Category Archives: climate data

Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Announcements, Antarctic, Arctic, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Citizen science, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, education, energy, ENSO, Environment, feedbacks, flooding, forecasting, geothermal energy, global warming, hurricanes, Land use land cover change, lightning, measurement, Methane, modeling, oceans, PDO, Science, sea ice, snowfall, Temperature, tornadoes, UHI, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 113 Comments

How reliable are global temperature “anomalies” ?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Guest post by Clive Best Perhaps like me you have  wondered why “global warming” is always measured using temperature “anomalies” rather than by directly measuring the absolute temperatures ? Why can’t we simply average  the surface station data together to … Continue reading →

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Heh.

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

From Tom Nelson Email 600, Sept 2007: Watts expose makes NOAA want to change entire USA method Email 600

Posted in climate data, surfacestations paper, weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , | 152 Comments

UAH global temperature anomaly goes negative

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for January 2012: -0.09 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer PERSONAL NOTE: I’ve been unavailable for a while…my oldest daughter was in a bad car accident, will be OK eventually, but won’t walk for about 3 … Continue reading →

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Headlines over solar cycle 25 and potential global cooling

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

There’s a story about solar cycle 25, and a potential “mini ice age” in the UK Daily Mail by David Rose that is making headlines today, even hitting the Drudge Report. The headline is: Forget global warming – it’s Cycle … Continue reading →

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What in the world is going on with global temperatures?

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Multiple indicators show global temperatures headed down this month, and fast. by Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow As shown above (see the datapoint in the square box), the UAH AMSU daily temperatures are the coldest for the globe at 600mb … Continue reading →

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The Message in the Dye 3 Data

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Guest post by David Archibald The story so far: in this recent post – Ap Index Neutrons and Climate, we had looked at the Dye 3 oxygen isotope-derived temperature record to see how big climate swings have been over the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, glaciers, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , | 95 Comments

The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, Earthquakes, energy, ENSO, feedbacks, geothermal energy, Gravity, hurricanes, Methane, oceans, PDO, petroleum, Science, sea ice, snow, solar, solar power, thorium power, tornadoes, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 264 Comments

Global temps in a Crash as AGW proponents Crash the Economy

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

By Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell Analytics When the PDO turned cold, most of the meteorological and climate community understood that the pattern was turning very similar the last time of the PDO reversal, the 1950s, and it was a matter of … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, PDO, weather | Tagged , , , , , , | 313 Comments

Scafetta on his latest paper: Harmonic climate model versus the IPCC general circulation climate models

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Guest Post by Dr. Nicola Scafetta Herein, I would like to briefly present my latest publication that continues my research about the meaning of natural climatic cycles and their implication for climate changes: Nicola Scafetta, “Testing an astronomically based decadal-scale … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, IPCC, modeling | Tagged , , , , , , , | 119 Comments

Abrupt changes in GHCN station-level temperature records contradict the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) claims.

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Guest post by Jens Raunsø Jensen Preamble Inspired by a statement by Dr. Kevin Trenberth in the e-mails referred to as Climategate 2.0 (#3946 discussed here), it is hoped that climate scientists will have “an open enough mind to even … Continue reading →

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UAH global Temperature for December – no change

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for Dec. 2011: +0.13 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for December, 2011 remained about the same November, +0.13 deg. C (click on the image for the full-size version): … Continue reading →

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Tisdale takes on Tamino’s Foster & Rahmstorf 2011

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

On Foster and Rahmstorf 2011 – Global temperature evolution 1979–2010 Guest post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE 2 (January 5, 2012): PLEASE READ. Three things: First, I did not understand that a “linear time trend” used by Foster and Rahmstorf (2011) is … Continue reading →

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UHI in South Korea – responsible for over half of the warming

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

This new study published in  the Journal of Atmospheric Environment quantifies the different components of warming there, with UHI making up over half of the total warming: On average, the total temperature increase over South Korea was about 1.37 °C; … Continue reading →

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Ben Santer’s “damage control” on UAH global temperature data

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

The post below on Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog that contains responses from Spencer and Christy deserves wide distribution and attention, because it shows just how badly Ben Santer and John Abraham want to squelch this dataset. Particularly amusing is the … Continue reading →

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Frank Lansner on Foster and Rahmstorf 2011

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

This is a repost from Lansner’s website, since Tamino aka Grant Foster won’t allow it to be discussed on his own website, I thought I’d give a forum for discussion here. – Anthony The real temperature trend given by Foster … Continue reading →

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UAH global temperature – holding steady in November

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for Nov. 2011: +0.12 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for November, 2011 remained about the same as last month, at +0.12 deg. C (click on the image for … Continue reading →

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Why the UAH global temperature is late

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

November Global Temperature Update Delayed By Dr. Roy Spencer There has been a delay in our monthly processing of global temperature data from AMSU. An undersea telecommunications cable used to transmit about half of the huge volume of data coming … Continue reading →

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Ben Santer’s 17 year itch

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

Ben Santer issues a press release on Eurekalert today to “smack down” the non warming we’ve experienced over the last 10-12 years, as I pointed out here for the USA. But the issue goes back further than that. Phil Jones … Continue reading →

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Aurora Borealis and surface temperature cycles linked

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes about a new paper from Nicola Scafetta.: New Paper “A Shared Frequency Set Between The Historical Mid-Latitude Aurora Records And The Global Surface Temperature” By N. Scafetta 2011 A new paper has just appeared Nicola Scafetta … 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 →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, climate data | Tagged , , | 224 Comments

Why is 20 years statistically significant when 10 years is not?

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

Guest post by James Padgett Many of you are aware that the concept of continental drift, proposed by Alfred Wegener, was widely ridiculed by his contemporaries. This reaction was in spite of the very clear visual evidence that the continents … Continue reading →

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UAH Global temperature, down over half in October from September

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for October 2011: +0.11 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for October, 2011 dropped , to +0.11 deg. C (click on the image for the full-size version): … Continue reading →

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A short anthology of changing climate

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Guest post by Tony Brown Context is everything, and nowhere more so than in climate history, where a graphic such as this seems to illustrate an alarming uptick in temperatures that has been blamed on modern man and his profligate … Continue reading →

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UAH lower troposphere temperature colder than 2008

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

Brrr…the Troposphere Is Ignoring Your SUV by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. For those tracking the daily global temperature updates at the Discover website, you might have noticed the continuing drop this month in global temperatures. The mid-tropospheric AMSU channels … Continue reading →

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