Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Quick answer: Over the long term, the answer is yes, but for shorter terms it depends on the sea surface temperature dataset and time period.…
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The Illusions Provided by Time-Series Graphs of Climate Model Ensembles and Model Spreads
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The post Controversy over comparing models with observations at Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. prompted this post. Judith’s post includes a Twitter exchange and a couple of…
Quicky Early April 2016 ENSO Update: NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Still at the Threshold of a Strong El Niño
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale NOAA’s weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO regions (based on the original Reynolds OI.v2 data) are furnished on Mondays. Today’s update for the…
February 1998 Global Temperatures Reach Unprecedented Levels
Guest Post The satellite-measured temperature of the lower troposphere—the layer of Earth’s atmosphere that’s closest to the surface—has risen about 0.75 deg C (more than 1.3 deg F) in less…
February 2016 Global Surface Temperature Anomalies May or May Not Have Been Highest on Record, According to the UKMO
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: I used the phrase “may or may not” with respect to February 2016 being the warmest on record in the title and text of…
Why are U.S. Taxpayers Supporting Numerous Duplications of Effort in the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale There are numerous duplications of effort in the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP): from multiple U.S.-funded climate-modeling groups, to multiple producers of the same…
An Open Letter to U.S. Presidential Candidates
Date: March 27, 2016 Subject: Extreme Weather and Rising Sea Levels From: Bob Tisdale – Independent Researcher/Climate Change To: United States Presidential Candidates Dear Presidential Candidates: While reading this letter,…
More Alarmist Nonsense with the Release of the Redundant* NOAA Global Temperature Data for February 2016
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale *Or Maybe the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index is Redundant. In the post Alarmism Cranked Up to Absurd Level, we discussed the misleading media reports about…
Alarmism Cranked Up to Absurd Level
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale With the El Niño-related uptick in the February 2016 GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index, Figure 1, alarmism has reached beyond the Spinal Tap 11 volume setting,…
Global Sea Surface Temperature Responses to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 El Niño Events
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Alternate Title: Just in Case You Thought Sea Surface Temperatures around the Globe Responded Similarly to Strong El Niños This post will illustrate quite clearly…
February 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
UPDATE (April 15, 2016): I discovered an error in the model-data comparison and model-data difference graphs (Figures 10 and 11) that impacted only the January 2016 value. The error has…
March 2016 ENSO Update – We’ll Have to Keep an Eye on the Pocket of Warm Water South of the Equator
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of the 2014-15 El Niño Series. For the posts about…
March 2016 Update of Global Temperature Responses to 1997/98 and 2015/16 El Niño Events
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale In lagged responses to the 2015-16 El Niño, there have recently been sizable upticks in the lower troposphere temperature data from both RSS and UAH,…
Is the 2015/16 El Niño an El Niño Modoki?
AND Is that the Reason Why This El Niño is Not Suppressing the California Drought as Expected? Guest Post by Bob Tisdale El Niño events come in different flavors, and…
Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 4
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Alternate Title: Climate Models Undermine the Hypothesis of Human-Induced Global Warming According to the hypothesis of human-induced global warming, manmade greenhouse gases create an energy…
Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 3
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: See the update below Figure 1.24-8 for the IPCC’s correction of their Figure 9.17 from the 5th Assessment Report. Thanks, Nic. # # #…
Comments on Riser et al (2016) – An Infomercial about the ARGO Program
UPDATE: I’ve crossed out the entire discussion of the top of the atmosphere energy imbalance and removed the illustration. See the note at the beginning of that heading. # #…
January 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: All graphs with UAH lower troposphere temperature data have been updated from beta version 6.4 to 6.5. Thanks, Nick Stokes. This means Figure 4…
Climate Models Are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 2
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as part 2 of the 2015 update of the model-data comparisons of satellite-era sea surface temperatures. The 2014 update is here.…
Climate Models Are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 1
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as part 1 of the 2015 update of the model-data comparisons of satellite-era sea surface temperatures. The 2014 update is here.…
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