http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/index.php

http://climate.sdstate.edu/w_info/Maps/stations/stations.shtm

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/science/heatburst.php

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm from which I quote…
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Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati’s forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.

“History shows that big sunspot cycles ‘ramp up’ faster than small ones,” he says. “I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007—and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011.”
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It’s currently May 21, 2008, and we’re still waiting for cycle 24 to take over from cycle 23.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/pr20070104.html from which I quote…
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Met Office global forecast for 2007

* Global temperature for 2007 is expected to be 0.54 °C above the long-term (1961-1990) average of 14.0 °C;
* There is a 60% probability that 2007 will be as warm or warmer than the current warmest year (1998 was +0.52 °C above the long-term 1961-1990 average).
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It actually turned out to be the 8th, not 1st warmest, at +0.402

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2008/pr20080103.html wherein it says…
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Global temperature 2008: Another top-ten year
[...deletia...]

Met Office forecast for global temperature for 2008

Global temperature for 2008 is expected to be 0.37 °C above the long-term (1961-1990) average of 14.0 °C, the coolest year since 2000, when the value was 0.24 °C.
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We only have 1/3rd of the year’s stats (to end of April), so it may be a bit early to call this a bust. So far, we’re at +0.230, which would rank #14 and the coolest year since 1996.

http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/SC23web/SCweb.pdf

He also cites his data sources in his “Reconstructing Climate Change” paper, including his own set of raw & normalized data:

http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Climate2007/Rawdata.txt http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Climate2007/Normalized.txt

Reconstructing Climate Change:

http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Climate2007/Climatereconstruction.html

FWIW, this is worth the read, a lay-understandable effort at hierarchically reconstructing the various contributing factors in global temperatures.

Solar events

http://space.rice.edu/ISTP/justdials.html

ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/SOLAR_DATA/SUNSPOT_NUMBERS/

http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/bfly.gif

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar

http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events/

http://www.dxlc.com/solar/

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DSD.txt

Terrestrial events

http://www.gdacs.org/index.asp

http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

Way to go! Now I have to visit each and see if they will work on the Climate Clinic website. By the way Anthony, as I continue populating CC with resources, I’m thinking of breaking them down by levels (introductory, intermediate, and advanced) and by main topics within each level. If you’re thinking the same thing, I’ll “plunder” what you have and vice versa.

And Evan, you’re head and shoulders above all of us in the resource category!

Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com

Flannery isn’t a real scientist. He majored in english lit and somehow moved on to digging up kangaroo fossils. Worked mostly as a museum administrator.

The “question”!
So much for the science being settled!

I’m sure this report will be popping up more and more in the next few days.