Monthly Archives: August 2014

A Note on the 50-50 Attribution Argument between Judith Curry and Gavin Schmidt

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Judith Curry and Gavin Schmidt are arguing once again about how much of the global warming we’ve experienced since 1950 is attributable to human-induced global warming.  Judith’s argument was presented in her post The 50-50 argument at ClimateEtc (where this … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, Climate Model Failings, Model-Data LOST | 8 Comments

A Lead Author of IPCC AR5 Downplays Importance of Climate Models

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Richard Betts heads the Climate Impacts area of the UK Met Office. The first bullet point on his webpage under areas of expertise describes his work as a climate modeler. He was one of the lead authors of the IPCC’s … Continue reading →

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The 50-50 argument

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Judith, thanks for making this a separate thread. It’s an extremely important topic. The Gavins of this world will fight you tooth and nail on this, because they have tuned their models to a naturally occurring upswing in the surface … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Development Region Sea Surface Temperature Update – August 2014

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

The peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season is rapidly approaching.  See the NOAA Hurricane Climatology  graph to the right.  (Give it a click for a full-sized version.) Hurricane frequency tends to peak in mid-September. In the May 2014 post Hurricane … Continue reading →

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Will the Next El Niño Bring an End to the Slowdown in Global Surface Warming?

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Numerous scientific papers have reported the hiatus in global surface warming will end with the next El Niño event.  But according to a new paper by Chen and Tung published today online in ScienceMag (link to paper follows), that’s not going to … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, Ocean Processes, The Halt In Global Warming, The Pause | 22 Comments

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

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through July 2014 and HADCRUT4 and NCDC through June 2014—and of the two suppliers of satellite-based lower troposphere temperature data (RSS … Continue reading →

Posted in GISS, HADCRUT4, LOST Update, NCDC, TLT and LOST Updates, TLT Update | 17 Comments

On The Recent Record-High Global Sea Surface Temperatures – The Wheres and Whys

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

NOAA’s State of the Climate Report for June 2014 included the bullet point under global highlights (my boldface): For the ocean, the June global sea surface temperature was 0.64°C (1.15°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F), the highest … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, El Nino-La Nina Processes, SST Dataset Info, SST Update, The Blob | 78 Comments

Recent Hawaiian Tropical Cyclones – Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies of the Storm Tracks

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

It never fails.  Hurricanes and tropical cyclones always bring out the manmade global warming alarmists, with their claims of unusually warm sea surface temperatures along the storm tracks.  Of course those fictionally warmed sea surface temperatures were caused by rising … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Hurricanes, SST Update | 7 Comments

The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 15 – August 2014 Update – An El Niño Mulligan?

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Yes, I’m using the term Mulligan as in a replayed golf shot. Ocean-atmosphere processes have consumed most of the warm water in the eastern equatorial Pacific from the downwelling (warm) Kelvin wave that had crossed the Pacific earlier this year. … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014-15 El Nino Series, El Nino-La Nina Processes, ENSO Update | 17 Comments

July 2014 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

WEEKLY GLOBAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES Weekly global sea surface temperature anomalies are still reaching higher, now easily above the peak reached during the 1997/98 El Niño.  The vast majority of this new warming comes from the North Pacific.  I’ll … Continue reading →

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