Monthly Archives: January 2009

NCDC updates database for Dec08 – NCDC’s own graphic shows decadal cooling trend

Posted on January 6, 2009 by

One of the best things about WUWT is the number of eyes and minds at work, multiplying the efforts. This is interesting. Now that the 1998 El Nino is disappearing off the 10 year scale, things are looking a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Science | 204 Comments

Cold streak sets new record – Saskatoon experiences 24 consecutive days of -25 C or lower

Posted on January 6, 2009 by

For those of you that don’t know where Saskatoon is, I have it on my city temperature map: Cold streak sets new record City experiences 24 consecutive days of -25 C or lower Rod Nickel, The StarPhoenix Tuesday, January 06, … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 102 Comments

VOTING OPEN: WUWT Nominated for Best Science Blog

Posted on January 5, 2009 by

Voting is now open, for anyone who wants to vote for any of the blogs below. A note about voting. Since you can vote once every 24 hours, this is a horse race. So to pick a winner, voting must … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 130 Comments

Solar Geomagnetic Ap Index now at lowest point in its record

Posted on January 4, 2009 by

As many regular readers know, I’ve pointed out several times the incident of the abrupt and sustained lowering of the Ap Index which occurred in October 2005. The abrupt step change seemed (to me) to be out of place with … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 354 Comments

State of the Sun for year end 2008: all’s quiet on the solar front – too quiet

Posted on January 3, 2009 by

The NOAA Space Weather Prediction center updated their plots of solar indices earlier today, on January 3rd. With the exception of a slight increase in the 107 centimeter radio flux, there appears to be even less signs of solar activity. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 233 Comments

Shocker: Huffington Post carries climate realist essay

Posted on January 3, 2009 by

Congratulations to Harold Ambler, who frequents here in comments, for breaking the climate “glass ceiling” at HuffPo. This essay is something I thought I’d never see there. Next stop: Daily Kos? – Anthony By Harold Ambler on The Huffington Post … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 202 Comments

4000-Year O18 Histories of New Zealand’s North and South Islands

Posted on January 3, 2009 by

This is a review from CO2Science.com of an interesting paper looking at Oxygen 18 records in water driven cave  formations (stalactite, stalagmite or flowstone) than span a 4000 year period. Here is a basic description from the NZ Climate Centre: … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 116 Comments

Where Thermometers Go To Die – How not to measure temperature, part 80

Posted on January 2, 2009 by

In my 30 years in meteorology, I never questioned how NOAA climate monitoring stations were setup. It wasn’t until I stumbled on the Marysville California fire station and its thermometer that that I began to notice just how badly sited … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 84 Comments

An Opportunity for Europe in 2009

Posted on January 1, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard Climate Activist Glues Himself to the Smiling Prime Minister at #10 Consider the conflicted UK, where the government is dominated by people who claim to be concerned above all else about CO2 emissions, and where … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 129 Comments

Looking more like La Nina every day

Posted on January 1, 2009 by

Click for larger image Source:  http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html h/t Arthur Glass About a month ago I posted: La Nina is back…and was criticized by a few folks. Well compare the above to the image from that post below:

Posted in PDO | 136 Comments