Pause Buster SST Data: Has NOAA Adjusted Away a Relationship between NMAT and SST that the Consensus of CMIP5 Climate Models Indicate Should Exist?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale In this post, we’re going to discuss one of the three adjustments with the greatest impacts on the new NOAA “pause buster” sea surface temperature…

August 2015 Update for The Blob

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides background information and a quick update on the naturally occurring warming event in the eastern North Pacific known as The Blob. Not…

North Pacific Update: The Blob’s Strengthening Suggests It’s Not Ready to Depart

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the unusual warming event in the sea surfaces of the eastern extratropical North Pacific…what is now regularly called “The…

'Warm blob' in Pacific Ocean not caused by climate change, affects U.S. weather

From the University of Washington: ‘Warm blob’ in Pacific Ocean linked to weird weather across the US The one common element in recent weather has been oddness. The West Coast…

Alarmists Bizarrely Claim “Just what AGW predicts” about the Record High Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE (Jan 13, 2015):  See the end of the post for a copy in pdf format. # # # This post is the annual model-data…

Has NOAA Once Again Tried to Adjust Data to Match Climate Models?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The topic of discussion is their new sea surface temperature dataset, ERSST.v4.  Based on a breakpoint analysis recently promoted by RealClimate, NOAA appears to have…

Quick Look at the DATA for the New NOAA Sea Surface Temperature Dataset

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: There was an error in the November 2014 update of the ERSST.v4 sea surface temperature data supplied by NOAA. It impacted the data presented…

Researchers Find Northeast Pacific Surface Warming (1900-2012) Caused By Changes in Atmospheric Circulation, NOT Manmade Forcings

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE:  See the update at the end of the post. One of the authors of the paper has joined us here at WUWT. # #…

NOAA Is Updating Their Sea Surface Temperature Dataset

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Why is that a big deal? 70% of NOAA’s land+ocean surface temperature dataset is sea surface temperature data. NOAA recently published the first of the…

UKMO Hadley Centre Datasets Appear Split on Whether 2014 Will Have Record-Warm Global Sea Surfaces

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale A few days ago, we showed that global ocean surfaces are, just barely, at record warm levels in 2014, according to the two NOAA sea…

Meteorological Annual Mean (Dec-Nov) Global Sea Surface Temperatures Set a Record High in 2014 By a Whopping…

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Monthly sea surface temperature data from NOAA (ERSST.v3b) are available online well before the global land air+sea surface temperature suppliers (NASA GISS and NOAA NCDC)…

Did ENSO and the “Monster” Kelvin Wave Contribute to the Record High Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Of course they did. Those who have followed the 2014/15 El Niño series from its start back in April will recall all the hoopla about…

Claim: Warmest oceans ever recorded

From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST “This summer has seen the highest global mean sea surface temperatures ever recorded since their systematic measuring started. Temperatures even exceed those of…

Sorry to Disappoint: Cooling in the North Pacific? Not So Much

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The sea surface temperature anomaly maps from Unisys had many people thinking there had been a drastic cooling of the surface of the extratropical North…

On The Recent Unisys Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Maps and Cooling of Northern Hemisphere Ocean Surfaces

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE 2: As of Monday November 3, 2014, Unisys is no longer updating their sea surface temperature anomaly maps. See the update at the end…

New Study Predicts a Slight Cooling of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures over the Next Decade

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Pierre Gosselin at NoTrickZone provided an introduction to a recently published paper in his post IPCC Scientist Mojib Latif Sees North Atlantic Cooling Over Next…

John Cook's claim of a 'warmer southern ocean' is proven wrong

Paul Homewood notes: According to John Cook, Antarctic sea ice has been expanding because the Southern Ocean is getting warmer. He also claims that anyone thinking more ice is due…

Data Reveal Florida Keys Sea Surface Temperatures Haven’t Warmed in 80+ Years*

*Based on the Linear Trend Guest Post by Bob Tisdale A new study funded by the US Geological Survey (USGS) was introduced with the USGS press release Ocean Warming Affecting…

Claim: Ocean Warming Affecting Florida Reefs

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Late-summer water temperatures near the Florida Keys were warmer by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last several decades compared to a century earlier, according to a…

Baseless Alarmism: Global Warming’s Impact on Gulf of Maine Driving Away Lobsters and Fish

Guest Post By Bob Tisdale | The supposed impact of global warming on the Gulf of Maine over the past decade has hit a multitude of media outlets. Example: take…