Monthly Archives: June 2015

The Conclusions of Press Releases Should Match the Scientific Study, Don’t Ya Think?

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: Repaired a few typos. How often do we see this happen—a press release about a scientific study states or suggests that global warming was the cause of a factor being studied, when the paper itself doesn’t come to that … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 5 Comments

June 2015 ENSO Update – Tropical Pacific Approaching the Threshold of a Strong El Niño

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of the 2014-15 El Niño Series.  The reference years for comparison graphs in this post are 1997 and 2014, which are the development years of … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015-16 El Nino Series, ENSO Update | 8 Comments

The 2014/15 El Niño Was Not Focused on the Region Used By NOAA for their Oceanic NINO Index

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE:  Added the initial note. (And I fixed the formatting.  Not sure what happened there, but I lost all of the paragraph breaks.) # # # And that’s why the 2014/15 El Niño appears so weak…and has disappeared from NOAA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO Update | 5 Comments

Weak El Niños and La Niñas Come and Go from NOAA’s Oceanic NINO Index (ONI) with Each SST Dataset Revision

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

Back in April of this year NOAA added the 2014/15 El Niño to their Oceanic NINO Index (a.k.a. ONI). See the former version of ONI here. Last week, with NOAA’s switch to their new Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature dataset version … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO Update | 20 Comments

ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm Is Promoting a Skeptical View of Global Warming: El Niño-Caused Steps

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

(And another proposal to Kevin Trenberth about us co-authoring a paper.) I wasn’t too surprised to find Joe Romm’s June 16, 2015 blog post 2015 May Bring Long-Awaited Step Jump in Global Temperatures at the climate alarmist website ClimateProgress. For … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes, Kevin Trenberth | 14 Comments

NOAA Releases New Pause-Buster Global Surface Temperature Data and Immediately Claims Record-High Temps for May 2015 – What a Surprise!

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

NOAA published their State of the Climate Report today for May 2015. Under the heading of Global Summary Information, they note: Note: With this report and data release, the National Centers for Environmental Information is transitioning to improved versions of … Continue reading →

Posted in LOST Update, NCDC, NOAA SOTC | 47 Comments

May 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update

Posted on June 15, 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 through May 2015 and HADCRUT4 and NCEI (formerly NCDC) through April 2015—and of the two suppliers of satellite-based lower troposphere temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in LOST Update, TLT and LOST Updates, TLT Update | 43 Comments

Early Hansen Co-authored Paper Notes “global mean temperature was perhaps 1 deg C warmer than today”

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

While doing some research for my upcoming book, I was rummaging through early papers on sea level data at the CU Sea Level Library.  I found there the 1982 paper Global Sea Level Trend in the Past Century by Gornitz, Lebedeff … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, GISS | 2 Comments

May 2015 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

MONTHLY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALY MAP The following is a Global map of Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies for May 2015.  It was downloaded from the KNMI Climate Explorer. The contour range was set to -2.5 to +2.5 … Continue reading →

Posted in SST Update | 18 Comments

Open Letter to Tom Karl of NOAA/NCEI Regarding “Hiatus Busting” Paper

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: See the note at the end of the post. Date: June 10, 2015 Subject: Karl et al. (2015) Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus and the Sea Surface Data that Support It From: … Continue reading →

Posted in Hiatus, NOAA ERSST.v4, SST Dataset Info, The Pause | 86 Comments