Polar Push and Pull

Guest post by Renee Hannon IntroductionThis post examines regional temperature reconstructions during the past several thousand years relative to different baselines and the responses of end member deviants, the Arctic…

Three Graphs

News Brief by Kip Hansen — 30 November 2019   A recent study in Oceanography, the Official Magazine of The Oceanography Society, titled  “Atlantic warming since the Little Ice Age”…

Vancouver has ‘coldest Oct. 10 in 123 years’ as temperatures tumble across B.C.

From the CBC 41 records broken in province in past 2 days, with Clinton dipping below -10 C CBC News · Posted: Oct 10, 2019 11:40 AM PT | Last…

Record Antarctic Stratospheric Warming Causes Sept. 2019 Global Temperature Update Confusion

From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog October 4th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. While the vast majority of our monthly global temperature updates are pretty routine, September 2019 is…

More fake five-alarm crises from the IPCC

“Mainstream” news outlets dutifully feature climate cataclysm claims that have no basis in reality guest post by Paul Driessen Efforts to stampede the USA and world into forsaking fossil fuels…

The Little Ice Age – Back to the Future

What’s Natural By Jim Steele Extreme scientists and politicians warn we will suffer catastrophic climate change if the earth’s average temperature rises 2.7°F above the Little Ice Age average. They…

SIGNAL CONVOLUTION, MIDPOINT OF RANGE, AND ALL THAT

KEVIN KILTY Introduction A guest blogger recently1 made an analysis of the twice per day sampling of maximum and minimum temperature and its relationship to Nyquist rate, in an attempt…

Another bureau rewrite warms Australia’s climate history

By Chris Gilham, Did you know that Australia’s rate of temperature warming per decade since 1910 has increased by 23%? No? Neither does the Australian public, despite the Bureau of Meteorology…

Nyquist, sampling, anomalies and all that

Guest post by Nick Stokes, Every now and then, in climate blogging, one hears a refrain that the traditional min/max daily temperature can’t be used because it “violates Nyquist”. In…

Update: The Global Warming Challenge

Reposted from theclimatebet.com 2018 year ends on a low note, temperature wise The UAH global mean temperature anomaly data for December 2018 is out: the figure of 0.25°C. The average…

The credibility gap between predicted and observed global warming

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The prolonged el Niño of 2016-2017, not followed by a la Niña, has put paid to the great Pause of 18 years 9 months in…

Greenland Is Way Cool

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As a result of a tweet by Steve McIntyre, I was made aware of an interesting dataset. This is a look by Vinther et al. at…

Latest Global Temp. Anomaly (December ’18: +0.25°C) UAH Global Temperature Update for December 2018: +0.25 deg. C

Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog +0.25 deg. C January 2nd, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. 2018 was 6th Warmest Year Globally of Last 40 Years The Version…

Going To Zero

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading about all kinds of crazy schemes to reduce US CO2 emissions. Now, I don’t think that CO2 is the secret knob that…

Cooling Down The Land

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE] I’ve discovered an error in the calculations that invalidates most of this post, with the exception of the snow extent data. See the explanation…

Antarctic melting slows atmospheric warming and speeds sea level rise

From Eurekalert Public Release: 19-Nov-2018 The research is the first to show how the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will affect future climate University of Arizona As the Antarctic…

Calculating global temperature anomaly

By Nick Stokes, There is much criticism here of the estimates of global surface temperature anomaly provided by the majors – GISS, NOAA and HADCRUT. I try to answer these…

California, Temperatures, and Acres Burned

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by the work done by Robert Rohde attempting to link May to October temperatures and rainfall to fires, I thought I’d take a look…

Further to the UAH Lower Temperature Bound

By David Archibald [This looks more like a technical analysis of a stock than a discussion of physical processes to me.  Any time series will have a lower bound.  Selecting…

HADCRU Power and Temperature

By Andy May Generally, it is agreed that the Earth’s top-of-atmosphere (TOA) energy budget balances to within the margin of error of the estimates (see Kiehl and Trenberth, 1997). The…

Most of the Recent Warming Could be Natural

This story broke while Anthony and I were eclipse hunting. ~ctm From Jennifer Marohasy By jennifer on August 21, 2017 in Information AFTER deconstructing 2,000-year old proxy-temperature series back to their…

Climate Science Double-Speak

A Quick Note from Kip Hansen   A quick note for the amusement of the bored but curious. While in search of something else, I ran across this enlightening page…

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…

Why Climate Models Run Hot

by Rud Istvan,   EPA administrator Pruitt wants to “Red Team” the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) consensus best reflected in the IPCC assessment reports (AR). At its core, CAGW…