Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This essay is a follow-up to two previous essays on the topic of the usefulness of trend lines [trends] in prediction. Readers may…
Category: Climate data
UAH: 2017 was third warmest year in satellite record
From the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Global Temperature Report: December 2017 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade December temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.41 C…
Global Temperature Report: November 2017
From UAH and Dr. John Christy Global temperatures drop; November still warm Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade November temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.36…
Besting the BEST surface temperature record
Guest essay by Patrick J. Michaels and Ryan Maue, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute JRA-55—BETTER THAN THE BEST GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE HISTORY, AND COOLER THAN THE REST. Let’s…
Meshing issues on global temperatures – warming data where there isn’t any
Guest essay by Tim Crome The plots attached here are taken from the MOYHU blog maintained by Nick Stokes here. The software on the blog allows the global temperature anomaly…
While global surface temperature cools, the lower troposphere has record warmest October
Yesterday, we noted the drop in global surface temperature from HadCRUT data. Today, we have this report from the UAH dataset that points out the heat has not left the lower…
Analysis says NOAA global temperature data 'doesn’t constitute a "smoking gun” for global warming'
Mikhail Voloshin writes this detailed analysis of NOAA and GISTEMP climate data processing on his Facebook page: Random Walk analysis of NOAA global temperature anomaly data Summary The global temperature record…
Ooops! Australian BoM climate readings may be invalid due to lack of calibration
Dr Jennifer Marohasy writes by email: There is evidence to suggest that the last 20 years of temperature readings taken by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, from hundreds of automatic weather…
Global Temperature Report: August 2017
From UAH: Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade August temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.41 C (about 0.74 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for August.…
What is the Default Temperature for the Earth?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The Earth’s atmosphere does not act like a greenhouse. The analogy was partially developed to help students understand the apparent disparity between energy coming in…
NOAA Updates Sea Surface Temperature Dataset
From NOAA Key dataset helps scientists understand Earth’s climate An update to a set of widely used ocean temperature data is now available from NOAA’s NCEI. Along with the public…
A Red Team to end the climate wars: fun but likely to fail.
A Red Team to end the climate wars: fun but likely to fail. By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Team Trump has proposed a Red Team project…
Comments on the New RSS Lower Tropospheric Temperature Dataset
Reposted from Roy Spencer’s Blog. Original here. July 6th, 2017 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. It was inevitable that the new RSS mid-tropospheric (MT) temperature dataset, which showed more…
Cooling: UAH reports the Lowest global temperature anomaly in last 2 years
UAH Global Temperature Update for June, 2017: +0.21 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Lowest global temperature anomaly in last 2 years (since July, 2015) The Version 6.0…
The Laws of Averages: Part 1, Fruit Salad
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is long-ish — and is best saved for a time when you have time to read it in its entirety. It will be…
Video: analysis of NASA data shows modern temperature trends are not unusual
Michael Thomas writes: An important aspect of the climate change debate can be summed up like this: “One position holds that medieval warm temperatures reached levels similar to the late…
Global temperatures plunge in April – "the pause" returns
Global temperatures have dropped 0.5° Celsius in April according to Dr. Ryan Maue. In the Northern Hemisphere they plunged a massive 1°C . As the record 2015/16 El Nino levels off, the global warming hiatus…
The Meaning and Utility of Averages as it Applies to Climate
Guest essay by Clyde Spencer 2017 Introduction I recently had a guest editorial published here on the topic of data error and precision. If you missed it, I suggest that…
Global Temperature Report: March 2017
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade March temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.19 C (about 0.34 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March. Northern Hemisphere:…
March 2017 Projected Temperature Anomalies from NCEP/NCAR Data
Guest Post By Walter Dnes In continuation of my Temperature Anomaly projections, the following are my March projections, as well as last month’s projections for February, to see how well…
UAH Global Temperature Report: February 2017 warmest in 39 years
February 2017 Global Temperature Report – Contiguous U.S. has warmest February in past 39 Years Notes on data released March 2, 2017: The 2015-16 El Niño Pacific Ocean warming event has…
January 2017 Projected Temperature Anomalies from NCEP/NCAR Data
Guest Post By Walter Dnes In continuation of my Temperature Anomaly projections, the following are my February projections, as well as last month’s projections for January, to see how well…
Global Temperature Report: January 2017
Tropics cool in January; globe doesn’t Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade January temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.30 C (about 0.54 degrees Fahrenheit) above…
January 2017 Projected Temperature Anomalies from NCEP/NCAR Data
Guest Post By Walter Dnes In continuation of my Temperature Anomaly projections, the following are my January projections, as well as last month’s projections for December, to see how well…
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