Monthly Archives: August 2012

In Menne at al 2009, they claim that the TOBS adjustments in USHCN2 are the same as in USHCN1. Nice story but it isn’t true. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/menne-etal2009.pdf Note in the graph above that the TOBS adjustment continues to rise from 1990 to the present. In … Continue reading →

Barry was fresh out of school and looking to make some money from writing. He was noticed by Jane Dystel who offered to take him under her wing. Barry became her client, and Miriam Goderich put together the promotional booklet … Continue reading →

You can’t make this stuff up. USHCN2 bumped all Oklahoma temperatures up by 0.8 degrees between 1996 and 1998 due to claimed TOBS adjustments. This is incredible to begin with, but particularly spectacular because they report no changes in temperature observation time, for any station in Oklahoma … Continue reading →

To help visualize what a mess we are dealing with, check out these graphs. In last month’s version, they were adjusting 2012 upwards by more than 2.5 degrees relative to 1902. Now look at the August version. All data from … Continue reading →

The referee in the US/Canada women’s soccer semifinal cheated for the US and gave them the win. It was pathetic. Look for the Obama photo op with the US gold medal winners, if they get past Japan.

  Contiguous U.S., Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI), July-June 1896-2012 Hansen claims that severe droughts are much more likely now due to global warming. There is no factual basis behind his claim. The worst droughts (by far) were during the … Continue reading →

I predict that there will be heat, cold, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and other kinds of bad weather in the future. While we can’t tie any specific weather event to the drop in the average IQ, we can say that attributing … Continue reading →

Florida was hit by two hurricanes during the second half of August 1871, including a major hurricane. A few weeks later, massive forest forest fires burned up two million acres in the Great Lakes region – killing thousands of people … Continue reading →

Two of the five coolest summers in US history occurred during the last ten years. The summer of 2003 was more than six degrees cooler than 1936. Afternoon temperatures were much hotter during the 1930s, with many more record maximum temperatures.

“A large majority of Americans believe that global warming made several high profile extreme weather events worse, including the unusually warm winter of December 2011 and January 2012 (72%), record high summer temperatures in the U.S. in 2011 (70%), the … Continue reading →