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NOAA’s Ever-Changing Definition of La Niña Years
UPDATE: I’ve added two illustrations to the end of the post. At the request of blogger “Kurt in Switzerland”, I plotted a comparison of the new and old versions of the Oceanic NINO Index data and...
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Another amplification mechanism discovered by which the Sun affects Earth’s...
From The Hockey Schtick A paper published Tuesday in the Journal of Climate finds tiny variations in solar activity over 11-year solar cycles have greatly amplified effects upon climate via changes in...
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Evidence that Clouds Actively Regulate the Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have put forth the idea for some time now that one of the main climate thermoregulatory mechanisms is a temperature-controlled sharp increase in albedo in the tropical...
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California’s new toilet police
Last Thursday in my local newspaper The Chico Enterprise-Record there was an editorial about saving water through bureaucracy: Editorial: Toilet police don’t want job. It was was of those “only in...
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Sunspots and Sea Surface Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I thought I was done with sunspots … but as the well-known climate scientist Michael Corleone once remarked, “Just when I thought I was out … they pull me back in”. In...
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A Preliminary Look at the Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Since 1940 along...
Guest Post by BobTisdale As of today’s 5am eastern NOAA forecast, Hurricane Joaquin may impact the east coast of the United States from North Carolina to New England, with it downgrading to a tropical...
View ArticleEl Niño-Southern Oscillation Myth 2: A New Myth – ENSO Balances Out to Zero...
Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is the second part in a series of posts about El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). They address many of the myths and misunderstandings about the tropical Pacific...
View ArticleDrought, Hurricanes and Heat Waves – 2012 in Perspective
Guest post by Bob Tisdale Drought, Hurricanes and Heat Waves – Climate Change and Global Warming in the United States – 2012 in Perspective In this video, we’ll examine the exceptional and historic...
View ArticleWarming Rate in the US Slowed during the Recent Warming Period
The Contiguous U.S. Surface Air Temperature Data Through 2012 – Is the Recent Warming Trend Unusual? Guest post by Bob Tisdale There’s going to be a press conference today with James Hansen of GISS and...
View ArticleENSO 2013 – Boy or Girl?
We’re Expecting: Will it be a Boy, a Girl, or ENSO-Neutral in 2013? by Bob Tisdale There was lots of interest in the short-lived El Niño conditions in 2012. Recently, they very quickly transformed into...
View ArticleNOAA SOTC Claim that 2012 Was Warmest La Nina Year is Wrong
NOAA’s Definition and Data Contradict Their Claim That 2012 Was The Warmest La Niña Year Guest post by Bob Tisdale In the 2012 State of the Climate Report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
View ArticleUAH Global temperature for January, up significantly, but other data doesn't...
UAH Global Temperature Update for January, 2013: +0.51 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2013 is +0.51 deg. C, a...
View ArticleNOAA corrects 'State of the Climate'– offers no credit
NOAA Corrects Their 2012 State of the Climate Report – 2012 Was NOT the Warmest La Niña Year on Record Guest post by Bob Tisdale With as little fanfare as possible, NOAA has corrected their erroneous...
View ArticlePropagandist Brad Johnson of 'Forecast the Facts' tries to make the pending...
You knew it was coming from shameless people like him. Unfortunately, Mr. Johnson doesn’t know the difference between what the Gulf Stream pattern looks like and the rest of the sea surface...
View ArticleNew video from Bob Tisdale explains The Impact of Manmade Global Warming on a...
Guest post by Bob Tisdale The following video is an examination and discussion of the sea surface temperature data associated with the recent blizzard called Nemo, and with hurricane Sandy. There’s...
View ArticleThe Shifts Hypothesis – an alternative view of global climate change
Guest post by Pavel Belolipetsky The IPCC, Bob Tisdale and others have presented hypotheses to explain 20th century warming. This article presents another. My co-workers and I call it the “Shifts”...
View ArticleNew study: '…climate system is only about half as sensitive to increasing CO2...
Warming since 1950s partly caused by El Niño HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Nov. 11, 2013) – A natural shift to stronger warm El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean might be responsible for a substantial portion of...
View ArticleStudy: Ocean temps predict US heat waves 50 days out
Pacific pattern often forms in advance of hot days in eastern US From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH BOULDER — The formation of a distinct...
View ArticleNew study offers roadmap for detecting changes in the ocean due to climate...
Some impacts — like sea temperature rise — are already in progress; others expected to occur within next century Princeton University Researchers led by Princeton University examined a range of...
View ArticleSoutheast Greenland Sea Surface Temperature 1° – 2°C Warmer In 1940 Than...
Today some scientists like claiming the present is warmer than at any time in the past 1000 years and suggest the Greenland ice sheets are rapidly melting. But the results of the core reconstruction...
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