Coal Creek, Colorado Coop Observing Station Cooling The Last Decade

7 01 2009

reposted from ICECAP

By Dr. Richard Keen, University of Colorado

I’m the NOAA co-op observer for Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado, elevation 8950 feet, in the foothills NW of Denver.  Here is a graph of average temperatures for the past ten years.  2008 is by far the coldest year in the past decade, with an average of 39F.

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That’s full 3 degrees F colder than 2003.  Each of the past five years is colder than any of the previous five years.

This is only one station of the thousands in the NOAA co-op network, but I thought I’d show you the data before it’s adjusted and homogenized by the usual suspects.

Here’s a photo of the station in January 2007, in the midst of a record round of snow storms in Colorado.

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Categories : weather_stations

UAH is out, like RSS it is down a bit

7 01 2009

Although the webserver file for the UAH dataset has not been updated yet, the man who is “in the know” because he’s a major part of the process has released the December UAH global lower troposphere temperature anomaly value. It is 0.18°C down from .254°C the previous month.

2008 10 0.166
2008 11 0.254
2008 12 0.180

Here is what Dr. Spencer had to say on his website today:

uah-dec-2008

Latest Global Average Tropospheric Temperatures Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : climate data, climate_change, sea ice

My picks for the weblog awards

7 01 2009

The 2008 Weblog Awards

This weblog awards contest has few people up in arms because WUWT is currently leading. Lucia points out some of the dynamics of silliness that go on related to it.

My take on it: it’s all simply fun, and the outcome affects nothing, heck there’s not even a prize except for a sidebar badge. But in the spirit of that fun, I thought I’d share some of my favs:

Here are some categories that didn’t make it this year and my nominees: Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : fun_stuff

From Belgium: New twist on the ‘Gore Effect’

7 01 2009

Jos, one of WUWT’s readers abroad writes:

“It is very cold here in Beligium. This is from today’s edition of the flemish newspaper ‘De Standaard’:”

ait-in-belgium

You can find in online here, page 21 of the paper, and page 33 of the link below:

http://www.standaard.be/Krant/Beeld/?oDay=07&oMonth=01&oYear=2009


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Categories : fun_stuff, media