Tag Archives: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

NOAA decadal scale rainfall trends found to be ‘wildly wrong’

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS Guest post by Craig Loehle, Ph.D. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that USA rainfall is, according to NOAA, rising at 6.5 inches per century. The bad news is that … Continue reading →

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NOAA’s Ever-Changing Definition of La Niña Years

Posted on March 16, 2013 by

UPDATE: I’ve added two illustrations to the end of the post. At the request of blogger “Kurt in Switzerland”, I plotted a comparison of the new and old versions of the Oceanic NINO Index data and posted it in a … Continue reading →

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New paper from NOAA demonstrates that El Niño has more impacts than climate on winter weather in the USA

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

While AP’s Seth Borenstein cites opinions of activist scientists in erroneously claiming that ‘climate change’  increasing atmospheric moisture is the main driver for winter weather events, it turns out that El Niño patterns are strongly associated with winter weather impacts. … Continue reading →

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NCDC’s new USHCN hockey stick trick

Posted on October 13, 2012 by

Yesterday, NCDC released Version 2.5 of the USHCN data set. For those who don’t know, this is the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) which NCDC considers a “gold standard” for US temperature measurements. Problem is, the reality of the old … Continue reading →

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New national temperature resource almost ready

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

I had hoped to have this ready in time for heat wave season, as it would have been quite useful in July. Pursuant to my post about July average temperatures being lower with the new Climate Reference Network -vs- the … Continue reading →

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PBS airs special on green rooftops, cites NCDC’s Thomas Peterson, who fumbles the UHI ball

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

From PBS last night: From Rooftop to Alleyway, Chicago Fights Extreme Urban Heat With Greener Ideas One of Chicago’s most beautiful and hidden gardens is located on top of City Hall, part of an effort to ‘green’ roofs in order … Continue reading →

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NOAA’s ‘Janus moment’ – while claiming ‘The American public can be confident in NOAA’s long-standing surface temperature record’, they fund an experiment to investigate the effects of station siting and heat sinks/sources on temperature data

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

NOAA’s impersonation of the two faced god Janus just proved my point about station siting issues with their actions that speak louder than words. While there’s all this caterwauling about my PBS News hour interview, and my statements were apparently … Continue reading →

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PBS backtracks due to viewer pressure

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

This just appeared on the PBS Blog, apparently the mere presence of my interview was enough to push NOAA into responding. It seems they are in full damage control mode. CLIMATE — September 18, 2012 at 6:08 PM EDT Climate … Continue reading →

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Game on – NOAA’s refusal of documents earns them a lawsuit

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

We’ll see how badly they want to protect these emails, and if they rise to Mannian UVa protection level seven. Over the last couple of days, CEI’s Chris Horner has been emailing me news of a FOIA request he made … Continue reading →

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More NOAA FOI emails – A question for Bill Lambrecht of the Post Dispatch

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

After reading this email to the late climate scientists Steven H. Schneider (released from the 2 year FOI effort to NOAA) below… …I have this question for Bill Lambrecht of the St. Louis Post Dispatch:

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Not so hot – ocean temperatures around the USA are not anywhere near record levels

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

While there’s wailing and gnashing of teeth over the US CONUS surface temperature being the “hottest ever” a cursory review of the sea surface temperatures in U.S.Coastal waters shows no cause for alarm, as they aren’t even close to record … Continue reading →

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An ‘inconvenient result’ – July 2012 not a record breaker according to data from the new NOAA/NCDC U.S. Climate Reference Network

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

I decided to do myself something that so far NOAA has refused to do: give a CONUS average temperature for the United States from the new ‘state of the art’ United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN). After spending millions of … Continue reading →

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New study shows half of the global warming in the USA is artificial

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

PRESS RELEASE – U.S. Temperature trends show a spurious doubling due to NOAA station siting problems and post measurement adjustments. Chico, CA July 29th, 2012 – 12 PM PDT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A comparison and summary of trends is … Continue reading →

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New paper blames about half of global warming on weather station data homogenization

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

From the told ya so department, comes this recently presented paper at the European Geosciences Union meeting. Authors Steirou and Koutsoyiannis, after taking homogenization errors into account find global warming over the past century was only about one-half [0.42°C] of … Continue reading →

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An interesting graph showing solar cycle, El Niño, and surface temperature correlation in Australia

Posted on June 25, 2012 by
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Keeping track of NOAA’s ENSO data changes

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

The NOAA Weekly ENSO Sea Surface Temperature Indices Webpage Has Changed Location By Bob Tisdale There has been concern expressed recently around the blogosphere that NOAA hasn’t updated their weekly El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) sea surface temperature-based indices webpage since May … Continue reading →

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Sea Surface Temperature Approaching the Threshold of El Niño

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as the sea surface temperature update for mid-June. The post also provides an update on the progress I’m making with my new book The Ignored Driver of Global Climate.  I’ve included … Continue reading →

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ENSO has gone slightly positive

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

After holding on zero for a couple of weeks, the WUWT ENSO meter has gone slightly positive: As you can see, La Niña is fading:

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Nature, record heat, tipping points, Hansen’s opinion on weather noise, and all that

Posted on June 9, 2012 by

From NCDC’s spring report here More record warmth as scientists warn of global tipping point – CNN.com – It’s hot out there. But this time, it’s more than idle watercooler talk, according to weather scientists. At the same time the … Continue reading →

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NOAA National Weather Service caught in a ‘budgetary ponzi scheme’

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

NOAA comes under criticism again, this time over National Weather Service funding By DON CUDDY June 05, 2012 12:00 AM The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its embattled head Dr. Jane Lubchenco are again the target of criticism after … Continue reading →

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