Category Archives: Typhoons

Reality is Absent from Michael Mann’s Activist Article on Typhoon Haiyan

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: I’ve corrected a few typos that carried over into two of the graphs and, at the end, I’ve added a model-data comparison of the sea surface temperature anomalies for the Indian and Pacific Ocean subset. # # # A … Continue reading →

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Games People Play

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Bob Tisdale

The following link is to a Tweet from Peter Gleick regarding Typhoon Haiyan.  It includes a map of the subsurface temperature anomalies at depths of 100 meters in the northwest tropical Pacific for October 2013.  Overlaid on it is the storm track … Continue reading →

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Are Greg Laden’s Reading Comprehension Skills at an All-Time Low?

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Bob Tisdale

Please give generously to the Philippines Red Cross. With that said, there’s a rather heated discussion going on between ScienceBlog’s Greg Laden and Anthony Watts of WattsUpWithThat.  It appears to have begun on the thread of the WattsUpWithThat guest post … Continue reading →

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Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential – It’s All in the Presentation

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: If you’d like to contribute to the Philippine Red Cross you can do so here. # # # The warm-looking image on the left in Figure 1 is of tropical cyclone heat potential for the Northwest Pacific. It made … Continue reading →

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Why Few Find Sou at Hot Whopper to be Credible

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Bob Tisdale

In response to a lot of nonsense that was being published about Typhoon Haiyan, I published the post Typhoon Haiyan Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies for Early Storm Track.  The post was not about tropical cyclones in general nor about the recipe … Continue reading →

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Typhoon Haiyan Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies for Early Storm Track

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Bob Tisdale

Lots of the typical BS accumulating already about Typhoon Haiyan.  Let’s push some of it aside and present the sea surface temperature anomalies for the early portion of Haiyan’s storm track. There was nothing unusually warm about the sea surface … Continue reading →

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