Monthly Archives: December 2009

>Memo To Big Oil

>Dear Big Oil: It has come to my attention that I am in your pocket. Refer to the following screen capture from the NewsBusters.org blog. http://i45.tinypic.com/2lniu08.pngProof Of Bob Tisdale Being In The Pocket Of Big Oil Link to thread:http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/12/15/weak-keith-olbermann-jon-stewart-attack-inhofes-climate-skepticism Note … Continue reading

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>North Pacific Ocean Heat Content Shift In The Late 1980s

>The Ocean Heat Content (OHC) anomalies (0-700 meters) of the mid-to-high latitudes of the North Pacific Ocean shifted significantly in the late 1980s. The shift is visible in a graph of North Pacific OHC anomaly data from January 1955 to … Continue reading

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>NINO3.4 SST Anomalies Are Approaching 2 Deg C

>While the 2009/10 El Nino is still far from “Super El Nino” strength, NINO3.4 SST anomalies (OI.v2) for the week centered on December 23, 2009 have reached 1.94 deg C. http://i50.tinypic.com/157byuf.png Weekly NINO3.4 SST Anomalies The increase is also visible … Continue reading

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>Happy Holidays

>Enjoy your holidays. Regards Bob Tisdale

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>Mid-December 2009 SST Anomaly Update

>NINO3.4 SST anomalies, Figure 1, and Global SST anomalies, Figure 2, have both increased over the past few weeks. For the week centered on December 16th, NINO3.4 SST anomalies were 1.85 deg C. http://i45.tinypic.com/ofbmhg.png Figure 1 – NINO3.4 SST Anomalies … Continue reading

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>Climate Studies Misrepresent The Effects Of El Nino And La Nina Events

>INTRODUCTION I posted my first YouTube video on the subject of The Lingering Effects of the 1997/98 El Nino about one year ago. Since then, many of my posts have dealt with the multiyear aftereffects of strong El Nino events … Continue reading

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>A Look At The Individual Proxies Used In Kaufman et al (2009)

>On its publication in September 2009, Kaufman et al (2009) “Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling” made its rounds in blogs. The abstract reads, “The temperature history of the first millennium C.E. is sparsely documented, especially in the Arctic. We … Continue reading

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>Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation Index Reconstruction

>INTRODUCTION The Climate Reconstruction webpage…http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/recons.html…of the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder contains a number of multi-century SST anomaly reconstructions. Though I posted the AMO reconstruction dataset in an earlier thread, SST Reconstructions, I thought it … Continue reading

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>Met Office Prediction: “Climate could warm to record levels in 2010”

>But They Fail To Tell You Why The Met Office begins their December 10, 2009 press release…http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20091210b.html…with, “A combination of man-made global warming and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as El Niño, means it … Continue reading

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>WMO Press Announcement Is Missing A Few Things

>The World Meteorological Organization Press Release Number 869 “2000-2009, The Warmest Decade” is missing a few things. Link:http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_869_en.html The text of the press release DOES NOT CONTAIN the words: Anthropogenic, or Greenhouse, or Manmade, or “Climate Change”. My post “Global … Continue reading

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