That darned warm-mongering El Niño

From the warm-mongers at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, a study that says El Niño drives civil war. Perhaps we can get Bob Tisdale to plot temperature anomalies along…

More evidence La Niña will return

Following WUWT’s story on 8/22, we have this from the University of Arizona Evidence Suggests La Niña Will Return This Winter By Zack Guido and Mike Crimmins, CLIMAS, August 23,…

NASA notes sea level is falling in press release – but calls it a "Pothole on Road to Higher Seas"

From the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab NASA Satellites Detect Pothole on Road to Higher Seas An Update from NASA’s Sea Level Sentinels: Like mercury in a thermometer, ocean waters expand…

La Niña returns

While we wait for NOAA to update their ENSO meter on the WUWT sidebar, Bob Tisdale is way ahead of them. Visually, the La Niña seems rather obvious in the…

Another GISS miss, Tisdale calls out Hansen and Sato on failed predictions

A Memo To Hansen and Sato Guest commentary by Bob Tisdale Date:August 21, 2011 Subject:A Request About Your El Niño Predictions And A Question About Anthropogenic Global Warming To: James E.…

Global warming – step changes driven by ENSO?

Story submitted by Jens Raunsø Jensen The IPCC dismisses in its AR4 report of 2007 natural climate variability as a major reason for the global temperature increase in the second…

Montana's new big sky discovery – El Niño casts a wide net

From Montana State University  and the “weather is not climate” department: Montana State researcher discovers link between Montana weather, ocean near Peru BOZEMAN, Mont. – A Montana State University researcher…

Climate variability in East Africa & El Niño Southern Oscillation

From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres  another reason why Mount Kialmanjaro isn’t controlled by CO2 as Al Gore and Lonnie Thompson think. La Ninas distant effects in East…

Bastardi: Just Say No to El Nino, at least till 2012

Guest post by Joe Bastardi I  did not say boo at some of the “shoot the messenger  posts”  on my “Say No to El Nino”, including one person who wanted…

NOAA plays the sea level card with El Niño

Strong El Niño could bring increased sea levels, storm surges to U.S. East Coast New study examines how El Niño in cold months affected water levels over past 50 years…

Tisdale on SST correlation with AGW

Does The Sea Surface Temperature Record Support The Hypothesis Of Anthropogenic Global Warming? Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post is an expansion on my earlier post Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies…

While the Sun's in a funk, no hint of resumed ocean warming

Global SST Update: Still No Sign of Resumed Warming by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Here’s the global average sea surface temperature (SST) update from AMSR-E on NASA’s Aqua satellite,…

La Niña on the way out, "La Nada" on the way in

From NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab: La Niña’s Exit Leaves Climate Forecasts in Limbo It’s what Bill Patzert, a climatologist and oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., likes…

Earth's Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except…

New WUWT Oceanic Oscillation Page – With Link Tutorial

Introducing WUWT’s newest addition, the Oceanic Oscillation Page, which includes graphs and graphics,on Oceanic Oscillations including the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), El Niño/La Niña and the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO).…

ENSO color tricks from NOAA's Environmental Visualization Lab

Or, “how to hide the decline with color”. Here’s the image and press release from NOAA NNVL this week to push their hurricane season announcement. Notice anything odd? Weakening of…

Introducing the WUWT Atmospheric Oscillation (Teleconnection) Reference Page

Our newest addition is the WUWT Atmospheric Oscillation Page, which includes graphs, graphics and animations of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), Antarctic Oscillation (AAO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), North Pacific Oscillation…

Interannual Terrestrial Oscillations

There’s a saying, “timing is everything”. After reading this, I think it is more true than ever. In other news. Paul Vaughn is giving Bob Tisdale serious competition in the…

April 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Guest post by Bob Tisdale WEEKLY NINO3.4 SST ANOMALIES The weekly NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies have just risen above the threshold of a La Niña, and are just…

ENSO report and forecast

  Summary: La Niña conditions continued across the equatorial Pacific. The magnitude of negative sea surface temperature anomalies continued to decrease across the Pacific Ocean. A transition to ENSO-neutral conditions…