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 here .
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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 that Dr Willis had changed the data to fit output from computer models. Dr Willis has responded, via Fred Singer, explaining that the correction was made, not on the basis of computer output, but on the basis of high quality temperature and pressure measurement from ocean buoys. [Read more…] about Apologies to Josh Willis: Correcting Global Cooling (Part 3)
Thanks David Jones for Easier Access to Rainfall Data
WHILE searching the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s website, looking for data on rainfall for Melbourne, it became apparent that this site only contained links to data in pdf format with rainfall averages for various and different periods. [Read more…] about Thanks David Jones for Easier Access to Rainfall Data
Likely Sources of Energy to 2030
Coal, the dirtiest source of fuel, will remain the world’s main source of power until 2030 and nuclear will lose market share, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday. Read more here.
How to Cap and Trade
California’s blueprint to address global warming won’t include details of an emissions-trading program as regulators try to build consensus on how best to organize the market-based system. Read more here.
Correcting Global Cooling (Part 2)
THERE has been some anecdotal evidence suggesting that last month, October 2008, was unusually cold. The sophisticated weather-watcher, of course, waits for some official global temperature data to be published before concluding very much.
Al Gore’s scientific advisor, James Hansen from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), publishes a monthly mean global surface temperature.
Some dispute the methodology Dr Hansen uses to arrive at his monthly mean values, but nevertheless I have observed that his GISS data is usually somewhere in the vicinity of the data from the Hadley Centre at the UK Meteorology Bureau and the Satellite data compiled at the University of Alabama, Huntsville – though yes Dr Hansen’s data is usually on the warm side. [Read more…] about Correcting Global Cooling (Part 2)
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.