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When is a “Global Temperature” not global? When it only covers maybe 15-20% of the earth’s surface with actual thermometers. Stooopid me, I assumed that when Hansen published the graph above in 1999, that it actually was a global temperature … Continue reading →

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adXkVq8aVUg] Cold, calm weather has arrived in the Arctic for the time being, and my June forecast so far is almost perfect. But as we know, ill winds can arrive at any time to torment the boastful. Unfavorable winds kept … Continue reading →

http://math.nyu.edu/~gladish/teaching/eao/water-phase-diagram.jpg A phase diagram represents a perfect equilibrium closed system. Such a system can not actually exist, because there are no impermeable materials and no perfect insulators. The phase diagram above represents an impermeable container (with zero thermal conductivity) containing … Continue reading →

http://math.nyu.edu/~gladish/teaching/eao/water-phase-diagram.jpg A person inexperienced with interpreting phase diagrams would conclude that no water vapour (gas phase) can exist below the boiling point. Consider the red circle. Temperature is 40C and one atmosphere pressure – a typical day in the Amazon … Continue reading →

Wikipedia Image : Chicken Run Seven billion people share this planet. We have finite resources of clean air and water, food, fossil fuels, and other essential resources. Yet we squander these resources, which should be our children’s inheritance. Some people … Continue reading →

Had Crut July temperatures are out, and continue to track cooler than 1998.

Since 1998, GISS and Had Crut annual temperatures have been diverging at a rate of about 1°C per century. The graph below shows the normalised trends for GISS, UAH, RSS and HadCrut from 1998-2009. GISS shows warming from 1998-2009. Everyone … Continue reading →

The March 1, 1975 edition of Science News included the graph below. It showed that Northern Hemisphere temperatures dropped by 0.4 degrees between 1940 and 1970. The current GISS northern hemisphere graph (1900-present) is shown below. It shows a smaller … Continue reading →

During July, NSIDC was forecasting a September minimum of 4.74 million km² http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/2010/july In the August report, they have upped their forecast to 5.0 million km². This is just below my submitted estimate of 5.1 for the minimum, down from … Continue reading →

Thanks for the nice response today from everyone. I plan to cover some new and interesting topics over the next few weeks/months/years. Some antagonists will no doubt be pleasantly surprised by my views on the environment. Please tell all your friends!