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Guest essay by Mark Fife There are many times, when dealing with the analysis of real world data, looking at the average alone really doesn’t provide a complete picture of what is happening...

Guest analysis by Mark Fife In today’s post I am going to go over how I went about creating a reconstruction of the history of temperature from the GHCN data sets using a variable number of stations reporting each year...

We’ve covered this topic before, but it is always good to mention in again. Howard Goodall asks this on Twitter: “Ever wondered why climate scientists use anomalies instead of temperatures? 100 years of catastrophic...

From the University of Alabama, Huntsville via email from Dr. John Christy. Weather Satellite Wanders Through Time, Space, Causing Stray Warming to Contaminate Data In the late 1990s, the NOAA-14 weather satellite went wandering...

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade March temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.24 C (about 0.43 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March. Northern Hemisphere: +0.39 C (about...

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade February temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.20 C (about 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for February. Northern Hemisphere: +0.24...

Guest essay by Dr Michael Chase SCOPE This article describes a simple but effective procedure for regional average temperature reconstruction, a procedure that you, yes you dear reader, can fully understand and, if you have...

From Dr. Roy Spencer: UAH Global Temperature Update for January, 2018: +0.26 deg. C Coolest tropics since June, 2012 at -0.12 deg. C. The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January,...

Guest essay by E. Calvin Beisner The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) press release headline January 18 was blunt: “NOAA: 2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe.” The tagline that...

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The world’s temperature is in the news again, showing that 2017 was another warm year. Now that it is in the record books, let’s look at the more important...

Guest essay by Dale Leuck “Fake news” is the process of misleading the public through an inaccurate or incomplete depiction of reality, either deliberately or unintentionally...

From NASA Goddard: Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures...

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Prologue:    This essay is a follow-up to two previous essays on the topic of the usefulness of trend lines [trends] in prediction.  Readers may not familiar with these two essays as they...

From the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Global Temperature Report: December 2017 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade December temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.41 C (about...

From UAH and Dr. John Christy Global temperatures drop; November still warm Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade November temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.36 C (about 0.65 degrees...