Daily Archives: January 3, 2011

An Unexpected Limit to Climate Sensitivity

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Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Update: I have found the problems in my calculations. The main one was I was measuring a different system than Kiehl et al. My thanks to all who wrote in, much appreciated.] The IPCC puts … Continue reading →

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The Northeast snowstorm of 2010 by satellite view

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From NASA Earth Observatory: Last week’s Winter Storm in the Northeastern United States download large image (9 MB, JPEG)acquired December 28, 2010 download GeoTIFF file (74 MB, TIFF)acquired December 28, 2010 download Google Earth file (KMZ)acquired December 28, 2010 A … Continue reading →

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Global Sea Surface Temperature continues to drop

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SST UPDATE FROM AMSR-E By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD The following plot shows global average sea surface temperatures from the AMSR-E instrument over the lifetime of the Aqua satellite, through Dec 31, 2010. The SSTs at the end of December … Continue reading →

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UAH Global Temperature anomaly published, 1998 still warmest year in the UAH satellite record

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See also: RSS data: 2010 not the warmest year in satellite record, but a close second Dec. 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.18 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD. NEW 30-YEAR BASE PERIOD IMPLEMENTED! Sorry for yelling like that, but … Continue reading →

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California’s remarkable December weather

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While Miami and much of south Florida experienced the coldest December on record, the “other sunny state”, California, has been getting blasted with snow. My family and I experienced this firsthand yesterday on the drive back from Southern California to … Continue reading →

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RSS data: 2010 not the warmest year in satellite record, but a close second

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NOTE: A second graph has been added. See below. The RSS data for Dec 2010 is out and available here, and I’m second in publishing it. The honor for being first goes to Lucia at the Blackboard here. I used … Continue reading →

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It’s such a cold December: 2010 ends on a chilly note where people live

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Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue December global surface temperatures cratered after the Cancun climate confab, which ended a string of above-average months.  However, until the government temperature keepers put out their 2010  autopsy and bubble plot with the appropriate … Continue reading →

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Bangladesh, the Poster Child

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Guest post by: B.Quartero Bangladesh, the largest Delta in the world, has been the poster child of a scary sea level rise story ever since “An Inconvenient Truth”. There is much to be concerned about in Bangladesh, and flooding is … Continue reading →

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