Bear down! – Send an ambulance and a lawyer! The big green machine has finally successfully lobbied enough FUD to get the thriving polar bear listed as a threatened species. Never mind the fact…
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FTP access for Climate Reference Network Data
The CRN station at Mauna Loa, HI – I’m guessing the concrete pad was needed due to the cinders not being a stable anchoring medium. So this station gets a…
USHCN Version 2 – prelims, expectations, and tests
USHCN2 unadjusted and adjusted CONUS max and min temperatures – click for larger image Background for new readers: The US Historical Climatological Network is a hand picked set of 1221…
Saving Gaia with Bovine Tailpipe Intervention
Never mind that in 2006 it was reported that levels of the second most important greenhouse gas, methane, have stabilized. Scientists are now working to create a new “tootless” grass for bovine…
Chaitén Volcano Blows Again
More ash and aerosols headed for the stratosphere. Click to watch the Video from TVN: (h/t to Jet Stream) Here is the satellite image view of the first eruption: Click…
What spot?
Here today, gone tomorrow. Sunspot 993, the first cycle 24 spot of the southern hemisphere, appeared late Saturday, and by Monday morning, the Tiny Tim spot was gone. Which is…
Now comes the volcano
In addition to the other observed factors such as a long sunspot cycle and minima and PDO flip, now we’ll add some aerosols to the mix. Volcanism has been quiet…
IPCC Annoyance
Reader Dave Andrews offers this in comments: Here’s an interesting comment from Willem de Lange over on Climate Audit ‘Ice Ages#2′ thread: “One of the reasons I got annoyed with…
The pause that cools: No more warming until 2015?
You may recall the previous post where Basil Copeland and I looked at correlations between HadCRUT global temperature anomaly and sunspot numbers. This is similar, but looks at the Pacific…
More on the PDO shift cited by NASA
For now, we have about 1 year of significant cold phase tendency in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), here is the last 108 years of the PDO index, plotted from…
NASA: PDO flip to cool phase confirmed – cooler times ahead for the West Coast?
La Nina and Pacific Decadal Oscillation Cool the Pacific Click here to view full image (228 kb) “The shift in the PDO can have significant implications for global climate, affecting…
What the modernized USHCN will look like
USHCN-M station at Greensboro, AL While I was at NCDC, Grant Goodge showed and provided me with a PowerPoint presentation about the plan to update the USHCN manual observing network…
Day 2 at NCDC and Press Release: NOAA to modernize USHCN
Click image for a live interactive view of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC Today started off terrible. I slipped in the bathtub last night at the hotel,…
Road trip Update: Day 1 at NCDC
I felt right at home when I walked into Dr. Bruce Baker’s office for the Climate Reference Network (CRN): Why? Because the first thing they had, front and center, were…
BBC before and after
There has been a lot of talk about the edits the BBC made to a story on climate change in response to repeated emails by a single environmental activist. Michael…
Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Interactive climate analysis for everyone
In America we have a saying, “Seeing the forest for the trees…” which is used to suggest seeing the bigger picture. In Britain, the similar saying is “Seeing the wood…
CO2 monthly mean at Mauna Loa leveling off, dropping?
Source: NOAA http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ In the graph above, the black line is the seasonally adjusted value while the red is the monthly mean. This is based on data through March. May…
March 2008 RSS Global Temperature Anomaly Data: slightly above zero
The RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data has been published this morning by RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA). For March 2008 it has moved…
Making Tea at the Hadley Climate Research Unit
from: Modern Mechanix, September 1929 Over on Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre did a post about what HadCRU recently did to announce an “error” in their temperature series due to the…
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends – Part 2
NEW An update to this has been made here: evidence of a lunisolar influence on decadal and bidecadal oscillations in globally averaged temperature trends Part II By Basil Copeland and…
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