First there was SETI@home where you could use spare CPU cycles to look for extraterrestrial signals. Now we have Climate@Home, running NASA GISS modeling software in distributed computing, but no…
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The Big Valley: Altitude Bias in GHCN
Foreword: The focus of this essay is strictly altitude placement/change of GHCN stations. While challenge and debate of the topic is encouraged, please don’t let the discussion drift into other…
More Gunsmoke, This Time In Nepal
Note to Readers: This is an important post, as Willis demonstrates that NASA GISS has taken a cooling trend and converted it into a warming trend for the one GHCN…
A new must read paper: McKitrick on GHCN and the quality of climate data
This new paper by Dr. Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph is a comprehensive review of the GHCN surface and sea temperature data set. Unlike many papers (such as…
Sunspots at high detail now available from SDO – what will this do to the sunspot count?
Readers may recall a story on WUWT from April titled: Solar Dynamics Observatory – STUNNING first images and movies Now, SDO imagery of the sun is online. This week spaceweather.com has…
Reviewing Last Month's Forecasts of Doom
By Steve Goddard Doomsday clock – Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists Way back in June, The Guardian wrote up an excellent summary of the official forecasts of doom. Scientists at…
Raising Arizona
By Steve Goddard and Anthony Watts Wikipedia Image NCDC has done an first rate job raising Arizona summer temperatures, as seen in the graph below. How did they accomplish this?…
The Victorian Warmed Period
I met Ken while on my Australian tour, he’s been doing some fine work. Via Andrew Bolt Retired school principal Kenskingdom was alarmed by this Bureau of Meteorology graph, showing…
An idea for discussion: Using Ham Radio as a Climate Data Network
APRS coverage in the USA: Frank Perdicaro says in comments: Urban heat island measurement via APRS. Today I finished off my ham radio General license, and one of the topics…
Tom Karl's Senate Dog & Pony Show – it's worse than we thought, again
Well, the Kerry Lieberman cap and trade fiasco has brought Tom Karl to give a Senate briefing last week. Predictably, they couldn’t wait to spring more adjustments du jour on…
Where the !@#$% is Svalbard?
Anthony has suggested that I post a paper of mine that was written in 2006 about unusual temperatures in Svalbard. It was published as a peer-reviewed submission in Energy and Environment, the…
A New And Effective Climate Model
The problem with existing climate models: Guest post by Stephen Wilde Even those who aver that man’s activity affects climate on a global scale rather than just locally or regionally…
Trust and Mistrust
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following up on the excellent initiative of Dr. Judith Curry (see Judith’s post and my response ), I would like to see what I can…
Arctic Sea Ice about to hit 'normal' – what will the news say?
Forecasting The NSIDC News By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts Barring an about face by nature or adjustments, it appears that for the first time since 2001, Arctic Sea ice…
WUWT makes a difference – London Science Museum changes their climate change exhibit
Remember this post before the heady days of Climategate? And then what happens? Another online poll that might go horribly wrong And this one? Data adjustments in the UK Science Museum…
Why Joe Bastardi sees red: A look at Sea Ice and GISTEMP and starting choices
AcuuWeather meteorologist Joe Bastardi has a question about two datasets and asks: If it is darn warm, how come there is so much sea ice? Bastardi asks a simple question:…
More on the National Geographic Decline
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has covered the National Geographic Northern Hemisphere temperature graph here. This is the graph under discussion. Figure 1. Graph from November 1976 National Geographic…
Weather balloon data backs up missing decline found in old magazine
Jo Nova has more from Frank Lansner on what older records, this time from weather balloons, tell us about recent adjustments to the temperature record. WUWT readers may recall Rewriting…
Rewriting the decline
The great thing about old magazines is that once published, they can’t be adjusted. Jo Nova has a great summary of some recent work from occasional WUWT contributor Frank Lansner…
Spencer: Direct Evidence that Most U.S. Warming Since 1973 Could Be Spurious
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. INTRODUCTION My last few posts have described a new method for quantifying the average Urban Heat Island (UHI) warming effect as a function of…
Spencer: Using hourly surface data to gauge UHI by population density
I believe this is a truly important piece of work. I hope Dr. Spencer will submit it to a journal. I’m grateful to Dr. Spencer for his email suggesting I…
Spencer: Spurious warming demonstrated in CRU surface data
Spurious Warming in the Jones U.S. Temperatures Since 1973 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. INTRODUCTION As I discussed in my last post, I’m exploring the International Surface Hourly (ISH)…
Institute of Physics on Climategate
Here’s something rather astonishing. The Institute of Physics, has made a statement about climate science. The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and…
WMO: ". . . we cannot at this time conclusively identify anthropogenic signals in past tropical cyclone data."
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a stunning statement in a recent report. Roger Pielke Jr. has the details on his blog. Just to remind folks that we’ve been saying…
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