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Open Letter to Tom Karl of NOAA/NCEI Regarding “Hiatus Busting” Paper
UPDATE: See the note at the end of the post. Date: June 10, 2015 Subject: Karl et al. (2015) Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus and the Sea Surface Data that...
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May 2015 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update
MONTHLY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALY MAP The following is a Global map of Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies for May 2015. It was downloaded from the KNMI Climate Explorer. The...
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While doing some research for my upcoming book, I was rummaging through early papers on sea level data at the CU Sea Level Library. I found there the 1982 paper Global Sea Level Trend in the Past...
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May 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature...
This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through May 2015 and HADCRUT4 and NCEI (formerly NCDC) through April 2015—and...
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NOAA Releases New Pause-Buster Global Surface Temperature Data and...
NOAA published their State of the Climate Report today for May 2015. Under the heading of Global Summary Information, they note: Note: With this report and data release, the National Centers for...
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ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm Is Promoting a Skeptical View of Global Warming:...
(And another proposal to Kevin Trenberth about us co-authoring a paper.) I wasn’t too surprised to find Joe Romm’s June 16, 2015 blog post 2015 May Bring Long-Awaited Step Jump in Global Temperatures...
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Weak El Niños and La Niñas Come and Go from NOAA’s Oceanic NINO Index (ONI)...
Back in April of this year NOAA added the 2014/15 El Niño to their Oceanic NINO Index (a.k.a. ONI). See the former version of ONI here. Last week, with NOAA’s switch to their new Extended Reconstructed...
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The 2014/15 El Niño Was Not Focused on the Region Used By NOAA for their...
UPDATE: Added the initial note. (And I fixed the formatting. Not sure what happened there, but I lost all of the paragraph breaks.) # # # And that’s why the 2014/15 El Niño appears so weak…and has...
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June 2015 ENSO Update – Tropical Pacific Approaching the Threshold of a...
This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of the 2014-15 El Niño Series. The reference years for comparison graphs in this post are 1997 and 2014, which...
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The Conclusions of Press Releases Should Match the Scientific Study, Don’t Ya...
UPDATE: Repaired a few typos. How often do we see this happen—a press release about a scientific study states or suggests that global warming was the cause of a factor being studied, when the paper...
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