The USHCN Climate station of record in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. Note the beige smoking stand. The casual way that NOAA treats quality control of the measurement environment of the surface network…
Month: February 2009
Basic Geology Part 2 – CO2 in the Atmosphere and Ocean
Guest Post by Steven Goddard part 1 is here Ice cores clearly demonstrate the close relationship between atmospheric CO2 levels and temperature, as seen below. http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/400000yearslarge.gif This relationship has been well…
Short term trends from GISS Model E: "The model would be off by about 0.15C in the first five years"
On occasion, comments posted on WUWT are backed up with data or graphs from the commenter, and are so germane that they merit their own post for discussion. This is…
When You Can’t Believe the Model
This article was sent to me by reader Peter Yodis. I found it interesting and germane to current events, so I’m sharing it here. Just a note for clarification, the…
NSIDC: satellite sea ice sensor has "catastrophic failure" – data faulty for the last 45 or more days
The DMSP satellite is still operating, but the SSM/I sensor is not Regular readers will recall that on Feb 16th I blogged about this graph of arctic sea ice posted…
The Trade Winds Drive The ENSO
Guest post by Bill Illis We have often wondered what really causes the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern. It is generally understood and this post will demonstrate that…
William Schlesinger on IPCC: "something on the order of 20 percent have had some dealing with climate."
This is a bit disturbing, though in retrospect, not surprising. One of our local IPCC wonks at Chico State University, Jeff Price, is a biologist, but lectures me about climate…
Britain's Lessons From The Winter of 2008-2009
Guest post by Steven Goddard Stonehenge saw it’s heaviest snow in many years The UK has been experiencing the coldest winter in several decades, and hopefully policymakers have learned a…
The heliospheric current sheet as solar cycle proxy
Many readers are familiar with a number of solar proxies used to gauge the activity of the sun, the most familiar being sunspot counts and type. However they aren’t the…
Errors in publicly presented data – Worth blogging about?
In the prior thread I raised a question of why there was a large downward jump in sea ice extent on the graph presented by NSIDC’s Artic Sea Ice News…
NSIDC makes a big sea ice extent jump – but why?
Something odd is going on at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Look at this image: The image is directly from NSIDC’s Artic Sea Ice News page today. Of…
Hansen on "death trains" and coal and CO2
NASA’s Dr. James Hansen once again goes over the top. See his most recent article in the UK Guardian. Some excerpts: “The trains carrying coal to power plants are death…
Redoing Steig et al, with simple data regrouping, gives half the warming result in Antarctica
AWS Gridded Reconstruction From the Air Vent, reposted by invitation Posted by Jeff Id on February 15, 2009 Guest post by Jeff C Jeff Chas done an interesting and impressive recalculation…
The BBC Attempts to Patch Up the Cracks – botches it, citing AGW could set off "negative feedback"
UPDATE2: “404 Page not found” now at the BBC for this video on Monday Feb16th. It seems they’ve pulled it. Too much “negative feedback” I suppose. Readers be on the…
Code Blue: 10.7 centimeter solar radio flux is flatlining
I had written back in July 2008 about the 10.7cm solar radio flux hitting a new record low value. Part of that has to do with the inverse square law…
How not to measure temperature, part 82, Friday the 13th: the Temperature Shelter
The surfacestations project has now surveyed over 70% of the USHCN. I keep telling myself that there probably aren’t many surprises left. We’ve seen climate monitoring stations in parking lots,…
Wasted effort
Lately I’ve found that I spend a lot of time moderating posts that are simply back and forth arguments between just a few people whom have inflexible points of view.…
Using the Ap Magnetic Index prediction for Solar Cycle 24 amplitude prediction
First this news: The Ap Index continues to fall. While the January 2009 data is not out yet, the December 2008 data is and is an Ap value of 2…
Tipping point reached: UK Met Office makes blistering attack on those who make 'Apocalyptic climate predictions'
The First Big Cracks Appear in the Wall Guest post by Steven Goddard During the past few weeks, there have been several warnings of apocalypse from noted scientists. Dr. Hansen…
Finally, a sunspot, but it is a Cycle 23 spot
Just when you think cycle 23 may be over, it pops out another spot. Here is the SOHO MDI image showing a sunspot dubbed #1012, in solar cycle 23. From…
"We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down…"
I’m no stranger to wildland fires. Longtime readers may recall that my own home had the threat of wildfires here in Chico, California this past summer, as did many Butte…
Floridatrend: It's Hot But Don't Blame Global Warming
It’s Hot But Don’t Blame Global Warming By Cynthia Barnett – 2/1/2009 FloridaTrend Magazine Morton D. Winsberg fell in love with Florida more than 50 years ago, but the Illinois-born geographer never…
Daily Kos whips up an email campaign against meteorologist who spoke candidly about climate change
Lest readers think I’m the only TV meteorologist to speak my mind on climate issues, there are others, such as Jym Ganahl in Columbus Ohio. The Daily Kos posted an…
-50°F new all time record low confirmed in Maine
You may recall I wrote about the “Pain in Maine” a couple of weeks back in reference to the painfully cold weather there. Here was the bulletin from NWS: PUBLIC…
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