Analysis of Temperature Change using World Class Stations

Guest essay by Ron Clutz This is a study to see what the world’s best stations (a subset of all stations I selected as “world class” by criteria) are telling…

Should you trust NOAA claims about May and June records?

Guest essay by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM Last month was the hottest June since record keeping began in 1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Monday. It marked…

NOAA's own trend calculator helps confirm 'the pause' and lack of ocean warming in the 21st century

People send me stuff. Yesterday I got a note suggesting I have a look at what NOAA/NCDC’s “climate at a glance” was showing for trends in the 21st century so…

NASA GISS runs 'hot' and 'cold' as an outlier again

NASA GISS Version 3 vs. Version 2, using HadCRUT.4 Version differences as a baseline Guest essay by David Dohbro Recently the climate blogosphere has uncovered the effects of adjusting past…

A way of calculating local climate trends without the need for a government supercomputer

This method may or may not have merit – readers are invited to test the merit of it themselves, the method is provided – Anthony Guest essay by Ron Clutz…

NCDC responds to identified issues in the USHCN

The NCDC press office sent an official response to Politifact, which is below. The NCDC has not responded to me personally, I only got this by asking around. I’ve provided…

UAH Global temperature update, not much change

UAH Global Temperature Update for June, 2014: +0.30 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for June, 2014 is +0.30 deg.…

NOAA's temperature control knob for the past, the present, and maybe the future – July 1936 now hottest month again

Two years ago during the scorching summer of 2012, July 1936 lost its place on the leaderboard and July 2012 became the hottest month on record in the United States.…

On ‘denying’ Hockey Sticks, USHCN data, and all that – part 2

In part one of this essay which you can see here, I got quite a lot of feedback on both sides of the climate debate. Some people thought that I…

On 'denying' Hockey Sticks, USHCN data, and all that – part 1

Part 2 is now online here. One of the things I am often accused of is “denying” the Mann hockey stick. And, by extension, the Romm Hockey stick that Mann…

Why would climate skeptics hold a conference in HOT Las Vegas?

That is a question that I’m sure is on a lot of people’s minds as they wonder if they should attend. It seems like the sort of thing warmists would…

Stunning admission – and a new excuse for 'the pause' – 'lousy data'

“The Models didn’t have the skill we thought they had…” Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian, a prominent green UK daily newspaper, reports that scientists have given up on…

Comparison between global surface temperature anomaly datasets – Take 2

Guest essay by David Dohbro Recently WUWT published my comparison of several different land-based and satellite-based global surface temperature anomaly (GSTA) datasets (1, and data sets’ descriptions and references therein).…

Why Automatic Temperature Adjustments Don't Work

The automatic adjustment procedure is almost guaranteed to produce spurious, artificial warming, and here’s why. Guest essay by Bob Dedekind Auckland, NZ, June 2014 In a recent comment on Lucia’s…

NOAA shows 'the pause' in the U.S. surface temperature record over nearly a decade

NOTE: significant updates have been made, see below. After years of waiting, NOAA has finally made a monthly dataset on the U.S. Climate Reference Network available in a user friendly…

The pause continues – Still no global warming for 17 years 9 months

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley According to the RSS satellite data, whose value for May 2014 has just been published, the global warming trend in the 17 years 9 [months]…

Quote of the week: a howler from the World Meteorological Organization – what warming?

Gosh, you’d think they’d check the data before issuing a statement like this (press release follows). It [CO2] was responsible for 85% of the increase in radiative forcing – the…

Spiking temperatures in the USHCN – an artifact of late data reporting

Correcting and Calculating the Size of Adjustments in the USHCN By Anthony Watts and Zeke Hausfather A recent WUWT post included a figure which showed the difference between raw and…

UAH Global Temperature Report: April 2014 – still no significant change in temperature

From Philip Gentry at UAH  April temperatures (preliminary)

I've been waiting for this statement, and the National Climate Assessment has helpfully provided it

The National Climate Assessment report denies that siting and adjustments to the national temperature record has anything to do with increasing temperature trends. Note the newest hockey stick below.