Monthly Archives: January 2015

What are Your Fears about Global Warming and Climate Change?

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

The title question is rarely, if ever, asked of people who are skeptical of human-induced global warming and climate change…for obvious reasons.  If persons are skeptical of a future filled with climate catastrophes, regardless of whether they are caused by … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 8 Comments

New Paper Claims Extreme La Niñas to Become More Frequent under Global Warming

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

The new 2015 paper by Cai et al Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming has been getting a lot of alarmist attention recently. Examples: see the CBS News story Climate change expected to bring more La Niñas, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, El Nino-La Nina Processes | 6 Comments

An Introduction to Oceanic Kelvin Waves at the NOAA ENSO Blog

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

We discussed downwelling and upwelling equatorial Kelvin waves in almost every post of 2014/15 El Niño Series.  NOAA recently published a post titled Oceanic Kelvin waves: The next polar vortex*.  The post was written by NOAA’s Michelle L’Heureux and reviewed … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes | 2 Comments

An Unexpected Admission from Dana Nuccitelli at SkepticalScience

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

In Dana Nuccitelli’s recent post at SkepticalScience Matt Ridley wants to gamble the Earth’s future because he won’t learn from the past, he has finally admitted something we’ve been discussing for more than 6 years. (His article was also cross … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, Climate Model Failings, El Nino-La Nina Processes | 11 Comments

NODC Data Continue to Indicate the Deep Oceans are Warming in Some Basins But Not Others

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE:  I forgot to note that the data in Figure 1 have been zeroed at the year 2003.  That was done to simplify the illustration. # # # The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) recently updated their ocean heat content … Continue reading →

Posted in Ocean Depth Averaged Temperature, Ocean Heat Content Problems | 20 Comments

NASA GISS & NOAA NCDC Need to Be More Open with the Public when Making Proclamations about Global Warming Records

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

We discussed the 2014 global surface temperature announcements by NASA GISS and NOAA NCDC in the posts On the Biases Caused by Omissions in the 2014 NOAA State of the Climate Report and Does the Uptick in Global Surface Temperatures in … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 17 Comments

December 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

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

Posted in Global Temperature Update, TLT and LOST Updates | 1 Comment

On the Biases Caused by Omissions in the 2014 NOAA State of the Climate Report

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

[Update:  Corrected a few typos in the paragraph before Figure 4. My thanks to rogerknights.] I hadn’t read the NOAA State of the Climate (SOTC) Report for 2014 when I prepared the post Does the Uptick in Global Surface Temperatures … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, NOAA SOTC | 77 Comments

Calamities Oversold

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

The overselling of calamities in environmental sciences has reached unseemly proportions…so much so in one field that in 2014 a team of marine researchers exposed the problems in a journal article. The paper is Duarte et al. (2014) Reconsidering Ocean … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 3 Comments

Does the Uptick in Global Surface Temperatures in 2014 Help the Growing Difference between Climate Models and Reality?

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

This post includes calendar year 2014 global surface temperature data from GISS and NCDC. I thought it would be interesting to begin the introduction as if GISS and NCDC were announcing year-end business profits at their press conference today. [sarc … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Temperature Update, Model-Data LOST | 73 Comments