The NOAA-N Polar Orbiting Weather Satellite There have been some questions posed recently about how the satellite global temperature record is created by UAH and RSS from the MSU (Microwave…
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Weather Stations Disappearing Worldwide
I know, this sounds like “save the whales”. Amazing as this sounds, weather stations used to monitor near surface temperature for the global climate record are disappearing worldwide at and alarming…
Sun blank again
Just two days after sunspot 983 was reported, it has now disappeared. They just aren’t sticking around like they used to. This is yet another indication of the bottomed out solar…
A look at temperature anomalies for all 4 global metrics: Part 1
NOTE: Please note that part 2 is now online, please see it here. I recently plotted all four global temperature metrics (GISS, HadCRUT, UAH, RSS) to illustrate the magnitude of…
Now THIS is interesting: Pielke on Dr. Joanne Simpson
The Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. weblog today includes a letter from Dr. Joanne Simpson, recently retired. He calls her “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years”. It…
First sunspot in weeks is still related to solar cycle 23
Calling cycle 24, calling cycle 24……where are you? Image from SOHO, inset added by the author The SIDC in Belgium just issed an end to their “all quiet alert” :Issued:…
NOAA: Hurricane frequency and global warming NOT the cause of increased destruction
From a NOAA press release that came out to me via email just minutes ago: —– Original Message —– From: “NOAA News Releases” <Press.Releases@noaa.gov> To: <awatts@xxxxx_.com> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008…
Decaying spy sat shoot-down may coincide with Wednesday's lunar eclipse
Two big things will/may happen in space Wednesday. A total lunar eclipse visible over much of the United States that evening, and a possible attempt by the NAVY to shoot…
Where have all the sunspots gone?
I’m writing this after doing an exhaustive search to see what sort of solar activity has occurred lately, and I find there is little to report. With the exception of the briefly…
Photo evidence for "possible" eruption of an extinct volcano near the Ross Ice Shelf
UPDATE #3 02/15/08 I have received seismic data from MEVO for 10/24/07, and I’m now satisfied that no significant volcanic eruption occured on that date. So what we are seeing is…
Jan08 Northern Hemisphere snow cover: largest anomaly since 1966
There have been a number of indications that January 2008 has been an exceptional month for winter weather in not only North America, but the entire Northern Hemisphere. We’ve had…
Increasing tornadoes or better information gathering?
John Kerry’s comment about the recent tornadoes in the southeastern USA being caused by “global warming” has caused more than a few dustups on the Internet blogs in the last couple of days.…
UAH Satellite data for Jan08 in agreement with RSS data
University of Alabama, Huntsville (John Christy) just published their UAH lower troposphere data for January 2008. Like the RSS data set, it shows a negative anomaly, and a steep decline…
RSS Satellite data for Jan08: 2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years
UPDATE – see new graph of global ∆T for the past year below. There has been a global drop in temperature of 0.63 degrees Centigrade in the past 12 months.…
Arctic sea ice back to its previous level, bears safe; film at 11
In the late summer and early fall of 2007, there were a number of alarming media reports about the arctic sea ice melting. Additionally, there were predictions that it would…
How to tell a good scientist from a bad scientist
Below is an article from TheStatsBlog that I found interesting. Here is what they say about the organization behind it. Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)…
Increased Nacreous Clouds: A sign of colder upper air temperatures
This from www.Spaceweather.com As January comes to an end, sky watchers in Scandinavia are recovering from a veritable storm of nacreous clouds. After mid-month, hardly a night went by without…
Spencer Part2: More CO2 Peculiarities – The C13/C12 Isotope Ratio
NOTE: This post is the second in the series from Dr. Roy Spencer of the National Space Science and Technology Center at University of Alabama, Huntsville. The first, made last Friday,…
UPDATED: Roy Spencer on how Oceans are Driving CO2
NOTE: Earlier today I posted a paper from Joe D’Aleo on how he has found strong correlations between the oceans multidecadal oscillations, PDO and AMO, and surface temperature, followed by…
Warming Trend: PDO And Solar Correlate Better Than CO2
Note: This is my analysis of a new paper by Joe D’Aleo, I’ve tried to simplify and explain certain terms where possible so that it can reach the broadest audience…
Top Ten Science Based Predictions that didn't come true.
There’s an article in the New York Times pushing a something called “the five stages of climate grief” done by a professor at the University of Montana. This got me…
A typical day in the Stevenson Screen Paint Test
Experiment config on July 13th. The screens were subsequently moved further apart. Note aspirated air temperature reference in forground. I’ve been sorting through some of the data, and have found many…
Solar Cycle 24 has officially started
What a day! First a major storm whacks the west coast, now we have the official start of solar cycle 24. Solar physicists have been waiting for the appearance of…
One more thing to worry about
While we are all recovering from the news of the terrible fate that awaits us as outlined recently in Bali, astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a super-massive black hole…
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