Readers may recall Pat Franks’s excellent essay on uncertainty in the temperature record. He emailed me about this new essay he posted on the Air Vent, with suggestions I cover…
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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…
Heated worries? Be alerted about temperature and humidity
As many know, I create instrumentation and display systems that do a wide variety of weather monitoring tasks. Usually I focus on weather and climate measurement in situ. Now, I…
Global temperature still headed down- UAH: negative territory
The global temperature has fallen .653°C (from +0.554 in March 2010 to -0.099 in March 2011) in just one year. That’s a magnitude nearly equivalent to the agreed upon global…
Pielke Sr. on sampling error in BEST 2% preliminary results
Is There A Sampling Bias In The BEST Analysis Reported By Richard Muller? Guest post by Dr. Roger Pielke Senior In his testimony Richard Muller (which I posted on Friday April…
UHI, this is London
Since BEST claims they will work to take UHI into consideration, it seems worthwhile to highlight this new paper. Guess who’s a co-author? Phil Jones of UEA’s CRU. Image above…
ARGO-Era NODC Ocean Heat Content Data (0-700 Meters) Through December 2010
Guest post by Bob Tisdale: NOTE: This post contains 5 .gif animations that total 10MB. (below the continue reading line) Have patience. They may take a while to load. This…
Feb UAH global temperature anomaly goes slightly negative
From Dr. Roy Spencer: Latest Global Average Tropospheric Temperatures (Want to see how the current month’s temperatures are shaping up? Check this out.) Since 1979, NOAA satellites have been carrying…
The Met Office link-buries the CET
The Central England Temperature Record has been getting some inconvenient attention as of late. Joe D’Aleo at ICECAP pointed out recently: The Central England Temperature record is one of the…
Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded in Oklahoma: -31F today
From: NewsOK.com The coldest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma was set today. The Oklahoma Mesonet weather station at Nowata reached minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit actual temperature at 7:40 a.m. today.…
A Cherry-Picker’s Guide to Temperature Trends Update: Warming Crisis Not
by Chip Knappenberger at Master Resource Back in October 2009, my post “A Cherry-Picker’s Guide to Temperature Trends” examined the many different statements that could be made to describe the tendencies of…
Frostbite Falls
Guest post by E.M.Smith Temperature Inversion Original Image The Event We’ve recently had some very cold days in International Falls. This posting: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/21/new-record-cold-tempertures-in-minnesota/ has a nice write up of the…
The Metrology of Thermometers
For those that don’t notice, this is about metrology, not meteorology, though meteorology uses the final product. Metrology is the science of measurement. Since we had this recent paper from…
New paper on forcings of historical European temperatures
From Nature Geoscience Influence of human and natural forcing on European seasonal temperatures Gabriele Hegerl, Juerg Luterbacher, Fidel González-Rouco, Simon F. B. Tett, Thomas Crowley & Elena Xoplaki Journal name:…
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…
Green journalists lament the lack of overwhelming coverage of global warming in the liberal media
Guest post by Ryan Maue Green journalists and partisan bloggers are baffled about the lack of sufficient coverage of the “2010 hottest year ever” — and utter failure to ram…
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…
It's such a cold December: 2010 ends on a chilly note where people live
Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue December global surface temperatures cratered after the Cancun climate confab, which ended a string of above-average months. However, until the government temperature keepers put…
Greenhouse Thought Experiment
UPDATE: Jeff provides his answer below Guest post by Jeff Condon (reposted by request from The Air vent) Derek has been in a war with ScienceofDoom over the what appears…
USA record lows outpace record highs 19 to 1 this week
539 new snowfall records were also set. Since we are often treated to lists of record high temperatures when heat waves occur and they are improperly linked to global warming…
December cold – unprecedented?
BBC news has reported that 40,000 homes are still without water in Northern Ireland after the recent spell of freezing temperatures. Many have been without water for more than 10…
Model Charged with Excessive Use of Forcing
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The GISS Model E is the workhorse of NASA’s climate models. I got interested in the GISSE hindcasts of the 20th century due to an…
UAH and UHI
Note: clearly satellites can see urban heat, as demonstrated by this recent paper unveiled at the 2010 AGU meeting by NASA. See: Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast.…
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