The year is not quite in the books, but it is late enough that we can have a look-back at this year’s weather and climate extremes.
Category: Climate data
Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety
“The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts, the less you know the hotter you get.”
The CERES Data
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I do a very large percentage of my work using CERES data. What is CERES? From their website: Climate is controlled by the amount of…
Satellite Data: coolest monthly tropics temperature in over 10 years
From Dr. Roy Spencer: The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for June, 2022 was +0.06 deg. C, down (again) from the May, 2022 value of +0.17…
U.S. Heat Waves: Dessler Continues to Step In It
Atmospheric scientist Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University created a stir online at Twitter last year when he decided that a graph published by the EPA, and cited by Bjorn…
On Comparing 30-Year “Climate Normals”
What is normal weather? One doesn’t spend much time learning about climatology before coming across a marvelous sound bite: “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.” The…
The Interpretation of Interpolation
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (see Arctic/Antarctic update at the end) Over in the comments at a post on a totally different subject, you’ll find a debate there about interpolation…
LIVE STREAM: Al Gore on using satellite data to measure climate change
Ironic, since the idea of satellite temperature data from Spencer and Christy et al is rejected by people like Al Gore. Description: This panel discussion will examine ways in which…
WMO: “impact of the COVID-19 confinements [on CO2] cannot be distinguished from natural variability”
Proof that ongoing expensive CO2 reduction efforts are utterly futile. Green hopes that the Covid-19 lockdown would have a significant impact on global CO2 have been dashed.
Global Temperature Update for September 2020: +0.57 deg. C
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2020 was +0.57 deg. C, up from from the August, 2020 value…
More surfacestations project vindication: Strong UHI temperature biases confirmed in USA
WUWT readers may recall that NOAA did an experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that vindicated my findings about the effects of local urbanization on surface temperature measurements. The urban…
NOAA Satellite records second largest 2-month temperature drop in history
UPDATE: Changed emphasis from Northern Hemisphere extratropics to entire Northern Hemisphere (h/t John Christy) In April, 2020, the Northern Hemisphere experienced its 2nd largest 2-month drop in temperature in the…
Seeing what one expects
By Kevin Kilty This morning I awoke to a mid-April morning temperature of -11F. The 1981 to 2010 climate normals indicate our average daily minimum temperature per this date as…
NOAA Relies on ‘Russian Collusion’ to Claim January Was Hottest Month on Record
Other data shows the USA wasn’t even close to a record. By Anthony Watts In a report generating substantial media attention this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)…
Global Temperature Report: October 2019
November 1, 2019 Vol. 29, No. 7 Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade October Temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.46 C (+0.83 °F) above seasonal…
‘Hidden’ NOAA temperature data reveals that 6 of the last 9 months were below normal in the USA – and NOAA can’t even get June right
A review of state-of-the-art climate data tells a different story than what NOAA tells the public. While media outlets scream “hottest ever” for the world in June and July (it’s…
First ICESat-2 Global Data Released: Ice, Forests and More
From NASA Global Climate Change By Kate Ramsayer, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center More than a trillion new measurements of Earth’s height – blanketing everything from glaciers in Greenland, to…
Analysis of new NASA AIRS study: 80% of U.S. Warming has been at Night
By Dr. Roy Spencer I have previously addressed the NASA study that concluded the AIRS satellite temperatures “verified global warming trends“. The AIRS is an infrared temperature sounding instrument on the NASA…
The ‘trick’: How More Cooling Generates Global Warming
From the “we’ll fix that in post” department comes this from down under courtesy of Dr. Jennifer Marohasy. COOLING the past relative to the present has the general effect of…
Data mangling: BoM’s Changes to Darwin’s Climate History are Not Logical
Guest essay by Dr. Jennifer Marohasy The hubris of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology is on full display with its most recent remodelling of the historic temperature record for Darwin.…
Data analysis: Global temperature has not increased under Republican presidents, only Democrats
From the website Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science at Columbia University comes this hilarious but real bit of data analysis. Looking at short trends in the global surface temperature…
Global Temperature Report: January 2019 – up, due in part to Australia
The global average bulk-layer atmospheric temperature anomaly rose by +0.12 °C (0.22 °F) in January to +0.37°C Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade January Temperatures (preliminary)…
Inverse Hockey-Stick: climate related death risk for an individuals down 99% since 1920
Bjørn Lomborg writes on Facebook about some new and surprising data that turn climate alarmist claims upside down. Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters. This is clearly opposite…
The Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Watch is an Interesting Initiative but Let’s Not Repeat History
World Meteorological Congress approves global greenhouse gas monitoring initiative