Monthly Archives: October 2012

They’re Back – NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies are Back above the Threshold of El Niño Conditions

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

This post will also serve as the PRELIMINARY October 2012 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update. Note: As many of you are aware, I’m away from home, visiting family. Just my luck to be stuck indoors now with all of the … Continue reading →

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Will this Year’s Flash-in-the-Pan El Niño Reform or Remain in ENSO-Neutral Conditions?

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

This post serves as the Mid-October 2012 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update MID-MONTH UPDATE Sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO3.4 region of the eastern equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170W-120W) are a commonly used index for the strength, frequency and duration … Continue reading →

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TIME OUT

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

I have to take some time away from blogging. Sorry. I’ve got a couple of great posts in the works. But there are some personal things I have to attend to. I’ll provide the mid-October 2012 update on Monday October … Continue reading →

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Part 2 of We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather, Climate Disasters

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

This video is the second in the series of videos titled We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather, Climate Disasters. The post that introduces Part 1 is here. The series are being prepared in response to James … Continue reading →

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Nothing Exciting To Report About the Non-Niño

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

Since many of the visitors here are checking on the status of the development of the ENSO conditions, I figured I better give a quick update. NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies (a commonly used index for the strength, frequency, and … Continue reading →

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Where’s The Anthropogenic Global Warming Signal in the NODC Ocean Heat Content Data (0-700Meters)?

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

This is a deviation from my typical presentation of a subdivided dataset. Usually, I divide the dataset in a way that is intended to illustrate how and why natural variables can explain the warming over the term of that data. … Continue reading →

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Model-Data Comparison – Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies – November 1981 through September 2012

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: See the revision to and discussion of Figure 2. This is not the monthly sea surface temperature update. See the post September 2012 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update. CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) HINDCASTS/PROJECTIONS I included the CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) … Continue reading →

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September 2012 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

Refer also to Model-Data Comparison – Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies – November 1981 through September 2012. NINO3.4 COMPARISONS The sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO3.4 region in the eastern equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170E-120E) are a commonly used index for … Continue reading →

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Southerners are NOT “Dumb Hicks” – A New Low for Proponents of Anthropogenic Global Warming?

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

Ethnic slurs have no place in the global warming debate. I’d like to thank all of those who provided comments (positive or negative) about my video We Now Control Weather — Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather, Climate Disasters at my … Continue reading →

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Unforced Centennial Variations Simulated by Coupled GCMs

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

Today, blogger slimething left me a link to the Karnauskas et al (2012) paper A Pacific Centennial Oscillation Predicted by Coupled GCMs. Thanks, slimething. I’m not going to offer any thoughts, because I don’t want to influence your comments, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Model Problems | 13 Comments