MITRE Releases Report Examining NOAA Internal Policies and the Karl Study

Today, the MITRE Corporation released its report investigating internal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientific policies and procedures regarding the publication of a study titled Possible Artifacts of Data…

An oddity in the Karl et al. 2015 buoy data adjustments

Frank Lansner writes via email: I just want to make sure that people are aware of this little maybe-oddity regarding argumentation for ERSSTv4 data changes due to the shift from…

Even more on the David Rose bombshell article: How NOAA Software Spins the AGW Game

Guest essay by Rud Istvan The disclosures by Dr. Bates concerning Karl’s ‘Pausebuster’ NOAA NCEI paper have created quite the climate kerfuffle, with Rep. Smith even renewing his NOAA email…

More on the Bombshell David Rose Article: Instability in the Global Historical Climate Network

There has been a visceral reaction by the defenders of the climate faith to the Mail on Sunday article by David Rose… …where the Karl et al. 2015 “pausebuster” was…

BOMBSHELL – NOAA whistleblower says Karl et al. "pausebuster" paper was hyped, broke procedures

They played fast and loose with the figures -NOAA whistleblower The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data…

Yet another study tries to erase "the pause" – but is missing a whole year of data

From UC Berkeley Earth comes this paper that tries some new statistical techniques to get “the pause” to go away, following on with the infamous Karl et al paper of…

Uh, oh. U.S. Lawmakers Expand Probe Of Hiatus-Denying NOAA Study

Back in the summer of 2015, I sent Dr. Tom Peterson of NOAA/NCEI a private email saying that I’d lost my trust in him as an unbiased scientist and that…

A new way of looking at 'The Pause'. Why Karl et al. got it wrong about 'The Pause'. (Part 1)

Much has been written about the Karl et al “pause buster” paper published this past summer, this essay suggests Karl et al actually shot themselves in the foot with the…

300 Scientists Tell Chairman of the House Science Committee: 'we want NOAA to adhere to law of the Data Quality Act'

The following letter has been sent to Chairman of the House Science Committee, Lamar Smith, regarding NOAA’s “pause buster” data shenanigans that we highlighted back in the summer of 2015. The…

Is NOAA About to Crack? 'Pausebuster' study under intense scrutiny

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), who is leading a Congressional investigation into the infamous Karl et al 2015 “Pausebuster” study, NOAA…

Karl et al. do not know that we have two hiatuses, not one

Guest essay by Arno Arrak Abstract Karl et al. present data they claim denies the existence of the warming pasuse or hiatus that has existed for 18 years. It is…

NCDC/NCEI's Karl and Peterson refuse congressional subpoena on flawed 'pausebuster' paper

Wow, just wow. I told Dr. Tom Peterson in an email this summer that their highly questionable paper that adjusted SST’s of the past to erase the “pause” was going…

Thanks partly to NOAA's new adjusted dataset, tommorrow they'll claim to reporters that May (and possibly June) was the 'hottest ever'

However, satellite data don’t agree with that finding People send me stuff. Today I got an email with an advance link to the NOAA/NCDC “state of the climate” briefing- that…

NOAA Releases New Pause-Buster Global Surface Temperature Data and Immediately Claims Record-High Temps for May 2015 – What a Surprise!

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale NOAA recently published their State of the Climate Report for May 2015. Under the heading of Global Summary Information, they note: Note: With this report…

Science Made To Order; AGW Proponents Modus Operandi?

NOTE: In this essay, commenters have noted that Dr. Tim Ball used a rhetorical device in this sentence: “The following is a possible email from John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar,…

Twin peaks – twin prevarications

Supposedly record-high temperature and carbon dioxide levels supposedly bring record chaos Guest essay by Paul Driessen and Tom Tamarkin A recent NOAA article is just what Doctor Doom ordered. It…

Open Letter to Tom Karl of NOAA/NCEI Regarding “Hiatus Busting” Data

UPDATE:  See the note at the end of the post. Date: June 10, 2015 Subject: Karl et al. (2015) Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming…

Climate scientists criticize government paper (Karl et al. 2015) that erases ‘pause’ in warming

By Maxim Lott Until last week, government data on climate change indicated that the Earth has warmed over the last century, but that the warming slowed dramatically and even stopped…

Bespoke Science…Made-to-Order Science

Guest essay by Charles G. Battig, M.D. A flurry of recent publication activity on the health impacts of carbon dioxide by the catastrophic climate change community is evidence that it…

Gavin says the funniest things!

Guest post by David Middleton NOAA temperature record updates and the ‘hiatus’ Filed under: Climate modelling Climate Science Instrumental Record — gavin @ 4 June 2015 In a new paper…

NOAA Study Takes World 'by Storm': No Global Warming Pause!

By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. That’s how most of the media are treating a new study, anyway. Even the Wall Street Journal ran a news piece titled “Study Finds No Pause in…

More Curiosities about NOAA’s New “Pause Busting” Sea Surface Temperature Dataset

UPDATE 2:  KNMI added the HadNMAT2 data to their Climate Explorer, so we no longer have to rely on my replication of data from a graph.  See the update before…

The climate warming pause goes AWOL – or maybe not

By S. Fred Singer Oh boy! Get ready to watch yet another big fight about climate change – this time mainly among different groups of climate alarmists. Is there a…

Has NOAA / NCDC's Tom Karl repealed the Laws of Thermodynamics?

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Tom Karl’s paper (Karl et al. 2015) purporting to abolish the global-warming pause, recently published in Science, may be partly my fault. I first ran…