adjustments/corrections, Tag

Appoint a task force to come up with appropriate width of the error bars. There should be some kind of sophisticated statistical model to generate this, but I would think that error bars of +/- 0.5 deg C are eminently justifiable.

“It is almost certain that the corrections are adding significant non-climatic warming to the raw data”.

Study picks apart factors that caused severe, long-lasting droughts and suggests increased risk for future Earth Institute at Columbia University About a dozen megadroughts struck the American Southwest during the 9th through...

Reposted from Climate Etc. Posted on July 21, 2019 by curryja by Judith Curry “The atmosphere bias of climate science makes it impossible for them to see geological forces and therefore, impossible for them to understand...

By Joe Born 1. Introduction By presenting actual calculation results from a specific feedback-system example, the plots below will put some graphical meat on the verbal bones of Nick Stokes’ recent “Demystifying...

From Forbes A dose of common sense from Marshall Shepherd As I browsed the social media, I saw claims of climate change, “end of times” language, and sheer awe that hail fell in Mexico during the Summer...

Hardware and IP addresses analyzed to assess the carbon footprint of the cryptocurrency Technical University of Munich (TUM) The use of Bitcoin causes around 22 megatons in CO2 emissions annually – comparable to the...

Reposted from Dr Roy Spencer’s Blog May 13th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. A major uncertainty in figuring out how much of recent warming has been human-caused is knowing how much nature has caused. The IPCC is quite...

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen (with help from Steve Case)   Prologue:  I have been writing recently about Sea Level Rise, both as particular local examples (  Guam,  Canton,  Miami,   New York, and  NY/NJ  )  and...

Guest post by David Middleton When the observations don’t match the models, adjust the observations… Satellite snafu masked true sea-level rise for decades Revised tallies confirm that the rate of sea-level rise...

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In November 2015, just before the faithful gathered around their capering, gibbering witch-doctors and shamans in Paris for the New Superstition’s annual festival of thanks and praise,...

Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. If you can set aside the smug, snide remarks of the author, this article does a fairly good job in explaining why the surface station temperature data have...

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale NOAA revised their global surface temperature product in June 2015 to show more global warming during the post-1998 period. Those data manipulations supposedly ended the slowdown in global warming...

Older records may be fragile but was diligence any better in recent decades? Guest essay by Bob Fernley Jones Background: Out of over 20,000 Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) weather stations on record [1], 112 have had their data...

An analysis of the U.S. Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) shows that only about 8%-1% (depending on the stage of processing) of the data survives in the climate record as unaltered/estimated data. Guest essay by...