A few days ago I mentioned John Neilsen Gammon’s post about The other half of the USHCN network – precipitation In that post I had a picture of the standard rain…
Tag: National Climatic Data Center
NCDC cites "controversy" with the UAH temperature record, and the search for a "true climate signal"
This article in the January/February edition of WIRES Climate Change doesn’t surprise me at all. With the uncertainty of the surface temperature record in question, the Met Office’s Peter Thorne…
The surfacestations paper – statistics primer
Fall et al. 2011: The Statistics By John Neilsen-Gammon (from his blog Climate Abyss – be sure to bookmark it, highly recommended – Anthony) As I mentioned in my last…
The long awaited surfacestations paper
This summary is from Dr. Pielke at the University of Colorado in his words. I’ll have my own post on some detail not covered here, with links to the SI…
The surfacestations.org paper – accepted
After months of work, I’m pleased to announce that the paper that I have jointly written with several co-authors, including Dr. Roger Pielke Senior (who acted in the capacity as…
The folly of linking tornado outbreaks to "climate change"
In times of tragedy, there always seems to be hucksters about trying to use that tragedy to sell a position, a product, or a belief. In ancient times, tragedy was…
Summary of the April 14-16 US tornado outbreak
While Mike Smith over at Meteorological Musings has a great post on predicting the recent tornado outbreak in the eastern USA, NOAA has this postmortem summary of the event below,…
NCDC's March Madness
To read this report, one might conclude that at 1.4 degrees F above the long-term (1901-2000) average, things are looking really bad for US temperatures…that is, until you look at…
One data set discontinued, NCDC to offer free daily data access to another
I’m not sure what the motivation for this is, none was given in the announcement. The historical data contained in the 3200 directory will remain on ftp3 for a limited…
An investigation of USHCN station siting issues using a cleaned dataset
While BEST is making a public relations train wreck for themselves by touting preliminary conclusions with no data analysis paper in place yet to support their announcements, there have been…
Quote of the Week – it's a doozy
Finally, a scientist gets it, speaks out about it, and a reporter in a major media outlet publishes the words that say in even stronger terms what I said last…
Clarification on BEST submitted to the House
UPDATES: A number of feckless political commentators have simply missed this response I prepared, so I’m posting it to the top for a day or two. I’ll have a follow…
NOAA finds"climate change" blameless in 2010 Russian heat wave
We mentioned this previously on WUWT, now it is officially peer reviewed and accepted. Maybe this will be a lesson to those in the MSM and eco blogland who immediately…
Briggs on Berkeley's forthcoming BEST surface temperature record, plus my thoughts from my visit there
UPDATE: for those visiting here via links, see my recent letter regarding Dr. Richard Muller and BEST. I have some quiet time this Sunday morning in my hotel room after…
Surface temperature uncertainty, quantified
There is a new paper out that investigates something that has not previously been well dealt with related to the surface temperature record (at least as far as the author…
Twittering Heights and Knife Fights
One of the bloggers over at ScienceBlogs, this happy looking guy at left, seems to have a real problem with people (me) interpreting Twitter feeds in ways that perhaps 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…
NCDC's Dr. Thomas Peterson: "It's a knife fight"
This is a row screencap from this Twitter page: http://twitter.com/scio11 It comes from the January 13-16th, 2011 Science Online conference held in the Research Triangle Park in Durham. Details at…
According to NCDC's own data, 2010 was not the warmest year in the United States, nor even a tie
While there’s been a lot of attention given to the recent NOAA and NASA press releases stating that 2010 was tied for the warmest year globally, it didn’t meet that…
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