Category Archives: Temperature

Met Office Hadley Centre and Climatic Research Unit HadCRUT4 and CRUTEM4 Temperature Data Sets Adjusted/Corrected/Updated… Can You Guess The Impact?

Posted on May 12, 2013 by

Image Credit: Met Office Hadley Centre By Just The Facts, Werner Brozek and Walter Dnes The Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, have adjusted/corrected/updated their HadCRUT4 & CRUTEM4 data sets, the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Climate data, MetOffice, Temperature | Tagged , , , , | 97 Comments

SkepticalScience Still Misunderstands or Misrepresents the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

The author of the recent SkepticalScience post Distinguishing Between Short-Term Variability and Long-Term Trends, Dana Nuccitelli, still misunderstands or misrepresents El Niño and La Niña processes. Either way, he’s missed something. The instrument temperature record indicates that La Niñas and … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Lower Troposphere Temperature, Ocean Heat Content, Sea Surface Temperature, Temperature | 59 Comments

Temperature change in perspective

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

Guest post by Ed Hoskins The UK Met Office long term Central England Temperature record[1] has kept a continuous and consistent data set since the 1660s. It appears to be reliable and to have maintained its quality. It has not … Continue reading →

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A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – “The Pause” Update

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

Image Credit: NASA and BP.Blogspot.com By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Recently there has been significant attention focused on “The Pause” in Earth’s warming, the length of “The Pause” and where “Earth’s Temperature” may go from here, e.g.: “Over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Earth, measurement, Temperature | Tagged , , , , , | 99 Comments

Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page – Disputed Graphs – Alley (2000)

Posted on April 13, 2013 by

Image Credit: Photobucket.com – GISP2 – Alley, 2000 By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” In building WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page during these crowdsourcing threads (1, 2) there have been a number disputes raised about various graphs. During this thread I … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoclimatology, Temperature | Tagged , , , , | 66 Comments

Global Warming Over Land Is Real: CU-Boulder, NOAA Study

Posted on April 13, 2013 by

Image Credit: Compo et al., 2013 From the Huffington Post: The thermometers got it right. The Earth is warming, another study is reporting. Climate scientists recognize that changes in weather observation stations’ immediate surroundings — such as neighboring trees being … Continue reading →

Posted in measurement, Temperature | Tagged , , , | 128 Comments

Are Climate Models Realistic? (Now Includes at Least February Data)

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

Guest Post By Werner Brozek, Edited By Just The Facts (Note: If you read my report with the January data and just wish to know what is new with the February data, you will find the most important new things … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, measurement, Sea Surface Temperature, Temperature | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 78 Comments

Notes on the February Global Temperature Anomaly

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Guest post by John Kehr With two completed months of the year there is starting to be discussion of how 2013 is shaping up for the annual anomaly.  Several comments around the web have caught my attention as they demonstrate … Continue reading →

Posted in Temperature | Tagged | 268 Comments

Has Global Warming Stalled? (Now Includes January Data)

Posted on March 5, 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 , , , , , , , | 83 Comments

Global Warming to Endanger Breakfast by 2080!!!

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton First it was wheat and now it’s coffee. What’s next? Bacon & eggs? This is nothing but alarmist nonsense… Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum in … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, IPCC, James Hansen, Positive effects of CO2, Temperature | Tagged , , , | 61 Comments

Paging Chuck Rice at Kansas State – real data is calling you, collect

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Oh Dear, Another Climate Scientist Makes A Fool Of Himself Guest post by Paul Homewood I sometimes get accused of being too dismissive of Climate Scientists, probably with justice. However, there are times when they just set themselves up to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Drought, records, Temperature, Weather | Tagged , , , | 94 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

Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood It seems that every time we get some snow, another “scientist” is wheeled out to explain that, no matter how cold it gets, it is all down to global warming. In the last week or so, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming, snowfall, Temperature, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 117 Comments

A follow up on the ‘it was warmer in 1790 in Sydney’ story

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

Readers may recall the story  Global Warming?……. It was warmer in Sydney in 1790 by Craig Kelly, MP in NSW Australia in response to some of the recent alarmist caterwauling in the press about the hot summer in Australia being … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Technology, Temperature, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 124 Comments

Crowdsourcing a Temperature Trend Analysis

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

(Image Credit: WoodForTrees.com) By Werner Brozek, edited and with introduction by WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Your help is needed in building a regular temperature trend analysis for WUWT. With much attention being focused on how much warming, or lack … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, measurement, Temperature | Tagged , , , , | 133 Comments

Circular Logic not worth a Millikelvin

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

Guest post by Mike Jonas A few days ago, on Judith Curry’s excellent ClimateEtc blog, Vaughan Pratt wrote a post “Multidecadal climate to within a millikelvin” which provided the content and underlying spreadsheet calculations for a poster presentation at the … Continue reading →

Posted in measurement, Temperature | Tagged , | 118 Comments

A Brief History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Record-Breaking

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

Guest Post by David Middleton The World Meteorological Organization (Why do I always think of Team America: World Police whenever “World” and “Organization” appear in the same title?) recently announced that atmospheric greenhouse gases had once again set a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Climate sensitivity, Consensus, Current News, Paleoclimatology, Temperature, United Nations | Tagged , , | 84 Comments

A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – “Extreme Weather” Update

Posted on November 10, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Recently there have been increased efforts to link “Climate Change” and “Extreme Weather” e.g., NOAA links extreme weather to climate change CBS – July 10, 2012, “NASA scientist links climate change, extreme weather” CNN … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate_change, extreme weather, measurement, Temperature, Uncategorized, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 125 Comments

Is this what global warming looks like? Over 2000 new low temperature records set in October

Posted on October 14, 2012 by

In the continental USA, there were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference. Last week there were 1154 low temperature type records putting the two week total for October at 2011. There … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall, Temperature, Weather | Tagged , , | 55 Comments

A new paper showing how UHI and energy consumption are linked to long-term temperature change in China

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. highlighted this major new paper in JGR yesterday, I consider it important as it relates to the works I’m doing on station siting. The key points of the paper are supportive of what I’ve  been saying … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, Temperature, UHI, Watts et al 2012, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , | 33 Comments