NOAA and NCDC Restore data access

You may recall and entry about a week ago titled: NOAA/NCDC Throws a roadblack my way. Good news! NCDC has decided to restore the access. I think this is a…

How to Measure Temperate, Part 2 – down under

Ok a simple post since I’m not up to speed today. I’ve already talked about the effort in the USA to create the Climate Reference Network (CRN) In Australia, they…

The Climatic Blog War of 2007

There is a war of words going on between two scientific blogs over my project at www.surfacestations.org. The RealClimate blog, operated by pro AGW global warming scientists Penn State’s Dr.…

How to Measure Temperature, Part 1

After showing a number a stations where poor siting and thoughtless local influences may have biased the temperature records for a weather station, I decided I’d show some examples of…

Find the weather station

The picture above is from the National Weather Service in San Diego. It is of Laguna Beach, CA, a COOP station that it manages. This picture illustrates how some cooperative…

Standards for weather station siting using the new CRN

NOAA has put together a new series of surface stations called the Climate Reference Network (CRN) As a specialist in the technology of meteorology, I like this program a lot.…

How not to measure temperature, part 17

The picture below comes to me via the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Monterey from their website. You can see the unannotated version here: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/images/mtr/cpm/1967.jpg It is the Cooperative…

How not to measure temperature, part 16

This photo comes come to me from NOAA’s Weather Service Forecast Office in Monterey. This is the official USHCN climate station of record for Livermore, CA. USHCN # 44997 The…

UPDATE: NOAA/NCDC privacy concerns questioned by alert blog reader

In my previous post, NOAA Throws a roadblock my way I talked about how NOAA/NCDC has thrown a roadblock into the work being done to survey weather stations citing “privacy…

NOAA/NCDC throws a roadblock my way

As many readers know, the www.surfacestations.org effort has been gaining a lot of attention, and also volunteers. I’m now at over 130 volunteers nationwide. The results of the effort attracted…

How not to measure temperature, part 15

The picture below comes to me via my website www.surfacestations.org from volunteer site surveyor Bob Meyer. It is the USHCN climate station of record for Waterville, Washington. In addition to…

How not to measure temperature, part 14

This picture comes to me via www.surfacestations.org courtesy of Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. of the University of Colorado. It is the US Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) Station of Record for…

How not to measure temperature, part 13

The picture above is of the official USHCN climate station of record in Quitman, GA and comes to me via www.surfacestations.org volunteer Joel McDade. It is located at a residence,…

A landmark paper on earth's climate link to the sun

The diagram above is central to the paper’s examination of the “spiral” nature of the earth to sun distance relationship, which affects noit only seasons, but longer term climate cycles.…

How not to measure temperature, part 12

One of the really odd discoveries that I’ve made while surveying climate monitoring stations around the USA is the fact that many of the official stations are located at sewage…

How not to measure temperature, part 11

This is the USHCN climate station of record for Bainbridge Georgia. It comes to me by way of surfacestations.org survey volunteer Joel McDade. Joel wins the award for finding the…

A note from a NASA Climate Researcher

Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a lead researcher with NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) that does leading climate change studies, replied to one of my posts and made an assertion…

Standards for weather stations

The Station at the Monterey, CA WSO I’ve received a few requests for information regarding just what the established standards are for placing weather stations as they relate to their…

Analysis of weather station data

For those of you that want to see a detailed analysis of the data the weather stations mentioned here have produced, please take a look at Climate Audit at www.climateaudit.org…

June 19th, a busy day at Watts Up

Today was a record setting day, not only for this blog, but for any blog sponsored by the Enterprise Record. And to think I used to be excited when I…

How not to measure temperature, part 10

Russ Steele, a blogger in Nevada County at NCWatch is volunteering to do weather station site surveys as I’ve been doing. Yesterday Russ visited Petaluma California to see the USHCN…

How not to measure temperature, part 9

The picture above comes to me courtesy of Gary Kobes, of the US Coast Guard. It is the temperature sensor at the climate station of record in Aberdeen, WA It…

My Solar Anniversary

Last week the Chico News and Review published an editorial (A smoked Red Herring) with my name right at the top, lambasting me for my investigations into climate change. That’s…

New Element Discovered: Governmentium

The discovery of the heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element has been tentatively named Governmentium. Governmentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and…

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