Tag Archives: Pacific Ocean

Once again, reality trumps models – Pacific SST’s are flat

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

Model-Data Comparison: Pacific Ocean Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Guest post by Bob Tisdale I’ll be adding the Pacific Ocean (60S-65N, 120E-80W) sea surface temperature anomalies to my monthly updates. See Figure 1 for the area covered by those coordinates. Why … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week – Environmentalist ignores international moratoriums, dumps in the ocean

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

From the Toronto Star, an example of holier than thou environmentalism in the name of carbon sequestration. Environmental controversy erupts on Canada’s Pacific coast Raveena Aulakh Environment reporter The Pacific Ocean, just off Canada’s west coast, has a new suspect … Continue reading →

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Resolving the biases in century-scale sea surface temperature measurements reveals some interesting patterns

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

This new paper in GRL takes on the well-known buckets-vs-inlets issue (Steve McIntyre also visited the issue several times) related to ship based sea surface temperature measurements and as a result, produces an improved dataset. The results show a surprising … Continue reading →

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Texas A&M says freshwater hurricanes grow stronger

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

From Texas A&M University , a claim that fresh water intensifies hurricanes. At first blush, the concept seems wonky to me, as I don’t think there’s much difference between the heat content potential of fresh -vs- saltwater. Though, it might … Continue reading →

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Tisdale on the problems with ENSO models

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

Guilyardi et al (2009) “Understanding El Niño in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges” Guest post by Bob Tisdale The preliminary Reynolds OI.v2 sea surface temperature data for July 2012 won’t be available until next Monday July 30th, and there … Continue reading →

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Tisdale on the Curious Northern Hemisphere Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Patterns

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as the Preliminary Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update for June 2012, since we’ll be using preliminary June 2012 data in it. Last week ended on June 30th, so the preliminary data … Continue reading →

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Oh noes! Models say that climate change, ENSO, and beach sand heat will kill sea turtles

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

From the busy BEES at Drexel University, worry that beach sand temperature 40 to 50 centimeters deep will be affected by the global warming air temperature rise of 0.8C over the last century, projected to increase. The models identified this … 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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Claim: Fates of polar ice sheets appear to be linked

Posted on June 22, 2012 by

From the National Science Foundation – Press Release 12-115 Remote Siberian Lake Holds Clues to Arctic–and Antarctic–Climate Change Keys to climate change lie buried beneath “Lake E” in the Russian Arctic. Credit and Larger Version Intense warm climate intervals–warmer than … 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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Spring warmth: weather, not climate

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

While alarmists bloviate about three months of warm weather citing it as cock-sure proof that global warming is at fault (like they always do), we have this from the University of Missouri-Columbia. It is research figuring out why this spring … 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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Siberian smoke tracked to North America

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

I wonder how much of the EPA’s perceived air pollution problems in the USA actually originate elsewhere? From NASA: Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the U.S. Coast Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean … Continue reading →

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Claim: Today’s climate is more sensitive than that of the past

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

Press Release 12-107 Today’s Climate More Sensitive to Carbon Dioxide Than in Past 12 Million Years Geologic record shows evolution in Earth’s climate system The phytoplankton Emiliania huxleyi offers clues about climate past, present and future. Credit and Larger Version … Continue reading →

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More data fiddling – this time in NOAA’s ENSO data

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

Plot below showing ONI -vs- Aqua Channel 5 Temperature from lukewarmplanet (not Tisdale) to illustrate what he is talking about in his upcoming book. – Anthony Comments on NOAA’s Recent Changes to the Oceanic NINO Index (ONI) Guest post by Bob … Continue reading →

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Annular Solar Eclipse 2012 – data and images

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

I’ve been asked to provide some information on the upcoming eclipse Sunday, so here it is. I’ll actually miss the first part of the Heartland conference (Sunday night and Monday) due to the promise to my children we’d see this … Continue reading →

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The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.

Posted on May 12, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting study in Science magazine, entitled “Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification During 1950 to 2000″ by Durack et al. (paywalled here, hereinafter D2012). The abstract of D2012 says: Fundamental thermodynamics … Continue reading →

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La Nada, El Niño, or Three-Peat La Niña for 2012/13 ENSO Season?

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Readers may have noticed the WUWT ENSO meter is in the neutral zone. Bob Tisdale asks where it will head next. Guest post by Bob Tisdale Last year about this time, the El Niño-Southern Oscillations (ENSO) models from around the … Continue reading →

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Kiribati – a global warming refuge?

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

From an NSF press release, comes this strange new term, look for real estate prices to soar and airports to be built there soon. Oh, wait, that’s Tuvalu/Maldives, which global warming is supposed to inundate with sea level rise. Never … Continue reading →

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Tisdale on the “17 year itch” – Yes, there is a Santer clause

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale What Do Observed Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies and Climate Models Have In Common Over The Past 17 Years? One word answer: NOTHING!!!! OVERVIEW In this post, we’ll compare satellite-based sea surface temperature anomalies (Reynolds OI.v2) … Continue reading →

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