The Warming Antarctic

Science always wins ... always ... even if it means defending the likes of Dr. James Hansen:

As noted yesterday, the main enterprise of Steig et al is a re-interpretation of West Antarctica, saying that "no one really has paid much attention to" this area in the past and saying that their study improved over prior studies because previously:

"People were calculating with their heads instead of actually doing the math," said lead author of the study Eric Steig, of the University of Washington in Seattle. "What we did is interpolate carefully instead of just using the back of an envelope."

I observed yesterday that NASA GISS used the same source data for surface and AWS stations as Steig (READER) but were unable to calculate trends in West Antarctica (blank on the trend map -see yesterday's post), a "defect" that Steig attributed above to Hansen's group "calculating with their heads instead of actually doing the math" and "just using the back of an envelope". Hansen's bulldogs, Gavin and Tamino, who usually defend Hansen against the smallest slight or perceived slight, are strangely silent to Steig's damning accusations against Hansen.

Today I'm going to look at the station data to see whether Steig's accusations against Hansen are fair or not.

... keep reading.