Monthly Archives: June 2016

Global Surface Temperature Anomalies Should Be Higher In 2016 Than 2015

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

This post confirms what most of us suspect based on the history of global surface temperature data responses to strong El Niño events. That is, if global surface temperatures respond similarly to past strong El Niños, the 2016 values should … Continue reading →

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Close But No Cigar – NINO3.4 SST Anomalies Are a Tick (0.1 deg C) above La Niña Threshold

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

This is a quick ENSO update. NOAA’s weekly sea surface temperature anomaly data for the NINO regions (based on the original Reynolds OI.v2 data) are furnished on Mondays. Today’s update for the week centered on June 22, 2016 shows the … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Main Development Region of North Atlantic – Climate Model-Simulated Sea Surface Temperatures Are Too Cool

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

And Those Too-Cool Surface Temperatures Create Obvious Problems for Researchers UPDATE:  The closing has been revised. The sea surface temperatures of the tropical North Atlantic are one of many factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of hurricanes. In … Continue reading →

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Global Sea Surface Temperature Responses to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 El Niño Events – Update 1

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

Alternate Title:  Just in Case You Thought Sea Surface Temperatures around the Globe Responded Similarly to Strong El Niños This is an update of the post here published back in March.  It will illustrate quite clearly that the responses of … Continue reading →

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In Honor of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Global Warming Publicity-Founded Visit to Greenland…

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

…A Few Model-Data Comparisons of Greenland Surface Air Temperatures Mass losses from Greenland’s ice sheets have been one of the focuses of alarmists for decades. In fact, last week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Greenland on a (boreal) … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 14, 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 May 2016 and HADCRUT4 and NCEI (formerly NCDC) through April 2016—and of the two suppliers of satellite-based lower troposphere temperature … Continue reading →

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May 2016 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

INITIAL NOTE This is the second month with the new format.  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 … Continue reading →

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