Stevenson Screen placement in relation to heated buildings- click for larger image Today I received an email that contained some startling revelations about the Weather Stations that were put in…
Category: Climate_change
APS Editor Reverses Position on Global Warming- cites "Considerable presence" of skeptics
Viscount Monckton gives a presentation during the 2007 Conference on Climate Change From Mike Asher at the DailyTech: The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed…
Latest NOAA Press Release in Total Disagreement with NASA Satellite
Joe D’Aleo, CCM, Fellow of the AMS It was the eighth warmest June on record for the globe, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday in the 129 years…
The importance of measuring temperature away from human influence
Many of you have followed my “how not to measure temperature” series showing many examples of the folly of thermometer placement in the USHCN network. But what about the rest…
How not to measure temperature, part 67
Guest Post by Russ Steele After a two day search for the Buffalo Bill Dam Stevenson Screen listed in the NCDC Data base as COOP 4871175, Ellen and I found…
How not to measure temperature, part 66
The MMTS system introduced by the National Weather Service in the mid 1980’s continues to be the Achilles heel of the surface observation network. Intrepid surfacestations volunteer Don Kostuch finds…
Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events
During our discussion of the preposterous news story from Pravda, claiming this headline: “Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate” a scientist dropped in to provide us some…
Penn Jillette on skepticism
From half of the same team that brought you this classic video of di-hydrogen monoxide: Climate change? Once more, ‘I don’t know’ Being honest about not knowing enough of the…
Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate
Note: Yes, you read that right. The headline is not mine, but from the original masters of newspaper propaganda, Pravda. See the URL. Gotta love the classic photo they chose. But then,…
All the curves that are fit to print
Regarding the latest UAH and RSS global temperature data plots Dave B writes: “…could you post a best-fit, to be fair? I don’t have the technology.” Sometimes I’m tempted to…
Sydney's historic weather station: 150 meters makes all the difference
Here is an interesting story about the weather station in Sydney at the Astronomical Observatory (well sort of, it got bumped off). It seems the astronomers and meteorologists at the…
Who's Adjusting the Climate in Tucumcari: Cows, Canals, or Hansen?
On Sunday I posted about the USHCN climate station of record in Tucumcari, NM highlighting its positive points since it has all the hallmarks of a well sited station with…
What a great USHCN station looks like: Tucumcari
I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog showing how badly maintained and situated the stations in the USHCN network are. And rightly so, the majority of them have…
Coloring the Models: Climate Change through Color Change
NOTE: Mike alerted me in comments about this article he wrote along the lines of my story on Color and Temperature: Perception is everything. I thought this would be good…
Kroger nixes global warming "policy"
Question: Why does a major grocery store chain need a “comprehensive policy addressing climate change”? Answer: They don’t. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that one of the nations oldest and largest grocery…
NASA's Jim Hansen calls for energy company execs to be put on trial
He’s got the whoooole woorld in his hands… This troubling news from the Guardian, UK “James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief…
If Global Warming was a company decision, how would you vote?
Lucia at Rank Exploits poses this thought: “I always think it’s best to ask yourself: Do I really think a particular method of looking at data is meaningful? Would I…
Quake n' Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes?
At first, when I got an email message pointing out this topic of global warming driving more earthquake energy, I thought it was satire. Then I saw it was on CBS News, so…
A Window on Water Vapor and Planetary Temperature
Here is some interesting news; according to data from NOAA’s Earth System Laboratory, atmospheric water vapor is on the decline globally. You’ve probably heard many times how water vapor is…
How Not To Measure Temperature, Part 64 – Estimating biases and comparing to GISS Homogeneity Adjustments
If you had the task of choosing where to put a climate monitoring thermometer here at the USHCN Climate station of record #469683 in Winfield, WV where would you choose…
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