Summary of GHCN Adjustment-Model Effects on Temperature Data Guest essay by John Goetz As the debate over whether or not this year will be the hottest year ever burns on,…
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What NOAA NCEI isn't telling you in their 2014 State of the Climate Report released today
Yesterday I made mention of the fact that there would be a report today from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, now NCEI. Today, they have released their 2014 report, and…
NOAA/NCEI Temperature Anomaly Adjustments Since 2010, Pray They Don't Alter It Any Further
Guest Essay By Walter Dnes There is much interest in the latest temperature anomaly adjustments by NOAA/NCEI (formerly known as NOAA/NCDC). This author has been downloading NOAA monthly temperature anomaly…
More pointless worrying from NOAA: July 4th fireworks cause a spike in particulate matter for a day
From the Department of Obvious Science and the “don’t you have anything better to do with our tax dollars” department comes this pointless study. Gotta love the zinger at the…
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…
NOAA/NCDC's new 'pause-buster' paper: a laughable attempt to create warming by adjusting past data
Did SNL’s Tommy Flanagan Oversee the New Surface Temperature Data? By Bob Tisdale and Anthony Watts, commentary from Dr. Judith Curry follows There is a new paper published the journal Science…
NOAA Forecast: A below-normal Atlantic Hurricane Season is likely this year
Hurricane forecasting evolving with new storm surge products, upgraded modeling NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center says the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season will likely be below-normal, but that’s no reason to believe…
Outrageous: NOAA demands $262,000 fee for looking at their 'public' data
Eric Worrall writes: It looks like NOAA have found a new way to stifle FOIA inquiries from the public. According to Steve Goddard, NOAA have just demanded a $262,000 administrative…
Can Temperature Adjustments Right a Wrong?
Guest Post by John Goetz Adjustments to temperature data continue to receive attention in the mainstream media and science blogs. Zeke Hausfather wrote an instructive post on the Climate Etc.…
The 2014-15 El Niño – Part 23 – NOAA’s Forward-Looking El Niño Advisory Was Also Dictated by Conditions since Last September
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale After many months of borderline El Niño conditions in the tropical Pacific, yesterday NOAA finally declared an El Niño was occurring. See Anthony Watts’s post…
On the Biases Caused by Omissions in the 2014 NOAA State of the Climate Report
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale [Update: Corrected a few typos in the paragraph before Figure 4. My thanks to rogerknights.] I hadn’t read the NOAA State of the Climate (SOTC)…
On the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Surface Temperature – A Model-Data Comparison
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale With the publication of the IPCC 5th Synthesis Report, I thought there might be some interest in a presentation of how well (actually poorly) climate…
September 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through September 2014 and HADCRUT4 and…
August 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through August 2014 and HADCRUT4 and…
Cold summer: US daily record minimums outnumbering record maximums 3 to 1 in the last 30 days
Plus, there have been new snowfall records, almost unheard of in summer. See the table:
July 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through July 2014 and HADCRUT4 and NCDC through June 2014—and of…
Should you trust NOAA claims about May and June records?
Guest essay by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM Last month was the hottest June since record keeping began in 1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Monday. It marked…
NOAA's own trend calculator helps confirm 'the pause' and lack of ocean warming in the 21st century
People send me stuff. Yesterday I got a note suggesting I have a look at what NOAA/NCDC’s “climate at a glance” was showing for trends in the 21st century so…
June 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Sorry this update is late. I got sidetracked with the post about Risbey et al. (2014), and the post about the new climate model, now with knobs. This post provides…
Practicing the Dark Art of Temperature Trend Adjustment
Did Federal Climate Scientists Fudge Temperature Data to Make It Warmer? Ronald Bailey of Reason Magazine writes: The NCDC also notes that all the changes to the record have gone…
NCDC: 'our algorithm is working as designed'
In a statement to Polifact today, NCDC made the following statement: “… our algorithm is working as designed” One wonders though, about these sorts of things that have been found…
NOAA's temperature control knob for the past, the present, and maybe the future – July 1936 now hottest month again
Two years ago during the scorching summer of 2012, July 1936 lost its place on the leaderboard and July 2012 became the hottest month on record in the United States.…
May 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
This post updates the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through May 2014 and HADCRUT4 and NCDC through April 2014—and of the two suppliers…
NOAA reaches out to the blogosphere
UPDATE: NOAA has corrected the typos in the illustrations at the new reanalysis intercomparison website. # # # # # NOAA opened two new blogs recently…and a new reanalysis intercomparison…
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