Monthly Archives: August 2008

Upper Wisconsin and Minnesota Forecast: Frost and Freeze Before Labor Day

Posted on August 24, 2008 by

We’ve seen a lot of anecdotal evidence of a cooler than usual summer in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. This one caught my eye though, because I can’t ever recall of hearing a freeze warning being issued for this … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 82 Comments

UK’s Daily Mail: Awful August has delayed this year’s harvest but global warming is not to blame

Posted on August 23, 2008 by

Note: UK atmospheric scientist John Kettley, is formerly of the Met Office and the Fluid Dynamics Department at the Bracknell headquarters. JOHN KETTLEY: Awful August has delayed this year’s harvest but global warming is not to blame Last updated at … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 69 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 69

Posted on August 23, 2008 by

Two weeks ago I posted about a story from the Orange County Register titled Urbanization Raises The Heat in Orange County. It was front page news that day, on Friday, August 8th. The article was fairly well written, citing JPL climatologist … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather_stations | 41 Comments

Another chance to make comments on climate change

Posted on August 23, 2008 by

  As you may have already read, the CCSP Unified Synthesis Product report, which contains a multitude of errors and misrepresentations, is on hold while the various “synthesis products” catch up in publishing. These are essentially justifications for the contents of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 20 Comments

Cryosphere Today Makes Changes – Improves product, drops Gore comment

Posted on August 22, 2008 by

In the thread where we have examined the visual discrepancies in sea ice report that concerned a number of people, William Chapman of the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana joined in the discussion today. Mr. Chapman is the man responsible for maintaining … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 107 Comments

Australian Space Weather Agency Revises Solar Cycle 24 Start, Adding 6 Months

Posted on August 21, 2008 by

Solar Cycle 24 just can’t seem to get rolling. IPS announced today (IPS is the Australian Space Weather Agency) ,  that it has changed its forecast for Solar Cycle 24, pushing it’s start into the future by six months. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 184 Comments

December 1986 – Irony

Posted on August 21, 2008 by

A guest post by John Goetz In my post December 1986, I presented a histogram showing the GISS estimate of December 1986 minus the actual for GHCN stations in Europe and Russia. As noted, GISS under-estimated December 1986 for this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 40 Comments

Reuters: World Meteorological Organization says “This year so far coolest for at least 5 years”

Posted on August 21, 2008 by

Finally some recognition of all the anecdotal weather we’ve been talking about here – Anthony World Meteorological Organization Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:15am IST LONDON (Reuters) – The first half of 2008 was the coolest for at least five years, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 312 Comments

Skeptics win one! NOAA/NCDC to hold the CCSP report

Posted on August 20, 2008 by

NOTE: In the headline, the word “pull” has been replaced with the word “hold” which better represents the process that will now occur. My thought for that word was “pull from the planned schedule”, but that was the wrong word … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 128 Comments

Nutty Story of the Day#6 – Blood Meant for Transfusions Can Get Contaminated Due to Global Warming

Posted on August 20, 2008 by

From:Environmental Health Posted online: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 5:50:36 PM Blood Meant for Transfusions Can Get Contaminated Due to Global Warming Increasing temperatures can contaminate blood meant for transfusions, say researchers. According to a new report by West Australian … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, ridiculae | 60 Comments

More anecdotal and oddly cool summer weather: Rockford, IL yet to reach 90 degrees

Posted on August 19, 2008 by

Having grown up in the midwest not too far from there, having no 90 degree days yet for the entire summer is admitedly unusual. Here is a running window of the last 3 days of temperature data from Rockford. So … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 56 Comments

Democrats planning everything but the weather in Denver

Posted on August 19, 2008 by

From USA Today: Democrats planning everything but the weather in Denver  By Chuck Raasch, GNS Political Writer WASHINGTON — Democrats are hoping for an open-air sendoff of Barack Obama on Aug. 28 as big as the Colorado sky. But what … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Uncategorized, weather | 22 Comments

