Monthly Archives: February 2008

NOAA Dichotomy in Action

Posted on February 11, 2008 by

I was looking for something else, and stumbled across this USA Today report from 2006: Record wind won’t be grandfathered in Winds atop Grandfather Mountain, near Linville, N.C., will not be certified by the National Weather Service. Late on Tuesday … Continue reading →

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Photo evidence for “possible” eruption of an extinct volcano near the Ross Ice Shelf

Posted on February 10, 2008 by

UPDATE #3 02/15/08  I have received seismic data from MEVO for 10/24/07, and I’m now satisfied that no significant volcanic eruption occured on that date. So what we are seeing is either some meteological effect, such as perhaps a lenticular cloud … Continue reading →

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Jan08 Northern Hemisphere snow cover: largest anomaly since 1966

Posted on February 9, 2008 by

There have been a number of indications that January 2008 has been an exceptional month for winter weather in not only North America, but the entire Northern Hemisphere. We’ve had anecdotal evidence of odd weather in the form of wire … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, weather | 45 Comments

Good news and bad news.

Posted on February 9, 2008 by

Good news; I’ve reached 100k visits per month traffic level according to my internal WordPress traffic counter. Getting mentioned on Instapundit has both good and bad effects. This blog is often in the daily top 40 WordPress blogs worldwide according to … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 10 Comments

Increasing tornadoes or better information gathering?

Posted on February 8, 2008 by

John Kerry’s comment about the recent tornadoes in the southeastern USA being caused by “global warming” has caused more than a few dustups on the Internet blogs in the last couple of days. So, from the perspective of a former TV meteorologist, I thought … Continue reading →

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Cold and Warm Bias in a Weather Station

Posted on February 8, 2008 by

Early on in my www.surfacestations.org project I got complaints like “why don’t you ever show a cooling bias?”. Problem was, there weren’t a lot of cold bias stations to show. Other than shading, and in one case in Washington state where … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 16 Comments

NOAA/NCDC: Jan08 Colder than 20th century average

Posted on February 7, 2008 by

Let us give NOAA credit for making this release: “The average temperature in January 2008 was 30.5 F. This was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 49th coolest January in 114 years. The temperature trend for … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather | 14 Comments

Kerry Blames Tornado Outbreak on Global Warming

Posted on February 7, 2008 by

From the Business and Media Institute here is this blundering gem: Kerry appeared on MSNBC on February 6 to discuss storms that have killed at least 50 people throughout the Southeastern United States. So, of course, Kerry used the platform to … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 19 Comments

Help save Windows XP – sign the petition

Posted on February 6, 2008 by

You probably all know by now how much I dislike despise Windows Vista, even though I’ve been a Microsoft customer and systems integrator for years, this OS is useless for the kind of work I do and is a technical … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Technology | 22 Comments

UAH Satellite data for Jan08 in agreement with RSS data

Posted on February 6, 2008 by

University of Alabama, Huntsville (John Christy) just published their UAH lower troposphere data for January 2008. Like the RSS data set, it shows a negative anomaly, and a steep decline in the past 12 months though the magnitude of the anomaly … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, weather | 23 Comments

RSS Satellite data for Jan08: 2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years

Posted on February 4, 2008 by

UPDATE – see new graph of global ∆T for the past year below. There has been a global drop in temperature of 0.63 degrees Centigrade in the past 12 months. Of course we already have had a heads up from … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, weather | 129 Comments

Love those Tatas

Posted on February 4, 2008 by

Ok, the title is not what you think. Recently Tata Motors of India announced they’d be offering a fuel efficient vehicle (50MPG)  priced at $2500 USD that almost any family in India could afford to buy and to operate.  Called … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, fun_stuff, Technology | 28 Comments

The best compliment I could be given…

Posted on February 4, 2008 by

From one of our commenters:  “I really appreciate the sober tone and the reasonable level of discussion in this forum – highly unusual for a climate discussion, my sincere compliments.” – Loquor

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Arctic sea ice back to its previous level, bears safe; film at 11

Posted on February 3, 2008 by

In the late summer and early fall of 2007, there were a number of alarming media reports about the arctic sea ice melting. Additionally, there were predictions that it would not recover to its previous levels. But, we have this … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics, Science | 111 Comments

How to tell a good scientist from a bad scientist

Posted on February 1, 2008 by

Below is an article from TheStatsBlog that I found interesting. Here is what they say about the organization behind it. Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) has become a much-valued resource on the use and abuse … Continue reading →

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