Author Archives: Bob Tisdale

About Bob Tisdale

Research interest: the long-term aftereffects of El Niño and La Nina events on global sea surface temperature and ocean heat content. Author of the ebook Who Turned on the Heat? and regular contributor at WattsUpWithThat.

SkepticalScience Still Misunderstands or Misrepresents the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Posted on May 7, 2013

The author of the recent SkepticalScience post Distinguishing Between Short-Term Variability and Long-Term Trends, Dana Nuccitelli, still misunderstands or misrepresents El Niño and La Niña processes.  Either way, he’s missed something. The instrument temperature record indicates that La Niñas and El Niños serve … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to the WMO

Posted on May 3, 2013

Dear WMO: Thanks for furnishing the lovely graph of global temperature anomalies in your WMO Statement on Status of the Global Climate in 2012. I’ve reproduced it here. The caption for it reads: Figure 4. January–December global land and ocean … Continue reading →

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Ocean Heat Content (0 to 2000 Meters) – Why Aren’t Northern Hemisphere Oceans Warming During the ARGO Era?

Posted on May 3, 2013

OVERVIEW Before the ARGO floats were deployed, there were so few temperature and salinity observations at depths below 700 meters that the NODC does not present ocean heat content data during that period for depths of 0-2000 meters on an … Continue reading →

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On Holland and Bruyère (2013) “Recent Intense Hurricane Response to Global Climate Change”

Posted on April 30, 2013

Alternate Title: Climate Science Community Continues to Lose Sight of Reality SkepticalScience is promoting the Holland and Bruyère (2013) paper Recent Intense Hurricane Response to Global Climate Change as proof positive that hypothetical human-induced global warming has caused more intense … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, Hurricanes, Model-Data LOST | 5 Comments

PRELIMINARY April 2013 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update

Posted on April 29, 2013

STANDARD OPENING PARAGRAPH The April 2013 Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data through the NOAA NOMADS website won’t be official until Monday, May 6th 2013. Refer to the schedule on the NOAA Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis Frequently Asked Questions … Continue reading →

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Joe Romm Predicts “…All But Certain Ruin for Modern Civilization…” from a NOAA Fisheries Press Release

Posted on April 29, 2013

You can’t make this stuff up. The April 25, 2013 NOAA press release Sea Surface Temperatures Reach Highest Level in 150 Years on Northeast Continental Shelf has been getting coverage by the mainstream media, including alarmist websites like Climate Progress. … Continue reading →

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Dana Nuccitelli Misleads and Misinforms in His First Blog Post at The Guardian

Posted on April 25, 2013

The Guardian has a new blog called Climate Consensus – The 97%. The two primary authors are to be Dana Nuccitelli, a regular contributor at SkepticalScience, and John Abraham, Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas. Dana Nuccitelli’s first … Continue reading →

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El Niño-Southern Oscillation Then and Now

Posted on April 24, 2013

I’m presenting this for those who look for patterns. I see it only as a curiosity—nothing more.  I am not suggesting that future ENSO events will mimic those of the past, but… El Niño-Southern Oscillation indices are used to monitor … Continue reading →

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Mid-April 2013 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update

Posted on April 23, 2013

Note: I’ve extended the weekly data back to 2001. I simply wanted to illustrate how “flat” global sea surface temperatures have been since the end of the 1998-01 La Niña. I’m not sure if I’m going to leave those graphs … Continue reading →

Posted in SST Update | 5 Comments

A Quick Comment about the PAGES Continental Temperature Reconstructions

Posted on April 23, 2013

Normally, I don’t bother to discuss paleoclimatological reconstructions. The reason: most try, some through questionable methods, to illustrate that the recent warming is unusual and could only be explained by the increased emissions of manmade greenhouse gases. And that’s the … Continue reading →

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