The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 8 – The Southern Oscillation Indices

The Southern Oscillation Index has been mentioned often in comments at WattsUpWithThat, in this series of blog posts about the upcoming El Niño. Curiously, Australia’s BOM Southern Oscillation Index for…

Open Thread Weekend – Mann Overboard! Edition

I’m traveling today, so an open thread seems useful. Some topics might be:

John Cook's 97% consensus claim is about to go 'pear-shaped'

pear shaped (slang) A British expression used to indicate that something has gone horribly wrong with a person’s plans, most commonly in the phrase “It’s all gone pear shaped.”The OED…

Spiking temperatures in the USHCN – an artifact of late data reporting

Correcting and Calculating the Size of Adjustments in the USHCN By Anthony Watts and Zeke Hausfather A recent WUWT post included a figure which showed the difference between raw and…

Melting by 2035? Hardly! New study shows most Himalayan Glaciers are stable and in a steady state

WUWT readers may recall that the IPCC famously claimed (using fake data) that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. That date later turned out to be a blunder of epic…