Tag Archives: John Christy

Nuccitelli gets a bruising by the factual hand of Monckton

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Cook “the books” is wrong to slam Roy Spencer By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Anyone who has met Roy Spencer knows him to be a careful, thoughtful, unpolemical scientist of formidable skill and knowledge. With John Christy he presents the … Continue reading →

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UAH Global Temperature Report: March 2013 – temperature unchanged from February 2013

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade March temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.18 C (about 0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.

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Klotzbach et al revisited, a reply by John Christy

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Reposted with permission from Marcel Crok’s blog: De staat van het klimaat Recently Jos Hagelaars published a very extensive blog post (on the blog of Bart Verheggen) about a widely discussed paper of Klotzbach et al 2009. The title of the … Continue reading →

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From UAH – Global Temperature Report: January 2013

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Second warmest January in past 35 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade January temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.51 C (about 0.92 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for January. Northern Hemisphere: +0.55 C (about 0.99 … Continue reading →

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Dr. John Christy’s testimony before congress –

Posted on September 21, 2012 by

Hot on the heels of Nature’s editorial about not linking Global Warming to extreme weather, we have this testimony today from Dr. John Christy. ‘Extreme events, like the recent U.S. drought, will continue to occur, with or without human causation’      … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. – George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) ################################################### Number of the … Continue reading →

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Inhofe Exposes Another Epic Fail by Global Warming Alarmists Thursday

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

PRESS RELEASE  August 2, 2012 Contact: Matt Dempsey Matt_Dempsey@epw.senate.gov Katie Brown Katie_Brown@epw.senate.gov Inhofe Exposes Another Epic Fail by Global Warming Alarmists    Photo Posted by KFOR and Think Progress   Click Here for Larger Photo  The dumpster fire that caused the … Continue reading →

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Video: John Christy’s stellar testimony today – ‘The recent anomalous weather can’t be blamed on carbon dioxide.’

Posted on August 1, 2012 by

From The Senate EPW Jim Inhofe Press Office, well worth your time to watch. Dr. John Christy, Alabama’s State Climatologist, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville testified … Continue reading →

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Senate EPW hearing on global warming tomorrow

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

On Wednesday at 10AM ET (7AM PT) the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will conduct a hearing on (take your pick) global warming climate change climate disruption. Dr. John Christy will be there, but it is confirmed that Dr. … Continue reading →

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Backstory on the new surfacestations paper

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

I’m a bit burnt out, so this is a just a few notes to quench some speculations about Steve McIntyre’s role and to help everyone understand what this week has been like. Evan and I have been working on this … Continue reading →

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Why the U.S East Coast heatwave was not unusual nor the number of record temperatures unprecedented.

Posted on July 8, 2012 by

This is a combination of two posts elsewhere that illustrate just how much hype and how little substance the MSM and blogs like Grist, Climate Progress. and Capital Weather Gang have been pushing trying to make a run of the … Continue reading →

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Gavin on the ropes over heat wave explanation

Posted on July 8, 2012 by

Tom Nelson writes: If CO2 is really such an all-powerful warming factor, and if the science is so settled, why does warmist Gavin Schmidt have so much trouble explaining why the southeastern US hasn’t warmed since the 1930s?: “Whether this … Continue reading →

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The Kevin Trenberth / Seth Borenstein aided fact free folly on the USA heat wave

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

I cringe every time I see stories like the one being pushed in the Associated Press today by AP science writer Seth Borenstein. My Way News – This US summer is ‘what global warming looks like’ http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120703/D9VP9J681.html Even Drudge picked … Continue reading →

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Christy and Spencer: Our Response to Recent Criticism of the UAH Satellite Temperatures

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

by John R. Christy and Roy W. Spencer University of Alabama in Huntsville A new paper by Stephen Po-Chedley and Quang Fu (2012) (hereafter PCF) was sent to us at the end of April 2012 in page-proof form as an … Continue reading →

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Heating up in Huntsville – the discovery of FHI?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

WUWT reader BarryW found this on the Huntsville Office of the State Climatologist, operated by our friend, Dr. John Christy and left it in Tips and Notes. First Christy’s article, then the report on the rabbit hole my investigation sent … Continue reading →

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UAH Global Temperature anomaly up in March at 0.11°C

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Global Temperature Report: March 2012 U.S. hits record highs in March, Iowa is ‘warmest’ place on Earth Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade March temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.11 C (about 0.20 degrees Fahrenheit) … Continue reading →

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UAH global temperature anomaly – still below the zero line

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for February 2012: -0.12 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly cooled a little more in February, 2012, again not unexpected for the current La Nina conditions in the tropical … Continue reading →

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Christy on Sierra Snowfall over the last 130 years – no trend, no effect from CO2

Posted on February 18, 2012 by

Better late than never, we got a little bit busy this week. Image above from data supplied by Dr. John Christy and rendered by the San Francisco Chronicle from their story here. An excerpt: John Christy, the Alabama state climatologist … Continue reading →

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UAH global Temperature for December – no change

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for Dec. 2011: +0.13 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for December, 2011 remained about the same November, +0.13 deg. C (click on the image for the full-size version): … Continue reading →

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Steig et al, revisited with UAH satellite data

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

From World Climate Report: Antarctic Temperature Trends Almost exactly two years ago, a prominent paper became a media darling as it, according to the alarmist website Real Climate “appeared to reverse the ‘Antarctic cooling’ meme that has been a staple … Continue reading →

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