Category Archives: Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature

On Muller et al (2013) “Decadal variations in the global atmospheric land temperatures”

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

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 land temperatures”. The abstract is here and a preprint version … Continue reading →

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NWS station at Corinna, Maine: same old problems, now with global impact

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

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 Maine caught my eye. I’ve never been fond of this … Continue reading →

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Berkeley Earth finally makes peer review – in a never before seen journal

Posted on January 19, 2013 by

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. It was previously submitted to JGR Atmospheres according to their … Continue reading →

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Little Ice Age Thermometers- Historic variations in temperatures Part 3 -BEST confirms extended period of warming.

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

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) and 1538 (Extended by Tony Brown using thousands of contemporary … Continue reading →

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BEST, Volcanoes and Climate Sensitivity

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

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, is an order of magnitude too large. Today, at the … Continue reading →

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A fascinating new interview with Prof Richard Muller, quote: On Climategate – “What they did was, I think, shameful. And it was scientific malpractice”

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

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 of a Climate Change Sceptic” in the New York Times … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, Climategate, heat wave, hurricanes, tornadoes, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 77 Comments

An uncorrected assumption in BEST’s station quality paper

Posted on August 3, 2012 by

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 into the unqualified and inexpert morass characterized by vessels like … Continue reading →

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Muller on MSNBC – what he didn’t say was interesting

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

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 best part.

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My response to NCDC’s op-ed in the New York Times

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

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 at Climate Studies Promoted Before Publication Here is what I … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week – Judith Curry weighs in on BEST

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

Whoo boy. Judith writes: Muller bases his ‘conversion’ on the results of their recent paper?

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The Myth of Settled Science

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

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 would dare assert that we know all there is to … Continue reading →

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Why BEST Will Not Settle the Climate Debate

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

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 the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. The reaction of … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week – “an anticlimactic climate hearing”

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

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 fact that nobody came. He writes at HuffPo

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The Waxman-Markey Circus is coming to town – Dr. Richard Muller to showcase BEST under the bigtop

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

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 “End of Climate Change Skepticism” as if he were casting … Continue reading →

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IBD picks up my article on the US cooling trend

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

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, going back 15 years, the data is flat. Investors business … Continue reading →

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NCDC data shows that the contiguous USA has not warmed in the past decade, summers are cooler, winters are getting colder

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

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 over what the BEST data actually says, especially about the … Continue reading →

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Cooling Warming by the numbers

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

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 device or maybe a pun. Then I saw this:

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A Considered Critique of Berkeley Temperature Series

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

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 are three primary problems with the Berkeley temperature trends which … Continue reading →

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The BEST flavor of the day

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

Via Tom Nelson: Muller: “I never said you shouldn’t be a skeptic. I never said that.” Richard Muller interview, Part 1 – YouTube Interviewed by Rob Nikolewski of Capitol Report New Mexico, 10/31/11. Around the 2:45 mark of Part 1, … Continue reading →

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Pre-Prints and Pre-Data

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Folks have said that I’m far too hard on Dr. Richard Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST Project). So let me stick to the facts. I fear I lost all respect for the … Continue reading →

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