Monthly Archives: August 2011

If you have 1,ooo stations and a 100 year record – you would expect 10 stations per year to have their hottest month ever. (There are other considerations for the time of year when record heat can occur, but they … Continue reading →

The largest component of the USHCN upwards adjustments is called the time of observation bias. The concept itself is simple enough, but it assumes that the station observer is stupid and lazy. Suppose that you have a min/max thermometer and … Continue reading →

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png Red below shows 2006 ice present but not in 2011. Green shows 2011 ice present but not in 2006.

In 1942, a squadron was forced down over Greenland and forced to abandon their planes. Forty-six years later, the planes were recovered under 265 feet of ice. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1199461.html

Every once in a while some victim of John Cook comes along and claims that sublimation is causing the thickness of the ice to decrease in the coldest regions of Antarctica. Rather than arguing against their silly claims, one picture … Continue reading →

“until we’ve talked to you” http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/ That is not how it works.. How about “There is no agreement until a majority of us agree”  

Lincoln. Virgina is a small town 45 miles west of Washington D.C. and is the closest USHCN station to DC. Since the 1930s, annual maximum temperatures there have dropped by several degrees.

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php Every summer since 2003 has seen temperatures north of 80N fall below the long term mean.

We would be better off with the Keystone Cops running Washington. The current crew are all completely worthless. Boehner had an historic opportunity and choked – in world class form. WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says the pact … Continue reading →

1934 was a year of heat and drought across the planet, from pole to pole. It wasn’t the CO2. It wasn’t USHCN’s overblown Time Of Observation Bias. So what was it? And the bigger question is – why aren’t climate … Continue reading →