April Global Temperature Anomalies: RSS Steady, UAH dropped over 50%

The data is out for both RSS and UAH, and I’m presenting them both here. Click for full sized graphs. RSS from Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA. RSS…

WUWT Poll: Do we need a "National Climate Service"?

From Slashdot and Networkworld I suppose it’s natural for Washington to try and wrap issues up in a tidy legislative package for bureaucratic purposes (or perhaps other things more nefarious).…

Climate Science Fraud at Albany University?

From the Scientific Misconduct Blog, 2 May 2009 (h/t to Benny Peiser) by Dr.Aubrey Blumsohn Professor Wei-Chyung Wang is a star scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the…

Australia's BOM backs down on warming at Antarctic bases

From the Australian. (h/t to Andrew Bolt) Bureau blows hot and cold over Antarctica warm-up as Bureau of Metereology backs down from a claim that temperatures at Australia’s three bases…

New Australian continent wide low temperature record set for April

Minus 13 degrees – the coldest it’s been in April From Weatherzone – Brett Dutschke, Wednesday April 29, 2009 – 14:58 EST A new Australian record was set early this…

Are Record Temperatures Abnormal?

Guest post by Steven Goddard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution Consider a hypothetical country with 1,000 top notch weather stations and the perfect unchanging climate (which our AGW friends imagine used to exist before…

Are today's poorer generations morally obliged to solve problems that may or may not confront tomorrow's much wealthier generations?

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany http://Goklany.org Some people argue that we are morally obliged to reduce greenhouse gases aggressively because otherwise the world’s current development path would be unsustainable,…

What happens to Steig et al's warming when you divide Antarctica into two distinct climate zones?

A week ago I made this comment to Jeff Id on The Air Vent regarding his reconstruction of the Steig et al Antarctic temperature trends paper. The idea was to…

Principia Mannomatica

For readers unfamiliar with this work, this illustrates one of the mathematics techniques (tree ring proxy data inversion) Dr. Michael Mann uses to divine the famous “Hockey Stick” cited by…

Climate Models -vs- Climate Reality: diverging or just a dip?

Here’s something really interesting:  two comparisons between model ensembles and  3 well known global climate metrics plotted together. The interesting part is what happens in the near present. While the…

GISS Global temperature anomaly – coldest March since 2000

While I have reservations about the GISS dataset due to the many adjustments it endures, the GISS global temperature anomaly data for March 2009 has been published. The March 2009…

Will April be the 100th Warmest On Record?

NOAA monthly weather summaries normally describe the month in terms of their warmness ranking.  April is looking like an interesting month, with remarkably consistent cold across the entire US.  Much…

A challenge to Steig et al, on Antarctic warming

Jeff Id of the Air Vent has offered me this study he just completed for the consideration of WUWT readers. Given the wide audience we have here, I’m sure it…

All-time Snow Records Tumbling Again for the Second Straight Year

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP Map of US weather records for week ending 4/6/09 click image to enlarge or here for source. Map created by HAMWeather, UPDATE: NOAA predicts the…

RSS and UAH Global Temperature Anomalies for March 2009

RSS Data Source is here The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for March 2009 was published today…

How not to measure temperature, part 85: what Katrina did for temperature measurement

Below is a photo of the USHCN climate station of record in Pascagoula Mississippi. Note the location of the MMTS temperature sensor. The phrase “industrial nightmare” comes to mind. But…

Weather Station Data: raw or adjusted?

In my post on the Mohonk Weather Station, the question came up about “raw” temperature data. Tom in Texas complained that he’d looked at data from the observer B91 forms…

How not to measure temperature, part 84: "Pristine" Mohonk Lake USHCN station revisited

As WUWT readers may recall back in September of 2008, the New York Times ran an extensive first hand account of the Mohonk Lake, NY USHCN climate station of record.…

Steve McIntyre's ICCC09 presentation with notes

I sat next to Steve on the Climatology Panel at ICCC09 and thought he did a fine job of summarizing the Mannian methodology and the Bristlecone Pine issues for the…

Finally – an honest quantification of urban warming by a major climate scientist

This is a small bombshell. I’ve been telling readers about UHI since this blog started. One notable example that I demonstrated by actual measurement is Reno, NV: Click for larger…