Tag Archives: Instrumental temperature record

Over 650 snow records set in USA this week – another wonky surface station located

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

UPDATE : The NWS responds about the station issue, see below. – Anthony Almost 60% of the contiguous USA covered in snow. While pundits spin attempts at linking snowfall in the Northeast USA to AGW, much like they do in … 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 →

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Station bias – an old problem

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

A number of readers have commented about the story from Sunday about NOAA’s experiment at Oak Ridge Laboratory to determine the warming effects of siting suggesting that the experiment was long overdue. many found it surprising that it has taken … 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 →

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AR5 Chapter 11; Hiding the Decline (Part II)

Posted on December 30, 2012 by

Guest post by David M. Hoffer In my first two articles on the leaked AR5 Chapter 11 (near-term projections) I looked at the caveats with which the IPCC is now surrounding their projections, and the lengths to which they are … Continue reading →

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Dr. David Whitehouse on the AR5 figure 1.4

Posted on December 18, 2012 by

Dr. David Whitehouse of the GWPF expounds on the “prime statistic of global warming” graph and its failure, as first reported here. The Leaked AR5 Report And Global Temperature Whatever one’s view about the leaking of the draft IPCC AR5 … Continue reading →

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The Met office responds to ‘Global warming stopped 16 years ago’

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

This article and graphic from David Rose in the UK Daily Mail has caused quite a stir as we covered it here over the weekend.  The Met Office has responded exactly as one would expect they would and I repeat … Continue reading →

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UAH global temperature – up .06C – not much change

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for August, 2012: +0.34 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for August (+0.34 °C) was up from July 2012 (+0.28 °C): Here are the monthly departures from the 30-year … Continue reading →

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Anoma-Lies

Posted on August 26, 2012 by

Anomalies are unsuitable measure of global temperature trends Guest post by David M. Hoffer An anomaly is simply a value that is arrived at by comparing the current measurement to some average measurement.  So, if the average temperature over the … 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 →

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July was also the 329th consecutive month of positive upwards adjustment to the U.S. temperature record by NOAA/NCDC

Posted on August 19, 2012 by

I’ve noticed there’s a lot of frenetic tweeting and re-tweeting of this “sound bite” sized statement from this Climate Central piece by Andrew Freedman. July was the fourth-warmest such month on record globally, and the 329th consecutive month with a … Continue reading →

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Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930′s were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest?

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record! “Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!” they wail on Twitter and blogs. The driver of this … Continue reading →

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Has the CRUTEM4 Data been fiddled with?

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

Guest post by Ed Thurstan Abstract It is apparent from the data that CRUTEM4 temperatures adjustments have, in part, been made with reference only to the earlier CRUTEM3 data, rather than raw temperature data. Further, the adjustments depend on the … Continue reading →

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Tisdale on Polar Amplification

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

Polar Amplification: Observations versus IPCC Climate Models Guest post by Bob Tisdale We’ve illustrated and discussed polar amplification in a few posts in the past. See here and here. Wikipedia has a short blurb about it: Polar amplification is the greater … Continue reading →

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Declining global average cloud height: “A significant measure of negative feedback to global warming”

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Guest post by Dr. Pat Michaels – reposted (with permission) from World Climate Report A new paper just published in Geophysical Research Letters by Roger Davies and Mathew Molloy of the University of Auckland finds that over the past decade … Continue reading →

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How reliable are global temperature “anomalies” ?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Guest post by Clive Best Perhaps like me you have  wondered why “global warming” is always measured using temperature “anomalies” rather than by directly measuring the absolute temperatures ? Why can’t we simply average  the surface station data together to … Continue reading →

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Tisdale on Foster and Rahmstorf – take 2

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

Bob has asked me to carry this post, and I’m happy to do so. For those who want to criticize without contributing anything but criticism, I offer this insight: The only real mistake is the one from which we learn … Continue reading →

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A controversial look at Blackbody radiation and Earth minus GHG’s

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

Guest Post by Reed Coray On Dec. 6, 2011 12:12 am Lord Monckton posted a comment on a thread entitled Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban that appeared on this blog on Dec. 5, 2011. In that comment he wrote: … Continue reading →

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UCAR on Blocking Highs, heat waves, and modeling limits

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes: Candid Admission By UCAR – “Blocking The Way – Predicting The Atmospheric Detours That Lead To Weather Troubles” There was an interesting article in the Fall issue of the UCAR Magazine titled by Bob Henson titled Blocking The … Continue reading →

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An Initial Look At The Hindcasts Of The NCAR CCSM4 Coupled Climate Model

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW This post compares the instrument observations of three global temperature anomaly datasets (NINO3, Global, and North Atlantic “Plus”) to the hindcasts of the NCAR couple climate model CCSM4, which was used in a couple … Continue reading →

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