Tag Archives: Roy Spencer

The Spencer Challenge to Slayers/Principia

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

Dr. Roy Spencer has made a challenge to the Slayers/Principia folks who keep insisting the greenhouse effect doesn’t exist at all. For example, see the front page claim at right from the Principia web page where they claim the greenhouse … Continue reading →

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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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Spencer, Ridley, and Gavin on Fox tonight

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

Readers may recall that Dr. Mann had an unprofessional visceral reaction to the invitation. Kudos to Dr. Gavin Schmidt for taking the invitation and to follow through with it in a professional manner*. Dr. Roy Spencer writes: Stossel Show: Schmidt, … Continue reading →

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Recent paper demonstrates relationship between temperature and population density in the UHI of New Delhi

Posted on August 31, 2012 by

This gives credence to Dr. Roy Spencer’s population adjusted ISH surface temperature data for the USA Impact of population density on the surface temperature and micro-climate of Delhi Javed Mallick1 and Atiqur Rahman2,* 1Department of Civil Engineering, King Khalid University, … Continue reading →

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Some confirmation of Spencer’s cloud hypothesis – it is getting less cloudy and warmer at the same time

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

A new paper just published in the Journal of Climate finds that global cloudiness has decreased over the past 39 years from between 0.9 to 2.8% by continent as shown in the figure below: The period of the study is … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 6 – Sea Ice Outlook forecasting contest for 2012 is online

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

First some news on the status of the WUWT Sea Ice Page. The JAXA imagery, which has been DOA ever since the failure of the AMSRE instrument on the AQUA satellite is now operational again. The plot is below: JAXA … Continue reading →

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USA’s record warm March 2012 not caused by “global warming”

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

The usual suspects in the blogs and media have been bloviating about the record warmth of March and spinning it to redline for maximum fear factor, with the “loaded climate dice” theme. For example we have Andrew Freedman of Climate … Continue reading →

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Roy Spencer’s ISH population adjusted discoveries

Posted on April 8, 2012 by

Readers recall that I carried a guest post from Dr. Roy Spencer on what he learned from analysing the CRUTem3 data: Spencer shows compelling evidence of UHI in CRUTem3 data. Now he has turned his attention to what I consider … Continue reading →

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Spencer’s posited 1-2% cloud cover variation found

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

In a nutshell, with a −1.6%per decade change in cloud cover during 1954–2005, it becomes a climate forcing. While China is not the world, it bears consideration. The Hockey Schtick reports: New paper finds significant, natural decrease in cloudiness over … Continue reading →

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Roy Spencer on ‘the Alabama Two-Step’

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

I have been badgered repeatedly to carry “Slayer” articles on WUWT, and with the exception of one cartoon by Josh, I have refused to do so since I view the work (and its derivatives) as pointless and fatally flawed. In … 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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UAH global temperature anomaly goes negative

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for January 2012: -0.09 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer PERSONAL NOTE: I’ve been unavailable for a while…my oldest daughter was in a bad car accident, will be OK eventually, but won’t walk for about 3 … Continue reading →

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Global temps in a Crash as AGW proponents Crash the Economy

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

By Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell Analytics When the PDO turned cold, most of the meteorological and climate community understood that the pattern was turning very similar the last time of the PDO reversal, the 1950s, and it was a matter of … 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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Ben Santer’s “damage control” on UAH global temperature data

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

The post below on Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog that contains responses from Spencer and Christy deserves wide distribution and attention, because it shows just how badly Ben Santer and John Abraham want to squelch this dataset. Particularly amusing is the … Continue reading →

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UAH global temperature – holding steady in November

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for Nov. 2011: +0.12 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for November, 2011 remained about the same as last month, at +0.12 deg. C (click on the image for … Continue reading →

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Why the UAH global temperature is late

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

November Global Temperature Update Delayed By Dr. Roy Spencer There has been a delay in our monthly processing of global temperature data from AMSU. An undersea telecommunications cable used to transmit about half of the huge volume of data coming … Continue reading →

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UAH Global temperature, down over half in October from September

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for October 2011: +0.11 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for October, 2011 dropped , to +0.11 deg. C (click on the image for the full-size version): … Continue reading →

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Spencer finds “the Big Picture” on cloud feedback

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

I’ve Looked at Clouds from Both Sides Now -and Before by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. …sometimes, the most powerful evidence is right in front of your face….. I never dreamed that anyone would dispute the claim that cloud changes … Continue reading →

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