Monthly Archives: July 2015

Ocean Heat: New Study Shows Climate Scientists Can Still Torture Data until the Data Confess

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

A week or so ago, a troll left a link at my blog to a supposed-to-be-alarming blog post about a new climate study of ocean heat content. According to the study, a revised method of tweaking ocean heat reconstructions has … Continue reading →

Posted in Ocean Heat Content Problems | 28 Comments

Yet Even More Nonsense from Grant Foster (Tamino) et al. on the Bias Adjustments in the New NOAA Pause-Buster Sea Surface Temperature Dataset

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: It was pointed out in a comment that the model-data comparison in the post was skewed. I was comparing modeled marine air temperature minus modeled sea surface temperature anomalies to observed night marine air temperature minus sea surface temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in Tamino, The Halt In Global Warming, The Pause | 5 Comments

Tamino (Grant Foster) is Back at His Old Tricks…That Everyone (But His Followers) Can See Through

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

Or In a Discussion of the Hiatus Since 1998, Grant Foster Presents Trends from 1970 to 2010, Go Figure! Statistician Grant Foster (a.k.a. blogger Tamino, who also likes to call himself Hansen’s Bulldog) is back to his one of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Fundamental Differences between the NOAA and UAH Global Temperature Updates

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

As you are well aware, there is a very basic difference between the updates to the NOAA and UAH global temperature datasets: the NOAA update increased the warming rate of their product during the slowdown in global surface warming, while … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Temperature Update, The Halt In Global Warming, The Pause | 55 Comments

The Three Faces of the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI)

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

This is the first of a series of posts about the impacts of NOAA’s new pause-buster sea surface temperature data on the global temperature products from GISS and NCEI (formerly NCDC). In this post, we’re going to compare the three … Continue reading →

Posted in GISS, Global Temperature Update | 16 Comments

Both NOAA and GISS Have Switched to NOAA’s Unjustifiably Overcooked “Pause-Busting” Sea Surface Temperature Data for Their Global Temperature Products

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

This is the June 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update, but in it we’re presenting the new GISS and NCEI surface temperature products…and the UAH lower troposphere temperature data version 6.

Posted in Global Temperature Update, TLT and LOST Updates, TLT Update | 45 Comments

July 2015 ENSO Update – Tropical Pacific at the Threshold of a Strong El Niño

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

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

Posted in 2015-16 El Nino Series, ENSO Update | 23 Comments

A Return to the Question “Was 2014 the warmest year?”

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE:  The author of the post has now been listed at the end of the Initial Notes. # # # This is a repost of a blog post written by a well-known and well-respected climate scientist.  To date, it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Temperature Update | 6 Comments

New Paper Calls into Question Reanalysis-Based and Climate Model-Based Explanations for the Slowdown in Global Surface Warming

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

INTRODUCTION The topic of this post is the paper Nieves et al. (2015) Recent hiatus caused by decadal shift in Indo-Pacific heating, which was embargoed until 2PM eastern today. The abstract reads (my boldface):

Posted in Hiatus, The Pause | 6 Comments

June 2015 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on July 8, 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 June 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 | 6 Comments