Real Climate Science

Narrogin, WA shows some warming over the past century.

ASN00010614 -32.9342  117.1797  338.0    NARROGIN

The station is sandwiched between two roads in an urban area.

A few days ago I noted that the GHCN database for Australia has very little data prior to 1957, and wondered if the jump was due to Sputnik.

Well it turns out that lack of data prior to 1957 is due to GHCN simply not including it. Berkeley Earth has Nobbys data going back to the 1860’s, but the GHCN data is missing prior to 1957

But it is worse than it seems. Note that the GHCN data is not the same, and averages about half a degree higher than the Berkeley Earth data.

But even that is worse than it seems. Yesterday I noted that the upwards slope at Nobbys was the same as the slope at Sydney since 1957.  But according to Berkeley Earth, there has been no net warming at Nobby’s since 1970. Which means that Sydney is seeing major UHI effects.

Once again, this looks like major monkey business with the “every month hotter than normal” NOAA GHCN data.

Today is Freddie Mercury’s 68th birthday. Check out Adam Lambert, who has replaced him. Not the same presence on stage, but his voice is almost a carbon copy.

Check out Marc Martel, whose voice is almost a carbon copy. I heard him on the radio and Brian May talking about him yesterday – originally posted the wrong person

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If there were few greenhouse gases (like Antarctica) LW radiation would easily escape the earth’s atmosphere and temperatures would be much colder.

The presence of greenhouse gases makes it more difficult for LW radiation to escape, which forces the atmosphere to warm in order to maintain equilibrium.

Conservation of energy tells us that any LW radiation which gets absorbed by CO2, remains in the atmosphere for a while and keeps the atmosphere’s energy level up – which is reflected in higher temperatures.

 

The RCGS/La SGRC on Twitter: The #VSExpedition team rescued a trapped boat from ice & lurking polar bears!

The US has been having one of its coldest years on record, and the cold is forecast to return in spectacular fashion in about a week.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

Anyone who lives in a cold climate knows that a cloudy night will feel much warmer than a clear night at the same temperature. This is because of downwelling longwave radiation from the clouds – i.e. the Greenhouse Effect. H2O and CO2 do the same thing, to a lesser extent.

GHCN thermometer data shows Bathurst cooling 1.3C/century from 1910 to 1983, yet NASA shows Bathurst warming by 0.3C/century over that same period (using the same thermometer data.)

They accomplish this through an impressive hockey stick of data tampering.

I was interviewed by Doug Wagner at WMT in Cedar Rapids. Interview starts at minute 41. Doug did an excellent job and asked good questions.

http://600.wmtradio.com/media/podcast-whats-happening-WhatsHappening/whats-happening-9314-10am-hour-25245276/

Katherine Hayhoe demonstrates that she will say anything for attention.