Global Cooling since 2016 – 2018 was the 6th warmest year in the past 40 years

  From the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Jan 2, 2019 Global Temperature Report: December 2018 Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade December 2018 Temperatures (preliminary)…

Met Office responds to HadCRUT global temperature audit by McLean

WUWT readers surely recall this story: BOMBSHELL: audit of global warming data finds it riddled with errors While not issuing a press release, the scientists have responded to press inquiries. Britain’s…

UPDATE – BOMBSHELL: audit of global warming data finds it riddled with errors

I’m bringing this back to the top for discussion, mainly because Steven Mosher was being a cad in comments, wailing about “not checking”, claiming McLean’s PhD thesis was “toast”, while at…

It is worse than we thought – by Latitude

Guest essay by Sheldon Walker – (agree-to-disagree.com) The central objective of the Paris Agreement is its long-term temperature goal to hold global average temperature increase to “well below 2°C above…

Heat Analysis of NOAA Data Suggests the US Is Not Seeing Increased Warming

Guest essay by Leland Park Given the impending global warming crisis declared by scientists, it should be easy to unambiguously demonstrate the crisis from the instrumental record. Unfortunately, when looking…

Global Temperature Report: August 2018 – Global Temp cooling a bit to +0.19 from +0.32 in July.

Global Temperature Report: August 2018 Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade August Temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.:  +0.19 C (+0.34 °F) above seasonal average Northern…

Temperature tampering temper tantrums

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Commenters on my recent threads explaining the gaping error my team has found in official climatology’s definition of “temperature feedback” have asked whether I will…

BUSTED: How @ed_hawkins turned simple linear temperature increase into an accelerating spiral hockeystick

From the “confirmation bias affects Top. Men.” department…a modern equivalent of “Mike’s Nature Trick”. WUWT readers have probably seen the various graphical depictions of temperature coming from Dr. Ed Hawkins,…

Analysis of James Hansen’s 1988 Prediction of Global Temperatures for the Last 30 Years

Guest analysis by Clyde Spencer Introduction There have been articles on WUWT recently, here and here, commemorating the 30 years since James Hansen gave Senate committee testimony about his view…

Climate models vs. climate data: A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT

Guest essay by Bob Irvine Is it true that energy from either an outside source or an increase in insulation will warm a system according to or in proportion to…

GISS Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index Vs GHCN

Guest analysis by Mark Fife This is the state of the world’s surface temperatures according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies from 1880 through 2017. It is indeed a…

Global Temperature Update for April, 2018

by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2018 was +0.21 deg. C, down a little from the March value…

A Look at the Shape of Temperature Change Over Time

Guest essay by Mark Fife There are many times, when dealing with the analysis of real world data, looking at the average alone really doesn’t provide a complete picture of…

Reconstructing a Temperature History Using Complete and Partial Data

Guest analysis by Mark Fife In today’s post I am going to go over how I went about creating a reconstruction of the history of temperature from the GHCN data…

An interesting plot twist – call it an anomaly

We’ve covered this topic before, but it is always good to mention in again. Howard Goodall asks this on Twitter: “Ever wondered why climate scientists use anomalies instead of temperatures?…

UAH finds a warming error in satellite data, lowers "tropical hotspot" temperature trend, contradicts IPCC models

From the University of Alabama, Huntsville via email from Dr. John Christy. Weather Satellite Wanders Through Time, Space, Causing Stray Warming to Contaminate Data In the late 1990s, the NOAA-14…

Global Temperature Report: March 2018

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade March temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.24 C (about 0.43 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March. Northern Hemisphere:…

UAH Global Temperature Report: February 2018

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade February temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.20 C (about 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for February. Northern Hemisphere:…

DO-IT-YOURSELF TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION

Guest essay by Dr Michael Chase SCOPE This article describes a simple but effective procedure for regional average temperature reconstruction, a procedure that you, yes you dear reader, can fully understand…

The planet continues to cool after an El Niño induced string of warm years

From Dr. Roy Spencer: UAH Global Temperature Update for January, 2018: +0.26 deg. C Coolest tropics since June, 2012 at -0.12 deg. C. The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric…

Why 2017’s “Third Warmest Year on Record” is a Yawner

Guest essay by E. Calvin Beisner The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) press release headline January 18 was blunt: “NOAA: 2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe.” The tagline…

2017 was warm. The next few years will be more important.

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The world’s temperature is in the news again, showing that 2017 was another warm year. Now that it is in the…

Fake News and 2017 Near-Record Temperatures

Guest essay by Dale Leuck “Fake news” is the process of misleading the public through an inaccurate or incomplete depiction of reality, either deliberately or unintentionally. Often the fake news…

NASA – 2017 was 2nd warmest year, NOAA says 3rd warmest, El Niño a major warming influence

From NASA Goddard: Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, globally averaged…