Guest Post by Bob Tisdale NCAR’s Dr. Kevin Trenberth was a lead author of the IPCC’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th Assessment Reports. Near to the publication of the IPCC’s 4th…
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The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 20 – November Update – The Little El Niño That Shoulda’-Woulda’-Coulda’
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale And maybe it will. Weekly sea surface temperature anomalies last week for the NINO3.4 region were at their highest level for the year. Then again,…
On the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Surface Temperature – A Model-Data Comparison
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale With the publication of the IPCC 5th Synthesis Report, I thought there might be some interest in a presentation of how well (actually poorly) climate…
ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm Translates the IPCC’s 2014 Synthesis Report
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It’s been months since I’ve wandered over to the ClimateProgress wing of the political blog ThinkProgress. The title of the November 4, 2014 blog post…
Enthusiasm about a Double-Dip El Niño (?) And Global Warming
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale In this post we can learn from someone’s mistakes. The author of the post at Slate clearly misunderstands many aspects of El Niño and their…
Sorry to Disappoint: Cooling in the North Pacific? Not So Much
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The sea surface temperature anomaly maps from Unisys had many people thinking there had been a drastic cooling of the surface of the extratropical North…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is Nothing More Than a…
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Anthony Watts’s post Meh, same old ‘gloom and doom’ from the IPCC over new climate report at WattsUpWithThat prompted this one. I started to write…
On The Recent Unisys Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Maps and Cooling of Northern Hemisphere Ocean Surfaces
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE 2: As of Monday November 3, 2014, Unisys is no longer updating their sea surface temperature anomaly maps. See the update at the end…
The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 19 – Is an El Niño Already Taking Place?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The recent post at WattsUpWithThat Yes Virginia (and everyone else) there is an El Niño coming was written by Joe Bastardi of WeatherBell Analytics. As…
New Paper on Sea Level Rise – Purkey et al (2014) – Examines the Sea Level Rise by Basin
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Please see the Update at the end of the post to avoid confusion. # # # # The paper Purkey et al. (2014) Relative contributions…
A Future Climate Science Moment
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Not too far in the future, a third-generation climate scientist will be asked by a college student about his grandfather’s work with climate models. Flabbergasted,…
More On Miriam O’Brien’s Misunderstandings at HotWhopper
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is the second in a series of posts about the blog HotWhopper, specifically about the misunderstandings about climate-science basics displayed by its author and…
New Study Predicts a Slight Cooling of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures over the Next Decade
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Pierre Gosselin at NoTrickZone provided an introduction to a recently published paper in his post IPCC Scientist Mojib Latif Sees North Atlantic Cooling Over Next…
Finally Some Reality from RealClimate – But, Unfortunately, They Remained Unreal about Some Things
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The post Ocean heat storage: a particularly lousy policy target + Update at RealClimate finally presented a few realities of the global-warming metric known as…
Quicky Mid-October 2014 El Niño Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is a quick update on the status of the sea surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific, along with a brief discussion of the recent…
With ARGO, There is a Wide Range Warming (and Cooling) Rates of the Oceans to Depths of 2000 Meters
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The KNMI Climate Explorer has added a number of datasets to their Monthly observations webpage, where users select desired data based on global coordinates. (Many…
September 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through September 2014 and HADCRUT4 and…
The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 18 – October 2014 Update – One Last Chance?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This year started off with a subsurface weather event below the surface of the tropical Pacific that made researchers and global warming alarmists hope for…
Hey UCS, Maybe It’s Time We Stopped Wasting Money Studying a Problem And Spent That Money Adapting to It
The Washington Post published an article today titled When sea levels rise, high tides will spill into communities far more often, study says. What a revelation! It’s almost as foolish…
Open Letter to Miriam O’Brien of HotWhopper (a.k.a. Sou)
UPDATE: Miriam responded in depth (?). See update at end of post for links. # # # Guest Post By Bob Tisdale Date: October 5, 2014 Subject: Thank You for…
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