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Month: September 2008
Sounds familiar: “A friend of mine found one station where the temperature gauge was just outside the air conditioner…”
UAF professor emeritus continues to question sources of global warming By Chris Freiberg Published Friday, September 19, 2008 FAIRBANKS — A University of Alaska Fairbanks professor emeritus known for his…
NEWS: NASA to hold press conference on the state of the sun
This is unusual. A live media teleconference on the sun. Even more unusual is this statement: The sun’s current state could result in changing conditions in the solar system. As…
How the IPCC Portrayed a Net Positive Impact of Climate Change as a Negative
By Indur Goklany. Originally published at the Cato Institute, but published here also by invitation from the author. Arguably the most influential graphic from the latest IPCC report is Figure…
Global Warming to Shake Up Big Ten
Posted by John Goetz Jim Nichols of the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote an article this past Tuesday (September 16) that has gotten the attention of Ohio State and Michigan fans…
New paper from Christy suggests atmosphere hit max CO2 forcing in 1998, feedback missing
This is an interesting paper from our good friend Dr. John Christy of UAH and D. H. Douglas. In it, a bold claim is made about the likelihood that the…
A Canadian's View: "the global warming brigade lost much of its sizzle in the past year"
Under-achieving B-team players fumbling on climate change too Wednesday, September 17, 2008 By john Martin, The Province As evidence to the contrary started rolling in and one prominent scientist after…
Spencer on AGW: "If you're paid to find something, you're going to find it,"
From the Raleigh News and Observer – Scientist: Warming is natural http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1221488.html Published: Sep 17, 2008 12:30 AM Modified: Sep 17, 2008 02:03 AM RALEIGH – Scientist Roy Spencer thinks…
Updated – Calling All Climate Sleuths
Posted by Dee Norris Can you figure out what happened at Mohonk Lake, NY? Get out your slip-sticks and put on your thinking caps, gentle readers. We need to solve…
Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season Officially Over; ice up over 9% from last year
We have news from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). They say: The melt is over. And we’ve added 9.4% ice coverage from this time last year. Though…
NOAA Claims: Global Summer Temperature Was Ninth Warmest – Questionable
This just doesn’t seem to add up given what we’ve seen from anecdotal weather information and satellite data. For example the UAH global temperature for the lower troposphere shows that…
How not to measure temperature, part 71: NOAA neglect of volunteer observers
As we get more of the private observers in USHCN surveyed, we start hearing about stories like this one from Dufur Oregon, where the observers seem to have been pretty…
UPDATED: Guess what this is?
I’m back from my road trip today. It was a day of surprises, I visited 5 weather stations today, and each had a story to tell. The one that was…
Road Trip Today
I’m on a road trip today, to the wilderness area of NE California to do a follow up on something I started last year. I’ll be offline for at leat…
I am a Skeptic
Posted by Dee Norris skep·tic One who instinctively or habitually doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally accepted conclusions. from Greek Skeptikos, from skeptesthai, to examine. I have been…
More on the Santa Ana Rooftop Weather Station: comparison stations also problematic
You may recall a couple of weeks ago I did an investigation of a COOP weather station in Santa Ana, CA prompted by front page article in the Orange County…
Kasatochi Volcano SO2 update: aerosols may have cooling effect on the NH this year
In August, I reported that the Kasitochi volcano in the Aleutian Island erupted over a million tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, here is…
This is what passes for a sunspot these days
After the August 21st sunspot debacle where SIDC reported a spot and initially NOAA didn’t, mostly due to the report from the Catania Observatory in Italy, we have another similar…
How not to measure temperature, part 70
What’s wrong with this picture? Stevenson Screen at USHCN station, Hood River Oregon Click for a larger image Photo: surfacestations.org volunteers Don and Liz Healy
Rethinking Carbon of the Past: Scientist Uncovers Miscalculation In Geological Undersea Record
Carbon isotope ratios are central to many reconstructions of past climate. For example the IPCC Working Group 1 cited C12/C13 ratios as the basis for determining some of their findings…
NOAA: August 2008 is 39th warmest on record
NOAA: Above Average Temperatures in U.S. for August, Summer; Midwest Much Drier than Average in August, South Much Wetter This June-August 2008 summer season was the 22nd warmest on record…
Piling On the Guilt
by John Goetz Kate Raworth of Oxfam International recently authored a 34-page report that began: “In failing to tackle climate change with urgency, rich countries are effectively violating the human…
Note to NASA: Fire Dr. James Hansen, now.
I’ve been wrestling with this topic for hours now as to how to best present it in this forum. I finally decided to simply just write it as I see…
Response from SIDC on the August sunspeck debacle
August 21st sketch from Catainia Observatory, Italy. Click for a larger image I had thought I was getting “blown off” by SIDC (Solar Influences Data Center) since I had not heard a…
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