High CO2 boosts plant respiration, potentially affecting climate and crops

Here’s something you don’t see everyday: a university sending out a press release showing the potential benefits on crop yields of elevated atmospheric CO2 levels. – Anthony Public release date:…

New Google Earth tools let us explore the land use changes around climate stations over time

This past week Google introduced the latest iteration of their popular earth visualization program – Google Earth Version 5.0 In it was something I had been hoping for for months:…

Surfacestations now at 70% of the network surveyed

See also the related story on the new Google Earth historical imagery tool here. I’m pleased to announce that due to the help of many volunteer surveyors, the surfacestations.org project…

Vacationing on Venus Basic Geology Series Part 1

Vacationing on Venus Basic Geology Series Part 1 Guest post by Steven Goddard Magellan radar imaged Venus – NASA Image In some ways, Venus is similar to earth.  It is…

How not to measure temperature, part 81 – roofing the past in Columbia

Gary Boden sends word today of finding the weather station at the Colmbia, SC Weather Bureau Office, as shown below: Note the Stevenson Screen on the roof. This is where…

NOAA Unveils New Alert System for La Niña and El Niño

Can’t you just see this scrolling across your TV during an EAS alert?”…. If this had been an actual El Niño, you would have been instructed on where to complain…

Fear and Loathing For California

Guest post by Steven Goddard On the same day when President Obama and Prime Minister Brown separately warned of imminent economic catastrophe, the new US Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu issued a…

Snow job in Antarctica – digging out the data source

UPDATE: the question has arisen about “occupied” aka “manned” weather stations in Antarctica (Stevenson Screens etc) versus the Automated Weather Stations. This picture on a postage stamp from Australia, celebrating…

RSS global temperature anomaly makes a significant jump in January

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 January 2009 was published yesterday…

Arctic Sea Ice Increases at Record Rate

Arctic Sea Ice Increases at Record Rate Guest Post by Jeff Id on February 3, 2009 Something I’ve been interested in for the last several months is sea ice data. What…

WaPo pundits the Goracle

This is not the sort of op-ed we are used to seeing in the Washington Post. But I found it funny nonetheless.  – Anthony With Al Due Respect, We’re Doomed…

Met Office Report Card at the 2/3 Mark

Guest post by Steven Goddard The UK Met Office forecast last Autumn “the coming winter suggests it is, once again, likely to be milder than average. ”  We have now…