Category Archives: General

Sea Ice – May 2008 Results

Sea ice continues to get lots of attention. I previously discussed March 2008 results here. June 2008 results should be available soon, but in the mean time, I’ve updated my own graphics showing a tripartite image of global, SH and NH, instead of only showing NH sea ice, as done in other recent comments e.g. […]

Consensus Report on North American Climate Extremes

NOAA has released a well-manicured and comprehensive report on observed and conjectured changes in North American weather and climate extremes. The Final Report of CCSP 2008 provides and up-to-date scientific collation of many peer-review studies along with a consensus interpretation like the UN IPCC AR4 reports. Some of the main findings are summarized in the […]

Earthquakes and global warming

Update [06/19] CBSnews.com and other outlets have dropped the story from their Science headlines and have erased it. Nevertheless, we need to keep an eye on additional contributions from this influential researcher. It appears the Associated Press needs to do some explaining or at the very least some vetting of its science reporting.  Yet, it […]

Upgrading WordPress

The site’s been crashing a lot lately. I’ve had to reboot it almost daily. We’re still on an old WordPress version and need to upgrade. Now that John A’s retired, the site has been on autopilot and needs a little bit of piloting. I would appreciate it if one of the regular readers with computer […]

March 2008 Radiosonde Data

Relatively up-to-date radiosonde data is available from the Hadley Center, tropical (20N-20S) is here. Ratpac and Angell are not up to date. The tropical troposphere has been a source of disputes recently, but I haven’t seen any discussion of up-to-date radiosonde data, [Note: Luboš has a current discussion on radiosondes.) You will recall the diagram […]

More on Hurricanes

Continues http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2988

Svalgaard #7

Continues http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3052

Unthreaded #35

SST Revisions and Hurricanes

Judith Curry writes: we are obviously interested in the implications of this SST issue for hurricanes.

The Dog That Didn't Bark

This is the title of a famous Sherlock Holmes story and not intended as a slight to any individual. Take a look at the Review Comments for AR4 Second Draft Chapter 6 online here. While I was reviewing these comments, I noticed that there are no reported comments on chapter 6 from Caspar Ammann, one […]