John McLean writes relative to our previous story on this issue: Friday Funny: more upside down data A few hours ago I received an email from John Kennedy at the Hadley Centre to say that HadSST3 data had been corrected. A message now appears at the top of http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadsst3/ , saying: “08/04/2016: An error in the…
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Guest essay by Eric Worrall There are intriguing signs of a softening of political resolve to act on Climate Change, on the left wing of Australian Politics. Perhaps the Climate Policy driven jobs bloodbath, in the British Steel Industry, is starting to have a wider impact. Labor is moving towards announcing an inquiry into Australia’s…
From NOAA Communications: National Weather Service will stop using all caps in its forecasts Farewell teletype, hello mixed-case characters LISTEN UP! BEGINNING ON MAY 11, NOAA’S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS WILL STOP YELLING AT YOU. New forecast software is allowing the agency to break out of the days when weather reports were sent by “the…
From NASA Goddard: Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe. The observations, made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in…
A few years ago in 2009, I was the first to notice and write about a failure of the instrumentation for one of the satellites used by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) to show Arctic Sea Ice extent. I was told initially by NSIDC scientist Walt Meier that such an observation “wasn’t…
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I always enjoy the headlines of climate alarmist news stories. This one caught my eye this week. Of course the headline included the infamous weasel words: COULD BE. At BusinessInsider.com: 4.2 million Americans could be displaced by rising sea levels this century — see if your county is at risk. The…