Tisdale: update on ocean heat content

October to December 2010 NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700Meters) Update and Comments Guest post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION The National Oceanographic Data Center’s Ocean Heat Content (OHC) data for the…

Tisdale on ENSO step changes in RSS global temperature data

RSS MSU TLT Anomalies February 2011 Update and A Look At Version 3.3 FEBRUARY 2011 UPDATE RSS TLT anomalies continue to drop in response to the 2010/2011 La Niña. RSS…

Big-Time La Nina Tornado and Spring Flood Season Possible?

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow Tornado season kicks off in February most years, and yesterday’s storm had tornadoes, and other severe weather and with heavy rains after a snowy…

The Recent Drop In The Sea Surface Temperatures Of U.S. Coastal Waters

by Bob Tisdale This post illustrates the recent drop in the SST anomalies of the U.S. coastal waters. We’ll represent this subset with the coordinates of 20N-50N, 130W-65W. I’ve used…

New paper: "unlikely that man-made global warming would cause a permanent El Niño state"

From the UK another paper with some pragmatic analysis, coupled with some rhetoric on sea ice: Arctic climate variation under ancient greenhouse conditions Tiny organisms preserved in marine sediments hold…

Snowzilla post mortem – the 2011 Groundhog day blizzard in perspective

The nation is rather abuzz over the huge snowstorm (which I dubbed Snowzilla) this week, and I thought I’d put together a collection of loosley related news items. In light…

NOAA ENSO expert: "odds for a two-year (La Niña) event remain well above 50%"

Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) Last update: 4 February 2011 by Klaus Wolter The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of NOAA. El Niño/Southern…

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…

Mid-January 2011 SST Anomaly Update

Full size image of above here Guest post by Bob Tisdale This mid-month update only includes the shorter-term NINO3.4 and global SST anomaly graphs; that is, the ones from January…

Is the ENSO a nonlinear oscillator of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction type?

Alternative title: “Standing on the shoulders of Giant Bob” Guest post by Phil Salmon Introduction One of the themes to emerge from the climate debate here on WUWT, concerns “chaos”…

Will global warming survive a strong La Nina?

Guest post by Frank Lansner A global temperature stagnation despite warm El Nino year 2010? After the warm El Nino period 2009-2010, global temperature trends starting 1998 has generally turned…

CSIRO – climate variability caused drought, not climate change

While this is a bit dated, from late last year, given all the attention given to the floods in Queensland supposedly being caused by global warming aka climate change, this…

NASA: La Niña has remained strong

From NASA JPL in Pasadena: New NASA satellite data indicate the current La Niña event in the eastern Pacific has remained strong during November and December 2010. A new Ocean…

And you knew it would be said…Oz floods due to global warming

It was only a matter of time. NCAR’s Kevin Trenberth plays the never ending blame game. Scientists see climate change link to Australian floods By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent,…

Another guy with a laptop outforecasts the Met Office

Piers Corbyn, while seemingly a bit eccentric, has the distinction of being the only man to have this headline: The man who repeatedly beats the Met Office at its own…

Can Most Of The Rise In The Satellite-Era Surface Temperatures Be Explained Without Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases?

Guest post by Bob Tisdale In this post, I divide the globe (60S-60N) into two subsets and remove the linear effects of ENSO and volcanic eruptions from GISS Land-Ocean Temperature…

Global Sea Surface Temperature continues to drop

SST UPDATE FROM AMSR-E By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD The following plot shows global average sea surface temperatures from the AMSR-E instrument over the lifetime of the Aqua satellite, through…

UAH Global Temperature anomaly published, 1998 still warmest year in the UAH satellite record

See also: RSS data: 2010 not the warmest year in satellite record, but a close second Dec. 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.18 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD. NEW…

California's remarkable December weather

While Miami and much of south Florida experienced the coldest December on record, the “other sunny state”, California, has been getting blasted with snow. My family and I experienced this…

Red Faces At The Met Office

From the GWPF, here’s a collection of articles that are collectively ripping the Met Office a “new one”. And, it is easy to see why. Here’s the Met Office supercomputer…

Arctic Oscillation spoiling NASA GISS party

Note: I want to thank everyone who commented here and elsewhere regarding my last post about GISS that sent everyone into a tizzy. All that is very helpful. Here’s more…

Tisdale K.O.e's GISS's latest "warmest-year nonsense"

Bob Tisdale writes: I’ve been holding off telling you about my most recent post in hopes that GISS would continue with their warmest-year nonsense.  And they did. Using correlation maps, animations,…

The Dessler Cloud Feedback Paper in Science: A Step Backward for Climate Research

How’s this for “rapid response“? This rebuttal comes out at exactly the same time the press embargo lifts in Science. We were able to obtain advance copies of the Dessler…

The Story Told by the Southern Oscillation Index

Guest post by David Archibald Bob Tisdale’s post on ENSO on 19th November prompted me to see what I could find in the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) data. The SOI…