Monthly Archives: June 2014

Paul’s work show exactly why you have to use untarnished absolute temperatures rather than anomalies, infilling and gridding for this type of analysis.

Up till now, I have been I have been watching the World Cup on a Mexican web site with very animated announcers, who are obviously having a lot of fun and make watching the match more fun. They aren’t showing the … Continue reading →

Check out this garbage in Forbes The Public Relations Debate About Global Warming Heats Up Anyone who has watched the rather animated debate this week between myself and Anthony Watts will understand that there is no denier conspiracy, and that we … Continue reading →

Someone was trying to blame the high incidence of 100 degree readings during the 1930s on time of observation bias. Allegan, Michigan took their readings at midnight during the 1930’s, and showed the same pattern as the rest of the … Continue reading →

Politifact wrote a hit piece against Steve Doocy and me the other day without doing any actual fact checking or bothering to contact me. I responded to them and they asked me to send over my response. Here it is : … Continue reading →

Nearly every night in every city, the weatherman says “and several degrees cooler in outlying areas” That is how we know that the NCDC 0.1F UHI adjustment is completely accurate.

CNN has never showed any interest in soccer, until the day it was disclosed that the IRS had targeted a Republican Senator. Then soccer became their lead story. The Washington Post has weighed in on this matter with their usual … Continue reading →

Thousands of people died unnecessarily from the heat during July, 1936 – simply because NCDC didn’t have the opportunity to apply a TOBS adjustment to the thermometers yet, and cool them down. http://news.google.com/newspapers

Imagine you are operating a temperature station in July, 1936 – the hottest month in US history. Your time of observation is 5 pm. The temperature is 109 degrees, and you reset your thermometer. At 6 pm, a cold front … Continue reading →