Category Archives: Climate data

February 2013 global surface temperature – at normal

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

Dr. Ryan Maue posted one of his WeatherBell analysis maps on Twitter today, and the result is no Headline maker, it is simply “normal”. He writes (image follows): About these ads

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The NOAA USHCN RAW Data from Boulder, Colorado Restore the Beginning and End of the Modern Warming Regime

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Guest post by Samuel I. Outcalt, Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Abstract: After noticing the strange time dependent behavior of the difference between the NOAA USHCN Average Annual Temperature data in the unadjusted RAW … Continue reading →

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Fact check for Andrew Glikson – Ocean heat has paused too

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Over at The Conversation Andrew Glikson asks Fact check: has global warming paused? citing an old Skeptical Science favorite graph, and that’s the problem; it’s old data. He writes: As some 90% of the global heat rise is trapped in the … 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 →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, Climate data, Climate FAIL, Weather_stations | Tagged , , | 43 Comments

Over 650 snow records set in USA this week – another wonky surface station located

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

UPDATE : The NWS responds about the station issue, see below. – Anthony Almost 60% of the contiguous USA covered in snow. While pundits spin attempts at linking snowfall in the Northeast USA to AGW, much like they do in … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather_stations, Weather, Climate data, records, snowfall | Tagged , , , | 111 Comments

Klotzbach et al revisited, a reply by John Christy

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Reposted with permission from Marcel Crok’s blog: De staat van het klimaat Recently Jos Hagelaars published a very extensive blog post (on the blog of Bart Verheggen) about a widely discussed paper of Klotzbach et al 2009. The title of the … Continue reading →

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Boulder Escapes Global Warming

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

Guest post by Sam I. Outcalt Abstract: The historic record of the mean annual air temperature record at Boulder does not display the major “global” climate transitions detectable in the total annual precipitation record. Hurst ReScaling is demonstrated to be … Continue reading →

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The monthly report NOAA never produces – from the Climate Reference Network

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

Here is the latest monthly value from the state of the art Climate Reference Network, (CRN) which never seems to make it into NOAA’s monthly and yearly climate reports. But, I produce these maps now monthly since NOAA doesn’t. You … Continue reading →

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NOAA: Average temperature of the USA in January at freezing

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

National Summary Information – January 2013 Contiguous U.S. warmer and wetter than average for January Drought persists for central U.S.; above-average January snow cover extent for Lower 48 The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during January was 32.0°F, 1.6°F … Continue reading →

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Preliminary comments on Hausfather et al 2013

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

There’s a new paper out today, highlighted at RealClimate by Hausfather et al titled Quantifying the Effect of Urbanization on U.S. Historical Climatology Network Temperature Records and published (in press) in JGR Atmospheres. I recommend everyone go have a look … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, UHI, Watts et al 2012 | Tagged , , , | 106 Comments

Has Global Warming Stalled?

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Guest Post By Werner Brozek, Edited By Just The Facts In order to answer the question in the title, we need to know what time period is a reasonable period to take into consideration. As well, we need to know … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, measurement, Sea Surface Temperature, Temperature | Tagged , , , | 185 Comments

From UAH – Global Temperature Report: January 2013

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Second warmest January in past 35 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade January temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.51 C (about 0.92 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for January. Northern Hemisphere: +0.55 C (about 0.99 … Continue reading →

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UAH Global temperature for January, up significantly, but other data doesn’t match

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for January, 2013: +0.51 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2013 is +0.51 deg. C, a substantial increase from December’s +0.20 deg. C. (click … Continue reading →

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Japan’s ‘Cool Hand Luke’ moment for surface temperature

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

At NASA’s Climate 365, there is an interesting story posted with this statement and a graph: Some say scientists can’t agree on Earth’s temperature changes Each year, four international science institutions compile temperature data from thousands of stations around the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, NASA GISS, NCDC, NOAA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 122 Comments

Burt Rutan: ‘This says it all and says it clear’

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

People send me stuff. Engineer and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan writes to me in an email today: The chart the Alarmists do not want you to see.  Human Carbon emissions vs. The ‘Gold Standard’ global temperature data set (chart from … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climate data | Tagged , , | 158 Comments

A question for Zeke Hausfather

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Zeke is upset that I made this statement in a story at Fox news: Is history malleable? Can temperature data of the past be molded to fit a purpose? It certainly seems to be the case here, where the temperature … Continue reading →

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Global Temperature Updates – 2012

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood While Obama is imploring us to stop the global warming that is bringing us “the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms”, it would seem to be a good idea to see … Continue reading →

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Warming Rate in the US Slowed during the Recent Warming Period

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

The Contiguous U.S. Surface Air Temperature Data Through 2012 – Is the Recent Warming Trend Unusual? Guest post by Bob Tisdale There’s going to be a press conference today with James Hansen of GISS and Tom Karl of NOAA. According to … Continue reading →

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Hansen and Karl to put on a “worse than we thought” event

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

From a press release, apparently the writer has no clue that the NASA GISS data is a derivative of the NOAA data, and thus the claim of “NASA and NOAA each independently produce a record of Earth’s surface temperatures…” is … Continue reading →

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Unique paper looks for natural factors in station data–shows significant probabilities of natural signal

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

Since we have been paying a lot of attention to the surface record given the recent revelations surrounding the adjustments to data and NOAA’s release of the State of the Climate  Report claiming that the USA had the hottest year … Continue reading →

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