Curiosities: Mixed Signals in Land and Ocean Temps

A guest post by David Smith (author of “Tiny Tim Storms” on Climate Audit) The oceans have great capacity to store heat, much greater than the soil and rock of land. We see this…

Monday Funny

We all need a laugh now and then: see more crazy cat pics

Second Cycle 24 spot a "Tiny Tim" spot

The disturbed magnetic area I mentioned yesterday has finally turned into what appears to be a real sunspot, but it is quite small: Since magnetograms weren’t available to Galileo, Wolf,…

Gore to press: Stay Out!

Credit: Robert Vamosi / CNET Networks First you have to wonder what global warming has to do with a computer security conference (RSA) in the first place, but then the real surprise…

A German analysis of changes in HadCRUT: Adjustments called into question

There is a WordPress blog called Http://klimakatastrophe.wordpress.com that recently did an analysis of some changes in the way Hadley Climate Research unit presents its HadCRUT data. They suggest that HadCRUT…

Microsoft: Vista security feature "to annoy users"

I haven’t written about Vista for awhile, so I’m overdue. From Slashdot: “At the 2008 RSA security conference, Microsoft’s David Cross was quoted as saying, ‘The reason we put UAC…

March 2008 HadCRUT Global Temperature Anomaly

HadCRUT global numbers are out, and is at 0.43°C, still lower than the GISS number of 0.67°C. Click for a larger image Once again Jim Hansen’s NASA GISS is the highest…

Possible Cycle 24 spot emerging

As I’ve been noting regularly, Solar cycle 24 is late, and has produced only one spot this year, on January 4th. Since then, nothing, except a small parade of near…

Hurricane expert reconsiders global warming's impact

As I previously reported in my post titled: Hurricane frequency and global warming NOT the cause of increased destruction, it appears that the “link” cited by Gore and others trying…

Californians' power bills to bankroll climate institute

From this article in the Bay Area Insider “The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday unanimously approved the $600 million California Institute for Climate Solutions, which will be paid for…

Hansen pressures textbook publisher

Recently we saw how an environmental activist managed to convince a BBC writer that the story he wrote had to be changed to reflect what the activist perceived to be the “correct” view.…

How not to measure temperature part 57

One of the surfacestations.org intrepid traveling volunteers, Eric Gamberg, has been traveling through Nebraska as of late, picking up stations as he goes. He recently visited the USHCN station of…

Persistence

Here is something I think about regularly, having been reminded in comments about the negative people whom hide behind veils and toss invective, I thought I’d share this with you…

BBC before and after

There has been a lot of talk about the edits the BBC made to a story on climate change in response to repeated emails by a single environmental activist. Michael…

UAH Global Temp Anomaly: also slightly above zero

A few days ago I posted the results of the RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data by RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA). For March…

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…

Rewriting History, Time and Time Again

A guest post by John Goetz In February I wrote a post asking How much Estimation is too much Estimation? I pointed out that a large number of station records…

Right behind CNN

Now this was a surprise: Out of the 2,854,671 blogs with 132,697 new posts today on www.wordpress.com. I was number 2, right behind the CNN Political Ticker. Details (while it…

Apologies to commenters

A number of comments lately have found their way into the Akismet spam filter where before they were not. I have adjusted the SPAM filter settings several times, but this…

Solar cycle minimum at the earliest in second half of 2008?

Current SOHO: The Sun is blank again The outlook for solar activity continues to be pushed further back as cycle 23 spots continue, such as the group of 3 seen…