Now that GHCN and GISS have managed to emasculate the Icelandic temperature record, it is time to present the official version. With special thanks to Trausti Jonsson,  Senior Meteorologist with the Iceland Met Office.   Now that GHCN and GISS have managed to emasculate the Icelandic temperature record, it is time to present the official […]

Last month the sun reached a sunspot number of 67.0 and thus was once again below normal in activity: It reached 85% of what is normal for the particular cycle month. Fig. 1: The mean activity of the sun since systematic observations have been conducted is shown in blue and the current cycle (24th cycle, red), along […]

Whenever environmental doomsayers run out of arguments, they turn to the sea for hope – or rather, fear. Fish stocks are collapsing, and if climate change doesn’t get us, ocean acidification will. But how true are these claims? It may not surprise you to learn that I have a lot of conversations about the supposedly […]

There is much uncertainty in estimates about ocean warming and its changing heat content. To appreciate that one only has to look at the differences between OHC (Ocean Heat Content) graphs given in the IPCC AR4 and AR5 reports. In the 20th century the sampling of ocean temperature at depth was sparse in both space […]

In a recent study, University of Montana and Montana Climate Office researcher Jared Oyler found that while the western U.S. has warmed, recently observed warming in the mountains of the western U.S. likely is not as large as previously supposed. His results, published Jan. 9 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, show that sensor changes […]

Research at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has discovered that a ‘slope’ on the ocean surface in the Strait of Gibraltar is lowering the sea level in Europe by 7 cm. This research, published today in Geophysical Research Letters by Prof Chris Hughes of the NOC and University of Liverpool, will help to more accurately […]

With the release of the 2014 HadCRUT4 data by the UK Met Office, and the previous release of global temperature data by Berkeley Earth, Nasa and Noaa, the main conclusion to be drawn from the data is that 2014 was a warm year, but not statistically distinguishable from most of the years of the past […]

Every new research paper and the headlines it generates should always be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism. “Rate of Sea Level Rise ‘Steeper’,” says the BBC. “Sea level rise faster than previously thought,” says the Guardian. Reading some of the articles emerging from a recent research paper you would have thought that it was […]