More McKitrick Nonsense, Does a Global Temperature Exist?

[a_unique_person]

McKittrick has managed to get a paper published in a journal. It is a an extension of a theory he has been working on, there is no global mean temperature.



In the comments (http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/02/figure_22_explains_it_all.php#comment-372451) over at Deltoid, note is made that Essex and McKitrick joined by one Bjarne Andresen have succeeded in getting their strangeness about temperature, Does a global temperature exist? (http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Ermckitri/research/globaltemp/GlobTemp.JNET.pdf), into the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (http://www.atypon-link.com/WDG/doi/abs/10.1515/JNETDY.2007.001). This new candidate for the Chillingar and Khilyuk Cup (http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/12/paper_claims_human_co2_emissio.php) is based on the same off the wall basic mistakes about thermodynamics and atmospheric temperature measurements that E&M put forth in their opus "Taken by Storm" and which was taken apart at Rabett Run (http://rabett.blogspot.com/2005/11/temperature-rex-bites-essex-and.html)(compare the figures to those the article), and at Deltoid (http://timlambert.org/2004/05/mckitrick3/) and more Deltoid (http://timlambert.org/2005/11/rabett-runs-right-over-essex-and-mckitrick/), and yet more Deltoid (http://timlambert.org/2005/11/telephone-with-temperature/), and even MORE Deltoid (http://timlambert.org/2005/07/climate-audiot/) (pay careful attention to Robert P's comments in the last one. Hopefully he has pen in hand at the moment to write to the journal with some of the folk over at NOAA). Still, they come back for more.



http://rabett.blogspot.com/2007/03/open-book-test-in-comments-over-at.html

[CapelDodger]

McKittrick has managed to get a paper published in a journal. It is a an extension of a theory he has been working on, there is no global mean temperature.



http://rabett.blogspot.com/2007/03/open-book-test-in-comments-over-at.html

As the real world continues to betray them, the denialist camp is driven into ever more esoteric and marginal territory to survive.

Wales 27 England 18 :D . There's no direct analogy, just thought I'd mention it.

[a_unique_person]

An economist writing on thermodynamics? Fair enough, but if you screw up, expect to be laughed at.

[Diamond]

The ad hominems come thick and fast don't they?

Of course AUP fails to mention that Ross McKitrick is the THIRD author and not the lead. The lead author is Professor Christopher Essex and the other author is an expert in non-equilibrium thermodynamics: Bjarne Andresen of the Niels Bohr Institute.

He also fails to mention that the paper went through rigorous peer review.

He also fails to mention that both Lambert and Rabett are non-scientists.

So what we have here is yet another smear and attack on Ross McKitrick as an attempt to disparage his work in exposing the Mann Hockey Stick as the worst scientific fraud of the last fifty years.

[lenny]

In fact, this one starts off well. and they have a technical point.

of course, if you take that point seriously , then a bath tub of water doesn't have a temperature, and the idea of the temperature "at an airport" is nonsensical. in fact it is not clear that any real "thing" has a temperature that meets their fairly standard criteria.

but hopefully they get beyond that in the later pages; more to follow if anyone is really interested in this paper...???

[a_unique_person]

"PV=nRT found to be liberal fabrication!!!!"

http://timlambert.org/2005/11/telephone-with-temperature/