Forget CO2, US Debt "Causes" Warming

Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein Total US Debt (public and private) as a percentage of US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) correlates with NASA GISS US Annual Mean Temperature Anomaly better…

Climate Audit requested of the Australian BoM and CSIRO

On Jo Nova’s site, the cat is set amongst the pigeons: A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have lodged a formal request with the Australian National…

Some People Claim There’s a Human to Blame (GW Tiger)

Guest post by Ira Glickstein Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame, But I know, it’s my own damn fault.. The original Jimmy Buffet lyrics say “woman to…

Removing The Effects of Natural Variables – Multiple Linear Regression-Based or “Eyeballed” Scaling Factors

Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is the second of a series of follow-up posts to Can Most Of The Rise In The Satellite-Era Surface Temperatures Be Explained Without Anthropogenic…

The North Atlantic heat is on

From the University of Colorado at Boulder Warming North Atlantic water tied to heating Arctic, according to new study The temperatures of North Atlantic Ocean water flowing north into the…

D'Aleo on NOAA and NASA

By Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow The pressure has been mounting. The public doubt about global warming has been increasing in the past year given Climategate, and how promises of…

Do We Care if 2010 is the Warmist Year in History?

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein According to the latest from NASA GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies), 2010 is shaping up to be “the warmest of 131 years”, based on…

Australia's white summer, Monbiot's red fury

Australia swaps summer for Christmas snow Excerpts from Physorg.com Snow and ice covering buildings and cars on December 19, 2010 at Mount Hotham,Victoria, as snow fell in Australia. The usual…

UAH and UHI

Note: clearly satellites can see urban heat, as demonstrated by this recent paper unveiled at the 2010 AGU meeting by NASA. See: Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast.…

New peer reviewed paper shows just how bad the climate models really are

One of the biggest, if not the biggest issues of climate science skepticism is the criticism of over-reliance on computer model projections to suggest future outcomes. In this paper, climate…

Examination of CRU data suggests no statistically significant warming

UPDATE: The StataSphere server can’t handle the load of interest, I’ve take the images offline from this article, and disabled the link to it. Once he gets the server up…

The best shot?

Guest post by Matt Ridley (with permission, from his blog The Rational Optimist h/t to Indur Goklany) UPDATE: David MacKay’s letter is now up in a separate post here Some…

Eight tenths of a degree? Think of the Grandchildren!

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach James Hansen and others say that we owe it to our Grandchildren to get this climate question right. Hansen says “Grandchildren” with a capital G…

BOM disappears rainfall data, "no trend" becomes "downtrend"

UPDATE: Thanks to a reader who pointed out where to find the 2008 version of BOM rainfall data, I’m able to plot the two data sets. There are differences. See…

On The Differences Between Surface and Satellite Datasets

Guest post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW The differences between surface temperature and lower troposphere temperature (TLT) anomalies are examined in this post. The globe is broken down into sectors in…

Watts Up With Nuuk?

NEW UPDATES POSTED BELOW As regular readers know, I have more photographs and charts of weather stations on my computer than I have pictures of my family. A sad commentary…

The season of disinvitation continues

As we’ve seen previously this week: Enviro and Media Agenda on Extreme Weather – State Climatologist Invited, then Uninvited to Rally …”disinvitation” seems to be the latest tool for stifling debate.…

More dirty pool by NCDC's Karl, Menne, and Peterson

I’ve mentioned more than once in the past how the Tom Karl managed National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) team has taken to using my data without my permission. They even…

NOAA it's 12AM, do you know where your metadata is?

For example, until surfacestations volunteer Juan Slayton photographed it, there was no metadata to record the fact that this official USHCN station of record is sited over a tombstone. From…

I'm Not Schizophrenic (And Neither Am I)

Guest Post by Thomas Fuller It is not often that I get called a ‘denialist’ and a ‘troll’ for the dark forces of Al Gore on the same day, but…

The Joy of Innovation

Guest post by Thomas Fuller There would be no global warming without new technology. And that’s not because new technology uses so much energy. It’s because new technology has allowed…

Solar Cycle Length, Its Rate of Change, & the Northern Hemisphere

Guest post by Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. “Eyeball” methods of measuring solar cycle length (SCL) by looking at successive minima or maxima only take a measurement on average every 11…

GRACE under fire

Guest post by Thomas Fuller It is hard to understand many of those who are convinced that climate change will destroy civilization. Previous ideas about massive sea level rise or…

In Search of Cooling Trends

by Verity Jones and Tony Brown (Tonyb) Back in October Tony asked me to help with a big idea. Searching Norwegian climate site Rimfrost (www.rimfrost.no) Tony had found many climate…