{"id":1259,"date":"2024-01-22T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/jim-steele-and-anthony-watts-embrace-bad-arctic-science\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T23:19:41","slug":"jim-steele-and-anthony-watts-embrace-bad-arctic-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/jim-steele-and-anthony-watts-embrace-bad-arctic-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Arctic Science from Jim Steele and Anthony Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maintaining my New Year\u2019s resolution to expose bad Arctic pseudo-science on (a)social media I stumbled upon this from the self confessed \u201cskeptic\u201d Jim Steele on XTwitter<\/a>. Jim\u2019s paid Elmo for a blue tick and is rather verbose, but these extracts will give you the flavour of his ramblings:<\/p>\n

How Bogus Arctic Warming Attribution Enabled the Climate Crisis Scam<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abnormal warming over the Arctic Ocean and Arctic sea ice loss has been falsely blamed on rising CO2 and evidence of the climate crisis. Such alarmist graphic propaganda is common, like Yale 360\u2019s emphasizing the Arctic Ocean\u2019s warming of several degrees in November 2022, while ignoring the cooling over North America and Eurasia. But any critical thinking person can see warm Arctic temperatures are due to inflows of warm Atlantic water, NOT rising CO2\u2026<\/p>\n

The 1990s shift in wind directions caused by the natural Arctic Oscillation, drove out much of the Arctic\u2019s thick multi-year sea ice which resulted in thinner annual sea ice which allowed more heat to ventilate and warm the Arctic (see peer-reviewed Rigor (2002) & (2004)). As the natural Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation shifts to more northern hemisphere cooling, a decrease in the flow of warming tropical Atlantic water entering the Arctic, a rebound in insulating Arctic sea ice will occur that will simultaneously decrease Arctic temperatures.<\/p>\n

People who understand these natural climate dynamics that affect the Arctic, always and quickly understand the bogus global warming crisis is driven by natural Arctic warming oscillations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Needless to say my critical thinking Arctic alter ego felt an urgent need to quibble with Jim\u2019s (almost) unevidenced assertions.<\/p>\n

As is often the case with such skeptical \u201carguments\u201d, the ancient academic articles quoted don\u2019t actually support the conclusions. \u201cSnow White\u201d attempted to raise the matter with Jim:<\/p>\n

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Has the cat got your tongue Jim? pic.twitter.com\/eZJj0fqHGO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) January 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n