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- NOAA: Average temperature of the USA in January at freezing Fri, 15 Feb 13, 8:00amNational Summary Information – January 2013 Contiguous U.S. warmer and wetter than average for January Drought persists for central U.S.; above-average January snow cover extent for Lower 48 The average temperature...
- A question for Zeke Hausfather Thu, 24 Jan 13, 9:55amZeke is upset that I made this statement in a story at Fox news: Is history malleable? Can temperature data of the past be molded to fit a purpose? It certainly seems to be the case here, where the temperature … Continue...
- Another glitch on the NCDC State of the Climate report Fri, 11 Jan 13, 9:27amIs NOAA Misleading the Public by Including Tropical Cyclones in its 2012 Climate Extremes Index Ranking? by Bob Tisdale IF NOT, THE PRESS AND PUBLIC WILL CERTAINLY GET THE WRONG IDEA The Summary Information of the NOAA State...
- NOAA SOTC for December 2012 Wed, 9 Jan 13, 4:58am(This post revised to show the final report) Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/13 In 2012, the contiguous United States (CONUS) average annual temperature of 55.3°F was 3.3°F above the 20th century average,...
- Announcing the first ever CONUS yearly average temperature from the Climate Reference Network Tue, 8 Jan 13, 5:43amPursuant to our previous story showing issues with diverging data and claims over time, NCDC has updated the Climate Reference Network Data for December 2012...
- NCDC’s new USHCN hockey stick trick Sun, 14 Oct 12, 3:28amYesterday, NCDC released Version 2.5 of the USHCN data set. For those who don’t know, this is the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) which NCDC considers a “gold standard” for US temperature measurements....
- New national temperature resource almost ready Sat, 13 Oct 12, 8:10amI had hoped to have this ready in time for heat wave season, as it would have been quite useful in July. Pursuant to my post about July average temperatures being lower with the new Climate Reference Network -vs- the …...
- NASA’s James Hansen is just wrong: Proof that there is no increased drought in the USA tied to temperature Mon, 13 Aug 12, 4:29amFrom the James Hansen is just wrong department comes some inconvenient data, data that Dr. Hansen or anyone in the media could have easily looked up for themselves before writing irresponsible stories like this one: Former...
- Not so hot – ocean temperatures around the USA are not anywhere near record levels Sat, 11 Aug 12, 5:06amWhile there’s wailing and gnashing of teeth over the US CONUS surface temperature being the “hottest ever” a cursory review of the sea surface temperatures in U.S.Coastal waters shows no cause for alarm,...
- An ‘inconvenient result’ – July 2012 not a record breaker according to data from the new NOAA/NCDC U.S. Climate Reference Network Thu, 9 Aug 12, 4:01pmI decided to do myself something that so far NOAA has refused to do: give a CONUS average temperature for the United States from the new ‘state of the art’ United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN)...
- Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. on two recent “game changing” climate papers Wed, 1 Aug 12, 3:17amIn case you missed it, on Sunday Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.wrote a statement of support for Watts et al 2012. See: Comments On The Game Changer New Paper “An Area And Distance Weighted Analysis Of The Impacts Of Station Exposure...
- University of Nebraska claims record drought in the USA? Not so fast… Fri, 6 Jul 12, 9:38amFrom the University of Nebraska-Lincoln comes a news release about the 12 year old U.S. Drought Monitor dataset, proclaiming “record worst ever” as if this has some relevance in history. Sorry, I have to call...