There has been a lot of discussion lately about the accuracy of measuring Sea Surface Temperatures prompted by a new study from Phil Jones from the University of East Anglia…
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Increased hurricanes to global warming link: blown away
From the “we told you so” department: Study says global warming not worsening hurricanes WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming isn’t to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the…
FTP access for Climate Reference Network Data
The CRN station at Mauna Loa, HI – I’m guessing the concrete pad was needed due to the cinders not being a stable anchoring medium. So this station gets a…
What I've been up to: electrifying my ride
Some regular readers may have noticed that I’ve been a bit detached from the blog in the past week. There’s a good reason for that. I’ve been immersing myself in the…
What spot?
Here today, gone tomorrow. Sunspot 993, the first cycle 24 spot of the southern hemisphere, appeared late Saturday, and by Monday morning, the Tiny Tim spot was gone. Which is…
Now comes the volcano
In addition to the other observed factors such as a long sunspot cycle and minima and PDO flip, now we’ll add some aerosols to the mix. Volcanism has been quiet…
The pause that cools: No more warming until 2015?
You may recall the previous post where Basil Copeland and I looked at correlations between HadCRUT global temperature anomaly and sunspot numbers. This is similar, but looks at the Pacific…
More on the PDO shift cited by NASA
For now, we have about 1 year of significant cold phase tendency in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), here is the last 108 years of the PDO index, plotted from…
Signs of the times
While I was on my week long road trip to survey weather stations and visit the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC last week, I encountered lots of signs. Restaurant…
Fun with Thermometers
A guest post by David Smith Recently I completed my tenth survey for Surfacestations.org. These surveys are fun, almost like treasure hunts where the clues are good but not always great,…
This is why you don't put an official NOAA temperature sensor over concrete
You’d think the answer would be obvious, but here we have a NOAA operated USHCN climate station of record providing a live experiment. It always helps to illustrate with photos. Today…
How not to measure temperature, part 58 – Sacramento's rooftop weather stations
While looking all over the USA at weather stations, I overlooked an interesting station very nearly in my own backyard. Sacramento. This official climate station, COOP ID #047633 is much…
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,…
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…
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…
CO2 monthly mean at Mauna Loa leveling off, dropping?
Source: NOAA http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ In the graph above, the black line is the seasonally adjusted value while the red is the monthly mean. This is based on data through March. May…
How not to measure temperature, part 55
Surfacestations.org volunteers Liz and Don Healy captured this official USHCN climate station of record (COOP ID #22659) in Douglas Arizona on their cross country trip this winter. As is typical…
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends – Part 2
NEW An update to this has been made here: evidence of a lunisolar influence on decadal and bidecadal oscillations in globally averaged temperature trends Part II By Basil Copeland and…
Solar Cycle 23 Forecasts – The Movie
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…
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…
Snow and Storms at Easter in Europe, Canada, and USA
More indicators of a colder than normal winter continuing in the northern hemisphere. From the London Telegraph: Britain is enduring its most miserable Easter for 25 years as Arctic winds…
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…
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…
How not to measure temperature, part 53: Find the NOAA thermometer in this picture
Click picture to find the thermometer One of the things learned from the www.surfacestations.org project is how the conversion of standard mercury thermometers in Stevenson Screens to the newer MMTS…
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