Mauna Loa carbon dioxide: a fit

I wanted to find a nice function that gives a satisfactory description of the carbon dioxide concentration as a function of time. Mauna Loa,...

Goddard, Watts vs Tamino: Arctic ice

Grant Tamino Foster funnily and angrily reacted to an innocent observation by Steven Goddard and (later) Anthony Watts . They pointed out,...

Snowstorm: comparison with the 2005 blizzard

American readers hear about the looming record-shaking snowstorm in the Northeast. But will the event live up to the hype? I would like to h...

Czech temperature record 1961-2012

Because Frank E. L. asked me about related issues, I have downloaded all the monthly/regional Czech Hydrometeorological Institute's temp...

CNN: Marc Morano on extreme weather trends

CNN and its Piers Morgan show just aired a very short exchange of opinions Michael Brune vs Marc Morano (video) between a defender of the c...

What did the winters look like before global warming?

Via Shooty, SME.SK When you kids ask you this question, what will you answer? At night, the temperature in Pilsen will drop to –10 °C again....

A projection of future drought one can't believe

Rob Wile of Business Insider discussed a climate survey  prepared by the U.S. Commerce Department (with some well-known alarmists in the te...

RSS AMSU: 2012 was 11th warmest year

Focus moved to the contiguous U.S. states: new warm record As the preliminary data published two months ago indicated, the satellite temper...

Snow covers Europe

Hundreds of countries signed an extension to the Kyoto protocol – it will annoy and steal from Europe and others (while bringing no benefits...

Sea level rise is the most reliable way to see global temperature trends

Tonight, I skipped another (3-hour) catastrophic movie on TV, Flood (2007). Some skeptics are writing lots of e-mails about a silly study t...

NASA, BAS agree that the Antarctic ice growth contradicts climate models

Peter F. sent me an interesting link commenting on the interpretations of the growth of the Antarctic ice: Steady Antarctic ice growth '...

RSS AMSU: 2012 seems to be 11th warmest on record

For almost 15 years, the climate alarmist bigots have been dreaming about another warm year that would dethrone 1998 as the warmest year on ...

Is Hurricane Sandy unprecedented?

East Coast people's reports about their observations and courage are more than welcome Update ex post facto: Sandy deserves the label ...

HadCRUT4: no warming for 16 years

The Hadley Centre at the Met Office released a new product replacing HadCRUT3 , the temperature record of the Earth. It's called HadCRUT...