There’s been a lot of interest in this station from my post on “pipes”. Finding it from Google Earth has been a challenge since the lat/lon provided by meteorological agencies…
Month: November 2008
Nevada USHCN Station Surveys are done
Thanks to the work of dedicated volunteers, we continue to complete surveys of the 1221 USHCN climate stations in the USA. Last week thanks to a business trip, I was…
GISS, NOAA, GHCN and the odd Russian temperature anomaly – "It's all pipes!"
UPDATE: A good photo of one of the Russian stations has been found, see below after the “read more” link. As most readers know by now, the problematic GISTEMP global…
Questions on the evolution of the GISS temperature product
Blink comparator of GISS USA temperature anomaly – h/t to Zapruder The last time I checked, the earth does not retroactively change it’s near surface temperature.
Weblog Awards
Last year there was a crazy Florida style hanging chads-keep-voting-after-the deadline event pitting Climate Audit and Bad Astronomy and their legions of readers against one another. The judges declared a…
GISS's Gavin Schmidt credits WUWT community with spotting the error
I was driving in the middle of Nevada when all this happened, and was offline the entire time. So I can’t claim any credit here. But, it sure is nice…
Corrected NASA GISTEMP data has been posted
After GISS’s embarrasing error with replicating September temperatures in the October analysis, the NASA GISTEMP website was down for awhile today (at least for me). This evening, the new gridded…
Another dumb climate stunt from NBC – climbing Kilimanjaro
You may recall NBC’s Today show sending out their correspondents to all ends of the earth to highlight “climate change”. ‘Today’ host Matt Lauer reported from Jakobshavn Glacier in the…
More flubs at the top of the climate food chain – this time NCDC's Karl
It has been one of those days…first the GISS data train wreck in apparently reusing last months temperatures to make this months “hottest October ever” announcement, now we find that…
GISS Releases (Suspect) October 2008 Data
by John Goetz Update: Thanks to an email from John S. – a patron of climateaudit.org – we have learned that the Russian data in NOAA’s GHCN v2.mean dataset is…
UAH for October sneak peek
I sent a query to Dr. John Christy, curator of the UAH global temperature anomaly dataset, inquiring about some of the changes in the RSS dataset. In addition to commenting…
Sunlight has more powerful influence on ocean circulation and climate than North American ice sheets
From Physorg.com: A study reported in today’s issue of Nature disputes a longstanding picture of how ice sheets influence ocean circulation during glacial periods. The distribution of sunlight, rather than…
This year's Antarctic ozone hole is 5th biggest
September 12th, 2008 Ozone hole over the Antarctic From NASA News This is considered a “moderately large” ozone hole, according to NASA atmospheric scientist, Paul Newman. And while this year’s…
RSS Global Temperature for October: RSS revises data to improve quality
There is some interesting news in the October RSS global temperature anomaly numbers. We are still cooler than one year ago, and the 12 month trend continues to drop. But,…
Truly inconvenient truths about climate change being ignored: IPCC's Pachauri says "warming is taking place at a much faster rate"
UPDATE: 11/10 From the Sydney Morning Herald Michael Duffy November 8, 2008 Last month I witnessed something shocking. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was giving a…
A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record
The graphic above is not from this paper/abstract, nor even the same time frame, but is from this one: A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China…
Surfacestations USHCN ratings in Google Earth
Surfacestations.org volunteer Gary Boden writes in with this contribution: I’ve attached a Google Earth KML file for all of the USHCN stations with the CRN ratings you assigned as color-coded…
Red State Blue State – Dot's Up With That?
Last night anybody who watched TV or surfed the web was assaulted with all manner of red/blue maps. There were states, counties, cities, dots, and graphs. Your green channel of…
I'm featured in this book
The title screams “Red Hot Lies” and will indeed make some “see red”. While it initially made me a bit uncomfortable, it is fairly straightforward and compelling. Having been written…
Mount Shasta's glaciers- proxy for what?
The photo below I took this weekend on my way back from a station survey in the remote northestern corner of California. It shows Mount Shasta getting it’s first significant…
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