Tag Archives: Pacific

A Different Perspective of the Equatorial Pacific and ENSO Events

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

by Bob Tisdale It’s difficult to express how enormous El Niño and La Niña events are. Often, when discussing them, I’ll display a map of the tropical Pacific (see example here) and write something to the effect of, the equatorial … Continue reading →

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On Guemas et al (2013) “Retrospective prediction of the global warming slowdown in the past decade”

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

I received a number of emails about the newly published Guemas et al (2013) paper titled “Retrospective prediction of the global warming slowdown in the past decade”. It’s paywalled. The abstract is here. It reads: Despite a sustained production of … Continue reading →

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NASA on the sun: ‘…tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate.”

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Researchers have considered the possibility that the sun plays a role in global warming. From NASA GSFC:  Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate In the galactic scheme of things, the Sun is a remarkably constant star.  While some stars exhibit dramatic … Continue reading →

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El Niño-Southern Oscillation Myth 3: ENSO Has No Trend and Cannot Contribute to Long-Term Warming

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is the 3rd part of a series of posts that present myths and misunderstandings about the tropical Pacific processes that herald themselves during El Niño and La Niña events. In the posts, I’m simply … Continue reading →

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New paper predicts SST temperature based on Pacific Centennial Oscillation

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

Here’s figure 18, which I found interesting, especially the red line. – Anthony Guest post by Bob Tisdale Today, blogger “slimething” left me a link to the Karnauskas et al (2012) paper A Pacific Centennial Oscillation Predicted by Coupled GCMs. … 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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So Many People … So Little Rain

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I started a post on Kiribati, but when it was half written I found Andi Cockroft had beaten me to it with his post. His analysis was fine, but I had a different take … Continue reading →

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Do Latest Solar Studies Confirm Upcoming Global Cooling?

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Guest post by Matti Vooro I fully support the findings of  Jan –Erik Solheim , Kjell Stordahl and Ole Humlum and their very recent paper called The long sunspot cycle 23 predicts a significant temperature decrease in cycle 24  dated … Continue reading →

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