A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. Read more here. … [Read more...] about More on NASA’s Temperature Blunder
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Sydney Morning Herald Open to Letters from Skeptics
Some time ago Art Raiche suggested to me that, “In all honesty, I suspect that it would be easier to hold readings of Dawkin’s “The God Delusion” in Mecca than to get the Sydney Morning Herald to print letters critical of AGW. At least the response … [Read more...] about Sydney Morning Herald Open to Letters from Skeptics
Links to Stories on Weather Last Century
Links to three interesting 'weather reports' from last century from Art Raiche http://tinyurl.com/66tegq 1922 Washington Post story http://tinyurl.com/6ghpb8 1937 Time story re Northwest passage http://tinyurl.com/3xfoak 1974 … [Read more...] about Links to Stories on Weather Last Century
Temperature Data from Satellites: Inconvenient but Accurate
IT is my prediction that in not so many years time weather station data will be collected more for fun, a sense of history and for site-specific information, than for serious regional and global climate statistics. In the future it will be data … [Read more...] about Temperature Data from Satellites: Inconvenient but Accurate
Did Napoleon Use Hansen’s Temperature Data?
Following a blunder at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Steve McIntyre, at the Climate Audit blog, has reminded James Hansen, from NASA, that its colder in Russia in October than in September, as Napoleon found out to his cost in 1812. … [Read more...] about Did Napoleon Use Hansen’s Temperature Data?
Apologies to Josh Willis: Correcting Global Cooling (Part 3)
ON Tuesday, I suggested at this blog that I was not convinced by a story from Josh Willis, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explaining why and how he corrected data showing global ocean cooling. The title of my blog post suggested … [Read more...] about Apologies to Josh Willis: Correcting Global Cooling (Part 3)