Monthly Archives: April 2008

A guest post by David Smith (author of “Tiny Tim Storms” on Climate Audit) The oceans have great capacity to store heat, much greater than the soil and rock of land. We see this often. For instance, daily sea breezes are the result of the … Continue reading →

The disturbed magnetic area I mentioned yesterday has finally turned into what appears to be a real sunspot, but it is quite small: Since magnetograms weren’t available to Galileo, Wolf, and Maunder, I wonder if a spot this small would … Continue reading →

There is a WordPress blog called Http://klimakatastrophe.wordpress.com that recently did an analysis of some changes in the way Hadley Climate Research unit presents its HadCRUT data. They suggest that HadCRUT has been doing some adjusting, and gotten closer to GISS. … Continue reading →

I haven’t written about Vista for awhile, so I’m overdue. From Slashdot: “At the 2008 RSA security conference, Microsoft’s David Cross was quoted as saying, ‘The reason we put UAC into the platform was ‘to annoy users. I’m serious.’ The … Continue reading →

HadCRUT global numbers are out, and is at 0.43°C, still lower than the GISS number of 0.67°C. Click for a larger image Once again Jim Hansen’s NASA GISS is the highest global anomaly: RSS (satellite) 2008 1 -0.070 2008 2 -0.002 … Continue reading →

As I’ve been noting regularly, Solar cycle 24 is late, and has produced only one spot this year, on January 4th. Since then, nothing, except a small parade of near equatorial oriented cycle 23 spots. Now we see the faint … Continue reading →

As I previously reported in my post titled: Hurricane frequency and global warming NOT the cause of increased destruction, it appears that the “link” cited by Gore and others trying to equate global warming to hurricane frequency is rapidly evaporating. A … Continue reading →

From this article in the Bay Area Insider “The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday unanimously approved the $600 million California Institute for Climate Solutions, which will be paid for by money from ratepayers’ monthly electric bills, to the tune … Continue reading →

Recently we saw how an environmental activist managed to convince a BBC writer that the story he wrote had to be changed to reflect what the activist perceived to be the “correct” view. Now we find that Dr. James Hansen, director of GISS, has … Continue reading →

Here is something I think about regularly, having been reminded in comments about the negative people whom hide behind veils and toss invective, I thought I’d share this with you all. Nothing in the world can take the place of … Continue reading →

A few days ago I posted the results of the RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data by RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA). For March 2008 it has moved a little higher, with a value … Continue reading →

A guest post by John Goetz In February I wrote a post asking How much Estimation is too much Estimation? I pointed out that a large number of station records contained estimates for the annual average. Furthermore, the number of … Continue reading →

Now this was a surprise: Out of the 2,854,671 blogs with 132,697 new posts today on www.wordpress.com. I was number 2, right behind the CNN Political Ticker. Details (while it lasts) at http://botd.wordpress.com/top-posts Click for image Surprise #2, I also … Continue reading →

A number of comments lately have found their way into the Akismet spam filter where before they were not. I have adjusted the SPAM filter settings several times, but this problem continues to happen. It happens especially when comments have … Continue reading →

Current SOHO: The Sun is blank again The outlook for solar activity continues to be pushed further back as cycle 23 spots continue, such as the group of 3 seen last week, but no cycle 24 spots are being seen. … Continue reading →