Daily Archives: February 28, 2008

Sun blank again

Posted on February 28, 2008 by

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 minima we are in. It will be very interesting to … Continue reading →

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This La Niña Likely to Have Legs

Posted on February 28, 2008 by

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 this change. Here is Joe D’Aleo’s take on it below. - … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather | 40 Comments

A look at temperature anomalies for all 4 global metrics: Part 1

Posted on February 28, 2008 by

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 the global temperature drop we’ve seen in the last 12 … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, weather | 91 Comments