Monthly Archives: July 2014

VERY, VERY PRELIMINARY July 2014 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Update

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

OVERVIEW Preliminary monthly NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies have dropped below the +0.5 deg C threshold of El Niño conditions, while the preliminary monthly global data are still elevated.  Weekly NINO3.4 data are well below the threshold of El Niño … Continue reading →

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The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 14 – Warm Water Recirculated?

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

There may still be a chance for an El Niño during the 2014/15 ENSO season. A new “pocket” of warm subsurface water has formed in the western equatorial Pacific. See the note in the page from the most-recent NOAA Weekly … Continue reading →

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On Keating’s Challenge

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

A post by Alec Rawls at WUWT Taking Keating’s $30,000 skeptic challenge seriously, part 1 has renewed some interest in a challenge to disprove the theory of human-induced global warming.  This post is not about Alec’s post; it provides my general comments … Continue reading →

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June 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Sorry this update is late.  I got sidetracked with the post about Risbey et al. (2014), and the post about the new climate model, now with knobs. This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers … Continue reading →

Posted in GISS, HADCRUT4, LOST Update, Lower Troposphere Temperature, TLT and LOST Updates, TLT Update, UKMO | 5 Comments

WOW! – How Many Fabrications, Misrepresentations, etc., Can One Blogger Roll into One Blog Post?

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

I always find Sou’s (a.k.a. Miriam O’Brien) posts at HotWhopper entertaining.   She normally is only capable of the Monty Python contradiction approach to argument.  When you read her posts in a Monty Python-light, they are very funny. Try it.  But … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, HotWhopper | 7 Comments

New Climate Model Introduced, now with knobs!

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

[Satire On] Due to the cutbacks in funding for climate science, a new climate model has been introduced to help politicians justify unnecessary laws that regulate carbon dioxide emissions…

Posted in Satire/Humor | 5 Comments

ENSO is Like Dieting

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Watching the progress of both on a regular basis is painful, because they take sooooo long. But unlike the super El Niño that failed to form, I’ve lost 2 stone (about 30 pounds) so far this year.  One more to … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky and Oreskes Are Co-Authors of a Paper about ENSO, Climate Models and Sea Surface Temperature Trends (Go Figure!)

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE 2:  Animation 1 from this post is happily displaying the differences between the “Best” models and observations in the first comment at a well-known alarmist blog. Please see update 2 at the end of this post. # # # … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes, Model-Data Comparison SST, The Halt In Global Warming, The Pause | 67 Comments

The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 13 – More Mixed Signals

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

A few interesting things have happened since the July Update last week. On the ocean side, weekly sea surface temperatures in the NINO3.4 region have dropped (just) below the threshold of El Niño conditions (using the standard NOAA base years … Continue reading →

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The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 12 – July 2014 Update – The Feedbacks Need to Kick in Soon

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

This post provides an update on the progress of the early evolution of the 2014/15 El Niño with data through the beginning of July 2014. The post is similar in layout to the May and June updates.  The post includes … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014-15 El Nino Series, El Nino-La Nina Processes, ENSO Update | 25 Comments