Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is the June 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update, but in it we’re presenting the new GISS…
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July 2015 ENSO Update – Tropical Pacific at the Threshold of a Strong El Niño
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of last year’s 2014-15 El Niño Series. The reference years…
A Return to the Question "Was 2014 the warmest year?"
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: The author of the post has now been listed at the end of the Initial Notes. # # # This is a repost of…
Nieves et al. – Another excuse for 'the pause': Redistribution of Heat in Oceans
New Paper Calls into Question Reanalysis-Based and Climate Model-Based Explanations for the Slowdown in Global Surface Warming Guest Post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION The topic of this post is the…
Quicky Early July 2015 ENSO Update: NINO3 (not NINO3.4) Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Reached 2.0 Deg C Last Week
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW NOAA’s weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO regions (based on Reynolds OI.v2 data) are furnished on Mondays. This week’s update for the…
That Didn’t Take Long: North & South Carolina Shark Attacks Blamed on Global Warming
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale There has been a series of shark attacks off the Carolina coasts. As of last count, the number is 11 shark bites since mid-May. As…
The Conclusions of a Press Release Should Match the Scientific Study, Don’t Ya Think?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: Repaired a few typos. How often do we see this happen—a press release about a scientific study states or suggests that global warming was…
June 2015 ENSO Update – Tropical Pacific Approaching the Threshold of a Strong El Niño
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. The reference years for…
The 2014/15 El Niño Was Not Focused on the Region Used By NOAA for their Oceanic NINO Index
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale And that’s why the 2014/15 El Niño appears so weak…and has disappeared from NOAA’s Oceanic NINO Index with their new ERSST.v4 data. If we look…
Weak El Niños and La Niñas Come and Go from NOAA’s Oceanic NINO Index (ONI) with Each SST Dataset Revision
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Back in April of this year NOAA added the 2014/15 El Niño to their Oceanic NINO Index (a.k.a. ONI). See the former version of ONI…
ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm Is Promoting a Skeptical View of Global Warming: El Niño-Caused Steps
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I wasn’t too surprised to find Joe Romm’s June 16, 2015 blog post 2015 May Bring Long-Awaited Step Jump in Global Temperatures at the climate…
NOAA Releases New Pause-Buster Global Surface Temperature Data and Immediately Claims Record-High Temps for May 2015 – What a Surprise!
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale NOAA recently published their State of the Climate Report for May 2015. Under the heading of Global Summary Information, they note: Note: With this report…
May 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference 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 May 2015 and HADCRUT4 and…
Early Hansen Co-authored Paper Notes “global mean temperature was perhaps 1 deg C warmer than today”
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale While doing some research for my upcoming book, I was rummaging through early papers on sea level data at the CU Sea Level Library. I found…
Open Letter to Tom Karl of NOAA/NCEI Regarding “Hiatus Busting” Data
UPDATE: See the note at the end of the post. Date: June 10, 2015 Subject: Karl et al. (2015) Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming…
More Curiosities about NOAA’s New “Pause Busting” Sea Surface Temperature Dataset
UPDATE 2: KNMI added the HadNMAT2 data to their Climate Explorer, so we no longer have to rely on my replication of data from a graph. See the update before…
New Paper Confirms the Drivers of and Processes behind the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The new paper by McCarthy et al. (2015) Ocean impact on decadal Atlantic climate variability revealed by sea-level observations has gained some attention around the…
New Paper Tries to Explain Disparities in Deep Ocean Warming Between Two Basins
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE See the end of the post for a copy of it in pdf format. PREFACE I comment frankly about the NODC ocean heat content…
The Recent Westerly Wind Burst in the Western Equatorial Pacific Could Help to Strengthen the 2015/16 El Niño
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The graphics at the NOAA GODAS website were running a few pentads (5-day periods) behind when I published the May 2015 ENSO Update. They’re caught…
2 Deg C Global-Warming Limit in the News – Recent Comments by James Hansen, Godfather of Climate Alarmism
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The 2 deg C global warming limit, above pre-industrial temperatures, is back in the news. That limit was first proposed in the 1970s by an…
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