Category Archives: NASA GISS

February 2013 Global Land+Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

It has been a while since I’ve presented the GISS, UK Met Office and NCDC global land surface air temperature plus sea surface temperature products. I’ve decided to add them to the datasets I update monthly. I’ll present each of … Continue reading →

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How well did Hansen (1988) do?

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. The graphic from RealClimate asks “How well did Hansen et al (1988) do?” They compare actual temperature measurements through 2012 (GISTEMP and HadCRUT4) with Hansen’s 1988 Scenarios “A”, “B”, and “C”. The answer (see my … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Forecasting, Modeling, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 212 Comments

“A [Junk] Scientist’s Misguided Crusade” Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton More improper activity from the Million Dollar Bureaucrat… A Scientist’s Misguided Crusade By JOE NOCERA Published: March 4, 2013 Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the State Department released its “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement” for … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Energy, Environment, James Hansen, NASA GISS, petroleum, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , | 47 Comments

Pot, Kettle, James Hansen, censorship, NASA and EPA

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

Readers may recall this oh so terrible squashing of free speech by the White House limiting NASA public employee Dr. James Hansen’s ability to talk to the media. It seems that the issue has been repeated today, but there’s a … 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

Sunday Silliness – Kenji takes on the UCS Chicken Little

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

Josh provides this updated cartoon which was originally intended to be a Friday Funny last week. The reason for this cartoon about the Union of Concerned Scientists will become clear in a couple of days. 

Posted in Humor, NASA GISS, Satire | Tagged , , | 37 Comments

The NYT corrects a global temperature mistake – meanwhile, James Hansen’s ‘Jor-el’ complex worsens

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

First, here is a letter from Harold Ambler which went ignored, he writes: When I found a rather major error in a New York Times article about climate change, I took the trouble to write the editors. I did so … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, James Hansen, media, NASA GISS, Satire | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 62 Comments

Hansen’s NASA GISS – cooling the past, warming the present

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

The Climate of Gavin: How GISS Have Changed The Temperature Record Since 2008 Guest post by Paul Homewood I ran a post yesterday, showing how the latest version of GISSTEMP had changed from using Hadley/Reynolds to ERSST for ocean temperatures, with … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week – Hansen concedes the age of flatness

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

Dr. James Hansen and Reto Ruedy of NASA GISS have written a paper (non peer reviewed) with a remarkable admission in it. It is titled Global Temperature Update Through 2012. Here is the money quote, which pretty much ends the caterwauling … Continue reading →

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Antarctic warming courtesy of Mr. Fix-it

Posted on December 27, 2012 by

Just a little something he threw together Guest Post by David Middleton First the breath-taking headlines… Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica, New York Times (WUWT commentary) West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate, BBC West Antarctica warming much … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Climate Craziness of the Week, Climate FAIL, Global cooling, Global warming, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , , | 104 Comments

How GISS creates long term Antarctic warming

Posted on October 22, 2012 by

From Tallblokes Talkshop, note what happens before 1958. HOW GISS MANUFACTURES WARMING (LOTS OF IT) IN THE ANTARCTIC by Roger Andrews The close match between GISS and me after 1955 is encouraging in that it shows that there’s at least … Continue reading →

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The Cyber Bonfire of GISS’s Vanities

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

I decided to make this a sticky top post for a day or two – it needs wide circulation. New posts will appear below this one. – Anthony Playing email hidey-ho in Hansenland to circumvent FOI laws Guest post by … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , , , | 109 Comments

NASA GISS caught changing past data again – violates Data Quality Act

Posted on September 26, 2012 by

From American Thinker – NASA’s Rubber Ruler By Randall Hoven A funny thing happened on the way to determining how hot 2012 has been on a global basis: temperatures changed in 1880. We’ve been hearing that 2012 has been the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, NASA GISS | Tagged , | 140 Comments

GISS responds to my complaint

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

As predicted, Gavin Schmidt did not respond, but I did get a nice letter from Dr. Reto Ruedy after Gavin forwarded the complaint. To his credit, Dr. Ruedy has now corrected the issue that I highlighted here. I appreciate his … Continue reading →

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Climate FAIL: GISS is presenting 2012 US temperature as ‘off the chart’, while preventing older data from being archived

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

UPDATE: 8/22/12 9AM The problem has been solved, GISS responded to my complaint -Anthony Like the erroneous graph at California Governor Jerry Brown’s climate denier slam site,  here’s another one of those things that I’ve been sitting on for about … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate FAIL, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , | 81 Comments

A quick look at temperature anomaly distributions

Posted on August 12, 2012 by

R code to look at changing temp distributions – follow up to Hansen/Sato/Ruedy Story submitted by commenter Nullius in Verba There has been a lot of commentary recently on the new Hansen op ed, with associated paper. Like many, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, NASA GISS | Tagged , , | 39 Comments

Editorial: ‘Hansen is simply wrong’ and ‘his hypothesis is a complete and abject failure’

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

UPDATE: 9:55 AM  PDT 8/8/12 A graph of Palmer Drought Severity Index -vs- GISTEMP data has been added from Dr. Michaels. Looks like another “GISS miss”. There’s a lot of blowback against James Hansen’s recent (non tested) PNAS paper, trying … Continue reading →

Posted in James Hansen, NASA GISS, Opinion | Tagged , , , | 147 Comments

Shocker: The Hansen/GISS team paper that says: “we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases”

Posted on June 3, 2012 by

Note: This will be a top post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one – please scroll down. ============================================================ No, this isn’t a joke, it isn’t a fake document, and it isn’t a misinterpretation. It … Continue reading →

Posted in 350.org connect the dots, Aerosols, Al Gore, Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Carbon soot, James Hansen, Methane, NASA GISS, Ozone | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 274 Comments

Gavin Schmidt issues corrections to the RealClimate Presentation of Modeled Global Ocean Heat Content

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale For years, Tamino (aka Grant Foster) has complained about the placement of the GISS model projection at the start of the ARGO-era OHC data. Well, Gavin just discovered an error in his presentation of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Modeling, NASA GISS, Oceans | Tagged , , , , , , | 76 Comments

NASA Astronauts Announce Second Letter to NASA at Heartland Conference

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

This will be a top sticky post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one. At the Heartland Conference in  Chicago this morning, four of the forty-nine signers of the March letter to NASA Administrator Charles … Continue reading →

Posted in James Hansen, NASA GISS | 146 Comments