NOTE: An update to the compendium has been posted. Now has bookmarks. Please download again.
I have a new paper out with Joe D’Aleo.
First I want to say that without E.M. Smith, aka “Chiefio” and his astounding work with GISS process analysis, this paper would be far less interesting and insightful. We owe him a huge debt of gratitude. I ask WUWT readers to visit his blog “Musings from the Chiefio” and click the widget in the right sidebar that says “buy me a beer”. Trust me when I say he can really use a few hits in the tip jar more than he needs beer.
The report is over 100 pages, so if you are on a slow connection, it may take awhile.
For the Full Report in PDF Form, please click here or the image above.
As many readers know, there have been a number of interesting analysis posts on surface data that have been on various blogs in the past couple of months. But, they’ve been widely scattered. This document was created to pull that collective body of work together.
Of course there will be those who say “but it is not peer reviewed” as some scientific papers are. But the sections in it have been reviewed by thousands before being combined into this new document. We welcome constructive feedback on this compendium.
Oh and I should mention, the word “robust” only appears once, on page 89, and it’s use is somewhat in jest.
The short read: The surface record is a mess.
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KevinUK: Professor Watson could do with a lesson in humility and clarity from a great one:
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Albert Einstein
That link on “Mapping global warming” led me to the “Weather Underground”, an organisation that may make more comprehensive station data available on the Internet than NASA, NOAA or UAE/CRU.
I had already figured out that to claim “unprecedented warming” the IPCC had to rewrite history by denying the Medieval Warm Period. It was news to me that they are also ignoring the more recent history which they can’t rewrite!
gallopingcamel (19:35:54) :
Yes, you are correct NOAA, GISS and CRU are all attempting to re-write recent climate history. In doing so thay are then able to claim that the 1990’s and now the’Noughties’ are the warmest decade in the last 150 years. This as you can see by looking at the ‘Mapping gobal warming’ maps (and sttaion charts)is nonsense. The warming trends (and temperatures) from 1910 to 1940 are often greater for many of the central US stations than they are for the equivalent 1970 to 2010 period and most importantly the trends are large, often >+5 deg.C/century and cannot be due to CO2 emissions as this period precedes the post WWII period of rapid industrialisation.
It’s also important to understand the significance of the LIA as well as the MWP. GISS have deliberately chosen 1880 as their starting point because this time falls right in the ‘trough’ of a nadir that effectively marked the end of the LIA and the planet’s subsequent recovery from it. I’m sure Hubert Lamb (who CRU named their department’s building after) is turning over in his grave at the idea that his successors (Tom Wigley, Phil Jones et al) have attempted to ‘get rid of the the MWP’.
If you are keen to research what has happened and how we got to where we are today on the AGW issue, I can highly recommend that you read Christopher Booker’s latest book ‘The Real Global Waming Disaster’ and after that read CB’s and Richard North’s book ‘Scared to Death’. Also be a little weary (but nonetheless amused by) of some of the statements made by Lord Monckton. As Steve McIntyre often says ‘be careful not to go a bridge too far’.
KevinUK,
I plan to read those books you recommended. What did you think of Plimer’s “Heaven & Earth”?
Monckton on TV comes across as a right wing “Prince Charles” or “The Rush Limbaugh of Climate Science”. When he gets into Geo-politics he loses me completely.
Does your warning extend to Monckton’s written works such as the latest “CO2 Report” to be found on the SPPI site?
The “bridge too far” says much about the Main Stream Media that pounces on every error by sceptics while downplaying the string of deliberate falsehoods by the IPCC and its supporters.
Anthony & Joe D’Aleo,
Wow, this minute I just finished your ‘New Compendium Paper on Surface Temperature Records’.
My expression of wonder is beyond words.
Nightshift MODERATOR – I have a little problem. As I have mentioned in my comments of past posts, I have been working on a chart that show all temperature data=>process of the data=>data products going back to ~1950s to present. BUT MY PROBLEM is that this paper of Anthony & Joe make my project unnecessary from my view now. The paper is so clear (and in much more detail than a chart could do) and shows exactly what I intended to show in a single chart. SO, please see if you can get Anthony and Joe feedback to me on whether they consider that there still could be merit in my concept of a single chart? I appreciate it.
John in Taipei
[I’ll pass it along – The Night Watch]
Pure Platinum, the best compendium, and without reproach. My chapeau is off the gang of realists….