Or as an alternate title: “Why we find it difficult to trust certain climate scientists.” This posting by Bishop Hill, telling the tale of the nefarious temperature reconstruction known as…
Month: August 2008
Spotless days: 400 and counting
The sun on 08/12/2008 just before midnight UTC – spotless As many of you know, the sun has been very quiet, especially in the last month. In a NASA news…
December 1986
A guest post by John Goetz Cross posted from Climate Audit After I posted GISS Spackle and Caulk, a number of commenters marveled at the symmetry of the histogram (GISS…
Arizona State: Climate Models Missing Important Aersols
Above graphic for illustration only – not related to study cited below PHOENIX, Aug. 11 (UPI) — U.S. Scientists say they’ve discovered some measures used in atmospheric science overlook important…
Maine's tourism industry suffering due to cooler, wetter, weather
NOTE: There seems to be an abundance of anecdotal weather evidence that the northern latitudes in North America have had a cooler summer than usual. Of course there are places…
GISS Spackle and Caulk
Guest post by John Goetz Cross posted from Climate Audit Earlier this year I did a post on the amount of estimation done to the GHCN temperature record by GISS…
NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
NOTE: You may recall a story I posted some months ago titled: “NASA: It’s the wind” regarding Arctic wind circulation patterns and the way it drove sea ice further south…
Urbanization raises the heat in Orange County, CA
UPDATE: I personally visited this station today, thanks to a family visit that coincidentally took me to within a couple of miles of this station. It’s on a rooftop at…
The view on AGW from the Australian
Key degrees of difference Cameron Stewart, Associate editor | August 09, 2008 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24148862-11949,00.html HAS global warming stopped? The question alone is enough to provoke scorn from the mainstream scientific community…
"…this year, there was an exceptional amount of ice -"
Click for larger image – Polarstern am Eisrand vor Nordost-Grönland Photo: Martin Graeve, Alfred-Wegener-Institut August 7-08 press release on work done from MV Polarstern in the northern Greenland Sea (between…
NOAA: U.S. Temperature Above Normal in July
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: John Leslie 301-713-2087, ext. 174 Aug. 8, 2008 NOAA: U.S. Temperature Above Normal in July July 2008 was the 30th warmest July for the contiguous United States, based…
July UAH Global Temperature Anomaly: up a bit and in general agreement with RSS
UAH (University of Alabama, Huntsville) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for July 2008 was published today and has moved a bit above the zero anomaly line, with…
Mauna Loa to improve CO2 data reporting
Regular readers may recall our conversations this week on the hiccup in CO2 data from the Mauna Loa Observatory. I’m pleased to announce that I received this encouraging email today from Dr.…
Strong Start Increases NOAA’s Confidence for Above-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season
Contact: Carmeyia Gillis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 301-763-8000, ext, 7163 Aug. 7, 2008 Strong Start Increases NOAA’s Confidence for Above-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season In the August update to the Atlantic hurricane…
RSS July Global Temperature Anomaly – up a bit
RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for July 2008 was published today and has moved a bit above the…
An important call for public comment on the NASA Climate Change Science Program
Foreword: For all of my readers, I can’t stress enough how important Dr. Herman’s message is. Please consider his requests for public comments. Something that most people don’t know is…
Post mortem on the Mauna Loa CO2 data eruption
As most readers of this blog already know, there has been a posting and revision of CO2 data on the Mauna Loa observatory website in the past day that has…
APS Fellow supports Monckton's position
The following letter is from an APS member, Roger W. Cohen, and is in support of Lord Monckton’s paper published in the July APS newsletter. For more information on this,…
Earth Warms to 812F, experts baffled
Southern California Hot Spot Hits 812 Degrees, Baffles Experts Photo: Ventura County Fire Department From FoxNews: The ground is so hot in one part of Southern California it can melt…
One day later: Mauna Loa CO2 graph changes
UPDATE: 08/07 2:PM PST MLO responds with improvements to the CO2 data reporting Approximately 24 hours after I published my story on the January to July trend reversal of CO2 at…
NCDC: Photoshopping the climate change report for better impact
Last week on Friday August 1st you may recall that I commented on the release of the Draft report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States In that post…
Presidential Science Advisor Briefed On Potential For Mars Life
This in an interesting story from Aviation Week They say “the data relate to habitability” But it makes you wonder why they had to brief the Presidential Science Advisor on…
Mauna Loa CO2 January to July trend goes negative first time in history
UPDATE5: MLO responds with improvements to the CO2 data reporting UPDATE4 August 4th 11:45PST the Mauna Loa graph (but not data) has changed, see this new post Back on April…
Finding well sited weather stations is becoming more difficult
In a little over a year into the www.surfacestation.org project, volunteers have surveyed about 600 stations now, roughly half of the 1221 USHCN climate network. One of the things I had…
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