerra mundial a URSS começa arecrutar agentes no ocidente, em especial nos USA. Nessa altura conseguiram recrutar uma figura importante para colaborar com a Rússia comunista: Harry Dexter White.

Este tipo elaborou um plano, sob as ordens dos comunistas russos, chamado de The Morgenthau Plan, nome do Sec. do Tesouro americano de quem ele foi assistente.

Esse plano tinha como objectivo levar à morte milhões de alemães, transformar a Alemanha num país agrícola, sem industria pesada, sem armas e ocupada pelos vencedores da guerra.

O plano, pese embora tenha tido alguns entusiastas na Inglaterra, não foi prosseguido. A Alemanha foi então dividida e os aliados não quiserem repetir os erros de Versailles.

Mas os russos soviéticos não desistiram. Mais tarde conseguiram “vender” o plano aos movimentos ambientalistas e Os Verdes na Alemanha adoptaram o plano, mas sem perceber os verdadeiros motivos pelos quais os seus sponsrs, os comunistas russos, os apoiaram.

Durante a Guerra Fria este plano foi propagandeado por movimentos ecologistas e pela Paz. Os russos sabiam que era imprescendível destruir a capacidade militar e industrial da Europa para vencer a guerra. Por isso, o Plano Morgenthau foi sempre instigados pelos intelectuais e activistas contra o “imperialismo”, contra o capitalismo e contra a “sociedade decadente”.

A URSS implodiu, a generalidade dos partidos comunistas ocidentais tornaram-se ecologistas e o Plano Morgenthau tem agora uma nova estratégia: luta contra o aquecimento global.

Eis a origem dos actuais movimentos ecologistas e da luta contra o CO2, vulto aquecimento global, vulgo, alterações climáticas.

Uma fonte imprescendível:

The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy.

Podem consultar o livro de borla e até o descarregar aqui:

http://books.google.com/books?id=n7L_Q38kOaIC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=Morgenthau+plan&source=bl&ots=rfq7cRjlTh&sig=9aXp8ofJ3e1-l2Y903E0YE_wwGc&hl=pt-PT&ei=0i_YSq3QLYzb-QbuqrXMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=true

O espião soviético que foi o seu principal mentor foi Harry Dexter White. Podem consultar aqui a biografia do espião:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White

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Durante as investigações sobre o espião que elaborou o plano Morgenthau, ficamos a saber que foram os soviéticos que elaboraram o plano, que desejavam toda a industria alemã e pretendiam transformar a Alemanha num país essencialmente agrícola.

Mas os USA, embora não quisessem cometer tais atrocidades não deixou de, oficialmente, assumir que era imperioso transformar a Alemanha numa economia de subsistência. Mas que acabou por abandonar esse plano.

Mal sabiam os americanos que esse plano iria virar-se contra eles.

Documentos oficiais:

“Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Central European Affairs

SECRET

[WASHINGTON,] September 4, 1944.

(…) # The primary objectives of our economic policy are: (1) the standard of living of the German population shall be held down to subsistence levels; (2) German economic position of power in Europe must be eliminated; (3) German economic capacity must be converted in such manner that it will be so dependent on imports and exports that Germany cannot by its own devices reconvert to war production. (…)”

In http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=907

Os russos mais tarde adoptaram esse plano contra o ocidente. Es os movimentos radicais anti-ocidentais e de esquerda revolucionária foram os seus principais defensores. O partido Os Verdes alemães tomaram este plano como suas políticas. Seriam o cavalo de Troia dos comunistas russos contra o ocidente, durante a Guerra fria.

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Provavelmente a culpa é de Lisboa e do estado centralista

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É só delirio.

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