Monthly Archives: July 2009

Historic snow event in South America

Posted on July 23, 2009 by

More news from the weather is not climate department. A historic winter storm event in South America is underway (July 22nd, 2009) meanwhile in the northern hemisphere, fresh snow in the Alps in July. – Anthony Guest Post By Alexandre … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 93 Comments

GISS Step 1: Does it influence the trend?

Posted on July 22, 2009 by

Guest post by John Goetz The GISStemp Step 1 code combines “scribal records” (multiple temperature records collected at presumably the same station) into a single, continuous record. There are multiple detailed posts on Climate Audit (including this one) that describe … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 94 Comments

Another look at UC sea level data

Posted on July 22, 2009 by

Sea Level Data In Monthly Format Guest post by Bob Tisdale As noted in prior Sea Level posts (Sea Level Update – Through March 2009 and Sea Level Data: Global and Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans), the sea level data … Continue reading →

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Gavin Schmidt on solar trends and global warming

Posted on July 21, 2009 by

I really wish Gavin would put as much effort into getting the oddities with the GISTEMP dataset fixed rather than writing coffee table books and trying new models to show the sun has little impact. This paper gets extra points … Continue reading →

Posted in solar | 386 Comments

Thanks Neil, Michael, and Buzz

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

America, and the world, is in your eternal debt. My fond memories from this time would not be complete without the mention of another person.

Posted in space | 188 Comments

Governmental environmental tax soon to be up your…

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

From Planet Gore, this has to be the poop de grace of bureaucratic achievement in the climate and ecology category. Not a Square to Spare [Chris Horner] Where are the Beatles when you need them? Someone inside EPA has brought … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae | 148 Comments

And now, the most influential station in the GISS record is …

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

Guest post by John Goetz The GISS temperature record, with its various adjustments, estimations, and re-estimations, has drawn my attention since I first became interested in the methods used to measure a global temperature. In particular, I have wondered how … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 127 Comments

Quote of the Week #15

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

There are so many to choose from in this interview, I suppose I’ll just have to list them all. But #3 is the most profound. From the Atlantic: An Interview With Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling, Part Two – Conor … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 153 Comments

Insufficient Forcing Uncertainty

Posted on July 19, 2009 by

It seems depending on who you talk to, climate sensitivity is either underestimated or overestimated. In this case, a model suggests forcing is underestimated. One thing is clear, science does not yet know for certain what the true climate sensitivity … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling | 170 Comments

Christy on questions about UAH seasonal signals

Posted on July 19, 2009 by

As promised, I contacted Dr. John Christy regarding the seasonal signal that the anonymous blogger “deepclimate” says he/she has identified in the UAH data, seen below. He/she says: “I am a Canadian citizen residing in Canada. For private and professional … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, measurement | 143 Comments

Global Sea Level Updated at UC – still flattening

Posted on July 18, 2009 by

There was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Dr. Roger Pielke mentioned a couple of weeks ago in a response to Real Climate that “Sea level has actually flattened since 2006″. Today the University of Colorado updated … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | 198 Comments

Animating GHCN Global Temperature Anomalies from NCDC

Posted on July 18, 2009 by

With the recent announcement from NCDC that June 2009 – second warmest on record globally I thought it might be interesting to go back and look at some of the older NCDC announcements. Many commenters have questioned how NCDC arrives at … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 62 Comments

Compelling video: Angry voters confront Congressman who voted for cap and trade

Posted on July 18, 2009 by

From Tom Nelson At the 4:12 mark, a speaker says that he hopes Castle loses his Congressional seat over his support of cap and trade, and the crowd cheers. Castle smiles briefly, then his face grows grim. Around the 7:12 … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 101 Comments

Flashback: Snow in Buenos Aires – first time in 89 years

Posted on July 18, 2009 by

Flashback:  More from the “weather is not climate” department. NOTE: These are news stories about unusual July weather in Argentina from 2007 which I thought might interest readers. Please note these stories are not from 2009. Picture: snow falls over … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 90 Comments

Out of Africa: A new paper by Christy on surface temperature issues

Posted on July 18, 2009 by

More weather station photos from Africa here. These stations shown and linked above are not GHCN stations as far as I can tell, but the siting was interesting nonetheless. This new paper by John Christy, who works with Dr. Roy … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, measurement, weather_stations | 31 Comments

IPCC lead author on Global Warming conclusions: “we’re not scientifically there yet.”

Posted on July 17, 2009 by

The Salt Lake Tribune – July 16, 2009 Article Excerpt: Tom Tripp, a member of the UN IPCC since 2004, is listed as one of 450 IPCC “lead authors” who reviewed reports from 800 contributing writers whose work in turn, … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | 113 Comments

Pielke Sr. – Hypothesis on daily UAH LT records

Posted on July 17, 2009 by

Comments On The Current Record Global Average Lower TroposphereTemperatures From Climatesci.org  Roger Pielke Sr. In the last couple of weeks, the onset of the El Niño, that was discussed on in my weblog on July 11 2009 would appear to … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, ENSO | 142 Comments

Surfacestations.org hits the 1000 mark

Posted on July 16, 2009 by

I’m pleased to announce that the surfacestations.org project has now surveyed over 1000 of the 1221 USHCN stations in the USA, putting the percentage of the survey at over 82% now.My sincere thanks to the many volunteers who stepped up … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 93 Comments

NOAA/NCDC: June 2009 – second warmest on record globally

Posted on July 16, 2009 by

There’s some really interesting things going on with global temperature. On one hand we have UAH and RSS which show Global Temperature anomalies near zero, while NCDC/NOAA and GISS (which derives from NCDC data with their own adjustments added) show … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 135 Comments

NCAR: Solar cycle linked to global climate

Posted on July 16, 2009 by

Basil Copeland and I also found linkages between surface temperature and solar cycles in two articles we published in the last year. We were roundly criticized and ridiculed by warmists mainly due to a statistical error in the first essay, … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, earth, ENSO, Science, solar | 202 Comments

CO2, Soot, Modeling and Climate Sensitivity

Posted on July 15, 2009 by

Warming Caused by Soot, Not CO2 From the Resilient Earth Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 07/15/2009 – 13:19 A new paper in Science reports that a careful study of satellite data show the assumed cooling effect of aerosols … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling | 209 Comments

Spy Sat Images of Arctic ice declassified

Posted on July 15, 2009 by

From the “pictures actually do matter” department…NSIDC’s Mark Serreze is thrilled to get them from Science News Hundreds of high-resolution satellite photos of the Arctic sea ice taken during the past 10 years should be immediately declassified and released to … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 36 Comments

GISS: World’s airports continue to run warmer than ROW

Posted on July 15, 2009 by

Guest post by John Goetz As noted in the previous post, GISS has released their monthly global temperature summary for June, 2009. This month’s whopping anomaly of 0.63C is once again much higher than that of RSS, UAH, and even … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, UHI, Uncategorized, weather_stations | 137 Comments

GISS for June – way out there

Posted on July 14, 2009 by

NASA GISS has released their global temperature anomaly data for June 2009 and it is quite the surprise. In both the UAH and RSS satellite data sets, global temperature anomaly went down in June. GISS went up, and is now … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 254 Comments

“There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models.”

Posted on July 14, 2009 by

From e! sciencenews Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong Published: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 – 11:45 in Earth & Climate Rice University/Photos.com No one knows exactly how much Earth’s climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, climate_change, modeling | 241 Comments