El Niño and La Niña events are the dominant modes of natural climate variability on Earth, which is why the state of the tropical Pacific is continuously monitored. El Niños…
Author: Bob Tisdale
On Don Easterbrook’s Updated Projection
Don Easterbrook has updated his projection graph. Unfortunately, he did not update the graph that I complained about a few weeks ago, shown on the left in Figure 1. In…
If 99 Doctors Said…
We’ve seen the “If 99 doctors said…” argument, or facsimiles, used often by global warming enthusiasts in recent months. George Clooney used it when interviewed at the Britannia Awards. (See…
Open Letter to Kevin Trenberth – NCAR
Date: January 31, 2014 Subject: Your Blog Post at SkepticalScience and an Invitation from WattsUpWithThat From: Bob Tisdale To: Kevin Trenberth – NCAR Dear Kevin: I note that you were…
Why Aren’t Global Surface Temperature Data Produced in Absolute Form?
The title question often appears during discussions of global surface temperatures. That is, GISS, Hadley Centre and NCDC only present their global land+ocean surface temperatures products as anomalies. The questions…
HADCRUT4 for 2013: Almost a DNF in Top Ten Warmest
More Year-End Results The UKMO-Hadley Centre presented its annual HADCRUT4 data a few days ago. The HADCRUT4 annual global land+ocean surface temperature anomalies for 2013 ranked 8th. That’s not much…
Also-Rans: NCDC and GISS Global Surface Temperatures Finish 4th and 7th for 2013
Not a win, place or show between them. In other words, global surface temperatures are still stalled in the post-1997/98-El-Niño era. They are patiently waiting for another strong El Niño…
Our Climate Models Are Aglow with Whirling, Transient Nodes of Thought Careening through a Cosmic Vapor of Invention
UPDATE: Even Trenberth is critical of the Cai et al. (2013) study. See the update at the end. # # # My apologies to the writers of Mel Brooks’ Blazing…
Comments on the Nature Article “Climate Change: The Case of the Missing Heat”
UPDATE: I finished writing this post and published it at my blog Climate Observations about the same time that Don Easterbrook’s post Cause of ‘the pause’ in global warming was…
Open Letter to Jon Stewart – The Daily Show
Date: Friday January 17, 2014 Subject: “The Global Warming Hoax” and “War on Carbon” Clips From: Bob Tisdale To: Jon Stewart Dear Jon: I am an independent climate researcher and…
The Rise and Fall of Global Newspaper Coverage of Global Warming and Climate Change
SEE THE UPDATE AT THE END OF THE POST # # # Joe Romm of ThinkProgess/Climate presented a graph yesterday that showed the dwindling newspaper coverage of global warming and…
RealClimate Co-Founder Exposes His Inability to Grasp Complex Subjects
And most regulars will recall William Connolley. Connolley’s likely best known for his hijinks as a former editor at Wikipedia. (See the WattsUpWithThat posts here, here, here, here, here, here…
An Illustrated Introduction to the Basic Processes that Drive El Niño and La Niña Events
El Niños and La Niñas are parts of naturally occurring, sunlight-fueled processes—amazing processes—that produce warm water and redistribute it from the tropical Pacific. When I was first able to fathom…
Questions Policymakers Should Be Asking Climate Scientists Who Receive Government Funding
Even before the study of human-induced global warming became fashionable, tax dollars had funded a major portion of that research. Government organizations continue to supply the vast majority of the…
Greg Laden Once Again Expresses Something Other Than Fact
In a recent visit to Steve Goddard’s blog, I came across the post Climate Scientists Always Trying To Rewrite Their Own History. It’s about a Tweet by Greg Laden, in…
November 2013 Russian “Hotspot” – Alarmists Are Overlooking Something
UPDATE: Corrected the typo in Figure 3. 1988 now correctly reads 1989. # # # There’s lots of blogosphere chatter about the warm temperatures in Russia in November 2013. In…
If Manmade Greenhouse Gases Are Responsible for the Warming of the Global Oceans…
…then why do the vertical mean temperature anomalies (NODC 0-2000 meter data) of the Pacific Ocean as a whole and of the North Atlantic fail to show any warming over…
November 2013 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) Temperature Anomaly Update
In addition to their monthly global land-ocean temperature index (LOTI) data, GISS also lists quarterly and two annual (December to November and January to December) data. (Source here.) The annual…
Open Letter to the Executive Producers of YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY
(UPDATE: Added Subject Line to Memo Header) December 15, 2013 Subject: Concerns about Upcoming Series Years of Living Dangerously From: Bob Tisdale To: James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Daniel Abbasi,…
More on Trenberth and Fasullo (2013) “An Apparent Hiatus in Global Warming?”
We discussed the Trenberth and Fasullo (2013) paper “An Apparent Hiatus in Global Warming?” in the recent post Trenberth and Fasullo Try to Keep the Fantasy Alive. Since then, Dana…
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