We’ve been waiting for the UC web page to be updated with the most recent sea level data. It finally has been updated for 2008. It looks like the steady…
Year: 2008
RSS for November is out, up slightly
Click for a larger image RSS Data Source is here The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for…
La Niña is back
Image from NOAA, dated 12/04/08 – click for larger image h/t to Fernando It will be interesting to see what November UAH and RSS satellite data brings forth. La Niñas…
Greenhouse gases make oceans noisier?
Photo not part of original article. From news.com.au yes something else to worry about and to add to the list of hundreds of things supposedly caused by global warming. The…
Internal Report Says U.N. Climate Agency Rife With Bad Practices
Perhaps now the problems with disappearing weather stations and slow or non-existent updates of GHCN weather data can be explained. The U.N. appears to be ineffective at managing basic science…
The Answer Is: what is a dress blue weather station?
You may recall last week I wrote about the NWS Upton, New York Forecast Office that was on the TV quiz show Jeopardy. While I didn’t have a screen cap…
Waste heat could warm the earth? Perhaps it has already started.
Excerpt of an article from the New Scientist, 01 December 2008 by Mark Buchanan (h/t to Richard Hegarty) EVEN if we turn to clean energy to reduce carbon emissions, the…
Cleveland-area TV meteorologists disagree with prevailing attitude about climate change
Clearly, I’m not the only TV meteorologist (former) with doubts. Here is a story out of Cleveland that shows how others think about the issues. – Anthony Cleveland-area TV meteorologists…
"No one wants to leave the house"
Wind turbines and neighborhoods just don’t mix It seems. Would you want one of these to do this when a wind storm comes your way? Wind power has it’s pluses…
Here's something you don't see every day – a USHCN station reopens
It is heartening to see a “back to basics” approach like this being taken on a college campus. Not only did they reopen the USHCN station that had been closed,…
Klosed in Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo State Hospital In an effort to add to the surfacestation.org survey coverage, I’ve been looking at a number of stations from the aerial vantage points available in Google Earth…
Using the Dead to Fight AGW
by John Goetz In what seems to be a script straight from a Monty Python classic, the good folks of Santa Coloma de Gramenet in Spain seem to have found…
Statistician debunks Gore's climate linkage to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation
Mayan ruins in Guatemala. This is an email I recently received from statistician Dr. Richard Mackey who writes: The following appeared on Gore’s blog of Nov 19, 2008: Looking Back…
Al Gore does Oprah – was anybody watching?
A guest post by: Russ Steele from NCWatch We can only hope the most people in the US are shopping on Black Friday and not watching the Oprah Winfrey Show…
Black Friday Humor
ASOS station in Greenville, Alabama, Mac Crenshaw Memorial Airport Photo by: Howard Wiseman You’d think either the FAA or NOAA would get this cleaned up before surfcaestations.org volunteers have the…
Glaciers in Norway, Alaska, growing again
A glacial region in Norway (Source: NRK) Reposted from the DailyTech By: Mike Asher Scandinavian nation reverses trend, mirrors results in Alaska, elsewhere. After years of decline, glaciers in Norway…
How not to measure temperature, part 78 – teach the children well
Title with apologies to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. In my last post, part 77 of “How not to measure temperature” I pointed out that the National Weather Service in…
How not to measure temperature, part 77: Surveying a weather station by watching JEOPARDY!
Yes, you read the title correctly. Sometimes I feel like a strange attractor for weather station chaos. Here I am at home tonight minding my own business, in my home…
Atlantic Hurricane Season Sets Records
This NOAA press release just showed up in my inbox, it seems to be a completely different take on the Hurricane season than that of Florida State’s COAPS and Ryan…
Adjusting Temperatures for the ENSO and the AMO
NOTE: Zip file downloads of models with data have been fixed, see end of this post – Anthony Source: Mantua, 2000 The essay below has been part of a back…
How not to measure temperature, part 76
Click for the Oberlin image gallery This is the USHCN station of record for Oberlin KS. COOP # 145906 It was installed at this location in March 2008. The idea…
A note to WUWT readers
As you may have noted, the rate at which I have posted new stories in the last couple of days has tapered off, and likely will remain at a lowered…
UK brought to standstill as five inches of snow falls in an hour
Mike Ronanye writes: Photo from Sky News Story from UK Telegraph: UK brought to standstill as five inches of snow falls in an hour The press still can’t convert between…
Litigious Lunacy
This is quite something. Darn those Canucks. As we saw with his defense of eco-vandals in England, I wonder if Dr. James Hansen will rush to The Hague to testify…
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