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- First time in 20 years – more daily record lows than daily highs that were either tied or set in 2013 Wed, 1 Jan 14, 11:37am2013 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 Mt. Pinatubo the prior year which ejected so much aerosol …...
- NASA predicts 8 degrees of warming in the US by 2100 Mon, 29 Jul 13, 5:01pmFor the National Climate Assessment NASA has produced a model-based prediction of eight degrees Fahrenheit for the continental US by 2100 as the most likely scenario Story submitted by Ben Bakker NASA scientists have created...
- Will the real The Death Valley 134F high temperature record please stand up? NWS says one on file at NCDC is a ‘fake’ Thu, 18 Jul 13, 5:31am“…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 records presented...
- Central Park in USHCNv2.5 (October 2012) magically becomes cooler in July in the Dust Bowl years Tue, 16 Jul 13, 1:50amBy 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...
- The Australian Bureau of Meteorology Gets it Wrong Thu, 4 Jul 13, 10:35pmGuest essay by Ed Thurstan Abstract The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) released a new temperature dataset – the “Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature“ (ACORN-SAT) in...
- Hot weather and climate change – a mountain from a molehill? Thu, 4 Jul 13, 7:12amGuest essay by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times On Sunday, Death Valley temperatures reached 129oF, a new June record high for the United States, according to the National Weather Service...
- NCDC’s irreconcilable temperatures in the May 2013 State of the Climate Report Fri, 21 Jun 13, 5:32amNOAA/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 global data sets...
- An analysis of night time cooling based on NCDC station record data Fri, 17 May 13, 9:30pmGuest 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. The problem with this is that the CAGW...
- NOAA decadal scale rainfall trends found to be ‘wildly wrong’ Sat, 23 Mar 13, 5:45amGOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS Guest post by Craig Loehle, Ph.D. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that USA rainfall is, according to NOAA, rising at 6.5 inches per century. The bad news is that … Continue reading...
- NOAA century scale rainfall trends found to be ‘wildly wrong’ Sat, 23 Mar 13, 5:45amGOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS Guest post by Craig Loehle, Ph.D. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that USA rainfall is, according to NOAA, rising at 6.5 inches per century. The bad news is that … Continue reading...
- Over 650 snow records set in USA this week – another wonky surface station located Sun, 24 Feb 13, 2:32amAlmost 60% of the contiguous USA covered in snow. While pundits spin attempts at linking snowfall in the Northeast USA to AGW, much like they do in the summer during heat waves, we find that Nature is just taunting them …...
- The monthly report NOAA never produces – from the Climate Reference Network Fri, 15 Feb 13, 10:39amHere is the latest monthly value from the state of the art Climate Reference Network, (CRN) which never seems to make it into NOAA’s monthly and yearly climate reports...
- Japan’s ‘Cool Hand Luke’ moment for surface temperature Fri, 1 Feb 13, 3:49amAt NASA’s Climate 365, there is an interesting story posted with this statement and a graph: Some say scientists can’t agree on Earth’s temperature changes Each year, four international science institutions...
- A question for Zeke Hausfather Thu, 24 Jan 13, 9:55amZeke is upset that I made this statement in a story at Fox news: Is history malleable? Can temperature data of the past be molded to fit a purpose? It certainly seems to be the case here, where the temperature … Continue...
- 2012 ranks as 54th in ‘extreme weather’ events Tue, 22 Jan 13, 4:33amPaul Homewood ranks the data from NOAA/NCDC in a pragmatic way, and comes up with this graph. Figure 8 An Alternative Look We often hear today’s climate described as “post-normal”, but what was so normal about climate...