BBC before and after

There has been a lot of talk about the edits the BBC made to a story on climate change in response to repeated emails by a single environmental activist. Michael…

UAH Global Temp Anomaly: also slightly above zero

A few days ago I posted the results of the RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data by RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA). For March…

Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Interactive climate analysis for everyone

In America we have a saying, “Seeing the forest for the trees…” which is used to suggest seeing the bigger picture. In Britain, the similar saying is “Seeing the wood…

Rewriting History, Time and Time Again

A guest post by John Goetz In February I wrote a post asking How much Estimation is too much Estimation? I pointed out that a large number of station records…

Right behind CNN

Now this was a surprise: Out of the 2,854,671 blogs with 132,697 new posts today on www.wordpress.com. I was number 2, right behind the CNN Political Ticker. Details (while it…

Apologies to commenters

A number of comments lately have found their way into the Akismet spam filter where before they were not. I have adjusted the SPAM filter settings several times, but this…

Solar cycle minimum at the earliest in second half of 2008?

Current SOHO: The Sun is blank again The outlook for solar activity continues to be pushed further back as cycle 23 spots continue, such as the group of 3 seen…

CO2 monthly mean at Mauna Loa leveling off, dropping?

Source: NOAA http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ In the graph above, the black line is the seasonally adjusted value while the red is the monthly mean. This is based on data through March. May…

Scavenger Hunt: find the lump of coal

In comments, Anna V reminded me of something I’ve been looking for for awhile, but forgotten about in the busy work of the surfacestations.org project. With this blog having a…

March 2008 RSS Global Temperature Anomaly Data: slightly above zero

The RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data has been published this morning by RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA). For March 2008 it has moved…

How not to measure temperature, part 56

Our newest volunteer at surfacestations.org is Keith Taylor, and he’s gotten off to a great start with 2 stations in 2 days. His first was the climate station of record…

CNN's View of Climate History

Some of you might notice that some other items of interest were left out… feel free to fill in the gaps.   A timeline of climate change science By Matthew Knight for…

How not to measure temperature, part 55

Surfacestations.org volunteers Liz and Don Healy captured this official USHCN climate station of record (COOP ID #22659) in Douglas Arizona on their cross country trip this winter. As is typical…

Making Tea at the Hadley Climate Research Unit

from: Modern Mechanix, September 1929  Over on Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre did a post about what HadCRU recently did to announce an “error” in their temperature series due to the…