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June 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 June 2015. It was downloaded from the KNMI Climate Explorer. The...
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New Paper Calls into Question Reanalysis-Based and Climate Model-Based...
INTRODUCTION The topic of this post is the paper Nieves et al. (2015) Recent hiatus caused by decadal shift in Indo-Pacific heating, which was embargoed until 2PM eastern today. The abstract reads (my...
View ArticleA Return to the Question “Was 2014 the warmest year?”
UPDATE: The author of the post has now been listed at the end of the Initial Notes. # # # This is a repost of a blog post written by a well-known and well-respected climate scientist. To date, it is...
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July 2015 ENSO Update – Tropical Pacific at the Threshold of a Strong El Niño
This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of last year’s 2014-15 El Niño Series. The reference years for comparison graphs in this post are 1997 and 2014,...
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Both NOAA and GISS Have Switched to NOAA’s Unjustifiably Overcooked...
This is the June 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update, but in it we’re presenting the new GISS and NCEI surface temperature...
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The Three Faces of the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI)
This is the first of a series of posts about the impacts of NOAA’s new pause-buster sea surface temperature data on the global temperature products from GISS and NCEI (formerly NCDC). In this post,...
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Fundamental Differences between the NOAA and UAH Global Temperature Updates
As you are well aware, there is a very basic difference between the updates to the NOAA and UAH global temperature datasets: the NOAA update increased the warming rate of their product during the...
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Tamino (Grant Foster) is Back at His Old Tricks…That Everyone (But His...
Or In a Discussion of the Hiatus Since 1998, Grant Foster Presents Trends from 1970 to 2010, Go Figure! Statistician Grant Foster (a.k.a. blogger Tamino, who also likes to call himself Hansen’s...
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Yet Even More Nonsense from Grant Foster (Tamino) et al. on the Bias...
UPDATE: It was pointed out in a comment that the model-data comparison in the post was skewed. I was comparing modeled marine air temperature minus modeled sea surface temperature anomalies to observed...
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Ocean Heat: New Study Shows Climate Scientists Can Still Torture Data until...
A week or so ago, a troll left a link at my blog to a supposed-to-be-alarming blog post about a new climate study of ocean heat content. According to the study, a revised method of tweaking ocean heat...
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