By Joseph D’Aleo, AMS Fellow, CCM The average arctic temperature is still not above (take your pick) 32°F 0°C 273.15°K–this the latest date in fifty years of record keeping that…
Category: measurement
How not to measure temperature, part 88 – Honolulu's Official Temperature ±2
People send me stuff, some days my email explodes. Today I got all sorts of things about Obama and John Holdren and the new NCDC climate spincycle which Steve McIntyre…
A few thoughts on the "climate change lowers wind speeds" study
By now you’ve probably read about Wind speed trends over the contiguous USA by Pryor et al. (2009, in press, JGR) There is also an Associated Press story which cites…
Uh, oh. 50 year old ocean thermohaline model sinking fast, climate models may be disrupted
Another “observations are not models” story is emerging. For more on the status quo of thermohaline circulation, see this Wiki article – Anthony Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered From Peter…
What Is Normal Arctic Ice Extent?
Guest post by Steven Goddard I have been noticing in recent weeks that NSIDC extent is much closer to their 1979-2000 mean than NANSEN is to their 1979-2007 mean. This…
Are Record Temperatures Abnormal?
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution Consider a hypothetical country with 1,000 top notch weather stations and the perfect unchanging climate (which our AGW friends imagine used to exist before…
Making Holocene Spaghetti Sauce by Proxy
Holocene, historic and recent global temperatures from temperature proxies. Guest post by: Frank Lansner, civil engineer, biotechnology NOTE: Link to PDF of this article is HERE In the climate debate,…
Looking at thermometer placement and heat in the infrared
Google can be a great aid to serendipity. Doing some Googling the other day I was surprised to find a couple of my images from How not to measure temperature,…
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