It has taken me a couple of days to bring myself to write this. It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my dear friend and mentor,…
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Never before published paper on UHI and siting – Goodridge 1987
Plus answers to yesterday’s Fun puzzle: Name these official stations. Given that California Governor Jerry Brown has recently setup a website at the governor’s office basically telling skeptics to “shut…
Guest Weblog: CO2 variation by Jim Goodridge, former California State Climatologist
Moderators note: This is reposted from an essay that Jim sent to me. Jim was the State Climatologist for California for many years, and still does consilting work for the Californiua Dept.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
Climate Fear Mongering Bad Analyses Cause Bad Remedies
The media amplifies our fears by promoting unvetted scientific studies that argue climate change is linked to 5 million deaths a year.
Media Promotes Badly Flawed Science Spreading It Like Wildfire
Despite the bad science a multitude of media outlets like NY Times and CNN falsely promoted the paper as evidence that climate change cause more wildfires
Newspaper letter references:
A list of references used in my Letters to the Editor, so that the ill-informed can’t say that I’m “making stuff up”, or their personal favorite: “He doesn’t know the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #394
The Week That Was: 2020-01-11 (January 11, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The only thing more dangerous than…
Trends in the Revised Sunspot Number Dataset
Guest essay by Jim Goodridge, former California State Climatologist Hidden in the sunspot numbers are long-term trends. See the graph below. Orbiting observatories since 1978 show solar irradiance and sunspot number…
How not to measure temperature (or climate) #97 – California's warming air temperatures are population and site bias related
A couple of days ago, I highlighted a worst of the worst NOAA climate monitoring station in Arizona with the help of a scientist from the University of Washington. My…
Unwarranted Temperature Adjustments and Al Gore's Unwarranted Call for Intellectual Tyranny
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local…
Length of day governed by Earth's core processes
From the University of Liverpool , something I found interesting because a few years ago, former State Climatologist Jame Goodridge said he saw correlations between length of day and other…
FAQs
Q. How did WUWT get started? A. WUWT started out as a broad interest science blog under the umbrella of the Chico Enterprise Record Newspaper “NorCalBlogs” in 2006, where it…
Northern California's coming super soaker event via the 'Pineapple Express'
UPDATE: Added this HiDef imag showing a trio of lows (commas shaped clouds) in the Gulf of Alaska and southward: There’s lots of buzz here in Northern California about a…
Fun puzzle: Name these official stations
Here’s a fun little puzzle for you, two older station siting photographs from former California State Climatologist, Jim Goodridge, circa the 1980’s. I had Jim find these because I was…
Spencer shows compelling evidence of UHI in CRUTem3 data
McKitrick & Michaels Were Right: More Evidence of Spurious Warming in the IPCC Surface Temperature Dataset Guest post by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The supposed gold standard in surface…
The Gas of Life
By Jim Goodridge – former California State Climatologist Photosynthesis simply stated is 6CO2 + 6H2O + photons = C6H12O6+6O2. It is suggested by the relative abundances of atmospheric CO2 and…
Skeptic Agrees with Climate Change
[Note: Jim sent me this in response to an group email pointing out yet another hopeless alarmist website climatetruth.org. He says it is his stock response, written somewhat like…
John L. Daly's message to Mike Mann and The Team
Ric Werme writes in comments: When I realized the Climategate 2009 Emails went back many years, one of the first things that occurred to me was there might be Emails…
Climategate 2.0: Phil Jones and Tom Wigley – calling a scientist "the jerk" over his UHI discoveries in California
I’ve not had time to read through all these emails, but this one really, really Stick in my craw. Dr. Phil Jones and Dr. Tom Wigley respond to this graph…
Happy birthday to WUWT – 5 years today
I’ve sort of dreaded writing a post for this day, mainly because it brings out a lot of emotions when I look back over 5 years. I started this blog…
Even as far back as 1892, station siting was a concern
Former California State Climatologist Jim Goodridge sent this along yesterday. This interesting letter from 1892 is a letter from Sergeant James A. Barwick to cooperative weather observers in California. He…
New Berkeley study on grass and global warming misses one very important issue
Caveat, no, it isn’t about “grass use” in UC Berkeley, and note the press release with the key word, “could” in the title. From the University of California – Berkeley…
Here, let me fix that headline for you
Deadly collision? Really? This must be before they remove all the automobiles from London per the recent edict from the EU/EC. The author must have suffered through too many “BBQ…
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