More, disgraceful reporting by the BBC (complete with a disgusting use of a photo of the Turkish wildfires):
Tag: NCDC
Quote of the Week: That time when climate science believed UHI was causing most of the twentieth century warming
AMS fellow Joe D’Aleo writes of a time when Thomas Karl, former director of the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) actually believed that UHI and station siting was a problem…
The Original Temperatures Project
Guest essay by Frank Lansner Presentation of the Original Temperatures project. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Methods 3. Adjustments of temperature data 3.1. Adjustments: HISTALP – by the Austrian ZAMG 3.2. Adjustments: ECA&D – by the…
First time in 20 years – more daily record lows than daily highs that were either tied or set in 2013
2013 was a cool year in many ways. Most interestingly, the last year this split between highs and lows happened in the USA, in 1993, we had the eruption from…
Claim: November 2013 is the 'warmest ever' – but will the real November 2013 temperature please stand up?
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…
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…
An analysis of night time cooling based on NCDC station record data
Guest post by Mike Crow Figure 1 Night time temperature profile of a clear sky night in NE Ohio. 8:28pm Sunset/6:16am Sunrise Climate science is all about surface temperature trends.…
NOAA corrects 'State of the Climate' – offers no credit
NOAA Corrects Their 2012 State of the Climate Report – 2012 Was NOT the Warmest La Niña Year on Record Guest post by Bob Tisdale With as little fanfare as possible,…
Meanwhile, Hansen and Karl go on about certainty
There’s a press conference going on right now with NCDC’s Tom Karl and NASA GISS Dr. James Hansen. They want us to believe them, about the certainty of their conclusions…
Hansen and Karl to put on a "worse than we thought" event
From a press release, apparently the writer has no clue that the NASA GISS data is a derivative of the NOAA data, and thus the claim of “NASA and NOAA…
Announcing the first ever CONUS yearly average temperature from the Climate Reference Network
UPDATE: NOAA plans to release SOTC at 1PM EST today. Look for updates soon and a special report on today’s release. The map below will automatically update when we have…
Does NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) keep two separate sets of climate books for the USA?
UPDATE: See the first ever CONUS Tavg value for the year from the NCDC State of the Art Climate Reference Network here and compare its value for July 2012. There’s…
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…
PBS airs special on green rooftops, cites NCDC's Thomas Peterson, who fumbles the UHI ball
From PBS last night: From Rooftop to Alleyway, Chicago Fights Extreme Urban Heat With Greener Ideas One of Chicago’s most beautiful and hidden gardens is located on top of City…
July was also the 329th consecutive month of positive upwards adjustment to the U.S. temperature record by NOAA/NCDC
I’ve noticed there’s a lot of frenetic tweeting and re-tweeting of this “sound bite” sized statement from this Climate Central piece by Andrew Freedman. July was the fourth-warmest such month…
Never before published paper on UHI and siting – Goodridge 1987
Plus answers to yesterday’s Fun puzzle: Name these official stations. Given that California Governor Jerry Brown has recently setup a website at the governor’s office basically telling skeptics to “shut…
NASA's James Hansen is just wrong: Proof that there is no increased drought in the USA tied to temperature
From the James Hansen is just wrong department comes some inconvenient data, data that Dr. Hansen or anyone in the media could have easily looked up for themselves before writing…
About that missing USHCNv2 data…
Some correspondence from NCDC on that missing data from 2008 to the present:
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