Monthly Archives: December 2018

“…it is the change in temperature compared to what we’ve been used to that matters.” – Part 3

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

In this post, we’re going to present monthly mean TMIN and TMAX Near-Land Surface Air Temperatures (not in anomaly form) for a group of ten (10) Countries in an effort to add a little perspective to global warming. The list … Continue reading →

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“…it is the change in temperature compared to what we’ve been used to that matters.” – Part 2

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

In this post, we’re going to present graphs that show the annual lowest TMIN and highest TMAX Near-Land Surface Air Temperatures (not in anomaly form) for ten (10) Countries in an effort to add some perspective to global warming.  The … Continue reading →

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Examples of How the Use of Temperature ANOMALY Data Instead of Temperature Data Can Result in WRONG Answers

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

This post comes a couple of weeks after the post EXAMPLES OF HOW AND WHY THE USE OF A “CLIMATE MODEL MEAN” AND THE USE OF ANOMALIES CAN BE MISLEADING (The WattsUpWithThat cross post is here.)

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“…it is the change in temperature compared to what we’ve been used to that matters.” – Part 1

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

In this post, we’re going to present monthly TMIN and TMAX Near-Land Surface Air Temperature data for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (not in anomaly form) in an effort to add a little perspective to global warming. And at the … Continue reading →

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Have The Poorest Countries Been Hit Hardest By Climate Change/Global Warming?

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

One of the constantly repeated, sympathy-seeking (and basis for wealth distribution) messages by politicians, by alarmists, by the mainstream media, and by brainwashed good-intentioned people, is that the world’s poorest countries have been hit hardest by human-induced global warming/climate change. … Continue reading →

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WMO Reasoning behind Two Sets of “Normals” a.k.a. Two Periods of Base Years for Anomalies

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

Most of us are familiar with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)-recommended 30-year period for “normals”, which are also used as base years against which anomalies are calculated. Most, but not all, climate-related data are referenced to 30-year periods. Presently the … Continue reading →

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GISS Makes a Useful Reference Disappear from their Land-Ocean Temperature Index Data Page

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

The bottom of the data page for the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index used to (past tense) include a useful reference. But that reference was deleted in January 2016 and has been gone ever since, as far as I can tell. 

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