AMS Linking Weather Events to Climate Change

Posted on August 19, 2008 by

One of the most vocal criticisms I get is when I write about weather events around the globe. For example one commenter, “beaker” recently wrote this criticism to my story about Denver setting two new record low maximum temperatures on consecutive … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics, weather | 68 Comments

Thanks to Nature, a Large Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide Experiment is Now Underway in the Pacific

Posted on August 18, 2008 by

Last June, WIRED magazine wrote an in depth article that asked: Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change? The question arose from research from research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco, by Lowell Wood, a protégé of … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 107 Comments

Denver’s low maximum temperature daily double

Posted on August 17, 2008 by

   CDOT closed Loveland Pass west of Denver for a couple hours to plow. It seems a bit cool all over the USA for a Sunday afternoon in August. US HOURLY TEMPERATURES AT 19:39 GMT/UTC Sunday Click for larger image In … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 93 Comments

Gore wrong on Kilimanjaro snow: Its the trees and “freezer burn”

Posted on August 17, 2008 by

From the “we told you so” department, more agreement that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth movie poster child for global climate change has nothing to do with climate change at all, and everything to do with local effects of land use change. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Uncategorized | 31 Comments

Nutty story of the day #5, One more thing to worry about: The Oxygen Crisis!

Posted on August 16, 2008 by

Trend of atmospheric oxygen (O2) from Cape Grim, Tasmania. This looks serious, right? Read on. FOREWORD: I had to chuckle at this. This is the sort of story I would expect in the supermarket tabloids next to a picture of Bat Boy. For … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae, Science | 108 Comments

Anecdotal cold weather news from around the world

Posted on August 16, 2008 by

There continues to be a number of reports of colder than normal weather and seasons from around the globe. Here are a few. Loveland Pass Colorado, today Australia: http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/cold-weather-here-to-stay/9718 Cold weather here to stay Tom Saunders, Saturday August 16, 2008 … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 76 Comments

Nutty Story of the Day #4: Germans apply glacier anti-melt screen

Posted on August 15, 2008 by

From Physorg.com   The Swiss alpine region of Valais is pictured in February 2008. German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 53 Comments

Heat Wave in Portland: Watch for “AGW did it” stories

Posted on August 15, 2008 by

Portland is one of the “greener” cities in the USA. So it would not be surprising to see some stories blaming the current heat wave on “Global Warming” or “Climate Change”. It will be interesting to see how they react … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 50 Comments

Arctic Ice Extent Discrepancy: NSIDC versus Cryosphere Today

Posted on August 15, 2008 by

Foreword: I had originally planned to post a story on this, but Steven Goddard of the UK Register sends word that he has already done a comparison. It mirrors much of what I would have written. There is a clear … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, sea ice | 266 Comments

Hadley Climate Center HadAT2 Data shows global cooling in the last year

Posted on August 15, 2008 by

Overall long term trend remains positive in lower troposphere. Most often on this forum we have looked at either surface temperature data from surface observations or lower tropospheric temperature data derived from satellite sounders. Today I’d like to point out a … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 84 Comments

Last Chance! Today is the deadline for comments

Posted on August 14, 2008 by

See this: An important call for public comment on the NASA Climate Change Science Program If you have not made a comment on this report, and the many, many flaws it contains. You still have time. Comments are accepted until 5PM … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 24 Comments

The tale of the hockey stick

Posted on August 13, 2008 by

Or as an alternate title: “Why we find it difficult to trust certain climate scientists.” This posting by Bishop Hill, telling the tale of the nefarious temperature reconstruction known as the Michael Mann hockey stick, from start to present, is … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 158 Comments

Spotless days: 400 and counting

Posted on August 13, 2008 by

The sun on 08/12/2008 just before midnight UTC – spotless As many of you know, the sun has been very quiet, especially in the last month. In a NASA news release article titled What’s Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing) solar physicist … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 290 Comments