While Miami and much of south Florida experienced the coldest December on record, the “other sunny state”, California, has been getting blasted with snow. My family and I experienced this…
Category: ENSO
Australia's white summer, Monbiot's red fury
Australia swaps summer for Christmas snow Excerpts from Physorg.com Snow and ice covering buildings and cars on December 19, 2010 at Mount Hotham,Victoria, as snow fell in Australia. The usual…
Tisdale K.O.e's GISS's latest "warmest-year nonsense"
Bob Tisdale writes: I’ve been holding off telling you about my most recent post in hopes that GISS would continue with their warmest-year nonsense. And they did. Using correlation maps, animations,…
The Dessler Cloud Feedback Paper in Science: A Step Backward for Climate Research
How’s this for “rapid response“? This rebuttal comes out at exactly the same time the press embargo lifts in Science. We were able to obtain advance copies of the Dessler…
The Story Told by the Southern Oscillation Index
Guest post by David Archibald Bob Tisdale’s post on ENSO on 19th November prompted me to see what I could find in the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) data. The SOI…
Missing the big picture on CO2
From the University of Exeter, this press release below and not a peep in it about the El Niño earlier this year that would have helped to degassify CO2 from…
Integrating ENSO: Multidecadal Changes In Sea Surface Temperature
Guest post by Bob Tisdale Longer Title: Do Multidecadal Changes In The Strength And Frequency Of El Niño and La Niña Events Cause Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies To Rise…
Update And Changes To NODC Ocean Heat Content Data
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, As noted in the post October 2010 Update to NODC Ocean Heat Content Data, the National Oceanographic Data Center has updated itsOCEAN HEAT CONTENT (OHC) data. This…
El Niño Modoki: The big shifter?
UNISYS Current Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Plot – click to enlarge From the Georgia Institute of Technology Climate change may alter natural climate cycles of Pacific While it’s still hotly…
The La Niña has strengthened, now near 2008 levels
Update: it appears that the September values of the Tahiti-Darwin SOI (+25) and Klaus Wolter Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) are at historical levels when compared to previous Septembers, with the…
With a rapid onset – the strongest La Niña since 1955-56
Here’s the view of La Niña today: The Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) by Klaus Wolter, NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important coupled ocean-atmosphere…
Cooler times ahead: indicators show deepening La Niña
As shown by the indicators on WUWT’s new ENSO/SST page there is a deeping of the La Niña that is starting to rival 2008 in depth. While it hasn’t yet…
Tisdale rebuttal to JPL's "Study Finds El Niños are Growing Stronger"
On Lee and McPhaden (2010) “Increasing intensity of El Niño in the central‐equatorial Pacific” Guest post by Bob Tisdale As happens all too often, the press release for a paper…
New El Niño type: worse than we thought
From the Jet Propulsion Lab: NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Niños are Growing Stronger A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean,…
Frozen Tropics as La Niña takes hold
By Steve Goddard As La Niña takes hold in South America, we are seeing something I’m not sure I have ever seen before. Temperatures in some parts of the Andes…
New peer reviewed paper refutes claims of blizzards of last winter being driven by "global warming"
Paging Joe Romm: In fact, this record-breaking snowstorm is pretty much precisely what climate science predicts. Since one typically can’t make a direct association between any individual weather event and…
Australia's BoM declares La Niña in the Pacfic
From the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) see the SOI below, now firmly in positive territory like in 2008. An animation of SST from the Navy follows. Pacific Ocean in…
La Niña Is Not The Opposite Of El Niño – The Videos
Reposted from: Bob Tisdale on Climate Change and Global Warming Blog By Bob Tisdale Thursday, June 10, 2010 La Niña Is Not The Opposite Of El Niño – The Videos…
Satellite Temperatures and El Niño
By Steve Goddard RSS April 14,000 Foot Anomalies UAH and RSS satellite data have been showing record warm temperatures in 2010, despite the fact that many of us have been…
R.I.P. El Niño
By Steve Goddard El Niño made it’s last gasp this week. Note that SST’s in the equatorial Pacific went from above normal to below normal during the past few days.…
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