Here is a review of the major global temperature metrics in tabular and graph form. There is a bit of disagreement this month. GISS still comes out the warmest, as it…
Category: Science
How not to measure temperature, part 62
One of the key criteria for placement of weather stations in the COOP, and by extension, the subset USHCN network is the requirement for a “warm body” (an observer) to read…
Chaitén volcano still going strong – more ash and aerosols
Click for larger image The Chaitén volcano is maintaining its eruptive activity unabated. Yesterday, the Oficina Nacional de Emergencia (ONEMI) reported that military personnel in Chaitén ‘perceived loud noises coming from the…
Polar Bears listed as threatened – now comes the lawsuits
Bear down! – Send an ambulance and a lawyer! The big green machine has finally successfully lobbied enough FUD to get the thriving polar bear listed as a threatened species. Never mind the fact…
FTP access for Climate Reference Network Data
The CRN station at Mauna Loa, HI – I’m guessing the concrete pad was needed due to the cinders not being a stable anchoring medium. So this station gets a…
More Tiny Tims and Cycle 23 solar crackles
The sun recently displayed some impressive prominences, and at the same time produced another “tiny tim” cycle 24 spot that seems to have escaped notice. Michael Ronayne helps with a…
USHCN Version 2 – prelims, expectations, and tests
USHCN2 unadjusted and adjusted CONUS max and min temperatures – click for larger image Background for new readers: The US Historical Climatological Network is a hand picked set of 1221…
Saving Gaia with Bovine Tailpipe Intervention
Never mind that in 2006 it was reported that levels of the second most important greenhouse gas, methane, have stabilized. Scientists are now working to create a new “tootless” grass for bovine…
Chaitén Volcano Blows Again
More ash and aerosols headed for the stratosphere. Click to watch the Video from TVN: (h/t to Jet Stream) Here is the satellite image view of the first eruption: Click…
What spot?
Here today, gone tomorrow. Sunspot 993, the first cycle 24 spot of the southern hemisphere, appeared late Saturday, and by Monday morning, the Tiny Tim spot was gone. Which is…
Now comes the volcano
In addition to the other observed factors such as a long sunspot cycle and minima and PDO flip, now we’ll add some aerosols to the mix. Volcanism has been quiet…
The pause that cools: No more warming until 2015?
You may recall the previous post where Basil Copeland and I looked at correlations between HadCRUT global temperature anomaly and sunspot numbers. This is similar, but looks at the Pacific…
More on the PDO shift cited by NASA
For now, we have about 1 year of significant cold phase tendency in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), here is the last 108 years of the PDO index, plotted from…
NASA: PDO flip to cool phase confirmed – cooler times ahead for the West Coast?
La Nina and Pacific Decadal Oscillation Cool the Pacific Click here to view full image (228 kb) “The shift in the PDO can have significant implications for global climate, affecting…
Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Interactive climate analysis for everyone
In America we have a saying, “Seeing the forest for the trees…” which is used to suggest seeing the bigger picture. In Britain, the similar saying is “Seeing the wood…
CO2 monthly mean at Mauna Loa leveling off, dropping?
Source: NOAA http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ In the graph above, the black line is the seasonally adjusted value while the red is the monthly mean. This is based on data through March. May…
Scavenger Hunt: find the lump of coal
In comments, Anna V reminded me of something I’ve been looking for for awhile, but forgotten about in the busy work of the surfacestations.org project. With this blog having a…
March 2008 RSS Global Temperature Anomaly Data: slightly above zero
The RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data has been published this morning by RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA). For March 2008 it has moved…
Making Tea at the Hadley Climate Research Unit
from: Modern Mechanix, September 1929 Over on Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre did a post about what HadCRU recently did to announce an “error” in their temperature series due to the…
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends – Part 2
NEW An update to this has been made here: evidence of a lunisolar influence on decadal and bidecadal oscillations in globally averaged temperature trends Part II By Basil Copeland and…
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