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Month: February 2008
Interesting plots of temperature trends: the 4 global temperature metrics according to Basil
I don’t have a lot of time today, but I found this interesting. Commenter “Basil” has offered this for discussion. So I’m putting this up without comment on my part.…
Sun blank again
Just two days after sunspot 983 was reported, it has now disappeared. They just aren’t sticking around like they used to. This is yet another indication of the bottomed out solar…
This La Niña Likely to Have Legs
As I mentioned in my post here about one of the satellite data sets (RSS) that showed a marked cooling globally in 2008, La Niña and PDO seem to be drivers of…
A look at temperature anomalies for all 4 global metrics: Part 1
NOTE: Please note that part 2 is now online, please see it here. I recently plotted all four global temperature metrics (GISS, HadCRUT, UAH, RSS) to illustrate the magnitude of…
Frost on Fire and Ice
I found this over on Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor. It seemed fitting given the discussion as of late. Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.…
Now THIS is interesting: Pielke on Dr. Joanne Simpson
The Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. weblog today includes a letter from Dr. Joanne Simpson, recently retired. He calls her “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years”. It…
First sunspot in weeks is still related to solar cycle 23
Calling cycle 24, calling cycle 24……where are you? Image from SOHO, inset added by the author The SIDC in Belgium just issed an end to their “all quiet alert” :Issued:…
Over 500 USHCN Climate Stations Now Surveyed
The survey project continues to move forward, even in these cold and snowy winter months. I’m pleased to announce that we have just passed the 500 mark for surveyed stations.…
Yet another inconvenient story ignored by the MSM.
Mount Kilamanjaro – Tanzania, Africa – still snowy. Photo by Neil Modie, January 2008 Last week, I broke the story of a press release issued by NOAA where they publish…
Big Pacific Storm Headed In: Watch its progress live
Uh oh… You can click on the “animate this image link” under the photo to set it in motion. This photo from last night, the animated loop is current. More at…
NOAA: Hurricane frequency and global warming NOT the cause of increased destruction
From a NOAA press release that came out to me via email just minutes ago: —– Original Message —– From: “NOAA News Releases” <Press.Releases@noaa.gov> To: <awatts@xxxxx_.com> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008…
January 2008 – 4 sources say "globally cooler" in the past 12 months
January 2008 was an exceptional month for our planet, with a significant cooling, especially since January 2007 started out well above normal. January 2008 capped a 12 month period of…
Another Global Temp Index Dives in Jan08, this time HadCRUT
The global surface temperature anomaly data from the UK Hadley Climate Research Unit (Temp anomaly is plotted below) has just been released, and it shows a significant drop in the…
Decaying spy sat shoot-down may coincide with Wednesday's lunar eclipse
Two big things will/may happen in space Wednesday. A total lunar eclipse visible over much of the United States that evening, and a possible attempt by the NAVY to shoot…
You ask, I provide. Glossary of climate terms now online.
Ultimate175 writes: Anthony, I enjoy perusing your site most days, and I’ve learned a lot. Any subject that carries this much political, social, and/or cultural baggage deserves all the skepticism…
Thanks to all my readers!
My first 100K unique visits month, and the month isn’t even over yet! Stay tuned, more interesting topics coming your way…
Weather Stations in Korea
While looking at information about the NASA GISS methodology of using night time DOD satellite photos to count street lights around weather stations to use as a way of assigning an…
Cedarville and GISS adjustments
I got to thinking from discussions with Steve Mosher and others at Climate Audit about just what sort of adjustments might be made to a place with a good record…
How not to measure temperature, part 52: Another UFA sighted in Arizona
My post How not to measure temperature, part 51 was also cross posted over at Climate Audit, and has created quite a stir when Atmoz, who is at the University…
Ice between Canada and SW Greenland: highest level in 15 years.
As yet another indicator of the impact January 2008 has had on the Northern Hemisphere, we find this story from Greenland’s Sermitsiaq News: Minus 30 degrees Celsius. That’s how cold…
How not to measure temperature, part 51.
While we’ve taken some detours looking at some of the amazing things that have happened globally for temperature in January, with another detour to the sun, our www.surfacestations.org volunteers continue…
Where have all the sunspots gone?
I’m writing this after doing an exhaustive search to see what sort of solar activity has occurred lately, and I find there is little to report. With the exception of the briefly…
Global Warming Kills "Nessie"
Global warming gets blamed for a lot of things, like in the 90’s, when that California Cheese commercial came out blaming everything on “Its the El Ninnnnoooooo…..”. Every day we…
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