Hansen has followed up his “Lights Out Upstairs” outburst with another outburst dismissing critics as “court jesters” with whom he will have no truck. (Lights Out is now cited on the NASA website.) His new jeremiad re-iterated the position of NASA spokesman Gavin Schmidt that U.S. errors “didn’t matter” because the U.S. was only 2% […]
NASA spokesmen Gavin Schmidt and James Hansen have observed that the US accounts for only 2% of the earth’s surface and conclude that problems in the US network don’t matter. There are only 6 Brazil stations in GHCN which have records extending through the 1930s and as late as 2004, which is an indication of […]
The NOAA website http://mi3.ncdc.noaa.gov/mi3qry/search.cfm? has a Map tab linking to local maps and Google Earth. I don’t recall seeing it before. Maybe someone can comment on this and also check the accuracy of the maps for stations shown there. I was looking to see if their equipment reporting included whether stations had aspirated or unaspirated […]
During the past 2 months, there has been an active discussion in the blogosphere about the quality of the Tucson U of Arizona weather station. While I have never claimed that the blogosphere is a substitute for academic journals, the thread of Tucson discussions seems to me to be a good example of internet discussion […]
There’s been quite a bit of publicity about Hansen’s Y2K error and the change in the U.S. leaderboard (by which 1934 is the new warmest U.S. year) in the right-wing blogosphere. In contrast, realclimate has dismissed it a triviality and the climate blogosphere is doing its best to ignore the matter entirely. My own view […]
Hansen has published an online letter entitled A Light On Upstairs? The letter concludes by saying: My apologies if the quick response that I sent to Andy Revkin and several other journalists, including the suggestion that it was a tempest inside somebody’s teapot dome, and that perhaps a light was not on upstairs, was immoderate. […]
There has been some turmoil yesterday on the leaderboard of the U.S. (Temperature) Open and there is a new leader. A little unexpectedly, 1998 had a late bogey and 1934 had a late birdie. (I thought that they were both in the clubhouse since the turmoil seemed to be in the 2000s.) In any event, […]
The GISS homepage formerly said: The NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) provides a measure of the changing global surface temperature with monthly resolution for the period since 1880, when a reasonably global distribution of meteorological stations was established. Input data for the analysis, collected by many national meteorological services around the world, is the […]
The US CRN (Climate Reference Network) appears to be a generally well-designed network for measuring 21st century temperatures. Its mission statement includes an undertaking to make its results available online. Here as with GISS and the metadata, system designers have provided webpages – in a format that may be interesting for very casual users, but […]
Don Healy sends this photo of Port Angeles, Washington’s USHCN station #456624: Increasingly, non standard equipment is being observed as substitutes for max/min thermometers and MMTS systems. In this case, vandalism issues with the MMTS forced a change to this station setup in 2002 that was less accessible. In 2002 a change shows up on […]
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