Monthly Archives: April 2014

Current NCDC in red. 1991 NCDC in black.

More than 30% of the HCN low temperature readings in the midwest have been below 0F (-18C) so far this year. The 2014 percentage will of course go down, but even if there weren’t another 0F reading the rest of … Continue reading →

I’m predicting Man City to win the BPL this year, Bayern to repeat in the Champions League, and Chelsea kicking themselves in the ass for selling Juan Mata. I also think that Antarctic sea ice extent will increase for the next six … Continue reading →

The last few years have been very quiet for tornadoes, but years with cold spring temperatures invariably have large tornado outbreaks, and alarmists invariably try to blame them on global warming. I was nearly caught in this massive F3 tornado in … Continue reading →

The year 1936 was one of the worst in US history. On April 6, tornadoes killed hundreds of people across the south. http://news.google.com/newspapers Two weeks earlier, the country suffered from massive dust storms and flooding. 20 Mar 1936 – ALL … Continue reading →

After the year 2000, Best doesn’t even vaguely resemble satellite data. http://www.woodfortrees.org/ * Disclaimer : Mosher says this is all good.

In 1943, a couple of hundred Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto armed only with pistols held off the Nazis for over a month. They died fighting with dignity, rather than being hauled off to the gas chambers. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005188 Imagine what … Continue reading →

Last summer, NOAA predicted a very active Atlantic hurricane season. It turned out to be the quietest in decades. Then they forecast a warm winter, which turned out to be coldest in decades. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/noaa-us-winter-weather-forecast Their forecasting ability for the current … Continue reading →

During one of the few hot spells last summer, President Obama hurriedly called an outdoor press conference in the sun in the middle of the afternoon, and then did a third rate acting job to try to convince people that … Continue reading →

RSS satellite data shows very little global warming over land since 1995, while CRUTEM4 shows a lot of global warming over land during the same period. Without that warming, they have no hockey stick. The divergence is a spectacular 0.76C/century, … Continue reading →