Sea Level Rise: Regional
I’ve decided to apply some area weighting to my sea level estimate based on my new method. I’ve just begun, and so far I have defined two regions: the east and west coasts of North America. Only when...
View ArticleSea Level: Eastern North America
Since Dave Burton was kind enough to remind us how great the danger of sea level rise is, I’m enjoying the recent focus on the topic. I’d like to apply my new alignment technique (including variable...
View ArticleThank You
First, thanks to Jean-Pierre Dehottay, Koenraad Machiels, Tim Baumann, and James Vogan for kind donations to the blog. As I’ve said recently, it really makes a difference right now. We still need help...
View ArticleClimate Change Threatens the Corn Belt
While American farmers are still suffering from recent severe flooding, historically our “corn belt” has done a remarkable job increasing food production. The main reason is of course the advances of...
View ArticleSecret Agreement lets homebuilders prevent energy efficiency
A fascinating story in the NY Times tells how the National Association of Home Builders got a special deal which guarantees them — the industry supposed to be regulated — 4 out of 11 seats on two...
View ArticleA Message from Pamina
Hello all, I wanted to let you all know that later today, Tamino is undergoing surgery. It’s something that’s been scheduled for months now and while it’s nothing life-threatening, he will be laid up...
View ArticleWestern Wildfire: Climate Change is Serious Business
Over the last few years we’ve heard story after story about massive wildfires in the western USA which threatened thousands of homes and lives and cost people billions of dollars. California seemed...
View ArticleWhere There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
This wedding photo from California went “viral” in a visible sign of how there’s no escape from California wildfires. Recent research from Williams et al. takes a detailed look at how fire activity has...
View ArticleCalifornia Wildfire Denial
Roy Spencer has joined the chorus of those denying the link between climate change and California’s wildfire crisis. But rather than share scientific insight, Spencer inflicts on us his brand of...
View ArticleSea Level PCA, from the Baltic Sea to el Niño
I’ve made a new estimate of global sea level based on a subset of all the tide gauge data in PSMSL (Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level). I’m just doing the 20th century, and I’ve used only those data...
View ArticleSea Level: Align the Aligned
A new paper by Nauels et al. concludes that even if the U.S. stays in the Paris agreement and all nations make good on their pledges, our greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030 will be enough to...
View ArticleMary Ellis Stevens, American Hero
Mary Ellis Steven is excited about meeting Greta Thunberg this Friday, at her climate strike in Charlotte, North Carolina. So excited to have the one and only @GretaThunberg join my strike this Friday!...
View ArticleSea Level: Gridded Average
I’ve formed a gridded composite sea level estimate and I’d like to share it. It’s quite crude, but some compensation is necessary because a simple average of stations is dominated by Europe and North...
View ArticleGlobal Temperature Update
Update: This post has changed to correct a mistake I made with the ERA-5 data. I keep hearing about such-and-such month being the “hottest such-and-such month on record.” October of this year, for...
View Article“Gagging climate change experts from speaking in the middle of a bushfire...
So said Australian Member of Parliament David Shoebridge after bureaucrats attending a climate planning and adaptation conference had been advised not to discuss the relationship between climate change...
View ArticleBack to Basic Climate Denial
Thomas K. Bjorklund has a post at WUWT which tells us a lot about the level of “science” at that blog. He reveals his theme early: The discussion below of the first derivative of a temperature anomaly...
View ArticleSummer is Coming
Winter is coming to New England, but in Australia, the land down under, December heralds the beginning of summer. As recently as 2013 they suffered through the “angry summer,” bringing Aussies endless...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Wages War on Christmas
Apparently global warming is now waging war on Chrismas. The town of North Pole, Alaska, had to cancel their yearly “Christmas in Ice” celebration. The reason? Not enough ice.
View ArticleClimate Models
How well have climate models forecast global temperature? I took the data for global average temperature from climate model simulations in the CMIP5 archive; those are computer models used in the...
View ArticleEuropean Heat Waves
Those of us who follow such things, know that Europe has been hit with two killer heat waves since the year 2000. Super-killer heat waves. The first, in 2003, covered much of western Europe and led to...
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