Lots of clima-hullaballo this week in the media thanks NOAA and this announcement in NOAA’s “State of the Climate” report seen here: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/ They state: The combined average temperature over…
Tag: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Will the real The Death Valley 134F high temperature record please stand up? NWS says one on file at NCDC is a 'fake'
“…someone made this fake form off the original and even forged Oscar Denton’s name on it.” Readers may recall that last week I noticed differences in the two “official” paper…
Central Park in USHCNv2.5 (October 2012) magically becomes cooler in July in the Dust Bowl years
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM Remember this story long ago on New York’s Central Park multiple very different data sets to which Steve McIntyre responded here. McIntyre wrote then: …has the…
NCDC's irreconcilable temperatures in the May 2013 State of the Climate Report
NOAA/NCDC just published their State of the Climate Report for May 2013, and in it, are some claims about global temperature that look just plain wrong when compared to other…
To NCDC: We Haven't Seen an El Nino since 2009/10, What Do You Expect?
This desperate sounding tweet came in a few minutes ago and will be sure to get the peccatogenesists all stirred up with laughable claims of “poisoned weather” etc. June 11 U.S.…
'Game changer' – Antarctic melt due to warm water, not air temperature
From the University of California – Irvine something that pretty well makes Steig et al 2009 even more irrelevant, since in that paper they did a survey of air temperatures…
Bloomberg's Climate Fantasy
From the New York Daily News: The data doesn’t support him. The temperature rise seems to have slowed in the past few years, here is NYC’s Central Park data:
NOAA’s Ever-Changing Definition of La Niña Years
UPDATE: I’ve added two illustrations to the end of the post. At the request of blogger “Kurt in Switzerland”, I plotted a comparison of the new and old versions of…
New paper from NOAA demonstrates that El Niño has more impacts than climate on winter weather in the USA
While AP’s Seth Borenstein cites opinions of activist scientists in erroneously claiming that ‘climate change’ increasing atmospheric moisture is the main driver for winter weather events, it turns out that…
NCDC's new USHCN hockey stick trick
Yesterday, NCDC released Version 2.5 of the USHCN data set. For those who don’t know, this is the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) which NCDC considers a “gold standard” for…
