Author Archives: Tony Heller

I was riding my bicycle home after  picking up sushi for the kids, and it all became clear. The purpose of the USHCN adjustments is to hide the UHI effects in the GHCN data set. More than half of the GHCN US stations are … Continue reading →

Muller says that we caused the 0.7 warming seen in the pink circle on the right, even though it is completely in the noise of measurement error – and an order of magnitude smaller than natural variability.   Alan Betts: Atmospheric … Continue reading →

summit:status:webcam Temperatures made it all the way up to -1C and several inches of new snow accumulated. No doubt NASA will have some bright red maps to highlight yet another unprecedented meltdown on the Greenland ice sheet.

I was amazed to find this graph on the Columbia University website. It shows that temperatures are running below Scenario C – meaning that Hansen’s forecasts failed miserably. More Temperature Figures Instead of admitting it though, they tried to obfuscate it with a grey block containing some irrelevant … Continue reading →

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season … Continue reading →

Ole Heinrich sent this over. Temperatures at Summit Greenland get well over freezing on a regular basis. groenland2.gif (734×484)

(1) Wall Photos h/t to Tom Nelson

The heat is on at meltdown part deux, and the beer cart has arrived. summit:status:webcam

The graph below shows Arctic ice extent 2007 in blue and 2012 in red. The red dot shows where extent will likely be when the North Pole drops below freezing for the winter. After that date, any possibility of an … Continue reading →

I started trying to look at at GHCN today, and immediately discovered nothing but deleted data. From John Cook : Download my code ghcn_app.tar.gz Go to ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v2 and grab the compressed data files (v2.min.Z, v2.mean.Z, etc). A Quick and Dirty Analysis of GHCN … Continue reading →