Global Temperature Report: January 2015 – not much change from December

From University of Alabama, Hunstville: Northern non-tropics see warmest January Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade January temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.35 C (about…

BEST practices step uncertainty levels in their climate data

Brandon Shollenberger writes in with this little gem: I thought you might be interested in a couple posts I wrote discussing some odd problems with the BEST temperature record.  You…

Improving Climate Literacy: 'Temperature Homogenization Activity'

Guest essay by Jim Steele In 2012 the National Academies of Science published A Framework For K-12 Science Education Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Although the framework often characterizes…

What Does Gavin Schmidt's 'Warmest' Year Tell Us About Climate Sensitivity to CO2?

Guest post by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism A friend of…

On Migrating Moose and Migrating Temperature Trends

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism The biggest threat…

Anthropogenic Warming in the CET Record?

Guest essay by Neil Catto The CET record started in 1659 close to the minimum of the little ice age. As such, it is with no surprise that last year…

Changepoint analysis as applied to the surface temperature record

Guest essay by Jeff Patterson In a recent post on RealClimate, the author examines the statistical significance of the “The Pause” using a technique recently in vogue called changepoint analysis…

Independent Review Discovers that NCDC Fumbles Data Handling in GHCN Climate Data

Guest essay by Bob Koss Being an old retired guy with time on my hands, this summer I decided to find out just how well GHCN-Monthly follows their own methodology…

New Zealand's Temperature Record challenged by new skeptical paper

Chris deFrietas sends word of a new paper, that drops the trend of the New Zealand temperature record (NZTR) to 0.28C per century, down from ~0.9C per century. This past…

Is NOAA Wrong?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach On another post here on Watts Up With That, a commenter pointed out that NOAA says that September 2014 was the warmest September ever on record. The…

UAH Global Temperature Report: September 2014 temperature up from August

August global temperature was 0.19C, September is 0.29C Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade September temperatures (preliminary) Notes on data released Oct. 6, 2014: There…

Australia's History of Hot Tempers

Guest essay by Robert Balic: You might have noticed the Hand Print of Climate Change in Australia here or come across this graphic of the number of stations recording 45°C…

It's official: no global warming for 18 years 1 month

Global Temperature Update By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The RSS monthly satellite global temperature anomaly for September 2014 is in, and the Great Pause is now two months longer than…

August 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly 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 August 2014 and HADCRUT4 and…

UAH Global Temperature Report: August 2014 down by .11C

From Dr. Roy Spencer and Philip Gentry at UAH. The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for August, 2014 is +0.20 deg. C, down from July’s value…

Australian scientist calls for 'heads to roll' over adjusted temperature data

Yesterday we posted on BoM’s bomb on station temperature trend fiddling. where BoM claimed the trend difference was a result of a station move. Apparently, BoM can’t even keep track of…

Cold summer: US daily record minimums outnumbering record maximums 3 to 1 in the last 30 days

Plus, there have been new snowfall records, almost unheard of in summer. See the table:

Australian Met Office Accused Of Manipulating Temperature Records

There’s quite a row developing after a scathing article in the Australian, some news clips follow. h/t to Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF The [Australian] Bureau of Meteorology has…

UAH July global temperature – essentially unchanged from June

From Dr. Roy Spencer: The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2014 is +0.31 deg. C, unchanged from June (click for full size version):

Temperature analysis of 5 datasets shows the 'Great Pause' has endured for 13 years, 4 months

Time to sweep away the flawed, failed IPCC By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley HadCRUT4, always the tardiest of the five global-temperature datasets, has at last coughed up its monthly global…