Click image for movie – note download is large 2.4MB A guest post by Michael Ronayne Note: Mike has created a movie (solar_cycle_23-24_sunspots.gif large (2.4MB) animated GIF) that shows how the…
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UPDATED: New sunspots, but still solar cycle 23 spots
Click for magnified view of the sun showing the most recent spot. Sunspot 987, 988, and now newly emerging 989 are shown above. With all being near the equator, they are still…
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends – Part 1
NEW An update to this has been made here: evidence of a lunisolar influence on decadal and bidecadal oscillations in globally averaged temperature trends NOTE: This essay represents a collaboration over…
How not to measure temperature, part 54: Los Angeles, the city
Please click the picture then continue reading. This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I study weather stations here. I carry a thermometer. My name’s Anthony. The story you are about…
The Solar to Global Warming Connection – A short essay
My good friend Jim Goodridge, former state climatologist for California, came to visit yesterday to offer some help on my upcoming trip, as well as to talk shop a bit about the…
Deja Vu all over again: climate worries of today also happened in the 20's and 30's
Two days ago I highlighted a news story from the Washington Post Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt dated from November 2nd 1922. That brought a flood…
New solar cycle 24 goalpost established
As I mentioned a few days ago, there was a panel that NASA convened to look at solar cycle 23/24 predictions. From this story on space.com where they talk about…
Bristlecone Pines: Treemometers or rain gauges ?
Over on Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre has been making a series of posts that have been putting the final nails in the coffin for Michael Mann’s MBH98 paper. This paper was responsible…
To Tell The Truth: Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise? Part 3
To Tell The Truth: Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise? Part III A guest post by Basil Copeland Again, I want to thank Anthony for the kind…
Sun still blank, no sign of cycle 24
This is a quick post since I’m caught up in a lot of work this weekend. Moderation will be slow so don’t be worried if your posts don’t show for…
NOAA Newsflash – It was cold this winter!
Verifying what we’ve already known from news reports and global metrics (it was a cooler than expected winter nationwide and worldwide) NOAA just issued a press release saying that we had…
To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise? Part1
To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise? Part I A guest post by Basil Copeland [NOTE: After seeing some other analyses posted in comments…
A note from Richard Lindzen on statistically significant warming
Yesterday, in response to the thread on “3 of 4 global metrics show nearly flat temperature anomaly in the last decade” I got a short note from MIT’s Richard Lindzen…
Feb 2008 RSS global temperature anomaly near zero and in good agreement with UAH
Last week I posted the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data for February 2008 with a note that it showed only a marginal increase from January…
Who Decides?
Who Decides? A Guest post by Evan Jones. We are currently in the midst of a serious policy debate on the highly technical subject of world climate change. What is…
Putting myths about UAH and RSS satellite data to rest
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…
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…
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