I enjoy surprises in data, especially when they might make alarmists unhappy. Willis Eschenbach’s post Greenland Is Way Cool at WattsUpWithThat prompted me to take a look at the Berkeley…
Category: Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
A way forward for BEST et al and their surface temperature record
Guest essay by Mike Jonas Introduction On 10 January, WUWT published my post A new system for determining global temperature. In that post, I described a proposed system for determining…
"Thorough, not thoroughly fabricated: The truth about global temperature data"… Well, not *thoroughly* fabricated.
Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. If you can set aside the smug, snide remarks of the author, this article does a fairly good job in…
An analysis of BEST data for the question: Is Earth Warming or Cooling?
Guest essay by Clyde Spencer The answer to the question is, “Yes!” Those who believe that Earth is going to Hell in a hand basket, because of anthropogenic carbon dioxide,…
On the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Surface Temperature – A Model-Data Comparison
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale With the publication of the IPCC 5th Synthesis Report, I thought there might be some interest in a presentation of how well (actually poorly) climate…
Monthly Averages, Anomalies, and Uncertainties
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have long suspected a theoretical error in the way that some climate scientists estimate the uncertainty in anomaly data. I think that I’ve found…
On Muller et al (2013) “Decadal variations in the global atmospheric land temperatures”
I received an email yesterday morning advising me that Muller et al (2013) had been published. (Thanks, Marc.) The title of the paper is “Decadal variations in the global atmospheric…
NWS station at Corinna, Maine: same old problems, now with global impact
In Anthony’s recent post about the new snowfall records, the record high at Jal, New Mexico caught his eye. I live in New Hampshire, so the lonely red dot in…
Berkeley Earth finally makes peer review – in a never before seen journal
After almost two years and some false starts, BEST now has one paper that has finally passed peer review. The text below is from the email release sent late Saturday.…
Little Ice Age Thermometers- Historic variations in temperatures Part 3 -BEST confirms extended period of warming.
Guest post by Tony Brown This short paper is a preliminary examination of BEST data to 1753, as compared to the Central England Temperature Record (CET) to 1660 (instrumental record)…
BEST, Volcanoes and Climate Sensitivity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve argued in a variety of posts that the usual canonical estimate of climate sensitivity, which is 3°C of warming for a doubling of CO2,…
A fascinating new interview with Prof Richard Muller, quote: On Climategate – "What they did was, I think, shameful. And it was scientific malpractice"
Guest Post by Barry Woods The Progressive Radio Network website had a fascinating interview with Prof Richard Muller last week following his ‘man of the moment’ opinion piece – “The Conversion…
An uncorrected assumption in BEST's station quality paper
I noted with a chuckle today, this statement over at the California Academy of Sciences “Climate Change Blog”: I think that we all need to be careful of not falling…
Muller on MSNBC – what he didn't say was interesting
I just watched this video interview on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show (h/t to Poptech) Despite the tacky caption, it was what Dr. Muller didn’t talk about that was, ahem, the…
My response to NCDC's op-ed in the New York Times
Andrew Revkin asked me to provide comments on this article of his where the National Climatic Data Center was asked to respond to Watts et al 2012: A Closer Look…
Quote of the week – Judith Curry weighs in on BEST
Whoo boy. Judith writes: Muller bases his ‘conversion’ on the results of their recent paper?
The Myth of Settled Science
Guest post by Donald R. Baucom A key defense of AGW and now climate change is that the science is settled. Historically and philosophically, this statement is unsustainable. Who…
Why BEST Will Not Settle the Climate Debate
By S. Fred Singer (first published in American Thinker) Global warming has re-entered public consciousness in recent days, partly because of the buzz surrounding the release of warming results from…
Quote of the week – "an anticlimactic climate hearing"
It seems there was darned little interest in the Waxman-Markey circus aka “An End of Climate Change Skepticism”. Even one of the scientists speaking, William Chameides aka “The Green Grok” lamented…
The Waxman-Markey Circus is coming to town – Dr. Richard Muller to showcase BEST under the bigtop
You have to laugh at the dueling statements in this circus event, its almost like a fire and brimstone speech from Rep. Edward Markey, who thinks this will be the…
IBD picks up my article on the US cooling trend
Readers may recall earlier this week when I pointed out an inconvenient truth, the continental USA has no warming trend for the past decade, in fact it is cooling. And,…
NCDC data shows that the contiguous USA has not warmed in the past decade, summers are cooler, winters are getting colder
See update below: New comparison graph of US temperatures in 1999 to present added – quite an eye opener – Anthony There’s been a lot of buzz and conflicting reports…
Cooling Warming by the numbers
I get featured in this WSJ piece from “The Numbers Guy” Carl Bialik, but there’s a curious sentence in the first paragraph. At first I thought it was an editorial…
A Considered Critique of Berkeley Temperature Series
Guest post by Jeff Id I will leave this alone for another week or two while I wait for a reply to my emails to the BEST group, but there…
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