I just watched a presentation Elsi Sertel from a university in Turkey showing how easy it is to introduce true land cover data into a climate model. Her study area…
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Live from the conference, Day2
I’m sitting in a presentation by William R. Cotton, of Colorado State University where he’s talking about the effect of Urban Heat Islands (UHI) on precipitation. He’s making a convincing…
How not to measure temperature – part 30
Russ Steele is out on vacation and doing several surveys while traveling. This one below is from St. George, UT. Here we see an MMTS measuring the temperature near the…
Conference Day1 – van rides and jitters
Well I just finished Day1 at the conference at UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) put together by Dr. Roger Pielke, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation titled: Detecting…
Live from Conference at UCAR, Boulder, CO
I’m currently attending a conference at UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) put together by Dr. Roger Pielke, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation titled: Detecting the Atmospheric Response…
The 10 Climate Monitoring Principles
The National Research Council (NRC 1999) recommended that the following ten climate monitoring principles, proposed by Thomas Karl et al. (NCDC, 1995), should be applied to climate monitoring systems: Management…
Specs on weather stations
There’s been some discussion about specs on siting of weather stations and temperature measurement. Coincidentally, I’ve been conversing with Jos de Laat of KNMI, the Dutch Meteorological Institute who offered…
How not to measure temperature – part 29
The picture above is of Conconully, Washington and comes to me courtesy of Josiah Mault, of the Washington State Climate Office. Mault has been surveying all of the Washington stations…
Equipment Distribution in the US Climate Network
I just finished several days of data compilation and cross checking in preparation for release of the first set of numbers from my www.surfacestations.org project. One of the things I’m…
A letter from climate scientist James Hansen
James Hansen of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies issued a letter (the second this week) in response to the correction of temperatures that was recently done as a result…
Climate Audit is back online
The new server hardware I built for Climate Audit was deployed in the co-location center today in California, I hand delivered it myself. This new server has much over the…
Townhall.com on the NASA “Y2K” Error
By Steve McIntyre “Here’s an interesting article on the NASA “Y2K” error from Michael Fumento of Townhall.com that steers between the over-reaction of some commentators that this error somehow disproves…
Guest weblog – A Report from the Global Warming Battlefield
by Roy Spencer | 15 Aug 2007 In case you hadn’t noticed, the global warming debate has now escalated from a minor skirmish to an all-out war. Although we who…
New Climaudit.org server to be up TODAY
JohnA and I have been busy rebuilding CA from the ground up on a new server platform in a more stable co-location facility. The new platform I’ve provided is up…
Hey I'm a reverend!
Our local weekly has a few words to say in the column Green Man Too funny! UPDATE: It appears “Green Man” doesn’t write his own material. See this. Either that…
Surface Temperature Records in China
There is an interesting fight brewing over surface meteorological stations in China being led by Doug Keenan of the UK. This is a case where the station metadata used to…
Does Hansen's Error "Matter"? – guest post by Steve McIntyre
Does Hansen’s Error “Matter”? Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit blog is offline, he has asked me to post this here – Anthony There’s been quite a bit of publicity about…
Lights Out – Guest post by Steve McIntyre
“Lights Out Upstairs” Note: Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit blog is currently offline, he’s asked me to post this on his behalf – Anthony James Hansen has published an online letter…
Climate Audit and surfacestations.org are down
Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit is down due to excessive traffic that may have been caused by either or a combination of these things: 1- Rush Limbaugh mentioning the website in…
1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA
Here’s a story of scientific investigation and discovery I’m proud to have had a small part in.Regular readers may remember that I posted about a climate station in Detroit Lakes…
How not to measure temperature, part 28 – Eureka!
Well, I found it. Eureka that is, but what I found was rather depressing. I visited the climate stations of record both old and new at Eureka, California on July…
How not to measure temperature, part 27 – Basketball anyone?
This is the climatological station of record for Odessa, Washington. It is at the residence of a COOP weather observer administered by NOAA. The photo was taken by surfacestations.org volunteer…
Closed Minds of the herd
Spot the free thinker in this photo (photo courtesy ZombieTime) Russell Steele over at NCWatch has an interesting post about “going against the herd”. He says “Bob Prechter, an expert…
Another milestone – 200 Volunteers
As of this evening, August 3rd, my surfacestations.org project collected it’s 200th volunteer sign-up. Granted not all of them are actively out there surveying stations, some have done none, others…
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