Category Archives: Model-Data Comparison SST

Global Mean Surface Temperature: Early 20th Century Warming Period – Models versus Models & Models versus Data

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Bob Tisdale

This is a long post: 3500+ words and 22 illustrations. Regardless, heretics of the church of human-induced global warming who frequent this blog should enjoy it.  Additionally, I’ve uncovered something about the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive that … Continue reading →

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Because of the GISS and NOAA Press Conference about 2016 Global Surface Temperatures…

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Bob Tisdale

…A Reminder of How Horribly Climate Models Simulate the Surface Temperatures of Earth’s Oceans. This post serves as the annual model-data comparison for sea surface temperatures.

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Hurricane Main Development Region of North Atlantic – Climate Model-Simulated Sea Surface Temperatures Are Too Cool

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

And Those Too-Cool Surface Temperatures Create Obvious Problems for Researchers UPDATE:  The closing has been revised. The sea surface temperatures of the tropical North Atlantic are one of many factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of hurricanes. In … Continue reading →

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Climate Models Are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 2

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

This post will serve as part 2 of the 2015 update of the model-data comparisons of satellite-era sea surface temperatures. The 2014 update is here. This, the second part, contains time-series graphs.  But the data and model outputs are being … Continue reading →

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Climate Models Are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 1

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

This post will serve as part 1 of the 2015 update of the model-data comparisons of satellite-era sea surface temperatures. The 2014 update is here. I’ve broken the update into two parts this year. INTRODUCTION The locations, the timings and … Continue reading →

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On Steinman et al. (2015) – Michael Mann and Company Redefine Multidecadal Variability And Wind Up Illustrating Climate Model Failings

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: I’ve changed the title. This better represents the post. # # # For the past few years, we’ve been showing in numerous blog posts that the observed multidecadal variations in sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic (known as … Continue reading →

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Alarmists Bizarrely Claim “Just what AGW predicts” about the Record High Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE (Jan 13, 2015):  See the end of the post for a copy in pdf format. # # # This post is the annual model-data comparison of satellite-era sea surface temperatures. (For the most-recent longer-term model-data comparison of sea surface … Continue reading →

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Has NOAA Once Again Tried to Adjust Data to Match Climate Models?

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

The topic of discussion is their new sea surface temperature dataset, ERSST.v4.  Based on a breakpoint analysis recently promoted by RealClimate, NOAA appears to have reduced the early 20th Century warming rate to agree with the climate models used by … Continue reading →

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A Few Quick Comments on the New Paper by Gavin Schmidt and Steven Sherwood

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

In his post Schmidt and Sherwood on climate models, Andrew Montford of BishopHill commented on the new paper by Schmidt and Sherwood A practical philosophy of complex climate modelling (preprint).  I haven’t yet studied the Schmidt and Sherwood paper in … Continue reading →

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New Study Predicts a Slight Cooling of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures over the Next Decade

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Pierre Gosselin at NoTrickZone provided an introduction to a recently published paper in his post IPCC Scientist Mojib Latif Sees North Atlantic Cooling Over Next Decade…Confirms Oceans Play Crucial Role. The paper is Klöwer et al. (2014) Atlantic meridional overturning … Continue reading →

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