GREEN tree ants, Oecophylla smaragdina, don’t leave their dead lying around. [Read more…] about Where Do Dead Ants Go?
SPENCER WRONG NOAA Blunder Explains Claims of Warming Oceans?
SCIENTISTS at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) appear to have made a blunder with a data adjustment and splice resulting in sea surface temperatures being warmer than they would otherwise be by about 0.175 degrees C over the last two decades.
Roy Spencer, from the University of Alabama, discovered the error just a few days ago which according to meteorologist Anthony Watts, accounts for 24% of the 0.74 deg C global warming claimed for 1905-2005.
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UPDATE: THE ERROR WAS ROY SPENCERS
To make a long story short, because the orbit boost caused the TMI to be able to “see” to slightly higher latitudes, the way in which individual latitude bands are handled has a significant impact on the resulting temperature anomalies that are computed over time. [Read more…] about SPENCER WRONG NOAA Blunder Explains Claims of Warming Oceans?
Big Drop in Price of Solar Panels
“For solar shoppers these days, the price is right. Panel prices have fallen about 40 percent since the middle of last year.” Read more from The New York Times here.
Let’s Stop Averaging Global Temperatures (Part 1)
FEAR of global warming is a preoccupation of western societies at the beginning of this 21st century. This fear is usually explained in terms of changes in the surface temperature of the earth as averaged from varying numbers of thermometers from around but the world. But given the many disputes concerning how this data is collected, compiled, adjusted and averaged (see notes and links below), it would perhaps be better if there was some agreement to focus on the temperature as measured from one or just a few sites.
Tim Curtin has suggested that as carbon dioxide concentrations are reported for Mauna Loa, Hawaii, why not also focus primarily on this site when discussing global warming? [Read more…] about Let’s Stop Averaging Global Temperatures (Part 1)
Hippos Roaming Free in Colombia
BOGOTA – African zoologists are in Colombia to advise local authorities on what to do with dozens of hippos roaming around the abandoned zoo of late drug lord Pablo Escobar in the north of the country. Read more here.
Join the Climate Sceptics: A Note from Michael Rowley
THE Climate Sceptics Party of Australia have been actively generating enough members to be able to register as a political party to contest elections in Australia. With the considerable efforts of President Leon Ashby, Anthony Cox and others we are fast approaching the required 500 members. As of today we need 26 more. [Read more…] about Join the Climate Sceptics: A Note from Michael Rowley
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.