Monthly Archives: May 2016

May 2016 ENSO Update – The 2015/16 El Niño Has Reached Its End

Posted on May 30, 2016 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 and for the 2015/16 El Niño series. INTRODUCTION In the recent post Say Good-Bye to the 2015/16 El Niño, … Continue reading →

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Say Goodbye to the 2015/16 El Niño

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

Plus a Few Freebees at the End of the Post The sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific are bordered by the coordinates of 5S-5N, 170W-120W.  They are used by NOAA and other meteorological agencies … Continue reading →

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Three Free Ebooks on Global Warming and Climate Change

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

They are ebooks in .pdf format: On Global warming and the Illusion of Control – Part 1 presents the basics and illusions behind the hypothesis of global warming and climate change, Who Turned on the Heat? is a comprehensive examination … Continue reading →

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Bill Nye, Celebrity from “Dancing With the Stars”, Attempts to Make Global Warming a Focal Point for the U.S. Presidential Elections

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

For those not familiar with Dancing With the Stars, it’s a television dance contest that pairs professional dancers with celebrities.  Bill Nye was a celebrity dancer for 2013’s Season 17.  Nye was eliminated in the third round after he and his … Continue reading →

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Changes to the GISS Land Surface Air Temperature-Based Dataset Have Increased Reported Long-Term Global Warming

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

No surprise there. But there are also periods when reported shorter-term global warming and global cooling have been decreased. This post discusses changes to a global surface temperature dataset from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) that is based … Continue reading →

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April 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

This post provides an update of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS through April 2016 and HADCRUT4 and NCEI (formerly NCDC) through March 2016—and of the two suppliers of satellite-based lower troposphere temperature … Continue reading →

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Does Ed Hawkins’s Spirally Global Temperature Animation Defeat Its Purpose?

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

Eric Worrall’s post Making Global Warming Scarier at WattsUpWithThat included an animation of global surface temperature anomalies from Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading.  [Thanks, Eric.]  I’ve included the gif edition as my Animation 1, which is available from Ed … Continue reading →

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April 2016 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

INITIAL NOTE I’ve changed formats.  I’ve replaced the smoothed curve with a horizontal line that represents the Current Value. MONTHLY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALY MAP The following is a Global map of Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies for … Continue reading →

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Do the Adjustments to the Global Land+Ocean Surface Temperature Data Always Decrease the Reported Global Warming Rate?

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

If you’ve read the first two posts in this series you might already believe you know the answer to the title question.  Those two posts were:

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