Global hurricane activity has decreased to the lowest level in 30 years.

Cross Posted from Climate Audit by Ryan N. Maue, Florida State University COAPS Figure: Global 24-month running sum time-series of Accumulated Cyclone Energy updated through March 12, 2009. Very important:…

Both RSS and UAH global temperature anomalies are out for Feb 09

I’m unable to setup a graph for these while I’m on the road, so a short table will have to do: RSS (Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa) RSS data here…

Negative feedback in climate – empirical or emotional?

Here’s an interesting paper that breaks with consensus. The only problem is that it is being ignored for the most part by the mainstream climate community, even going so far…

Steig's Antarctic Heartburn

Art courtesy Dave Stephens Foreword by Anthony Watts: This article, written by the two Jeffs (Jeff C and Jeff Id) is one of the more technically complex essays ever presented…

How not to measure temperature, part 83: No smoking please

The USHCN Climate station of record in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. Note the beige smoking stand. The casual way that NOAA treats quality control of the measurement environment of the surface network…

Short term trends from GISS Model E: "The model would be off by about 0.15C in the first five years"

On occasion, comments posted on WUWT are backed up with data or graphs from the commenter, and are so germane that they merit their own post for discussion. This is…

Redoing Steig et al, with simple data regrouping, gives half the warming result in Antarctica

AWS Gridded Reconstruction From the Air Vent, reposted by invitation Posted by Jeff Id on February 15, 2009 Guest post by Jeff C Jeff Chas done an interesting and impressive recalculation…

How not to measure temperature, part 82, Friday the 13th: the Temperature Shelter

The surfacestations project has now surveyed over 70% of the USHCN. I keep telling myself that there probably aren’t many surprises left. We’ve seen climate monitoring stations in parking lots,…

Floridatrend: It's Hot But Don't Blame Global Warming

It’s Hot But Don’t Blame Global Warming By Cynthia Barnett – 2/1/2009 FloridaTrend Magazine Morton D. Winsberg fell in love with Florida more than 50 years ago, but the Illinois-born geographer never…

-50°F new all time record low confirmed in Maine

You may recall I wrote about the “Pain in Maine” a couple of weeks back in reference to the painfully cold weather there. Here was the bulletin from NWS: PUBLIC…

How not to measure temperature, part 81 – roofing the past in Columbia

Gary Boden sends word today of finding the weather station at the Colmbia, SC Weather Bureau Office, as shown below: Note the Stevenson Screen on the roof. This is where…

RSS global temperature anomaly makes a significant jump in January

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 January 2009 was published yesterday…

The UK Climate Impact Programme Forecasting Scoresheet

Guest Post by Steven Goddard Recreational cycling during the summer of 2007 The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) is a government funded organization with the following scientifically neutral mission statement on…

New Study Shows Climate Change Largely Irreversible, Climate Modelers Given $140 Million Bonus

From NOAA News, Susan Solomon predicts the future with certainty. In other news, on the same day Caterpillar, Sprint, Texas Instruments, and Home Depot announce massive layoff plans to the…

Philadelphia's Climate in the Early Days

Guest Post by Steven Goddard January, 1790 was a remarkable year in the northeastern US for several reasons.  It was less than one year into George Washington’s first term, and…

"The hardest part is trying to influence the nature of the measurements obtained…"

Many readers here marvel at the scope of adjustments that NASA GISS performs on weather station data. Along those lines, Michelle at Read N Say points out something interesting in…

GISS Divergence with satellite temperatures since the start of 2003

By Steve Goddard and Anthony Watts Some of the excellent readers of the last piece we posted on WUWT gave me an idea, which we are following up on here.…

Misguided thinking: All time low temperature record for Illinois called into question by NWS citing lack of confidence in equipment. "ASOS better than AWOS"

ASOS (left) AWOS (right) – both at airports click for larger images People send me stuff. Last night I got an email from reader Andrew Schut that said: See public…

Divergence Between GISS and UAH since 1980

Guest post by Steven Goddard The GISS website shows the graph below, which indicates a steady, steep warming trend over the last 30 years.  The monthly average anomaly for 2008 (0.44)…

The NOAA/NCDC 2008 temperature map shows near normal USA in 2008

Click for source image No red dots on this map. The map above appears to be representing Weather Service Forecast Office forecast zones, though I’m not absolutely sure since no…