Sensor Drift

Hilarious:

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.

The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site.

“Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality- control measures prior to archiving the data,” the center said. “Although we believe that data prior to early January are reliable, we will conduct a full quality check.''

Sensor drift. Yeppers, that sensor drift stuff really throws off our estimates to the point we miss a California-sized chunk of ice while preparing our fear-mongering and catastrophic global-warming predictions. But it's not our fault, it's all that evil technological stuff that is destroying the world... and this malevolent sensor drift is proof!

"A glitch in satellite sensors". "Sensor drift". "Showing ice-covered oceans as open ocean". Crap by the bucketload.

"... caused scientists to underestimate". My money says there isn't a real scientist within rifle range of these rectal zits.

Consider the source... the NSIDC - The National Snow and Ice Data Center, a non-governmental group whose home address is the University of Colorado. In other words, a whacked-out liberal Ivory-towered professor or two, a few post-grads, and a gaggle of wide-eyed wannabe changers of the world, and about as "national" as the septic tank in my back yard.

Walk away from this with a big laugh, a good old Italian "up-yours", and a note to self to ignore these data-manipulating College boys and girls in the future.