Tag Archives: Goddard Institute for Space Studies

A Brief Introduction to the Detection of Climate and Weather Transitions using Hurst Rescaling

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

Guest essay by Sam Outcalt Introduction: The object of this document is to present a brief and concise introduction to Hurst ReScaling. More detail is presented in a paper by Outcalt et.al. (1997), which is posted on the WUWT Website … Continue reading →

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Hansen finally ‘Muzzled’ by Obama?

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

Hansen’s resignation from NASA GISS may not be what it seems Guest Post by Chris Horner, CEI So, NASA’s in-house celebrity activist James Hansen says the following in explaining his departure from a lucrative perch — salary alone: $180k per … Continue reading →

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“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

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

Global Temperature Updates – 2012

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood While Obama is imploring us to stop the global warming that is bringing us “the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms”, it would seem to be a good idea to see … Continue reading →

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Berkeley Earth finally makes peer review – in a never before seen journal

Posted on January 19, 2013 by

After almost two years and some false starts, BEST now has one paper that has finally passed peer review. The text below is from the email release sent late Saturday. It was previously submitted to JGR Atmospheres according to their … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , , , , , | 67 Comments

PODEX Experiment to reshape future of Atmospheric Science by getting a handle on aerosols and clouds

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX) in Southern California. The brightness, or “intensity,” and polarization of reflected light provide different information about the elements that make up a scene, apparent in this set of images collected by the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager … 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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Hansen and Karl to put on a “worse than we thought” event

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

From a press release, apparently the writer has no clue that the NASA GISS data is a derivative of the NOAA data, and thus the claim of “NASA and NOAA each independently produce a record of Earth’s surface temperatures…” is … Continue reading →

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A problem: nearly one third of CO2 emissions occured since 1998, and it hasn’t warmed

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

Guest post by Tom Fuller The physics behind the theory of global warming are solid. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, we’re emitting industrial levels of it, with China now in the lead for emissions. A significant portion remains in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climate sensitivity | Tagged , , , , , , , | 206 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

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

Blog Memo to James Hansen Regarding GISS Southern Hemisphere Land Surface Temperature Data

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale Date: August 16, 2012 Subject: Southern Hemisphere GISS LOTI Land Surface Temperature Anomaly Data From: Bob Tisdale To: James Hansen – GISS Dear James: I discovered what appear to be an atypical upward step and … Continue reading →

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Little Ice Age Thermometers- Historic variations in temperatures Part 3 -BEST confirms extended period of warming.

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

Guest post by Tony Brown This short paper is a preliminary examination of BEST data to 1753, as compared to the Central England Temperature Record (CET) to 1660 (instrumental record) and 1538 (Extended by Tony Brown using thousands of contemporary … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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

NASA’s James Hansen’s big cherry pick

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

From NASA:  Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth’s land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in … Continue reading →

Posted in extreme weather, James Hansen | Tagged , , , , , , | 189 Comments