Monthly Archives: June 2008

HadCRUT for May 08 is out

Posted on June 18, 2008 by

2008/05  0.278 Writing from airport, more later- Anthony MORE- here is the link for those that can’t find it: Reference: HadCRUT3 anomaly data which can be found here description of the HadCRUT3 data file columns is here 2008/01  0.053  2008/02  0.192  2008/03  … Continue reading →

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A Window on Water Vapor and Planetary Temperature

Posted on June 18, 2008 by

Here is some interesting news; according to data from NOAA’s Earth System Laboratory, atmospheric water vapor is on the decline globally. You’ve probably heard many times how water vapor is actually the  most important “greenhouse gas” for keeping our planet … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 117 Comments

Surveying USHCN Stations From My Desk

Posted on June 18, 2008 by

In How Not to Measure Temperature Part 65, I showed a COOP-A station near Manhattan, KS at Tuttle Creek Lake that had been surveyed. In actuality, that survey was a “miss” and the intended target was the USHCN station in … Continue reading →

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How Not To Measure Temperature, part 65

Posted on June 17, 2008 by

Mike Smith, a meteorologist for Weatherdata Services Inc. surveyed Tuttle Creek Lake near Manhattan, KS. It is COOP-A station (#148259) at the US Army Corp of Engineers Office for the reservoir there. He had a little trouble getting photos: Click for a larger image … Continue reading →

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Giant Sucking Sound

Posted on June 17, 2008 by

  For Immediate Release: June 17, 2008 For Further Information, Contact: Adam King, 615.383.6431 adam@tennesseepolicy.org Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month (Above is not my stat, could also be: ”19 homes … Continue reading →

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How Not To Measure Temperature, Part 64 – Estimating biases and comparing to GISS Homogeneity Adjustments

Posted on June 17, 2008 by

If you had the task of choosing where to put a climate monitoring thermometer here at the USHCN Climate station of record #469683 in Winfield, WV where would you choose to put it? Certainly the parking lot would not be … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, weather_stations | 36 Comments

NYT: Gore to Appear With Obama

Posted on June 16, 2008 by

I wonder if Obama will create a new cabinet position for Gore? I’m sure he could find a staff, as you can now get a degree in Global Warming from the University of Mumbai. Gore to Appear With Obama By … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, climate_change, politics | 76 Comments

More Signs Of The Sun Slowing Down

Posted on June 15, 2008 by

In my post from yesterday, I highlighted a paragraph from a NASA press release which touched on one of the final findings of the soon to be ended Ulysses spacecraft mission to study the sun: “Ulysses ends its career after … Continue reading →

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Ulysses exits with insight into our next solar cycle

Posted on June 14, 2008 by

“Ulysses ends its career after revealing that the magnetic field emanating from the sun’s poles is much weaker than previously observed.  This could mean the upcoming solar maximum period will be less intense than in recent history. “ click for … Continue reading →

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Genetic Building Blocks Found In Meteorite

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

Conjuring up images from the movie “It came from Outer Space“, it turns out we may all be from space. Some of us are “spacier” than others. This news of finding the building blocks of life in a meteorite comes … Continue reading →

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June 14th

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

Is a special day that many forget about, some people never even know about it. To see what is special about June14th, see my new blog Weather Picture of The Day. Don’t forget yours.

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I’m considering a blog policy change

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

Preparing to launch a ”flame”. A couple of things have happened this week that has made me look at this blog just a bit differently than in the past. I’ve had to ask for help for the very first time in moderating … Continue reading →

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Renowned Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Reid Bryson Dies At 88

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

Reid once said:  ‘You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.’ From Roger Pielke  Professor Greg  J. Tripoli of the University of Wisconsin – Madison has shared this sad news with all of us. … Continue reading →

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Surprise: Leaves Maintain Temperature, new findings may put dendroclimatology as metric of past temperature into question

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

Dendroclimatology: thermometer or hygrometer? Hot climate or cold, tree leaves stay in comfort zone From the Google Climate Discussion Group, see an article also in Science News Paris, June 11; Agence France-Presse A new study that shows their internal temperature … Continue reading →

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Weather Channel Founder Makes Another Challenge to Gore

Posted on June 13, 2008 by

  A guest post by John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, and Chief Meteorologist of KUSI-TV in San Diego. See his previous challenge published here called “An Open Letter to Environmentalists“ Note from Anthony: I know John from way … Continue reading →

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La Nina drought hits home for me as wildland fire

Posted on June 12, 2008 by

Below is the image from my weather station in Chico, CA looking SE at the Humboldt Fire which is engulfing a good portion of the southern and eastern outskirts of my community. You may have heard about this on the … Continue reading →

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A bit chilly for June

Posted on June 12, 2008 by

Still lots of cold air coming in from the Arctic. Looks like the heat wave in NYC is coming down too. Only 8 days until the summer solstice, the sunlight distribution on our sphere is looking pretty much like a sine … Continue reading →

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Temperature Stock Report

Posted on June 12, 2008 by

Interesting quote of the week: If Global Warming were a stock, and you bought it in 1979 at zero (par) and decided to sell it this month to buy a house, 29 years later you aren’t very happy with your … Continue reading →

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NASA to Probe Sun “in situ”

Posted on June 12, 2008 by

Until the SOHO satellite was launched, astronomers had to be content to look through earth bound telescopes at the sun. Now that the sun is key to “the biggest threat facing mankind – climate change” it seems only sensible that NASA … Continue reading →

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GLAST Blasts Off

Posted on June 11, 2008 by

GLAST Blast – click for larger image Today, NASA launched into space a new telescope to explore high-energy cosmic events in distant galaxies.  The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, known as GLAST, will detect intense energy emitted from some of … Continue reading →

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Waiting for HadCRUT

Posted on June 11, 2008 by

I’m waiting for May global land + ocean temperature data to be published from Hadley Climate Research Unit, at which time I’ll also show a comparison to GISS. Since I did pretty well at guessing what RSS May data value … Continue reading →

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Bees and Sunspots

Posted on June 10, 2008 by

Here is some interesting reading linking solar magnetic activity to Bees. Bees use the sun to navigate, so it is not a surprise that they’d be in tune with the sun. But there are also other issues such as immune … Continue reading →

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NOAA: Them’s fightin’ words

Posted on June 10, 2008 by

Bureaucracy at work UPDATE: Today, June 11th, NOAA issued a new updated press release, which you can read here: NOAA Proposes Rule to Require Saltwater Angler Registration They say the program will not charge you for the first two years, … Continue reading →

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Scientists not sure why Sun ‘continues to be dead’

Posted on June 10, 2008 by

The sun today. There appears to be an emerging Cycle 23 spot at the left, but still no new Cycle 24 spots. Click for large image That’s never a good sign. Below is an excerpt from an article in Science … Continue reading →

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Anecdotal Climate & Weather Roundup

Posted on June 10, 2008 by

Seattle has coldest first week of June since 1891 Seattle just experienced the coldest first week of June, according to climate records dating to 1891, said Cliff Mass, University of Washington metrologist. Both 1999 and 2008 share the record, with … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather | 51 Comments