A Statistical Definition of the 'Hiatus in Global Warming' using NASA GISS and MLO data

Guest essay by Danley Wolfe WUWT posted a piece I submitted last September titled ‘A look at carbon dioxide vs. global temperature’. The main point I was trying to convey…

RSS Shows No Warming For 15 Years (Now Includes February Data)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Edited by Just The Facts: In the above graphic, the zero line from February 2000 has been offset to make it visible. It actually falls…

It Would Not Matter If Trenberth Was Correct (Now Includes January Data)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Edited by Just The Facts: The comment referred to in the title is the following by Kevin Trenberth regarding heat in the deep oceans: “The…

Only Satellites Show Pause, WUWT? (Now Includes December Data)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Edited by Just The Facts: The above graphic shows that RSS has a slope of basically zero since October 1996, or a period of 18…

No Records Highs Possible In The Satellite Temperature Datasets in 2014 (Now Includes November Data Except For HADCRUT4)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek Edited by Just The Facts: In the above graphic, the green line is RSS from 1990 with a mean of 12 which means that you…

A First Look At SURFRAD

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Since the late Nineties the US has had seven industrial-strength stations that measure a variety of climate variables every minute, 24/7. These are called “SURFRAD” stations. As…

Is WTI Dead? And HadCRUT Adjusts Up, Again… (Now Includes August Data except for HadCRUT4.2 and HadSST3)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Commentary By Walter Dnes, Edited by Just The Facts: Update: Comment from Tim Osborn of the University of East Anglia (UEA), Climatic Research Unit (CRU),…

GISS Hockey-Stick Adjustments

Guest Post By Walter Dnes: There have been various comments recently about GISS’ “dancing data”, and it just so happens that as GISS data is updated monthly, I’ve been downloading…

Can GISS And Other Data Sets Set Records in 2014? (Now Includes April Data)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek (Edited By Just The Facts) GISS and other sets are  poised to set new records in 2014, even without an El Nino. The present GISS…

The Slow Fourier Transform (SFT)

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach While investigating the question of cycles in climate datasets (Part 1, Part 2), I invented a method I called “sinusoidal periodicity”. What I did was…

Crowdsourcing A Full Kernel Cascaded Triple Running Mean Low Pass Filter, No Seriously…

Image Credit: Climate Data Blog By Richard Linsley Hood  – Edited by Just The Facts The goal of this crowdsourcing thread is to present a 12 month/365 day Cascaded Triple Running Mean…

Lakes For Sale, Partially Thawed, N=20

Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach Anthony pointed out the selling of overhyped claims of the “dramatic thinning” of Arctic ice here. The title of the underlying scientific study is much…

New record low set in the coldest city in the continental USA – much of the country headed for a deep freeze

As we begin 2014, it will usher in record cold temperatures. Next week looks quite cold as this forecast for Tuesday shows. Image from Dr. Ryan Maue, WeatherBell International Falls,…

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…

'Twas the nightmare before Christmas

By Joe Bastardi ‘Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the news, There were reports of record cold, so many were confused. Told global warming is why we should…

Whither went the warmer weather?

17 years, 3 months with no global warming By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The Long Pause just got three months longer. Last month, the RSS monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature…

Cowtan and Way – The Magician's 'Red Scarf Trick' with Linear Trend Lines

Guest Post by Kip Hansen There are a lot of good, in-depth technical discussions of Cowtan and Way 2013, Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on…

UAH October temperatures, part 2

Note that the original October report on WUWT from a press release issued accidentally by UAH is superseded by this report. – Anthony UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for October,…

An impartial look at global warming…

Guest essay by M.S.Hodgart (Visiting Reader Surrey Space Centre University of Surrey) The figure presented here is a new graph of the story of global warming – and cooling. The…

What People Will Read and See with the IPCC’s Lead-Off Illustration from the AR5 SPM

Anthony Watts published an illustration and an excerpt of the draft of the IPCC’s Summary for Policymakers due out later this month. See the WUWT post Excerpts from the Leaked…