No Records Highs Possible In The Satellite Temperature Datasets in 2014 (Now Includes November Data Except For HADCRUT4)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek Edited by Just The Facts: In the above graphic, the green line is RSS from 1990 with a mean of 12 which means that you…

On the Difference Between Lord Monckton's 18 Years for RSS and Dr. McKitrick's 26 Years (Now Includes October Data)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek Edited by Just The Facts: To make this discussion easy, I will make the following assumptions. Dr. McKitrick’s data went until April, 2014, however I…

Buoy Temperatures, First Cut

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As many folks know, I’m a fan of good clear detailed data. I’ve been eyeing the buoy data from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)…

All 50 states have below freezing temperatures

Meteorologist Tim Buckley of WFMY-TV writes on Facebook: All 50 states have low temperatures BELOW freezing tonight. (Monday night) Yes, even Hawaii. Tall mountain peaks there regularly get below freezing,…

Is WTI Dead? And HadCRUT Adjusts Up, Again… (Now Includes August Data except for HadCRUT4.2 and HadSST3)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Commentary By Walter Dnes, Edited by Just The Facts: Update: Comment from Tim Osborn of the University of East Anglia (UEA), Climatic Research Unit (CRU),…

HadSST3 Sets Records, RSS Not So Much (Now Includes July Data)

Guest Post By Werner Brozek, Edited by Just The Facts: Note: Featured image and text below updated based upon input from rgbatduke. The graph shows HadSST3 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and…

Cold year: 2014 USA temperature record lows outpace record highs nearly 2-1

Record temperatures are absolute – no adjusments needed. One of the biggest complaints about climate science has to do with adjustments of temperature data, such as we’ve recently witnessed from…

USHCN Monthly Temperature Adjustments

Guest Essay By Walter Dnes There have been a number of posts on USHCN temperature adjustments, including 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. They have focused primarily on annual adjustments. Whilst looking into…

Midyear Prognosis For Records in 2014 (Now Includes June Data)

Guest Essay By Werner Brozek, Edited by Just The Facts: It was my intention to include all June data, however the June anomaly for Hadcrut3 is running really late again.…

Analysis Of Antarctic Peninsula Temperature Trends Shows it Runs Both Hot and Cold

By Paul Homewood It is commonly known that the Antarctic Peninsula has seen substantial warming in the last few decades. Jim Steele wrote a guest post for WUWT a couple…

The Greatest Climate Myths of All – Part 3: The Global Average Chimera

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Carl Sagan’s scientific…

Something Detroit has in abundance – UHI

Detroit gets a lot of negative press these days, mainly because it has become a poster child for badly managed cities and decline, but it does seem to have UHI…

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…

A way of calculating local climate trends without the need for a government supercomputer

This method may or may not have merit – readers are invited to test the merit of it themselves, the method is provided – Anthony Guest essay by Ron Clutz…

GISS is Unique (Now Includes May Data)

Guest Essay By Werner Brozek, Edited by Just The Facts In comparing GISS with the other five data sets that I comment on, some of the points I raise below…

GISS Hockey-Stick Adjustments

Guest Post By Walter Dnes: There have been various comments recently about GISS’ “dancing data”, and it just so happens that as GISS data is updated monthly, I’ve been downloading…

Problems With The Scalpel Method

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In an insightful post at WUWT by Bob Dedekind, he talked about a problem with temperature adjustments. He pointed out that the stations are maintained,…

Mapping the hottest day of the year in the USA

From NOAA/NCDC, something interesting: a new map showing when to expect hottest days of the year and where. The long thin line on the west coast is interesting because that…

Color perceptions of the National Temperature

Back in June 2008, I did a post titled Color and Temperature: Perception is everything. One WUWT reader, Jes Simon noticed that since that time, something changed in the way NOAA…

Can GISS And Other Data Sets Set Records in 2014? (Now Includes April Data)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek (Edited By Just The Facts) GISS and other sets are  poised to set new records in 2014, even without an El Nino. The present GISS…